My client is a UK sovereign AI company developing secure, mission-critical artificial intelligence and data platforms for defence, national security, and strategic industry partners.Our systems operate at the intersection of Real Time data, autonomous decision support, and cloud-native infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on security, integrity, and performance. They are scaling rapidly and seeking a hands-on Development andamp; Operations Manager to lead the delivery and uptime of our AI cloud systems across AWS.I need a JSON/AWS/Lambda Developer to bridge software engineering, DevOps, and cloud operations, ensuring secure, compliant, and high-availability environments for our AI workloads.You''ll lead a small cross-functional team, manage deployment pipelines, automate processes, and enforce defence-grade reliability and observability standards.Key ResponsibilitiesLead and manage a small team (developers + DevOps engineers) delivering secure, scalable, and high-availability AI systems.Own AWS-based infrastructure: Lambda, EC2, S3, CloudFormation/Terraform, CloudWatch, and VPC security.Oversee JSON-based API integrations, data pipelines, and serverless event-driven architectures.Implement continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for code, models, and infrastructure.Ensure DevSecOps best practices - patching, logging, monitoring, and compliance with UK MoD or ISO27001 frameworks.Manage incident response, uptime SLAs, and operational dashboards.Collaborate wit