JSON/AWS/Lambda Developer
Location: North West England (Manchester / Liverpool corridor – hybrid, UK citizenship required)
About the Company:
My client is a UK sovereign AI company developing secure, mission-critical artificial intelligence and data platforms for defence, national security, and strategic industry partners.
Our systems operate at the intersection of real-time data, autonomous decision support, and cloud-native infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on security, integrity, and performance.
We’re scaling rapidly and seeking a hands-on Development & Operations Manager to lead the delivery and uptime of our AI cloud systems across AWS.
I need a JSON/AWS/Lambda Developer to bridge software engineering, DevOps, and cloud operations, ensuring secure, compliant, and high-availability environments for our AI workloads.
You’ll lead a small cross-functional team, manage deployment pipelines, automate processes, and enforce defence-grade reliability and observability standards.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and manage a small team (developers + DevOps engineers) delivering secure, scalable, and high-availability AI systems.
* Own AWS-based infrastructure: Lambda, EC2, S3, CloudFormation/Terraform, CloudWatch, and VPC security.
* Oversee JSON-based API integrations, data pipelines, and serverless event-driven architectures.
* Implement continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for code, models, and infrastructure.
* Ensure DevSecOps best practices — patching, logging, monitoring, and compliance with UK MoD or ISO27001 frameworks.
* Manage incident response, uptime SLAs, and operational dashboards.
* Collaborate with software engineers, AI researchers, and data scientists to optimise cloud performance.
* Maintain documentation and enforce secure coding and deployment standards.
* Support accreditation, audits, and readiness for UK sovereign hosting environments (IL2–IL5).
* Report directly to the Head of Engineering / CTO on delivery metrics, operational risks, and team performance.
Required Skills & Experience
* Strong experience managing AWS environments — Lambda, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, IAM, CloudWatch.
* Hands-on with Python, JSON, and serverless architectures.
* Deep understanding of CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline).
* Proven ability to secure and scale production systems.
* Monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
* Familiar with data exchange formats (JSON, YAML, Parquet) and API design.
Leadership & Delivery
* 4–8 years in software development and/or DevOps, including 2+ in a management or team lead role.
* Experience in defence, aerospace, or regulated sectors preferred.
* Strong communicator with ability to translate technical ops into business risk and vice versa.
* Comfortable managing multi-disciplinary teams (developers, data, infra).
* Passion for secure AI infrastructure and UK sovereignty in technology.
Security & Eligibility
* UK citizenship required
* Must be eligible to work in the UK without restrictions.
* Understanding of data classification and handling protocols desirable.
We Offer
* Up to £70,000 base salary + bens
Ideal Backgrounds
* DevOps or Engineering Manager in defence, cybersecurity, or AI infrastructure startup
* Cloud Infrastructure Lead within AWS Partner or SaaS provider
* Senior DevOps/Software Engineer ready to take on team management and delivery ownership