Principal Software Engineer

Great ideas come from different minds. That’s why we bring together engineers, scientists, analysts, and creatives from every background — and give them the trust, tools, and freedom to make a difference. What connects us is the mission: solving meaningful problems and building capability that protects what matters most.

And as the challenges evolve, so do we — working on the technologies that will shape tomorrow, not just today.

Principal Software Engineer \- National Security

And as the challenges evolve, so do we \- working on the technologies that will shape tomorrow, not just today. A UK Engineering \& Technology consultancy working at the heart of the UK's National Security, Defence and Critical Infrastructure.

We partner closely with the UK Government \& Security organisations to solve complex, real\-world problem \- from intelligence and cyber security to systems engineering and advanced analytics. Much of our work is sensitive, high\-impact and genuinely mission\-driven.

Technical Skills

• AWS architecture (intermediate)


• Data engineering architectures and patterns (intermediate/advanced)


• Large scale streaming analytics experience (intermediate)


• Big data architectures and technology (intermediate)


• Kubernetes


• Helm


• AWS specifics \- EKS, Lambda, IAM, S3, VPC, CloudWatch (intermediate)


• CDK (basic)


• Gitlab (basic)


• Golang (intermediate)


• Python (intermediate)

Domain Knowledge

• Event processing (intermediate)


• Event analytics


• Compliance (intermediate)


• High to low experience (technology and practices).

Soft Skills

• Ability to work unsupported high\-side in a high\-profile, fast\-paced, large scale, cross\-supplier environment.


• Happy to work with significant levels of uncertainty and communicate the reasons for frequent change to multiple stakeholders.


• Communicate and influence at all levels from engineer up to customer director level.


• Technical team leadership skills.


• Proxy product ownership skills.

Although you will be leading a team of talented engineers, you will need to be able to context\-switch between high\-level customer meetings and low\-level hands\-on engineering activities, unsupported by your team when required at short notice (for example if failures are observed in a high side running system requiring patching or to working with high\-side only code).

Built on over a 70 year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.

Where you’ll work…

Gloucester \- You’ll find our Gloucester site in a business park two minutes from junction 11A of the M5; The site allows easy access to our local customer base. Set on the outskirts of the Cotswolds, you are never far from a picturesque view or lunch time walk.

Clearances…

Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be hold the highest level of UK Government Clearance.

The Next Step

Click apply, submitting an up\-to\-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.

Take a look around the company https://www.roke.co.uk/

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