Our client, a prominent entity in the Defence and Security sector, is currently seeking a skilled Software Developer to join their team on a contract basis. This role is integral to enhancing and securing modern technology platforms, ensuring the protection of critical national infrastructure.Key Responsibilities:Own and deliver engineering platform capabilities that facilitate building, testing, securing, and deploying services in a highly automated, CI/CD-driven environment.Design, implement, and evolve CI/CD pipelines, ensuring consistent, reliable, and repeatable delivery processes across multiple teams and services.Embed Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices to drive standardisation and scalability.Integrate security controls into engineering workflows, ensuring services are secure by design.Support and enable engineering teams by providing guidance, tooling, and best practices.Continuously optimise automation, identifying opportunities to remove repetitive manual tasks and improve the developer experience.Collaborate across development, security, and operations to promote end-to-end ownership of services.Maintain and improve engineering tooling and platforms, including source-code control systems, build systems, artifact repositories, and deployment frameworks.Job Requirements:Proficiency in software application development using languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, C++, or C#.Experience with database technologies (e.g., Elastic, MySQL, SQL ..... full job details .....