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 - indeed 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.

Ready to lead and still stay hands-on? We re looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead / Lead Devops Engineer to take charge of our AWS platform, drive automation-first practices, and shape how we deploy, scale, and secure our systems. You will lead a small, capable team, work closely with product squads, and elevate our DevOps game with powerful CI/CD pipelines and generative AI tools for IaC. Role: Lead Devops Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead, AWS Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Cloud Engineer, Lead AWS Engineer, Cloud Architect, Lead Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer etc Salary: £75k - £80k base + Bonus and bens Benefits: 5% pension, 25 days holiday, 2 wellbeing days, Christmas shutdown, private healthcare, life assurance, cinema tickets & more You ll bring deep AWS knowledge, IaC expertise with Terraform and Ansible, and a proven track record leading high-impact cloud projects. You ll understand cloud security and governance inside-out, thrive on performance tuning, and be a confident communicator with solid stakeholder skills. Familiarity with GitHub, WAFs, monitoring tools, and serverless tech like AWS Lambda is key. Bonus points for experience with Windows/Linux servers or AI-enhanced IaC. Own your next big move click apply and lead the cloud your way.

Location: Remote (UK-based)
Salary: £45,000 £50,000

The Company

An exciting opportunity has arisen at an award-winning Microsoft Partner for a SOC Engineer. The business is a fast-growing, industry-leading Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), delivering security operations services into public sector and government clients, as well as mid and large enterprise organisations.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a SOC Engineer to continue their development within an established Microsoft Partner. The organisation places a strong emphasis on developing its people, offering ongoing support for training and industry certifications. You will gain exposure to cutting-edge Microsoft security technologies while working across security operations and cyber defence in a customer-facing MSSP environment.

This is a predominantly remote role; however, you must be based in the UK to be considered. Due to the nature of the clients supported, candidates must be eligible for SC and NPPV3 security clearance.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and optimise Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules, Logic Apps, and playbooks to support incident detection and response.
• Support and enhance integrations between Microsoft Sentinel and other security and IT systems to improve visibility and automation.
• Leverage APIs and automation to streamline SOC workflows and increase operational efficiency.
• Design and deploy automated workflows to support routine SOC activities such as alert enrichment, notifications, and evidence gathering.
• Work closely with SOC analysts, security engineers, and customer stakeholders to improve detection capability and overall security posture.
• Monitor, maintain, and continually improve SOC tooling and automation to ensure effectiveness and reliability.
• Provide operational support within an MSSP environment, responding to security incidents for public sector customers in line with agreed SLAs.

Essential Experience

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Sentinel within a SOC or MSSP environment.

• Experience building and maintaining automation using Azure Logic Apps and Sentinel playbooks.

• Working knowledge of API integrations to support security tooling and workflows.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work with both technical teams and customers.

• Solid technical understanding of IT and cloud security, including:

• Microsoft 365

• Defender XDR

• Entra ID (Azure Active Directory)

• Azure Portal

We are looking for a highly skilled Citrix Engineer to design, implement, manage, and support our Citrix environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD), Citrix Cloud, and supporting technologies such as Active Directory, Azure, and FSLogix. You will play a key role in ensuring that users have a seamless, secure, and performant virtual desktop and application experience, while continuously improving and optimizing the Citrix platform to meet business needs.

The Roles Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and maintain Citrix environments, including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix Cloud, Citrix ADC (NetScaler), and Citrix StoreFront.
• Administer and optimize Citrix environments for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Manage user profiles and policies with Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM) and FSLogix.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Citrix infrastructure using Citrix Director, Citrix Studio, and other diagnostic tools.
• Implement and maintain security controls, including MFA, SSL certificates, and access policies.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams (network, storage, cloud, and security) to ensure seamless integration and performance.
• Automate routine tasks using PowerShell or other scripting tools.
• Plan and execute upgrades, patches, and migrations (on-premises to Citrix Cloud or hybrid deployments).
• Document system configurations, standard procedures, and technical designs.
• Stay up to date with Citrix product updates, best practices, and new features.

Desirable Skills:

• 35+ years of experience in Citrix engineering and administration
• Strong understanding of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD), Citrix Cloud, and Citrix ADC (NetScaler).
• Experience with Active Directory, Group Policy, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), and Windows 10/11 multi-session.
• Familiarity with FSLogix, WEM and profile management
• Proficiency with PowerShell scripting and automation.
• Experience troubleshooting complex end-user computing environments.
• Citrix certifications (e.g., CCA-V, CCP-V, CCE-V).
• Experience with Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune), Azure, and M365 integration.
• Knowledge of VDI performance monitoring and capacity planning tools.
• Exposure to Zero Trust, security hardening, and multi-factor authentication in Citrix environments.
• Familiarity with ITIL processes and change management practices.

About you:

• UK national

• Location - Flexible, with occasional paid travel to Derby

• Security cleared to SC

• Confident in delivering high level updates, issues, and risk via conference calls (both internal and external to DXC)

• Experience collaborating with 3rd party vendors and customers.

• Natural problem solver.

• Experience collaborating with 3rd party vendors and customers.

About Our Vacancies

Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious individual who is always ready to take on the next challenge? If your answer is yes, you are going to fit right in with our team. We are looking for passionate, motivated, innovative team players with a thirst for learning and problem solving, who would like to be part of our vision in helping clients transform their business.

New business has resulted in significant growth. We are driving real transformation using modern delivery platforms. Our clients are embracing newer platforms such as Azure and Office365 moving towards managed cloud platforms, delivering solutions with DevOps and Agile methodologies to deliver workload in sprints. This allows us to utilise industry leading tools and methodologies to quickly deliver beneficial results.

About DXC

DXC Technology is the worlds leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves nearly 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries. The companys extensive partner alliance and independent status allows us to build strong vendor relationships.

Location: Remote with occasional travel

Salary: £40,000 - £52,000 + Benefits

The Role

We’re looking for a technically skilled Cloud Engineering Consultant to design, implement, and manage secure, resilient infrastructure within a high-security cloud services environment for our Cyber Solutions Client. You’ll have the opportunity to work across open-source, Microsoft, hybrid, and public cloud technologies, supporting escalated incidents, driving automation, contributing to projects, and enhancing overall security posture.

You’ll bring deep expertise in one or more areas of cloud engineering while remaining adaptable across the broader technology stack. Curiosity, a drive for continuous improvement, and a passion for staying current with emerging technologies are essential.

Customer satisfaction sits at the heart of this role. You’ll act as a trusted consulting partner, maintaining uptime, ensuring robust security, and delivering high quality technical solutions. Security is a key driver in all decisions, and you’ll play a major part in applying ‘defence-in-depth’ principles.

The Impact You’ll Make

In this role, you will:

• Act as an escalation point for enterprise infrastructure across hardware, applications, and networks
• Work closely with customers and technical specialists to resolve incidents within SLA
• Provide clear incident/problem updates and customer communications
• Support continuous improvement by documenting solutions and updating knowledge bases
• Maintain accurate configuration and asset management records
• Champion a ‘security first’ approach across systems and services
• Take ownership of personal and technical development
• Mentor colleagues and support internal knowledge transfer
• Assist with change evaluation and scheduling
• Play a technical role across customer and internal projects from discovery and design through to implementation
• Become a subject matter expert for key customer accounts and technologies
• Oversee full product lifecycles, from pre-sales and design through to build and ongoing operation
• Support pre-sales activities by helping gather requirements, shaping solutions, and ensuring secure, scalable technical proposals

What You’ll Bring to the Team

You’ll have experience in some of the following areas, with a willingness to learn others as needed:

Technical Skills

• Operating Systems: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Microsoft
• Virtualisation: VMware (NSX-T, VCF, VCD), KVM, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Nutanix
• Public Cloud: AWS, Azure
• Automation: Git, Ansible, Terraform
• Scripting: Bash, Python, PowerShell
• Security: VPNs, load balancers, firewalls
• Networking: OSI model, VLANs, L2/L3 configuration
• Protocols: HTTP, DNS, SSL/HTTPS, SMTP
• Understanding of server hardware, including hardware/software RAID
• Experience contributing to technical projects
• Knowledge of data centre operations, processes, and controls
• Working experience in Incident and Problem Management
• Excellent troubleshooting skills

Soft Skills

• A problem solving mindset and analytical thinking
• Strong communicator and collaborative team player
• Passion for cybersecurity and continuous learning
• Ability to perform under pressure in fast paced environments
• Strong organisational and forward planning skills
• Innovative thinker eager to tackle complex challenges

What’s in It for You?

• Flexible working options including hybrid/remote
• Continuous professional development and learning opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits package supporting health, wellbeing, family, and lifestyle - including Private Healthcare, Cash Back Plan, Life Assurance, and Holiday Buy/Sell options

Interested?

Submit your application to learn more about this exciting opportunity.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

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DevOps Engineer – 3‑Month Contract (Outside IR35) Location: Fully Remote Rate: £450–£600 per day Overview We’re looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join on a 3‑month contract, working fully remotely. This role is focused on building, deploying, and supporting applications within a modern Azure environment. You’ll be working closely with engineering teams, so strong communication and collaboration skills are essential. Key Responsibilities Build, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines within Azure environments. Deploy and support applications using Azure DevOps tooling and GitHub workflows. Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to streamline delivery processes. Troubleshoot build, deployment, and integration issues across environments. Contribute to improving automation, reliability, and deployment efficiency. Support teams using Jira and Visual Studio throughout the development lifecycle.Required Skills & Experience Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure (core services, deployments, automation). Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Proficiency with GitHub (Actions, repos, workflows). Working knowledge of Jira for tracking and delivery. Familiarity with Visual Studio tooling and workflows. Practical understanding of C# and React (not a developer role, but able to support builds and deployments). Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with distributed teams. Please note this opportunity does not offer sponsorship. If your looking for a new challenge and this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply with your most Up-to-Date CV, please contact me at (url removed)

Site Reliability Engineer (Contract) – £450- £500/day OutsideIR35
6‑Month Contract | Fully Remote | Immediate Start

A leading technology‑driven organisation is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join on a 6‑month contract. This role is fully remote and ideal for someone who thrives in a service‑focused, continuous‑improvement environment.
You’ll be responsible for keeping critical services stable, secure, and performant while driving improvements across infrastructure, automation, and operational workflows.

Key Responsibilities
Maintain and improve production services with a focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellence
Own and enhance Azure‑based infrastructure, ensuring clean, scalable, and well‑documented environments
Lead improvements across CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, and operational tooling
Troubleshoot and optimise traffic routing, security, and performance across Azure networking components
Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, reducing toil and increasing automation
Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure best practices are followed across deployments and service operations
Essential Skills
Azure DevOps – broad experience across pipelines, repos, service operations, and automation
Azure Application Gateway – deep understanding of rules, listeners, routing, and security
Infrastructure as Code – Terraform and GitHub‑based workflows
Azure Containers – experience with containerised workloads (AKS, ACI, or similar)
Strong SRE Leadership mindset: service health, continuous improvement, operational hygiene, and reducing manual effort
Nice to Have
Experience improving operational maturity in growing engineering teams
Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, routing, and distributed systems
Familiarity with monitoring/alerting best practices
Previous leadership experience
If your looking for a new challenge and this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply with your most Up-to-Date CV, please contact me at (url removed)

Keystone Recruitment Partners are looking for a highly skilled Cloud Engineer to lead our client's migration from AWS WAF to Cloudflare and to design, deploy, and manage our edge security and Zero Trust environment. This role will take ownership of Cloudflare architecture, security posture, and integration with our AWS infrastructure. This is a fully remote and outside IR35 contract with an initial 3 month engagement. Key Responsibilities \* Drive the full migration from AWS WAF to Cloudflare WAF, including rule translation, optimisation, testing, and rollout. \* Configure and maintain Cloudflare WAF policies, covering managed rules, custom rules, bot mitigation, and rate‑limiting. \* Deploy and manage Cloudflare Zero Trust and Warp, enabling secure, identity‑based remote access for users and services. \* Set up and optimise Cloudflare DNS, load balancing, and traffic steering to ensure resilient, high‑performance routing. \* Integrate Cloudflare services with AWS environments, including ALB, CloudFront, Route 53, and cloud‑native workloads. \* Implement and enforce edge security controls, including DDoS protection, TLS configuration, and continuous monitoring. \* Diagnose and resolve traffic, performance, and edge‑security issues across Cloudflare and AWS. \* Support Infrastructure‑as‑Code automation, ideally using Terraform, for consistent and scalable deployments. Required Experience \* Extensive hands‑on experience with Cloudflare WAF, Zero Trust, and Warp, ideally in enterprise or high‑traffic environments. \* Demonstrated experience migrating from AWS WAF to Cloudflare, with strong understanding of rule behaviour and tuning. \* Deep technical knowledge of DNS, TLS, routing, reverse proxies, and CDN architectures. \* Strong AWS background, especially with ALB, CloudFront, Route 53, and security‑related services. \* Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools is preferred. \* Excellent troubleshooting skills across networking, performance, and security layers. Contact us as interviews are happening immediately

The Role

As an L1/L1.5 Technical Support Engineer, you will diagnose and resolve a variety of technical issues while maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction. You will work within the ITIL framework, managing the lifecycle of Incidents and Service Requests.

Key Responsibilities

• Omnichannel Support: Handle inbound calls, chats, and emails, ensuring all issues are logged, categorized, and prioritized in the ITSM tool (ServiceNow/Remedy).
• Technical Troubleshooting: Resolve issues related to Windows OS, O365, VPN, and Citrix.
• User Administration: Manage account creations, password resets, and distribution lists via Active Directory and Office 365.
• Hardware & Mobility: Support and configure desktops, laptops, printers, and mobile devices (iOS/Android).
• Escalation: Identify complex issues and escalate to appropriate resolver groups while maintaining ownership of the user experience.

Technical Skillset

• Must-Have: Active Directory, O365, Windows 10/11, VPN troubleshooting, and Citrix.
• Hardware: Proficiency in supporting laptops, tablets, and peripherals.
• Mobile: Experience with Mobile Device Management (MDM) and mobile OS.
• Advantageous: Knowledge of Infrastructure, Exchange, or Server technologies.

Requirements

• Experience: 1-3 years in a Service Desk or Technical Support environment.
• Education: Any Graduate.
• Language: Native or C1-level English proficiency (CEFR).
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication, a natural aptitude for troubleshooting, and experience supporting US/UK-based customers.
• Flexibility: Ability to work in a 24x7 shift rotation.
• ITIL: Strong awareness of ITIL methodologies (Certification is a plus).

Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

Salary: £28,000 - £30,000
Location: Fully remote (quarterly meet-ups - fully expensed)

Are you an ambitious Service Desk Analyst looking to accelerate your technical career in enterprise backup and data protection? This fully remote Service Desk Analyst opportunity offers hands-on exposure to cutting-edge backup and DR technologies, structured progression, and significant investment in training. If you’re professional, eager to learn, and see this Service Desk Analyst role as a genuine opportunity to build niche technical expertise, this could be the ideal next step.

As a Service Desk Analyst you will:

• Log calls in line with ITIL practices (Incidents, Change, Service Requests)
• Allocate and update tickets appropriately
• Perform first-line triage and first-line fixes
• Respond to incoming calls and emails professionally
• Implement basic changes
• Monitor systems for alerts and take appropriate action
• Monitor application mailboxes
• Process service requests
• Produce and maintain internal and external reports
• Carry out basic application administration (Rubrik, Druva, Zerto, Commvault)

Requirements:

• 1-2 years’ experience in a technical support or service desk environment (or relevant placement year)
• Basic technical background with a strong desire to develop
• Professional communication skills (written and verbal)
• Understanding or awareness of ITIL processes
• Interest or exposure to backup and DR technologies (Rubrik, Druva, Zerto, Commvault, NetBackup advantageous)
• Familiarity with VMware (vCenter, ESX, VDS, NSX) beneficial
• Exposure to Azure and/or AWS advantageous
• Basic Scripting/automation knowledge (PowerShell desirable)
• Strong documentation skills
• Positive attitude towards training and development
• Able to work independently in a fully remote environment

Apply today to speak with VIQU in confidence or contact Belle Hegarty.
Know someone exceptional for this Service Desk Analyst position? Refer them and receive up to £1,000 if successful (terms apply).

Role: AWS Platform Engineer (SC Cleared)
Day rate: £450pd-£500pd (Inside IR35)
Contract: 3 months initially with chances of extensions

We are currently recruiting for AWS Platform Engineers who have good experience with DevOps, Infrastructure Automation & Deployment. You will be working as part of a team on project work and ensuring that deadlines and timescales of the project are met. Due to the sensitivity of the role, any successful candidate must have active SC Clearance.

Skills and experience required:

• Demonstrable experience in automating operations tasks with one or more Scripting languages
• Experience creating and/or maintaining production software delivery pipelines using common CI/CD tools (GitLab Pipelines)
• Experience working with AWS, Lambda, Glue, MWAA, Athena, IAM, KMS, S3 Access Points
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• A good understanding of Cloud security principles (eg IAM, KMS, AzureAD, Security Groups)
• Current and active SC Clearance

The role will be a remote working opportunity, with occasional travel to client sites when required. Please consider this before applying for the role.

If you’re interested in the role and would like to apply, please click on the link for immediate consideration.

We are seeking a skilled Linux Engineer / Linux Systems Administrator to take ownership of our client’s large scale Linux environment consisting of approximately 100 servers. This role will focus on Business-as-Usual (BAU) operations, maintenance, stability and performance, while also contributing to an ongoing infrastructure modernisation programme.
This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong Linux professional who enjoys both operational responsibility and forward-looking project work.

Key Responsibilities

BAU & Operational Support
Administer, monitor, and maintain circa 100 Linux servers across production and non-production environments
Perform system patching, upgrades and security hardening
Manage user access, permissions and authentication services
Troubleshoot performance issues, outages and system alerts
Maintain high availability, reliability and up time standards
Manage backups, restores and disaster recovery processes

Modernisation & Project Work
Contribute to infrastructure improvement and automation initiatives
Support migration, consolidation or upgrade projects
Assist with cloud, virtualisation or containerisation initiatives where applicable
Identify opportunities for efficiency, performance and cost optimisation

Documentation & Governance
Maintain clear technical documentation and runbooks
Follow change management and incident management processes
Work collaboratively with network, security and application teams

Required Skills & Experience
Strong hands-on experience administering Linux environments (e.g., Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, Debian or similar)
Solid understanding of server hardware, storage and virtualisation platforms
Experience with patch management and security best practices
Proficiency with shell scripting (Bash or similar)
Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools
Experience supporting large-scale server estates

Desirable
Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Experience with automation tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform)
Knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
Understanding of networking fundamentals and firewalls
ITIL or relevant Linux certifications

Personal Attributes
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Ability to prioritise workload in a fast-paced environment
Clear communication and documentation abilities
Proactive and improvement-focused mindset

What’s on Offer
Opportunity to influence and shape infrastructure modernisation
Exposure to both operational stability and transformation projects
Supportive technical environment with room for growth
Competitive salary and benefits package

At Gleeson Recruitment Group, we embrace inclusivity and welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We are proud to be a disability confident employer.

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Senior DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared)

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with an active SC Clearance to drive development initiatives across a diverse project portfolio. This role is ideal for a technical lead who excels at building robust automation and enjoys mentoring the next generation of engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable infrastructure across AWS and Azure environments.
• Automate deployments using Terraform, Ansible, and Packer.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines within GitLab and oversee Kubernetes orchestration.
• Ensure system reliability through ELK or Dynatrace observability.
• Mentor & Coach: Deliver structured training and hands-on guidance to junior team members.

Technical Requirements

• Cloud: Proven experience with both AWS and Azure.
• IaC & Automation: Strong proficiency in Terraform, Ansible, and Packer.
• Containers: Deep knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Scripting: Advanced Linux administration and Bash scripting skills.
• CI/CD: Hands-on experience with GitLab.
• Observability: Proficiency in ELK Stack or Dynatrace.

Essential Criteria

• Security Clearance: Must hold a valid and active SC Clearance.
• Leadership: Demonstrated experience in teaching, coaching, or mentoring junior staff.

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Unified Communications Engineer/Consultant - 24 months - Market Rate - Remote (Must be mobile)

We are seeking a hands-on Unified Communications Engineer to support secure enterprise voice, video, and collaboration platforms (Microsoft Teams) within the Public Sector. You will work with a team decommissioning current infrastructure, whilst working on the transformation to new kit and way of working. This will involve multi sites across the UK and is a long term upgrade project. Experience within the Public Sector would be an advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Decommission existing Unified Comms
• Support and maintain enterprise voice and video platforms
• Manage video conferencing and room-based collaboration systems
• Maintain underlying network, server, and storage infrastructure
• Support partner connectivity across various UK sites
• Perform hardware installation and configuration
• Contribute to monitoring, automation, and operational tooling

Core Technical Skills

Unified Communications

• Experience of UCAAS (Multivendor)
• Lynx, Skype4business, PBX space Legacy
• SIP protocol knowledge
• Integration with Microsoft 365/Teams

Video Collaboration

• Familiarity with Microsoft Teams Rooms
• Understanding of cross-platform interoperability

Network Infrastructure

• LAN/WAN fundamentals
• QoS for voice and video traffic
• VLANs and IP Addressing

Damia Group Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept our Data Protection Policy which can be found on our website.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job.

Should the role require the successful candidate to undergo and be eligible for UK Security Vetting. Clearance sponsorship will be provided where required. Due to the nature of the work, candidates should meet the relevant residency requirements. If applicable, Reserved Post nationality restrictions will be confirmed by the client. Damia is committed to inclusive recruitment and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

Damia Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy and in accordance to Conduct Regulations 2003.

Over the past 8 years we have gone through a period of growth, we now enter a stage where we want and need to mature, which results in numerous projects to simplify, improve and upgrade our infrastructure and systems.

There will be plenty of opportunity to be innovative and to come up with new solutions as you design and implement new physical and virtual infrastructure.

We are keen to speak to those that love to research and explore, you may not always know the answers straight away, but you are someone who loves the challenge in finding out.

As well as the new you will be part of a team ensuring the existing is maintained, reliable, resilient, and secure and our applications are installed and operating smoothly, whilst mentoring other, less experienced engineers in the team.

We are keen to speak to people with strong Linux administration backgrounds to manage existing Linux based servers, both on-prem and cloud hosted, including management of the deployment of security patches, distribution upgrades and configuration management, installation/configuration/operation of the applications running on the servers.

You will be someone who is looking for an opportunity that gives you exposure to projects such as, building a virtualisation platform, how can solutions such as Kubernetes be used in a hybrid on-prem/public cloud environment and a role where Infrastructure as Code is the default go to (Ansible / Terraform).

Note: this role is part of the 24/ 7 on call rota, although call outs are rare this would be 1 in 4 and is renumerated separately.

Gigaclear is a growing Fibre Broadband (FTTP / FTTH) company, developing our fibre-to-the-premises broadband infrastructure to some of the most difficult to reach areas of the UK, empowering those communities with broadband to rival any city.

Staff rewards, benefits and opportunities

We foster a collaborative, engaging culture that empowers staff to grow and maximise their skills. We want to challenge our people in a fair environment where hard work is rewarded and a path for progression is open to all.

• Generous employer pension; up to 8% matched contribution
• Income protection & life assurance
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), holiday purchase scheme and Yay Days!
• Health cash plan, 24/7 remote GP access and Employee Assistance Programme including counselling & legal advice
• Unlimited access to online training and development content via our Learning Management System
• Long service benefits and monthly employee recognition
• Enhanced maternity and paternity provisions
• Flexible working environment
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives and company funded social events

Our approach is to work guided by our mission, vision and values.

Our Mission - Empowering communities with brilliant broadband

Our Vision - Connected Communities

Our Values - Own it, Find the Right Way, Work Together, Win Together