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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in technical direction across Surveillance, with a strong focus on engineering standards, security assurance, and cloud optimization. Capable of leading senior engineers, improving developer productivity, and engaging with enterprise clients on architectural and security matters.
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Technical DirectionSecurity Engineering ControlsCloud OptimizationLeadership of Senior EngineersHands-On Technical Impact
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Hard Skills
Distributed SystemsData PlatformsApplication EngineeringMachine LearningPlatform InfrastructureTesting PracticesChange SafetyTechnical AssuranceDeveloper Productivity ImprovementIncident Response
Soft Skills
LeadershipCollaborationCommunication
Tools & Technologies
AWSAzureKubernetesTerraformHelmGitOpsCI/CDElasticsearchKafkaPostgreSQL
Industry Keywords
Security AssuranceClient Environment Lifecycle ManagementObservabilityCost VisibilityTechnical Risk Assessment
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsElasticSearchKafkaKubernetesPostgresPrometheusPythonTerraform
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Set technical direction across the Surveillance estate
- Work through senior engineers on the hardest technical problems
- Establish patterns for correctness monitoring, escalation, incident response, and disaster recovery
- Enable product teams to define alerts, service levels, and response playbooks
- Own engineering craft standards across Surveillance, including testing, reviews, deployment, and change safety
- Ensure architectural decisions across teams are coherent and avoid duplicated solutions
- Set technical direction for client environment lifecycle management and software delivery to production
- Own engineering controls and technical evidence supporting security assurance
- Grow senior engineers' scope, design-review capability, and technical writing
- Improve cloud optimisation, capacity strategy, and client-level cost visibility
- Turn technical assurance into repeatable capabilities for enterprise clients
- Review deals for technical risk
- Represent architecture with client CISOs and technical stakeholders
- Review architecture, read and write code, and participate in incidents
- Formulate plans to deliver inherited technical goals
- Improve client onboarding automation, observability, deployment safety, cost visibility, ownership, and senior-engineer scope
Requirements
What you’ll need- Depth in a real technical area, such as distributed systems, data platforms, application and product engineering, machine learning, or platform and infrastructure
- Track record of hands-on, material impact through personally designed, built, or unblocked work
- Breadth to challenge technical specialists and identify weak assumptions
- Experience leading senior engineers and giving them meaningful ownership
- Experience raising engineering standards beyond own team
- Implemented opinions and practices around testing, review, and change safety
- Comfortable working across distributed engineering centres
- Measurably improved developer productivity through paved paths, faster feedback, and removal of unnecessary internal complexity
- Understanding of security engineering controls, including identity and access management, privileged access, workload identity, and client environment isolation
- Comfortable providing technical assurance to enterprise customers and engaging with client CISOs
- Comfortable across architecture, code, incidents, client conversations, and commercial considerations
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, CI/CD, Elasticsearch, Kafka, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Python services, observability, Prometheus, multi-fleet and multi-cell client environment architecture, and cloud/Kubernetes security
- Permission to work in the UK without visa sponsorship
Benefits
Comp & perks- Flexible hybrid working
- Private health insurance
- Life insurance
- Flexible stipend
- Mental health coaching
- Matched pension contribution up to 10%
- Peer micro-bonuses through Bonusly
- £1,000 learning budget each year
- Unlimited professional development leave
- Peer-led ‘Brown-bag lunch’ learning sessions
- Annual Learning Festival
- 25 days holiday leave
- Extra day next year if all holiday is used
- Extra day after 3 & 5 years
- Additional 4 weeks paid holiday leave during the 5th year
- 26 weeks leave for all new parents regardless of gender, location or family structure
- Volunteering leave
- Birthday off
- Flexibility around religious observances
- Cultural celebrations