JSON/AWS/Lambda Developer

5 days ago

Manchester, New Hampshire, United Kingdom RiskPod Full time

JSON/AWS/Lambda Developer

Location:
North West England (Manchester / Liverpool corridor – hybrid, UK citizenship required)

Rate - £300 per day

About the Company:

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
.

We're 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.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 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.

Leadership & Delivery

  • 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
    .

Security & Eligibility

  • UK citizenship required
  • Must be eligible to work in the UK without restrictions.
  • Understanding of
    data classification and handling protocols
    desirable.

We Offer

  • Up to
    £70,000
    base salary + bens

Ideal Backgrounds

  • 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

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