Strategic Cloud Software Engineer – Cyber Security

Experis; South Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 66,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

Experis is seeking a Software Engineer for Strategic Engineering in Cyber Security to design and build backend services, APIs and tooling in a production-grade environment. The role involves hands-on development across cloud-based platforms with Go, Python, Java or C#, and strong emphasis on reliability and security.

You will contribute to DevOps practices, SRE minded operations, and automation within AWS/Azure environments, with Terraform for IaC and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with significant hands-on development experience.
• Proven experience building production systems using Go, Python, Java, or C#.
• Experience designing and building APIs, microservices, and backend services.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design principles, and engineering best practices.
• Experience with automated testing approaches including TDD, BDD, unit testing, and integration testing.
• Experience working with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and supporting production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services, APIs, and engineering tools.
• Build production-quality software using Go, Python, Java, or C#.
• Apply software engineering best practices including SOLID principles, design patterns, refactoring, and peer code reviews.
• Develop scalable, maintainable, and highly testable systems and services.
• Implement automated testing, including unit, integration, and behavioural testing.
• Produce clear technical documentation and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.
• Deploy, support, and operate services within AWS and/or Azure environments.
• Automate platform provisioning through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Work with cloud networking concepts and secure service integrations.
• Support engineering platforms used across security and data-focused teams.
• Build, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and contribute to operational support activities.
• Continuously improve service reliability, security scalability, and performance.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C#

APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Testing

SRE

Observability

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Job description

Experis is seeking a Software Engineer for Strategic Engineering in Cyber Security to design and build backend services, APIs and tooling in a production-grade environment. The role involves hands-on development across cloud-based platforms with Go, Python, Java or C#, and strong emphasis on reliability and security.

You will contribute to DevOps practices, SRE minded operations, and automation within AWS/Azure environments, with Terraform for IaC and modern CI/CD pipelines.