Cyber Security Consultant (MOD/Defence)
Farnborough (Hybrid 3 days per week on site)
£45 - £65k depending on level/experience
Security Clearances Required

A genuinely interesting opportunity for a Security Consultant who enjoys shaping secure systems rather than just reviewing them. This role sits at the heart of complex, high-assurance programmes, giving you real influence over how security is designed, implemented and evidenced across critical environments.

You’ll be working closely with engineering, DevSecOps and infrastructure teams, helping to guide projects from a security perspective while ensuring alignment with MOD standards and broader industry frameworks. It’s a role that blends hands-on risk work with strategic input, ideal for someone who wants variety and visibility.

What you’ll be doing
You’ll lead on cyber risk activities across defence-focused programmes, providing clear direction on how risks should be understood, managed and mitigated. Alongside this, you’ll produce the documentation needed to support secure system development, ensuring everything stands up to regulatory scrutiny. You’ll also act as a key point of contact across multiple teams, helping embed security thinking into day-to-day engineering decisions.

Key experience you will have

• Strong background in risk assessment using recognised frameworks such as NIST 800-30 or ISO 27005
• Ability to define and implement effective risk mitigation across technical, physical and procedural controls
• Experience producing clear, structured security documentation for complex systems
• Confidence working with a range of stakeholders across engineering and delivery teams

Experience with secure-by-design principles, MOD policies, or working in Agile and DevSecOps environments would be beneficial, but not essential.

This would suit someone with experience whether from industry or a relevant military background, who’s looking to build a long-term career in security within a stable, permanent environment.

If you’re looking for a role where your input genuinely shapes how secure systems are built and delivered, this is one worth exploring.

Security Platform Engineer (DevSecOps) – MOD/Defence
Farnborough
UK Security Clearance Required
£70-75k

Kubernetes, Splunk, Nessus. You’ll own the security tooling across a live platform, not just monitor it.

Working for a defence consultancy providing technical solutions to the MOD and Defence sectors, you will be working across a Kubernetes platform, responsible for deploying, running and improving the tools that provide visibility, detection and control. This is hands on and sits right between platform engineering and security, with a big focus on getting security embedded properly into how things are built and run.

You’ll spend your time securing Kubernetes environments, running and tuning Splunk for logging and threat detection, and managing Nessus to track and drive vulnerability remediation. A big part of the role is integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and automating as much as possible, whether that’s through scripting or infrastructure as code.

You’ll also be working closely with DevOps and engineering teams to make sure security is part of the process, not something that gets added later. Alongside that, you’ll keep configurations, artefacts and documentation in good shape and treated as code.

Experience Required:

Prior experience as a Security Engineer or Platform Engineer type role, with strong Kubernetes knowledge and experience in tools like Splunk and Nessus. You’ll understand container security, have some scripting or automation capability, and be comfortable working with security frameworks . Awareness of threat frameworks like ATT&CK is useful.

It would help if you’ve worked with other SIEM tools, Microsoft Defender or DevSecOps pipelines, and any exposure to threat modelling or security design.

If you want a role where you’re actually building and running the security layer across a Kubernetes platform, rather than just watching dashboards, this gives you that ownership from day one.

Oracle Database Administrator (DBA)

Location: Reading (On-site, 5 days per week)
Contract: 6 months initial
Inside IR35 - £450-650pd (Depending on experience)

Security Clearance : It is an essential requirement for candidates to obtain UK Security Clearance (DV Level) prior to appointment.

Overview

Are you an experienced Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) looking to support, manage, and optimise mission-critical Oracle database environments within a high-security public sector organisation?

This role requires strong technical capability and experience working in secure and regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and maintain Oracle Database environments
• Manage backup and recovery using RMAN, including disaster recovery processes
• Monitor database performance and deliver tuning and optimisation activities
• Administer users, roles, privileges, auditing, and database security controls
• Support high availability solutions including Oracle RAC and Data Guard
• Troubleshoot incidents and provide on-call support where required
• Ensure compliance with security standards and operational procedures

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven experience as an Oracle DBA in secure, regulated, or enterprise environments
• Strong knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL
• Solid experience with Linux/Unix operating systems
• Hands-on experience with Oracle RAC and ASM
• Strong background in performance tuning and optimisation
• Experience with database security hardening and auditing
• Exposure to scripting/automation (e.g. Shell, Bash, Python)

Desirable Experience

• Supporting large-scale, high availability Oracle environments
• Working in 24/7 production support environments
• Familiarity with ITIL incident and problem management processes

Senior Azure Platform Engineer

Location: Farnborough (2-3 days per week, remote initially)
Salary: £70,000 - £75,000 + bonus + benefits
Permanent, Full-Time
Security Clearance : It is an essential requirement for candidates to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC Level) prior to appointment. 

Overview

Are you a highly skilled Senior Azure Platform Engineer looking to take the next step in your career? Join a growing and experienced engineering team delivering secure, scalable cloud platforms within a highly regulated environment.

This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in designing and evolving modern cloud infrastructure, working across cutting-edge technologies in Azure, Kubernetes, and DevOps.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Azure infrastructure across Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Virtual Machines, Networking, Storage, Databases, and Application Gateways
• Architect and manage hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity, including Site-to-Site VPN, BGP routing, and Azure Virtual WAN
• Implement and enforce cloud security best practices using Azure Key Vault, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, RBAC, and network segmentation
• Collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to design and implement robust platform solutions
• Configure and manage Kubernetes environments to support secure, scalable application deployments
• Design and build CI/CD pipelines to improve delivery speed and engineering efficiency
• Support both on-premises and cloud platforms using Infrastructure as Code and automation
• Implement monitoring and observability solutions to ensure platform health and performance
• Manage repositories and version control processes to support collaborative development
• Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual effort and improve reliability
• Provide technical guidance to development teams on platform best practices
• Contribute to platform improvements across security, scalability, and maintainability
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends

Skills & Experience

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years’ experience in: Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud / Platform Integration
• Strong Azure expertise, ideally with:
• AZ-104 (Azure Administrator)
• AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect)
• Deep knowledge of Azure networking: Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateways & BGP routing, NSGs, Private Endpoints
• Strong Kubernetes and container orchestration experience
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and HashiCorp tooling (e.g. Packer, Vault)
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as: GitHub Actions & GitLab CI/CD
• Solid understanding of Git and version control best practices
• Experience driving automation and improving platform efficiency
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, complex environments

Desirable:

• Experience with JFrog (Artifactory, XRay, Runtime) or similar tooling
• Exposure to additional cloud platforms (AWS or GCP)

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension scheme
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee perks and discount platform
• Discretionary bonus scheme

Engineering Manager (Service, Operations) - Defence Industry
Farnborough (Onsite)
High Level UK Security Clearances Required
£85k + great corporate benefits

Enjoy being the person who brings control, clarity and direction to engineering in a complex, high-pressure environment?

This is a critical leadership role at the centre of engineering delivery, responsible for managing engineering resources across a high-assurance environment while ensuring the stability of live services and the effective delivery of change. Sitting at the core of engineering activity, this role balances operational performance with the integration of change, while driving down technical debt and ensuring incidents are handled quickly and effectively.

Working closely with the Product Owner, Technical Authority and service teams, you will act as the focal point for engineering coordination, aligning priorities, resources and delivery.

The role

Managing engineering resources across patching, updates and ongoing maintenance, ensuring changes are clearly communicated and service impact is understood and controlled. Working with the Technical Authority to identify technical debt, define remediation plans and bring in specialist resource where required.

Partnering with the Product Owner to size, plan and prepare engineering activity needed to deliver change from the MVC pipeline. Leading the response to incidents across P1 to P4, ensuring the right expertise is applied quickly, and acting as Incident Manager for major P1 and P2 incidents, driving resolution.

Maintaining structure, clarity and accountability across engineering and service teams to ensure delivery remains aligned and controlled.

What is needed

Experience leading engineering teams within complex, service-led or high-assurance environments, with a strong understanding of service management, incident handling and controlled change delivery. Comfortable managing competing priorities across live service and project delivery, with experience identifying and reducing technical debt.

A calm, structured approach in high-pressure situations, alongside strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders. Organised, methodical and delivery-focused.

This is a role for someone who enjoys being at the centre of engineering operations, where you will bring clarity, control and momentum in an environment where your impact is immediate and visible.

Senior Project Manager (Microsoft Dynamics 365) - £85k - £100k + bonus, private medical, life insurance, 25 days holiday (option to buy up to 6 additional days) and more – Home-based with ad hoc to client

Are you looking for the next step in your career? Are you working on Microsoft Dynamics projects and want to make the jump to a consultancy? Do you want the opportunity to work on various large-scale transformation programmes?

Working for a well-known and reputable Microsoft consultancy, you will be accountable for the delivery of large and complex Microsoft Dynamics 365 projects and programmes. You will be responsible for a defined set of clients and all the projects within that client's account, ensuring client satisfaction, and that projects are delivered in adherence to the company’s quality assurance requirements and delivery methodology. You will be responsible for managing delivery across the full project lifecycle, ensuring projects are controlled effectively and delivered to time, quality and budget.

In addition to working on major Dynamics 365 and Power Platform transformations, you will have a personalised and tailored training and development plan to help you get where you want in your career, there is a lot of opportunity for growth and progression.

What will you be doing on a day-to-day?

• You will be accountable for the delivery of Microsoft Dynamics 365 projects, ensuring they adhere to the agreed timelines and maintain a high standard of work
• Communicating with senior management to ensure the commercial management of the account, including forecasting and client reporting
• Ensuring the project is adhering to the agreed delivery methodology and project controls
• Oversee the overall performance of the project delivery work, ensuring the quality of all deliverables and compliances
• Ensuring the work being submitted meets the required company quality standards and promptly addressing any concerns

What experience and skills do you need?

• The ability to manage multidisciplinary teams of up to 25 people
• Strong experience delivering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Applications and/or Power Platform projects end-to-end
• Demonstrable experience managing large scale programmes / projects across a range of clients in complex environments
• You must be able to manage stakeholders at all levels and have a clear level on communication
• SAFe / Scaled Agile Framework (or other) agile experience
• Knowledge and understanding of project governance, project controls, scope management and change control

This role is home-based and will be ad hoc travel to client sites.

Head of Project Management

Bedfordshire | Permanent | SC Clearance

£75,000

Talent Locker are excited to be supporting a highly innovative engineering organisation in their search for a Head of Project Management.  This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone who wants to play a central role in strengthening and shaping how projects are delivered across the business.

We are looking for a confident and credible leader who can bring fresh ideas, introduce structure where need, and help build a strong, respected project management function. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys improving ways of working and creating something that has long-term value.

The Opportunity
You will be responsible for leading a small but highly capable team and helping to establish consistent, effective project delivery across the organisation. Working closely with technical stakeholders, you will help embed best practice, strengthen processes, and support the ongoing development of the team. There is a strong focus on collaboration, improving efficiency, and ensuring project management is recognised as a key discipline within the business.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a proven Project Management leader with the ability to lead, influence, and operate with a high level of independence. This role would suit someone who has previously worked in a growing or evolving company where they have had real accountability.

You will have demonstrable experience in the following:

• Experience managing and developing Project Managers
• A track record of delivering technically complex projects
• The confidence to introduce new ideas and improve existing processes
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• A clear view of what effective project management looks like in practice

This is an opportunity to step into a role where you can make a real impact. The successful candidate with shape the direction of project management, influence the wider business and be a key part of the companies ongoing growth and transformation.

If you’d like to apply or find out more information, please contact Emma on emma@talentlocker.co.uk

Senior VCF Engineer

Rate: £600-650pd | Location: Onsite - Somerset | Contract: 6 months - possible extension 

Are you looking for an opportunity to take the lead on high-assurance VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.x deployments? We have an exciting role for a Senior VCF Engineer to join a high-security UK project onsite. You’ll drive VCF orchestration, NSX networking & security, Aria Operations, and storage integration, ensuring a secure, resilient, and fully managed private cloud. This role is ideal for engineers with expert-level VCF/NSX experience and experience in MOD, government, or national infrastructure environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end deployment of Management and Workload Domains using SDDC Manager, VCF Installer (Cloud Builder), and VCF Operations.

• Design and implement NSX virtual networking topologies, including Tier-0/Tier-1 gateways, load balancers, and Distributed Firewall (DFW) micro-segmentation policies.

• Configure and optimize Aria Operations, Aria Logs, and Aria Automation for proactive management and automation.

• Integrate NetApp ONTAP storage with performance and path redundancy in mind.

• Manage patching and upgrades of the full VMware stack (ESXi, vCenter, NSX, Aria) via VCF’s Lifecycle Management (LCM) workflows.

• Collaborate on identity and authentication security for all management planes.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Expert-level knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation (v8.x/9.x) and multi-site/multi-cluster architectures.

• Deep experience with VMware NSX, particularly security-driven networking and overlay-to-underlay integration.

• Proficient with Aria Operations, Aria Logs, and Aria Automation.

• Experience in UK High-Security environments (MOD, Government, or National Infrastructure).

Preferred Certifications:

• VCP-VMC – VMware Certified Professional: VMware Cloud

• VCIX-NV – VMware Certified Implementation Expert: Network Virtualization

Infrastructure Engineer - UK Security Clearances Required (High Level Clearance)
Permanent – up to £80k + bonus and benefits
Hampshire based / or Somerset

This is a hands-on infrastructure role operating at the sharp end of secure environments. You’ll be working across multi-classified systems where stability, security and performance genuinely matter, supporting critical platforms spanning Windows, Linux, cloud and virtualised estates.

The environment is complex and varied. One day you’re deep in system triage and patching across secure platforms, the next you’re improving automation, advising on infrastructure design, or helping shape more robust, Secure by Design capabilities across the estate. There’s a strong mix of BAU and project work, with real scope to influence how things are built and improved.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll maintain and enhance multi-classified environments across virtualised, collaboration and development platforms, ensuring everything is secure, patched and performing as expected.

What you’ll bring

Strong experience across Windows Server and Linux environments, alongside Azure, VMware and networking fundamentals. You’ll be comfortable working in secure or protectively marked environments and understand the operational discipline that comes with it.

Essential
• Windows Server 2016+ administration
• RedHat OpenShift
• Linux (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu)
• EUD provisioning (Autopilot), maintenance, patching and hardening
• SSO concepts and operation
• Experience working in protectively marked environments
• VMware
• Azure
• Networking
• Automation and scripting (Ansible, PowerShell)

Experience with Kubernetes (e.g. VMware TKGI), VMware tooling (vSphere, vCenter, VCF), Azure/Microsoft 365, DevSecOps tooling, Elastic, Nessus, application packaging, Terraform, Vault, and Agile delivery would be advantageous.

This role suits someone who enjoys being hands-on, solving problems properly, and continuously improving the environment around them.

A genuinely high-impact role in a secure environment where good engineers stand out quickly.

Network Engineer

Permanent - up to £85k + bonus and benefits

Security Clearance : It is an essential requirement for candidates to obtain UK Security Clearance (DV Level) prior to appointment. 

Location: Hampshire - 5 days on site

Are you a Network Engineer looking to work on production LANs and global WANs in a high-security environment? We are seeking a hands-on engineer to support existing networks, implement new infrastructure, and lab/test emerging technologies. The ideal candidate is comfortable with CLI-driven configuration, network security, and automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and support LAN and WAN architectures
• Configure and troubleshoot routing protocols including OSPF and BGP
• Implement and manage VPNs and network security infrastructure, including NGFWs (Next-Generation Firewalls)
• Build and maintain data centre networks (Leaf/Spine architecture or similar)
• Work with high assurance IP encryption (HAIPE) devices
• Automate network deployments and orchestration using Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools
• Document configurations and implement designs from High-Level and Low-Level Design documents
• Work with whitebox/open networking infrastructure (Linux-based network OS)

Required Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience with LAN/WAN architecture
• Strong understanding of OSPF & BGP routing protocols
• Hands-on experience with VPNs and firewalls
• Knowledge of data centre network design
• Experience with network automation/orchestration tools
• CCNP or equivalent qualification

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with software-defined networking (SDN) such as NSX
• Exposure to whitebox switching/open networking platforms
• Familiarity with high-assurance encryption device