Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead - Defence

IBM•London, England, UK

fulltime

Engineering and Information Technology

5+ years

About the role

Introduction At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We Offer

Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

Your Role And Responsibilities We are looking for a Senior Developer who is aspiring to become a Technical Architect. The role involves leading the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and high performing cloud solutions, primarily on AWS or Azure. The ideal candidate is a hands on senior engineer with strong architectural thinking who is ready to step up into a broader technical leadership role. They should have practical experience with modern application architectures, infrastructure automation, and cloud native engineering within Agile environments.

Responsibilities

Contribute to and lead the design of cloud based architectures that prioritise scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence.
Translate business and technical requirements into clear solution designs and work with stakeholders across engineering, product, and delivery.
Provide technical leadership across full stack development, microservices, distributed systems, event driven patterns, and cloud native application design.
Use major cloud platform services (AWS or Azure) to build robust, secure, and cost effective solutions.
Apply cloud Well Architected Framework principles to ensure best practice implementation.
Support and lead application modernisation efforts including containerisation, serverless adoption, refactoring, and cloud migration.
Guide teams in CI/CD pipeline creation, automation practices, DevOps workflows, and infrastructure as code.
Produce architecture diagrams, documentation, standards, and reusable design patterns.
Work closely with developers, cloud engineers, product owners, and business leaders within Agile delivery teams.

Preferred Education Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise Cloud: AWS or Azure (core compute, storage, networking, API, serverless, and managed database services)

Architecture: Microservices, distributed systems, event driven and serverless patterns

Containerisation: Kubernetes (EKS or AKS), Docker, Helm

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, ARM, Ansible

CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, Jenkins, Git platforms

Databases: Relational (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server), NoSQL (DynamoDB or Cosmos DB), optional graph/vector stores

Monitoring & Observability: Cloud native monitoring tools (CloudWatch or Azure Monitor), Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana

Security & Governance: IAM/RBAC, Key Vault/KMS, cloud security services, policies, secrets management

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience Desirable certifications

AWS or Azure Solutions Architect (Professional/Expert level preferred)
DevOps Engineer certifications
Kubernetes certifications (CKA)
Terraform certification
Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman)
Red Hat Certified Architect (optional)

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