Senior Java Engineer DV Cleared, Cloud-Native Microservices

Ncounter; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension 10%

Learning & development 10%

Relocation support

37.5-hour week

Job summary

eDV is seeking a Senior Java Engineer to build secure, cloud-native platforms for National Security programmes in Cheltenham. You will work on large-scale data ingestion pipelines, distributed services, and analyst tooling in highly regulated environments.

You will contribute to secure microservices, OpenShift deployments, and event-driven architectures while improving code quality and software resilience. A background in DV clearance is essential and relocation support may be available.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Java development experience.
• Experience building scalable microservices and distributed systems.
• Spring Boot and cloud-native engineering expertise.
• Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• A passion for clean, resilient software engineering.
• Experience with Apache NiFi or modern JavaScript is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Build Java services and NiFi data pipelines ingesting and processing large-scale data.
• Develop secure Spring Boot microservices deployed on OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Implement event-driven distributed systems with message brokers.
• Create modern JavaScript apps and REST APIs for analysts to search and visualise data.
• Support cross-domain data flows for secure network boundaries.

Skills

Java development

Microservices

Spring Boot

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Clean code

NiFi/JavaScript (adv)

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Apache NiFi

Kubernetes

OpenShift

GitLab/CI-CD

Job description

eDV is seeking a Senior Java Engineer to build secure, cloud-native platforms for National Security programmes in Cheltenham. You will work on large-scale data ingestion pipelines, distributed services, and analyst tooling in highly regulated environments.

You will contribute to secure microservices, OpenShift deployments, and event-driven architectures while improving code quality and software resilience. A background in DV clearance is essential and relocation support may be available.