We are seeking a highly skilled and qualified L3 Electrical Engineer for a 3-month temporary contract based within a fast-paced warehouse environment in Kegworth, Derby. This role is critical for ensuring the operational uptime and safety of large-scale automated systems and electrical infrastructure.

Role Overview

Pay Rate: £25.00 per hour.

Hours: 40 hours per week.

Contract Type: Temporary (3-month duration).

Location: Kegworth, Derby.

Key Responsibilities

Maintenance & Repair: Carry out routine planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive repairs to all electrical systems to meet agreed service levels.

Fault Finding: Utilize technical expertise to identify and resolve electrical faults in high-pressure warehouse environments.

Systems Management: Maintain and understand site plant and systems, ensuring all electrical issues are attended to and resolved within SLA agreements.

Compliance: Sign off completed PPM and reactive tasks in a timely manner, ensuring that comprehensive maintenance records are kept up to date and compliant.

Health & Safety: Ensure the provision of a safe and healthy working environment, adhering to all company and site-specific safety policies.

Requirements

Technical Qualification: Must hold a recognized Level 3 Electrical Qualification (C&G 2360 or equivalent).

Regulations: Current C&G 18th Edition in Electrical Installations is essential.

Testing & Inspection: C&G 2391 (or equivalent) Test and Inspection certificate.

Experience: Proven experience working with structured PPM delivery within commercial or industrial settings.

Soft Skills: A calm manner with the ability to work well under pressure and communicate effectively with team members.

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business

Kirtana consulting is looking for IBM AIX Server Admin role for 6months rolling contract in Birmingham.

Job description:

Job title: IBM AIX Server Admin

Technical Expertise:

1. IBM AIX OS administration (10+ years experience).

2. PowerVM, HMC, LPM, NPIV, SAN storage integration.

3. PowerHA clustering and disaster recovery.

4. Previous IBM experience will be big plus.

Key Responsibilities:

-Install, configure, and maintain AIX Servers and LPARs.

-Manage VIO Servers, NIM server deployments, and PowerVM virtualization.

-Apply OS patches, firmware updates, and security hardening.

-Monitor system health, tune performance, and manage capacity planning.

-Experience with datacenter operations, including hardware installation and troubleshooting.

-Conduct root cause analysis for recurring issues.

-Implement enterprise backup solutions and disaster recovery plans.

-Participate in DR drills and maintain restore procedures.

-Configure and manage PowerHA SystemMirror clusters.

-Work with SAN storage (NPIV), PowerVC, and virtualization technologies.

-Develop automation scripts using UNIX Shell, Perl, or Python.

-Experience in Hardware/Firmware Upgrade/Refresh/Migration

-Ensure compliance with ITIL processes and security standards.

-Should have Proficiency in Scripting for automation.

Automation Engineer

+6 months +

+Hybrid - occasional travel to Corsham

+SC cleared role - current active clearance is essential

+£550 - £575 a day

+Inside IR35

Skills:

+Automation

+DevOps

+MOD

+SC clearance

We’re looking for an experienced Automation Engineer to join a fast-paced, Agile delivery team supporting large-scale, multi-vendor infrastructure environments. You’ll play a key role in developing automated solutions, building robust web services, and ensuring consistent, secure deployment across complex architectures.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving problems, streamlining processes, and working collaboratively within high-performing technical teams.

Essential Skills & Experience

To be considered, candidates must have at least 12 months of hands-on experience within the last 3 years in:

• Creating PHP and JavaScript web services
• Consuming REST-based web services
• Consuming SOAP-based web services
• Automated deployment of server, network, and storage technologies across multiple vendors
• Building or supporting large infrastructure environments
• Troubleshooting hardware and software component failures
• Working effectively within an Agile development team

Additional essential requirements:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• High-level analytical and critical thinking capability
• Valid Security Clearance (SC)
• Competency with the Microsoft Office Suite

Desirable Skills & Qualifications

The following experience is beneficial:

• Previous work within the UK public sector, ideally Defence or Defence Digital (formerly ISS)
• Experience delivering accredited secure solutions within UK Government environments

If you’d like to discuss the Automation Engineer role in more detail, please send your updated CV to and I will get in touch.

EUD Field Engineer (End User Devices)

Location: Field based to sites across Hampshire or Oxfordshire
Rate: £250 per day (Inside IR35)
Contract: 6 months initially, likely extension
Additional: Vehicle and fuel card provided for site visits

The Organisation

Our client is a UK policing organisation, delivering critical ICT services that directly support frontline and operational policing. Reliability, professionalism and security are essential in everything they do.

The Role

This is a field-based End User Devices (EUD) role providing hands-on installation, maintenance and support of ICT and voice devices across a wide geographic area. You will be a visible, customer-facing presence, ensuring officers and staff have the equipment they need to work effectively.

The role requires regular travel to Hampshire or Oxfordshire-based sites, Monday to Friday, and would suit an engineer who is comfortable working independently in live operational environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure and support end user devices including laptops, mobiles and hardware peripherals
• Diagnose and repair hardware and connectivity issues on site
• Set up and support Windows 10 devices, including user connectivity and authentication
• Work with Azure AD, SCCM and voice communications platforms
• Respond to service tickets and incidents, meeting agreed SLAs
• Liaise confidently with end users and third-party suppliers
• Maintain accurate records of work undertaken

Skills and Experience

• At least 2 years’ experience in a field-based IT support or engineering role
• 4+ years’ experience installing, repairing and supporting IT equipment and network connectivity
• Strong hands-on knowledge of end user device hardware and peripherals
• Practical experience with Windows 10, Azure AD, SCCM and voice comms
• Experience working to SLAs in a service-led environment
• Clear, professional communication skills

Location & Travel

• You must be based in or near Hampshire or Oxfordshire
• Willingness to undertake frequent travel to local sites is essential
• Full, clean UK driving licence required
• Vehicle provided for site visits (hire vehicle available for non-commutable journeys)

Security & Eligibility

• Current NPPV3, SC or DV clearance is highly desirable
• Eligibility for NPPV3 is essential

To be eligible, you must:

• Be a Full time UK resident with the right to work in the UK (no visa sponsorship)
• Have lived and worked in the UK continuously for the past 5 years, without extended periods overseas

Job DetailsJob Title: GCP FinOps EngineerLocation- Newport, UKKey Responsibilities(Individual contributor role)*

• Optimise large scale data analytics workloads through partitioning, clustering, query rewrites, storage format improvements, and lifecycle policies.
• Tune containerised microservices by recalibrating CPU/memory requests, improving autoscaling efficiency, and restructuring workload placement on cost efficient compute.
• Redesign workflow orchestration pipelines for parallel execution, increased concurrency, and offloading heavy tasks to lower cost execution environments.
• Analyse distributed data processing pipelines to right size worker types, adjust scaling thresholds, and adopt low cost compute for batch workloads.
• Reduce log processing and storage overhead through log level standardisation, routing rules, exclusion filters, and retention optimisation.
• Implement storage tiering strategies based on access patterns and enforce lifecycle rules to minimise cold data retention costs.
• Improve relational database performance through index tuning, connection optimisation, and instance right sizing.
• Enhance horizontally scalable database performance via autoscaling policies, index improvements, and mitigation of read/write hotspots.
• Build dashboards, budgets, alerts, and guardrails to drive ongoing cost governance and financial accountability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed cost efficient architecture patterns and operational best practices.

Key Skills / Knowledge

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Google Cloud
• Strong understanding of GCP Data services (indexing, slots, pruning, partitioning, clustering)
• Expert-level Kubernetes & GKE resource tuning
• Hands-on experience with Dataflow job pipelines and worker optimisation
• Strong Airflow/Composer knowledge (DAG design, scheduling, PodOperator)
• Strong Dataflow processing pipelines development & schedulers knowledge
• Deep understanding of Cloud Logging routing, sinks, exclusion filters
• Experience with Cloud Spanner autoscaling, indexing, schema optimisation
• Cloud SQL performance tuning and indexing
• Ability to analyse billing data & resource consumption
• Experience using GCP Cost Explorer, Recommender API, Billing Export
• Ability to quantify cost savings and present ROI to leadership
• Build dashboards, alerts, and budget guardrails
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, data, and product teams
• Structured problem-solving mindset
• Ownership-driven, proactive and independent

Experience Required

• Min 5+ years experience in Google Cloud

OpenShift Administrator (Automation & Lifecycle)

?? Location: Sheffield City Centre (Hybrid 60% office / 40% remote)
?? Contract Duration:8 Months (Until 30/11/2026)
?? Rate: Up to £400 per day (inside IR35)

Overview

We are recruiting an experienced OpenShift Administrator / Automation Engineer to support a large enterprise platform within the Banking & Financial Services sector.

This role suits candidates with experience working in highly regulated environments, ideally banking or financial services, where strong controls, security, and compliance are essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Automate infrastructure and platform processes to reduce manual intervention
• Develop and maintain automation for RedHat OpenShift environments
• Create, test, and support automation scripts (Python, PowerShell, Shell)
• Integrate automation with enterprise systems and REST APIs
• Identify automation opportunities in collaboration with stakeholders
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and well-documented
• Monitor and troubleshoot automated workflows
• Track delivery and documentation using Jira and Confluence

Essential Skills & Experience

• 510 years experience in automation, platform, or infrastructure engineering
• Hands-on RedHat OpenShift administration (essential)
• Strong scripting skills: Python, PowerShell, Shell
• Container technologies: Docker, Kubernetes
• Automation tools: Ansible, Jenkins
• REST API integration
• Experience working in regulated enterprise environments
• Version control: Git / SVN
• Ability to work independently and manage deliverables

Ideal Candidate Background

• Previous experience in Banking or Financial Services
• Comfortable operating within strict governance, risk, and compliance frameworks
• Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical platforms

Desirable

• ArgoCD / GitOps experience
• Test automation exposure (Selenium, PyTest, Robot Framework)
• Experience in DevOps or Agile delivery environments

Software Engineer II Hybrid: Manchester (1 day a week) Inside IR35: £500 Duration: 6 months Tech Stack: Java / Spring Boot, SQL Server, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD. Node.js/Python and SSIS experience is a bonus. A technology‑driven team is seeking an experienced Software Engineer II to support the design, build and operation of backend services within a financial data environment. This role is ideal for someone who values strong engineering practices, autonomy, and cross‑functional collaboration. You will help develop and operate backend systems that deliver accurate, timely financial data to critical enterprise processes. The role includes hands-on development, production support, and ensuring compliance with key regulatory frameworks such as SOX and GDPR/PII. Java / Spring Boot Python & Node.js Microsoft SQL Server, SQL optimisation SSIS (bonus) AWS Kubernetes, Docker CI/CD tooling Infrastructure as Code (TypeScript, AWS CDK) Exposure to Apache Spark is a plusIf this sounds like you, please apply. Please click to find out more about our Key Information Documents. Please note that the documents provided contain generic information. If we are successful in finding you an assignment, you will receive a Key Information Document which will be specific to the vendor set-up you have chosen and your placement. To find out more about Computer Futures please visit Computer Futures, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC(phone number removed) England and Wales

initial 6 month contract - 575 - 650 a day - outside IR35

Fully onsite role based - Newbury - (9-day fortnight, every other Friday off)

Active DV Clearance is essential

We are seeking an experienced Contract Juniper Network Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise-grade LAN/WAN/WLAN environments.

The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering secure, highly available, and scalable network solutions leveraging Juniper technologies, with integration into cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise LAN/WAN/WLAN networks using Juniper technologies
• Plan and deploy high-availability, resilient, and scalable network architectures
• Integrate on-premise infrastructure with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Configure and manage Juniper routers, switches, and firewalls
• Implement and administer network security solutions
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across network environments
• Monitor, maintain, and optimise network performance and capacity
• Implement network automation using scripting (e.g., Python, Ansible, or similar)
• Produce and maintain:

• Network diagrams
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Runbooks
• Configuration and support documentation

• Participate in an on-call rota (details to be confirmed)

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise networks using Juniper technologies
• Strong hands-on configuration experience with:

• Juniper routers (MX series or equivalent)
• Juniper switches (EX/QFX series)
• Juniper SRX firewalls

• Solid understanding of:

• Routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS)
• VLANs, MPLS, VPNs
• High-availability and failover technologies

• Experience integrating enterprise networks with AWS and/or Azure
• Strong troubleshooting capability in complex, multi-site environments
• Experience implementing security controls and firewall policies
• Network automation experience (Python, Ansible, Junos automation, or similar)
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation

Desirable Experience

• Experience working in secure or highly regulated environments
• Exposure to multi-site enterprise or critical infrastructure networks
• Familiarity with monitoring and performance management tools

This is an urgent role so if you’re interested please send your CV asap

3rd Line Microsoft Engineer

Location: Belgravia, London (5x days onsite per week)

Day Rate: 270.00 per day

Length: 3 months

About the Role

We’re looking for a highly skilled 3rd Line Microsoft Engineer to join our growing IT & Cloud Services team. This is a hands-on technical role where you’ll act as an escalation point for complex issues, drive Microsoft cloud adoption, and help enhance our modern workplace environment. You’ll play a key part in supporting, securing, and optimising our Microsoft ecosystem - with a strong focus on Entra ID, Intune, PowerShell, Azure services, and email security (Mimecast).

What You’ll Be Doing

• Acting as a senior escalation point for 2nd Line teams and resolving complex Microsoft-related incidents.
• Administering, managing, and troubleshooting Entra ID (Azure AD) including conditional access, identity protection, authentication and SSO.
• Creating, deploying, and managing Intune policies, configuration profiles, compliance policies, and application deployments.
• Developing and maintaining PowerShell scripts to automate tasks and improve service efficiency.
• Supporting and administering Mimecast including policies, mail flow, security setups, impersonation protection and overall email continuity.
• Managing Windows 10/11, Microsoft 365, Exchange Online and related cloud services.
• Participating in project work such as cloud migrations, security uplift programmes, and endpoint modernisation.
• Ensuring systems follow security best practices and compliance standards.
• Documenting solutions, creating runbooks, and contributing to continuous improvement.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong background in 3rd Line / Senior Support roles
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure AD, and modern identity/security
• Hands-on experience building and configuring policies in Microsoft Intune
• Solid PowerShell scripting skills
• Experience supporting and configuring Mimecast
• Strong understanding of Windows client OS, device management, Exchange Online, and cloud security

ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Rate: 380 a day

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Location: Wokingham Hybrid in office three days a week

Duration: 6 months duration

Clearance: SC Clearance required

You will join a global IT Consultancy bringing digital transformation to a public sector agency

Role Description:

Knowledge, Experience & Technical Expertise

• Proven track record in the design, construction, and management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 8, 9, and 10.
• Demonstrated success in the design and management of Red Hat Satellite and Ansible Automation Platform.
• Experienced in managing VMware solutions.
• Proven leadership in guiding a small team of Red Hat subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Strong understanding of network protocols and topologies.
• Extensive customer-facing experience in an IT service role.
• Methodical and positive approach to problem-solving.
• Proficient in working effectively both independently and as part of highly productive small to medium-sized teams in an ITIL/DevSecOps based support environment.
• Experience with business-critical real-time systems, ensuring high levels of availability through proactive actions.
• Demonstrated accountability in seeing issues through to successful resolution. - Skilled in producing technical reports and documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong communicator with excellent writing skills.

Essential Experience:

• Proven experience in a production IT environment, managing enterprise IT infrastructure, hardware, hosting services, and network areas.
• Ability to write and review architectural design documents.
• Knowledge of industry trends and new technologies, with the ability to apply these trends to architectural needs.

• Fuly remote role (with expensed travel)

• 500 to 520 per day Inside IR35

• SC Cleared role

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Architect to lead the architectural modernisation of a large-scale, mission-critical data platform within DWP.

This is a hands-on senior architecture role focused on transforming a complex brownfield data estate while maintaining uninterrupted service delivery. You’ll be driving major technical decisions across data architecture, infrastructure, security, and cross-cloud connectivity - shaping the future of a platform that directly supports millions of UK citizens.

Key Responsibilities

1. Brownfield Architecture & Platform Modernisation

• Lead the re-architecture of an established enterprise data platform (DWX).
• Support new microservice-based upstream integrations and large-scale schema evolution (300+ schemas).
• Design strategies to merge 3-5 years of legacy data with new data models while maintaining consistent user journeys.
• Define modernisation approaches that minimise disruption to live services.

2. Data Platform & Integration Architecture

• Design modern ingestion, transformation, and storage patterns.
• Define migration and schema transition strategies that maintain data quality, lineage, and service continuity.
• Architect phased rollout approaches to reduce operational risk.

3. Infrastructure, Security & Network Architecture

• Lead the transition from bespoke UC MacBook/VPC setups to standardised DWP environments using Zscaler.
• Define secure connectivity models between AWS-hosted platforms and Azure-based DWP environments.
• Ensure secure cross-cloud data transfer, compliance, and governance.

4. Technology Modernisation & Standards Alignment

• Assess existing technology choices and define migration strategies to DWP-aligned standards.
• Produce architecture options, technical roadmaps, and ADRs.
• Drive reduction of technical debt and alignment to DWP Digital Blueprint and Enterprise Architecture standards.

5. Leadership, Governance & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as senior architectural authority across DWX and related platforms.
• Provide architectural assurance, governance, and strategic technical leadership.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Senior / Lead Technical Architect in complex brownfield environments.
• Deep expertise in data platform architecture, including ingestion patterns, schema evolution, and microservice integration.
• Strong AWS + Azure multi-cloud integration experience.
• Background working within government, public sector, or regulated environments.
• Strong infrastructure, security & network architecture experience (Zscaler, VPCs, VPN, identity).
• Experience modernising critical platforms while maintaining live service delivery.
• Strong governance, security assurance and SRE handover experience.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and leadership skills.
• Strong technical documentation skills (Confluence / SharePoint).

Desirable

• Event-driven and microservice-based data architectures.
• Kotlin experience and migration pathways to Java / Python.
• Knowledge of Power BI, CoPilot, or GenAI.

Our client, an established catering and hospitality company, is currently recruiting an SAP HANA Administrator to join their SAP team on a 6-month contract basis. The SAP Administrator will be responsible for managing the Linux services in use to enable the business to achieve its business objectives and strategic plans.

Key Responsibilities for the SAP HANA Administrator:

• Administer, manage, and maintain SAP HANA databases.
• Perform database tuning and performance monitoring.
• Support backup and recovery operations.
• Provide support and guidance to the SAP team.
• Resolve database performance issues, capacity issues, replication, and other data-related issues.
• Ensure compliance with database vendor license agreements.

Skills Required for the SAP HANA Administrator:

• A strong background working as an SAP Admin
• Proficiency in database management, tuning, backup, and recovery
• Strong technical documentation skills with ability to summarise technical issues or proposals in non-technical language when required.
• Experience of SAP upgrade from S2 to HANA is desirable
• Strong communication skills

Please apply as directed!

Azure Cloud Engineer (SC Cleared) London (Hybrid) 6 Month Contract to £550/day-£600/day (Inside IR35) Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer needed with active SC Security Clearance, AZURE Terraform code. 6 Month Contract based in Central London (Hybrid). Start ASAP in March 2026. Hybrid Working - 2 days/week remote (WFH), and 3 days/week working on-site from the London office. A chance to work with a leading global IT and Digital transformation business specialising in Government projects: Experienced Azure Cloud Engineer required to support cloud transformation programme. Must have in-depth experienced in AZURE Terraform code, GitHub Actions, implementation of both CI/CD.                                                                                          Hands-on experience in Software Development. Experience implementing or maintaining a CI/CD pipeline using Github Actions, Terraform, and Azure. Good working knowledge of PowerShell, SQL of the installation and configuration of Windows based systems. Provide automated testing as you develop and Strong written and verbal communication skills. Experience of Agile methods, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipeline maintenance + automation scripting, also strongly preferred. Ability to plan, schedule and manage a demanding workload.  Experienced in mentoring and training junior engineers. Desirable:  Experience implementing or maintaining a CI/CD pipeline using Github Actions, Terraform, and Azure. Azure Monitoring.  Software development experience using C# and SQL Server. Packer, Kubernetes, AKS, Flux or Helm Banking / Financial Services domain experience preferred. Must hold active SC Security Clearance used on a project within the past 12 Months

Adecco are currently recruiting for an End User Device Engineer, for a large organisation on a contract basis. The successful candidate will have experience within general desk side support and physical Desktop PC installations with Windows 10, along with SCCM builds and MEM builds. Please note this position requires you to have a Full UK Driving License.

The day rate will be £250 inside IR35 paid to Umbrella and will require SC vetting with the contract expected to conclude at the end of September 2026 (extensions likely). This is a full time position (37.5) Monday to Friday, 09:00-17:00.

Please note there are multiple positions in Southampton and Oxfordshire.

Duties will include:

• Troubleshoot and resolve EUD incidents, requests and problems within the agreed Service Level Agreement’s, Identifying any patterns and trends within the EUD services taking proactive measures to raise as problems
• Ensure the EUD Senior Engineer is aware of any changes required to documentation and knowledge articles
• Support the schedule of moves, projects, events and tech provides providing a proactive service
• Identify any service improvements within the EUD service delivery highlighting to EUD Senior Engineers

You must have:

• Experience with a previous large scale Windows migration
• Ability to cope under pressure
• Pay great attention to detail
• Excellent experience with supporting Windows 10
• Excellent customer facing skills, comfortable working with all different levels of staff
• Good communication skills

Please apply using the links below and our Team will be in touch!

Role Title: Platform Engineer / SRE
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Milton Keynes (1 Day per Month Onsite)
Rate: 550- 650p/d via Umbrella
Clearance: Credit Check Required

What You will do

• Operate and enhance our Kubernetes platform across AWS, Azure, and on-prem.
• Lead incident response, problem management, and root-cause analysis.
• Deliver cluster lifecycle work: upgrades, patching, node pools, CNI/CSI, ingress, and Rancher operations.
• Own observability, dashboards, alerting, and SLOs/SLIs.
• Implement GitOps (Fleet) and reduce toil through automation and strong governance.
• Apply secure API gateway and WAF patterns.
• Work with distributed system patterns, including event brokers and asynchronous messaging.
• Maintain security posture: CVE remediation, GRC controls, scanning pipelines.

Your Skills

• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Rancher, GitOps, Linux, and cloud networking.
• Understanding of API gateway and WAF patterns.
• Experience with distributed systems and event?driven architectures.
• Strong automation/scripting (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, .NET).
• IaC:
  • Terraform for foundational/bootstrap cluster provisioning.
  • Crossplane as an orchestration layer (leveraging Terraform providers).
• Ability to work securely within PCI DSS / GDPR patterns.
• CI/CD: Concourse, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.
• Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger/Tempo, CloudWatch, Loki, OpenTelemetry.

Nice to Have

• AWS operational experience.
• Service mesh (Istio/Kuma).
• Hybrid cloud experience (AWS + Azure + on-prem).
• Payments or regulated industry background.

Success Looks Like

• High uptime and platform stability.
• Reduced toil through automation and GitOps.
• Smooth, predictable upgrade cycles.
• Fewer CVEs and platform risks.
• Faster onboarding for new tenants and workloads

Job Title: Technical Architect

Max rate: 550p/d via Umbrella

Clearance required: BPSS + SC

Location: Remote Worker

Job Description:

Technically Lead the architectural modernisation of a large-scale, established data platform (DWX) within public sector client. This role requires experience of brownfield environments, strong hands-on technical capability, and the ability to reshape existing architectures to align with business and Data & Analytic (D&A) standards while maintaining uninterrupted service delivery.

You will be responsible for re-architecting data flows, modernising infrastructure, managing large-scale schema evolution, enabling cross-cloud connectivity, and providing senior guidance to technical teams and stakeholders.

Skills & Experience Required

Essential

• Proven experience as a senior technical architect in complex brownfield environments.
• Strong data platform architecture experience: ingestion patterns, schema evolution, ETL/ELT, microservices data integration.
• Multi-cloud integration expertise (Azure + AWS) including secure data transfer patterns.
• Deep understanding of government, public sector, or regulated environments.
• Strong experience of technical authority, security governance and SRE handover
• Experience maintaining critical services while modernising underlying platforms.
• Strong infrastructure, security, and network architecture capability (Zscaler, VPC patterns, VPN, identity).
• Ability to navigate and implement organisational standards.
• Hands-on experience re-architecting or migrating technology stacks to standardised platforms.
• Exceptional communication & leadership: able to drive clarity and decision-making in ambiguous contexts.
• Strong experience of technical documentation on Confluence/SharePoint

Desirable

• Experience with event-driven architectures and microservice-based data contracts.
• Knowledge of Kotlin and migration pathways to standard languages (Java, Python, etc.).
• Understanding of Power BI, CoPilot for Power BI, or GenAI (helpful but not core).
• Relevant AWS and Azure certifications.

Rate: 550 per day, DoE
Location: London - 3 days per week onsite
Duration: 6 months initially

Your New Role
We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer with strong experience in broadcast IP environments to join a high-performance infrastructure team. This role will focus on the design, implementation and ongoing support of highly available network infrastructure supporting live broadcast and production environments.

This is not a standard enterprise networking role. Experience with SMPTE ST 2110, PTP timing, multicast networking and Arista hardware is essential.

Your Responsibilities
Network Design and Implementation
Design, deploy, configure and maintain scalable and resilient LAN, WAN and WiFi infrastructure.
Ensure high availability and performance across all network services supporting critical operations.

Broadcast and AV Integration
Support IP based and cloud-based broadcast workflows.
Ensure seamless connectivity for video and audio production systems, editing suites and transmission infrastructure.
Work extensively with SMPTE ST 2110, PTP timing, multicast and broadcast audio and video protocols.

Hardware Management
Install and configure enterprise grade networking hardware including routers, switches, load balancers and VPN solutions.
Strong hands-on experience with Arista switching platforms is required.

Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Proactively monitor network performance using specialist tools.
Diagnose and resolve complex issues including latency, packet loss and bandwidth constraints in live environments.

Security and Compliance
Implement network security controls including segmentation and access policies.
Ensure alignment with organisational and industry security standards.

Collaboration and Cross Training
Work closely with infrastructure, systems and security teams as well as production and broadcast teams.
Contribute to knowledge sharing and cross training initiatives to strengthen overall team capability.

Documentation and Planning
Maintain detailed technical documentation including network diagrams, configuration records and disaster recovery procedures.

Operational Support
Provide second- and third-line support for critical network incidents.
Participate in an on-call rota supporting 24 by 7 operational requirements.

You Will Have
Strong experience as a Senior Network Engineer within broadcast or media environments.
Proven expertise with SMPTE ST 2110 workflows.
Deep understanding of PTP and multicast networking.
Hands on experience with Arista networking hardware.
Experience supporting high availability environments where downtime has significant operational impact.
Strong troubleshooting capability across complex IP networks.

Swindon - 3 days on-site per week

6 months

Inside IR35

The Role

Our client is seeking an Environment Engineer to support integrated test environments for a large-scale financial services programme with the end client.

This role sits within Environment Engineering and focuses on environment stability, configuration, and operational support. You’ll work closely with QA, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to provision environments, maintain compliance, and resolve incidents quickly and effectively.

If you enjoy hands-on technical support, automation, and keeping complex environments running smoothly, this is a strong long-term contract opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and maintain integrated test environments
• Ensure environment stability, reliability, and availability
• Provide L1/L2 support across Wintel-based platforms and applications
• Work closely with QA teams to support testing activities and resolve environment issues
• Collaborate with infrastructure and DevOps teams to manage capacity and performance
• Troubleshoot incidents and perform root cause analysis
• Ensure environments meet security, compliance, and operational standards
• Support batch processing and certificate management activities
• Contribute to automation and continuous improvement initiatives

Must Have Skills & Experience

You should have solid hands-on experience in L1/L2 environment or infrastructure support, including:

Configuration & Environment Support

• Wintel (Windows-based environments)
• Windows Server
• .NET applications
• PowerShell scripting
• SQL Server
• DevOps tooling and practices

Digital Lab / Testing Support

• L1/L2 support experience in Digital Lab environments
• Eggplant (test automation or environment support exposure)

Certificate Management & Automation

• Certificate lifecycle management
• Automation experience within Wintel environments
• Tools such as AppViewX and Ansible
• .NET-based automation or scripting

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Financial services or banking domain experience
• Experience supporting large, integrated test environments
• Exposure to batch scheduling or batch operations
• Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing mindset

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!

An opportunity is available for a Network Engineer to support a large scale network fabric refresh programme for a major banking customer. This Network Engineer role is fully remote and can be based anywhere in the UK. The work focuses on high volume network change activity delivered out of hours, supporting a critical infrastructure migration programme.

The Role of Network Engineer

• As a Network Engineer, you will support the replacement of an existing network fabric and the migration of workloads onto a new bank supplied network platform.
• You will work across three key migration phases covering NFLEX, Moonshot, and Nutanix environments.
• The role operates as part of a two person delivery model, providing design review, change validation, and four eyes assurance.
• You will support network changes, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring in line with strict change and security processes.
• You will produce clear technical documentation and participate in customer facing meetings during delivery.

Skills and Experience for Network Engineer

• CCNA Accredited
• Data Fabric Centre experience
• Strong experience with Juniper or Cisco switching technologies.
• Brocade or Extreme switches experience would be a distinct advantage
• Solid understanding of TCP IP, LAN, WAN, VLAN, and routing protocols including OSPF and BGP.
• Experience with network security best practices, ACLs, and hardened configurations.
• Proven troubleshooting, documentation, and change assurance skills.
• Comfortable working out of hours when required and operating in a regulated environment.

This role suits a delivery focused Network Engineer who values accuracy, collaboration, and structured change execution.

To apply, please send your CV by pressing the apply button

Job Title: GCP FinOps Engineer

Location: Newport, UK (Hybrid)

Contract Duration: 6 Months

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced GCP FinOps Engineer to optimise cloud spend, performance, and operational efficiency across large-scale data analytics and containerised workloads. You will work closely with engineering, data, and product teams to embed cost-efficient architectures, enforce financial governance, and implement best practices across Google Cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Optimise large-scale data analytics workloads via partitioning, clustering, query rewrites, storage format improvements, and lifecycle policies.
• Tune containerised microservices by recalibrating CPU/memory requests, improving autoscaling efficiency, and restructuring workload placement on cost-efficient compute.
• Redesign workflow orchestration pipelines for parallel execution, higher concurrency, and offloading heavy tasks to lower-cost execution environments.
• Analyse distributed data-processing pipelines to right-size worker types, adjust scaling thresholds, and adopt low-cost compute for batch workloads.
• Reduce log-processing and storage overhead through log-level standardisation, routing rules, exclusion filters, and retention optimisation.
• Implement storage-tiering strategies based on access patterns and enforce lifecycle rules to minimise cold data retention costs.
• Improve relational database performance through index tuning, connection optimisation, and instance right-sizing.
• Enhance horizontally scalable database performance via autoscaling policies, index improvements, and mitigation of read/write hotspots.
• Build dashboards, budgets, alerts, and guardrails to drive ongoing cost governance and financial accountability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed cost-efficient architecture patterns and operational best practices.

Key Skills / Knowledge

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of GCP data services, including indexing, slots, pruning, partitioning, and clustering.
• Expert-level Kubernetes & GKE resource tuning.
• Hands-on experience with Dataflow pipelines and worker optimisation.
• Strong Airflow/Composer knowledge (DAG design, scheduling, PodOperator).
• Deep understanding of Cloud Logging, routing, sinks, and exclusion filters.
• Experience with Cloud Spanner autoscaling, indexing, and schema optimisation.
• Cloud SQL performance tuning and indexing.
• Ability to analyse billing data, resource consumption, and quantify cost savings.
• Experience using GCP Cost Explorer, Recommender API, and Billing Export.
• Build dashboards, alerts, and budget guardrails for cost governance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, data, and product teams.
• Structured problem-solving mindset; ownership-driven, proactive, and independent.

Infrastructure Engineer - Contract role

VIQU IT are currently seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join a well-established organisation based in Portsmouth. This is a BAU focused role, supporting and maintaining a live environment whilst the organisation completes on-going project work.

The Infrastructure Engineer Role:

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining, supporting, and optimising the organisation s core infrastructure estate. You ll play a key role in ensuring high availability, performance, and security across the Windows-based environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys operational stability, proactive improvement, and hands-on infrastructure support within a Microsoft-centric environment.

The Infrastructure Engineer Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day support of Windows server infrastructure
• Administration of Microsoft technologies (Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP)
• Management and support of virtual environments (VMware)
• Monitoring system performance and resolving infrastructure issues
• Supporting backup, patching, and upgrade processes
• Assisting with networking support and troubleshooting
• Maintaining security best practices across the environment

The Infrastructure Engineer Technical Skills & Experience:

Essential:

• Strong experience across the Microsoft Windows Server stack
• Active Directory administration
• VMware experience (build, support, and troubleshooting)
• Solid understanding of core networking principles (TCP/IP, VLANs, switching, firewalls)
• Experience working in a BAU / operational support environment

Desirable:

• Fortinet firewall experience
• Exposure to infrastructure security best practices
• Experience working within structured ITIL environments

This position requires regular onsite presence in Portsmouth, with the possibility of hybrid working once established in the role.

If you are interested in the Infrastructure Engineer role, apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence. Or reach out to Phoebe Thompson via the VIQU IT website.

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