Secure cloud and DevOps solutions for defence and national security
SiXworks builds digital infrastructure for defence and national security customers in highly classified environments. The tech stack—AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and a deep security tooling layer (Elastic, Nessus, Splunk, Sentinel, CrowdStrike)—reveals an engineering org scaling DevOps and security automation. Hiring is engineering-heavy (23 of 34 open roles) with senior-skewed seniority, and active adoption of GitLab CI/CD and Prometheus points to modernizing internal delivery pipelines alongside customer deployments.
SiXworks, acquired by IBM, operates as a specialist provider of secure digital solutions for the UK defence and national security sector. The company focuses on digital experimentation and technology deployment in high-assurance environments, with particular expertise in cross-domain security, cyber, and air-domain systems. Their customer base operates under strict security, assurance, and privacy requirements; SiXworks supports these through Zero Trust and data-centric architectures. The firm has demonstrated ability to move solutions from proof of concept to live service—a critical milestone in regulated defence delivery. Current operations span 51–200 employees across engineering, security, and data functions, headquartered in Farnborough.
AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic Security, Nessus, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Python, SQL, and Linux. Actively adopting Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.
CI/CD pipeline design, Kubernetes configuration, private cloud platform delivery, SOC (Security Operations Centre) capability and use-case development, RBAC model development, and security tooling deployment with automation and alerting.
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