SC Cleared Google Cloud Engineer

6 Month Contract | Inside IR35 | £550-£700/day | Remote (Occasional London/Bristol)

We’re supporting a leading digital transformation consultancy delivering secure, cloud-native platforms into government and regulated environments. They are looking for an experienced SC Cleared GCP Engineer with strong GKE expertise to join a high-performing engineering team.

Key Requirements:

• Active SC Clearance (essential)
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Deep expertise in GKE / Kubernetes in production environments
• Proven background delivering secure, scalable, cloud-native solutions
• Experience working in government or highly regulated environments
• Strong skills in Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
• Good understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking, and Zero-Trust principles

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build and optimise GCP-based platforms, with a focus on GKE
• Deploy and manage containerised applications in secure, multi-environment setups
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for repeatable, scalable deployments
• Embed security best practices and compliance controls across the platform
• Support CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps processes
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, and security teams in agile delivery environments

Nice to Have:

• Experience with multi-cloud (AWS/Azure) environments
• Exposure to service mesh / CNI (e.g. Cilium)
• Knowledge of monitoring & observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Experience with identity & secrets management (Keycloak, Vault)

This is a great opportunity to work on high-impact, mission-critical programmes delivering secure cloud solutions at scale.

If this looks like a good fit please drop me your updated CV

Infrastructure Data Engineer - Kafka Focus Fully Remote | Outside IR35 Working pattern: Sunday to Thursday Supporting a team based in Israel Exalto Consulting is supporting a client looking to appoint an experienced Infrastructure Data Engineer with strong Apache Kafka expertise. This is a fully remote contract role for someone who has hands-on experience running and improving Kafka in live production environments. The focus is not on initial setup alone. It is on keeping a high-volume streaming platform reliable, scalable, and well tuned over time. You would be joining a team responsible for maintaining and developing core data infrastructure that supports a range of business-critical use cases. The work includes improving platform performance, strengthening reliability, and helping internal teams make effective use of streaming capabilities. What the role involves You will take ownership of the day-to-day operation and improvement of Kafka infrastructure in production. That includes identifying performance issues, tuning configurations, resolving incidents, and building out the surrounding platform components needed to support a dependable streaming environment. The role also involves close collaboration with engineering, data, and analytics teams, so it is important that you are comfortable working across functions and helping others use the platform effectively. Key responsibilities Operate, maintain, and optimise Kafka clusters in production environments Design and improve Kafka infrastructure to support a range of streaming use cases. Tune Kafka settings including partitions, replication, retention, and throughput Monitor platform performance and address bottlenecks, instability, and capacity issues. Build and support related components including Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and ELK. Develop internal tooling and microservices to support self-service platform use Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus and Grafana. Investigate production incidents, carry out root cause analysis, and make preventative improvements. Work with engineering, data, and analytics teams to ensure reliable data delivery. What we are looking for Proven experience running Kafka in live production environments. Strong understanding of Kafka internals and the trade-offs involved in scaling and performance tuning. Experience with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry. Good scripting and automation skills, ideally using Python. Experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana. Strong knowledge of Linux environments, shell scripting, and system performance tuning. Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, or similar container and orchestration tooling. Experience with CI/CD, Git, and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Ansible. A solid understanding of distributed systems and streaming architectures. Experience supporting platforms where availability, resilience, and scale are important. Desirable experience Exposure to stream processing tools such as Apache Flink. Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP. Knowledge of hybrid environments. Experience with RBAC, multi-tenant systems, or usage metering. Experience with MSSQL or other relational databases. Working arrangement This role is fully remote and sits outside IR35. The team is based in Israel, so the working pattern is Sunday to Thursday. There is a two-hour time difference from the UK, and candidates should be comfortable working in line with that team structure. Important note This role requires genuine hands-on experience operating and optimising Kafka in production. Candidates whose experience is mainly limited to implementation, provisioning, or setup without ongoing production ownership are unlikely to be the right fit. To find out more, please get in touch with Exalto Consulting with a copy of your latest CV. TPBN1\_UKTJ

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) £65,000 base salary Role Overview Our National Security business in Gloucester is expanding, creating vital opportunities to support National Security clients through innovative technical solutions. We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join a growing team that prioritizes both client delivery and community engagement, helping to build tech and cyber skills within the region. As an SRE, you will bridge the gap between software engineering and systems operations. You will use your engineering expertise to replace manual tasks with automation, ensuring that traditional operational work (incidents, on-call, etc.) never exceeds 50% of your team's capacity. Core Accountabilities Service Excellence: Support and maintain essential services for core mission applications, proactively enhancing availability, performance, and stability. Automation First: Replace repetitive manual labor with innovative automated solutions. Consultative Engineering: Work alongside product teams to advise on best practices for system design and resilience. Observability: Instrument applications to improve monitoring and use data-driven insights to demonstrate daily system improvements. Systems Architecture: Leverage your understanding of the relationship between software and infrastructure to build scalable, failure-resilient systems. Community Engagement: Actively participate in the wider internal DevOps and SRE communities. Candidate Background & Experience We are looking for candidates with experience in the following areas: Development: Software development in Java and web technologies (JavaScript, HTML). Data & Infrastructure: Familiarity with database technologies (Elastic, Mongo) and cloud platforms ( AWS, Azure, or OpenStack ). Scripting & OS: Proficiency in Linux and Windows command lines (Bash, PowerShell). Configuration & Deployment: Hands-on experience with tools like Chef, Puppet, and Docker (container management/micro-services). Monitoring: Expertise in monitoring large-scale systems using technologies such as ELK . Problem Solving: Strong diagnostic skills across all levels of the tech stack and experience troubleshooting service outages. Agile Methodology: Experience working within an Agile Scrum team and using supporting tools like Jira. Testing & Open Source: Familiarity with automation frameworks (Selenium) and a track record of improving Open Source Software. TPBN1\_UKTJ

The role:

This is more than a job - it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where we expect everyone to live the values and standards of the British Army. Every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering OMNIA’s vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training so the British Army is ready to fight and win.

You’ll work in a matrix organisation and report operationally through OMNIA Training and functionally through the Cloud & Platform Lead. Ultimately, you’ll work for the British Army, championing innovation, and helping shape the future of military collective training.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and support integrated system and application solutions across physical, virtual, and cloud environments through CI/CD pipelines
• Work with engineering teams to translate operational and technical requirements into implementable system architectures and solution designs
• Support the deployment, configuration, and integration of systems and applications within development and operational environments
• Ensure system solutions meet performance, reliability, security, and interoperability requirements across platforms and environments
• Act as the technical liaison between engineering teams and supply chain partners, ensuring technical specifications, standards, and integration requirements are clearly communicated and understood
• Support supplier engagement by reviewing technical proposals, validating solution compatibility, and assisting with integration planning
• Coordinate with engineering and supply chain teams to ensure delivered components and systems meet required technical and operational specifications
• Support and conduct system testing, validation, and troubleshooting to ensure successful deployment and operational readiness
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including software engineers, network engineers, architects, and programme teams to support system delivery
• Support the integration of third-party technologies and vendor solutions into the broader systems architecture
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of technical documentation, including design documentation, integration guides, and deployment procedures
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies and tools that could enhance system performance, integration, or operational capability
• Any other duties required to meet the needs of the programme

Who we are looking for:

We’re after individuals who want to serve. You’ll have a mission focus, and the enthusiasm and drive to ‘get things done’. You’ll want to work in collaboration with other defence training organisations, and the British Army. You won’t let bureaucracy get in the way of what needs to be done, you’ll learn lessons and share these lessons across the team. You won’t necessarily have a military background, but you’ll understand what it means to serve and to put the mission first.

The OMNIA Systems Solutions Engineers will be responsible for responsible for the discovery, deployment and integration of a wide range of applications, bespoke technology and solutions in relations to cloud platforms and modelling & simulation for the Army Collective Training Service (ACTS). Responsible to the Cloud & Platform Lead, this position will be critical to the successful technology and interoperability of the entire solution. The position is suited to an all-round engineer who thrives on the challenge of tackling integration and deployment wide range of solutions across a broad spectrum of technologies, including simulation systems.

This position requires a customer first mindset, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability work in a multidisciplinary engineering team in a complex and evolving environment.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Engineering background with a degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and supporting integrated systems and application solutions across hybrid environments (cloud and on-premise)
• Strong understanding of systems integration principles across software, infrastructure, and networking layers.
• Ability to translate operational and technical requirements into practical system architectures and deployment plans.
• Experience supporting technical deployments within structured delivery environments (e.g. Agile or SAFe).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability with experience diagnosing complex system issues
• Understanding of system security principles and governance requirements
• Experience designing and deploying containerised solutions using orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (e.g. GitHub, ArgoCD, Helm, Maven, SonarQube, Quay or equivalent)
• Experience using monitoring and observability platforms (e.g. Prometheus, Fluentd, ELK stack, Grafana)
• Experience integrating and supporting database solutions (e.g. MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL)
• Experience deploying and operating systems within cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
• Experience supporting system testing, validation, and troubleshooting during deployment and operational phases
• Holds, or is eligible to obtain, UK Security Clearance (SC)

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience working with Red Hat OpenShift and Ceph storage platforms
• Programming experience (e.g. Python, JavaScript)
• Experience working with event streaming and data pipeline technologies (e.g. Kafka, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark)
• Experience delivering multi-system integration projects within defence, government, or highly regulated environments.
• Experience implementing and configuring training simulation technologies across Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) environments
• Experience working with external suppliers and vendors to deliver integrated technical solutions, including reviewing technical documentation to ensure alignment with system/architecture requirements and standards
• Experience supporting procurement or supply chain teams by translating technical specifications and integration requirements
• Understanding of interoperability standards or integration frameworks used within enterprise or defence systems

Benefits and Work Culture

Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.
• Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role)
• Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade)

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role. Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the UK economy. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission and is seeking a Platform Test Lead experienced in test automation (PaaS/SaaS), coding (Python or Java), test frameworks & BDD (e.g. Gherkin/Cucumber), CI/CD pipelines, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform). London £65,826 to £81,674, National £62,103 to £78,054 plus £17,991 annual pension contribution. 40% to 60% hybrid working.

As Platform Test Lead, you will play a critical role in ensuring the DBT Platform is robust, secure, and scalable by embedding quality assurance into its design and delivery. You’ll lead the development of platform-wide test strategies, support automated testing across infrastructure and services, and collaborate with technical leaders to drive continuous improvement. This role supports DBT’s digital transformation goals and contributes to the strategic evolution of the platform.

Role Overview of the Platform Test Lead:

This is a technical and strategically critical role within our Technology portfolio at DBT, overseeing a platform that supports internal and external services. You will lead the evolution of the DBT Platform’s testing strategy, ensuring it is robust, secure, scalable and efficient. You will work closely with platform engineers, technical architects, cyber security and service teams to embed quality assurance into the platform’s design and delivery.

You will play a key role in shaping how we test and assure platform capabilities, bringing your experience of test automation, infrastructure testing and DevOps practices. You’ll work across DDaT to understand future needs and help teams validate and deliver against them. You’ll also contribute to platform governance and technical decision-making, ensuring testing supports strategic goals.

This is a technical leadership role requiring experience with cloud-hosted platforms. The successful candidate will be well-versed in implementing and optimising automated testing, deployment pipelines, and performance metrics like DORA. You will have an understanding of emerging technologies, enabling you to guide innovation and resilience across the platform.

You must have a proven track record of leading test engineering for large-scale platform operations or infrastructure products, ensuring stability, scalability and strategic alignment with organisational goals.

Main responsibilities for the Platfrom Test Lead:

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of automated test frameworks for platform components and services.
• Define and own platform-level test strategies, including integration, performance, security, and end-to-end testing across multi-account environments.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers, Technical Architects, and Cyber SMEs to ensure testing supports platform priorities.
• Drive improvements in deployment testing, enabling faster, more reliable releases with reduced support burden.
• Support FinOps and observability initiatives by ensuring test coverage includes cost-impacting behaviours and performance metrics.
• Champion testability in platform design, simplifying environment setup and enabling self-service testing for service teams.
• Coach and mentor engineers in test automation, quality assurance, and continuous delivery practices.
• Monitor test suite health, reduce technical debt, and ensure test infrastructure is scalable and cost-effective.

Essential Skills:

• Proven experience in test automation for infrastructure and platform engineering, including maturing PaaS/SaaS products.
• Strong coding skills (Python or Java), with experience building reusable test frameworks, utilities, and using BDD approaches (e.g. Gherkin/Cucumber) for collaborative testing.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform).
• Familiarity with observability and performance testing tools (Datadog, ELK, Grafana, Locust, JMeter), plus an understanding of cyber security testing principles and logging requirements.
• Ability to coach multidisciplinary teams, embed quality practices in agile delivery, and apply FinOps-aware testing approaches (e.g. cost-impact validation, resource optimisation).

It is desirable that you have:

• Knowledge of platform engineering patterns (g. sidecar architecture, secure base images, technical contracts).
• Familiarity with accessibility and security testing standards (g. OWASP, WCAG).

Benefits

Alongside your salary, DBT contributes £17,991 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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 Wednesday 25th February at 12.30pm. Follow the Apply button to book your spot on the advertisers site.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Active SC required! Up to £55,000 + benefits Hybrid (UK-based)

We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join a growing technology team delivering highly scalable, resilient systems across a range of enterprise environments.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a solid foundation in DevOps/SRE practices who wants to deepen their expertise in automation, reliability, and cloud-native technologies.

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems
• Monitoring applications and infrastructure, responding to incidents and driving resolution
• Automating manual processes to improve efficiency and reduce risk
• Collaborating with engineering teams to improve system design and resilience
• Contributing to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in an SRE, DevOps, or similar engineering role
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Scripting or programming skills (e.g. Python, Bash, Go)
• Understanding of containers and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes is a plus)

Why apply?

• Work with modern, cloud-native technologies
• Supportive environment with strong learning and development opportunities
• Clear progression path into senior SRE roles

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (Test & Infrastructure Resilience)

Location: Remote Working

Security Clearance: Must be eligible for SC Clearance

6 Months Contract

400 to 600 a day inside IR35

A top-tier consultancy firm is looking for an experienced AWS DevOps Engineer with a strong background in testing to help maintain and evolve Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) for a top UK client.

This is a pivotal role in maintaining critical national infrastructure where scalability and resilience are essential. We’re looking for a highly skilled DevOps engineer with a strong background in testing (including APIs). The ideal candidate should be self-motivated and results-driven, capable of thriving in an Agile team. You’ll need to be comfortable with Confluence for documentation and Jira for project tracking and story management.

Your main responsibility will be to develop and structure a comprehensive test framework. This includes creating approaches and plans, gaining approval for those approaches, and ultimately delivering a complex set of functional and performance tests for software components running within an AWS multi-account model. You will be working alongside client teams and supporting, as required, in a 3rd line capacity.

Key Technologies

• Security & Service Mesh: Vault, Consul
• Orchestration: Kubernetes
• Cloud: Various AWS services (Compute, Identity)
• Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, ELK
• CI/CD: Jenkins
• Scripting: Python, Ansible, and/or Bash
• Networking (Advantage): Proxies and firewalls, including Fortinet and Palo Alto

Location: Remote Working 6 Months Contract 400 to 600 a day inside IR35

Security Clearance: Must be eligible for SC Clearance

If this seems of interest, please apply directly to the ad or send your CV to (url removed).

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

Our Investment Banking client is looking for a permanent Java Full Stack Engineer (AVP level)

Skills

Excellent knowledge, understanding and active hands-on coding ability of Java (Spring Boot, REST APIs) and various automation testing approaches

Expertise in software code architecture, design patterns, and secure coding best practises.

Good communication, feature team leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to guide projects and teams.

Ownership mindset and commitment to engineering excellence practices for building high quality and reliable software.

Some other highly valued skills may include:
Hands-on full-stack - having UI knowledge and experience - React, Angular.
Hands-on logging, observability, reliability - ELK dashboards for monitoring releases and identifying problems proactively
Good knowledge of systems architectures and infrastructure with best practices and design patterns
Problem-solving skills and ability to simplify complex concepts.
Adaptability to new technologies and evolving project needs.

Permanent role - hybrid working - candidate can be based near Manchester/Liverpool/Stoke/Birmingham

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Our client, a prominent entity within the Defence & Security sector, is currently searching for a dedicated and skilled DevOps Systems Engineer (Systems Solutions Engineer) to join their team in Wiltshire.

This is more than a job - it’s a mission. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, contributing to the vision of designing, delivering, and transforming collective training for the UK forces.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing, deploying, and supporting integrated system and application solutions across physical, virtual, and cloud environments through CI/CD pipelines
• Translating operational and technical requirements into implementable system architectures and solution designs
• Supporting the deployment, configuration, and integration of systems and applications within development and operational environments
• Ensuring system solutions meet performance, reliability, security, and interoperability requirements across platforms and environments
• Acting as the technical liaison between engineering teams and supply chain partners
• Reviewing technical proposals and assisting with integration planning
• Coordinating with engineering and supply chain teams to ensure delivered components and systems meet required technical and operational specifications
• Supporting system testing, validation, and troubleshooting to ensure successful deployment and operational readiness
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams including software engineers, network engineers, architects, and programme teams
• Integrating third-party technologies and vendor solutions into the broader systems architecture
• Developing and maintaining technical documentation
• Maintaining awareness of emerging technologies and tools

Job Requirements:

We are looking for individuals who have a mission focus and the enthusiasm and drive to ‘get things done’. You should be able to collaborate effectively with defence organisations. The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and experience:

• Engineering background with a degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and supporting integrated systems and application solutions across hybrid environments (cloud and on-premise)
• Strong understanding of systems integration principles across software, infrastructure, and networking layers
• Ability to translate operational and technical requirements into practical system architectures and deployment plans
• Experience supporting technical deployments within structured delivery environments (e.g. Agile or SAFe)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability with experience diagnosing complex system issues
• Understanding of system security principles and governance requirements
• Experience designing and deploying containerised solutions using orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (e.g. GitHub, ArgoCD, Helm, Maven, SonarQube, Quay or equivalent)
• Experience using monitoring and observability platforms (e.g. Prometheus, Fluentd, ELK stack, Grafana)
• Experience integrating and supporting database solutions (e.g. MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL)
• Experience deploying and operating systems within cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
• Experience supporting system testing, validation, and troubleshooting during deployment and operational phases

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience working with Red Hat OpenShift and Ceph storage platforms
• Programming experience (e.g. Python, JavaScript)
• Experience working with event streaming and data pipeline technologies (e.g. Kafka, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark)
• Experience delivering multi-system integration projects within defence, government, or highly regulated environments
• Experience implementing and configuring training simulation technologies across Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) environments
• Experience working with external suppliers and vendors to deliver integrated technical solutions
• Experience supporting procurement or supply chain teams by translating technical specifications and integration requirements
• Understanding of interoperability standards or integration frameworks used within enterprise or defence systems

Benefits:

• Competitive salaries
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, with an option to buy and sell up to 5 days
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• Flexible Benefits scheme including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
• Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role)
• Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade)

Work Culture:

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role or job requirement
• Early finish on Fridays, starting the weekend at 1.30pm
• Remote, hybrid, and site-based working opportunities
• A flexible working culture that is output focussed
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year

If you are a capable and committed DevOps Systems Engineer (Systems Solutions Engineer) looking for a new opportunity to develop your career within the Defence & Security sector, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client’s dynamic and talented team in Wiltshire.

At CV-Library, we have a simple vision: to help the world to work and we are looking for exceptional and talented people to help us realise this vision in both UK and overseas markets.

We are in a period of focused internal investment, following a year of key strategic acquisitions and significant investment across all parts of the business, from Tech and Data to People and HR, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us or a better place to grow your career!

The Role

Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:30
Location: Fleet
Working Pattern: Hybrid - 3 days a week on site

We are looking for a proactive Service Desk Engineer to support internal IT services and business-critical web applications. This role combines traditional service desk responsibilities with hands-on application support, working closely with engineering and infrastructure teams to triage issues, analyse logs, and ensure smooth day-to-day operations.

The idea candidate will be comfortable managing internal IT processes (starters, movers, leavers) while also investigating application incidents using modern observability and logging tools.

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for internal IT services, including user onboarding, offboarding and access management (starters, movers, leavers)
• Act as a first point of contact for application and platform-related incidents
• Triage web application issues and collaborate with engineering teams for resolution
• Investigate system and application logs to identify root causes of incidents
• Monitor alerts and proactively respond to service disruptions
• Manage tickets and workflows within the ITSM platform
• Support incident, problem and change management processes
• Document troubleshooting steps, known issues and operational procedures
• Assist in improving service desk workflows and operational efficiency
• Escalate issues appropriately while maintaining ownership through resolution

What we’re looking for

• Strong ITSM knowledge with hands-on experience using Jira Service Management including workflow and automation
• Experience supporting internal IT services and user s
• Familiarity with log analysis tools such as Kibana and ELK stack
• Exposure to AWS CloudWatch Logs or similar cloud logging platforms
• Ability to investigate and triage web application issues
• Understanding of structured log queries and log searching techniques
• Basic knowledge of SQL for querying and debugging data issues
• Exposure to Kafka concepts and troubleshooting message flows
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling
• Understanding of REST APIs and web application architecture (beneficial)

We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application.

Reading (Hybrid)

Permanent

to £85,000 (DOE)

Java Developer needed with active SC Security Clearance for a permanent position based in Reading (Hybrid). Start ASAP in Spring 2026.

Hybrid Working - primarily working from home (WFH), with travel to the office a few times a month on average.

A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in delivering large-scale Government digital modernisation projects.

Key skills, experience + responsibilities:

• Java Developer with strong Back End Java experience to develop new features for a portfolio of Government Clients.
• Java 8/11/17, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, JEE standards (JPA, JMS, CDI), REST APIs, Oracle DB, PL/SQL.
• Microservices development on AWS/Azure Cloud platforms including Design Patterns.
• Java development experience for large-scale integration projects involving messaging, web services + distributed systems.
• Tech Environment: AWS (ECS, EKS, API Gateway, Serverless), ELK stack (Kibana), DevOps/CI, Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, RabbitMQ + IBM MQ.
• Agile development methods including: Scrum, TDD, BDD, Kanban.
• Advantageous: Government/GOV.UK/Public Sector experience, Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), AppDynamics, Angular, React, web apps, domain driven design (DDD).
• Benefits: Salary to £85k (DOE) + Hybrid Work + 10% Bonus + Pension + 22 days holiday + BHs (rising to 25 days) + Death in Service + Health Care Plan + More.

Location: UK - 100% Remote

Duration: 12-Month Initial Contract

Working Hours: 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM (Mostly)

The Mission

Our client is looking for a Senior SRE to lead the design and evolution of a global observability stack that supports millions of customer devices across 8 international data centers. This isn’t just about monitoring; it’s about building the high-performance, distributed systems that ensure our global cloud remains performant while scaling 2-3x every year.

The Scale of the Challenge

As a Lead on the Observability team, you will dive into projects that define “large-scale”:

• Metrics at Scale: Design and scale a Prometheus architecture to handle 100M+ active series and beyond.
• Petabyte Logging: Operate high-performance ElasticSearch clusters holding 2000+TB of data.
• High-Throughput Pipelines: Grow data pipelines built on Kafka, handling hundreds of thousands of events per second.
• Engineering Autonomy: Write libraries and APIs (Ruby, Go) that provide engineers with self-service access to monitoring and logging systems.
• Infrastructure as Code: Leverage Terraform and Ansible to deploy across both public and private cloud environments.

What We’re Looking For

• Distributed Systems Expert: 5+ years of experience operating mid-to-large scale systems on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)-whether on VMs or bare metal.
• The “S” in SRE: 2+ years of development experience with Ruby, Go, Python, or Scala. You prefer building tools to manual toil.
• Observability Specialist: Direct experience with Prometheus/Thanos/Cortex, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Kafka, and Grafana.
• Automation Mindset: Strong proficiency in Terraform, Ansible, and Consul for infrastructure orchestration.
• Problem Solver: You are comfortable diving into unfamiliar codebases and have a deep understanding of software engineering best practices.
• Availability: You are comfortable being part of a production on-call rotation and working a shift that primarily covers 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM UK time.

If you are interested then let me know and we can have a confidential chat. You can also drop me your CV and I will get back to you on call directly to discuss the role further.

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

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Observability)

Location: London/UK (Remote)

Contract: 12 Months Initial

Day rate : 55 Per Hour - 62 Per Hour Inside IR35

Job Overview

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong experience in Observability, Monitoring and Distributed Systems to support large-scale cloud infrastructure supporting millions of devices globally. The role focuses on building and scaling monitoring, logging and alerting platforms to ensure high availability and performance of cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and scale observability platforms
• Manage and scale Prometheus monitoring systems
• Deploy and maintain large Elasticsearch clusters
• Build and maintain data pipelines using Kafka
• Develop alerting and monitoring frameworks
• Automate infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
• Develop tools and scripts using Python, Go, Ruby or Bash
• Work with Linux systems (Debian/Ubuntu)
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Improve system reliability, performance and scalability

Required Skills

• 5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps
• Strong Linux systems experience
• Observability and Monitoring tools experience
• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Kafka
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Ansible / Configuration Management
• Programming experience (Python, Go, Ruby or Bash)
• Distributed systems and cloud infrastructure experience

This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV or send it khushboo. Co. uk

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

My client is seeking a talented C# Senior Softwar Developer to join their Preston-based team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead projects, mentor junior developers, and work on high-impact, secure banking solutions. You will be a key contributor to web portal and API development, ensuring performance, security, and reliability in a dynamic environment.

This role is ideal for developers with strong technical expertise who are looking to grow into leadership or team management responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain web portals using ASP.NET MVC / .NET Core
• Design and integrate REST APIs with internal and third-party services
• Implement secure authentication mechanisms (JWT, OAuth2, API Keys)
• Connect applications to relational databases using Entity Framework Core (DbContext, LINQ, Migrations)
• Debug and trace request flows from UI Controller API Database Response
• Maintain and publish API documentation via Swagger / OpenAPI
• Ensure API security, reliability, and performance (error handling, retry logic, logging, timeouts, CORS)
• Collaborate with database, infrastructure, and QA teams for portal and API releases
• Participate in code reviews, version control, and CI/CD deployment workflows

Required Technical Skills

• C# (strong proficiency)
• ASP.NET MVC or .NET Core Web API
• MVC concepts: Routing, Controllers, Filters, Middleware, Model Binding, Dependency Injection
• Entity Framework Core (DbContext, DbSet, OnModelCreating, LINQ) and ADO.NET/Raw SQL experience
• MS SQL Server or MySQL database experience
• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
• REST API expertise and integration (HttpClient, RestSharp, JSON serialization/deserialization, CORS, HTTPS, API security)
• Git version control and CI/CD workflows (Azure DevOps, GitLab CI preferred)
• Hosting experience with IIS or Kestrel
• Docker basics (preferred but not mandatory)

Preferred/Bonus Skills

• Experience with fintech or payments API integration
• Cloud services (Azure, AWS) hosting basics
• Webhooks and event-based APIs
• Structured logging tools (Splunk, ELK, App Insights)
• Performance optimization and API rate-handling

Why Join My Client

• Be part of a pioneering fintech/secure banking technology company
• Opportunity to mentor and lead junior developers
• Work in a supportive, collaborative, and technically driven environment
• Gain experience in high-security, mission-critical software projects

Interested? Please Click Apply Now! C# Senior Software Developer

SOC Analyst / SecOps Consultant - Remote with occasional trip to Farnborough

Must have an Active DV Clearance

An opportunity is available for an experienced SOC Analyst / SecOps Consultant to support and enhance Security Operations Centre capability within a highly secure environment. This role focuses on hands on SecOps delivery with a strong emphasis on Elastic Stack ownership, continuous improvement, and collaboration across multiple SOC functions.

About the Role - SOC Analyst / SecOps Consultant

• As a SOC Analyst / SecOps Consultant, you will deliver day to day SOC and SecOps operations in support of live security services.
• You will take ownership of administering and managing the Elastic Stack, including agent deployment and data onboarding.
• You will tune detection rules, build and maintain dashboards, and improve alert fidelity across the SOC.
• You will work closely with internal SOC teams, external SOCs, and end customers to support incident response and service improvement.
• You will maintain high quality SOC documentation and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across processes and tooling.

Key Skills - SOC Analyst / SecOps Consultant

• Proven experience working in SOC or SecOps environments.
• Strong hands on expertise with Elastic Stack (ELK), including data ingestion and rule tuning.
• Experience integrating and managing security data sources.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multi SOC environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a focus on clear documentation.

This role suits a delivery focused SOC Analyst / SecOps Consultant who enjoys deep technical ownership and driving measurable security improvements.

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

Senior DevOps Engineer 6-month contract London/Remote SC Clearance Inside IR35

My Financial Customer is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join a growing technology team responsible for maintaining and evolving a complex on-premise platform. This role will play a key part in ensuring the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of the organisation s technical estate while supporting the delivery of new services.

This Senior DevOps Engineer is required to have experience with the following: Cloud Platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP), Kubernetes, IaC using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills & Experience required from the Senior DevOps Engineer:

• Active SC Clearance
• Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Strong experience supporting production environments, including on-call support and release management.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift in on-premise environments.
• Proven background in Linux system administration
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code, ideally using Terraform, integrated with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins.
• Observability platforms including logging, monitoring, and alerting tools such as ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Experience improving DevOps tooling and contributing to technology roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience working in the financial industry would be beneficial.

Key Responsibilities of the Senior DevOps Engineer:

• Support, maintain and enhance the organisation s core platform and supporting infrastructure.
• Manage the promotion of code across environments, ensuring safe and controlled releases from pre-production through to live.
• Champion continuous improvement and modern DevOps practices, helping teams adopt automation-first approaches across build, deployment, and release processes.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers, sharing best practices and supporting professional development within the team.
• Collaborate with architects and solution designers to align technical delivery with long-term product and technology roadmaps.
• Lead incident management activities, coordinating major incident responses and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders.
• Support a 24/7 production environment, including participation in an on-call rota and out-of-hours release support when required.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Observability) Location: London/UK (Remote) Contract: 12 Months Initial Day rate : £55 Per Hour - £62 Per Hour Inside IR35 Job Overview We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong experience in Observability, Monitoring and Distributed Systems to support large-scale cloud infrastructure supporting millions of devices globally. The role focuses on building and scaling monitoring, logging and alerting platforms to ensure high availability and performance of cloud services. Responsibilities Design, deploy and scale observability platforms Manage and scale Prometheus monitoring systems Deploy and maintain large Elasticsearch clusters Build and maintain data pipelines using Kafka Develop alerting and monitoring frameworks Automate infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible Develop tools and scripts using Python, Go, Ruby or Bash Work with Linux systems (Debian/Ubuntu) Participate in on-call rotation Improve system reliability, performance and scalabilityRequired Skills 5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps Strong Linux systems experience Observability and Monitoring tools experience Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Kafka Terraform / Infrastructure as Code Ansible / Configuration Management Programming experience (Python, Go, Ruby or Bash) Distributed systems and cloud infrastructure experienceThis is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV or send it khushboo. pandey @ randstad. Co. uk Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

My client is seeking a talented C# Senior Softwar Developer to join their Preston-based team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead projects, mentor junior developers, and work on high-impact, secure banking solutions. You will be a key contributor to web portal and API development, ensuring performance, security, and reliability in a dynamic environment.

This role is ideal for developers with strong technical expertise who are looking to grow into leadership or team management responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and maintain web portals using ASP.NET MVC / .NET Core

Design and integrate REST APIs with internal and third-party services

Implement secure authentication mechanisms (JWT, OAuth2, API Keys)

Connect applications to relational databases using Entity Framework Core (DbContext, LINQ, Migrations)

Debug and trace request flows from UI → Controller → API → Database → Response

Maintain and publish API documentation via Swagger / OpenAPI

Ensure API security, reliability, and performance (error handling, retry logic, logging, timeouts, CORS)

Collaborate with database, infrastructure, and QA teams for portal and API releases

Participate in code reviews, version control, and CI/CD deployment workflows

Required Technical Skills

C# (strong proficiency)

ASP.NET MVC or .NET Core Web API

MVC concepts: Routing, Controllers, Filters, Middleware, Model Binding, Dependency Injection

Entity Framework Core (DbContext, DbSet, OnModelCreating, LINQ) and ADO.NET/Raw SQL experience

MS SQL Server or MySQL database experience

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

REST API expertise and integration (HttpClient, RestSharp, JSON serialization/deserialization, CORS, HTTPS, API security)

Git version control and CI/CD workflows (Azure DevOps, GitLab CI preferred)

Hosting experience with IIS or Kestrel

Docker basics (preferred but not mandatory)

Preferred/Bonus Skills

Experience with fintech or payments API integration

Cloud services (Azure, AWS) hosting basics

Webhooks and event-based APIs

Structured logging tools (Splunk, ELK, App Insights)

Performance optimization and API rate-handling

Why Join My Client

Be part of a pioneering fintech/secure banking technology company

Opportunity to mentor and lead junior developers

Work in a supportive, collaborative, and technically driven environment

Gain experience in high-security, mission-critical software projects

Interested? Please Click Apply Now!

C# Senior Software Developer