Software Engineer (Full Stack) – SC Cleared – National Security

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Location: Cheltenham
Job Description:

Software Engineer (Full Stack) – SC Cleared – National Security

Growing engineering team within National Security and Defence.

Java, Spring Boot and big data engineering role. Full SDLC involvement, working alongside software engineers, data engineers and SREs on scalable applications and data-processing pipelines.

Locations

Gloucester, plus customer sites for high-side integration/deployment.

Rates

£45k-£50k

Security Clearance

Active SC required- must be eligible for higher clearances

Essential:

  • Java + Spring Boot development
  • Big data engineering / large-scale data pipelines
  • Hadoop or comparable distributed processing
  • Ansible or comparable automation
  • GitLab (source control + CI/CD)
  • SRE principles, production support, reliability

Desirable:

  • Apache Pig
  • AWS / Azure / GCP
  • Docker / Kubernetes
  • Monitoring & observability tooling
  • Relational/NoSQL databases
  • Agile/Scrum

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Posted: August 29th, 2026