Contract £400 - £500 per day Remote (UK) Must have active SC clearance Client name shared on request, once we have spoken. Morela is supporting this search directly. THE SHORT VERSION A UK technology business building AI systems for regulated, security-sensitive environments is standing up a new data platform, and needs someone to own the ground it runs on. Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability, on a deliberately open-source stack with no managed-service shortcuts. You run it yourself rather than consuming managed equivalents. The interesting part is the topology: an edge cluster and a central cluster with replication between them, putting real weight on networking, inter-cluster connectivity and security posture. THE ENGINEERING PROBLEM Split topology. An edge cluster and a central cluster with replication between them. Getting that right is the defining challenge of the role.Constrained environments. Deployments into restricted, disconnected and high-classification networks, which changes almost every assumption you can normally make about connectivity and tooling.Security by design. Systems are under accreditation scrutiny, so hardening, network policy, secrets management and identity are design inputs rather than afterthoughts. WHERE YOU WOULD BE WORKING A venture-backed UK scale-up building AI platforms for highly regulated and security-sensitive sectors, delivering across high-profile government and commercial programmes. Delivery-driven, highly ..... full job details .....