Business Development Manager / Client Manager – Defence Cyber Security

UK Based | £80k - £120k + Uncapped Performance Bonus | Predominantly Remote | UK Security Clearance Required

Do you know how business really gets done within UK Defence? Perhaps you’re already working within an Army, Royal Navy or RAF programme, know the key people and partners, and have a strong understanding of Cyber Security.

This is an opportunity to join a growing Cyber Security consultancy with an established Defence presence and help expand its work across UK Defence.

You don’t necessarily need to be a traditional salesperson. You could currently be delivering within a Defence cyber or security programme, working in consultancy, programme delivery, client management or account management, and want to move into a more commercially focused role.

The role will include:

• Developing relationships across the Army, Royal Navy and RAF

• Identifying opportunities through your Defence network and programme knowledge

• Building relationships with Programme Directors and senior Defence stakeholders

• Understanding customer cyber programmes, priorities, budgets and decision makers

• Turning relationships and market knowledge into new business opportunities

• Owning opportunities from initial conversation through to contract award

• Leading and contributing to bids, including hands on bid writing

• Developing relationships with primes, SMEs and strategic partners

• Growing existing accounts and identifying follow on opportunities

You’ll need a good understanding of the Defence Cyber Security landscape and enough technical awareness to confidently discuss cyber programmes, challenges and requirements with customers and delivery teams.

You could already work in Business Development, Capture or Client Management. Equally, you might currently be delivering within a Defence cyber programme and be ready to use your relationships and knowledge in a more commercial role.

What matters is that you understand UK Defence, know who’s who within your area, have credible cyber/security knowledge and can build strong relationships with customers and partners.

Experience and existing relationships across the Army, Royal Navy or RAF would be particularly valuable.

This is a predominantly remote role with considerable autonomy and no micromanagement. Customer meetings and occasional travel to Bristol or London can be managed around your own diary.

Current UK Security Clearance (SC), or eligibility to obtain it, is required.

If you know the Defence cyber landscape, understand the programmes and people behind it, and want to use that knowledge to help shape and win new work, this could be a great next move.

Senior Platform Engineer (AWS) | Defence | Contract

£600 to £750 per day | Outside IR35 | Cheltenham (3 days onsite) | Enhanced DV Clearance Required

Before Applying: you will need to have Active Enhanced DV (eDV) clearance. Please do not apply if you do not have ‘enhanced developed vetting’; this is one of the highest levels of security clearance, higher than SC, DBS, BPSS, NPPV3, DV.

An opportunity for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to work on a new multi-cloud platform build from the ground up, supporting critical Defence and National Security programmes.

You'll join a small engineering team, taking ownership of platform design, development and deployment, with AWS as a key technology.

The Role

• Design and build a new multi-cloud platform from the ground up.
• Develop secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Build and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automate platform deployments.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes and containerised environments.
• Establish platform engineering standards, security and automation practices.
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver new platform capabilities.

Key Skills

• Strong AWS Platform Engineering experience.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Kubernetes and containerisation.
• GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Linux and Bash scripting.
• CI/CD automation and DevOps practices.
• Experience designing and building cloud platforms.

An excellent opportunity to help shape and build a new secure multi-cloud platform from the ground up.

Infrastructure Engineer  Test Engineer - DV Cleared– Contract – MOD/Defence

Somerset| £600 per day + Expenses | Outside IR35 | DV Security Clearance Required

Are you an Infrastructure Test Engineer with strong QA and testing experience across networks, platforms and Infrastructure as Code?

This is an opportunity to work on complex Defence and National Security projects, taking responsibility for testing and validating infrastructure before deployment into highly secure production environments.

Working alongside Infrastructure Engineers, Architects and DevSecOps specialists, you’ll assure infrastructure across physical, virtualised and cloud environments, ensuring it meets the required standards for functionality, resilience and security.

What you’ll do

• Create infrastructure-focused test strategies, plans and test cases.
• Carry out functional, integration, regression, resilience and security testing.
• Test and validate Infrastructure as Code deployments.
• Validate physical, virtualised and cloud infrastructure.
• Provision and verify test environments alongside DevSecOps teams.
• Build infrastructure validation and readiness testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Identify defects, risks and infrastructure issues ahead of production.
• Support security assurance, compliance and accreditation activities.
• Maintain appropriate test evidence and traceability.

What you’ll need

Strong infrastructure knowledge combined with hands-on testing and assurance experience, including:

• Current, DV Security Clearance
• Networking – TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, VLANs and firewalls.
• Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting.
• VMware and virtualised infrastructure.
• Physical infrastructure including routers, switches and cabling.
• Terraform and Ansible.
• Kubernetes.
• AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Jenkins, GitLab CI or GitHub Actions.
• Automated infrastructure validation and environment readiness testing.
• Secure-by-Design, IAM, OS hardening and network segmentation.

If you’re an Infrastructure Engineer with strong testing experience who enjoys getting into the detail of how infrastructure performs, integrates and stands up before production, get in touch.

Expenses are available if you require staying over to be on site 5 days per week