Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (DV) - Hybrid UK

VIQU IT; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Morela is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical relationship with defence and government customers, deploying and accrediting a GCP-native AI platform in diverse environments, from Kubernetes to air-gapped networks.

Role suits a hands-on senior engineer who can lead workshops, drive end-to-end delivery, and work with MOD stakeholders. Hybrid London-based with travel, ASAP start for 6 months with potential extension.

Qualifications

• Active DV clearance required.
• Hands-on architecting, building and scaling complex products.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and ownership.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical workshops, demos and discussions with senior MOD, engineering and security stakeholders
• Own delivery end to end, from requirements and planning through deployment, troubleshooting and handover
• Adapt the platform's GCP architecture to each customer's infrastructure, including restricted and air-gapped environments
• Integrate the platform with customer data sources, APIs and systems
• Own test strategy, acceptance and the technical documentation customers and accreditors need
• Lead technical assurance, including architecture reviews, threat modelling and accreditation support
• Write production code where delivery needs it and feed field insight back to engineering

Skills

GCP

TypeScript

Node.js

React

PostgreSQL

Security engineering

Architecture design

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Morela is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical relationship with defence and government customers, deploying and accrediting a GCP-native AI platform in diverse environments, from Kubernetes to air-gapped networks.

Role suits a hands-on senior engineer who can lead workshops, drive end-to-end delivery, and work with MOD stakeholders. Hybrid London-based with travel, ASAP start for 6 months with potential extension.