Lead Engineer
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This role is for a Lead Engineer with a 6-month contract, located in London (up to 2 days/week). Key skills include GitHub Actions, Terraform, Azure, and PowerShell. Strong communication and mentoring abilities required; security-first focus essential.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
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🗓️ - Date discovered
September 3, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location type
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract type
Inside IR35
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🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Terraform #Automated Testing #Documentation #Automation #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #Security #SQL Server #Agile #C# #GitHub #Monitoring #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Cloud #GIT #Azure
Role description
Lead Engineer
• IR35: In Scope
• Contract Length: 6 months
• CV Deadline: ASAP
• Location: London office up to 2 days per week
Job Description
This is a Lead engineering role within the Data Collection Platforms team. The team is responsible for the strategic data collection platform, as well as several other systems critical to the client's mission. Whilst we are looking for someone with relevant experience, we do not expect new joiners to have skills across our entire technology stack and will support you to fill technical gaps.
Essential
Strong practical knowledge and experience of Github Actions, Terraform, and Azure.
Strong practical knowledge and experience of PowerShell.
Strong practical knowledge and experience of using git for source control.
Willing to mentor junior engineers.
Willing to experiment and fail fast.
Have a security-first focus, baked-in not bolted-on.
Understanding and ability to provide quality, automated testing as you develop.
Be able to demonstrate a high level of professionalism, organization, self-motivation and a desire for self-improvement.
Ability to write clear and concise documentation.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to plan, schedule and manage a demanding workload.
Main Duties
Contributing your expertise towards the continual improvement of our technology stack, ranging from complex cloud-hosted applications utilizing IaC and full CI/CD automation, to more traditional VM-based on-premise systems.
Leading, mentoring and collaborating closely with those in your immediate team and with colleagues in other Technology teams.
Being an excellent teammate, happy to document and showcase your work to the team, enabling them to understand and support your work.
Desirable
Strong practical knowledge and experience of deploying and configuring Windows based systems in Azure via Github Actions and Terraform.
Good practical knowledge and experience of SQL.
Good practical knowledge and experience of Azure Monitoring.
Software development experience using C# and SQL Server.
Please ask for more information: victoria.giles@comxps.com
Lead Engineer
• IR35: In Scope
• Contract Length: 6 months
• CV Deadline: ASAP
• Location: London office up to 2 days per week
Job Description
This is a Lead engineering role within the Data Collection Platforms team. The team is responsible for the strategic data collection platform, as well as several other systems critical to the client's mission. Whilst we are looking for someone with relevant experience, we do not expect new joiners to have skills across our entire technology stack and will support you to fill technical gaps.
Essential
Strong practical knowledge and experience of Github Actions, Terraform, and Azure.
Strong practical knowledge and experience of PowerShell.
Strong practical knowledge and experience of using git for source control.
Willing to mentor junior engineers.
Willing to experiment and fail fast.
Have a security-first focus, baked-in not bolted-on.
Understanding and ability to provide quality, automated testing as you develop.
Be able to demonstrate a high level of professionalism, organization, self-motivation and a desire for self-improvement.
Ability to write clear and concise documentation.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to plan, schedule and manage a demanding workload.
Main Duties
Contributing your expertise towards the continual improvement of our technology stack, ranging from complex cloud-hosted applications utilizing IaC and full CI/CD automation, to more traditional VM-based on-premise systems.
Leading, mentoring and collaborating closely with those in your immediate team and with colleagues in other Technology teams.
Being an excellent teammate, happy to document and showcase your work to the team, enabling them to understand and support your work.
Desirable
Strong practical knowledge and experience of deploying and configuring Windows based systems in Azure via Github Actions and Terraform.
Good practical knowledge and experience of SQL.
Good practical knowledge and experience of Azure Monitoring.
Software development experience using C# and SQL Server.
Please ask for more information: victoria.giles@comxps.com
