Software Engineer (DV Cleared) X4

Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for X4 Software Engineer (DV Cleared) on a 6 Month Contract, based in London.

Role Summary

We're recruiting for a specialist security team working on critical national infrastructure projects high-impact, high-visibility work protecting UK organisations from cyber threats at scale.

This role requires DV (Developed Vetting) clearance either currently held, or you meet the eligibility criteria (typically British citizen, 10 years continuous UK residency). Please only apply if this applies to you.

The role

You'll join a software-defined, automation-first engineering environment building and running CI/CD platforms with security embedded from day one not bolted on afterwards. Think fast iteration, Infrastructure-as-Code as the default, and end-to-end ownership from build through to production.

What you'll be doing

• Owning and delivering platform capabilities across a highly-automated, CI/CD-driven environment
• Designing and evolving CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable delivery across multiple teams
• Embedding Infrastructure-as-Code, eliminating manual provisioning and config drift
• Integrating security controls into engineering workflows secure by design, not by afterthought
• Supporting engineering teams with tooling, guidance and best practice
• Driving adoption of modern engineering practices CI, CD, automated testing, observability
• Contributing to technical standards and governance across teams
• Supporting incident response and continuous improvement through retrospectives

Requirements

Not every box needs ticking, but strength across most of the following:

• CI/CD platforms GitLab, Jenkins
• Infrastructure-as-Code Terraform, Ansible, Chef or Puppet
• Containerisation Kubernetes, Helm
• Cloud-native platforms AWS, Azure, GCP or VCF
• Release automation ArgoCD, Flux
• Observability Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
• IAM & secrets management OAuth/OIDC, Keycloak, Vault
• Software development Java, Python, JavaScript, C++ or C#
• Solid grounding in security principles CIA, Least Privilege, Zero Trust
• Networking fundamentals DNS, TCP/UDP, firewalls, VPNs

Our Company

Rubicon Consulting is a Talent management consultancy which helps you to optimise business performance and competitive advantage by choosing the right people first time!