We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Automation Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong foundation in engineering principles and demonstrate proficiency in various technical tools and methodologies. This role is vital to developing systems and people to improve site automation performance.

The shift pattern is currently under review but as we are a 24/7 operation it is likely there will be a requirement for weekend and night shift working.

Responsibilities

Reactive support for site automation issues within a clear escalation

Ownership of minor (site managed) automation Capex projects through the full project lifecycle

Support project delivery of other site projects with automation elements

Maintain and monitor use of automation and electrical system software and documentation version control systems

Liaise with the Automation lead providing a site perspective to the ongoing development of the automation and electrical standards

Ensure compliance with electrical and automation standards of site delivered projects and general improvement works

Evaluate performance data to feed into automation Operational Excellence activity to deliver improvements in e iciency and operability within production

Utilise specialist skills and systems access to validate and analyse site data, for example to support quality improvement activities

Personal Qualities

Ability to work within time constraints

Shows initiative and a proactive attitude

Ability to work individually as well as within a Team

Can do attitude

Flexible approach to work and hours

Professional approach to work

Show commitment willingness to work hard to get the job done

Experience & Qualifications

Minimum 2 years experience

Automation Experience (Allen Bradley Preferred)

Plant Master

Scada

Electrical qualification

NVQ Level 3 in relevant discipline

Relevant Automation Training certificates

About us

Crediton Dairy is one of the UKs leading dairy drinks businesses producing an extensive range of branded and own label fresh flavoured and functional chilled milk drinks, iced co ee and long life milks and creams. We supply nearly all of the UKs major supermarkets as well as leading foodservice, convenience and wholesale businesses.

Benefits

Crediton Dairy offers a generous benefits package which includes:

We offer a dedicated £5,000 training and development budget per Automation Engineer to support skill enhancement and ongoing professional growth.

8 % employer pension contribution

Career Opportunities

Holiday Purchase Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Medical benefits Scheme

Subsidised Canteen

Employee Benefits Platform

Discretionary Bonus scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Free onsite parking

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65,000 - 75,000
East Anglia (multiple locations)
Hybrid - 3 days on-site (1 day Ipswich)

REED Technology are working with a client who are recruiting for a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to take ownership of an established Azure platform and replace the interim resource. This is the first permanent DevOps hire in the organisation, responsible for stabilising, governing and maturing the Azure environment while setting clear standards for delivery.

This role is suited to someone who has led or owned DevOps / platform capability in Azure, can work independently, and enjoys creating structure, guardrails and repeatable ways of working.

Accountabilities;
Azure platform ownership & governance
Full ownership of Azure subscriptions, landing zones and platform hygiene
Defining and enforcing governance standards (Azure Policy, RBAC, naming, tagging)
Improving platform resilience, cost governance and disaster recovery

Infrastructure as Code
Establishing Terraform as the single source of truth for infrastructure
Designing reusable modules and environment patterns
Reducing configuration drift across dev / test / production

CI/CD & delivery standards
Ownership of CI/CD standards using Azure DevOps
Defining pipeline templates, PR/branch policies, approvals and gated releases
Creating “golden path” delivery patterns so teams can deploy without bespoke pipelines

Operational readiness & observability
Defining monitoring, logging, alerting and dashboards
Improving incident response, runbooks and recovery processes
Shaping DR and operational processes (no on-call at present)

Ways of working & coaching
Coaching development teams in DevOps best practice
Standardising ways of working across squads
Building internal capability and reducing reliance on individuals

Key skills and experience;
Strong, hands-on experience designing and operating Azure platforms
Proven Terraform experience (modules, patterns, safe change)
Strong Azure DevOps CI/CD engineering experience
Experience implementing governance, security guardrails and delivery controls
Comfortable operating without an existing DevOps team

Desirable
Azure Policy at scale
Observability, SRE or platform engineering practices
Container / AKS experience
Cost governance and showback/chargeback experience

Why this role?
Opportunity to own and shape DevOps from the ground up
High-impact role with clear responsibility and autonomy
Initial 3-6 months focused on stabilisation, governance and standardisation
Exciting transformation phase within IT

If you have the relevant experience for this role and happy to be 2 days on site/week in either Ipswich, Norwich, Chelmsford or Cambridge and 1 day in Ipswich, please apply using the link provided.

This role requires candidates to already hold full right to work in the UK. The client are not able to provide sponsorship now or in the future.

Location: Gloucester (Hybrid / On-site) Salary: Up to £72,000 (Dependent on Experience) Security Clearance: Must be eligible a sole British Citizen. Role Overview As a DevOps Engineer within the Digital Intelligence division, you will be the vital link between development, testing, and operations. You will support national security missions by automating the delivery of high-assurance software. Your work ensures that code moves swiftly from developer environments to secure, hardened production platforms with maximum reliability and minimal manual intervention. Key Responsibilities CI/CD Pipeline Management: Design, build, and maintain automated build and release pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) to streamline software delivery. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Use tools like Terraform or Ansible to manage cloud and on-premise infrastructure in a repeatable, version-controlled manner. Container Orchestration: Deploy and manage scalable workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, or self-hosted clusters). Cloud & Platform Management: Configure and secure environments across Public (AWS/Azure) and Private cloud platforms. System Integration: Collaborate with software engineers to resolve complex issues across infrastructure, networking, and databases. Security & Hardening: Implement DevSecOps best practices, including server hardening and automated security benchmarking (e.g., CIS). Professional Experience Proven experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure role within a complex, high-security or regulated environment. Experience working within Agile delivery teams (Scrum or Kanban). Strong understanding of monitoring and logging stacks (e.g., ELK, Prometheus, Grafana). Deep familiarity with version control systems, specifically Git. A “Security-First” mindset regarding all aspects of automation and deployment. Benefits & Culture Flexible Working: Hybrid working model with a focus on work-life balance. Career Progression: Defined pathways into Senior DevOps or Lead Architect roles. Professional Development: Access to dedicated training budgets and internal mentorship. Pension & Healthcare: Industry-leading pension scheme and private medical insurance. Security & Eligibility Nationality: Due to the nature of the work within Digital Intelligence, candidates must typically be British Citizens (often without dual nationality) to meet vetting requirements. Clearance: Successful candidates will be required to undergo a rigorous UK government background investigation (SC or DV level).

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Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote, UK

Salary: Circa £47,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week to cover core business hours (9-5, Mon-Fri)

Working for Affinity:

We understand the importance of flexibility, wellness, performance and satisfaction - it is part of our culture

We offer opportunities to take unpaid leave and will give you one extra day’s holiday for every year you’ve worked with us, for up to 8 years

We know working from home introduces opportunities for you to do more domestic chores during the day, e.g. picking up the children from school, taking pets to the vet, etc. We don’t mind this at all, as long as we are aware of what you are doing and the work gets done!

About the Role:

We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology and who is always looking for opportunities to improve the services we provide for clients, in areas such as efficiency, cost effectiveness, security and reliability.

You’ll be pivotal in knowledge sharing internally within the business, assisting others in their assigned projects and, where necessary, supporting more junior members of Affinity to help them learn and improve.

The right DevOps engineer will have the opportunity to help grow and shape this emerging function within the team, creating a long-term career path for themselves within Affinity, with an opportunity to progress upwards.

What will your typical day look like?

You will be working on projects, such as the Cabinet Office WordPress support contract, to keep our clients’ systems up-to-date, available, resilient, secure, performing well and cost effective.

Working to improve the efficiency of our infrastructure related processes

At times you’ll need to work together with clients’ own internal teams and with any external infrastructure teams that Affinity may partner with.

Putting together infrastructure design documents at the start of projects, with a view to getting these signed off by the client and then acting as the basis for infrastructure build.

Building infrastructure on new projects through the use of Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, etc. This will also include continuous integration processes, server provisioning, etc.

Imparting knowledge and experience to other Affinity team members, both verbally and also captured in tools such as Jira Confluence, where we would like to build up a repository of DevOps how-tos, best practices, etc.

Opportunity to work as a team lead where other Affinity team members are involved in DevOps.

Providing AWS and Azure thought leadership and mentoring in both advisory and delivery contexts.

Supporting out-of-hours rotas to provide support coverage for contracts in place with Affinity.

About you:

General requirements:

Willingness to provide on-call rota coverage of emergency support (24/7/365)

Ability to work flexible hours from time to time, for specific projects or tasks

UK based and resident in UK for last 3 years (given some client-driven security clearance requirements)

The role is fully remote, though visits to clients and to our office in Cornwall will occasionally be required

Technical must-haves:

Commercial experience of AWS, including services such as Amazon VPC, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS/EKS, Amazon EFS, AWS IAM, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, AWS Cost Explorer, etc.

Commercial experience of Azure, including services such as Azure Networking, Azure Cache (Redis and Memcached), App Services (running WordPress and .NET applications), Front Doors (CDN), API Services, storage services (blob storage, file storage, etc.), Azure Database services, Azure Cost Management, etc.

Terraform and/or CloudFormation scripting

Linux, Apache/Nginx

Continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) experience including GitHub Actions

Familiarity with the AWS/Azure Well-Architected Framework and NCSC Cloud Security Principles

Security experience, including the resolution of issues found during penetration testing

Docker experience

Technical nice-to-haves:

System/server admin experience

Drupal, WordPress or Magento experience

PHP and Composer

Microsoft technologies, including .NET, Windows Server, IIS, Active Directory, MSSQL, etc.

AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, DevOps Engineer - Professional, speciality certifications, e.g., Database, Security, etc.)

Microsoft certifications, including Azure Fundamentals, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Security Engineer Associate, etc.

Load testing experience, including jMeter, Gatling, K6, etc.

Other HashiCorp tools, e.g., Packer, Vault, Vagrant, Consul, etc.

Provisioning tools, e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc.

AWS Control Tower and/or Landing Zone

Experience with Google Cloud Platform

Experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates

Please click the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role.

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Software Developer, Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, AWS, Infrastructure Engineer, AWS Systems Developer, Azure Software Development may also be considered for this role.

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Principal Engineer Databases Contract- 6 months with possible extension Location- Sheffield, UK (hybrid Role Overview: We are seeking an experienced Principal Engineer with deep expertise in database technologies and strong engineering skills to help accelerate the delivery of DBaaS in 2026. As a Principal Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping our technology direction and delivering solutions. This is a hands-on leadership position, working closely with cross-functional teams to design and implement new products and services that meet business needs. Key Responsibilities: Co-lead the design and architecture of on-premises DBaaS solutions for Postgres, MongoDB, and SQL Server, and work with teams to implement these solutions. Develop and maintain the long-term strategy for database infrastructure, ensuring alignment with CLIENT's IT and business objectives. Serve as a subject matter expert and advisor on database technologies, providing guidance to senior leadership and IT teams. Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders to define technical requirements and specifications. Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in engineering practices and recommend relevant solutions. Support the Platform Lead in identifying and addressing engineering challenges. Facilitate the development of cross-functional capabilities to address common technical gaps. Act as a key decision-maker for technical and risk-related engineering matters. Identify opportunities to improve and automate processes. Experience and Qualifications: Strong technical proficiency in database technologies (relational, NoSQL, distributed SQL) deployed on IaaS or as part of DBaaS, with an understanding of consumer use cases and infrastructure capabilities. Proven experience leading large, enterprise-level engineering projects and delivering quality solutions. Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field. 10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a senior or principal engineering role. Expertise in infrastructure components, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Hands-on experience with microservices, software development, infrastructure automation, API development, and application systems design. Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code scanning, and Infrastructure as Code. Knowledge of industry-standard testing practices and tools. Demonstrated technical leadership, team-building, and influencing skills. Experience working in a global, matrixed organization. Familiarity with regulatory requirements and best practices in the financial industry. Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience evaluating multiple technology solutions to determine the best fit for specific use cases.

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Site Services Engineer

Location: Anwick
Employment Type: Permanent

Key Responsibilities

• Participate constructively as a member of the department keeping everyone informed and proactively share your knowledge and expertise within the time.
• Apply lean thinking techniques to ensure the productive capability of the plant is optimised and improved thus demonstrating commitment towards achieving factory targets, including prompt start up times.
• Work with site personnel and commissioning engineers to ensure required process skills training is performed for all new equipment.
• Contribute to that department/ add value by developing requisite skills in this area in line with MP competency framework.
• Operation and maintenance of steam boilers, refrigeration systems, fluid transfer systems, heating systems, hot and cold-water systems and effluent treatment systems.
• Working with Mechanical Drive Systems, Hydraulics, Pneumatics and electrics.
• Preventative Maintenance
• Pipefitting
• Any other reasonable duties as required.
• Portable appliance testing.
• Emergency Light Testing.
• To Maintain general good repair of site fabrication and general services.
• To monitor and control any negative environmental impact arising from the processes within area of responsibility; ensuring that all direct reports and colleagues are briefed and clear in regard to their responsibilities as outlined in the Moy Park Group Risk Management System Manual.

Skills and Knowledge

• Attention to detail
• Apprentice trained to NVQ level 3 minimum.
• The ability to plan and organise workload methodically to best effect
• Full Driving Licence
• Able to work on own initiative.
• Confidence to recommend machine improvements.
• Be achievement and career focussed
• Have the ability to work in a pressurised environment.
• Strong communication, influencing, planning and organising skills

The company

Pilgrim’s Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.

Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.

Across Pilgrim’s Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim’s Europe team are based in our Pilgrim’s UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim’s Food Masters and Pilgrim’s Shared Services businesses.

What we’ll bring to the table

Competitive Salary

Competitive Holiday Entitlement

Pension Contribution

Family Friendly Policies

Learning and Development Opportunities

Life Assurance

People matter

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Determination

Simplicity

Availability

Humility

Discipline

Sincerity

Ownership

Are you an experienced engineer looking to work on projects within the rapidly expanding renewable energy sector?

We are recruiting on behalf of a growing specialist business delivering bespoke security infrastructure for solar farms across the UK. As part of their continued growth they are looking for an experienced engineer with electrical installation knowledge to join their team installing and commissioning systems.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll take ownership of site installations and work closely with project managers and construction teams.

This role is Field-Based Across the UK with national travel and staying away (all paid for)

Salary: £34,000 - £40,000 (Depending on experience) + Vehicle + Bonus + Allowances

Key responsibilities

Reporting to the Project Manager, you will:

• Install and commission security infrastructure on solar farm projects
• Carry out groundworks, small excavations, and pole installations
• Install electrical cabinets and infrastructure equipment
• Perform electrical wiring, splicing and Cat6/Cat7 cabling
• Install and configure CCTV systems, optical and infrared cameras
• Install access control systems and security equipment
• Conduct testing, commissioning and system walk-throughs
• Perform fault finding and troubleshooting on site
• Work closely with engineers and project teams to deliver projects safely and efficiently

Skills & experience required

We are keen to speak with engineers who have experience working in site-based or field engineering roles, particularly within:

• Electrical installation
• CCTV or security systems
• Telecoms / structured cabling
• Construction or utilities projects
• Renewable energy or infrastructure projects

Essential:

• Full UK driving licence
• Experience working on construction or engineering sites
• Ability to read electrical diagrams and technical drawings
• Comfortable travelling across the UK and working outdoors

Desirable:

• CSCS or ECS card
• NVQ Level 3 Electrical qualification
• ECS Gold Card
• Experience with access control or CCTV systems

What’s in it for you

• Company vehicle + fuel card
• Accommodation and daily allowances when working away
• Company bonus
• Pension scheme
• Westfield healthcare cashback scheme
• 23 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off
• Supportive, family-run business with a strong team culture

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing company working on solar infrastructure projects across the UK.

Impact Recruitment are working on behalf of a client as an Employment Agency.

IT Infrastructure Engineer - Hybrid Cloud Location: Abingdon (Hybrid: 3 days on-site, 2 remote) Start: ASAP IR35: Outside Clearance: SC Our client is looking for an IT Infrastructure Engineer to join their Computing Division. You will deliver secure, resilient and high-performing hybrid cloud solutions while working with architects, engineers and project teams. Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain IT infrastructure including Windows Server, Hyper-V, Active Directory and networking.
• Develop hybrid solutions integrating on-premises systems with Microsoft Azure.
• Use infrastructure-as-code tools such as PowerShell and Terraform and automation tools such as Ansible.
• Monitor and optimise system performance, availability and resilience and manage backups and disaster recovery.
• Implement security controls and ensure compliance with standards such as NIST, ISO 27001 and CAF.
• Produce documentation, runbooks and training materials and provide guidance to junior team members.
• Work closely with stakeholders to deliver reliable and innovative IT services.

Requirements:

• Experience in IT infrastructure engineering, hybrid cloud and Azure environments.
• Hands-on expertise with virtualisation, networking and Windows Server administration.
• Strong knowledge of security, compliance and operational best practice.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation frameworks.
• SC clearance and ability to work on-site in Abingdon.

Apply with an up to date version of your CV for immediate consideration.

Senior Server & Desktop Engineer5 Days Onsite / Morden / £400 to £450 PD Inside IR 35 Our client, an enterprise corporation located in Morden, London is looking for a hands-on Senior Server & Desktop Engineer to join a growing IT team, playing a key role in maintaining, securing and evolving a complex Microsoft estate on a 3 / 6 month rolling contract. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working across both server and end-user environments, solving complex problems and driving continuous improvement through automation and best practice.The RoleYou will be responsible for the design, administration and optimisation of core Microsoft infrastructure services. Working closely with internal teams and stakeholders, you’ll ensure systems are secure, resilient and high performing.Key responsibilities include:

• Designing, administering and securing Active Directory environments (GPO, security hardening, troubleshooting)
• Managing Windows Server environments (builds, patching, upgrades and migrations)
• Supporting and engineering desktop environments (Windows 10/11, device management, imaging)
• Managing Group Policy, DNS and DHCP services
• Supporting hybrid identity environments using Azure AD / Entra ID
• Developing and maintaining PowerShell scripts to automate processes and improve efficiency
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex 2nd and 3rd line infrastructure issues
• Contributing to infrastructure improvement projects and migrations

About You

• Industry experience within the public sector, council or local government is a must have
• Strong hands-on experience with Active Directory in complex environments is a must have
• Proven background supporting Windows Server estates is a must have
• Solid understanding of hybrid identity models (on-prem + Azure) is a must have
• Experience with desktop engineering and device lifecycle management
• Strong PowerShell scripting and automation skills
• Confident working at 3rd line level, resolving high-impact technical issues
• Proactive, detail-oriented and comfortable working both independently and within a team

The work you will be doing

The Lead Dev Ops Engineer is accountable for the Azure platform, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and the delivery system (CI/CD standards, templates and controls) that enables Birketts squads to deliver to Azure quickly, safely and consistently.

You will establish and maintain the “one right way” of working for Azure environments: guardrails, governance, repeatability and operational readiness. You will work closely with Product development leadership, security and infrastructure stakeholders to ensure standards are adopted through tooling (Azure Policy and Azure DevOps), not documentation alone.

Platform ownership, governance and control

• Own subscription and landing zone hygiene, including remediation of legacy resources outside the agreed model
• Define and enforce platform governance standards: naming conventions, tagging schema, Azure Policy baseline and controlled exception handling
• Define and maintain identity and access patterns (RBAC and, where applicable, PIM) and platform security guardrails in collaboration with security and relevant stakeholders
• Improve platform cost governance by ensuring ownership and tagging discipline supports accurate reporting and accountability

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards and integrity

• Establish and maintain Terraform as the authoritative mechanism for platform and environment provisioning and change control
• Design and maintain reusable IaC modules/patterns; implement safe change practices (review, validation, controlled applies)
• Reduce drift and improve environment repeatability across dev/QA/prod

Delivery system (CI/CD) ownership and standardisation

• Define and evolve delivery system standards in partnership with the Product Development Team Leader, and enforce them through Azure DevOps templates, policies and required checks
• Own and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD standards, pipeline templates, approvals/gates, and environment promotion model
• Provide “golden path” templates and patterns for application-level and data-level delivery (including Azure resources) so squads can deliver without bespoke pipeline design per product
• Embed automated quality controls and security scanning into pipelines (e.g., SAST/SCA) and define secure secret-handling patterns aligned to Birketts expectations
• Implement and enforce PR/branch policies and release controls to reduce variability and operational risk

Platform observability and operational readiness

• Provide and evolve platform observability foundations: monitoring, logging, metrics, dashboards and alerting (using the agreed toolset)
• Define and improve incident response and operational readiness expectations (runbooks, escalation paths, recovery/rollback patterns, environment health checks)
• Establish and maintain DR and operational processes for the platform and environments, with clear escalation to development squads where required

Ways of working, coaching and continuous improvement

• Maintain a visible platform backlog and roadmap (stabilisation, governance, standardisation, developer experience)
• Coach squads in using the delivery system effectively (templates, PR discipline, gated releases, environment promotion)
• Support capability building for internal engineers (including infrastructure engineers where willing) using pairing and staged responsibility (“gated autonomy”)
• Create and maintain platform documentation: handbook, onboarding guides, decision records and runbooks to reduce key-person dependency
• Assess DevOps capacity and resilience needs over time and provide recommendations for scaling the function as workload/support requirements mature

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

What we are looking for

• A candidate who has owned or led DevOps / platform engineering capability in Azure and can balance delivery speed with governance and risk control
• Enjoys creating standards and guardrails that enable teams rather than slow them down
• Can operate effectively in an environment with mixed maturity, coaching teams while maintaining safe operational practices

Essential Knowledge & Experience

• Proven, hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating Azure infrastructure (subscriptions, governance, identity/access, and core platform services)
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience, ideally Terraform (module/pattern design, environment patterns, safe change practices)
• Strong CI/CD engineering experience, ideally Azure DevOps (templating, approvals/gates, environment promotion strategies, required checks)
• Working understanding of security practices in cloud delivery (least privilege/IAM, secrets handling, secure pipeline patterns)
• Practical understanding of observability and operational readiness (logs/metrics/tracing concepts; dashboards/alerts; runbooks)
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain standards/guardrails in business-impact terms

Hybrid Working

Birketts is a flexible business which has embraced a hybrid working model where our colleagues enjoy a mix of home and office working. This role attracts a split of 60% office days and 40% working from home days per week.

Benefits

As a Birkett colleague, you will be eligible to receive a wide range of benefits:

• 25 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays
• Long Service holiday award - 1 extra week every 10 years continuous service
• Private Healthcare with BUPA (offered after probation is passed)
• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme (5% employer / 5% Employee)
• Staff Profit Share and Individual Performance Bonus Scheme
• Salary sacrifice (Pensions, Staff Profit Share)
• Life Assurance - 4 x salary / Permanent Health Insurance
• Paid CSR Day
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Subsidised gym membership
• Electric car scheme
• Dress for your Day Policy

Location: Manchester

Contract: Permanent

Work Setup: Hybrid - 3 days a week

Who We Are

Vanguard is one of the world’s leading investment management companies, committed to helping investors achieve long-term financial success. Known for its low-cost, client-first approach, Vanguard offers a broad range of investment solutions including funds, ETFs, and retirement services to individuals and institutions worldwide.

What you’ll do

• Design and implement Real Time and batch data pipelines to support fraud detection and operational decision-making.
• Develop event-driven solutions using Kafka, Flink, and data transformation frameworks such as PySpark or Pandas.
• Write maintainable, high-quality Python or Java code with strong SQL capabilities.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure with AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Contribute to solution design, automated testing, code reviews, and operational support across environments.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and agile teams to deliver client-focused solutions and drive continuous improvement.

What you bring

• 5+ experience as a senior data engineer or lead role
• Strong experience with AWS, SQL, Python, and PySpark, including building cloud infrastructure using IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Hands-on experience with streaming frameworks such as Kafka and Flink.
• Familiarity with data quality frameworks (eg, Great Expectations) and graph databases is a plus.
• Agile development experience (Scrum preferred), with strong code review skills and understanding of high-quality coding standards.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What’s Next?

If you are ready to take the next step, apply now. Successful applicants will be contacted directly by a recruiter to discuss the role more.

We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require support or adjustments to the recruitment process, our Adjustment Concierge Service is here to help. Please feel free to contact us at (see below) to discuss how we can support you.

This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organizations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.

Location: London (Hybrid)
Type: Permanent

We are working with a leading sports broadcast organisation that is building a brand-new IP-based production and broadcast facility in London. They are looking for a Network Specialist to join a small founding engineering team responsible for designing and operating the network infrastructure supporting live production workflows.

This is a unique opportunity to help build a modern broadcast network from the ground up, supporting high-bandwidth, low-latency media transport used in live sports broadcasting.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and support high-performance IP media networks for live broadcast environments
• Work with SMPTE 2110 media transport supporting video, audio, and metadata streams
• Design and troubleshoot PTP (IEEE 1588) timing infrastructure
• Build and operate Arista-based spine-leaf fabrics using EVPN/VXLAN
• Configure and optimise multicast networking (PIM/IGMP)
• Implement QoS policies to support latency-sensitive media traffic
• Troubleshoot complex issues within a mission-critical, high-availability environment

Required Experience

• Strong experience with data centre or high-performance networks
• Hands-on experience with Arista switching platforms
• Deep understanding of multicast networking
• Experience designing resilient, low-latency network infrastructure
• Understanding of PTP timing architectures
• Experience working in environments where network uptime is critical
• Experience in broadcast, media, or live production environments is highly desirable.

Location: London (Hybrid)

Provide exemplary IT technical support to our internal colleagues whilst demonstrating excellent customer service.

While the service offer is consistent across all our geographies, presence and accessibility are key. Understanding the challenges and opportunities that our colleagues experience will allow us to bespoke our approach to delivering technical support.

Whilst not limited to this, the type of technical activities to be undertaken could be anything from assisting with the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, security, integrity and optimisation of IT hardware, software, and communication systems within agreed service levels.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Encompass line manager responsibilities for a group of 2nd line support analysts based in the South region. The role holder will therefore be expected to manage, inspire and develop a group of individuals to successfully deliver high quality regional 1st line support services, ensuring quality customer experience is maintained.
• Key to the delivery of support is the troubleshooting and resolution of 1st line technical issues, hardware and application support queries and requests. Only escalating to senior members of the Service Desk and third parties when a thorough triage and recreation of the issue has been undertaken. This role acts as a gatekeeper to ensure only necessary escalations occur and encouraging an “always learning” approach to minimise unnecessary delays to ticket resolution.
• A proactive, not only reactive service that seeks to minimise the impact of technical issues by stopping them before they occur.
• Independently curious, evolving skills to respond to the ever-changing challenges associated with a rapidly changing IT offer. This means taking responsibility to understand the technology offer, how to support and ensuring the colleague experience is seamless.
• Thorough understanding of the elements of technology delivered across the organisation. Including (but not limited to) the preparation of endpoints, their life cycle support and subsequent decommissioning (agnostic of technology type).
• Incumbents of this role will be required to travel within the local geography to support specific issues and field-based colleagues.
• Critically the role holder will have empathy and patience, considering the user experience in every interaction.
• Carry out additional duties commensurate to the role.
• Substantive experience in a 1st and 2nd Line support.
• Proactive approach to minimising failure demand in service, learning from tickets and demonstrably reducing repeat issues.

Technical Skill Set

• Effective troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve hardware and software issues or recreating to enable appropriate escalation.
• Experience of Operating Systems, basic networking, software installation and configuration, remote support skills and IT administrative tasks.
• Proactive nature and the ability to act upon initiative and effectively manage the workload with the ability to prioritise and work under pressure and to tight deadlines with a keen eye for detail.
• Highly effective interpersonal skills: flexible and committed, enthusiastic, takes ownership, promotes sharing of ideas and supports team members with their duties as required.
• Possess initiative, excellent organisational and communication skills with the ability to work independently. Self-motivated and enthusiastic with a solution focused, positive ‘can do, will do’ attitude, putting the customer at the heart of every interaction.
• Always curious with a willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and processes.
• Azure
• Windows/O365/Entra/Active Directory
• VMWare
• Networking Principles

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in the growth, industrialization, and DevOps of the Airops Fast Data platform.* Develop event-driven data interfaces between Airops products, the data platform, and third-party applications or middleware, within an MS Azure environment.* Work within a DevOps team and participate in the maintenance of the Azure platform.* Utilize tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, and Helm charts for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes.* Work with Kubernetes and OpenShift for container orchestration and management.* Develop and maintain event streaming solutions using Kafka and Azure Event Hub.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Java Development: Previous experience as a Java developer, with expertise in Java Quarkus or Java Spring Boot (Java version 21).* Cloud Native: Experience developing in a cloud environment (MS Azure or AWS).* Event Streaming: Experience with event streaming infrastructure (e.g., Kafka, Azure Event Hub).* DevOps: Experience with DevOps infrastructure and components, including Jenkins, ArgoCD, and Helm charts.* Containerization: Proficiency in containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and OpenShift.* Software Maintenance: Experience in software maintenance, including incident resolution, root cause analysis, and post-mortem analysis.* Agile Methodologies: Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, SAFe).

We’re looking for a proactive, customer-focused Second Line IT Support Analyst to help keep core systems running smoothly across the organisation. You’ll be the main escalation point for First Line Support, resolving complex issues and ensuring a secure, reliable IT environment that enables teams to deliver their best work.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the escalation point for First Line Support
• Diagnose and resolve hardware, software, and network issues
• Manage user accounts, permissions, and security settings
• Support maintenance, upgrades, patching, and monitoring
• Maintain IT documentation and knowledge-base content
• Liaise with third-party suppliers as needed
• Identify recurring issues and recommend long-term fixes

What You’ll Bring

• Experience in Second Line Support or a similar role
• Ideally experience within a professional services environment
• Strong Microsoft Azure & Microsoft 365 administration skills
• Familiarity with service desk/ticketing systems
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication abilities
• Highly organised, proactive, and comfortable juggling multiple priorities

Excellent opportunity to work in a technical and highly professional It Support candidate looking to build their career.

You MUST be based in a commutable distance from Eastleigh, possess excellent communication skills and be presentable to peers and stakeholders. This is onsite

Job title: Event Management Engineer

Location: Corsham
Duration: 6 months
Rate: £430 per day inside ir35

SC security clearance is required for this role

The Role

Supporting a key programme within the UK defence environment, we’re looking for a Monitoring/Event Management Engineer with strong Splunk and enterprise tooling experience to join the Hosting & Tooling team onsite at MOD Corsham.

You’ll play a key role in monitoring platform management, event correlation, and operational tooling, working closely with engineers, analysts, and client teams to maintain and improve monitoring capabilities across critical services.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing and optimising Splunk and enterprise monitoring tools
  . Creating and maintaining event management policies and monitoring rules
  . Developing Splunk queries (SPL), dashboards, and alerting logic
  . Supporting tooling platforms such as BMC TrueSight, BMC Discovery, and Netcool
  . Deploying and managing monitoring agents
  . Producing technical documentation and architecture diagrams
  . Supporting both operational (RUN) activities and project delivery
  . Working directly with client teams to support monitoring requirements
  . Building automation scripts and integrations (Python/PowerShell/APIs)

Required Experience:

• Strong Splunk experience (SPL, dashboards, rules)
  . Experience with enterprise monitoring platforms (BMC, Netcool, SolarWinds, Zabbix, Nagios etc.)
  . Knowledge of event management and observability tooling
  . Experience working across Windows, Linux, or AIX environments
  . Scripting with Python or PowerShell
  . Understanding of networking concepts and SNMP
  . Experience building automation and integrations via REST APIs

If you are interested in this role, please feel free to submit your CV.

Head of SRE (DevOps-Led Cloud Transformation)

St Albans (Hybrid)

Up to £92,500 + Bonus + Shares

Method Resourcing have partnered with a rapidly scaling, PE-backed international technology business operating in highly critical, high-availability sectors.

Following significant growth and multiple acquisitions, the business is entering a major modernisation phase - including the migration of four data centres into Microsoft Azure and the evolution of its DevOps and reliability operating model.

This is a newly created Head of SRE role with a strong DevOps focus.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Engineering Director, you will lead a team of 6 (3 DevOps, 3 QA) and take ownership of platform reliability, cloud infrastructure strategy, and automation maturity across the organisation.

Key areas of focus include:

• Leading large-scale migration from on-premise data centres to Azure
• Elevating Infrastructure-as-Code standards and governance
• Strengthening CI/CD pipelines and reducing manual deployment overhead
• Ensuring platforms are scalable, resilient, and ready for mass usage
• Embedding observability and proactive reliability practices
• Integrating QA effectively into the DevOps life cycle
• This is a hands-on leadership role requiring both strategic direction and technical depth.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong Azure cloud engineering background
• Experience leading DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering functions
• Proven track record in infrastructure modernisation and automation
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (eg Terraform, Bicep, ARM)
• Experience supporting high-availability production systems
• Ability to manage and develop engineering teams
• Appreciation of modern QA automation and non-functional testing practices

You do not need to be a career QA specialist - but you should understand how quality, automation, and reliability intersect within modern engineering environments.

Why Consider This Role?

• Newly created leadership position with real ownership
• Major cloud transformation programme underway
• Opportunity to define reliability and DevOps standards at group level
• PE-backed business with international footprint and strong growth trajectory
• Direct influence at Engineering Leadership level

(Please note the employer is unable to offer sponsorship for this position)

RSG Plc is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Application Packager to work a 9-month contract for our client in 100% on-site in London. As a member of the Desktop Service Technical Specialist Team, you will be responsible for supporting the various systems within the remit of the Enterprise Desktop Service. Including completing monthly routine tasks such as Patch and image cycles and routine releases such as Group Policy changes. Providing 3rd line technical support and troubleshooting of incidents and issues escalated to the Desktop Service for resolution. Assisting Project driven or Service Improvement activates, such as complete small systems designs, image designs, MECM and MDT implementations and other general technical activities If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now. By applying for this job and submitting your CV to Parker Shaw, you acknowledge and give permission for us to pass it to an associate company for resourcing purposes. We outsource some of our resourcing calls to a trusted third-party company and they may call you to discuss this opportunity with you. They will then report back to us with the outcome of their conversation with you, where upon we will decide whether to submit your CV to the end client. Please be assured that the third-party company do not store or control any of your data, this is all done by ourselves (Parker Shaw).

Robert Half have partnered with a growing digital/E-commerce organisation to recruit an Infrastructure Engineer on a permanent basis as part of their continued growth plans.

About the Role
My client is seeking a professional, enthusiastic, and flexible IT Infrastructure Engineer to support and maintain a complex, multi-site IT environment. This role involves managing virtual platforms, maintaining server and network infrastructure, delivering 3rd line support, and contributing to IT projects across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the smooth and efficient running of IT infrastructure
• Monitor and maintain server performance, security, backups, and disaster recovery processes
• Manage virtual environments (VMware, Hyper-V, Azure)
• Maintain and support Windows Server, Active Directory (Azure Hybrid), Group Policy, DNS, DHCP
• Support Microsoft 365 services (Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Defender, Intune)
• Maintain SQL Server, IIS, SAN technologies, and backup systems
• Implement infrastructure changes and security best practices
• Provide 3rd line technical support across global sites
• Assist with IT projects as required

Required Skills & Experience

• Windows Server 2016+
• Virtualisation (VMware, Hyper-V, Azure)
• Networking & security (TCP/IP, VLANs, Firewalls, Switches, APs)
• Microsoft 365 administration
• Backup technologies & disaster recovery
• PowerShell Scripting
• SQL Server installation & maintenance
• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills

Desirable

• Cisco, WatchGuard, FortiGate technologies
• Veeam Backup & Replication
• Server/network hardening
• XDR solutions & monitoring tools
• ISO27001 environment experience

Salary/logistics:

• £55,000-£65,000
• Hybrid working - 3 days in office, 2 days WFH

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IT Services Team LeaderInfrastructure & OperationsHybrid - Haywards Heath, West SussexGenerous Benefits + 15% Bonus Are you a proven IT leader ready to unite a skilled team of 7 (senior techs + entry-level engineers) in a dynamic data centre environment? Step up to lead software/application support, from VMs/bare metal to stakeholder-facing ops, driving DevOps evolution, breaking silos, and pushing boundaries beyond day-to-day delivery. Enjoy a competitive salary, 15% bonus, 22+ days holiday, pension, onsite gym, and hybrid working.Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and unite your team - breaking silos, building collaboration, coaching skills, setting goals, and creating an engaging environment.
• Make decisions, empower members, support the Data Centre Manager, and drive proactive improvements (e.g., tool evolution like Zabbix/Grafana).
• Oversee third-line support, system/infrastructure development, platform stability, and translate stakeholder needs into agile solutions.

Key Skills & Requirements

• 3-5 years leading technical teams + 5+ years IT (extensive Linux admin across Debian/CentOS/RHEL flavours).
• Agile/DevOps experience; tools like Ansible, Puppet, Zabbix (FAI/Slurm ideal); ITIL Foundation.
• Strong stakeholder communication, problem-solving, and a broader data centre vision to lead effectively.
• Desirable: OpenStack, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Docker, scripting, cloud/virtualisation, hardware (storage/CPU/GPU).

If you’ve held any of these roles or used these technologies/skills, this role could be a great fit: Services Team Leader, Infrastructure Lead, DevOps Manager, Linux Ops Lead, Data Centre Supervisor; Linux (Debian/RHEL), Ansible, Puppet, Zabbix, Slurm, Agile, ITIL, DevOps tools.

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is a leading independent tech recruitment consultancy in the UK. For every CV sent to clients, we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation. We are a Climate Action Workforce in partnership with Ecologi. If this role isn’t right for you, explore our referral reward program with payouts at interview and placement milestones. Visit our website for details. Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Our client is a respected IT outsourcing and managed services provider, delivering innovative IT solutions to SMEs across the South-East. They are passionate about technology, teamwork, and personal development an environment where you can truly grow your skills and advance your career.

Service Desk Engineer (1st 2nd Line) Develop Your IT Career!

Location: Horsham (Must be a driver with your own transport)
Salary: £27,000 £34,000 DOE
Hours: Monday Friday, 09 30

As a Service Desk Engineer (1st 2nd Line), you will be the friendly, knowledgeable first point of contact for clients. You ll solve technical issues, maintain systems remotely, and support project delivery alongside experienced senior engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the first line of support for all incoming client queries via phone and email.
• Log and track requests in AutoTask, ensuring clients are updated throughout the process.
• Provide remote support using RMM tools, managing alerts and performing basic troubleshooting.
• Assist in monitoring, managing, and maintaining backups and device configurations.
• Escalate complex issues to senior engineers when required, maintaining strong collaboration across the team.
• Support small installations, projects, and deployments under guidance.
• Keep workspace, documentation, and systems organised and secure.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and client satisfaction.

What Our Client is Looking For

• Commercial IT support experience at 1st 2nd Line level (ideally within an MSP environment).
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365, Windows Server, and desktop support.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, firewalls, VPNs).
• Excellent customer service and communication skills under pressure.
• Strong organisational skills and a drive to learn new technologies.
• Full UK driving licence and own vehicle (essential).

Why Join?

• Friendly, collaborative team culture.
• Exposure to a wide range of technologies.
• Ongoing training and career development opportunities.
• Competitive salary and benefits.

Apply today and join a team that invests in your professional growth and success!

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