£Up To 45K GBP Sign On Bonus Hybrid WORKING Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, North East - United Kingdom Type: Permanent DevOps Engineer - Newcastle Upon Tyne (Hybrid) Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne Security Clearance: Must meet eligibility for SC (minimum 5 years UK address history) Working Pattern: Hybrid, with onsite presence required About the Role We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic Advanced Technology Centre, where you will help deliver high-quality technology solutions to both public and private sector clients. You’ll work in an environment that values innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to solve real-world problems, work with modern cloud and automation technologies, and grow within a global organisation known for its diversity, culture, and cutting-edge projects. What You’ll Be Doing Work within a dedicated DevOps team to provide environments and tooling to support development and testing. Automate serverless integrations using APIs to streamline communication between systems. Configure and manage key DevOps tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, SmartBear, SonarCube, and performance/security testing tools. Build automated pipelines that support Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing. Implement Infrastructure as Code using tools such as CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform, and Ansible. Set up monitoring and alerting solutions using platforms like CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Kibana, Splunk, or Prometheus. Work with RESTful APIs to integrate automation within pipelines and scripts. Support Linux environment configuration and administration. Write scripts using languages such as Python, Node.js, TypeScript, PowerShell, or Bash. Skills & Experience Required Strong, hands-on experience in CI/CD tools and practices. Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and Terraform. Experience with automated testing and Quality Assurance tooling. Familiarity with cloud technologies (public or private) and virtualisation. Understanding of RESTful API usage within DevOps processes. Experience working in Agile or Lean development environments. Strong Linux administration skills. Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell, Node.js, TypeScript). Desirable Experience Experience introducing DevOps practices to new teams or projects. Background in defining DevOps roadmaps for enterprise environments. Experience contributing to technical architecture for large-scale systems. Understanding of virtual network configuration or performance testing. What’s in It for You Competitive salary 25 days’ annual leave Private medical insurance 3 additional paid days each year for charitable work Opportunities to work with the latest technologies and global experts A supportive environment that encourages growth, creativity, and innovation Flexibility and mobility to work onsite with clients when needed About the Company You’ll join a global, industry-leading professional services organisation known for its innovation, diverse workforce, and commitment to delivering value across more than 40 industries. With a vast international network and a strong culture of inclusion, the company offers endless opportunities to advance your career while making a meaningful impact. Reference: AMC/JWA/DOENEW Postcode: NE1 #jawa TPBN1_UKTJ

Cyber Security Operations Manager (SOC Lead) Insurance London

My client, a leading insurance organisation based in the City of London, is seeking an experienced Security Operations Manager/SOC Lead to lead and develop their cyber security operations capability.

The role will oversee SOC operations, threat detection, and incident response, while driving improvements across security monitoring, automation, and response processes.

Key experience required:

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Strong experience in cyber security operations

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Strong experience of leading or mentoring SOC teams

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Strong knowledge of incident response and threat detection

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Experience with SIEM platforms such as LogRhythm, Splunk, or Microsoft Sentinel

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Familiarity with SOAR platforms, EDR/XDR tools (eg CrowdStrike, Defender, SentinelOne) and cloud security monitoring across Azure, AWS, or GCP

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Understanding of frameworks such as National Institute of Standards and Technology guidance, International Organization for Standardization ISO 27001, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework

Role Title: Splunk and Openshift Observability Engineer
Location: Sheffield/Birmingham/London/ Hybrid - 2/3 days per week onsite
Duration: 8 months
Rate: £494 per day inside ir35

We’re looking for a Splunk & OpenShift Observability Engineer to design, deploy, and optimise enterprise-grade monitoring across hybrid Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.

This is a high-impact role where you’ll shape observability strategy, enhance service intelligence, and ensure platform reliability at scale - balancing performance, cost efficiency, and security governance.

You’ll work at the intersection of platform engineering, observability, and service intelligence, helping to transform raw telemetry into actionable insight. This is an opportunity to influence reliability strategy, improve operational maturity, and deliver measurable value across a modern cloud-native estate.

What You’ll Be Doing

Design, deploy, and operate Splunk Enterprise and ITSI across hybrid Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms
Onboard and normalise data at scale (HEC, Universal Forwarder, Deployment Server), aligning to CIM standards
Build and optimise ITSI service models: service trees, KPIs, adaptive thresholds, NEAP policies, glass tables, deep dives, and health scoring
Deliver OpenShift-focused executive and operational dashboards, including:
Cluster/API/etcd health
Node readiness and resource pressure
Pod restart trends and noisy-neighbour detection
Network and storage error visibility
Capacity, quota, and burst analysis
Optimise search and platform performance (workload rules, DMA, summary indexing, scheduling hygiene, concurrency tuning)
Implement intelligent alerting and automated routing into ITSM and ChatOps platforms, including enrichment, suppression windows, and maintenance scheduling
Govern data ingestion and security controls (RBAC, retention, PII handling, TLS, token governance, index and role mapping)
Integrate telemetry pipelines including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Fluentd/Fluent Bit/Vector, Kafka, CMDB and AIOps/ML solutions
Drive SLO/KPI alignment, golden signal monitoring, rollout/rollback health validation, and executive reporting

What You’ll Bring

Deep expertise in Splunk Enterprise (SPL mastery, CIM alignment, saved searches, macros, KV stores, index/retention/RBAC design, performance tuning)
Strong experience with Splunk ITSI (service trees, KPIs, adaptive/time-based thresholds, NEAP tuning, Service Analyzer configuration)
Proven OpenShift/Kubernetes observability experience across control-plane metrics, events, logs, workload correlation, and capacity management
Hands-on experience with telemetry pipelines (OpenTelemetry/OTLP, Prometheus exporters, Fluentd/Fluent Bit/Vector, Kafka with TLS, HEC/UF/DS onboarding)
Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles (golden signals, SLO design, namespace/application KPI mapping)
Experience optimising performance and licensing costs using workload rules, DMA, and summary indexing
Solid security and compliance knowledge (TLS/mTLS, certificate/token hygiene, PII controls, auditability, role/index mapping)
Automation and integration expertise across ITSM, ChatOps, webhooks, CMDB enrichment, and AIOps tooling

Role Title: Event Management Consultant
Location: Hybrid - 2-3 days per week onsite in Corsham
Duration: 6 months
Rate £300 per day inside ir35

Active SC clearance required

Description

We are currently seeking an experienced Event Management Consultant to join a dynamic Hosting and Tooling Team supporting enterprise-level operational tooling and monitoring environments.

This role will involve a combination of BAU and project delivery, working alongside Engineers, Analysts, and Consultants to deliver high-quality tooling solutions for secure client environments.

Role Responsibilities

As an Event Management Consultant, you will:

Work directly with client teams, providing technical guidance and operational support.
Design and implement event management policies for internal services and client distribution solutions.
Provide high-level functional system analysis to support client requirements.
Maintain and support operational tooling platforms in line with service deliverables.
Contribute to project delivery, collaborating with internal and external Project Managers.
Produce technical documentation and architectural diagrams.
Build and maintain operational dashboards to support monitoring and reporting requirements.
Enhance automation and monitoring capabilities through scripting and integration.

Skills & Experience

Successful candidates will demonstrate experience with enterprise monitoring platforms and infrastructure environments, including:

Experience managing enterprise tooling such as BMC TrueSight, BMC Discovery, and Splunk (Essential)
Agent deployment and management across large environments.
Tool installation, configuration, and customisation.
SNMP MIB Management.
Experience supporting Windows, AIX, and Linux environments.
Scripting experience with Python and/or PowerShell.
Experience with monitoring tools such as:
Zabbix
Nagios
HP OpenView
Solarwinds
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
IBM Tivoli Netcool
Strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols.
Experience building automation and integrations using APIs (REST).
Advanced Splunk expertise, including:
Rule creation and advanced logic
Splunk Query Language (SPL)
SQL coding
Dashboard developmentIf this Event Management Consultant role is of interest apply now

Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Salary: Up to £60k

Due to the nature of the work, this role requires candidates to undergo Security Clearance. Applicants must have at least 5 years of UK address history at the point of application.

Who is our client?
Our client is a global professional services organisation delivering technology, consulting and digital solutions to businesses across a wide range of industries. They work on complex transformation projects for both private and public sector clients and provide employees with opportunities to develop their skills within an innovative and collaborative technology environment.

The Role:
As a DevOps Engineer, you will:
Work within a DevOps team to deliver environments and tools that support development and testing activities.
Automate the provisioning of integrations between systems using APIs and modern cloud technologies.
Configure and maintain tools used across the development lifecycle including CI/CD and testing platforms.
Build automated processes that enable development teams to adopt continuous integration and continuous testing practices.
Support Scrum teams by maintaining reliable, scalable development and testing environments.
Contribute to the improvement of development workflows and operational efficiency through automation and DevOps best practices.

What the Successful DevOps Engineer can expect from their duties within the role:
Delivering and maintaining development, testing and deployment environments.
Automating infrastructure provisioning and software deployment processes.
Implementing monitoring, logging and alerting solutions to maintain system performance.
Working closely with development teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

The Successful DevOps Engineer will have experience in this tech stack:
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools such as GitLab, Jira or CodeBuild
Infrastructure as Code tools such as CloudFormation, AWS CDK or Terraform
Automation tools such as Ansible for infrastructure provisioning and environment setup
Monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Kibana, Splunk or Prometheus
Public or private cloud platforms and virtualisation technologies
RESTful APIs and integrating them within DevOps pipelines
Agile and Lean software delivery methodologies
Linux based environments and system administration
At least one scripting language such as Python, Node.js, Typescript, PowerShell or Bash

Some Additional experience that is highly desirable but not required for this role are:
Experience introducing DevOps practices to new projects or teams
Experience defining and managing DevOps implementation roadmaps
Experience contributing to technical architecture and system design
Knowledge of virtual networking or functional and performance testing

Benefits
The Successful DevOps Engineer will benefit from these perks that come with the role:
Competitive salary
25 days vacation per year
Private medical insurance
Three extra leave days per year for charitable work
Opportunity to work in a hybrid environment and collaborate with global teams

If you are interested in this role, or have the experience required, please apply below.Reference: AMC/KPE/DVOA

Location: Hybrid 3 days onsite per week Sheffield, Birmingham, or London (UK)

Contract Duration:8 months

Day Rate: £450 £500 per day (Inside IR35)

Role Overview

This is a specialist role focused on designing, deploying, and optimising Splunk Enterprise and Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) in complex hybrid Kubernetes/OpenShift environments. You will handle large-scale data onboarding, build advanced ITSI service models and monitoring views, tune platform performance, implement secure governance, and integrate with modern observability pipelines. The position supports critical observability, reliability, and cost management for containerised workloads in a high-stakes enterprise setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate Splunk Enterprise and ITSI in hybrid Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Onboard data at scale using HEC, Universal Forwarders/Deployment Server; align to Common Information Model (CIM); enforce RBAC, retention policies, and cost guardrails.
• Build ITSI service decompositions, KPIs (including multi-KPI), adaptive/time-based thresholds, NEAP policies, glass tables, deep dives, and service health scoring.
• Create OpenShift-specific executive and operations views: cluster health (API/etcd), node readiness/pressure, pod restart hotspots, network/storage errors, capacity, quotas, and bursting visibility.
• Tune search/platform performance: workload rules, concurrency limits, Data Model Acceleration (DMA), summary indexing, and scheduling optimisation.
• Implement alerting, event enrichment, routing to ITSM/ChatOps, suppression windows, maintenance schedules, and runbook automation.
• Govern data ingest and security: allow/deny lists, PII handling, TLS/mTLS, token/cert governance, index/role mapping, and data quality SLAs.
• Integrate upstream sources/pipelines: OpenTelemetry (OTLP), Prometheus exporters, Fluentd/Fluent Bit/Vector, Kafka (with TLS), CMDB/ITSM enrichments, and AIOps/ML anomaly detection.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Deep Splunk Enterprise expertise: SPL mastery, CIM alignment, KV stores/lookups/macros, saved searches, index/retention/RBAC design, search performance tuning.
• Advanced Splunk ITSI knowledge: Service trees/decompositions, KPIs/thresholds (adaptive/time-based), NEAP tuning, glass tables, deep dives, Service Analyzer configuration.
• Strong OpenShift/Kubernetes observability: Cluster/control-plane metrics, kube events/logs, workload/node/network/storage correlations, capacity/noisy-neighbor detection.
• Experience with data pipelines/collectors: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus scraping, Fluentd/Fluent Bit/Vector, Kafka (TLS-secured), HEC/UF/DS onboarding.
• Reliability & SLOs: Golden signals, rollout/rollback health checks, SLO/KPI mapping to namespaces/apps, executive/ops dashboards.
• Performance & cost optimisation: Workload rules, DMA, summary indexing, schedule hygiene, license/cost guardrails.
• Security & compliance: TLS/mTLS, token/cert management, PII controls, auditability, role/index mappings.
• Automation & integrations: ITSM/ChatOps routing, runbooks, CMDB enrichment, webhook/AIOps integrations.

Preferred / Desirable

• Hands-on experience in regulated/financial services environments.
• Certifications: Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Splunk ITSI Certified Admin, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with AIOps/ML features in Splunk for anomaly detection.
• Previous work with container platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift) for observability at scale.

Success Measures

• High-quality, scalable Splunk/ITSI deployments with optimised performance and cost controls.
• Effective service health monitoring via ITSI (accurate KPIs, glass tables, deep dives).
• Reduced alerting noise, improved incident response through enriched routing and automation.
• Strong governance, security compliance, and traceability in data ingest/observability pipelines.

This role is ideal for a Splunk specialist with proven expertise in ITSI and container observability, who can deliver robust, production-grade monitoring solutions in dynamic hybrid environments. Applications must be PAYE via Umbrella.

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly accomplished Senior DevOps Lead with 15+ years of IT experience to drive enterprise-wide DevOps transformation across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. The ideal candidate will combine strategic leadership with strong hands-on DevOps expertise and possess excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

This role involves defining DevOps strategy, implementing scalable CI/CD platforms, enabling DevSecOps practices, and leading cloud-native transformation across the organization.

Key ResponsibilitiesEnterprise DevOps Strategy & Governance

• Define, drive, and govern the enterprise DevOps roadmap and maturity model.
• Establish DevSecOps practices aligned with compliance and audit requirements.
• Standardize CI/CD pipelines, release governance, environment strategies, and automation frameworks across business units.
• Lead enterprise cloud transformation initiatives across multi-cloud environments.

CI/CD & Azure DevOps Architecture

• Architect and implement scalable CI/CD pipeline ecosystems using Azure DevOps and Jenkins.
• Define branching strategies, release workflows, artifact management, and environment promotion models.
• Implement automated testing, security scanning, quality gates, and compliance validation.
• Optimize pipeline performance, reusability, and governance at scale.

Multi-Cloud & Infrastructure Leadership

• Architect and deliver solutions across multiple cloud service providers (CSPs) with Azure as the primary platform.
• Design resilient, scalable, and cost-optimized hybrid cloud architectures.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM Templates, or CloudFormation.
• Lead containerization and orchestration initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and observability frameworks.

DevOps for COTS Platforms

• Establish DevOps frameworks for enterprise COTS platforms such as Salesforce, Temenos, IBM enterprise solutions, and Snowflake.
• Design CI/CD automation pipelines, configuration management, and deployment workflows for packaged applications.
• Implement environment provisioning and release orchestration strategies for enterprise COTS systems.
• Integrate COTS solutions into enterprise DevSecOps toolchains.

£68,000 - £80,000 plus discretionary bonus and excellent benefits
Bolton / Hybrid (3 days on-site)

We’re supporting a large, complex organisation seeking a Head of Information Security to lead its global security function. This is a senior strategic role where you will shape the organisation’s global information security vision, define enterprise-wide security strategy, and ensure resilience across all technology environments during a time of rapid change.

You’ll oversee governance, architecture, operations, and incident response, while working closely with senior leadership to safeguard critical systems, data, and digital services. Acting as a trusted advisor, you’ll translate complex cyber risks into clear business insight and drive a secure-by-design culture across the organisation.This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced information security leader to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking and highly regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and drive a global information security strategy aligned to organisational priorities and risk appetite.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams spanning governance, risk, compliance, architecture, operations, and incident response.
• Embed recognised frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NIS2, and DORA into policies, processes, and technology platforms.
• Oversee security operations, including monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability management.
• Conduct and support risk assessments, ensuring robust controls are implemented and maintained.
• Partner with Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and wider operational teams to identify, manage, and mitigate cyber risks.
• Ensure secure-by-design principles are incorporated into technology architecture, transformation programmes, and business change.
• Support business continuity and disaster recovery planning by integrating cybersecurity into resilience frameworks.
• Act as the organisation’s senior representative on information security matters, advising board-level stakeholders when required.
• Lead engagement with external partners, networks, auditors, and regulatory bodies.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven senior security leadership experience in cybersecurity or information security within a complex, multi-site, or multinational organisation.
• Extensive experience developing enterprise-wide security strategies aligned to frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, or DORA.
• Strong understanding of cloud and hybrid security environments, including Microsoft 365 and Azure.
• Strong operational expertise across EDR/XDR, SIEM (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk), identity protection, and vulnerability management.
• Experience with security audits, compliance programmes, and regulated industry requirements.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with confidence engaging senior executives and leadership teams.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to balance commercial priorities, operational demands, and cyber risk.

Benefits

• £68,000 - £80,000 per annum (depending on experience)
• Discretionary performance-based bonus scheme, circa 10-15%
• Joint contributory pension scheme 8% - potential to be reviewed in coming months
• 33 days leave including bank holidays
• Buy and sell holiday scheme
• Hybrid working (3 days onsite)
• Career development opportunities with access to accredited training and qualifications

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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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Remote Working

Initial 3-month Contract

550 - 610, Inside IR35

We’re working with an IT Services Provider who are looking for an experienced SC Cleared Splunk Consultant to support the onboarding of assets and documentation for an existing Splunk Cloud environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Onboarding assets into an existing Splunk Cloud instance
• Ensure successful integration and configuration of assets into the platform.
• Completing and maintaining documentation for the environment
• Collaborating with infrastructure, Unix, and Wintel teams as needed
• Troubleshooting and resolving SIEM-related issues during onboarding
• Working independently to deliver tasks within agreed timelines

Required Experience:

• Hands-on experience with Splunk Cloud administration and support
• Strong Unix/Linux and Wintel experience
• Solid understanding of system configuration, security, and compliance
• SC Clearance - essential

ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Role Title: Event Management Consultant
Location: Hybrid - 2-3 days per week onsite in Corsham
Duration: 6 months
Rate 300 per day inside ir35

Active SC clearance required

Description

We are currently seeking an experienced Event Management Consultant to join a dynamic Hosting and Tooling Team supporting enterprise-level operational tooling and monitoring environments.

This role will involve a combination of BAU and project delivery, working alongside Engineers, Analysts, and Consultants to deliver high-quality tooling solutions for secure client environments.

Role Responsibilities

As an Event Management Consultant, you will:

• Work directly with client teams, providing technical guidance and operational support.
• Design and implement event management policies for internal services and client distribution solutions.
• Provide high-level functional system analysis to support client requirements.
• Maintain and support operational tooling platforms in line with service deliverables.
• Contribute to project delivery, collaborating with internal and external Project Managers.
• Produce technical documentation and architectural diagrams.
• Build and maintain operational dashboards to support monitoring and reporting requirements.
• Enhance automation and monitoring capabilities through scripting and integration.

Skills & Experience

Successful candidates will demonstrate experience with enterprise monitoring platforms and infrastructure environments, including:

• Experience managing enterprise tooling such as BMC TrueSight, BMC Discovery, and Splunk (Essential)
• Agent deployment and management across large environments.
• Tool installation, configuration, and customisation.
• SNMP MIB Management.
• Experience supporting Windows, AIX, and Linux environments.
• Scripting experience with Python and/or PowerShell.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as:
• Zabbix
• Nagios
• HP OpenView
• Solarwinds
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring
• IBM Tivoli Netcool
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols.
• Experience building automation and integrations using APIs (REST).
• Advanced Splunk expertise, including:
• Rule creation and advanced logic
• Splunk Query Language (SPL)
• SQL coding
• Dashboard development

If this Event Management Consultant role is of interest apply now!

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

If you’ve also worked in the following roles, we’d also like to hear from you: DevOps Engineer, Operations Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Production Engineer

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

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

JOB TYPE: Full-Time, Permanent

JOB OVERVIEW

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

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

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

APPLY TODAY

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

DUTIES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

ESSENTIAL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Understanding of security frameworks and operational resilience best practices

DESIRABLE

• Experience within ISP, MSP or telecommunications environments

• Familiarity with enterprise IT architectures including OSS and BSS systems

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

• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible

BENEFITS

• Smart casual dress code

• Free access to gym facilities

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

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

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

• Brand new office with excellent transport links

• Supportive team culture, growth and career progression

HOW TO APPLY

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

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This role is Inside IR35

The Lightning Systems Integration Facility (LSIF) is established at the Maritime Integration & Support Centre (MISC) on Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth, to support testing and integration of the F35 Lightning II Aircraft within the UK military infrastructure.

A UKLTI System Administrator is required to administer, patch, secure and maintain the LSIF systems within the MISC environment, prepare the systems in line with testing requirements, and occasionally implement changes to the facility and established infrastructure.

A major function of the role is the maintenance of government furnished computer equipment (including large servers). As part of this, the liaison and effective communication between suppliers, owners, partners and users is crucial in ensuring the equipment is available to the right groups at the right time.

The role will require good organisational and communication skills on top of technical ability covering a range of technologies.

The incumbent will be provided training on how to use the proprietary systems and will be expected to become well versed in using and administering them.

Typical duties include (but are not limited to):

• Administration and maintenance of hardware, software, and networks
• Implementation of changes to hardware, software and networks
• Assisting with system preparation in line with customer and project requirements
• Assisting with security and export control matters (including ITAR and IVCO)
• Assisting with the planning, execution and reporting of testing events
• Assisting with longer-term facility planning
• Assisting with procurement and management of LSIF hardware and software
• Configuration control of assets, documents, change requests etc

Knowledge:

Server Administration, including Active Directory, DNS, Group Policies, Disk Management, updating via WSUS as well as knowledge of Microsoft hypervisor and the ability to implement and manage a virtual environment.

Experience of auditing system log files and anti-virus monitoring using monitoring tools such as SolarWinds NPM/Observability, Kiwi Syslog, Splunk and Trellix ePO

Some experience with networking vendors such as Cisco, FortiGate. Experience configuring, troubleshooting and upgrading network devices and knowledge of LAN and WAN infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls).

Ability to physically install Servers, workstations and network devices, and to perform cable management to MoD Standard

Ability to design, plan, implement and manage integration of separate IT systems, including at different security classifications.

Knowledge of ITAR, EAR, DEAL, SCIDA accreditation requirements of JSP 440 and 480, etc.

Experience of ITIL processes and procedures.

General IT trouble shooting skills

Some knowledge of Linux, and / or containerisation, as well as JIRA and Confluence would also be preferred although is not vital

Skills:

Ability to learn to use new technology including proprietary software and systems when required

Ability to work as part of a team

Ability to communicate with other team members, suppliers and customers

Ability to document changes and troubleshooting steps taken

Ability to prioritise work based on customer requirements and project/team objectives

Cyber Security Operations Manager (SOC Lead) Insurance London

My client, a leading insurance organisation based in the City of London, is seeking an experienced Security Operations Manager/SOC Lead to lead and develop their cyber security operations capability.

The role will oversee SOC operations, threat detection, and incident response, while driving improvements across security monitoring, automation, and response processes.

Key experience required:

• Strong experience in cyber security operations
• Strong experience of leading or mentoring SOC teams
• Strong knowledge of incident response and threat detection
• Experience with SIEM platforms such as LogRhythm, Splunk, or Microsoft Sentinel
• Familiarity with SOAR platforms, EDR/XDR tools (eg CrowdStrike, Defender, SentinelOne) and cloud security monitoring across Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Understanding of frameworks such as National Institute of Standards and Technology guidance, International Organization for Standardization ISO 27001, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework

Job title: Event Management Engineer

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

SC security clearance is required for this role

The Role

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

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

Key responsibilities include:

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

Required Experience:

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

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

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

Job title: Event Management Engineer

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

SC security clearance is required for this role

The Role

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

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

Key responsibilities include:

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

Required Experience:

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

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

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

Senior Infrastructure & Directory Services Engineer - Defence ProgrammeLocation: Caerphilly (with travel to Defence/Ministry of Defence sites as required)Clearance: SC (must hold or be eligible); DV highly desirablePackage: £65,000 + Bonus + comprehensive benefitsWorking Pattern: Hybrid (Mon & Fri optional WFH)This is a fantastic opportunity for you, a Senior infrastructure and Director Services Engineer - or similar, to join a long?established, financially robust technology provider with comprehensive experience delivering secure IT solutions across the UK public sector.The OpportunityA major Defence customer is undertaking an extensive programme to build a secure, on?premise, multi?domain virtualised infrastructure that underpins mission?critical and operational capabilities. As a Senior Infrastructure & Directory Services Engineer, you will design, implement, and support enterprise services across several secure domains - including Active Directory, identity services, Windows Server, DNS/DHCP, PKI, authentication platforms, and related Microsoft ecosystem components.Key Responsibilities- Architect, manage, and maintain multi?site Active Directory environments- Administer DNS, DHCP, and PKI in secure operational environments- Design and enforce Group Policy Objects (GPOs)- Manage Web Application Proxy (WAP), RDS, and federation services- Ensure alignment with MOD security standards- Participate in design reviews and Change Advisory Boards (CAB)- Work closely with security, cloud, networking, Linux, and virtualisation teams- Monitor performance using Splunk, event logging, and PowerShell automation- Automate tasks using PowerShell (essential) or Ansible (desirable)Essential Skills & Experience- Multi?site Active Directory support- Windows Server, DNS, DHCP- GPO design and troubleshooting- PKI and certificate services- Web Application Proxy & RDS- Strong PowerShell scripting- Working in a Defence or Government environmentDesirable Skills- Defence sector experience- VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi; awareness of NSX?T- SIEM/monitoring experience- Ansible or other automation tools- Linux/Unix integration with AD- Secure WAN technologies (BGP/MPLS/VPN)- Existing SC/DV clearanceQualifications- Microsoft Identity & Access Administrator (or equivalent)- ITIL v4 Foundation or higher- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experiencePersonal Attributes- Customer?focused and committed to service excellence- Strong ownership and reliability- Willingness to challenge established practices- Driven, proactive, and collaborativeIf you are a Senior Infrastructure and Director Services Engineer or similar, with a background in Defence, then please send your CV to me today as this will go quickly.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Defence / National Security - £75k - Farnborough - Hybrid

A permanent opportunity for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer who enjoys building secure, automated, and highly reliable platforms. This role sits within a defence and national security environment, working on modern infrastructure where automation, resilience, and secure-by-design principles are fundamental.

You’ll work closely with platform engineers, infrastructure teams, and operational stakeholders to take requirements from early design and proof-of-concept through to production. The role blends hands-on engineering with technical design, offering real influence over tooling, standards, and DevOps ways of working. It suits someone curious, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in complex, regulated environments.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing, delivering, upgrading, and maintaining core platforms, services, and automations
• Building and improving monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms
• Designing secure infrastructure using automation-first approaches
• Creating and productionising proofs of concept for new tools and technologies
• Diagnosing and resolving performance, reliability, and availability issues
• Supporting architecture, documentation, and non-functional requirements
• Mentoring engineers and helping improve DevOps and SRE practices

Essential experience

• Strong experience with Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows Server environments
• Hands-on scripting skills (Bash, Python, PowerShell or similar)
• Proven experience with automation and DevOps tooling (Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, Git)
• Experience working with Azure or similar cloud platforms
• Solid understanding of infrastructure reliability, monitoring, and incident response
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work across multiple priorities
• Willingness to work in secure, regulated environments (SC eligibility required)

Desirable experience

• Infrastructure-as-Code lifecycle and best practices
• Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Configuration management and desired state tooling
• Application and platform monitoring tools (Splunk, Nagios or similar)
• Experience hardening systems and conducting security assessments
• Understanding of Agile and DevOps principles in practice

A collaborative, inclusive culture with strong benefits including competitive pay, bonus, pension, private healthcare, generous leave, professional development, wellbeing perks, and modern on-site facilities.

We’re looking for a Splunk & OpenShift Observability Engineer to design, deploy, and optimise enterprise-grade monitoring across hybrid Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.

This is a high-impact role where you’ll shape observability strategy, enhance service intelligence, and ensure platform reliability at scale - balancing performance, cost efficiency, and security governance.

You’ll work at the intersection of platform engineering, observability, and service intelligence, helping to transform raw telemetry into actionable insight. This is an opportunity to influence reliability strategy, improve operational maturity, and deliver measurable value across a modern cloud-native estate.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, deploy, and operate Splunk Enterprise and ITSI across hybrid Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms
• Onboard and normalise data at scale (HEC, Universal Forwarder, Deployment Server), aligning to CIM standards
• Build and optimise ITSI service models: service trees, KPIs, adaptive thresholds, NEAP policies, glass tables, deep dives, and health scoring
• Deliver OpenShift-focused executive and operational dashboards, including:
• Cluster/API/etcd health
• Node readiness and resource pressure
• Pod restart trends and noisy-neighbour detection
• Network and storage error visibility
• Capacity, quota, and burst analysis
• Optimise search and platform performance (workload rules, DMA, summary indexing, scheduling hygiene, concurrency tuning)
• Implement intelligent alerting and automated routing into ITSM and ChatOps platforms, including enrichment, suppression windows, and maintenance scheduling
• Govern data ingestion and security controls (RBAC, retention, PII handling, TLS, token governance, index and role mapping)
• Integrate telemetry pipelines including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Fluentd/Fluent Bit/Vector, Kafka, CMDB and AIOps/ML solutions
• Drive SLO/KPI alignment, golden signal monitoring, rollout/rollback health validation, and executive reporting

What You’ll Bring

• Deep expertise in Splunk Enterprise (SPL mastery, CIM alignment, saved searches, macros, KV stores, index/retention/RBAC design, performance tuning)
• Strong experience with Splunk ITSI (service trees, KPIs, adaptive/time-based thresholds, NEAP tuning, Service Analyzer configuration)
• Proven OpenShift/Kubernetes observability experience across control-plane metrics, events, logs, workload correlation, and capacity management
• Hands-on experience with telemetry pipelines (OpenTelemetry/OTLP, Prometheus exporters, Fluentd/Fluent Bit/Vector, Kafka with TLS, HEC/UF/DS onboarding)
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles (golden signals, SLO design, namespace/application KPI mapping)
• Experience optimising performance and licensing costs using workload rules, DMA, and summary indexing
• Solid security and compliance knowledge (TLS/mTLS, certificate/token hygiene, PII controls, auditability, role/index mapping)
• Automation and integration expertise across ITSM, ChatOps, webhooks, CMDB enrichment, and AIOps tooling

Up to £40,000 plus excellent bonus and benefits

Hybrid working available (after probation)

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join a fast-growing FinTech company transforming the payments space! Due to exciting business growth, we are looking for a proactive individual with strong technical fundamentals to help our clients integrate and maintain our SaaS payment solutions. Candidates will ideally have API knowledge and experience in provisioning and onboarding payment products. This is an career step into the intersection of software development and financial technology. Candidates will have a Computing / Computer Science degree qualification, and must have customer facing support experience.

Key Responsibilities of the IT Technical Support to include:

• Provisioning & Onboarding: Own the end-to-end setup of customer environments, including merchant IDs, payment products, and mapping requirements.
• API Support: Assist clients with REST/SOAP API integrations, authentication (OAuth), and troubleshooting using Postman and sandbox environments.
• Technical Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve application issues using log analysis tools (e.g., Splunk) and API forensic data.
• Customer Interaction: Provide clear, professional guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ticket Management: Log, track, and resolve support cases within SLA timelines using JIRA or similar platforms.
• Collaboration: Work closely with engineering and product teams to escalate and resolve complex issues.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate onboarding records and contribute to the internal knowledge base.

Requirements for the successful IT Technical Support:

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 1 year in technical or application support, ideally in SaaS, fintech, or payments (this can include high-quality internships or placement years).
• Experience with provisioning systems and onboarding technical/payment products.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and API security best practices (OAuth, SSL/TLS).
• Hands-on experience with Postman, Splunk, and ticketing systems.
• Understanding of REST/SOAP APIs, JSON/XML, and troubleshooting techniques.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• Knowledge of payment systems or card processing is a plus.

What’s on offer for you:

• Flexible hybrid working (after probation).
• Private medical care.
• Structured onboarding and training program.
• Clear career progression opportunities into senior technical or management roles.
• Opportunities for growth in a supportive, fast-growing company.

This vacancy is being advertised by Montpellier Resourcing Associates Limited. The services advertised by Montpellier Associates Resourcing Limited are those of an Employment Agency

6-12 months London - Remote £600 per day inside IR35 - umbrella only Overview Our developers work within multidisciplinary Agile teams to deliver secure, robust, and user centred digital services. The role involves building high quality software, contributing to technical design, and continually improving codebases to meet service and safety requirements. Soft Skills & Behaviours: Clear and confident communicator , able to work with designers, product teams, testers, engineers, and external partners. Highly collaborative , supporting team success and contributing to shared goals. Positive, engaged, and proactive , bringing energy to team ceremonies and wider delivery activities. Comfortable with change , able to work through evolving requirements or priorities. Keen to learn and share knowledge , contributing to code reviews, pair?programming, and community?of?practice activities. Experienced working within Agile delivery , contributing to stand-ups, planning, reviews, retrospectives, and show?and?tell sessions. Delivers with quality , making sensible trade-offs and managing technical debt thoughtfully. Stays informed about modern technologies and practices , promoting proportionate adoption of tools that add value. Technical Skills & Responsibilities: Intermediate to advanced practical experience with: React and TypeScript Python AWS services i.e. Athena/Glue, DynamoDB, ECS, S3, Lambda, SQS, Step Function, etc Automated testing frameworks for Python and JavaScript Terraform for infrastructure-as-code Agile delivery workflows Tooling experience: Git Jira Confluence Desirable (Nice to Have): Cypress GitHub Actions Splunk Other Requirements: Eligible for BPSS and SC clearance , due to interaction with sensitive or protected systems. Previous NHS experience is desirable , including understanding of NHS digital services or national systems. Exposure to digital product development and live?service environments is advantageous. TPBN1\_UKTJ