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- Tasks: Lead a team to develop secure, scalable AI systems on AWS.
- Company: A cutting-edge UK AI company focused on defence and national security.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and the chance to work with innovative technology.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in AI while ensuring security and performance.
- Qualifications: Experience with AWS, Python, JSON, and team leadership.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team with opportunities for professional development.
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. They are 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- UK citizenship required.
- Must be eligible to work in the UK without restrictions.
- Understanding of data classification and handling protocols desirable.
- 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.
Please let me know if this role is of interest. THE RIGHT CANDIDATE MUST BE A UK CITIZEN.
JSON/AWS/Lambda Developer - Manchester - URGENT employer: MWEK Solutions DMCC
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MWEK Solutions DMCC Recruiting Team
How to prepare for a job interview at MWEK Solutions DMCC
✨Know Your AWS Inside Out
Make sure you brush up on your knowledge of AWS services, especially Lambda, EC2, and S3. Be ready to discuss how you've used these tools in past projects, as well as any challenges you faced and how you overcame them.
✨Showcase Your Leadership Skills
Since this role involves managing a small team, be prepared to share examples of your leadership experience. Talk about how you've motivated your team, handled conflicts, or improved team performance in previous roles.
✨Demonstrate Your CI/CD Expertise
Familiarise yourself with continuous integration and deployment practices. Be ready to explain how you've implemented CI/CD pipelines in the past, including any tools like GitHub Actions or Jenkins that you've used.
✨Understand Security Protocols
Given the focus on secure AI infrastructure, it's crucial to understand DevSecOps best practices. Be prepared to discuss how you've ensured compliance with security standards in your previous work, particularly in regulated sectors.