Robert Walters
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Site Reliability Engineer Location: Glasgow Role Type: Contract - 12 months Work Setup: Hybrid - 3 days in the office Who We Are Robert Walters is the world's most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds. Who You Will Work With Our client is global financial services firm that manages wealth, navigates complex markets, and design strategic financial objectives. The firm provides risk management solutions across a variety of sectors, emphasizing long-term relationships, and innovative approaches to financial challenges. What you'll do : Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale data and analytics platforms across DEV, QA, and PROD. Apply SRE principles to design resilient services, define SLIs/SLOs, and drive continuous reliability improvements. Automate workflows and tooling (primarily Python) to reduce operational toil and improve repeatability. Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for data pipelines, cloud platforms, semantic models, and services. Support release and change management, ensuring safe deployments, validation, and rollback readiness. Serve as a senior escalation point for incidents, performing root cause analysis and preventive remediation. Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability for platform components and data workloads. Operate and optimize cloud-based data platforms (eg, Snowflake) for stability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Support deployment and reliability of AI-enabled services, including monitoring, failure handling, and runbook creation. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure AI/analytics features are production-ready and safely integrated. Contribute to operational documentation, runbooks, and platform operating model improvements. What You Bring: 5+ years in SRE, production, or platform engineering with hands-on experience operating large-scale production systems. Strong Python automation and Scripting, CI/CD pipeline development, and modern software delivery practices. Experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake preferred), relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server), and troubleshooting across application, platform, and data layers. Knowledge of change and incident management in enterprise environments. Excellent communication and collaboration across teams. Technical competencies Monitoring, alerting, observability, infrastructure-as-code, Unix/Linux systems, basic networking. Desired/Nice-to-Have: Semantic data modelling, analytics platforms, and BI tools (Tableau, Power BI). Exposure to Snowflake Cortex or GenAI/LLM tools in production. Agile delivery experience (sprints, backlog refinement) and knowledge of ITSM processes. Experience supporting AI-enabled or analytics-driven platforms at scale in regulated enterprises. What's Next: If you are ready to take the next step, apply now. Successful applicants will be contacted directly by a recruiter to discuss the role more. We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require support or adjustments to the recruitment process, our Adjustment Concierge Service is here to help. Please feel free to contact us at (see below) to discuss how we can support you. This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organizations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.
Site Reliability Engineer Location: Glasgow Role Type: Contract - 12 months Work Setup: Hybrid - 3 days in the office Who We Are Robert Walters is the world's most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds. Who You Will Work With Our client is global financial services firm that manages wealth, navigates complex markets, and design strategic financial objectives. The firm provides risk management solutions across a variety of sectors, emphasizing long-term relationships, and innovative approaches to financial challenges. What you'll do : Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale data and analytics platforms across DEV, QA, and PROD. Apply SRE principles to design resilient services, define SLIs/SLOs, and drive continuous reliability improvements. Automate workflows and tooling (primarily Python) to reduce operational toil and improve repeatability. Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for data pipelines, cloud platforms, semantic models, and services. Support release and change management, ensuring safe deployments, validation, and rollback readiness. Serve as a senior escalation point for incidents, performing root cause analysis and preventive remediation. Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability for platform components and data workloads. Operate and optimize cloud-based data platforms (eg, Snowflake) for stability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Support deployment and reliability of AI-enabled services, including monitoring, failure handling, and runbook creation. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure AI/analytics features are production-ready and safely integrated. Contribute to operational documentation, runbooks, and platform operating model improvements. What You Bring: 5+ years in SRE, production, or platform engineering with hands-on experience operating large-scale production systems. Strong Python automation and Scripting, CI/CD pipeline development, and modern software delivery practices. Experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake preferred), relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server), and troubleshooting across application, platform, and data layers. Knowledge of change and incident management in enterprise environments. Excellent communication and collaboration across teams. Technical competencies Monitoring, alerting, observability, infrastructure-as-code, Unix/Linux systems, basic networking. Desired/Nice-to-Have: Semantic data modelling, analytics platforms, and BI tools (Tableau, Power BI). Exposure to Snowflake Cortex or GenAI/LLM tools in production. Agile delivery experience (sprints, backlog refinement) and knowledge of ITSM processes. Experience supporting AI-enabled or analytics-driven platforms at scale in regulated enterprises. What's Next: If you are ready to take the next step, apply now. Successful applicants will be contacted directly by a recruiter to discuss the role more. We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require support or adjustments to the recruitment process, our Adjustment Concierge Service is here to help. Please feel free to contact us at (see below) to discuss how we can support you. This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organizations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.
Sanderson Recruitment Plc
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Staff Software Engineer Glasgow (2-3 days p/w on site) £80,000 p/a Overview An excellent opportunity to join a well-regarded Ed-Tech organisation with a strong presence in Glasgow. You will have the opportunity to shape and build solutions used by students across the globe. Build and evolve a cloud-based product used at meaningful scale. This is a senior, hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys shaping technical direction, raising engineering standards, and helping multiple squads deliver reliably without stepping away from the code. Responsibilities Design, build and maintain production services and customer-facing features, from early discovery through to release and operation. Provide technical leadership across multiple squads: clarify goals, reduce ambiguity and help teams converge on pragmatic solutions. Partner closely with Product and Design to turn outcomes into shippable increments, keeping communication crisp and expectations aligned. Set a high bar for engineering quality: architecture, code health, testing discipline, observability and operational readiness. Work with reliability/operations colleagues to improve uptime, performance, incident response and capacity planning. Own and improve delivery ways of working: estimation approaches, planning, prioritisation, and predictable execution against epics. Continuously modernise existing systems; simplify, automate, and remove friction to increase delivery speed. Contribute to the technical roadmap for your domain, balancing near-term delivery with longer-term platform evolution. Collaborate on cross-cutting initiatives such as security, data and applied AI where they improve product outcomes. Required Experience Significant commercial software engineering experience, operating at a senior/staff level. Comfort leading through influence: you can align teams, coach engineers, and drive decisions without relying on hierarchy. A strong sense of ownership and follow-through. You should be comfortable being accountable for outcomes, not just tasks. A bias for action paired with good judgement: you can move quickly while managing risk in production systems. Evidence of improving how teams work (quality, delivery, reliability, developer experience) and challenging the status quo constructively. Clear communicator who can tailor detail for different audiences: engineers, product partners and leadership. Deep capability in at least one mainstream programming language and ecosystem, with the range to be effective in others. Practical experience designing and running cloud-native services, including infrastructure, deployment and operational tooling. Confidence diagnosing complex issues in distributed systems (performance, reliability, tricky production defects). Strong grasp of data storage and access patterns, with hands-on experience across relational and/or NoSQL databases. Comfort working with modern engineering practices: automated testing, code review, CI/CD, observability and secure-by-design thinking. Curiosity about emerging approaches (including applied and agentic AI) and the ability to adopt them responsibly where they add value. Reasonable Adjustments: Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients. If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason , please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.
Staff Software Engineer Glasgow (2-3 days p/w on site) £80,000 p/a Overview An excellent opportunity to join a well-regarded Ed-Tech organisation with a strong presence in Glasgow. You will have the opportunity to shape and build solutions used by students across the globe. Build and evolve a cloud-based product used at meaningful scale. This is a senior, hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys shaping technical direction, raising engineering standards, and helping multiple squads deliver reliably without stepping away from the code. Responsibilities Design, build and maintain production services and customer-facing features, from early discovery through to release and operation. Provide technical leadership across multiple squads: clarify goals, reduce ambiguity and help teams converge on pragmatic solutions. Partner closely with Product and Design to turn outcomes into shippable increments, keeping communication crisp and expectations aligned. Set a high bar for engineering quality: architecture, code health, testing discipline, observability and operational readiness. Work with reliability/operations colleagues to improve uptime, performance, incident response and capacity planning. Own and improve delivery ways of working: estimation approaches, planning, prioritisation, and predictable execution against epics. Continuously modernise existing systems; simplify, automate, and remove friction to increase delivery speed. Contribute to the technical roadmap for your domain, balancing near-term delivery with longer-term platform evolution. Collaborate on cross-cutting initiatives such as security, data and applied AI where they improve product outcomes. Required Experience Significant commercial software engineering experience, operating at a senior/staff level. Comfort leading through influence: you can align teams, coach engineers, and drive decisions without relying on hierarchy. A strong sense of ownership and follow-through. You should be comfortable being accountable for outcomes, not just tasks. A bias for action paired with good judgement: you can move quickly while managing risk in production systems. Evidence of improving how teams work (quality, delivery, reliability, developer experience) and challenging the status quo constructively. Clear communicator who can tailor detail for different audiences: engineers, product partners and leadership. Deep capability in at least one mainstream programming language and ecosystem, with the range to be effective in others. Practical experience designing and running cloud-native services, including infrastructure, deployment and operational tooling. Confidence diagnosing complex issues in distributed systems (performance, reliability, tricky production defects). Strong grasp of data storage and access patterns, with hands-on experience across relational and/or NoSQL databases. Comfort working with modern engineering practices: automated testing, code review, CI/CD, observability and secure-by-design thinking. Curiosity about emerging approaches (including applied and agentic AI) and the ability to adopt them responsibly where they add value. Reasonable Adjustments: Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients. If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason , please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Your new company Join a forward-thinking public sector organisation committed to delivering innovative ICT solutions across Scotland. The company fosters a collaborative and inclusive culture, driving transformation and excellence in digital infrastructure. Your new role As an IT Principal Engineer, you'll lead a high-performing technical team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining core ICT infrastructure. You'll play a key role in shaping strategic direction, solving complex problems, and ensuring the reliability and security of enterprise-wide systems across cloud, network, and communications platforms. The role offers flexibility to work from various ICT locations across Scotland, subject to availability. What you'll need to succeed Essential Qualifications & Experience: - Degree or relevant industry certification (eg Cisco CCIE) or extensive experience in a similar role. - Proven expertise in ICT infrastructure support, including cloud, security, telephony, WAN/LAN, and remote access. - Strong understanding of ICT automation tools and network security. - Experience with identity management systems (eg Active Directory, Azure AD, Radius). Essential Personal Qualities: - Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills. - Strong problem-solving capabilities under pressure. - Adaptability and attention to detail. - Experience managing enterprise-level infrastructure services. Desirable: - ITIL Foundation Certificate. - Experience supporting a live network across 500+ sites and 24,000+ users. What you'll get in return - A dynamic and collaborative working environment. - Opportunity to influence strategic ICT direction. - Competitive Day Rate - Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and transformation programmes. - Flexible working location across Scotland's ICT hubs. - Participation in a senior on-call rota and potential to deputise for the Infrastructure Manager. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found on our website.
Your new company Join a forward-thinking public sector organisation committed to delivering innovative ICT solutions across Scotland. The company fosters a collaborative and inclusive culture, driving transformation and excellence in digital infrastructure. Your new role As an IT Principal Engineer, you'll lead a high-performing technical team responsible for designing, building, and maintaining core ICT infrastructure. You'll play a key role in shaping strategic direction, solving complex problems, and ensuring the reliability and security of enterprise-wide systems across cloud, network, and communications platforms. The role offers flexibility to work from various ICT locations across Scotland, subject to availability. What you'll need to succeed Essential Qualifications & Experience: - Degree or relevant industry certification (eg Cisco CCIE) or extensive experience in a similar role. - Proven expertise in ICT infrastructure support, including cloud, security, telephony, WAN/LAN, and remote access. - Strong understanding of ICT automation tools and network security. - Experience with identity management systems (eg Active Directory, Azure AD, Radius). Essential Personal Qualities: - Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills. - Strong problem-solving capabilities under pressure. - Adaptability and attention to detail. - Experience managing enterprise-level infrastructure services. Desirable: - ITIL Foundation Certificate. - Experience supporting a live network across 500+ sites and 24,000+ users. What you'll get in return - A dynamic and collaborative working environment. - Opportunity to influence strategic ICT direction. - Competitive Day Rate - Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and transformation programmes. - Flexible working location across Scotland's ICT hubs. - Participation in a senior on-call rota and potential to deputise for the Infrastructure Manager. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found on our website.
