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BAE Systems

<div>
 
 Location(s): UK, Europe &amp; Africa : UK : Manchester
 
 
 
 BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
 
 
 
 Job Title: Cloud Engineer
 
 
 
 
 Location: Manchester - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements &ndash; please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
 
 
 
 
 Grade: GG10-GG11
 
 
 
 
 Referral Bonus: &pound;5000
 
 
 
 
 What You&rsquo;ll Be Doing
 
 
 
 We are looking for experienced Cloud Engineers to join our team following continuous growth and success. Our people are what differentiates us, they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting-edge, high-quality solutions.
 
 
 
 What Background We Are Looking For
 
 
 
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 You must be skilled in a range of AWS services, and show a keenness to keep up to date with the latest releases
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 Experience using Infrastructure as Code, for example, Terraform, Cloudformation or CDK
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 Have used configuration management tools e.g. puppet, chef, ansible etc
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 Understanding of networking and how that translates to software defined networking in the cloud
 </li>
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 Experience in container orchestration systems, for example Kubernetes, ECS or Openshift
 </li>
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 Proficiency in scripting in at least 1 language e.g. Python, Bash, Go
 </li>
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 AWS certifications desired although not essential, we can provide opportunity for you to go through training courses and get certified in AWS.
 
 
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 </ul>
 
 What You Could Be Doing For Us
 
 
 
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 Designing and building cloud-native architectures
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 Using Terraform or CDK to deploy resources
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 Infrastructure creation and management and design
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 Liaising with key stakeholders, internal and external
 </li>
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 Create exemplar implementation patterns to projects (i.e. provide a standard Puppet script that will create a single AWS server with some CM)
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 Managing and controlling the software configuration for projects including the source repository
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 Leveraging many AWS security features and ensuring security best practices with developers
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 For Senior Engineers there will be an opportunity for you to lead teams or individuals
 
 
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 </ul>
 
 How We Will Support You
 
 
 
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 Work-life balance is important; you&rsquo;ll get 25 days holiday a year and, via our flexible benefits package the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
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 You can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working
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 Our flexible benefits package includes; private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more
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 You&rsquo;ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
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 Don&rsquo;t know a particular technology? Your learning and development is key to your future career and we provide a range of excellent training courses to enable you to upskill in a given technology
 
 
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 </ul>
 
 Security Clearance
 
 
 
 Only those with the permanent and unrestricted right to live and work in the UK will be considered for a position within BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. Due to the nature of our, work successful candidates for this role will be required to go through Government SC clearance prior to starting with us. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-clearance
 
 
 
 National Security Overview
 
 
 
 The National Security business is growing and there are an increasing number of opportunities to work with a range of National Security clients to provide solutions that have a real impact. Be part of a growing team that not only delivers for its clients but also gives back to the community with plenty of opportunities to get involved with local community engagement and outreach activities to help build tech and cyber skills in the region.
 
 
 
 Benefits
 
 
 
 As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offer employee share plan, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits including including a green care scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts &ndash; you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
 
 
 
 Why BAE Systems?
 
 
 
 This is a place where you&rsquo;ll be able to make a real difference. You&rsquo;ll be part of an inclusive culture which values diversity, rewards integrity and merit, and where you&rsquo;ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals
 
 
 We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
 
 
 Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions such as your nationality, any nationalities which you previously may have held and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are able to perform within the organisation.
 
 
 All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
 
 
 
 Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
 
 
 
 We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.
 
 
 By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we&rsquo;re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.
 
 
 Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds &ndash; the best and brightest minds &ndash; can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.
 
 
 
 Division overview: Capabilities
 
 
 
 At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.
 
 
 As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.
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Cloud Engineer – Manchester – National Security West

Raytheon

<div>Date Posted:
2026-06-26
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
Manchester, Lancashire
Position Role Type:
Onsite
Principal Platform Engineer
Manchester
Permanent, full time
Hybrid (min 3 days a week on site)
Due to the interesting work we do and the sector this team is working in, we require all candidates to be willing and eligible to hold SC and eDV clearance.
About us
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. 
Cyber
Our National Security Cyber business delivers mission-critical solutions that safeguard our national security 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Working in a mature, agile environment, our SCRUM teams work synchronously with our customers to solve some of the toughest digital challenges faced in the world today.
Role &amp; Responsibilities
Work as a Principal Platform Engineer, deploying applications and software to cloud or on-prem environments for our many business areas.
Due to the interesting work we do and the sector this team is working in, we require all candidates to be willing to attain an eDV clearance.<ul><li>
Building and setting up development tools and infrastructure</li><li>
Understand the needs of project stakeholders</li><li>
Automate and improve development and release processes</li><li>
Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cyber security threats</li><li>
Identify technical problems and develop software updates and solutions</li><li>
Work with other engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended</li></ul>
Required experience<ul><li>
Experience of working in an Agile/SCRUM/DevOps delivery model</li><li>
Cloud technologies (AWS or Azure)</li><li>
Infrastructure as code e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc.</li><li>
Experience in building and deploying large-scale applications in</li><li>
Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines;</li><li>
Container platform and orchestration systems ECS, AKS, Kubernetes/helm/Docker</li><li>
Experience in automation and integration tools such as Jenkins,</li><li>
Concourse CI or cloud equivalents</li><li>
Experience in scripting languages and source control
</li></ul>Benefits:<ul><li>
&pound;: Competitive salary</li><li>
Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)</li><li>
6 times salary &lsquo;Life Assurance&rsquo; with pension</li><li>
25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)</li><li>
Company bonus scheme (discretionary)</li><li>
Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others</li><li>
Enhanced sick pay</li><li>
Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity &amp; shared parental leave</li></ul>
Work Culture<ul><li>
37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.</li><li>
Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!</li><li>
Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
</li><li>Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
</li><li>Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.</li></ul>
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Principal Platform Engineer

Sterling Computers

<div>Job Title: Security &amp; Infrastructure Engineer (On-Premise Focus)
Reports To: Head of Engineering<div>
Location: Manchester, UK</div><div></div> 
About the Role: We are looking for a motivated and hands-on Security &amp; Infrastructure Engineer to join our team and help secure our critical platforms across both on-premise VMware environments and hybrid cloud infrastructure (VMware Cloud Foundation, AWS, Azure, and GCP).
This is a technical, execution-focused role where you will implement, configure, monitor, and maintain security controls while gaining valuable experience with advanced technologies such as VMware NSX, vDefend, Palo Alto Networks, and major public cloud platforms. You will work closely with senior engineers to support security hardening, compliance, logging, and incident response in a high-security, regulated environment.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with solid foundational experience who wants to grow their skills across traditional on-premise security and modern hybrid cloud environments. This is a full-time fixed-term role requiring 5 days per week on-site (no remote or hybrid options). Occasional UK travel may be required.<div>
Security Clearance Required: Secret Clearance at a minimum. Willing to attain Developed Vetting.</div> 
Key Responsibilities<ul><li>
Implement and maintain security controls across on-premise VMware infrastructure, with a focus on network and workload segmentation.</li><li>
Ability to lead the configuration and optimisation of VMware NSX (Distributed Firewall policies and micro-segmentation) and VMware vDefend to support zero-trust principles and reduce lateral movement risk.</li><li>
Help manage and tune Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls (policy creation, App-ID/User-ID, threat prevention profiles, NAT, and VPN configuration).</li><li>
Support the hardening of Windows Server environments and Microsoft technologies (Active Directory, Group Policy) in line with security best practices and CIS Benchmarks.</li><li>
Contribute to security monitoring and visibility by working with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats) and Elastic Security for log collection, dashboards, alerting, and basic threat detection.</li><li>
Assist with security tasks across hybrid cloud environments, including:<ul><li>
Basic security configuration and monitoring in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).</li><li>
Supporting security controls in AWS, Azure, and GCP (e.g. IAM policies, security groups, network ACLs, logging, and basic compliance checks).</li><li>
Help maintain secure hybrid connectivity between on-prem and cloud environments.</li></ul></li><li>
Apply CIS Benchmarks, STIGs, and other hardening standards across systems and networks, and support remediation activities.</li><li>
Drive security monitoring, incident response, and basic root cause analysis.</li><li>
Embed security into operational processes and support DevSecOps practices by assisting with vulnerability scanning, configuration management, and automation where appropriate.</li><li>
Collaborate with vendors, auditors, and internal teams to ensure compliance with regulatory and organisational requirements.</li><li>
Maintain documentation and contribute to security reporting and compliance activities.</li></ul>
Required Qualifications &amp; Experience<ul><li>
3-6 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity engineering, focused on on-premise enterprise environments.</li><li>
Proven expertise in VMware NSX (micro-segmentation, DFW policies, integration) and VMware vDefend (Distributed Firewall, advanced threat prevention).</li><li>
Strong experience designing and managing Palo Alto Networks firewalls (NGFW, Panorama, threat prevention, GlobalProtect).</li><li>
Experience with Cisco security/networking technologies (secure routing/switching).</li><li>
Extensive experience securing Windows environments (Server, Active Directory, Group Policy Objects, endpoint hardening).</li><li>
Familiarity with CIS Benchmarks and their practical application to harden systems and networks.</li><li>
Good understanding of zero-trust principles, network segmentation, firewall policy optimisation, identity and access management (IAM), and encryption.</li><li>
Experience with vulnerability management, SIEM integration, logging, and incident response in on-prem setups.</li><li>
Familiarity with TCP/IP networking fundamentals, the OSI model, routing protocols (BGP/OSPF), VPN technologies, and secure architecture design.</li><li>
Practical experience implementing DevSecOps principles, including integrating security tools and controls into CI/CD pipelines, automating security checks, and collaborating across dev, sec, and ops teams.</li><li>
Hands-on experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana) and Elastic Security (SIEM, threat hunting, endpoint integration, dashboards/alerting) in on-premise deployments for log management, security analytics, and incident response.</li><li>
Security Clearance: Must have UK government security clearance, minimum SC, with the requirement to go through DV.</li><li>
Right to work in the UK and ability to pass background checks.</li></ul>
Desirable Skills &amp; Certifications<ul><li>
Relevant certifications such as:<ul><li>
VMware Certified Professional &ndash; Network Virtualisation (VCP-NV) or Security</li><li>
Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE)</li><li>
Cisco Certified Network Professional Security (CCNP Security) or CCIE Security</li><li>
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)</li><li>
Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (or equivalent)</li></ul></li><li>
Experience with endpoint detection and response (EDR), SIEM tools, IDS/IPS, or threat intelligence platforms.</li><li>
Knowledge of Linux hardening, container security, or hybrid environments (though focus remains on-prem).</li><li>
Experience in regulated sectors (e.g., government, finance, critical national infrastructure).</li></ul> 
Sterling Computers Corporation (&ldquo;Sterling&rdquo;) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, disability, medical condition, economic status or status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status, national or social or ethnic origin, past or present membership in the uniformed services, protected veteran status, sex, pregnancy, marital or civil union or domestic partnership status, family or parental status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, family medical history or genetic information, HIV status, political belief, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law.</div>

Security & Infrastructure Engineer

bcn group

<div>Job title: Azure DevOps Engineer
Location: Hybrid or Remote working available
Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Competitive + benefits 
About BCN:
At BCN we unite people and technology to enable organisations to fly. 
We believe people and organisations can achieve anything using technology to it&rsquo;s full potential. Our role is to help them understand what is possible, implement in the right way and utilise their technology to achieve their ambitions. Which is why we put people front and centre &ndash; building client relationships for life and fostering a culture where our people thrive. 
We are a leading managed IT services provider and technology consultant, specialising in delivering transformative technology solutions with industry-leading client experience across business, public sector and not for profit organisations. From cloud computing, cybersecurity, and data management to power app development, we are dedicated to pioneering technology with Microsoft innovation. 
Guided by our 3 values of building relationships, customer success and passion and dedication, we are on a mission to make BCN the most trusted tech partner in the UK today. The kind of company clients want to work with, and people want to work for. 
We are delighted you are on this journey with us! 
Focus of the role:
As an Azure DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for working directly with our customers in various sectors to deliver public cloud transformation projects in Azure using infrastructure as code to support the deployment and configuration of various resource types in the Azure technology stack. 
Responsibilities:<ul><li>
Deploying and configuring Azure resources using infrastructure as code (IaC).</li><li>
Building and configuring continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to deploy resources to customer environments.</li><li>
Take technical ownership of project delivery for various customer projects.</li><li>
Align deployment tasks and architecture with best practice alignments in both the Azure Cloud Adoption and Well Architected frameworks.</li><li>
Optimise and speed up future deployments by creating templates aligned with Enterprise Scale Landing Zones and secured, well-governed configurations and resource deployments.</li><li>
Align deployments with best practice security standards and guidelines such as National Institute of Standards (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework, ISO27001, Centre for Internet Security (CIS) and zero-trust principles.</li></ul> 
Person, Skills &amp; Experience:<ul><li>
Microsoft Azure experience would be preferred but other public cloud platform experience such as AWS, GCP or Oracle would be accepted.</li><li>
Excellent skills in infrastructure as code (IaC) provisioning using continuous configuration automation tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible or equivalent.</li><li>
Ideally experience of Bicep.</li><li>
Excellent skills working with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline tools such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.</li><li>
Good awareness of Microsoft&rsquo;s Cloud Adoption and Well Architected Frameworks</li><li>
Experience of working in a DevOps focused role or experience of other project delivery using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)</li><li>
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or equivalent</li><li>
Ideally Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert</li><li>
Good knowledge of networking principles ideally in public cloud</li><li>
Good knowledge of firewalls, whether PaaS or 3rd party network virtual appliances</li><li>
Experience of supporting Windows Server environments (Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022)</li></ul> 
Why BCN?<ul><li>
The opportunity to shape your own future with industry leading training and development, with access to our BCN Academy.</li><li>
Competitive salary with the ability to progress.</li><li>
23-days holiday allowance, increasing with length of service, plus bank holidays, an extra day off on your birthday and the option to buy more!</li><li>
Company pension scheme.</li><li>
2 paid leave days per year to volunteer and support your local community &ndash; if it matters to you it matters to us.</li><li>
Health cash plan with free access to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) supporting bereavement, financial, health and wellbeing, and much more</li><li>
Life assurance</li><li>
Cycle to work scheme, electric vehicle scheme, home and tech scheme, and retail discounts.</li><li>
Balancing work, life, and fitness can be challenging, so we offer a free on-site gym at our Manchester and Leeds locations to make it easier to stay active.</li><li>
Long service recognition to celebrate all the milestones</li><li>
Beer (or soft drinks), Pizza at the end of month, dress down every day, social events such as Summer BBQ, Christmas party and lots more!</li></ul></div>

Azure DevOps Engineer

<div>Date Posted:
2026-03-18
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
Manchester, Lancashire
Position Role Type:
Onsite
Raytheon UK have a full time, perm opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer to join our specialist teams in Manchester, Gloucester or London working fully onsite.
As Senior Data Engineer, you'll be part of our experienced software dev function, working in a cross-functional Agile team. The Data Engineering role will be responsible for building and maintaining data processing pipelines and also the transformation and optimisation of data for analytical use.
We have opportunities for Data Engineers at every level within a team, so your Recruiter will discuss the great opportunities for development or challenges we offer based off your professional profile.
Due to the interesting work we do and the sector this team is working in, we require all candidates to currently hold eDV clearance.
In this area of Raytheon UK we provide DevSecOps at scale, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, cyber and geospatial intelligence capabilities to support the defence, intelligence and cyber sectors. Collaborating with customers and suppliers to deliver secure, mission critical systems using the latest technologies and innovations.
Responsibilities<ul><li>
Build data pipelines that clean, transform, and aggregate data from disparate sources</li><li>
Collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers</li><li>
Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with your project</li><li>
Contribute to continuous improvement within your team</li><li>
Collaborate with your peers on technical direction within your team</li></ul>
Required Experience:<ul><li>
Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets</li><li>
Python (PySpark, Pandas, PyArrow)</li><li>
Distributed data processing (Apache Spark)</li><li>
Data ETL (Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Apache NiFi)</li><li>
Cloud services (AWS, Azure or GCP)</li><li>
Messaging / Streaming (Kafka, AWS SQS, Other Cloud Queuing Native services)</li><li>
SQL and NoSQL</li><li>
Storage (HDFS, Iceberg, Elastic, S3, Data Lake)</li><li>
Containerisation and orchestration (Docker / Kubernetes / Openshift)</li><li>
Testing frameworks and best practices</li><li>
Use of Code repositories, familiarity with branching strategies, pull requests and merge processes</li></ul>
We appreciate you may not be an expert in every area above - we can support with training and development in some areas! Please do make an application and we will identify where we can best support your growth specific to your application.<div>
Benefits &amp; Work Culture
Benefits:<ul><li>
Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)</li><li>
6 times salary &lsquo;Life Assurance&rsquo; with pension</li><li>
25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days</li><li>
Company bonus scheme (discretionary)</li><li>
Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others</li><li>
Enhanced sick pay</li><li>
Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity &amp; shared parental leave</li></ul>
Work Culture:<ul><li>
37hr working week</li><li>
Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!</li><li>
Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.</li><li>
Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.</li></ul></div> 
About us
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. 
 
Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.
RTX 
Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses &ndash; Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt &amp; Whitney, and Raytheon. 
Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over &pound;2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We&rsquo;re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.
#LI-AS3
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Privacy Policy and Terms:</div>

Senior Data Engineer

<div>Date Posted:
2026-03-17
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
Manchester, Lancashire
Position Role Type:
Onsite
Raytheon UK have a full time, permanent opportunity for a Data Engineer to join our team on our Manchester, Gloucester or London sites working onsite.
Our Data Engineering role will be responsible for building and maintaining data processing pipelines and also the transformation and optimisation of data for analytical use. As Data Engineer, you'll be part of our experienced software dev function, working in a cross-functional Agile team.
We have opportunities for Data Engineers at every level within a team, so upon reviewing your application we will discuss the great opportunities for development or challenges we offer based off your professional profile.
Due to the interesting work we do and the sector this team is working in, we require all candidates to hold current eDV clearance.
Responsibilities<ul><li>
Build data pipelines that clean, transform, and aggregate data from disparate sources</li><li>
Collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers</li><li>
Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with your project</li><li>
Contribute to continuous improvement within your team</li><li>
Collaborate with your peers on technical direction within your team</li></ul>
Required Skills and Experience<ul><li>
Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets</li><li>
Python (PySpark, Pandas, PyArrow)</li><li>
Distributed data processing (Apache Spark)</li><li>
Data ETL (Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Apache NiFi)</li><li>
Cloud services (AWS, Azure or GCP)</li><li>
Messaging / Streaming (Kafka, AWS SQS, Other Cloud Queuing Native services)</li><li>
SQL and NoSQL databases and storage (HDFS, Iceberg, Elastic, S3, Data Lake)</li><li>
Containerisation and orchestration (Docker / Kubernetes / Openshift)</li><li>
Testing frameworks and best practices</li></ul>
We appreciate you may not be an expert in every area above - we can support with training and development in some areas! Please do make an application and we will identify where we can best support your growth specific to your application.<div>
Benefits &amp; Work Culture
Benefits:<ul><li>
Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)</li><li>
6 times salary &lsquo;Life Assurance&rsquo; with pension</li><li>
25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days</li><li>
Company bonus scheme (discretionary)</li><li>
Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others</li><li>
Enhanced sick pay</li><li>
Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity &amp; shared parental leave</li></ul>
Work Culture:<ul><li>
37hr working week</li><li>
Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!</li><li>
Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.</li><li>
Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.</li></ul></div> 
About us
In this area of Raytheon UK we provide DevSecOps at scale, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, cyber and geospatial intelligence capabilities to support the defence, intelligence and cyber sectors. Collaborating with customers and suppliers to deliver secure, mission critical systems using the latest technologies and innovations.
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. 
 
Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.
RTX 
Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses &ndash; Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt &amp; Whitney, and Raytheon. 
Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over &pound;2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We&rsquo;re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.
#LI-AS3
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Privacy Policy and Terms:</div>

Data Engineer

Frontier Resourcing

<div><div>Principal Data Scientist &amp; Machine Learning Researcher
</div><div>Gloucester | London | Manchester

Working with a leading National Security and Cyber organisation, you will help develop advanced AI and machine learning solutions that support critical national security missions.

Operating within a mature Agile environment, you'll collaborate closely with customers, engineers, researchers and data scientists to solve complex real-world challenges using cutting-edge AI, machine learning and data science techniques.

We have opportunities at all levels from Associate, Senior and Principal levels. Roles can be based in Gloucester, Manchester or London, with hybrid working available (typically 3 days per week on-site).

<ul><li>Due to the nature of work in National Infrastructure, candidates must hold an active eDV (enhanced DV) UK Security Clearance.
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The Opportunity
As a Senior Data Scientist &amp; Machine Learning Researcher, you will play a key role in the technical leadership, design and delivery of AI and machine learning projects from concept through to deployment.

You'll work within a specialist team of Data Science, AI and Machine Learning experts, driving innovative research, developing advanced solutions and mentoring colleagues across a range of customer and internal R&amp;D programmes.

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to genuinely challenging and impactful projects while helping shape future AI capabilities within the national security domain.

Key Responsibilities
<ul><li>Design, develop and deliver complex machine learning and data science solutions with a high degree of autonomy.
</li><li>Lead technical investigations, research activities and AI/ML development across customer and internal projects.
</li><li>Identify innovative approaches to solving complex technical challenges and contribute to future research directions.
</li><li>Provide technical leadership within project teams and support successful project delivery.
</li><li>Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, stakeholders and customers to define requirements and develop effective technical solutions.
</li><li>Mentor and support junior team members, helping to develop technical capability across the wider team.
</li><li>Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
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</ul>Essential Skills &amp; Experience
<ul><li>Degree (BSc or above) in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related discipline.
</li><li>Strong Python development experience, including machine learning frameworks such as Hugging Face, TensorFlow and PyTorch.
</li><li>Proven experience delivering machine learning solutions within commercial, research or government environments.
</li><li>Strong understanding of modern AI/ML techniques across areas such as Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision.
</li><li>Experience training, fine-tuning and evaluating machine learning and AI models.
</li><li>Ability to undertake technical research and apply findings to real-world challenges.
</li><li>Experience producing high-quality technical documentation, reports or research publications.
</li><li>Previous experience mentoring team members and providing technical leadership.
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</ul>Desirable Skills &amp; Experience
<ul><li>MSc or PhD with a strong research background.
</li><li>Experience developing and maintaining robust ML pipelines and MLOps practices.
</li><li>Familiarity with version control, containerisation and environment management tools, including Git and Docker.
</li><li>Experience working within Linux environments and using command-line tooling.
</li><li>Experience deploying and scaling AI/ML solutions into production environments.
</li><li>Cloud platform experience, ideally AWS, although Azure or GCP experience is also valuable.
</li><li>Published research in peer-reviewed journals or conferences.
</li><li>Experience writing technical proposals, bids or research funding submissions.
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</ul>What's on Offer
<ul><li>Opportunity to work on highly complex and meaningful national security challenges.
</li><li>Exposure to cutting-edge AI, Machine Learning and Data Science projects.
</li><li>Collaborative environment with experienced researchers, engineers and technical specialists.
</li><li>Clear opportunities for technical development, leadership and career progression.
</li><li>Hybrid working with locations in Gloucester, Manchester or London.
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</ul>Benefits:
<ul><li>Competitive salary and excellent benefits
</li><li>eDV bonus on to of salary and annual bonus
</li><li>Company bonus scheme
</li><li>Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
</li><li>6 times salary &lsquo;Life Assurance&rsquo; with pension
</li><li>25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days</li></ul></div></div>

Principal Data Scientist and Machine Learning Researcher (eDV)

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