Software Development Specialist

Software Development Specialist – 6 month contract – £607 per day via umbrella (Inside IR35) – DV Clearance

Key Details

• Location: London, Cheltenham, Ipswich, or Manchester – Hybrid, 3 days in the office, can be any of those locations.
• Contract: 6-month contract
• Pay Rate: £607 per day via umbrella (Inside IR35)
• Security Clearance: DV cleared – MANDATORY!!
• Clearance Allowance: Owing to the sensitive nature of this role, you will be required to undergo DV-level (Developed Vetting) security clearance checks.

About the Organization

• When it comes to keeping everyone safely connected, we deal with thousands of cyber-attacks every day, so that millions of people can go about their daily lives and run their businesses safely.
• We deliver vital work at scale, with real breadth and impact.
• You’ll be joining a specialist security team that is a trusted partner to governments worldwide, protecting critical national infrastructure and committed to the safety and security of our nation and global communities.
• Everyone has access to unparalleled professional and personal development opportunities, and your contribution will always be valued.

Role Overview

• The purpose of this role is to create, lead and implement significant technical solutions that could impact internally and/or externally.
• You will create and implement technical solutions for a domain or cross domains / portfolios of work within a specific technology area autonomously, understanding how solutions impact systems internally and/or externally and assessing the impact of change.
• You will provide technical quality assurance over the work of other engineers through a matrix team structure.
• You will provide sound technical expertise to consult on significant components of a technical solution within a specific domain or cross domain.
• You will identify opportunities to improve standards of practice within a project, continuously enhancing ways of working.
• You will deliver resolutions to problems that tend to be complex, cross-domain or of high impact to customers.
• We intend to expand our team extensively, so we would love to connect with people who have strong IT and engineering skills, and a genuine passion for building, designing, and securing modern technology platforms.

Role Accountabilities

• Own and deliver engineering platform capabilities that enable teams to build, test, secure, and deploy services in a highly-automated, CI/CD-driven environment.
• Design, implement, and evolve CI/CD pipelines, ensuring consistent, reliable, and repeatable delivery processes across multiple teams and services.
• Embed Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices, driving standardisation, scalability, and elimination of manual provisioning and configuration drift.
• Integrate security controls into engineering workflows, ensuring services are secure by design and comply with the highest standards, from initial build through to production.
• Support and enable engineering teams, providing guidance, tooling, and best practices to improve delivery velocity, quality, and resilience.
• Continuously optimise automation, identifying opportunities to remove repetitive manual tasks, reduce cycle times and improve developer experience.
• Collaborate across development, security, and operations spheres, breaking down silos and promoting end-to-end ownership of services.
• Maintain and improve engineering tooling and platforms, including source-code control systems, build systems, artifact repositories and deployment frameworks.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, and observability.
• Support incident response and problem resolution, ensuring rapid recovery and continuous improvement through feedback loops and retrospective sessions.

Skills & Experience

• Stakeholder management and interaction.
• Requirements capture, analysis, and design work.
• Issue management and technical documentation via the Atlassian suite, SharePoint, MS-Word, etc.
• Agile Development Principles utilizing Scrum or Kanban.
• Coaching and mentoring.
• Security principles including Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability (CIA), Least Privilege, and Zero Trust.
• Software and system validation, verification and test.
• Single- or multi-tier software application development utilizing Java, Python, JavaScript, C++, or C#.
• Database technologies and ORM such as Elastic, MySQL/MariaDB, and SQL Server.
• Spec-driven software development and MCP use including Kiro or Claude.
• Source-code control utilizing Git and Git-based technologies such as GitOps.
• CI/CD platforms such as GitLab or Jenkins.
• Configuration management and IaC frameworks including Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Containerisation and container platforms including Kubernetes and Helm-based management and deployment.
• Cloud-native platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, or VCF.
• Artifact and package management utilizing Nexus, Artifactory, or Harbor.
• Observability utilizing Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Fleet, or Defend.
• Identity and access management including IAM, OAuth/OIDC via Keycloak, and Secrets Management via Vault.
• Automated testing frameworks.
• Release and deployment automation utilizing ArgoCD or Flux.
• Encryption and certificate lifecycle management including TLS/SSL and PKI.
• OS configuration and management across Linux and Microsoft Windows.

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