About the Opportunity
Joining a highly technical environment, you'll play a key role in shaping secure, scalable software solutions whilst driving best practice across engineering, security, and DevSecOps disciplines.
Why Join?
- Work on complex, large-scale software engineering challenges
- Influence security and engineering best practices
- Apply modern AI development tools within real-world delivery environments
- High-impact contract opportunity with significant technical ownership
Key Responsibilities
- Design and deliver secure, scalable software solutions
- Drive secure development practices and SSDLC adoption
- Contribute to application security, threat modelling, and risk mitigation
- Support the design and optimisation of CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines
- Ensure applications are securely built, tested, released, and monitored in production
- Improve platform resilience, observability, and operational performance
- Utilise AI-assisted development tools to enhance engineering delivery
- Provide technical leadership across software engineering and security teams
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background with experience in .NET, Java, Python, Go, Unix/Linux or similar technologies
- Experience building and delivering cloud-native applications and distributed systems
- Deep understanding of secure software development and secure coding practices
- Experience within cyber security, malware, application security, or secure SDLC environments
- Strong DevSecOps experience, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, release engineering, and production operations
- Understanding of how applications are designed, secured, deployed, monitored, and supported in live environments
- Hands-on experience with AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent
Desirable Experience
- Threat modelling and application security testing
- Vulnerability management and remediation
- Cloud security architecture and controls
- AI-driven testing, code review, and automation
Key Details
- Location: North East
- Contract: Outside IR35
- Day Rate: £750 per day
- Working Pattern: Hybrid
Rate:
£750/day
Location:
Wallsend
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior