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 pipelines

Role: 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 BPSS

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.

Essential Skills:

• 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

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please send your updated CV to: Natalie Dalkin at Line Up Aviation

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