Role Title: PostgreSQL DBA

Location: Manchester | Hybrid 3 days on site

Duration: 31/08/2026

Rate - £441

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Role Description:

Primary Skills:

Must have hands on experience as Database Administration specifically with MongoDB, PostgreSQL / Oracle.
Managing a oracle team
Working with database software to find ways to store, organise and manage data
Expert knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL data stores and working with a variety of structures including JSON and XML
Experience of software development with distributed data processing technologies including Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Experience in keeping databases up to date, troubleshooting, helping with database design & development, and managing database access.
Experience in designing maintenance procedures and putting them into operation.
Liaising with programmers, applications/operational staff, IT project managers and other technical staff
Managing database security/integrity and backup procedures, implementing security measures.Secondary Skills:

Writing reports, documentation, and operating manuals
Testing and modifying databases to ensure that they operate reliably
Writing disaster recovery plans and archiving/housekeeping data.
Knowledge of Cloud platforms, serverless architecture preferable
Good understanding of software patterns and when/how to apply them
Knowledge of Kafka will be advantageous
Experience of working in an Agile/DevOps software development environment
Have ability to help with mentoring tasks.
Have experience in working on Support activities

Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS) Location: Greater Manchester (Hybrid, with travel as required) Salary: Competitive + benefits An organisation operating at national and international scale is looking for an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS) to support and evolve a large, security-critical AWS environment as part of a major cloud transformation programme. You'll work closely with infrastructure, security, and development teams to design, build, and operate highly available, compliant, and cost-effective AWS services. Key responsibilities: Build, maintain, and optimise AWS infrastructure and services Support migrations from on-prem to AWS Implement and maintain security, monitoring, logging, and DR controls Automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code Support AWS networking, WorkSpaces, and cost management Key requirements: 5+ years' hands-on AWS engineering experience AWS Associate certification (or equivalent experience) Strong knowledge of core AWS services, networking, and security best practices Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation or Terraform) Strong Linux skills scripting experience desirable Nice to have: ISO27001 experience Containers (ECS, Kubernetes, Docker) ITIL / structured service management experience This is a great opportunity to work on a large-scale, impactful cloud platform with real-world significance. ? Apply now for a confidential discussion. InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. TPBN1\_UKTJ

A fantastic opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer / Systems Engineer to support highly available, scalable production systems within a fast-growing technology environment, working across cloud platforms, DevOps, networking and operational resilience.

If youve also worked in the following roles, wed also like to hear from you: DevOps Engineer, Operations Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Production Engineer

SALARY: up to £70,000 per annum (depending on experience) + Benefits

LOCATION: Remote and Hybrid Working Options Available. You can either work remotely of if you prefer Hybrid working from home and the office in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, North West England

JOB TYPE: Full-Time, Permanent

JOB OVERVIEW

We have a fantastic new job opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer / Systems Engineer to join a growing technology team focused on delivering reliable, scalable and resilient platforms and services.

As a Site Reliability Engineer/ Systems Engineer you will act as the vital link between operations, end users and backend development teams, ensuring system availability, performance optimisation and effective incident management across live environments.

This Site Reliability Engineer/ Systems Engineer role offers the chance to work with modern cloud technologies, containerisation, observability tools and automation practices, while influencing long-term reliability improvements across business-critical systems.

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Ready to make your next career move? Apply Now for our Recruitment Team to review.

DUTIES

Your duties as the Site Reliability Engineer / Systems Engineer include:

Incident Triage and Ownership: Acting as first-line technical escalation for live production issues through to resolution or handover

System Monitoring and Availability: Maintaining high availability, performance and scalability of production platforms and services

Observability Implementation: Managing logging, monitoring, alerting and metrics to proactively identify and resolve issues

Reliability Improvements: Collaborating with development teams to translate operational insights into long-term platform resilience

Automation and Resilience: Supporting automation, incident response and continuous improvement practices

New Service Support: Ensuring new products and features are operable, reliable and scalable from day one

Cross-Team Collaboration: Working with network engineering, operations and support teams to diagnose service issues

Documentation and Reporting: Creating and maintaining runbooks, escalation guides and incident reports

Incident Prioritisation: Balancing customer impact with long-term system health and stability

Security and Compliance: Supporting compliance with security, availability and regulatory frameworks

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

ESSENTIAL

Previous experience in a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Systems Engineer or Operations Engineer role

Experience supporting production services at scale within a DevOps or SRE environment

Strong working knowledge of ISP-related networking concepts including DNS, DHCP, PPPoE, RADIUS and IPv4/IPv6

Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or Splunk

Hands-on experience with containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes

Cloud platform experience, ideally Google Cloud Platform, including automation and scaling practices

Strong Linux administration skills with scripting capability in Bash, Python or similar

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and source control tools such as GitHub Actions

Understanding of security frameworks and operational resilience best practices

DESIRABLE

Experience within ISP, MSP or telecommunications environments

Familiarity with enterprise IT architectures including OSS and BSS systems

Knowledge of information security frameworks such as ISO27001, NIST or GDPR

Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible

BENEFITS

Smart casual dress code

Free access to gym facilities

Access to a financial wellbeing platform (on successful completion of probationary period)

Access to an employee assistance programme, Virtual GP and Elderly Care support (on successful completion of probationary period)

Access to cycle to work, childcare, and electric vehicle schemes after six months

Brand new office with excellent transport links

Supportive team culture, growth and career progression

HOW TO APPLY

To be considered for this job vacancy, please submit your CV to our Recruitment Team who will review your details. CVs of Job Applicants meeting this requirement will be submitted to our Client for consideration. By submitting your job application to us you are hereby giving us your express consent to submit your details to our Client for this purpose.

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Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade (‘DBT’) bring an exciting opportunity for Senior Platform Engineers to work on critical platforms that support how digital services are built and operated across the organisation. You will contribute to scaling a major AWS global product platform and provide development teams with the tools they need to build, deploy and operate services effectively. £63,824 - £83,778 (dependant on location) plus 29% pension contribution and other excellent Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from 7 UK locations.

About DBT

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. The Government Digital and Data (GDaD) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.

Aout role

DBT have now successfully completed the migration of DBT services from GOV.UK PaaS to a new developer platform in AWS. Now, they’re entering the next phase: evolving this platform into a full Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.

Are you ready to help shape the future of digital delivery at DBT?

We’re looking for Platform Engineers to help DBT build the most performant, secure and feature-rich hosting environment possible, one that puts developer experience front and centre. This is your chance to be part of something transformative, where your work will directly impact how digital services are built and run across government.

If you would like to find out more about the role, the Platform Engineering team and what it’s like to work at DBT, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually ‘meet the team’ on Tuesday 17th February at 12:30pm.

Follow application page for instructions to book your virtual seat.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines.

You’ll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You’ll help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on-call rota for which you will receive an additional allowance.

Specific projects the team are working on include rolling out an observability tool to enhance system monitoring and incident response, streamlining deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery, and developing a CLI tool to automate tasks and boost developer productivity.

Tech stack includes:

• Amazon Web Services
• Azure
• AWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild
• Terraform & AWS Copilot (CloudFormation)
• Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
• Python and Django framework
• PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS)
• Sentry
• Redis/Elasticache

Essential experience

• Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud
• Ability to build code-defined, reliable and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems - IaC (e.g. Terraform, AWS Copilot, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Experience and fluency in one or more programming languages to write clean and effective code (e.g. Python/Django/Java)
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking
• Ability to see user impact in the infrastructure and platform changes, including a drive to improve the Developer Experience at every turn
• Exposure to code testing / knowledge of TDD
• Experience working in an Agile environment and designing solutions to complex technical problems independently

Desirable experience

• Experience in designing and implementing Docker images through containerisation
• Experience in prototyping through reuse of existing Open-Source components

Benefits

In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits:

• An excellent Civil Service pension scheme starting at 28.97% employer contribution
• Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham & Salford including options for condensed hours. Minimum 40% office based.
• Best-in-class training and development tailored to your role with study days and certifications expensed
• Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service

Salary

Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview.

London based range: £67,575 to £83,778

National range: £63,824 to £80,158

Further information:

• Apply at your earliest convenience, no later than 12pm (noon) 23rd February.
• This role requires you to undergo SC clearance where the requirement is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
• DBT does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.

If you are an experienced Platform or a DevOps Engineer with the ability to build reliable and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems and looking to impact a function that will make a real difference to the UK economy, then apply today or contact Zymante Gintalaite (Zee) at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information.

JOB DESCRIPTION: Infrastructure Network Engineer

LOCATION: Manchester (Swinton)

SALARY: £50-60k Per annum, Hybrid working.

Our client , a UK based consulting company, has established an exciting new opportunity in a growing team for a Network engineer who can work within the infrastructure team. The successful candidate will ideally have solid previous experience in building and managing large multi-site Cisco and HP networks.

The role necessitates excellent understanding of complex network architecture, configuration, WAN and firewall technologies. Demonstratable experience of working within a busy and fast paced environment required.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Work with and be part of the Infrastructure team to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Implement, manage and support the IT Infrastructure within Restore environments at an enterprise level.
• Proactively support the business and ensure hardware and software systems are patched and up to date.
• Troubleshoots and resolve network incidents and problems.
• Daily use of the company ticketing system to respond, communicate and document incidents, problems and service requests in a timely and professional manner.
• Create, update and maintain installation, implementation, maintenance and configuration documentation as needed.
• Support the wider business by ensuring system performance, uptime, customer SLA’s and internal metrics are met.
• Abide by and comply with company compliance standards, policies, guidelines and or procedures.
• Support multiple environments; on-prem office, datacentre, virtual environments, networks, physical and or cloud solutions as required.
• Ability to manage own time and work towards target deliverable timelines.
• Setup and manage Network Access Control across all sites.
• Participate in paid out of hours support as part of the On-call rota.
• Occasional travel required between offices and datacentres.

Qualifications or Equivalent experience required

• Minimum CCNA certified with 5 years experience working with Cisco technologies.
• Pass background checks and attain necessary security clearance.
• Cisco Firepower and Cisco ASA configuration and management.
• Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switching configuration and management.
• Experience of routing, switching and load balancing techniques.
• Experience with at least one of the following: Network, Firewall or Load balancer performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Experience working within a change management framework.
• Capable with command-line rule base creation and deployment.
• Excellent organisational, prioritisation and time management skills.
• Ability to research and recommend solutions for technical issues.
• Must stay current in knowledge of IT technologies, solutions and best practices.
• Working experience with Azure cloud platforms.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Be able to communicate complex technical details to a non-technical audience.

Desirable

Cisco Certified Specialist Network Security Firepower.

Cisco Certified Network Professional.

Network design, implementation experience.

Experience with HP Aruba switches.

Experience with network design, implementation and automation.

Experience with IDS/IPS rule creation and deployment.

Comprehensive knowledge of Cisco ASA, Cisco Firepower, Cisco Catalyst and Nexus IOS.

Administration of Load balancers.

Knowledge of Infrastructure and application security.

Working hours : Monday to Friday (Hybrid working) 2-3 days office in Swinton depending on project work demands.

Salary £50-60k Per annum

25 days per year holiday

Job Title

Infrastructure Engineer

Location

Swinton, Manchester

Reports to (direct)

Head of Infrastructure

Salary

£45-50k p.a., pension, 24 days holidays

Our client, a UK based consulting company, has established an exciting new opportunity for an Infrastructure Engineer to work with the infrastructure team to implement, maintain, optimise and support multi-site Infrastructure on-prem and in the cloud.

Candidates will:

• utilise expertise with Windows Servers, Azure cloud, VMware hypervisors and SAN storage to maintain business continuity.

• take part in incident escalations to recover or prevent business disruptions.

• Proactively assist in capacity, disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

Roles and Responsibilities

Work with and be part of the infrastructure team to ensure business objectives are achieved.

Implement, manage and support the internal IT Infrastructure at an enterprise level.

Proactively support the business and ensure hardware and software systems are patched and up to date.

Daily use of the company ticketing system to respond, communicate and document incidents, problems and service requests in a timely and professional manner.

Create, update and maintain installation, implementation, maintenance and configuration documentation as needed.

Support the wider business by ensuring system performance, uptime, customer SLA’s and internal metrics are met.

Abide by and comply with company compliance standards, policies, guidelines and or procedures.

Support multiple environments; on-prem office, datacentre, virtual environments, networks, physical and or cloud solutions as required.

Participate in paid out of hours support as part of the On-call rota.

Occasional travel required between offices and datacentres.

Required skills, knowledge & experience

• Possess at least 5 years experience in a hands-on enterprise Infrastructure support role.
• Excellent understanding and experience managing Active Directory.
• Certified in at least one of the following:
  • MCSA Windows server
  • VCP Cloud Foundation
  • Azure Administrator Associate
• Ability to attain relevant security clearance (SC clearance).
• Working knowledge of HA, DR and N+1 enterprise architecture.
• Excellent organisational, prioritisation and time management skills.
• Must be able to work under pressure.
• Ability to research and recommend solutions for technical issues.
• Must stay current in knowledge of IT technologies, solutions and best practices.
• Working experience with Azure cloud platforms.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Be able to communicate complex technical details to a non-technical audience.

Desirable skills, knowledge & experience:

• Certified in one of the following: CCNA, MCSE, VCP Datacentre and or Azure Architect.
• Experience with SQL and clusters.
• SAN and storage management experience.
• Windows Cluster management experience.
• Administration of Load balancers.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure and application security.

We operate a highly successful groundwater business which operates within our geo-environmental team of c. 100 professionals.We operate nationally across the UK and Ireland and manage several high-profile groundwater frameworks with water utility companies and contracts including the GeoEnergy NI Geothermal Demonstrator, Northern Irish Private Water Supply Framework, Northern Ireland Water Consultancy Framework and Environment Agency National Borehole Decommissioning Project.

Due to our recent success in securing several long-term hydrogeological and groundwater resource evaluation and implementation projects such as the united Utilities £170M Ground Investigation Framework and Thames Tideway Tunnel Environmental Compliance Monitoring Contract means we have a unique opportunity for an ambitious Groundwater Site Engineer or Hydrogeologist to join us and support the management of several Key Client Accounts. The successful candidate will be joining us at an exciting time in our growth and development as a business. This is a consultant or senior position at either Consultant or Senior grade (depending on your experience) with a focus on the technical delivery, management, growth and development of our groundwater services.

The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, confident and self-motivated, with strong technical and commercial skills as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills. This position would suit those with an already successful career in groundwater consultancy, specifically in the area of groundwater resource development. Within this role will be given the opportunity to further develop your project management and leadership skills in a fast growing and dynamic consultancy environment.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone interested in providing professional advice and site supervision in respect of the feasibility, design, investigation, testing, procurement and construction / implementation of large public and private supply borewells / production wells.Our preferred candidate would have proven experience as a site engineer, supervising the survey, testing and construction of large (up to 1m in diameter and 300m depth) production wells. Testing will include but may not be limited to the supervision and coordination of down-hole geophysical and CCTV surveys, the testing of water wells up to flow rates of up to 7MLD.The groundwater focused professional will preferably have groundwater resource exploitation experience in the UK and Ireland. You will be expected to have a sound technical understanding of the UK and Northern Irish groundwater abstraction regulatory and licensing regime and be able to demonstrate experience of managing site works of a similar nature and preferably scale.

You will be based out of our Manchester office but will have the opportunity to work on hydrogeological projects across Great Britain and Ireland, as well as internationally. Other Tetra Tech office locations will be considered for experienced candidates.

You will need to have a flexible approach to time management and be willing to travel to sites where the work will be undertaken.

Skills & Experience Required:

A minimum of a good honours degree in earth sciences, geology, engineering geology or similar. The ability to communicate to senior management and customers during site works. The ability to analyse information, take actions to avoid the delay to works and to present your observations and recommendations logically and accurately both verbally or in reports.

• Experience in designing and procuring groundwater abstraction investigations, desk based analysis of pumping test data for confined and unconfined aquifer systems
• Experienced at managing production borehole / borewell surveys, testing and exploratory drilling works.
• Proficient at writing interpretative reports in support of abstraction licence applications for new individual private and public supplies as well as licences for new well fields.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft packages including Word and Excel.
• Experience of using pumping test analysis software such as Aquifer Win32, Aquitest and other.
• Excellent communication skills.
• The ability to work as part of a large multi-disciplinary team, as well as being willing to work individually.
• You will need to be a team player willing to work away from your base office, with a high level of personal responsibility and adaptable and flexible approach to different project requirements.
• Full clean driving licence

Desirable

• The candidate will preferably have significant relevant experience, or an equivalent level of expertise , in a similar role.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft packages including Word and Excel;
• Borehole design, testing, pumping test analysis and construction.

About Tetra Tech:

Tetra Tech is a leading provider of high-end consulting and engineering services for projects worldwide. We combine the resources of a global, multibillion dollar company with local, client-focused delivery in more than 400 locations around the world. We are Leading with Science to provide sustainable and resilient solutions for our clients.

Tetra Tech is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity/shared parental leave, in line with the Equalities Act 2010.

We are very happy to discuss flexible working, including the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times, or compressed hours.We can offer a range of solutions to help you to get the most out of your work / life balance.

Job Title: Electrical Test & Inspection Engineer (2391-52) Contract

Location: Manchester & North West (Dealership Portfolio)

Rate: £300 £400 per day (DOE / Payment Method)

Duration:On-Going

Start Date:ASAP

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Contract Electrical Inspector (2391-52) to deliver a comprehensive testing program across a portfolio of automotive dealerships in Manchester and the wider North West.

This is a technical, high-standard contract requiring an engineer comfortable with complex commercial environments, including 3-phase workshop machinery and EV charging infrastructure.

Contract Scope

• EICR Delivery: Conduct full periodic inspections and produce high-quality digital reports.
• Specialist Testing: Verify 3-phase circuits for vehicle lifts, compressors, and spray booths.
• EV Infrastructure: Inspect and test EVSE charging points (Initial Verification and Periodic).
• Remedial Scoping: Clearly document C1, C2, and FI observations to allow for subsequent remedial quotes.
• Safe Isolation: Manage work in live showroom environments with minimal disruption.

Essential Requirements

• Qualifications: City & Guilds 2391-52 (or 2394/95) & 18th Edition.
• Grade: JIB Gold Card (Approved Electrician status).
• Equipment: Ideally, you will have a calibrated Multi-Function Tester (MFT) and EVSE testing adapter (unless otherwise agreed).
• Compliance: Valid Professional Indemnity Insurance (£250k+) and Public Liability.
• Experience: Proven track record in commercial/industrial testing (Dealership experience highly advantageous).

Location: Manchester (Hybrid)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
Salary: Up to £80,000 + Share Options Incentive Scheme

Morson Edge have partnered with a Global Tech oragnsation in their search for a Head of Site Reliability Engineering & Infrastructure to lead their SRE and Infrastructure capability within a modern, AWS-based environment.

This role suits a senior engineering leader who enjoys staying close to the technology, while also shaping direction, standards, and long-term reliability strategy. You won’t be expected to live in the weeds every day - but you will be comfortable engaging at a technical level when it matters.

Based in Manchester, you’ll work closely with engineering, product, and security leadership to ensure our platform remains resilient, scalable, and ready for growth.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for both the day-to-day reliability of the platform and the evolution of our SRE and infrastructure practices over time.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the SRE and Infrastructure function, setting direction and priorities
• Balancing hands-on technical involvement with strategic planning and leadership
• Shaping and owning our AWS infrastructure and reliability roadmap
• Defining and embedding SRE best practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident management, and capacity planning
• Establishing and evolving SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets in partnership with engineering teams
• Acting as a senior technical voice in architecture discussions and operational decision-making
• Supporting incident response and post-incident reviews, with a focus on long-term improvement
• Developing, mentoring, and empowering a high-performing engineering team

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience in a senior SRE, Infrastructure, or Platform leadership role
• Strong, practical experience operating production systems in AWS
• Solid Linux systems and networking expertise (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, Firewalls, load balancing)
• Background designing or supporting highly available, distributed systems
• Good understanding of SRE principles and how to apply them pragmatically
• Experience with automation and infrastructure as code (eg Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Ability to operate comfortably at both a technical and strategic level

Nice to Have

• Container and orchestration experience (Kubernetes, EKS, ECS)
• Experience scaling platforms, teams, or operational maturity
• Exposure to security, compliance, or regulated environments

Why Join Them?

• Salary up to £80,000 plus a share options incentive scheme
• A leadership role with a healthy balance of strategy and technical influence
• Modern AWS and Linux-based platform
• Engineering-led culture that values reliability and thoughtful decision-making
• Manchester-based role with flexible/hybrid working

InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Location: Manchester/Lincoln

Help shape the infrastructure that powers the UK’s energy future. At Morson Praxis, we are the technical consultancy that actually delivers what it designs and our growing pipeline of power and energy projects needs strong civil engineering leadership to drive it forward.

From new-build substations to grid modernisation, renewable generation connections and major electrical infrastructure upgrades, our teams are helping transform how energy moves across the UK. We are now seeking an experienced Power Civils Lead to guide multidisciplinary teams, deliver high-quality design solutions and support the next generation of engineers.

If you are a senior civil engineer with deep experience in power networks, strong leadership capability and a passion for future-focused infrastructure, we want to hear from you.

Who we are

At Morson Praxis, we’re more than just a consultancy, we’re a team of innovators, problem-solvers and technical specialists who turn complex challenges into tangible results. As part of the wider Morson Group, we combine the agility of a dedicated engineering consultancy with the strength and stability of one of the UK’s leading technical and recruitment organisations.

Our Power Civils team are at the forefront of supporting the transition to a cleaner, more resilient electrical network. You’ll join a collaborative environment where ideas matter, curiosity is encouraged and your leadership will have real impact.

What You’ll Do

As the Power Civils Lead, you will take responsibility for civil engineering outcomes across multiple projects, ensuring quality, consistency and technical rigour. Your responsibilities include:

• Leading, managing and developing a team of civil engineers and designers working across a diverse power project portfolio
• Overseeing design packages for substations, substation extensions/upgrades, onshore renewables and wider grid infrastructure
• Ensuring robust quality assurance, technical governance and design compliance
• Undertaking technical and feasibility studies, site investigations and engineering assessments
• Supporting bids, tenders and proposal development for new opportunities
• Providing on-site engineering advice and resolving project-based civil/structural issues
• Mentoring junior engineers and promoting knowledge sharing across the team
• Coordinating effectively with internal disciplines, external consultants, suppliers and clients
• Managing project budgets, resource plans and delivery schedules
• Identifying, communicating and managing design changes and associated impacts
• Utilising a range of civil and structural design software and digital tools to deliver efficient engineering solutions

What We’re Looking For

• HND or Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering
• Ideally IEng or CEng, with membership of ICE, IStructE or similar
• Minimum 5 years’ civil/structural design experience in substation or electrical infrastructure projects
• Strong background within the Electrical Transmission & Distribution sector
• Solid understanding of CDM regulations
• Good knowledge of UK Environmental and Waste Management legislation
• Detailed familiarity with National Grid Transmission Procedures, particularly:
• TP106, TP135, TP137, TP141, TP153, TP184, TP188, TP219, TP221, TP235, TP241
• Proven ability to supervise, mentor and lead technical teams
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to balance technical detail with project-level oversight and delivery

Why Praxis?

• Lead meaningful projects: Shape critical UK energy infrastructure and support the transition to a low-carbon grid.
• Collaborate: Work alongside experts from civil, electrical and digital engineering disciplines.
• Grow your influence: Lead teams, shape standards and drive continuous improvement within a growing power discipline.
• Make a real impact: Your work will directly support energy security, resilience and sustainability.
• Belong: Benefit from the wider Morson Group’s career pathways, training and professional development.

What’s in it for you:

• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Full support and guidance towards chartership
• Company funded professional memberships
• Family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Life assurance scheme
• 24/7 GP Access
• Funded team socials and events
• Mega-projects throughout the UK and internationally
• Employee Assistance Plan
• High street discount scheme
• Enhanced company sick pay scheme
• Mental Health Wellbeing app
• Specsavers discount scheme

Morson Praxis is proud to be an equal opportunities employer:

We value diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and supportive working environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all individuals and make our employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs, regardless of age, gender, disability, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.

Role Title: PostgreSQL DBA

Location: Manchester Hybrid 3 days on site

Duration: 31/08/2026

Rate - 441

MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA

Role Description:

Primary Skills:

• Must have hands on experience as Database Administration specifically with MongoDB, PostgreSQL / Oracle.
• Managing a oracle team
• Working with database software to find ways to store, organise and manage data
• Expert knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL data stores and working with a variety of structures including JSON and XML
• Experience of software development with distributed data processing technologies including Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Experience in keeping databases up to date, troubleshooting, helping with database design & development, and managing database access.
• Experience in designing maintenance procedures and putting them into operation.
• Liaising with programmers, applications/operational staff, IT project managers and other technical staff
• Managing database security/integrity and backup procedures, implementing security measures.

Secondary Skills:

• Writing reports, documentation, and operating manuals
• Testing and modifying databases to ensure that they operate reliably
• Writing disaster recovery plans and archiving/housekeeping data.
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms, serverless architecture preferable
• Good understanding of software patterns and when/how to apply them
• Knowledge of Kafka will be advantageous
• Experience of working in an Agile/DevOps software development environment
• Have ability to help with mentoring tasks.
• Have experience in working on Support activities.