Software Engineer (Full Stack) – SC Cleared – National Security

Forward Role; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Forward Role is seeking a Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join a National Security program in Gloucestershire. You will work across the full SDLC, building scalable Java/Spring Boot applications and data pipelines with big data tooling.

Active SC clearance is required; you will collaborate with software engineers, data engineers and SREs on deployment, monitoring and reliability. The role offers £45k-£50k and on-site work with occasional customer site visits.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Java and Spring Boot development.
• Experience creating large-scale data pipelines with Hadoop or equivalent.
• Familiar with Ansible automation and GitLab CI/CD.
• Understanding of SRE principles and production support.

Skills

Java development

Spring Boot

Big data processing

SRE concepts

Tools

GitLab

Ansible

Hadoop

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Software Engineer (Full Stack) – SC Cleared – National Security

Growing engineering team within National Security and Defence.

Java, Spring Boot and big data engineering role. Full SDLC involvement, working alongside software engineers, data engineers and SREs on scalable applications and data-processing pipelines.

Locations

Gloucester, plus customer sites for high-side integration/deployment.

Rates

£45k-£50k

Security Clearance

Active SC required- must be eligible for higher clearances

Essential:

• Java + Spring Boot development
• Big data engineering / large-scale data pipelines
• Hadoop or comparable distributed processing
• Ansible or comparable automation
• GitLab (source control + CI/CD)
• SRE principles, production support, reliability

Desirable:

• Apache Pig
• AWS / Azure / GCP
• Docker / Kubernetes
• Monitoring & observability tooling
• Relational/NoSQL databases
• Agile/Scrum