Job Opportunity: Technical Architect (Python)
The Opportunity Join a purpose-led global transformation company built on belief. We don’t just help businesses transform through technology; we support them in making a meaningful difference to the communities they serve. Partnering with some of the world’s most iconic brands, we offer you the chance to make an impact that matters through challenging projects, ambitious innovation, and thought leadership.
Role Overview
- Job Title: Technical Architect - Python
- Location: Bradford, UK (Hybrid - 3 days in office)
- Sector: Technology Transformation
- Type: Permanent
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Technical Architect to lead the planning, design, and implementation of Python-based applications. You will ensure projects are completed on time and within scope while coordinating between cross-functional teams to align technical delivery with business goals.
Your Responsibilities
- Architectural Leadership: Lead the design of complex Python applications, focusing on scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Framework Selection: Evaluate and select appropriate frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI) based on specific project needs.
- Technical Documentation: Create detailed design documents, including system diagrams, data flow, and API specifications.
- Security & Scalability: Ensure robust application security and high-performance scaling.
- Collaboration: Work closely with designers, testers, DevOps, and cross-functional teams.
- Cloud Operations: Utilize AWS for deployment, monitoring, and resource optimization.
- Agile Delivery: Follow Scrum/Kanban methodologies and participate actively in sprint planning.
Your Profile
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Advanced Python: Deep knowledge of concurrency, asynchronous programming, and metaclasses.
- Databases: Proficiency in Relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
- Architecture: Strong command of OOP concepts, Design Patterns, and Domain-Driven Design.
- Web Frameworks: Expertise in at least one major framework (Django, Flask, or FastAPI).
- APIs: Strong understanding of RESTful API design and web application principles.
- Technical Lead: Proven track record of designing large-scale applications and providing architectural guidance.
- Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with AWS (ECS, Fargate, EC2, SNS, SQS, Cloudwatch, EKS, Kubernetes).
- DevOps: Integration of CI/CD pipelines, API Gateways, and Load Balancing.
Desirable Skills:
- Data Science: Familiarity with libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-learn.
- Soft Skills: Strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and effective communication.
Principal Engineer (Cloud) Consultancy -AWS Azure Terraform Kubernetes
Leeds City Centre with Hybrid Working (2 days a week in the office)
£80,000£90,000 + Benefits
WRK digital is exclusively partnering with a leading digital consultancy to recruit aPrincipal
Engineer (Cloud) a hands-on technical leader who sets engineering standards and drives cloud excellence across major client engagements.
Youll shape technical direction, architect modern cloud platforms, mentor engineers, and contribute to high-impact digital transformation projects across a wide range of industries.
The Role
Youll lead architecture and technical strategy while remaining hands-on across cloud platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and high-quality software development. Youll guide engineering teams, collaborate closely with delivery leaders and product teams, and ensure complex cloud solutions are reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-effective.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead cloud architecture and technical decision-making across major projects
- Design and build cloud-native platforms using AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, and serverless technologies
- Write and review high-quality, production-ready code across the full stack
- Champion best practices in security, testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence
- Implement monitoring, metrics, and tracing solutions to ensure reliability and performance
- Mentor engineers and help shape engineering standards and modern practices
- Contribute to presales activities including proposals, estimates, and technical pitches
- Facilitate architecture workshops and collaborative engineering sessions
What Youll Need
- Deep experience with AWS and/or Azure
- Strong expertise in Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, and cloud-native tooling
- Excellent understanding of cloud security, IAM, and zero-trust principles
- Strong backend engineering skills (C#, Python, Node.js, Java)
- Good working knowledge of front-end frameworks such as React and TypeScript
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and modern automation
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven experience mentoring engineers and leading technical discussions
Nice to Have:GCP experience, public sector background, accessibility awareness, or use of AI-assisted engineering tools.
How to Apply
WRK digital is managing this recruitment process on behalf of our client.
To apply or discuss this opportunity confidentially, please contactCharlieat WRK digital.
Job Description:
Senior developer with the following skills and experience. Strong communication and collaboration skills key for working in DevOps culture with ability to guide team members, when needed. Growth mindset.
Essential Skills:
Core AWS Services: Proficiency / understanding of key AWS services listed below:-
S3
Athena
Glue- Lambda
DynamoDB
OpenSearch
CloudFormation
API Gateway
ECS
CloudWatch
Programming and Core Services
• Fluency in Kotlin/Java, NodeJS, TypeScript
• SQL
Databases:
Experience with SQL, and NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB
Security strong understanding of security principles within the AWS environment,
including RBAC and the principle of least privilege, storing credentials securely using
Secrets Manager/KMS, and handling sensitive data such as email addresses and
tokens securely.
CI/CD Building and managing continuous integration and delivery pipelines is a
key skill. Experience with Git and GitHub Actions
Workflow Management Understanding of services like Amazon Step Functions to
implement complex workflows Desirable
Containers experience of working with Docker and ECS
Good understanding of DevOps / DevSecOps concepts
Other Skills
Monitoring and debugging familiarity with tools like Datadog
Familiarity with Angular framework
Rate: Up to £500/day (Inside IR35)
Location: Leeds - two days per week on-site
Duration: Initially 6 months
Clearance: BPSS required on commencement; SC clearance required within three months. Candidates must be eligible for SC clearance.
The Role
You will be part of a team operating and evolving a platform classified as Critical National Infrastructure, maintained to a high service level.
Day-to-day responsibilities include resolving high-priority incidents, implementing new features aligned to the product roadmap, reducing technical debt, and driving improvements to DevOps processes.
You will work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Technical Leads in an agile delivery environment.
Key Requirements
- Strong Java development skills; Python experience also beneficial
- Familiarity with identity and access management tooling, including PingDS and PingIDM
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes
- Cloud infrastructure experience across AWS and/or Azure; Terraform for IaC
- CI/CD pipeline experience, ideally Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions
- Working knowledge of HAProxy, PostgreSQL, and/or Microsoft SQL Server
- Experience with testing frameworks such as Gatling (Scala), Karate, or Playwright is advantageous
Role DetailsRole/Job Title: BY WMS Sr. Engineer / BY WMS Engineer
Work Location: London / Donington
Mode of Working: Hybrid
Onsite Requirement: 2 days
Other Working Conditions: As needed for Cutover, Hypercare support on need basis. Travel to other locations is reimbursable.The RoleAs a Senior BY Dispatcher WMS Engineer, you will be at the forefront of our warehouse operations, playing a pivotal role in optimizing our warehouse management system for efficiency and accuracy. Leveraging your deep expertise in WMS systems, you will design, build implement, and continuously enhance our systems to ensure seamless coordination of inbound and outbound logistics. Your responsibilities will include configuring WMS, overseeing system integration, monitoring real-time data flows, and troubleshooting any issues to maintain uninterrupted operations. Your role requires a keen eye for detail, a strong problem-solving mindset, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance warehouse productivity and meet customer demands. Join us in revolutionizing our warehouse operations and contributing to our organization’s growth and success.Key Responsibilities
- Assessing client business requirements and opportunities
- Leading design, configuration, and implementation of JDA Warehouse Management Systems
- Analyzing and optimizing components of the solution to take advantage of best practices.
- Work with all appropriate parties to effectively estimate project timelines and deliverables.
- Recognizing and highlighting incremental improvement opportunities with existing clients
- Writing functional specifications for modification, interface, report, and label requirements
- Authoring and/or reviewing system and procedural documentation throughout the project.
- Design and Development of configuration changes over BY WMS system as per requirement.
- Engineer software changes (new features) to satisfy customer requirements.
- Engineer fixes to resolve software defects.
- Design technical solutions based on customer specification document.
- Create and execute test plans to verify software quality. Document test results.
- Provide regular updates on progress to lead engineer and/or project manager.
- Contribute in daily stand-up meetings with project teams.
- CI/CD Jenkins and Pipeline management of the BY WMS is most welcome
Your ProfileEssential Skills / Knowledge / Experience
- Configure and optimize BY/JDA WMS Dispatcher components using strong product knowledge, industry best practices, and performance enhancement techniques.
- Lead the design, configuration, and implementation of Blue Yonder (JDA) Warehouse Management System (WMS) solutions based on client business requirements.
- Engineer new features and system enhancements to meet evolving customer needs, including design and development of configuration changes within the WMS.
- Upgrade WMS Dispatcher to the latest versions (2024 and above) and ensure compatibility, stability, and optimal performance post upgrade.
- Analyze and optimize WMS components to improve efficiency, reliability, and operational performance.
- Develop technical solutions based on functional and customer specification documents, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Write comprehensive functional specifications for system modifications, interfaces, reports, and label requirements.
- Develop and deliver defect fixes in a timely manner, ensuring minimal business disruption.
- Create and execute detailed test plans, thoroughly document results, and ensure high-quality software delivery.
- Contribute actively to project ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, cross-functional discussions, and design reviews.
- Provide regular progress updates to lead engineers, project managers, and key stakeholders.
- Assess client business needs, identify improvement opportunities, and propose effective solutions to enhance customer value.
- Estimate project timelines, deliverables, and resource requirements in collaboration with project stakeholders.
- Recognize and highlight continuous improvement and value add opportunities for existing clients.
- Author and review system documentation and procedural guides throughout the project lifecycle to ensure knowledge continuity and clarity.
- Utilize strong PL/SQL and Shell scripting expertise to support system configuration, automation, and troubleshooting.
- Engineer and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to streamline deployment and improve delivery efficiency (preferred).
- Azure Cloud Technology knowledge
- React JS, Java, Python experience.
- Power BI and JasperSoft Reports development.
- Warehouse Automation Experience such as SSI, Dematic, Beumer, KNAPP
- CI/CD Jenkins and Pipeline management of the BY WMS is most welcome.
- Experience in any other WMS like BY WMS Cognitive, Manhattan, Oracle
Desirable Skills / Knowledge / Experience
- Customer engagement
- Stakeholder management
- Running innovations
- Latest Warehousing Trends and AI
Job Title: AWS Platform Engineer
Location: Leeds, UK (Hybrid)
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience + benefits package
About us
A rapidly growing technology-driven organisation is seeking a Platform Engineer to strengthen security across cloud platforms and delivery pipelines. This role sits within a high-performing Platform Engineering function and blends security, DevOps and cloud engineering to embed security by design across modern, cloud-first environments.
This role is hands-on, highly technical, and ideal for someone who enjoys owning core platform capabilities and embedding security into everything they build.
This is a hybrid role - you will be required to work from the Leeds office 3 days a week.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform
- Develop and operate CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Manage Kubernetes deployments and application delivery with Argo CD (GitOps)
- Build and maintain platform tooling that improves developer experience, reliability, and security
- Implement and operate monitoring, logging, and alerting using the Elastic stack
- Embed security into the platform and delivery pipelines (shift-left security)
- Collaborate closely with application, security, and SRE teams
- Troubleshoot platform issues and drive continuous improvements
Tech Stack
You don’t need to be an expert in everything, but experience in several of these is expected:
- Cloud: AWS (EKS, IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, Security Hub, Inspector)
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions
- GitOps/CD: Argo CD
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- Monitoring & Logging: Elastic (ELK/Elastic Observability)
- Security: Trivy, AWS Security Hub, AWS Inspector, security scanning tools
- Scripting: Bash, Python, or similar
What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience as a Platform, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineer
- Hands-on AWS experience in production environments
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes and modern deployment patterns
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
- Practical experience with cloud and container security
- Infrastructure-as-code mindset and strong automation skills
- Comfortable working cross-functionally and owning shared platforms
Nice to Have
- Experience with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
- Familiarity with SRE principles and reliability engineering
- Security certifications or deep interest in cloud security
About You: We’re looking for someone who is:
- Confident & Motivated: You take initiative and are eager to tackle new challenges.
- Independent: You’re comfortable working on tasks autonomously but enjoy collaborating with a team.
- Quick to Learn: You’re excited to dive into new technologies and constantly improve your skills.
- Team-Oriented: You value working with a high-performance team and contributing to a positive culture.
- Dedicated & Resourceful: You bring a strong work ethic and a solutions-oriented mindset.
- Customer-Focused: You’re driven by the chance to create solutions that make a difference for our customers.
What’s in it for me?
- Base Salary up to £70,000 (depending on experience)
- Allocated company shares following successful completion of probation.
- 5% company performance bonus
- Value-based bonus of up to 10%
- Hybrid working model with 3 days per week in the Leeds office
- 37 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays, with flexibility to work public holidays and take alternative days off.
- Opportunities for professional development, certifications and technical growth.
- A collaborative, delivery-focused environment with scope to influence security strategy and mentor others.
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WRK digital are delighted to be partnered exclusively with a highly respected, UK-based organisation, shortlisting for aSenior Cloud Engineeron a permanent basis.
We are looking for an accomplished and innovative Senior Cloud Engineer to join a collaborative Cloud Platform team, helping to manage, develop, and optimise a large Azure cloud environment. You will play a key role in delivering secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure that underpins the organisations cloud strategy.
The ideal candidate will bring expertise across Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform (IaC), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar), and cloud automation. You will provide technical leadership, support operational excellence, mentor junior engineers, and drive continuous service improvements. A proactive mindset, strong troubleshooting capability, and the ability to draw insights from performance data will be essential.
This opportunity suits someone who thrives in a modern cloud environment, enjoys solving complex engineering challenges, and values cross-team collaboration.
Core Responsibilities include:
- Manage and optimise Azure cloud infrastructure, ensuring stability, performance, and reliability
- Provide L2/L3 support for incidents, troubleshooting cloud-related issues
- Lead Kubernetes cluster operations and support containerised workloads
- Maintain and enhance Terraform Infrastructure as Code modules
- Participate in CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions or similar tooling
- Analyse observability data to produce insights and recommendations
- Ensure effective monitoring using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, AppDynamics or Splunk
- Drive automation across cloud operations following SRE and DevOps principles
- Support junior engineers through mentoring and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement platform improvements
- Maintain clear documentation for procedures, configuration and operational readiness
Minimum Requirements:
- 24/7 on-call L2/L3 support experience
- Experience with a major cloud platform (Azure preferred)
- Familiarity with monitoring tools for troubleshooting and insight gathering
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
- Strong experience with Terraform or similar IaC tooling
Technical Lead (.NET)
Location: Leeds, Hybrid
Salary: Up-to 82,500 + Benefits
We’re working with a growing organisation looking for a Technical Lead (.NET) to join their team. This is a hands-on role combining development and technical leadership, working across an exciting, diverse range of projects including web platforms, geospatial applications, and public sector systems.
The Role
- Lead and mentor developers while remaining hands-on
- Develop applications using .NET and/or Python
- Build and deploy solutions on AWS or Azure
- Work with Docker, APIs and modern architectures
- Contribute to solution design, code reviews, and technical delivery
- Collaborate with stakeholders and support project proposals
Key Skills
- Strong experience with .NET and/or Python
- Cloud experience with AWS or Azure
- Database experience (SQL Server or PostgreSQL)
- Experience with REST APIs and containerisation (Docker)
- Leadership or mentoring experience
This is a great opportunity to work on impactful projects while shaping technical delivery within a growing team.
Apply now or get in touch to learn more.
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?? £40,320 £45,360 + Excellent Benefits
WRK digital are delighted to be partnered exclusively with a highly respected, UK-based organisation, shortlisting for two Cloud Engineers on a permanent basis.
We are looking for Cloud Engineers to join a collaborative Cloud Operations team, supporting and managing the organisations Azure cloud platform. You will help maintain and enhance a large-scale cloud environment, ensuring stability, performance, and ongoing modernisation.
The ideal candidates will have experience with Azure cloud services, Kubernetes support, Terraform (IaC), and GitHub-based workflows. You will be involved in day-to-day operational duties such as proactive monitoring, incident troubleshooting, platform support and processing subscription requests all within established change control processes.
This opportunity is perfect for individuals who enjoy automation, cloud infrastructure, and cross-team collaboration. While this isnt an application management role, you will support teams with cloud components of their applications as needed.
Core Responsibilities include:
Monitor and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure, ensuring platform uptime and performance
Support Kubernetes deployments and troubleshoot cloud services as part of L2/L3 incident response
Use Terraform to update and maintain Infrastructure as Code modules
Participate in CI/CD tasks using GitHub Actions or similar tooling
Contribute to continuous service improvement and cloud automation efforts
Diagnose and resolve cloud infrastructure issues, escalating where required
Maintain clear documentation for operational processes and configuration
Support patching, backups, and disaster recovery activities
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement platform improvements
Minimum Requirements:
24/7 on-call L2/L3 support experience
Experience with a major cloud platform (Azure preferred)
Understanding of monitoring tools for troubleshooting cloud workloads
Basic CI/CD knowledge (GitHub Actions or similar)
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Permanent
Location: Harrogate / Hybrid
Salary: £60,000 - £80,000 (+ benefits)
Skills: Linux, Python / Perl scripting, UKIC DV Clearance
We are looking to recruit a Linux Systems Engineer for a global organisation. Working in my client’s Operations & Maintenance Team you will be responsible for support critical systems within a highly secure, technology-driven environment.
You’ll play a key part in monitoring, maintaining and optimising complex systems that support national-level programmes.
This is a hybrid role with based out of Harrogate with flexible working options available.
Due to the nature of the role valid UKIC DV is required.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitor system and subsystem performance and produce status reports
- Investigate and respond to anomalous system behaviour
- Implement system performance improvements (scripting, SOP updates)
- Support system reconfiguration and special operations activities
- Maintain equipment health to ensure high mission readiness
- Contribute to operational documentation and redundancy planning
- Participate in ongoing technical training and development
What We’re Looking For:
- Degree in a STEM discipline (or equivalent experience)
- Experience in operations, systems or software engineering
- Linux experience and scripting (Python and/or Perl)
- Strong problem-solving skills in complex environments
- Experience with tools such as JIRA and Confluence
Desirable: Flask, Jupyter Notebooks.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Operations and Maintenance team in Harrogate, reporting to the Head of System Operations. You’ll be part of a highly skilled team responsible for ensuring the performance, reliability, and readiness of critical systems.
Our division delivers innovative, reliable, and secure solutions to national and international customers across defence, civil, and commercial sectors. If you’re driven by challenges, thrive in complex environments, and want to make a tangible impact, this is the role for you.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor system and subsystem performance, preparing regular status reports
- Investigate and respond to anomalous system behaviour
- Implement performance improvements via scripting and procedure updates
- Assist in developing standard operating procedures and redundancy management documentation
- Support system reconfiguration and non-routine operations
- Monitor equipment health to maintain the highest level of mission readiness
- Undertake core skills training and follow-on advanced development
- Work a non-traditional schedule, including occasional 12-hour shifts and weekend
What We’re Looking For
Essential:
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with relevant experience or Master’s in STEM with relevant experience
- Ability to thrive as both a leader and a technical contributor
- Experience leading briefs and providing solutions to decision-makers
- Proven project or team leadership experience in complex, high-pressure environments
Preferred:
- Operations or systems/software engineering experience
- Linux OS and scripting skills (Python, Perl)
- Experience with Atlassian tools (Confluence, Jira)
- Experience in geographically distributed teams
- Knowledge of Flask Web Framework or Jupyter Notebooks
Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Leeds, UK (Hybrid)
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience + benefits package
About us
A rapidly growing technology-driven organisation is seeking a Platform Engineer to strengthen security across cloud platforms and delivery pipelines. This role sits within a high-performing Platform Engineering function and blends security, DevOps and cloud engineering to embed security by design across modern, cloud-first environments.
This role is hands-on, highly technical, and ideal for someone who enjoys owning core platform capabilities and embedding security into everything they build.
This is a hybrid role - you will be required to work from the Leeds office 3 days a week.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform
- Develop and operate CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Manage Kubernetes deployments and application delivery with Argo CD (GitOps)
- Build and maintain platform tooling that improves developer experience, reliability, and security
- Implement and operate monitoring, logging, and alerting using the Elastic stack
- Embed security into the platform and delivery pipelines (shift-left security)
- Collaborate closely with application, security, and SRE teams
- Troubleshoot platform issues and drive continuous improvements
Tech Stack
You don’t need to be an expert in everything, but experience in several of these is expected:
- Cloud: AWS (EKS, IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, Security Hub, Inspector)
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions
- GitOps/CD: Argo CD
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- Monitoring & Logging: Elastic (ELK/Elastic Observability)
- Security: Trivy, AWS Security Hub, AWS Inspector, security scanning tools
- Scripting: Bash, Python, or similar
What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience as a Platform, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineer
- Hands-on AWS experience in production environments
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes and modern deployment patterns
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
- Practical experience with cloud and container security
- Infrastructure-as-code mindset and strong automation skills
- Comfortable working cross-functionally and owning shared platforms
Nice to Have
- Experience with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
- Familiarity with SRE principles and reliability engineering
- Security certifications or deep interest in cloud security
About You: We’re looking for someone who is:
- Confident & Motivated: You take initiative and are eager to tackle new challenges.
- Independent: You’re comfortable working on tasks autonomously but enjoy collaborating with a team.
- Quick to Learn: You’re excited to dive into new technologies and constantly improve your skills.
- Team-Oriented: You value working with a high-performance team and contributing to a positive culture.
- Dedicated & Resourceful: You bring a strong work ethic and a solutions-oriented mindset.
- Customer-Focused: You’re driven by the chance to create solutions that make a difference for our customers.
What’s in it for me?
- Base Salary up to £70,000 (depending on experience)
- 5% company performance bonus
- Value-based bonus of up to 10%
- Hybrid working model with 3 days per week in the Leeds office
- 37 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays, with flexibility to work public holidays and take alternative days off.
- Allocated company shares following successful completion of probation.
- Opportunities for professional development, certifications and technical growth.
- A collaborative, delivery-focused environment with scope to influence security strategy and mentor others.
Director of Technical Solutions - Bradford/Leeds
Following the successful launch of its flagship product in November, now used by household brands, an innovative technology scale-up backed by a global industry leader (and acting as its innovation hub for new products) is looking for a Director of Technical Solutions.
This role will lead the engineering teams responsible for internal platforms, cloud-native solutions, and enterprise automation that drive operational performance across the business.
This is a senior leadership position where you will define and execute the strategy for internal engineering solutions and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). You’ll ensure systems are scalable, secure, and aligned to modern Google Cloud architecture and DevOps practices.
Working closely with Platform, Security, Data, and Product leaders, you will:
- Shape and deliver the organisation’s RPA and automation strategy
- Modernise and evolve bespoke internal platforms
- Drive cloud-native architecture, CI/CD, and engineering standards
- Lead high-performing onshore and offshore engineering teams
- Align technology delivery with business priorities and measurable outcomes
Location: Hybrid - two days per week in Bradford/Leeds
Salary: Up to £120,000 + 20% bonus + Up to 40% Equity
To be considered:
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years leading teams (10+ engineers)
- Strong expertise in RPA and enterprise automation (eg UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, AppSheet)
- Professional experience with Google Cloud Platform (hands-on or architectural)
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing at a senior level
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior technology leader to join a fast-growing scale-up, drive enterprise automation at scale, and modernise internal platforms within a cloud-first environment. If this sounds of interest, please apply via the link below to avoid missing out.
The Role You’ll lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping open communication channels. You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently. You’ll be keen to understand our clients’ ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed. Essential experience We want you to have demonstrable experience in DevOps practices and appreciate that Cloud & Platform Engineering are big topics. Ultimately, we’re looking for talented engineers who can learn modern technologies in the digital space. In the interview, please show your experience in: · Designing, building, and testing software release processes that cover the entire SDLC. · Creating, modifying, and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines. · Creating dashboards and visualisations for application performance that proactively identify and address potential problems before they occur. · Using automated testing to detect security issues/vulnerabilities in application and/or infrastructure code, thereby detecting issues before it reaches production (aka Shift-Left). · Strong experience in operating and maintaining services primarily in any of the BIG three public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP). Desirable experience Some other areas of experience that are not essential but still relevant to the role: · Identifying problems using RCA or 5-Whys methods and suggesting solutions to reduce the likelihood of incidents reoccurring. · A strong understanding of cloud networking and security concepts. · Understanding the principles of containerisation, and how to control and orchestrate groups of containers in production environments. · Writing clean, organised, structured and version-controlled code. · Knowledge of at least one scripting language that enables you to perform more complex automation tasks thereby reducing manual toil. · Preference for using CLI tools over relying on web portals. · Understanding SRE (live services) ways of working, that enables you to better increase reliability and availability of the service you support. · Auditing your service for FinOps and SecOps related compliance issues. Must be eligible for UK Security Clearance. If you don’t have all this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.
Ready to automate, innovate and make a real impact?
Do you want to build reliable, scalable systems that make a real difference to millions of people? Do you want to work at a certified B Corp with an inclusive and learning culture as part of a diverse team of great people?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. Working in DevOps, you’ll build and maintain the systems that let teams respond quickly to needs. You’llwork on high-impact projects, helping to build reliable, scalable systems. We align work to industry-recognised roles such as Build & Release Engineer (BRE), Platform Engineer (PLE) or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and, where needed, to more specialised areas such as security, cloud hosting, infrastructure or networking.
What’s life like as a DevOps consultant at Opencast?
At Opencast, we love to keep things simple, and we love automation.
It’s not the same as your standard Devops Consultant job. Depending on your client’s needs, you’ll take on a range of roles. These will include:
- Taking the lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping communication channels open with all parties.
- Developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently.
- Collaborating with our clients to understand their ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed.
- Contributing within Opencast communities.
- Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.
We care about building things right. We believe in good devops practices and keeping things simple. We want to support you as much as we can on interiorising our approach to devops engineering and you supporting others.
- We are proud consultants who combine our own experience and approach with our company values.
- We are comfortable with new tech. We are empowered, cloud native, vendor agnostic devops engineers. We are empathetic, patient and care about quality.
- We know when to pick our battles and how to manage expectations. We are humble, inclusive team players that listen and collaborate, with zero egos!
- We’re always willing to teach and help others (inside or outside of our team). And we’re always willing to learn.
- It’s a varied job that keeps you super technical and excited.
Salary:
- £50,000 - £60,000
Some of the benefits our offer includes:
- A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
- Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday.
- People to support you every step of the way.
Where you’ll work:
- Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you:
- We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview:
- Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
About the job Who are Answer Digital? Answer Digital are a proudly Employee-Owned digital transformation consultancy headquartered in Leeds. We’ve delivered large-scale, cutting edge and life saving digital solutions in both the private and healthcare sectors. After a period of huge growth, we’re looking to invest in our people with our first hybrid Technology Consulting Academy. We’re passionate about investing in our people, so much so that “Nurturation” is one of our core values (our way of nurturing growth through collaboration!). Our Academy We’re looking for motivated and ambitious people to join our Technology Consulting Academy. You’ll be employed with us from Day 1 and the programme has been designed by our talented consultants to accelerate the professional development of great people. The Academy will cover all our technical capabilities to a high level, specialising more as the academy progresses. By the time the Academy is complete, you’ll have all the skills and knowledge to play a pivotal role on one of our projects, helping build solutions for our clients across Software and DevOps Engineering, Data Engineering and Quality Assurance. Academy Structure: What to expect With a blend of workshops, mentored coaching sessions and self guided learning, the Academy will cover: - The fundamentals of the Software Development Lifecycle - Proficient application of Agile methodologies within a professional environment (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean). - Training in core technologies used across our technical capabilities including - Programming Languages (.Net, Javascript, Python) - Database and Data technology (SQL, Pyspark, ETL, Snowflake, Data Architecture, warehouses and lakehouses) - DevOps and Cloud Technologies (Azure and AWS, CI/CD, Terraform and Docker) - Test Frameworks (Cypress, Accessibility and Performance testing) - Include upskilling in emerging AI technologies and their application in software, date and quality assurance engineering. - Strategies for fostering personal development and navigating career progression. You will also be integrated into the broader Answer Digital community, engaging with professionals across various disciplines and industry sectors, with plenty of opportunity to learn. As the Academy approaches its conclusion, you will complete a series of analytical tasks and presentations for your Academy Coach. The Academy culminates in a 2-3 week assignment undertaken alongside an experienced consultant on a live project, followed by a formal presentation of their work to the wider Answer Digital community. After completing the Academy, you will join one of our technical capabilities supporting our clients to deliver great outcomes. What you’ll bring to Answer For us, this isn’t about the jobs you’ve had but the experience you’ve gained along the way though in order to succeed you’ll need; - Either hands on experience or a qualification in a Technology field (such a tech bootcamp, a computer science degree, a tech apprenticeship etc.) or a Data field (a role involving processing/manipulating large data sets or a mathematics degree etc.) - Demonstrated interest and experience within the Information Technology sector. - Someone who constantly challenges assumptions, solves problems and focuses on the details to get things right. - A great communicator, being able to articulate problems to our clients and how we can solve them. This could come from working in tech already, a career changer with lots of transferable skills or someone from academia, who’s had plenty of experience with the above - either way, we’d love to hear from you! It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we’ll help you with them: - Experience working in multidisciplinary teams to build something great. - Practical, hands-on experience working on Agile projects with .Net, Javascript, Python, SQL etc.. About you This isn’t just about your experience, we’re investing in you as a person and you’ll be set up for success if you have: - A genuine commitment to developing a career in technology and digital transformation - A passion for continuous learning and professional development. - Great communication skills, encompassing the ability to interact confidently with diverse individuals and groups at all organisational levels, and to adapt how you communicate to suit your audience. - A strong focus on achieving positive outcomes for both end-users and clients. - A collaborative and team-oriented approach to work. - Commercial experience or the understanding of commercial impacts to project work - Effective time management skills and the ability to prioritise The perks of being at Answer - We’re an Employee-Owned Company. After 12 months – through the Employee Ownership Trust you will be part of the ownership of Answer; a major factor in driving engagement, retention and growth for our people. - Competitive salary, starting at £27,500 and increasing to £30,000 after the Academy. - Flexible annual leave (buy/sell and carry forward). - Twice a year income-tax free bonus if company-wide performance targets are met - we’re all in this together - Continuous training and development - if you want to learn, we’ll provide all the support you need. - Flexible Pension - we match your own contributions up to 5% - A flexible Healthcare cash plan so you can fund the care you value most. - A packed social calendar including; end of year party and Summer away days, monthly and quarterly company team socials. - Free parking at Head Offices in central Leeds, plus Cycle2Work & Green Car Lease schemes to help get you here. - The chance to give back – get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from different backgrounds into tech, as well as lots of charity and community events. - Hybrid and flexible working – you can vary your working when and where you work, to allow you to collaborate better, feed your creativity, and take the time and space to focus when you need to. Diversity and Inclusion At Answer we proudly embrace diversity and inclusion - we want to create a safe environment for everyone to bring their true selves to work. We will do everything we can to support your application. If you require any adjustments to be made to your application (whether that’s support with our interview questions, adjusting how we interview, or financial support with our hiring process) then please speak to Jonny Hiles, TA Lead (jonny.hiles@answerdigital.com) Our Interview Process - We pride ourselves on having a fair but flexible recruitment process, we want to create a platform where you can show us your best. For us, keeping it simple means you can focus on understanding if our people, values and the work we do are right for you. Our typical process can be broken down into 3 stages; - Application Process: Depending on the volume of applications, our process may involve a couple of assessments. We focus on your inherent ability rather than your CV. That's why the application includes an analytical thinking and problem solving exercise. We want to assess your capacity for analytic thinking and problem-solving—skills that are crucial for a successful career with us. - Recruiter call: This will be with a member of the recruitment team, and normally lasts 15-30 minutes. We will talk to you about Answer Digital, the type of work we do, and an overview of the role. We’ll ask you some questions about your current situation and why you’re interested in working here. Here, we'd advise asking any questions about our people, such as our culture, career progression, or approach to flexible working. - Skills based interview: This interview will be with 2 people, normally from the team you’re applying to work with and roughly lasts an hour. This interview will involve questions around your experience, the skills you’ve gained and the work you’ve done. We’ll also ask questions about the role and challenges you might face and how you’d face them. Here, we’d recommend asking questions about the role, the day to day responsibilities and what life in the team is like. - Cultural/Value interview: The final interview stage is an hour-long discussion with two members of our Leadership team (either Directors or Capability Leads). This interview is a two-way conversation, as much about you assessing if Answer is the right fit for you as it is about us assessing your fit with Answer. The focus will be on our culture and values. We'll discuss what our values mean to us, and we want to understand what values are important to you and how you like to work. We strongly encourage you to ask any questions you have about Answer as a business, including our business model and our ambitious growth plans.