Systems Engineer requirement with Sagentia Defence.

• Website - https://sagentia.com/defence/
• JD - https://careers.sagentia.com/en/postings/12003de5-dfc7-4982-9b6a-4f805c1c4577
• Salary – up to £65k (ideally looking at around £55k)
• Location – Bristol (willing to be in 3 days per week)
• Security Clearance – UKSC (must have lived in the UK for last 5 years)
• 1^st stage Teams, 2^nd Stage short Teams with HR Jamie, 3^rd Onsite with manager Andrew. Able to start ASAP.

As a Systems Engineer, you’ll bring a blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and hands-on experience. Ideally, you will have:

• Experience of requirements management within the UK MOD (Frontline Commands or Delivery Agents),  
• Knowledge of the UK acquisition framework (e.g. Business Cases, URD, SRD, CONEMP/CONUSE, ITEAP, etc.)
• Comprehension of Defence Lines of Development, and how they can drive requirements, 
• Knowledge of operational environments, including understanding the challenges and impacts of the following: geography, climate, media and information, population, urbanisation or cyber.
• Experience of DOORS/Dimensions RM software to support requirements management.
• Understanding of modern SE approaches like MBSE.

If you are interested in applying for this role you must meet the following criteria:

• Candidates must have an existing right to live and work in the UK. 
• Candidates will need to undergo an internal BPSS check prior to gaining site access. 
• Candidates will also need to either hold a current SC clearance or be willing and eligible to undergo a Security Clearance check (SC level) upon starting their employment with the company. 
• To gain SC clearance you will normally need at least 5 years’ UK residency. 

We need a full lifecycle Systems Engineer, full V lifecycle. See phases of lifecycle below as we discussed. If you don’t understand what the candidate does, ask them. They’ll love to tell you. BPSS OR SC cleared, 5 years in UK, UK Nationality,

For this role – Not all requirements management. Needs to be IBM DOORS, not rail experience, not from expliotion, Poach from Supercat, Thalis, Quinatq, Avionics

This link may also be helpful - https://www.jamasoftware.com/requirements-management-guide/systems-engineering/what-is-systems-engineering/

Go through the Boolean we have created on Sourcebreaker (below) and even if people aren’t right or have salary expectations too high, still speak with them. Anyone outstanding I will try and spec out, anyone too senior or not looking, might know someone and get them added to Vincere and tag them up 😊

("Systems Engineer" OR "System Engineer" OR "Systems Engineering" OR "System Engineering") AND ("V lifecycle" OR "v-lifecycle" OR MBSE OR "Model Based Systems Engineering" OR "Model Based System Engineering" OR "M.B.S.E" OR "Requirements Management" OR Requirements OR Requirement OR "IBM Doors" OR "D.O.O.R.S" OR "V&V" OR Ivvq OR IVV OR Integration OR Validation OR "SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE" OR "Systems Design" OR "System Design" OR "Sub-system" OR "SUB-SYSTEMS" OR Testing OR Test OR "Weapons Engineering" OR "Weapons Engineer") AND (Defence OR BAE OR Thales OR Selex OR QinetiQ OR Babcock OR Lockheed OR MBDA OR DSTL OR Atkins OR "Marshall Aerospace" OR Boeing OR "PA Consulting" OR Raytheon OR AWE OR "General Dynamics" OR "DE&S" OR Leidos OR AtkinsRealis OR "GE Aviation" OR SII OR Supacat OR "ELBIT SYSTEMS" OR ESUK OR "Infinity Systems Engineering" OR whitetree OR "Turner And Townsend" OR "Frazer-Nash" OR "Frazer Nash" OR MOD OR "Ministry Of Defence" OR "SC Clearance" OR "SC Cleared" OR "DV Cleared" OR "DV Clearance" OR BPSS OR "Baseline Clearance" OR Ukeo OR "uk eyes only" OR NATO OR SDA OR "Submarine Delivery Agency")

Key Questions

• Do you hold security clearance? If so, what level of clearance and who holds this? Is it transferrable and when does it expire? – please tag up on Vincere
• Are you a sole British national or dual national? If dual, what is your other nationality and how long have you held your British passport? 5 Years in UK?
• Where is the Systems Engineering lifecycle are your key/core strengths (I.E. Requirements, design, integration for example)? – please then tag them up appropriately on Vincere 😊
• Where else are you interviewing? (if they don’t want to answer, say it’s not to be nosey its so we don’t call you back about the same opportunities or cause any duplications)
• Have they been spoken to about TP Group/ Sagentia/ Sagentia Defence previously? If so, when and did they apply?
• If they’re interviewing else, what stage? Is it perm or contract? Who is hiring manager?
• If this isn’t quite right for you, do you know any other good systems engineers that I should be speaking with that are in the market or potentially interested?
• What is your experience of Model based systems engineering?
• Notice period?

Key Words / Acronyms –

• BPSS SC DV (5 years current UK resident)
• MBSE Module Based Systems Engineer.
• ‘V’ Lifecycle – SubSystems, "V&V",  Ivvq, IVV
• Side 1/Left (Requirements, Operating, functionality, challenges, safety, security, testing, timeframe, design, trials, testing, modelling, simulation) Design Phase and verification – IBM DOORS
• – Side 2/Right (Inspections, Integrations, real life testing on product or software, deployment ie handing over to customer- Testing phase and Validation
• MOD – Ministry of defence – experience in Air, Sea, Land, Military or Marines

Cloud Platform Engineer – Hybrid / Farnborough, Initial 6 month contract, Outside IR35, £500-600 per day
SC (UK Sole Nationals only)

Are you an experienced Platform Engineer with strong SRE and DevOps capabilities to join a team delivering secure, cloud-first infrastructure in the defence and security space. This is a hands-on role, owning critical platform components across CI/CD, container orchestration and observability.

Why join?
• Build and run secure platforms for sensitive, high-availability systems
• Autonomy to define and improve key infrastructure and deployment pipelines
• Work alongside highly capable engineers in a focused, outcome-driven team

What you’ll be doing
• Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or similar)
• Configuring Kubernetes clusters for secure, scalable deployments
• Building automation across infrastructure provisioning and testing
• Implementing monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
• Managing repositories and version control (Git)
• Driving SRE practices around performance, resilience, and supportability
• Working closely with dev teams to integrate platform tooling into workflows
• Supporting infrastructure security, maintainability and scalability initiatives

What we’re looking for
• 5+ years in platform/SRE/DevOps roles
• Strong Kubernetes experience (config and deployment)
• Deep CI/CD experience – Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or similar
• Skilled with infra observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Confident with Git and repo management workflows
• Strong automation mindset – reducing manual intervention wherever possible
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Must be a sole UK national and have current SC

There are long contract opportunities and a large pipeline of work. These are outside IR35 and likely to be office based in Farnborough a max of 1-2 days per week, but mainly on a needs-must basis.

DevOps Engineer (Oracle Cloud), 6 month contract, outside IR35 £550-600 per day, London Hybrid working

Contract role for a global retail/hospitality company going through a large Oracle Fusion ERP implementation. If you are a cloud engineer with experience in the below and available for a quick start, please apply.

This is outside IR35, initially 6 months and hybrid working (London office)

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

• • Provisioning

• • Administration/Configuration

• • Infrastructure as code

• • Best practice knowledge

• • Security Configuration/Considerations

• Oracle Integration Cloud

• • Provisioning

• • Administration/Configuration

• • Infrastructure as code

• • Best practice knowledge

• • Security Configuration/Considerations

• Terraform Experience

• Cloud Networking Experience

• Cloud Computing Experience

• Change Management Process/Procedures

Cloud Platform Engineer – Hybrid / Farnborough, Circa £80k + bonus + excellent benefits
SC Eligible (UK Sole Nationals only)

Are you an experienced Platform Engineer with strong SRE and DevOps capabilities to join a team delivering secure, cloud-first infrastructure in the defence and security space. This is a hands-on role, owning critical platform components across CI/CD, container orchestration and observability.

Why join?
• Build and run secure platforms for sensitive, high-availability systems
• Autonomy to define and improve key infrastructure and deployment pipelines
• Work alongside highly capable engineers in a focused, outcome-driven team

What you’ll be doing
• Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or similar)
• Configuring Kubernetes clusters for secure, scalable deployments
• Building automation across infrastructure provisioning and testing
• Implementing monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
• Managing repositories and version control (Git)
• Driving SRE practices around performance, resilience, and supportability
• Working closely with dev teams to integrate platform tooling into workflows
• Supporting infrastructure security, maintainability and scalability initiatives

What we’re looking for
• 5+ years in platform/SRE/DevOps roles
• Strong Kubernetes experience (config and deployment)
• Deep CI/CD experience – Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or similar
• Skilled with infra observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Confident with Git and repo management workflows
• Strong automation mindset – reducing manual intervention wherever possible
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Must be a sole UK national and eligible for SC clearance

There are fantastic benefits including Private medical, bonus, and a whole suite of corporate benefits. There are plenty of career development opportunities and growth potential.

Recruitment Delivery Consultant / Account Manager
Talent Locker | Chandler’s Ford | £25-35k + Commission + Bonus + Benefits

Do you have a good work ethic and want to be rewarded for your efforts? Do you enjoy recruitment, or thought it would be an industry to get into?

Working closely with our defence & engineering recruitment consultant, you will work mainly on the ‘candidate side’, attracting and assessing candidates for defence technology roles. You will be filling roles for some of the best names within the defence industry. As you grow, there will be opportunities to take the lead on client relationships and account management, should you wish to.

You may have some recruitment experience already, so if you enjoy the candidate side of recruitment, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and have strong problem-solving skills, please read on. If you have no recruitment experience, you will need to be able to immerse yourself into a new industry, enjoy speaking with candidates and have some of a competitive or strategic sales mindset.

The Role

• Attract and assess candidates for technology and engineering roles (using LinkedIn, Job Boards, CRM and network).
• Write good job adverts, create & manage LinkedIn projects, and guide candidates through the recruitment process.
• Manage the full recruitment cycle—from job qualification to candidate placement.
• Being curious, wanting to continually know more from candidates by asking lots of questions

What We Offer:

• Salary, Commission & Bonus: £25-35k base + market leading delivery commission scheme (£250 per contract placement, £400 per permanent placement) + quarterly bonus scheme.
• Flexible Working: Core hours from 10 am to 4 pm, with the option to work from home on Fridays and a 4 pm finish.
• Benefits: Quarterly bonuses, sports massage, fortnightly yoga, buy/sell holidays, and discounts, social events and end of quarter / year celebrations
• New office: Free parking, pool table, coffee machine, kitchen area, and drinks fridge.
• Tools & Training: Full access to LinkedIn Recruiter, SourceBreaker, and ongoing mentorship & support.

You:
You’ll need to have pride in your work, be hardworking, adaptable with an excellent work ethic and the ability to work in a fun, fast-paced environment. You will be dealing with professional people both candidates and clients, so good verbal and written communication is essential, as is a keen attention to detail.

About Talent Locker:
Talent Locker is a high performing recruitment agency specialising in placing candidates in the Technology, Engineering and Business Change markets. We’re committed to your success, providing the tools and training you need to thrive in a supportive and rewarding environment.

Want to finally be rewarded for your hard work? Apply now.

Business Development Coordinator – Defence Industry
Bath / Bristol | 3+ Days Onsite | SC Eligible | £40k + bonus + enhanced benefits

Are you proactive? Can you be a brand ambassador at trade shows? Could you support sales teams with relevant trends, admin and research? Want to get involved in a fantastic defence company who build phenomenal technology and products? This is a multi-faceted role likely suited to someone who has some commercial experience and now looking for the next step in their career. 

Are you looking to grow your career and have an interest in defence or innovation? This growing organisation is delivering cutting-edge technology systems and AI solutions for the UK and NATO defence landscape – and they need a proactive Business Development coordinator to join their team.

In this role, you'll work directly with Senior Business Development Managers, supporting strategy, bids and client engagement across high-impact defence opportunities. You’ll also have the chance to get involved in exhibitions, research, and shaping the function as the company continues its growth journey.

What you’ll be doing
• Conducting market analysis and reporting on trends across the defence technology
• Developing presentations, pitch materials, and customer-facing content
• Supporting competitive bids and proposal responses end-to-end
• Helping manage sales administration
• Attending events and exhibitions to represent the business and gather intel

What you’ll bring
• An interest in technology, engineering or defence
• Strong interpersonal skills and a sharp eye for quality content
• Highly organised, proactive and comfortable working independently
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills; confident communicator (written and verbal)
• Eligible for SC clearance and able to work from Bath/Bristol 3+ days per week

Bonus if you have
• A working knowledge of the defence industry 
• Experience supporting bids, sales enablement or supporting a business development team
• Postgrad qualifications in Business, Marketing, Engineering or similar

This is a great opportunity to work at the heart of a high-performing team in a very interesting industry. If you want variety, responsibility and the chance to shape your own development – this could be the role for you. 

You will really make a difference and be an integral part and much valued part of the team. 

There is private medical, a performance related bonus and up to a 10% pension. 

HR Talent Management / Experience Lead
6 Month initial Contract
London based
£370 per day inside IR35

Working for a global organisation as Talent management lead you’ll help shape and improve the tools and experiences used by employees, managers and HR teams. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be working across a mix of ongoing talent processes (like performance reviews) as well as broader, one-off pieces of work (like coaching or onboarding).

It’s a great opportunity if you enjoy making things better through design, listening to feedback, and creating clear, user-friendly experiences that work for everyone.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing talent tools and processes that are simple, effective and meet the needs of different users
• Listening to feedback from employees, managers and HR teams – and using it to make improvements
• Working across both regular (cyclical) processes like performance reviews, and ad hoc initiatives like onboarding or coaching
• Helping roll out tools and products in a way that’s easy to understand and use
• Writing clear documentation and user guides for different audiences
• Looking at data and feedback to see what’s working and what could be improved
• Working with other teams to make sure everything fits together across HR systems
• Sharing ideas, plans and updates with stakeholders and senior leaders

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years’ experience in talent management, product design or a similar role
• Comfortable designing experiences that work well for users – and improving them over time
• Confident working with feedback, research and data
• Able to communicate clearly with different audiences and teams
• Organised, proactive, and able to manage your own workload

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience working in large, complex organisations (especially matrix structures)
• Knowledge of Agile or design thinking approaches
• Understanding of HR systems and how they link together
• Any relevant certifications in talent, HR or design

This is working within a global team of four, collaborating closely with HR stakeholders across the UK, US, and Philippines. The role offers hands-on involvement in key HR processes like onboarding, goal setting, and performance reviews, with potential for extension or permanency. Ideal for someone pursuing a career in HR, it provides broad exposure to global HR functions, requires strong communication skills, attention to detail, and a proactive mindset.

If you’re someone who enjoys solving problems, improving how things work, and making a real impact on employee experience – this could be a great fit.

Agile Delivery Manager / Project Manager, 6 months, Southampton, £575 - £600 per day inside IR35

Contract role for an Agile Project Delivery Manager to champion agile processes & lead the end to end delivery of key technology digital customer facing projects.

The office is in Southampton and the fixed hybrid working is min 2 days per week in Southampton and 2-3 days remotely.

You would need to have experience and availability in the following:

• Delivery Manager, Project or Programme Manager working in a complex technical environment
• Worked both Agile / Scrum and Waterfall environments, you could use the term Wagile, Agile Delivery Manager / Agile Delivery Lead or dual Project Manager & Scrum Master
• Coaching and championing cross functional project teams through Agile Transformations
• Technology project delivery experience in agile delivery approaches (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc)
• Worked for an enterprise company related to retail, B2C or customer systems (airlines, travel etc) or related technology field
• Available to be on site 2-3 days per week in Southampton
• Start within 2-week notice of offer
• Able to work inside IR35 via an umbrella company

Please apply to be considered

Infrastructure Engineer – Server Room Administrator (SC / DV Cleared)
Location: Farnborough (on-site 4–5 days per week)
Clearance: SC or DV Cleared / with a willingness to go through DV Clearance
Salary: £65-75k + excellent benefits

Looking for the opportunity to take full ownership of a datacentre environment, drive improvements, and make your mark on critical Defence & Security infrastructure? This role offers the chance to take the lead on a key piece of infrastructure, shaping and managing it day-to-day while contributing to important national security work.

You’ll be the go-to person for managing the physical IT infrastructure and facilities, with full support from the wider Infrastructure team when needed — but this is your opportunity to make the environment your own.

What you’ll be doing:
• Leading day-to-day operations of the datacentre facilities, ensuring availability, performance and security
• Planning and coordinating physical infrastructure maintenance, upgrades and vendor management
• Monitoring capacity across power, cooling and space, and proactively resolving issues
• Producing reports and maintaining accurate documentation of infrastructure configuration and performance
• Driving security compliance aligned to SCIDA, JSP and ISO standards
• Working closely with IT teams to support changes and improvements to infrastructure services
• Advising on contracts and SLAs to ensure cost-effective solutions

What you’ll bring:
• Strong datacentre operations experience covering physical infrastructure, facilities, and security
• Familiarity with Defence/secure sector standards (SCIDA, JSP, ISO etc.)
• Excellent organisational, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work independently, with a hands-on, problem-solving mindset
• Current DV clearance (or SC Currently and eligible and willing to undergo)

Bonus if you have:
• Facilities Management or IT qualifications
• ITIL experience
• Experience working with MOD or Defence customers

Why join?
• Own and lead your own datacentre operation in a growing Defence & Security business
• High levels of autonomy, variety, and responsibility
• Direct impact on national security projects
• Ongoing funded training and development opportunities

Managing Security Consultant – Defence & National Security (SC Cleared)
Location: Farnborough / UK-wide travel / Hybrid
Clearance: SC Cleared (DV eligible) |
Salary: £95k + excellent benefits

Are you an experienced cyber security professional with a background in public sector consultancy and a deep understanding of MOD security design policies? Do you want to shape the security strategy behind some of the UK’s most sensitive and high-impact defence projects?

This high-growth digital innovations & delivery transformation partner (impressive YoY growth secured) is looking for a Managing Security Consultant to work closely with their CISO on a wide variety of secure technology programmes in Defence and National Security.

This role is ideal for someone who knows how to navigate competitive tenders, set the cyber agenda from day one, and guide projects with confidence and clarity. You will need to be able to sit with the customer for design & assurance, so need to be consultative / communicative.

This role will be some travel within the UK (expensed) and some on-site in Farnborough.

What you’ll be doing
• Leading cyber security work on competitive tenders and identifying key security tasks at the start of delivery
• Writing Security Management Plans and setting strategic direction for security projects
• Designing and documenting secure approaches aligned to MOD policies and requirements (JSP 440, 453, 604, etc.)
• Advising on risk and mitigation strategies across digital, DevSecOps, and infrastructure teams
• Working closely with the CISO and engaging directly with public sector customers
• Managing and presenting technical solutions to senior stakeholders across government

What you’ll bring
• At least 7 years of experience in cyber security within delivery or consultancy, ideally public sector
• Proven track record of supporting bids/tenders and delivering secure solutions
• Strong grasp of enterprise ICT and MOD security assurance requirements
• Excellent documentation and communication skills (written and verbal)
• UK national (British citizen), with active SC clearance and willingness to go through DV clearance
• Knowledge of secure-by-design, Agile delivery, DevSecOps, CI/CD practices
• Familiarity with cutting-edge tech (e.g. Azure, Kubernetes, modern cloud-native stacks)

Do you want to work on cutting-edge programmes that shape national security – in a business that gives you the autonomy, backing and support to lead? Apply now and help shape the future of secure digital delivery.