Connect over MCP — free, no account needed to search.Sanderson Government & Defence is seeking an experienced Lead/Principal Software Engineer to join a fast‑paced, secure development team delivering mission‑critical Government and Defence solutions in the UK. You will…
Lead a DevOps team designing, building, and operating secure cloud and data platforms for UK defence, national security, and government clients — using CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible), AWS, and Kubernetes, while mentoring engineers and championing DevSecOps practices. Active SC clearance is mandatory.
Security-cleared (SC) Software Engineer designing, building and maintaining secure, scalable software for a UK defence programme. Day-to-day is Agile development in Java, Python or C#, using cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or GCP, working hybrid with 3 days per week onsite in Central London.
Leads design, deployment, and optimisation of secure Azure cloud platforms for UK Defence and Government programmes, driving DevOps automation and reliability with Azure DevOps/Pipelines, Terraform/Bicep IaC, and AKS. Contract at £570/day (inside IR35), hybrid with 2 days on site in London; requires active SC clearance expiring after 2030.
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