Software Engineer C# development with a a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical/Automation Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field with
focus on hardware-automation or control systems (or equivalent).
Desirable a bachelor s degree in Automation or Manufacturing engineering

Software Engineers C# will be designing robust, multithreaded machine control software for deterministic, high-availability industrial systems.

Software Engineers will contribute to the software architecture by focusing on key areas such as reliability, data logging, predictive maintenance capabilities, and
cybersecurity for industrial environments. Software Engineers C# will have some of the following software development experience.

Expert proficiency in C# for application development, specifically using
the .NET Framework/Core (for stability and modern application
development) and ideally WPF (for complex, responsive UIs).
Demonstrable experience with real-time or near real-time operating
systems (RTOS) concepts and implementation, or strong experience
with real-time extensions in Windows or Linux.
Experience with Python for data processing, test automation, or highlevel
control scripts.
Familiarity with modern software development practices, including
Design Patterns (e.g., MVVM, Factory) and Clean Architecture
principles.
Industrial Control & Communication
Proven experience in programming and configuring industrial PCs (IPC)
and motion controllers (e.g., from Beckhoff, Delta Tau, Aerotech, Galil).
In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Industrial Ethernet
protocols such as EtherCAT, PROFINET, or SERCOS III for high-speed,
deterministic control loops.
Practical experience integrating industrial communication standards
like OPC UA for data exchange, telemetry, and SCADA/MES integration.

Knowledge of Machine Vision libraries (e.g., Halcon, OpenCV) and
practical experience implementing vision systems for alignment, quality
control (QC), and feature recognition.

Proficiency with Git for version control and collaborative development.
Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure
DevOps, GitLab CI) for industrial software deployment.
Familiarity with data logging, time-series databases (e.g., InfluxDB), or
SQL/NoSQL databases for storing and analyzing machine operational data

Are you ready and looking for a role that you can make your own, taking the autonomy to set out what and how you do it?

As we have grown, we have accumulated a diverse database infrastructure, including PostgreSQL, Maria DB, InfluxDB and MongoDB systems.

The timing is ripe for an experienced Administrator to take ownership, mature, upgrade and manage our database servers, while supporting development teams and business operations.

Key Accountability & Responsibilities

Work with teams across the Technology department to install, configure, maintain, and upgrade our database servers across development, testing, and production environments.

Monitor database health and perform routine maintenance tasks including index optimisation, table maintenance, and schema modifications.

Work with Development and Data engineering teams to optimise performance & cost of data pipelines

Manage database capacity planning and storage allocation to ensure adequate resources for current and future needs.

Proactive management of databases, ensuring application and operational performance needs are met.

Implement and maintain high availability solutions including replication, clustering, and failover configurations.

Document database architectures, configurations, procedures and policies.

Implement appropriate security controls to ensure databases and data are protected.

Ensure database backup, validation and disaster recovery capabilities are in place and rehearsed.

Provide insight and recommendation on the adoption and consolidation of database related technologies.

Be part of the on 24x7 on call rota to provide out of hours support for our critical systems.

Knowledge & Skills

Proven expertise managing PostgreSQL and MariaDB/MySQL databases

Experience with NoSQL databases.

Experience with cloud database services (AWS).

Deep understanding of relational database concepts, normalisation, and SQL optimisation.

Proficiency in SQL and query optimisation across multiple database platforms.

Experience with database replication, clustering, and high availability configurations.

Familiarity with backup and recovery tools specific to each database platform.

Understanding of database security principles and access control mechanisms.

Experience with monitoring tools and performance analysis techniques.

Knowledge of version control systems (Git) for managing database code and scripts.

Experience with database automation, CI/CD pipelines and tooling.

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

Bolton As a data engineer specialising in generative AI ; this role will see you working in a developing international and transversal structure. You will have the responsibility to evaluate, build and maintain data sets for internal customers whilst ensuring they can be maintained. Salary: Circa £45,000 - £55,000 depending on experience Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week on-site due to workload classification Security Clearance: British Citizen Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team. What we can offer you: Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year) Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14% Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…The opportunity: The MBDA IM GenAI delivery Office department is looking for an experienced data engineer able to evaluate design, deploy, improve and support MBDA data sets. You will ensure MBDA data pipelines are designed to be resilient, secure and responsive. You will use your data engineering expertise to collaborate with different internal customers regarding their data, ensuring they are optimised and secured for their needs. You will provide your knowledge in data management and data quality to guarantee compliance to MBDA data governance. A key part of this role is keeping up to date with new technology, where you will provide insight on our technology roadmap and deliver cutting edge solutions to our internal customers. What we’re looking for from you: SQL technologies skills (e.g. MS SQL, Oracle…) noSQL technologies skills (e.g. MongoDB, InfluxDB, Neo4J…) Data exchange and processing skills (e.g. ETL, ESB, API…) Development (e.g. Python) skills Big data technologies knowledge (e.g. Hadoop stack) Knowledge in NLP (Natural Language Processing) Knowledge in OCR (Object Character Recognition) Knowledge in Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) would be advantageous Experience in containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker) would be advantageous Knowledge in the industrial and / or defence sector would be advantageousOur company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom. We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity and more… We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Follow us on LinkedIn (MBDA), X (@MBDA_UK), Instagram (MBDA_UK) and Glassdoor or visit our MBDA Careers website for more information. #LI-RM1

Site Reliability Engineer | Bristol, Hybrid (3 days onsite, 2 from home) | Up to £95K & Great Benefits

Ready to take on high-impact engineering challenges that actually matter? Want to work on mission-critical systems used across the UKs most high-profile government organisations?

This is your chance to join TwinStream a team of elite engineers who built their careers cracking complex cross-domain problems, and then built a company to do it even better.

Were growing fast. Demand for our services is skyrocketing. And now were looking for a Site Reliability Engineer whos ready to step into a role with real ownership, real influence, and real opportunities to innovate.

Why Youll Love This Role

As our new SRE, youll be right at the heart of our evolving cloud and on-prem platforms. This isnt a keep the lights on jobits a role where youll shape infrastructure strategy, partner closely with software and systems teams, and push performance, reliability, and automation to the next level.

You’ll help us evolve observability, enhance delivery pipelines, eliminate toil, drive reliability metrics, and make smart technical decisions that keep our systems robust as we scale.

If you love solving gnarly problems, improving how things work, and innovating at speedthis is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Engineer:

Collaborating with Software Engineers to improve subsystem reliability and performance

Partnering with System Administrators to automate toil and cut down alert noise

Taking observability to the next levelfind issues before they hit the business

Supporting development environments to boost speed and quality

Researching & evaluating tools to guide key buy-vs-build decisions

Deepening your expertise across multiple technical and business domains

Expanding your knowledge of diverse tech stacks and platforms

What You Bring

Modern configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef or similar)

Terraform

Docker containers & orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm)

CI/CD tooling (Jenkins or similar)

Monitoring/metrics stack (InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana)

MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or other AMQP solutions)

SQL & relational databases

Linux administration & shell scripting

Network security fundamentals

Cloud hosting (ideally AWS: EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)

Bonus points for:

Experience with Java, Go, Python or similar

Knowledge of cross-domain principles & tech

Service management experience

Hands-on observability implementation

Proven ability to reduce downtime with smart reliability metrics

Why Youll Love Working at TwinStream

Competitive salary, £65k - £95k DOE

8% employer pension contribution

Private medical healthcare (including dental & optical for the whole family)

Flexible working culture

Learning & development owned by YOU

Electric vehicle salary-sacrifice scheme

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Regular team events, plus Christmas & summer parties

Life assurance & cycle-to-work scheme

Security Clearance

Youll need to be eligible for SC and/or DV clearance. Any offer will be subject to successful security screening.

Ready to engineer impact?

Apply now and shape the future of secure, high-performance cross-domain systems.

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eDV DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - AWS, Kubernetes - Contract Outside IR35.
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We are supporting a specialist engineering consultancy delivering secure technology platforms to high-profile UK government organisations. They are seeking an eDV Cleared DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong experience across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD and Linux environments to support the continued growth of critical cross-domain systems.
This contract role will focus on improving platform reliability, automation, infrastructure as code, observability and DevOps practices across both cloud and on-premise environments. You will work closely with software engineers, platform engineers and operations teams to ensure highly secure, scalable and resilient systems supporting sensitive government programmes.

Location: Cheltenham (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)
Rate: 500- 650 per day Outside IR35
Security Clearance: Active eDV Clearance required
Start Date ASAP

As a DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and reliability of services supporting sensitive government programmes. You will collaborate with multiple feature development teams and BAU/support teams to evolve both cloud and on-premise infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and observability tooling.
The role will focus on improving system reliability, monitoring, automation, and performance, while proactively identifying and mitigating operational risks. This position may also involve participation in an on-call rota, which could include occasional 24/7 call-out support.
Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve subsystem reliability and performance.

• Work with system administrators to automate operational processes and reduce manual effort.

• Enhance monitoring and observability capabilities to proactively detect and resolve issues.

• Support development environments to improve delivery speed and quality.

• Contribute to the evolution of infrastructure, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Research and evaluate new technologies and tools to support engineering decisions.

• Develop expertise across multiple technical and business domains.

  Required Skills & Experience

• Active eDV clearance is essential

• configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or similar

• Strong Terraform

• Docker containers and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm)

• maintaining and using CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins

• Monitoring and observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or InfluxDB

• event-driven integration and messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or other AMQP solutions

• Strong Linux command line, administration, and shell scripting experience

• Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL

• network security protocols

• Working with cloud platforms, ideally AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda) Azure a plus

Please send your CV to Laura at (url removed) to progress matters. Services Advertised are those of Employment Business.

Bolton

As a data engineer specialising in generative AI ; this role will see you working in a developing international and transversal structure. You will have the responsibility to evaluate, build and maintain data sets for internal customers whilst ensuring they can be maintained.
Salary: Circa £45,000 - £55,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week on-site due to workload classification
Security Clearance: British Citizen
Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.
What we can offer you:

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more

The opportunity:
The MBDA IM GenAI delivery Office department is looking for an experienced data engineer able to evaluate design, deploy, improve and support MBDA data sets.

You will ensure MBDA data pipelines are designed to be resilient, secure and responsive. You will use your data engineering expertise to collaborate with different internal customers regarding their data, ensuring they are optimised and secured for their needs.

You will provide your knowledge in data management and data quality to guarantee compliance to MBDA data governance. A key part of this role is keeping up to date with new technology, where you will provide insight on our technology roadmap and deliver cutting edge solutions to our internal customers.
What we’re looking for from you:

• SQL technologies skills (e.g. MS SQL, Oracle )
• noSQL technologies skills (e.g. MongoDB, InfluxDB, Neo4J )
• Data exchange and processing skills (e.g. ETL, ESB, API )
• Development (e.g. Python) skills
• Big data technologies knowledge (e.g. Hadoop stack)
• Knowledge in NLP (Natural Language Processing)
• Knowledge in OCR (Object Character Recognition)
• Knowledge in Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) would be advantageous
• Experience in containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker) would be advantageous
• Knowledge in the industrial and / or defence sector would be advantageous

Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given

MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.

We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity and more

We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

Follow us on LinkedIn (MBDA), X Instagram (MBDA_UK) and Glassdoor or visit our MBDA Careers website for more information.

Site Reliability Engineer Bristol, Hybrid (3 days onsite, 2 from home) Up to £95K & Great Benefits

Ready to take on high-impact engineering challenges that actually matter? Want to work on mission-critical systems used across the UK s most high-profile government organisations?

This is your chance to join TwinStream a team of elite engineers who built their careers cracking complex cross-domain problems, and then built a company to do it even better.

We re growing fast. Demand for our services is skyrocketing. And now we re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who s ready to step into a role with real ownership, real influence, and real opportunities to innovate.

Why You ll Love This Role

As our new SRE, you ll be right at the heart of our evolving cloud and on-prem platforms. This isn t a keep the lights on job it s a role where you ll shape infrastructure strategy, partner closely with software and systems teams, and push performance, reliability, and automation to the next level.

You’ll help us evolve observability, enhance delivery pipelines, eliminate toil, drive reliability metrics, and make smart technical decisions that keep our systems robust as we scale.

If you love solving gnarly problems, improving how things work, and innovating at speed this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Engineer:

• Collaborating with Software Engineers to improve subsystem reliability and performance
• Partnering with System Administrators to automate toil and cut down alert noise
• Taking observability to the next level find issues before they hit the business
• Supporting development environments to boost speed and quality
• Researching & evaluating tools to guide key buy-vs-build decisions
• Deepening your expertise across multiple technical and business domains
• Expanding your knowledge of diverse tech stacks and platforms

What You Bring

• Modern configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef or similar)
• Terraform
• Docker containers & orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm)
• CI/CD tooling (Jenkins or similar)
• Monitoring/metrics stack (InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana)
• MQ messaging (RabbitMQ or other AMQP solutions)
• SQL & relational databases
• Linux administration & shell scripting
• Network security fundamentals
• Cloud hosting (ideally AWS: EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda)

Bonus points for:

• Experience with Java, Go, Python or similar
• Knowledge of cross-domain principles & tech
• Service management experience
• Hands-on observability implementation
• Proven ability to reduce downtime with smart reliability metrics

Why You ll Love Working at TwinStream

• Competitive salary, £65k - £95k DOE
• 8% employer pension contribution
• Private medical healthcare (including dental & optical for the whole family)
• Flexible working culture
• Learning & development owned by YOU
• Electric vehicle salary-sacrifice scheme
• 28 days holiday + bank holidays
• Regular team events, plus Christmas & summer parties
• Life assurance & cycle-to-work scheme

Security Clearance

You ll need to be eligible for SC and/or DV clearance. Any offer will be subject to successful security screening.

Ready to engineer impact?

Apply now and shape the future of secure, high-performance cross-domain systems.