SC Application Engineer - PTC Windchill

SC Cleared Application Engineer
Bolton, Bristol, Stevenage - Choice of Location - 2 days a week onsite
12 month contract
Inside of IR35
£500 per day

Are you an Application Engineer who thrives on solving complex resilience challenges within critical environments?
We're supporting one of the UK's leading defence engineering organisations in the search for a highly skilled Application Engineer to play a pivotal role in ensuring the resilience, availability, and survivability of mission-critical engineering applications. This is an opportunity to work on programmes that truly matter, helping safeguard critical systems through innovative Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) engineering.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and building application-layer resilience and disaster recovery solutions.
• Developing automated failover and recovery capabilities.
• Collaborating with Infrastructure and Network Engineering teams to create resilient, full-stack solutions.
• Defining and validating Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
• Participating in large-scale disaster recovery and resilience exercises.
• Ensuring compliance with security, defence, and data sovereignty requirements.
• Supporting access control, auditing, and secure application operations.

What We're Looking For

You'll bring a blend of application engineering expertise, resilience engineering capabilities, and experience within highly regulated environments.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Expertise supporting engineering software ecosystems such as PTC Windchill, IBM ELM, or similar enterprise engineering platforms.
• Proven experience designing and implementing resilient applications with a focus on business continuity and digital resilience.
• Strong background in data replication, synchronisation, and automation across distributed or air-gapped environments.
• Experience operating within secure environments involving air-gapped networks, cross-domain solutions, or similarly restricted architectures.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across infrastructure, security, and engineering teams.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.