Application Engineer required for long term contract assignment based in Stevenage or Bristol or Bolton

Skillset/experience required:

• Application Layer Knowledge: Proven experience working in environments specializing in engineering software ecosystems (e.g., PTC Windchill, IBM ELM), experience with middleware components.
• Resilient engineering: Proven experience engineering resilient solutions with a focus on business continuity & digital resilience.
• Data & Pipeline Automation: Experience managing data replication across distributed or air-gapped systems.
• Defence Environment Familiarity: Experience working within air-gapped networks, or cross-domain solutions.
• Security Clearance: Must be eligible for, or currently hold, UK Security Clearance (SC)

Responsibilities:

We are seeking a highly technical Application Engineer to ensure the mission-readiness, availability, and survivability of our critical engineering application suites. In this role, you will be the technical anchor for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) at the application layer.

You will not just write policies; you will design, engineer, and automate failover mechanisms, fault isolation patterns, and recovery pipelines. This is a highly collaborative role requiring tight integration with our core Infrastructure, Cyber Security, and Network Engineering teams to co-design full-stack, infrastructure-supported resilience solutions capable of withstanding severe-but-plausible cyber and kinetic disruptions.

Key Responsibilities

• Application BC/DR Engineering: Design, build, and maintain application-layer resilience mechanisms.
• Infrastructure & Network Collaboration: Partner closely with Infrastructure and Network teams to co-design resilient solutions and failover mechanisms.
• Impact Tolerance & 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 & 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 meet defined acceptance criteria.

Modis International Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers in the UK. Modis Europe Ltd provide a variety of international solutions that connect clients to the best talent in the world. For all positions based in Switzerland, Modis Europe Ltd works with its licensed Swiss partner Accurity GmbH to ensure that candidate applications are handled in accordance with Swiss law.

Both Modis International Ltd and Modis Europe Ltd are Equal Opportunities Employers.

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