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System Engineer
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System Engineer
£600 - £675
Inside IR35
Hybrid (2 days a week onsite in London office)
6 month initial contract
Long term programme (extensions likely)
Help deliver complex modelling and decision-support software used across defence, infrastructure, energy and government.
SR2 is supporting a software consultancy to bring on an experienced Systems Engineer contractor to lead the design and delivery of scalable software solutions, working closely with customers, engineers and technical stakeholders.
The role:
- Leading the technical delivery of customer projects
- Designing scalable, secure and resilient system architectures
- Translating customer requirements into practical technical solutions
- Working across cloud, integrations, data pipelines and distributed systems
- Providing technical leadership to multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Managing technical risk and driving engineering best practice
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Requirements:
- Systems Engineering, Solution Architecture or Technical Leadership
- Delivering complex enterprise software or distributed systems
- Cloud-native architectures and systems integration
- DevOps, CI/CD and modern engineering practices
- Working directly with customers and senior stakeholders
- Defence, government, infrastructure or other complex technical environments (desirable)
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Technology:
- AWS / Azure / GCP
- Distributed Systems & APIs
- SQL / NoSQL Databases
- Docker / Kubernetes
- CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code
- Security & Cloud Architecture
Please apply with a copy of your CV and Emma from SR2 will contact you regarding next steps.
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