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SC Cleared Security Architect 6 month contract + Inside IR35 Hybrid - 1x a month in London Up to 600 p/d What we're looking for Active SC clearance Strong AWS security architecture experience Experience working in secure, regulated or public sector environments Good understanding of cloud security controls, patterns and governance Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and modern engineering practices Experience designing or reviewing solutions across cloud, legacy or hybrid environments Ability to apply structured analysis to real-world security challenges Knowledge of risk methodologies and how to apply them proportionately Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to explain technical security issues clearly Comfortable working collaboratively across multidisciplinary delivery teams Nice to have Understanding of Home Office or central government security processes Knowledge of secure cloud platforms, landing zones, guardrails or core cloud services Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, container security or automated security controls

Senior Software Engineer (AI Products) London Remote-first Greenfield AI Native Product Development Location: London (remote-first - in office 1x a fortnight) Salary: 90,000 - 110,000 Tech stack: Flexibility with technical background, provided candidate is fluent in modern technologies such as: Python Golang Modern JavaScript frameworks LLMs & AI Agents RAG & AI orchestration frameworks Must have strong AWS experience & high competence with Agentic coding tools This is an opportunity to help shape a new generation of AI native products from day 1. You'll be joining a well established technology company investing heavily in a new generation of AI native products, giving you the opportunity to work on greenfield initiatives without the funding uncertainty, chaos, or risk that often comes with an early stage startup. They're looking for an experienced engineer who has already shipped AI powered systems into production and can operate with a high degree of autonomy. You'll join a small, experienced team where engineers are trusted to make decisions, move quickly, and own problems end to end, without layers of process or constant oversight. It's an adult environment that values outcomes over presenteeism, offers genuine flexibility, and gives engineers significant influence over product direction and architecture. What you'll be doing Building AI powered products and features from concept through to production Designing and developing AI agents that solve real business problems Working closely with product stakeholders to rapidly iterate and deliver value Using agentic development tools as a core part of your workflow Making pragmatic architecture decisions that balance speed with long term maintainability Deploying and operating cloud native applications in production Exploring new models, frameworks and approaches to keep products at the forefront of what's possible What they're looking for Strong software engineering foundations with proven commercial experience working across the stack Experience building and shipping production AI applications or AI agents Hands on experience with LLM APIs, RAG systems, orchestration frameworks, or similar AI technologies Strong architectural instincts and ability to make sound engineering decisions Experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure Why join? Opportunity to build greenfield AI native products High trust, low bureaucracy environment Significant ownership and influence over technical direction Strong investment in modern AI tooling and engineering practices Remote-first & flexible environment Interested and eager to help shape how software is built in an AI first world? Apply to this role or drop me an email at .

Product Owner - Identity Platform - SC Cleared Join a large-scale digital transformation programme delivering secure, user-centred identity and access capabilities for millions of users across the UK. Working as part of a high-performing agile delivery team, you'll take ownership of the product backlog and delivery roadmap, ensuring initiatives and epics are clearly defined, prioritised, and aligned to strategic goals. This is a great opportunity for a hands-on Product Owner who enjoys shaping digital services from concept through to delivery, in a modern cloud-based and data-driven environment. Due to the nature of the work, active SC clearance is required. Key Responsibilities Own and refine the product backlog, ensuring user stories and acceptance criteria are clear and delivery-ready. Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to elaborate initiatives and epics into actionable work items. Prioritise competing requirements to maximise value delivery across multiple agile teams. Support sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives as part of the agile delivery cycle. Work with Business Analysts, Delivery Managers, and technical leads to maintain alignment between strategy and implementation. Communicate progress, risks, and dependencies across delivery and leadership teams. Skills & Experience Proven experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager on complex agile software government delivery projects. Active SC clearance. Confident managing backlogs, roadmaps, and stakeholder expectations in fast-moving delivery settings. Excellent facilitation and communication skills, comfortable interacting with both business and technical teams. Experience working in cross-functional agile teams (engineering, QA, DevOps). Ideally certified in Scrum Product Ownership (CSPO/PSPO) or equivalent.

I am recruiting for an experience QA Test Automation Engineer to join my client in central Bristol ( 2 days a week in the office). They are the most incredible tech for good company using AI to build tools that make life easier for people who need additional support. The product is meaningful, impactful, and something you can definitely feel proud to be a part of. In this role you will be the sole QA within the business. For the first six months you will have support from a manual tester who will take responsibility for manual testing, giving you space to focus on building and driving automation. There is already a QA foundation in place from a previous tester, so you will have existing processes and some automation to build on, but also the freedom to redo/ improve things if needed. You will be testing across both web and native mobile applications The tech stack includes Playwright for web automation, WebDriverIO, Appium and BrowserStack for mobile automation, TypeScript, Mocha, Cucumber, Jira, and a bespoke in house LLM test harness. There is already strong unit test coverage in place, giving you a solid base to build a robust end to end automation strategy. You will take ownership of QA strategy end to end, driving automation forward with a strong focus on modern tooling. This is a hands on role where you will balance manual and automated testing where needed, introduce structure and process in a way that adds value without unnecessary overhead, and work closely with developers and product in a highly collaborative environment. As the business moves towards becoming a medical device company, you will also play a key role in helping mature QA practices to align with more rigorous standardsp. Although it is early stage, the team already has strong processes in place due to the nature of their product so there is no startup chaos here. The ideal person will be an experienced automation tester with strong web automation skills, ideally using Playwright, with mobile experience being a nice to have. You will be comfortable working independently, confident taking full ownership of QA end to end, and naturally curious about AI and large language models, with a genuine enjoyment of figuring things out. Salary is up to 70,000 depending on experience. If you would like to hear more, please apply below to Sam Miller at SR2 - Socially Responsible Recruitment

Engineering Manager (hands on) London Hybrid AI Product Company Salary: 100,000 - 120,000 + equity Location: London (hybrid) A growing AI product company is looking for a hands on Engineering Manager to help scale a high performing product engineering organisation at a key stage of growth. The business has already built strong commercial traction, works with a range of well known organisations, and is now at the point where engineering maturity, delivery confidence, and team scalability matter just as much as speed. This is not a "sit in meetings and update Jira tickets" kind of management role. They are looking for someone who can bring structure without bureaucracy, help strong engineers perform at a higher level, and create clarity in an environment where priorities move quickly and product decisions happen fast. The engineering team is still relatively small, which means this role has real influence over how the organisation evolves over the next few years. What you'll be doing: Managing and supporting product engineering teams delivering customer facing software Helping teams break down ambiguous product work into clear, achievable plans Improving delivery visibility, forecasting, prioritisation, and risk management Working closely with Product and Design to balance engineering quality with commercial goals Coaching engineers and emerging technical leaders across performance, growth, and communication Building lightweight operational systems that improve execution without slowing teams down Supporting hiring, onboarding, and team scaling as the business grows What they're looking for: Previous experience as an Engineering Manager with direct line management responsibility Experience leading delivery within product focused software teams Strong judgement around prioritisation, sequencing, estimation, and trade offs Ability to operate well in fast moving environments with ambiguity and changing priorities Strong communication skills and confidence handling difficult conversations when needed Enough technical depth to challenge assumptions and understand engineering decisions Tech stack: Python Vue.js AWS Solid technical & product experience with a different stack is welcomed! It is a role for someone who enjoys helping ambitious engineers move faster, communicate better, and build stronger systems without turning the company into a corporate meeting simulator. If you're interested and excited by making your mark on a growing organisation & working with a talented engineering team, then drop me a email at .

Senior Full Stack Engineer London Hybrid AI Product Scale Up (start-up) Python & TypeScript Salary: 80,000 - 95,000 + equity Location: London, hybrid working (1 day per week) A high growth AI product company is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join a strong engineering team building a platform already being used at meaningful scale. This is the kind of environment where engineers are trusted with real ownership, expected to contribute to technical direction, and surrounded by people who care deeply about building good products well. The product is live, revenue is strong, customers are using it daily, and growth is happening quickly enough that engineering quality and scalability now matter just as much as speed. They are still early enough that strong engineers can heavily influence architecture, product direction, engineering standards, and how the platform evolves over the next few years. What you'll be doing: Building end to end product features across frontend and backend Designing APIs, backend services, data models, and user facing functionality Improving platform performance, usability, reliability, and maintainability as usage scales Contributing to technical direction and engineering standards across the product Working closely with product and design teams to shape solutions collaboratively Mentoring and supporting other engineers through strong technical practice and communication Making pragmatic engineering decisions without overengineering everything into oblivion Tech stack: Frontend: Vue.js / TypeScript Backend: Python / FastAPI Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS / Azure, Terraform, GitHub Actions They are absolutely open to engineers from adjacent stacks. Strong product engineers are being considered if they are comfortable operating across modern web systems. What they're looking for: Strong experience building production software across frontend and backend systems Experience owning technical decisions and delivering customer facing product functionality Engineers who care about usability and product outcomes, not only clean abstractions Strong communication and collaboration skills Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making sensible trade offs Experience within startup, scale up, or product led environments is beneficial The calibre bar is high! The team is intentionally small, thoughtful, and technically strong. Engineers here are expected to contribute ideas, challenge assumptions, and operate with a high degree of autonomy. For the right person, it is one of those rare opportunities where you get meaningful ownership, a smart team, commercial traction, strong funding, and a product that is already proving itself in the market, without joining so late that all the interesting decisions have already been made. If you're interested and excited by making your mark on a growing organisation & working within a talented engineering team, then drop me a email at . Senior Full Stack Engineer London Hybrid AI Product Scale Up (start-up) Python & TypeScript

Data / Reportong Analyst Active SC Required Edinburgh (Apply online only) p/d We are seeking a Data / Reporting Analyst with experience in Planning & Scheduling to support a major defence maritime build programme. This role sits at the centre of the programme's data and analytics capability, providing the reporting, modelling and insight required to support operational decision-making. The successful candidate will take ownership of repeatable analytical tasks, data wrangling, dashboard development and reporting outputs. You will work with source-system data, manipulate and clean datasets, maintain existing models and develop Power BI dashboards that are relied upon by both programme teams and client stakeholders. This is a delivery-focused role requiring someone who can get up to speed quickly with complex build environments, including ship build strategies, scheduling terminology and operational reporting requirements. Key Responsibilities Provide technical support across the programme's data, reporting and analytics function. Clean, manage and manipulate data using Excel, Power Query and related tools. Take ownership of routine analytical tasks, reporting cycles and model refreshes. Build, maintain and improve Power BI dashboards for internal and client stakeholders. Extract data directly from source systems and prepare it for analysis and reporting. Apply appropriate analytical and statistical techniques to answer operational questions. Produce clear, audience-appropriate visualisations to support decision-making. QA metrics, dashboards and reporting outputs to ensure accuracy and consistency. Document repeatable processes so outputs can be refreshed sustainably. Support senior consultants by taking ownership of repeatable data tasks end-to-end. Develop an understanding of ship build schedules, terminology and programme planning environments. Essential Skills & Experience Strong Excel capability, including data cleaning, modelling, metrics development and QA. Hands-on experience with Power Query. Experience building, maintaining and improving dashboards in Power BI or similar tools. Ability to extract, manipulate and analyse data from source systems. Familiarity with project scheduling environments and reporting requirements. Working knowledge of Primavera P6 and project scheduling. Strong attention to detail and ability to produce reliable, repeatable reporting outputs. Ability to turn complex datasets into clear insights and visualisations. Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced programme environment. Strong written documentation skills, particularly around process capture and sustainability.

Training & Delivery Consultant Active SC Required Edinburgh based Inside IR35: (Apply online only) p/d We are seeking a Training & Delivery Consultant to support a major defence maritime build programme. This is a highly operational, on the ground role, suited to someone comfortable spending significant time on-site observing day-to-day activity, engaging with frontline teams, and helping embed new ways of working. The role will focus on understanding the gap between current operational behaviours and the intended future-state design. You will work closely with junior client stakeholders and frontline staff to build trust, understand practical challenges, and support adoption through coaching, communication, and structured feedback. A key part of the role will be acting as the "eyes and ears" of the wider programme team, feeding back clear insights from the operational environment and ensuring programme decisions remain grounded in what is happening on the ground. Key Responsibilities Spend significant time in an operational/shop-floor environment observing day-to-day activity. Understand the gap between current behaviours and desired future ways of working. Build trusted relationships with frontline teams and junior client stakeholders. Support the adoption of new processes, behaviours, and operating practices. Deliver coaching, training, or informal guidance to individuals and small groups. Capture structured observations and translate them into clear written summaries. Feed insights back into the wider programme team to support delivery decisions. Identify where programme design may need to flex based on operational reality. Work independently on-site with limited day-to-day supervision. Communicate clearly and confidently in peer-level stakeholder interactions. Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience delivering training, coaching, or behavioural change in an operational environment. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build credibility quickly with frontline teams. Comfortable working in shop-floor, manufacturing, engineering, maritime, defence, or similarly operational settings. Structured approach to observation, note-taking, and evidence gathering. Ability to synthesise field insights into concise, actionable written feedback. Confident working independently on client site. Familiarity with change management, adoption, readiness, or business transformation principles. Strong communication skills across one-to-one and small-group settings. Ideal Background This role would suit someone from a training delivery, change adoption, operational improvement, manufacturing transformation, defence delivery, or shop-floor coaching background. Candidates do not need to be deeply technical, but they must be credible in an operational environment and comfortable working closely with frontline teams.

HIRING: OT Cybersecurity Consultant Scotland, Hybrid (multiple locations) 2 - 3 days in office Perm or Contract / Competitive day rate & salary (60 - 90k) SC Clearance needed, or eligible for SC Clearance. Must be a British national. We are currently working with an established consultancy operating across complex, high consequence environments, is expanding its Operational Technology (OT) cyber security capability in Scotland. Seeking commercially minded consultants who can take ownership of client engagements, solve technical and operational challenges pragmatically, and build trusted relationships with stakeholders. The role will initially focus on the Energy sector, with opportunities to support programmes across Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), Defence, National Security, and Nuclear environments. You will work across both IT and OT domains, helping organisations strengthen cyber resilience, manage operational risk, and deliver secure transformation initiatives. This is a client facing consulting position. Drop me your CV and contact number to to discuss further.

Training & Delivery Consultant Active SC Required Edinburgh: 4 days a week on site Inside IR35: (Apply online only) p/d We are seeking a Training & Delivery Consultant to support a major defence maritime build programme. This is a highly operational, on the ground role, suited to someone comfortable spending significant time on-site observing day-to-day activity, engaging with frontline teams, and helping embed new ways of working. The role will focus on understanding the gap between current operational behaviours and the intended future-state design. You will work closely with junior client stakeholders and frontline staff to build trust, understand practical challenges, and support adoption through coaching, communication, and structured feedback. A key part of the role will be acting as the "eyes and ears" of the wider programme team, feeding back clear insights from the operational environment and ensuring programme decisions remain grounded in what is happening on the ground. Key Responsibilities Spend significant time in an operational/shop-floor environment observing day-to-day activity. Understand the gap between current behaviours and desired future ways of working. Build trusted relationships with frontline teams and junior client stakeholders. Support the adoption of new processes, behaviours, and operating practices. Deliver coaching, training, or informal guidance to individuals and small groups. Capture structured observations and translate them into clear written summaries. Feed insights back into the wider programme team to support delivery decisions. Identify where programme design may need to flex based on operational reality. Work independently on-site with limited day-to-day supervision. Communicate clearly and confidently in peer-level stakeholder interactions. Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience delivering training, coaching, or behavioural change in an operational environment. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build credibility quickly with frontline teams. Comfortable working in shop-floor, manufacturing, engineering, maritime, defence, or similarly operational settings. Structured approach to observation, note-taking, and evidence gathering. Ability to synthesise field insights into concise, actionable written feedback. Confident working independently on client site. Familiarity with change management, adoption, readiness, or business transformation principles. Strong communication skills across one-to-one and small-group settings. Ideal Background This role would suit someone from a training delivery, change adoption, operational improvement, manufacturing transformation, defence delivery, or shop-floor coaching background. Candidates do not need to be deeply technical, but they must be credible in an operational environment and comfortable working closely with frontline teams.

I am recruiting for an experience QA Test Automation Engineer to join my client in central Bristol ( 2 days a week in the office). They are the most incredible tech for good company using AI to build tools that make life easier for people who need additional support. The product is meaningful, impactful, and something you will feel proud to be part of. In this role you will be the sole QA within the business. For the first six months you will have support from a manual tester who will take responsibility for manual testing, giving you space to focus on building and driving automation. There is already a QA foundation in place from a previous tester, so you will have existing processes and some automation to build on, or the freedom to reimagine and improve it if that is the right approach. You will be testing across both web and native mobile applications within a React based monorepo spanning web, Android and iOS. While most functionality sits in the web platform, the differences in behaviour across devices and platforms create real depth and complexity, making this a genuinely interesting testing environment. The tech stack includes Playwright for web automation, WebDriverIO, Appium and BrowserStack for mobile automation, TypeScript, Mocha, Cucumber, Jira, and a bespoke in house LLM test harness. There is already strong unit test coverage in place, giving you a solid base to build a robust end to end automation strategy. You will take ownership of QA strategy end to end, driving automation forward with a strong focus on modern tooling. This is a hands on role where you will balance manual and automated testing where needed, introduce structure and process in a way that adds value without unnecessary overhead, and work closely with developers and product in a highly collaborative environment. As the business moves towards becoming a medical device company, you will also play a key role in helping mature QA practices to align with more rigorous standards, while maintaining the agility and pace of a startup. Although it is early stage, the team already has strong processes in place due to the nature of their product so there is no startup chaos here. The ideal person will be an experienced automation tester with strong web automation skills, ideally using Playwright, with mobile experience being a nice to have. You will be comfortable working independently, confident taking full ownership of QA end to end, and naturally curious about AI and large language models, with a genuine enjoyment of figuring things out. Salary is up to 70,000 depending on experience. If you would like to hear more, please apply below to Sam Miller at SR2 - Socially Responsible Recruitment

Technical Architect Outside IR35 Remote based Rate DOE 6 months SR2 is supporting a major public sector digital programme seeking two experienced Technical Architects to help shape and deliver large-scale cloud-native platforms and services within a highly secure, data-driven environment. This is a hands-on architecture role suited to consultants who can operate across strategy, solution design and engineering enablement, working closely with delivery teams to modernise complex systems and improve operational resilience. Overview: You'll be responsible for defining technical architectures across multiple workstreams, supporting engineering teams with best practice and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable and aligned to wider enterprise standards. The environment is heavily cloud-focused, with modern DevOps practices, containerised workloads and API-led integration patterns playing a central role. The successful candidates will work closely with developers, DevOps engineers, security teams and senior stakeholders to guide technical direction, support delivery and help solve complex integration and platform challenges. Responsibilities: Design and govern scalable cloud-native architectures across complex digital services Produce high and low-level technical designs, architecture decision records and integration patterns Support delivery teams with engineering best practice and architectural guidance Define secure-by-design solutions in regulated and highly governed environments Drive adoption of modern DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code approaches Work across microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures and container platforms Collaborate with security, infrastructure and delivery teams to ensure operational resilience and scalability Support technical assurance, governance and stakeholder engagement activities Requirements: Strong experience operating as a Technical Architect within large-scale enterprise or public sector environments Deep understanding of AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture principles Experience designing microservices and API-led architectures Strong knowledge of Kubernetes/container platforms such as EKS or OpenShift Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation Understanding of CI/CD tooling and DevOps delivery practices Experience designing secure systems within regulated or high-security environments Strong stakeholder engagement and technical leadership skills Knowledge of networking, identity/access management and platform security principles Gov experience Please apply with a copy of your CV and Emma from SR2 will contact potential candidates regarding next steps.

Senior Product Engineer London Hybrid Startup 90,000 - 130,000 + meaningful equity Tech stack: Experience required across any of the following: Golang Rust TypeScript, Node.js React.js, Next.js AWS or GCP Most B2B SaaS products are effectively dashboards on top of a database. This isn't that. We're working with an Agentic AI startup building infrastructure and intelligent software systems that sit underneath large scale operational workflows and real time decision making processes. The platform processes very high volumes of live data, powers complex orchestration pipelines, and delivers AI driven functionality directly into customer environments at enterprise scale. The engineering challenges are genuinely difficult. Not "we use Kubernetes so we're scaling" difficult. More the kind of problems involving distributed systems, real time data ingestion, AI orchestration pipelines, and building software that customers rely on day to day inside production environments. The team is still small enough that every engineer materially changes the trajectory of the business. No giant hierarchy, no endless roadmap theatre, no Jira archaeology expedition trying to work out why a ticket exists. That means speaking to customers, understanding commercial context, shaping product direction, building systems, shipping to production, monitoring outcomes, and iterating quickly. You'll be working across: Real time event streaming systems handling very high traffic volumes AI powered workflows and orchestration pipelines Product engineering across backend infrastructure and frontend applications CRM and third party integration infrastructure Identity resolution and large scale data processing Systems where reliability and speed both matter because customers actively use what gets shipped The environment is best suited to engineers who: Enjoy ambiguity rather than waiting for perfect specs Think commercially as well as technically Want ownership rather than ticket queues Care about shipping quickly Like being close to founders, customers, and product decisions Have worked in strong start ups or fast moving product environments before Technical background matters, but mindset matters more. They're open to strong engineers from different backend ecosystems if you've built complex systems and can learn quickly. A few things worth knowing: High frequency of deployments per week Engineers use AI tooling heavily to improve speed and workflow efficiency Minimal meeting culture High trust environment with lots of autonomy Strong engineering standards without unnecessary process theatre Small team, meaningful ownership, direct impact If you're the type of engineer who likes solving hard problems with smart people, has energy & ambition, and actually seeing your work used in production by real customers, this is a very good opportunity. Send me an email at or send your CV via this ad to learn more.

Lead iOS Engineer - Government - AIWe are looking for a Lead iOS Engineer to help deliver next-generation AI-powered mobile services for UK citizens. You will combine hands-on iOS development with technical leadership, shaping companion and personalisation features that make government services more accessible and user-centred. Responsibilities Build and deliver high-quality iOS apps using Swift and SwiftUI. Lead technical decisions, migrations, and framework adoption. Champion accessibility and inclusive design across mobile services. Collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers to deliver user-focused solutions. Apply AI tooling to improve accessibility coverage, testing, and development speed. Mentor and guide other engineers. Essential Skills Eligibility to become SC or active SC clearance Strong experience as a Lead iOS Engineer on large-scale apps. Deep expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, Core Data, and modern iOS frameworks. Proven ability to deliver both greenfield apps and modernise legacy systems. Commitment to accessibility (WCAG) and inclusive design. Experience using AI assistants for code generation, testing, or optimisation. Desirable Background in complex or regulated environments. Cross-platform awareness (Android alignment, backend integration). Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.

I'm recruiting for severak Test Engineers to join my client based in North Bristol. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on exciting mission critical technologies that help keep people on the front line connected in high pressure situations. You'll be involved in a wide variety of projects, ranging from bespoke mobile applications and server side configuration to cloud based systems.You'll need to be happy coming into the Bristol office three days a week, and due to the nature of the work, you must either hold a British passport or have been a resident in the UK for the past five years, as employees are required to undergo security clearance.The roles will initially be more focused on manual testing across a range of mobile adnd web apps, integrating with hardware and cloud based systems. The company is investing heavily in automation and is keen to bring people on board who are curious and eager to get involved with this in the future. The projects are varied and genuinely interesting, covering everything from native Android apps to hardware integrations and connected cloud services. You'll be joining a collaborative test team made up of both permanent staff and contractors, working across multiple engineering teams.They are looking for people with a solid background in manual testing who, in a ideal world, also have exprience testing hardware or connected devices. Just as important, however, is your mindset. The team values curiosity, commitment, and the drive to constantly improve. You'll be expected to drive quality and process improvements, champion best practices, and collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to ensure requirements are testable, realistic, and clearly understood.You'll be involved across the full test lifecycle, from planning and execution through to triage and issue resolution, all while reporting testing outcomes clearly and effectively. You'll also have the chance to support customers during acceptance, release, and deployment phases. For those with a little more experience, there are opportunities to coach and mentor colleagues, helping to create a a culture of collaboration and advocacy for quality across the business.As well as experience in manual testing, any experience working on projects that integrate software with hardware systems will make you stand out as would any experience of scripting with Python or Kotlin, and CI/CD environments such as Jenkins or GitLab.This is a place where testers are genuinely valued and where you'll have the chance to influence processes, help to champion automation, and help shape the future of testing within the company. Roles are available from mid-level through to senior with salaries ranging from £40,000 up to £65,000 depending on experience. If you would like to know more, please apply to Sam Miller at SR2 , Socially Responsible Recruitment.

Role Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer Own AWS infrastructure, data pipelines, and web apps Location London/Remote Start and duration Start ASAP, full time Duration TBD, long term Context Company is building a new commodities trading desk A Technical Director has just been onboarded for this project You will be the Director's right hand and senior technical specialist technical stack AWS. Strong hands-on with CDK and Projen in TypeScript. EKS, ECR, VPC, IAM, Aurora PostgreSQL Kubernetes. EKS and k3s. kubectl, Helm, Lens, k9s Docker. arm64 and amd64 images. Alpine and Ubuntu Python. Advanced. Building tools and data grabbers. Jinja. Conda and pip envs TypeScript and JavaScript. Advanced. Node.js and React SQL. Strong. PostgreSQL, PL/pgSQL, indexing, partitioning. pg_partman Git-first workflow. GitHub Actions for CI and data jobs Apache Superset. Operate on AWS, tune, extend, and read source as needed Charts. ECharts or similar for static analytics Networking. WireGuard site-to-site and client VPNs Linux. Power user and admin skills Key responsibilities Maintain and improve AWS infra with CDK and Projen. Enforce code quality and security. Manage access Run and secure Kubernetes workloads on EKS. Monitor and troubleshoot containers Operate Apache Superset. Maintain custom Python tooling around it. Integrate SSO with Azure AD via AWS AD Connector Build and operate data pipelines. Python grabbers on EKS. Logging, monitoring, alerts. dbt models. CI with GitHub Actions Administer Aurora PostgreSQL. Scale clusters. Optimize SQL. Add partitioning with pg_partman Ship web analytics. Export data from Superset or PostgreSQL to static JSON. Render charts with ECharts on the website

Technical Business Analyst - SC ClearedWe are hiring 1 Senior and 2 Mid-Level Technical Business Analysts for a data transformation programme in government. These roles sit at the intersection of business analysis and data analysis, focused on reviewing use cases, data models, and business logic to support future service design.Responsibilities Review and refine use cases and data models Conduct data mapping and analysis, identifying gaps and solutions. Translate business rules into technical requirements and user stories. Use Jira to manage backlog and workflows. Collaborate with technical teams to ensure requirements are clear, secure, and implementable. Essential Skills 5 years + Business Analyst experience Jira Active SC clearance Hands-on experience with data modelling, mapping, and analysis. Skilled in user story writing and agile delivery. Proactive self-starter with strong stakeholder skills. Desirable Oracle experience.

Senior Software Engineer £55,000 - £65,000 Cambridge Python Django/Flask/FastAPI GCP/AWS/Azure Location: Cambridge, UK (hybrid/remote-first) Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 FTC: Fixed-term contract (18months) Tech Stack: Essential: Backend: Python (Flask/FastAPI/Django) Cloud Systems: AWS, Azure, GCP Bonus: Frontend: React/TypeScript Are you an experienced Software Engineer with refined technical skills across API development and DevOps practices, looking for a new role in a forward-thinking, collaborative team?We are working with an organisation well known for fostering creativity, collaboration, and making a positive impact. This organisation are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to play a key part in their ongoing technical success and reputation. Responsibilities: Help lead the rebuild of a high-volume platform. Work as part of a small, tight-knit engineering squad embedded within a wider, collaborative tech function. Partner directly with non-technical stakeholders to understand challenges, design user-focused solutions, and bring new ideas to life. Build, test, and deploy containerised web applications using modern frameworks and cloud platforms, ensuring scalability and performance. Contribute to agile ceremonies, code reviews, and shared documentation, championing best practices in continuous delivery and infrastructure-as-code. Requirements for Success: Building end-to-end web platforms using Python (Django), developing RESTful APIs Collaborating within an agile, cross-disciplinary team to tackle technical and commercial challenges. Containerising applications with Docker for consistent development and release. Launching and managing applications within cloud-hosted infrastructure. Embedding testing into everyday development, with a focus on writing the right tests at the right layers. In addition to their technical expertise, the ideal candidate possesses a growth mindset and a deep commitment to continuous improvement. They are adept at creating scalable, efficient solutions using technologies such as Python and modern web frameworks in a containerised environment. With a keen eye for detail, they are driven by a desire to make a positive impact with a user-focused approach to development. Benefits: Flexible working environment Remote first/hybrid Competitive holiday & pensions Private healthcare And more! Interested and ready to take your Development career to the next level? Get in touch at or drop me a call for a confidential chat at . Senior Software Engineer £55,000 - £65,000 Cambridge Python Django/Flask/FastAPI GCP/AWS/Azure

Lead AI Engineer - ContractSR2 is proud to be supporting a flagship UK government AI programme, delivering a first-of-its-kind, citizen-facing solution at a national scale. This is an opportunity to step into the Lead AI Engineer role, taking ownership of the architecture and delivery of advanced agentic AI backends.What you'll do Lead the design and implementation of scalable agentic AI systems using modern frameworks. Architect and develop autonomous agents with planning, reasoning, and execution capabilities. Build and experiment with multi-agent systems that collaborate effectively. Develop agent memory systems and knowledge management tools. Evaluate, prototype, and select emerging AI technologies for experimental use cases. Apply open standards (e.g. MCP) to ensure interoperability across platforms. What we're looking for Proven experience in building agentic backends - able to describe the purpose of applications delivered, the tech stack/frameworks used, and your direct contributions. Strong Python development skills (5+ years), with solid software engineering foundations. Demonstrable track record in experimental AI research and applying emerging frameworks. Innovative problem-solver, comfortable leading technical direction in complex environments. Active SC clearance or eligibility to obtain. Why this role? This is a unique, long-term programme at the cutting edge of government AI, combining innovation, scale, and meaningful public impact. You'll be at the heart of shaping a system that could transform citizen-facing services across the UK.

Enterprise Technical Architect - IT Service Management - Consultancy Remote / 6 months / Outside IR35 /£700 - £800pd / ASAP Start SR2 are supporting a UK Consultancy, who are partnering with a Global client on Tech Enablement programme. They are providing thought leadership and expertise to the end clients CIO which will help modernise their Service, Cloud, Product and Engineering functions globally. We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Technical Architect who has been involved in assessing technical and service risk, and has experience of defining technical and service risk frameworks. This needs to focus on understanding all the different types of technical and service risk, defining the risk assessment frameworks and working out how we measure / track / report. Everyone coming into this engagement will need to be strategic in their thinking, with a strong background of working through consultancies (ideally big 4, but this is not essential). Skills required: Deep understanding of IT Service Management (service tiering) Ability to lead on vision Background of Consulting (Ideally Big 4) Understanding of modern engineering practices in global scale environments (Agile, DevOps, Cloud) Ability to think strategically and set direction If interested, please click apply using the link below and we will be in touch with candidates to discuss the project in more detail.