Job Description
On behalf of our client, we are seeking to recruit an Application Engineer on an initial 12-month contract. As the Application Engineer you will ensure the mission-readiness, availability, and survivability of our critical engineering application suites. You will not just write policies; you will design, engineer, and automate failover mechanisms, fault isolation patterns, and recovery pipelinesRole: Application Engineer Pay: 500 per day via umbrella Location: Stevenage, Bristol or Bolton Contract: Monday - Friday 37 hours per week, 12months IR35 Status: Inside Security Clearance: SC required however can start on BPSSResponsibilities Application BC/DR Engineering: Design, build, and maintain application-layer resilience mechanisms.Infrastructure and Network Collaboration: Partner closely with Infrastructure and Network teams to co-design resilient solutions and failover mechanisms.Impact Tolerance and Recovery Metrics: Establish, monitor, and continuously validate Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).Joint Resilience Drills: Participate in end-to-end, multi-team disaster recovery exercises simulating extreme scenarios, including total datacentre loss, supply chain compromises, and air-gap isolations.Defence Compliance and Data Sovereignty: Ensure all applications and solutions strictly adhere to defence data regulations, air-gapping requirements, cryptographic mandates, and frameworks.Implement/modify access control mechanisms and auditing to ..... full job details .....