Apto Solutions
Pembroke Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3BA, UK
Who this is for
An early-career engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. Security or observability background — either is welcome.
You have been working for eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role — a platform team, a SOC or security engineering team, an MSP or MSSP, an infrastructure or DevOps team, a vendor’s support or professional services desk — and you are looking for your first move. You have had your hands on something that runs in production and matters to somebody. You want to go deeper, faster, in a smaller business where the work you do is seen. This is not a graduate scheme and it is not a helpdesk. It is a real engineering seat with real customers, real supervision and a clear path up.
The Role
This is a hands-on engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. You will help run customer telemetry platforms day to day, improve them, and contribute to the platform that lets us run them well. You will do this as part of a small engineering pool, with a senior engineer checking your work before it reaches a customer and a line manager who is accountable for your development.
Operate has two shapes and you will work in both.
Operate Core is always-on. It is continuous ownership of a customer’s platform — health, ingestion, data quality, alerting, upgrades, capacity. There is no handover and no final deliverable. The platform is ours to keep healthy for as long as the customer is ours. Success is measured in the absence of surprises and in the platform being demonstrably better in six months than it is today.
Operate Attach is sprint-based improvement. A customer has a defined problem — noisy alerts, a data source that will not normalise, ingest costs running away, a detection gap, a migration — and we take a scoped block of work and fix it. Attach has a start, a shape and an end. It sits on top of Core, for the same customers, with the same engineers.
Alongside that you will take a share of professional services delivery: shorter, project-shaped engagements that are usually how a customer first meets us.
What You’ll do
Everything below is done with supervision at first and with increasing independence as you show you can carry it. We will be explicit with you about where that line is and how it moves.
Day-to-day health of customer platforms.
Ingestion pipelines, data quality, alerting, licensing and capacity, upgrades and patching. You will start by owning a slice of a named customer estate, and you will be expected to notice problems before the customer does.
Incident and problem work.
Triage, diagnosis and resolution — and then the harder part, which is the root cause and the permanent fix so it does not come back.
Content and configuration.
Detections, dashboards, parsers, normalisation, alert rules, pipeline routing — built properly, peer reviewed, version controlled, documented.
Attach sprints and PS work.
Taking a defined piece of a scoped improvement, delivering it, and being able to show what changed.
Automation.
If you do something manually three times, we expect you to want to automate the fourth. Most of our platform tooling started as an engineer being annoyed by something.
Documentation and runbooks.
Your own, to a standard, every time. Undocumented work is unfinished work.
What this role is NOT
Being clear about this matters as much as the role definition itself.
It is not a SOC analyst seat.
You are not sitting in a queue triaging alerts against someone else’s runbook. You help build and run the platform that the analysts depend on.
It is not a service desk or first-line support role.
You will talk to customers about technical matters, but the work is engineering, not ticket handling.
It is not a data science role.
We work with very large volumes of machine data, but the work is systems and operations engineering, not modelling or statistics. Python and dashboards are not the same thing as running a platform.
It is not a graduate scheme.
We paused our graduate hire to open this role instead, because we want someone who has already spent time in a production environment and knows what it feels like when something breaks at an awkward hour.
It is not a project role with a finish line.
Core has no end date. If what you enjoy is shipping a thing and walking away, you will find the continuous half of this job frustrating.
Who we are looking for
We are indifferent to whether your background is security or observability. Either one is a good starting point, and the interesting work at Apto sits where the two meet — the same telemetry usually has to serve both a security question and an operational one. What we need is depth in one and genuine curiosity about the other
Experience we’re looking for
Roughly eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role. We care much more about what you have actually done than about the number of months attached to it, and we know that at this stage most of what you have done was somebody else’s decision. That is fine. We are looking for the shape of it.
You have had your hands on a telemetry, SIEM, observability or monitoring platform that was running in production — not only in a course or a home lab. You have onboarded a data source, tuned an alert, applied an upgrade, or been the person who had to work out why the data stopped arriving.
You have carried something over time rather than only delivering a task and moving on — a set of alerts you looked after, a customer estate you knew well, an on-call rotation, a service that was yours to keep healthy.
You are comfortable in Linux, in at least one query language, and you have written scripts that did something useful. Python is what we mostly use; anything credible is a fine starting point.
You have automated or fixed something real and you can show it. A script, a repo, a before-and-after number, a description concrete enough for us to ask sensible questions about.
You can write. A clear runbook, a readable incident note, a straight message to a customer. This is a customer-facing role.
You have worked in at least one of our vendor families — Splunk, Cribl, Sentinel, Grafana, Datadog, Elastic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry — or a close analogue. The specific product is negotiable. Real exposure is not.
If you meet most of this and not all of it, apply anyway and tell us which parts you do not have. We would rather read an honest gap than a padded CV.
The platform work – why this is interesting
Most managed service jobs are the same job with a different logo on the ticketing system. This one is not, because we are building our own platform underneath the service and you will work on it. We have replaced a vendor-licensed telemetry backend with an open-source stack we run ourselves. A base platform (secret ;-)) On top of that sits multi-vendor collection — the pattern that lets us onboard a Splunk, a Cribl or a Sentinel customer without rebuilding it from scratch each time. Beyond that, the vendors are all shipping AI and agentic layers — MCP servers, agentic investigation, cross-vendor gateways — and we already have that work live with a customer. You will get early, hands-on exposure to it while most of the industry is still writing slide decks about it.
07/09/2026
Full time
Who this is for
An early-career engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. Security or observability background — either is welcome.
You have been working for eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role — a platform team, a SOC or security engineering team, an MSP or MSSP, an infrastructure or DevOps team, a vendor’s support or professional services desk — and you are looking for your first move. You have had your hands on something that runs in production and matters to somebody. You want to go deeper, faster, in a smaller business where the work you do is seen. This is not a graduate scheme and it is not a helpdesk. It is a real engineering seat with real customers, real supervision and a clear path up.
The Role
This is a hands-on engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. You will help run customer telemetry platforms day to day, improve them, and contribute to the platform that lets us run them well. You will do this as part of a small engineering pool, with a senior engineer checking your work before it reaches a customer and a line manager who is accountable for your development.
Operate has two shapes and you will work in both.
Operate Core is always-on. It is continuous ownership of a customer’s platform — health, ingestion, data quality, alerting, upgrades, capacity. There is no handover and no final deliverable. The platform is ours to keep healthy for as long as the customer is ours. Success is measured in the absence of surprises and in the platform being demonstrably better in six months than it is today.
Operate Attach is sprint-based improvement. A customer has a defined problem — noisy alerts, a data source that will not normalise, ingest costs running away, a detection gap, a migration — and we take a scoped block of work and fix it. Attach has a start, a shape and an end. It sits on top of Core, for the same customers, with the same engineers.
Alongside that you will take a share of professional services delivery: shorter, project-shaped engagements that are usually how a customer first meets us.
What You’ll do
Everything below is done with supervision at first and with increasing independence as you show you can carry it. We will be explicit with you about where that line is and how it moves.
Day-to-day health of customer platforms.
Ingestion pipelines, data quality, alerting, licensing and capacity, upgrades and patching. You will start by owning a slice of a named customer estate, and you will be expected to notice problems before the customer does.
Incident and problem work.
Triage, diagnosis and resolution — and then the harder part, which is the root cause and the permanent fix so it does not come back.
Content and configuration.
Detections, dashboards, parsers, normalisation, alert rules, pipeline routing — built properly, peer reviewed, version controlled, documented.
Attach sprints and PS work.
Taking a defined piece of a scoped improvement, delivering it, and being able to show what changed.
Automation.
If you do something manually three times, we expect you to want to automate the fourth. Most of our platform tooling started as an engineer being annoyed by something.
Documentation and runbooks.
Your own, to a standard, every time. Undocumented work is unfinished work.
What this role is NOT
Being clear about this matters as much as the role definition itself.
It is not a SOC analyst seat.
You are not sitting in a queue triaging alerts against someone else’s runbook. You help build and run the platform that the analysts depend on.
It is not a service desk or first-line support role.
You will talk to customers about technical matters, but the work is engineering, not ticket handling.
It is not a data science role.
We work with very large volumes of machine data, but the work is systems and operations engineering, not modelling or statistics. Python and dashboards are not the same thing as running a platform.
It is not a graduate scheme.
We paused our graduate hire to open this role instead, because we want someone who has already spent time in a production environment and knows what it feels like when something breaks at an awkward hour.
It is not a project role with a finish line.
Core has no end date. If what you enjoy is shipping a thing and walking away, you will find the continuous half of this job frustrating.
Who we are looking for
We are indifferent to whether your background is security or observability. Either one is a good starting point, and the interesting work at Apto sits where the two meet — the same telemetry usually has to serve both a security question and an operational one. What we need is depth in one and genuine curiosity about the other
Experience we’re looking for
Roughly eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role. We care much more about what you have actually done than about the number of months attached to it, and we know that at this stage most of what you have done was somebody else’s decision. That is fine. We are looking for the shape of it.
You have had your hands on a telemetry, SIEM, observability or monitoring platform that was running in production — not only in a course or a home lab. You have onboarded a data source, tuned an alert, applied an upgrade, or been the person who had to work out why the data stopped arriving.
You have carried something over time rather than only delivering a task and moving on — a set of alerts you looked after, a customer estate you knew well, an on-call rotation, a service that was yours to keep healthy.
You are comfortable in Linux, in at least one query language, and you have written scripts that did something useful. Python is what we mostly use; anything credible is a fine starting point.
You have automated or fixed something real and you can show it. A script, a repo, a before-and-after number, a description concrete enough for us to ask sensible questions about.
You can write. A clear runbook, a readable incident note, a straight message to a customer. This is a customer-facing role.
You have worked in at least one of our vendor families — Splunk, Cribl, Sentinel, Grafana, Datadog, Elastic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry — or a close analogue. The specific product is negotiable. Real exposure is not.
If you meet most of this and not all of it, apply anyway and tell us which parts you do not have. We would rather read an honest gap than a padded CV.
The platform work – why this is interesting
Most managed service jobs are the same job with a different logo on the ticketing system. This one is not, because we are building our own platform underneath the service and you will work on it. We have replaced a vendor-licensed telemetry backend with an open-source stack we run ourselves. A base platform (secret ;-)) On top of that sits multi-vendor collection — the pattern that lets us onboard a Splunk, a Cribl or a Sentinel customer without rebuilding it from scratch each time. Beyond that, the vendors are all shipping AI and agentic layers — MCP servers, agentic investigation, cross-vendor gateways — and we already have that work live with a customer. You will get early, hands-on exposure to it while most of the industry is still writing slide decks about it.
Senior PHP Developer Hybrid Working Hertfordshire (2 days per week in office) Permanent We're working with an established software company looking to add a Senior PHP Developer to their engineering team. You'll join a collaborative team of experienced developers, taking ownership of backend feature development, technical improvements and complex problem solving across a large-scale web platform. The role would suit someone who enjoys working with vanilla PHP, thrives in a hands-on environment and can quickly get to grips with an established codebase whilst contributing new ideas and technical improvements. The Role You'll be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining business critical web applications, delivering new features from concept through to deployment. Working closely with developers, testers and support teams, you'll help shape technical solutions, reduce technical debt and ensure the platform continues to scale effectively. This is a predominantly backend role, around 70/80% on the backend and 20/30% frontend. Key responsibilities include: Developing new platform features and enhancements Writing clean, scalable and maintainable PHP code Owning technical solutions from design through to production Refactoring and improving existing functionality Designing and consuming APIs Performance tuning and database optimisation Contributing to code reviews and engineering best practices Supporting complex third line technical issues when required Collaborating with testers, developers and business stakeholders Identifying opportunities to improve tooling, processes and platform performance About the Environment This organisation has embraced an AI-first engineering culture, actively encouraging developers to use AI assisted tools to improve productivity, troubleshooting, documentation and delivery. You'll have access to modern AI tooling and will be encouraged to contribute ideas around how AI can be used effectively across engineering teams, whilst maintaining high standards of code quality, security and ownership. The development team operates with a high degree of autonomy, so this role is best suited to someone who is comfortable managing their own workload and working independently. What We're Looking For Strong commercial PHP development experience - full-stack with a backend focus Experience working with vanilla PHP (7 & 8) rather than solely framework-based development Strong backend development background Solid experience with MySQL or MariaDB Experience designing and consuming APIs Strong understanding of web application performance, scalability and security Experience working with JavaScript, HTML and CSS Experience working with version control systems Ability to work independently and quickly become productive within an established environment Strong communication and problem solving skills Experience using AI assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude or similar Nice to Have Experience with Redis, Memcached or similar caching technologies Exposure to infrastructure, server management or DevOps practices Experience working with large, complex codebases Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment. Tate is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Tate is committed to promoting equal opportunities. To ensure that every candidate has the best experience with us, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make during the application or interview process. Your comfort and accessibility are our priority, and we are here to support you every step of the way. Additionally, we value and respect your individuality, and we invite you to share your preferred pronouns in your application.
23/09/2026
Full time
Senior PHP Developer Hybrid Working Hertfordshire (2 days per week in office) Permanent We're working with an established software company looking to add a Senior PHP Developer to their engineering team. You'll join a collaborative team of experienced developers, taking ownership of backend feature development, technical improvements and complex problem solving across a large-scale web platform. The role would suit someone who enjoys working with vanilla PHP, thrives in a hands-on environment and can quickly get to grips with an established codebase whilst contributing new ideas and technical improvements. The Role You'll be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining business critical web applications, delivering new features from concept through to deployment. Working closely with developers, testers and support teams, you'll help shape technical solutions, reduce technical debt and ensure the platform continues to scale effectively. This is a predominantly backend role, around 70/80% on the backend and 20/30% frontend. Key responsibilities include: Developing new platform features and enhancements Writing clean, scalable and maintainable PHP code Owning technical solutions from design through to production Refactoring and improving existing functionality Designing and consuming APIs Performance tuning and database optimisation Contributing to code reviews and engineering best practices Supporting complex third line technical issues when required Collaborating with testers, developers and business stakeholders Identifying opportunities to improve tooling, processes and platform performance About the Environment This organisation has embraced an AI-first engineering culture, actively encouraging developers to use AI assisted tools to improve productivity, troubleshooting, documentation and delivery. You'll have access to modern AI tooling and will be encouraged to contribute ideas around how AI can be used effectively across engineering teams, whilst maintaining high standards of code quality, security and ownership. The development team operates with a high degree of autonomy, so this role is best suited to someone who is comfortable managing their own workload and working independently. What We're Looking For Strong commercial PHP development experience - full-stack with a backend focus Experience working with vanilla PHP (7 & 8) rather than solely framework-based development Strong backend development background Solid experience with MySQL or MariaDB Experience designing and consuming APIs Strong understanding of web application performance, scalability and security Experience working with JavaScript, HTML and CSS Experience working with version control systems Ability to work independently and quickly become productive within an established environment Strong communication and problem solving skills Experience using AI assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude or similar Nice to Have Experience with Redis, Memcached or similar caching technologies Exposure to infrastructure, server management or DevOps practices Experience working with large, complex codebases Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment. Tate is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Tate is committed to promoting equal opportunities. To ensure that every candidate has the best experience with us, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make during the application or interview process. Your comfort and accessibility are our priority, and we are here to support you every step of the way. Additionally, we value and respect your individuality, and we invite you to share your preferred pronouns in your application.
Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Limited
City, London
Senior AI Consultant - Agentic AI & Generative AI 60,000 - 80,000 base + bonus, training and a strong benefits package Hybrid working Office base of your choice: London, Manchester or Glasgow Full time, permanent If you want to build intelligent systems that actually make it into production not just proofs of concept that gather dust this is the role you've been holding out for. You'll join a highly regarded transformation consultancy where strategy, science, creativity and engineering meet, working with major public and private sector clients on Generative and Agentic AI solutions that deliver visible, real-world impact. You'll be part of a genuinely tech-obsessed team that experiments freely, works with the newest models and agentic frameworks, and regularly presents its work at major industry events and conferences. If you thrive on rapid prototyping, scaling AI products, and being trusted to explore what's next, you'll feel right at home. What You'll Be Doing Designing, developing, testing and deploying front-end and back-end components of GenAI and agentic applications within a data science and AI consulting team. Designing agentic workflows with HITL gates, auditability, policy controls and robust evaluation/monitoring suitable for regulated clients. Translating complex business challenges into AI-powered solutions using Generative AI, Agentic AI, data science and analytics. Collaborating with cloud architects, data scientists, product managers and business consultants to take ideas from concept to production. Supporting business development building AI demonstrators, contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, client pitches and client events. Contributing internally through campaign development, think-tanks, whitepapers, offering development and practice growth, alongside your own funded learning, training and certifications. What You'll Bring Experience gained in a major consulting firm, or in industry with a consulting mindset comfortable in a matrixed organisation and working directly with technical and non-technical client sponsors to shape requirements and build solutions. A track record of designing and developing full-stack applications across the entire lifecycle from early PoCs, through MVPs and testing, to secure, scalable, production-grade deployments. Proven delivery of solutions using traditional Machine Learning, Generative AI models and Agentic AI frameworks in client-facing environments, including data engineering in cloud environments. Strong Python (3.10+), TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), SQL and Bash. Front-end: React.js, Next.js (App Router & Server Components), Tailwind CSS, ShadCN UI, Redux, Zustand, Jest, Cypress plus AI product UX patterns such as streaming, review loops, provenance/citations, long-running tasks and error recovery. Back-end: Django (5.x+), DRF, FastAPI, Pydantic, Celery, Django Channels, Flask and RESTful APIs. Databases and storage: PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Firestore, BigQuery, Azure Blob Storage. Cloud and DevOps: Azure (App Services, OpenAI, AKS), GCP (Vertex AI, Cloud Run), Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, RBAC and cost controls. Solid software engineering fundamentals: Clean Code (SOLID, DRY), DDD, modular architecture, TDD and code quality tooling. Desirable: RAG pipelines, MCP, LLM integration (OpenAI, Gemini, Hugging Face models), LangSmith, TruLens, and agentic frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, Autogen, OpenAI Agents and Google ADK. You won't need every technology on this list. A strong engineering foundation, a good cross-section of these skills, and the curiosity to pick up new tools as projects demand is what really matters. Why You'll Want This Role A competitive base salary of 60,000 - 80,000 plus bonus and a comprehensive benefits package including training budget Hybrid working with your choice of a London, Manchester or Glasgow office base. Structured training, certifications and genuine investment in your career development. Freedom to experiment with cutting-edge models and frameworks and see your work go live in the real world. Ready to Apply? If you're a self-starting innovator who loves technology and wants to build the future, apply now with your latest CV. Interviews are moving quickly, so don't wait. If you've held any of these roles or used these technologies/skills, this role could be a great fit: GenAI Engineer, Generative AI Engineer, Agentic AI Engineer, AI Engineer, AI Consultant, Machine Learning Engineer, ML Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Python Developer, Senior Consultant Data Science, Data Scientist, Solutions Architect AI, LLM Engineer, MLOps Engineer, AI Software Engineer, Django Developer, FastAPI Developer, React Developer, Next.js Developer, TypeScript Developer, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Autogen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, RAG, retrieval augmented generation, MCP, LangSmith, TruLens, prompt engineering, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, GCP, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, TDD, DDD. Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is a leading independent tech recruitment consultancy in the UK. For every CV sent to clients, we donate 1 to The Born Free Foundation. We are a Climate Action Workforce in partnership with Ecologi. If this role isn't right for you, explore our referral reward program with payouts at interview and placement milestones. Visit our website for details. Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
23/09/2026
Full time
Senior AI Consultant - Agentic AI & Generative AI 60,000 - 80,000 base + bonus, training and a strong benefits package Hybrid working Office base of your choice: London, Manchester or Glasgow Full time, permanent If you want to build intelligent systems that actually make it into production not just proofs of concept that gather dust this is the role you've been holding out for. You'll join a highly regarded transformation consultancy where strategy, science, creativity and engineering meet, working with major public and private sector clients on Generative and Agentic AI solutions that deliver visible, real-world impact. You'll be part of a genuinely tech-obsessed team that experiments freely, works with the newest models and agentic frameworks, and regularly presents its work at major industry events and conferences. If you thrive on rapid prototyping, scaling AI products, and being trusted to explore what's next, you'll feel right at home. What You'll Be Doing Designing, developing, testing and deploying front-end and back-end components of GenAI and agentic applications within a data science and AI consulting team. Designing agentic workflows with HITL gates, auditability, policy controls and robust evaluation/monitoring suitable for regulated clients. Translating complex business challenges into AI-powered solutions using Generative AI, Agentic AI, data science and analytics. Collaborating with cloud architects, data scientists, product managers and business consultants to take ideas from concept to production. Supporting business development building AI demonstrators, contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, client pitches and client events. Contributing internally through campaign development, think-tanks, whitepapers, offering development and practice growth, alongside your own funded learning, training and certifications. What You'll Bring Experience gained in a major consulting firm, or in industry with a consulting mindset comfortable in a matrixed organisation and working directly with technical and non-technical client sponsors to shape requirements and build solutions. A track record of designing and developing full-stack applications across the entire lifecycle from early PoCs, through MVPs and testing, to secure, scalable, production-grade deployments. Proven delivery of solutions using traditional Machine Learning, Generative AI models and Agentic AI frameworks in client-facing environments, including data engineering in cloud environments. Strong Python (3.10+), TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), SQL and Bash. Front-end: React.js, Next.js (App Router & Server Components), Tailwind CSS, ShadCN UI, Redux, Zustand, Jest, Cypress plus AI product UX patterns such as streaming, review loops, provenance/citations, long-running tasks and error recovery. Back-end: Django (5.x+), DRF, FastAPI, Pydantic, Celery, Django Channels, Flask and RESTful APIs. Databases and storage: PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Firestore, BigQuery, Azure Blob Storage. Cloud and DevOps: Azure (App Services, OpenAI, AKS), GCP (Vertex AI, Cloud Run), Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, RBAC and cost controls. Solid software engineering fundamentals: Clean Code (SOLID, DRY), DDD, modular architecture, TDD and code quality tooling. Desirable: RAG pipelines, MCP, LLM integration (OpenAI, Gemini, Hugging Face models), LangSmith, TruLens, and agentic frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, Autogen, OpenAI Agents and Google ADK. You won't need every technology on this list. A strong engineering foundation, a good cross-section of these skills, and the curiosity to pick up new tools as projects demand is what really matters. Why You'll Want This Role A competitive base salary of 60,000 - 80,000 plus bonus and a comprehensive benefits package including training budget Hybrid working with your choice of a London, Manchester or Glasgow office base. Structured training, certifications and genuine investment in your career development. Freedom to experiment with cutting-edge models and frameworks and see your work go live in the real world. Ready to Apply? If you're a self-starting innovator who loves technology and wants to build the future, apply now with your latest CV. Interviews are moving quickly, so don't wait. If you've held any of these roles or used these technologies/skills, this role could be a great fit: GenAI Engineer, Generative AI Engineer, Agentic AI Engineer, AI Engineer, AI Consultant, Machine Learning Engineer, ML Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Python Developer, Senior Consultant Data Science, Data Scientist, Solutions Architect AI, LLM Engineer, MLOps Engineer, AI Software Engineer, Django Developer, FastAPI Developer, React Developer, Next.js Developer, TypeScript Developer, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Autogen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, RAG, retrieval augmented generation, MCP, LangSmith, TruLens, prompt engineering, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, GCP, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, TDD, DDD. Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is a leading independent tech recruitment consultancy in the UK. For every CV sent to clients, we donate 1 to The Born Free Foundation. We are a Climate Action Workforce in partnership with Ecologi. If this role isn't right for you, explore our referral reward program with payouts at interview and placement milestones. Visit our website for details. Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
I am currently seeking a Voice Services Developer for an exciting project with an enterprise voice development team. Given your strong background in Java and telephony systems, I thought this might be a great fit. Quick Highlights: Focus: Developing, testing, and maintaining mid-to-high performance SIP-based voice services using Java (JAIN SLEE, SIP Servlets) and integrating advanced Speech AI technologies across multi-cloud environments. Environment: Agile, cross-functional delivery unit configuring media engines like FreeSWITCH or Asterisk, analyzing network traffic, and deploying conversational AI bots alongside senior architects and DevOps teams. Requirements: Professional Java experience (including multi-threading and network programming), hands-on scripting with FreeSWITCH or Asterisk, deep knowledge of voice protocols (SIP, RTP/RTCP, SDP), and experience with cloud Speech APIs (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Wireshark/sngrep. This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. If interested, please share your updated CV with me at manisha. (url removed), and let's coordinate a brief call to discuss further. Best Regards, Manisha Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
23/09/2026
Contractor
I am currently seeking a Voice Services Developer for an exciting project with an enterprise voice development team. Given your strong background in Java and telephony systems, I thought this might be a great fit. Quick Highlights: Focus: Developing, testing, and maintaining mid-to-high performance SIP-based voice services using Java (JAIN SLEE, SIP Servlets) and integrating advanced Speech AI technologies across multi-cloud environments. Environment: Agile, cross-functional delivery unit configuring media engines like FreeSWITCH or Asterisk, analyzing network traffic, and deploying conversational AI bots alongside senior architects and DevOps teams. Requirements: Professional Java experience (including multi-threading and network programming), hands-on scripting with FreeSWITCH or Asterisk, deep knowledge of voice protocols (SIP, RTP/RTCP, SDP), and experience with cloud Speech APIs (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Wireshark/sngrep. This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. If interested, please share your updated CV with me at manisha. (url removed), and let's coordinate a brief call to discuss further. Best Regards, Manisha Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Senior Data Engineer Glasgow 60,000 - 70,000 + Excellent Benefits On-site Ready to take ownership of a modern data platform and shape how data powers business decisions? We're seeking a Senior Data Engineer to play a pivotal role in the ongoing development of a large-scale Azure and Databricks data estate. This is a genuinely hands-on position where you'll spend your time building pipelines, modelling data, solving complex engineering challenges, and driving best practice across the platform. What you'll be doing Designing, building and optimising Databricks pipelines and jobs Creating scalable Delta Lake solutions using Medallion architecture Developing and maintaining Azure Data Factory pipelines Owning data models across bronze, silver and gold layers Driving CI/CD, deployment and release processes through Azure DevOps Monitoring performance, reliability and cost across critical data workloads Supporting the delivery of data into Microsoft Fabric and OneLake environments What we're looking for Strong commercial experience with Databricks in production environments Excellent data modelling and architecture skills Expertise in Delta Lake and Medallion design principles Azure Data Factory experience, including parameterised and environment-driven pipelines Strong SQL skills plus Python and/or Scala Experience delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and engineering solutions Nice to have Microsoft Fabric and OneLake experience CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code exposure Unity Catalog knowledge Azure or Databricks certifications Experience working alongside Power BI teams What's on offer? Salary up to 75,000 Private healthcare Enhanced pension scheme Life assurance The opportunity to become the technical lead within a growing data function and have a direct impact on the future of the platform. If you're a Senior Data Engineer who enjoys ownership, autonomy and building robust data solutions with Azure and Databricks, we'd love to hear from you.
23/09/2026
Full time
Senior Data Engineer Glasgow 60,000 - 70,000 + Excellent Benefits On-site Ready to take ownership of a modern data platform and shape how data powers business decisions? We're seeking a Senior Data Engineer to play a pivotal role in the ongoing development of a large-scale Azure and Databricks data estate. This is a genuinely hands-on position where you'll spend your time building pipelines, modelling data, solving complex engineering challenges, and driving best practice across the platform. What you'll be doing Designing, building and optimising Databricks pipelines and jobs Creating scalable Delta Lake solutions using Medallion architecture Developing and maintaining Azure Data Factory pipelines Owning data models across bronze, silver and gold layers Driving CI/CD, deployment and release processes through Azure DevOps Monitoring performance, reliability and cost across critical data workloads Supporting the delivery of data into Microsoft Fabric and OneLake environments What we're looking for Strong commercial experience with Databricks in production environments Excellent data modelling and architecture skills Expertise in Delta Lake and Medallion design principles Azure Data Factory experience, including parameterised and environment-driven pipelines Strong SQL skills plus Python and/or Scala Experience delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and engineering solutions Nice to have Microsoft Fabric and OneLake experience CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code exposure Unity Catalog knowledge Azure or Databricks certifications Experience working alongside Power BI teams What's on offer? Salary up to 75,000 Private healthcare Enhanced pension scheme Life assurance The opportunity to become the technical lead within a growing data function and have a direct impact on the future of the platform. If you're a Senior Data Engineer who enjoys ownership, autonomy and building robust data solutions with Azure and Databricks, we'd love to hear from you.
Job Title: Head of Platform Engineering (Senior Technical Architect) Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff, Swindon, Nottingham Work Model: Hybrid Contract Type: Permanent Industry: Government and Public Sector Client: Government Property Agency Salary: 56,500 to 62,000 "A Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA) is available for up to 10,000 for candidates that meet the right skills and experience. This will be reviewed annually and is not consolidated for pension. The total salary package is negotiable for exceptional candidates." SC Clearance Required Are you a visionary in the world of technology, ready to lead the way in innovative solutions for the Government and Public Sector? If you're passionate about building robust platforms that drive efficiency and effectiveness, we want you to join our team as the Head of Platform Engineering at the GPA! What You'll Do: As our Head of Platform Engineering, you'll be at the forefront of transforming our technical landscape. Your leadership will inspire a talented team of engineers and architects as you: Design and implement cutting-edge platform solutions that meet the evolving needs of public services. Collaborate with stakeholders to define and execute a strategic technology roadmap. Ensure the highest standards of performance, security, and scalability in all platform solutions. Foster a culture of innovation, encouraging team members to explore new technologies and methodologies. Lead initiatives to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence across all engineering functions. What We're Looking For: We are seeking an individual who possesses a unique blend of technical expertise and leadership capabilities. The ideal candidate will have: Extensive experience in platform architecture, cloud services, and DevOps practises. Proven track record in leading engineering teams within the Government and Public Sector. Strong understanding of software development life cycles, Agile methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines. Excellent communication skills, enabling you to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. A passion for technology and a commitment to delivering impactful solutions for the community. Why Join Us? Impactful Work: Contribute to projects that make a difference in people's lives and enhance public service delivery. Collaborative Environment: Work with a dynamic team that values diverse perspectives and encourages innovation. Career Development: Access to continuous professional development and growth opportunities within our organisation. Work-Life Balance: Enjoy a flexible working environment that supports your well-being and personal commitments. Perks and Benefits: Competitive salary package Generous annual leave Pension scheme Opportunities for professional development and certifications Supportive workplace culture How to Apply: If you're excited about leading the charge in platform engineering and making a meaningful impact in the Government and Public Sector, we'd love to hear from you! Please submit your CV and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and why you're the perfect fit for this role Join us and become a driving force in shaping the future of public sector technology! Let's build something great together! Application Deadline: 01/09/2026 We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity. Adecco is a disability-confident employer. It is important to us that we run an inclusive and accessible recruitment process to support candidates of all backgrounds and all abilities to apply. Adecco is committed to building a supportive environment for you to explore the next steps in your career. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.
23/09/2026
Full time
Job Title: Head of Platform Engineering (Senior Technical Architect) Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff, Swindon, Nottingham Work Model: Hybrid Contract Type: Permanent Industry: Government and Public Sector Client: Government Property Agency Salary: 56,500 to 62,000 "A Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA) is available for up to 10,000 for candidates that meet the right skills and experience. This will be reviewed annually and is not consolidated for pension. The total salary package is negotiable for exceptional candidates." SC Clearance Required Are you a visionary in the world of technology, ready to lead the way in innovative solutions for the Government and Public Sector? If you're passionate about building robust platforms that drive efficiency and effectiveness, we want you to join our team as the Head of Platform Engineering at the GPA! What You'll Do: As our Head of Platform Engineering, you'll be at the forefront of transforming our technical landscape. Your leadership will inspire a talented team of engineers and architects as you: Design and implement cutting-edge platform solutions that meet the evolving needs of public services. Collaborate with stakeholders to define and execute a strategic technology roadmap. Ensure the highest standards of performance, security, and scalability in all platform solutions. Foster a culture of innovation, encouraging team members to explore new technologies and methodologies. Lead initiatives to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence across all engineering functions. What We're Looking For: We are seeking an individual who possesses a unique blend of technical expertise and leadership capabilities. The ideal candidate will have: Extensive experience in platform architecture, cloud services, and DevOps practises. Proven track record in leading engineering teams within the Government and Public Sector. Strong understanding of software development life cycles, Agile methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines. Excellent communication skills, enabling you to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. A passion for technology and a commitment to delivering impactful solutions for the community. Why Join Us? Impactful Work: Contribute to projects that make a difference in people's lives and enhance public service delivery. Collaborative Environment: Work with a dynamic team that values diverse perspectives and encourages innovation. Career Development: Access to continuous professional development and growth opportunities within our organisation. Work-Life Balance: Enjoy a flexible working environment that supports your well-being and personal commitments. Perks and Benefits: Competitive salary package Generous annual leave Pension scheme Opportunities for professional development and certifications Supportive workplace culture How to Apply: If you're excited about leading the charge in platform engineering and making a meaningful impact in the Government and Public Sector, we'd love to hear from you! Please submit your CV and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and why you're the perfect fit for this role Join us and become a driving force in shaping the future of public sector technology! Let's build something great together! Application Deadline: 01/09/2026 We are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity. Adecco is a disability-confident employer. It is important to us that we run an inclusive and accessible recruitment process to support candidates of all backgrounds and all abilities to apply. Adecco is committed to building a supportive environment for you to explore the next steps in your career. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.
Senior DevOps Engineer Location: Cardiff (Hybrid - 50% Office / 50% Remote) Salary: Circa 70,000 to 90,000 + 10% bonus The Opportunity Are you a technically versatile problem-solver, passionate about cloud infrastructure and automation? We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join an enterprise scale cloud services provider in Cardiff. This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior / lead engineer to deepen their expertise in multi-cloud environments (Azure & AWS), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and containerisation. You will also lead and mentor more junior engineers within a collaborative culture that prioritizes innovation-including early-stage projects in Generative AI. What You'll Bring Strong experience managing public cloud services across Azure or AWS at enterprise scale Terraform and IAC experience for infrastructure provisioning Experience leading and mentoring junior DevOps Engineers Technical leadership / responsibility for delivery Broad experience across Cloud, Infrastructure, Development, Delivery GitLab for CI/CD workflows. Networking Knowledge: Solid understanding of cloud networking, DNS, and secure VPN configurations. Must be eligible for SC Clearance - 5 years in the UK, no criminal record etc Growth Mindset: A desire to stay at the forefront of cloud tech, including Serverless (Functions/Logic Apps) and AI. What's in it for You? A salary of circa 70,000 to 90,000 depending on experience 10% bonus Growth: A clear career development path with full financial support for certifications (AWS, Azure, Terraform). Work-Life Balance: A structured 50/50 hybrid working model Financial Security: Competitive pension scheme and annual bonus. Perks: MediCash, Cycle to Work scheme, and an Electric Vehicle (EV) scheme. This is an urgent role where the hiring manager is shortlisting for interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV ASAP to be considered. Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
23/09/2026
Full time
Senior DevOps Engineer Location: Cardiff (Hybrid - 50% Office / 50% Remote) Salary: Circa 70,000 to 90,000 + 10% bonus The Opportunity Are you a technically versatile problem-solver, passionate about cloud infrastructure and automation? We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join an enterprise scale cloud services provider in Cardiff. This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior / lead engineer to deepen their expertise in multi-cloud environments (Azure & AWS), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and containerisation. You will also lead and mentor more junior engineers within a collaborative culture that prioritizes innovation-including early-stage projects in Generative AI. What You'll Bring Strong experience managing public cloud services across Azure or AWS at enterprise scale Terraform and IAC experience for infrastructure provisioning Experience leading and mentoring junior DevOps Engineers Technical leadership / responsibility for delivery Broad experience across Cloud, Infrastructure, Development, Delivery GitLab for CI/CD workflows. Networking Knowledge: Solid understanding of cloud networking, DNS, and secure VPN configurations. Must be eligible for SC Clearance - 5 years in the UK, no criminal record etc Growth Mindset: A desire to stay at the forefront of cloud tech, including Serverless (Functions/Logic Apps) and AI. What's in it for You? A salary of circa 70,000 to 90,000 depending on experience 10% bonus Growth: A clear career development path with full financial support for certifications (AWS, Azure, Terraform). Work-Life Balance: A structured 50/50 hybrid working model Financial Security: Competitive pension scheme and annual bonus. Perks: MediCash, Cycle to Work scheme, and an Electric Vehicle (EV) scheme. This is an urgent role where the hiring manager is shortlisting for interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV ASAP to be considered. Randstad Technologies Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT & Engineering industries. Please note that due to a high level of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
Senior QA Automation Engineer 6 months Hybrid Inside IR35 - umbrella only We are seeking a highly skilled VoIP Services Tester with Automation Experience to join our engineering team. In this role, you will ensure the reliability, quality, and security of our real-time voice and video communication systems. You will lead the design of automated testing frameworks, author rigorous technical test cases, and produce comprehensive test reports that drive our deployment decisions. The ideal candidate bridges the gap between deep network protocol analysis and modern software automation, ensuring exceptional voice quality and system stability across our global telecom infrastructure. As part of this role, you are required to do the following 1. Test Automation & Framework Development Design Automation: Develop, scale, and maintain automated test frameworks for signaling, media handling, and regression suites. Simulate Load: Build automation scripts to simulate high volumes of concurrent calls, load stress, and network degradation. CI/CD Integration: Embed automated test scripts into continuous integration pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions). 2. Test Documentation & Case Design Design Test Cases: Author highly detailed test cases covering functional, negative, security, boundary, and edge-case scenarios for multi-party call flows. Test Case Repository: Manage and structure test suites inside test management platforms (e.g., Jira). Track Traceability: Ensure full traceability between business requirements, technical specifications, and executed test cases. 3. Protocol Validation & Network Diagnostics Analyze Traffic: Capture and evaluate packet data using Wireshark and tcpdump to diagnose audio drops, call failures, or one-way media. Validate Protocols: Verify SIP signaling, SDP negotiations, and RTP/SRTP media stream compliance. Assess Quality Metrics: Continuously monitor and log critical VoIP KPIs including jitter, packet loss, latency, and Mean Opinion Score (MOS). 4. Test Reporting & Defect Management Publish Test Reports: Generate comprehensive test execution summaries, metric dashboards, and formal test closure reports for stakeholders. Document Defects: Log clear, actionable bugs in Jira accompanied by SIP ladder diagrams, automated logs, and PCAP file captures. Collaborate on Fixes: Partner closely with DevOps and Network Engineers to isolate, reproduce, and resolve complex infrastructure bugs. Essential SIP/VoIP call performance testing with SIPp, Spectra, WinSIP, StarTrinity Automation using Python & Robot Framework API Test Automation & performance testing with Locust, Blazemeter/Taurus, k6, newman, jmeter GUI Automation with TestCafe CI/CD Test Integration Linux & Windows basic administration skills Expertise in Operating Systems like Linux ( RHEL, CentOS , OEL) , Windows Servers/Workstations along with Servers DNS/DHCP/LDAP/A.D Experience in Telecom Applications ( Metaswich Rhino, Dialogic Media Server, Perimeta SBC ) and Telecom Protocols ( SIP, RTP ) Have good Knowledge in ITIL Process and Security implementation/System hardening on Telecom Applications and Services Desirable SSCA SIP School Certified Associate Knowledge in Intelligent Network service protocols like INAP, CAP, MAP Experience in using Metaswitch Scenario Simulator for producing test scenarios for SIP, INAP, MAP protocols etc. Experience in developing scripting, e.g. Python If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.
23/09/2026
Contractor
Senior QA Automation Engineer 6 months Hybrid Inside IR35 - umbrella only We are seeking a highly skilled VoIP Services Tester with Automation Experience to join our engineering team. In this role, you will ensure the reliability, quality, and security of our real-time voice and video communication systems. You will lead the design of automated testing frameworks, author rigorous technical test cases, and produce comprehensive test reports that drive our deployment decisions. The ideal candidate bridges the gap between deep network protocol analysis and modern software automation, ensuring exceptional voice quality and system stability across our global telecom infrastructure. As part of this role, you are required to do the following 1. Test Automation & Framework Development Design Automation: Develop, scale, and maintain automated test frameworks for signaling, media handling, and regression suites. Simulate Load: Build automation scripts to simulate high volumes of concurrent calls, load stress, and network degradation. CI/CD Integration: Embed automated test scripts into continuous integration pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions). 2. Test Documentation & Case Design Design Test Cases: Author highly detailed test cases covering functional, negative, security, boundary, and edge-case scenarios for multi-party call flows. Test Case Repository: Manage and structure test suites inside test management platforms (e.g., Jira). Track Traceability: Ensure full traceability between business requirements, technical specifications, and executed test cases. 3. Protocol Validation & Network Diagnostics Analyze Traffic: Capture and evaluate packet data using Wireshark and tcpdump to diagnose audio drops, call failures, or one-way media. Validate Protocols: Verify SIP signaling, SDP negotiations, and RTP/SRTP media stream compliance. Assess Quality Metrics: Continuously monitor and log critical VoIP KPIs including jitter, packet loss, latency, and Mean Opinion Score (MOS). 4. Test Reporting & Defect Management Publish Test Reports: Generate comprehensive test execution summaries, metric dashboards, and formal test closure reports for stakeholders. Document Defects: Log clear, actionable bugs in Jira accompanied by SIP ladder diagrams, automated logs, and PCAP file captures. Collaborate on Fixes: Partner closely with DevOps and Network Engineers to isolate, reproduce, and resolve complex infrastructure bugs. Essential SIP/VoIP call performance testing with SIPp, Spectra, WinSIP, StarTrinity Automation using Python & Robot Framework API Test Automation & performance testing with Locust, Blazemeter/Taurus, k6, newman, jmeter GUI Automation with TestCafe CI/CD Test Integration Linux & Windows basic administration skills Expertise in Operating Systems like Linux ( RHEL, CentOS , OEL) , Windows Servers/Workstations along with Servers DNS/DHCP/LDAP/A.D Experience in Telecom Applications ( Metaswich Rhino, Dialogic Media Server, Perimeta SBC ) and Telecom Protocols ( SIP, RTP ) Have good Knowledge in ITIL Process and Security implementation/System hardening on Telecom Applications and Services Desirable SSCA SIP School Certified Associate Knowledge in Intelligent Network service protocols like INAP, CAP, MAP Experience in using Metaswitch Scenario Simulator for producing test scenarios for SIP, INAP, MAP protocols etc. Experience in developing scripting, e.g. Python If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.
Azure Data Platform Manager Putney, London Hybrid £85,000+ Bonus + Excellent Benefits Permanent Azure Data Platform Azure Architecture Data Platform Design Databricks Data Factory Data Lake Synapse Are you an experienced Azure Data Platform Manager, Azure Data Architect or Data Platform Lead with a strong background designing and delivering enterprise-scale Azure data platforms? We're looking for an experienced Azure Data Platform Manager to lead the design, development and optimisation of a modern Azure Data Platform within a complex, multi-market technology environment. Azure Data Platform design experience is critical for this position. We're looking for someone who can do more than manage an existing platform or delivery team. You'll need strong experience designing scalable Azure data solutions, defining data architecture and making technical design decisions across Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL and Azure Synapse. You'll combine deep Azure Data Platform knowledge with leadership, stakeholder management and project delivery experience, helping shape the organisation's data strategy and ensuring its data platforms provide secure, reliable and scalable foundations for Business Intelligence, analytics and data-driven decision-making. What You'll Be Doing As the Azure Data Platform Manager, you'll take ownership of the Azure Data Platform strategy, technical design, roadmap and ongoing development. You'll work closely with Data, Architecture, Security, Technology and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into robust enterprise data solutions. A major part of the role will involve Azure Data Platform architecture and solution design, including data ingestion, integration, transformation, storage and consumption. You'll drive enhancements across Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, Azure SQL and Synapse while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, supportable and cost-effective. You'll also oversee platform performance, monitoring and incident management, lead migrations and platform upgrades, and promote best practice across Data Architecture, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Data Governance, Data Quality and Cloud Security. The Azure Data Platform Manager will additionally manage third-party technology partners and delivery providers while contributing to technology investment, budgeting and future platform planning. Azure Data Platform Design Experience This is an important distinction for the role. We're particularly interested in candidates who have personally designed Azure Data Platforms and Azure data solutions, rather than candidates whose experience has been predominantly project management, service management or team leadership. You'll ideally have strong experience across: Azure Data Architecture & Design: designing scalable enterprise Azure Data Platforms, data architectures, integration patterns, data pipelines and cloud-based data solutions. Azure Data Technologies: Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake (ADLS), Azure SQL, Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure PaaS. Data Engineering: data ingestion, ETL/ELT, transformation, integration, SQL, Python and/or PySpark. Platform Engineering: Azure DevOps, CI/CD, monitoring, performance optimisation, security, governance and cost optimisation. Data Management: data governance, data quality, security, resilience and enterprise data standards. You'll understand how these technologies fit together architecturally and be comfortable making and challenging technical design decisions. The Experience We're Looking For You'll have proven experience designing, delivering and managing Azure Data Platforms within a complex enterprise environment, ideally supporting multiple business areas, markets or geographies. We're open to candidates currently working as an Azure Data Platform Manager, Data Platform Manager, Data and Analytics Manager, Azure Data Architect, Data Platform Architect, Azure Data Engineering Manager, Data Engineering Manager, Data Platform Lead, Azure Data Lead or Lead Data Engineer where your role includes significant Azure architecture and platform design responsibility. Alongside your technical expertise, you'll need strong stakeholder management and communication skills. You'll be comfortable engaging with senior business stakeholders, understanding data requirements and translating those requirements into appropriate Azure data solutions. Experience managing major data projects, migrations, system rollouts, third-party suppliers and multiple concurrent priorities will also be important. Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Power Platform, advanced analytics or AI/ML data solutions would be advantageous, as would Microsoft Azure certifications and experience within FMCG, Retail or a multinational organisation. Why Consider This Azure Data Platform Manager Role? This isn't simply a BAU platform management position. You'll have the opportunity to influence the design and future direction of an enterprise Azure Data Platform, make key architectural and technology decisions and lead the development of modern cloud-based data capabilities across an international business. Salary: £80,000+ Bonus: Yes Benefits: Excellent corporate benefits package Location: Putney, London Working Pattern: Hybrid Employment: Permanent Core Platform: Microsoft Azure Focus: Azure Data Platform Design, Data Architecture, Data Engineering & Platform Leadership Ready for Your Next Move? If you're an experienced Azure Data Platform Manager, Azure Data Architect, Data Platform Architect, Data Engineering Manager, Azure Data Lead, Data Platform Lead or Lead Data Engineer with strong Azure Data Platform design experience, we'd like to hear from you. This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of a major Azure Data Platform, influence data strategy and architecture, and work across Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Azure DevOps and CI/CD. Apply today with your Word CV for a confidential discussion. Key Skills: Azure Data Platform Manager, Azure Data Platform, Azure Data Architect, Data Platform Architect, Data Platform Manager, Azure Data Engineering Manager, Data Engineering Manager, Data Platform Lead, Lead Data Engineer, Azure Data Architecture, Azure Data Platform Design, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Azure Data Factory, ADF, Azure Databricks, Databricks, Azure Data Lake, ADLS, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, Synapse Analytics, Azure PaaS, ETL, ELT, Data Pipelines, Data Integration, SQL, Python, PySpark, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Data Governance, Data Quality, Cloud Security, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Power Platform.
23/09/2026
Full time
Azure Data Platform Manager Putney, London Hybrid £85,000+ Bonus + Excellent Benefits Permanent Azure Data Platform Azure Architecture Data Platform Design Databricks Data Factory Data Lake Synapse Are you an experienced Azure Data Platform Manager, Azure Data Architect or Data Platform Lead with a strong background designing and delivering enterprise-scale Azure data platforms? We're looking for an experienced Azure Data Platform Manager to lead the design, development and optimisation of a modern Azure Data Platform within a complex, multi-market technology environment. Azure Data Platform design experience is critical for this position. We're looking for someone who can do more than manage an existing platform or delivery team. You'll need strong experience designing scalable Azure data solutions, defining data architecture and making technical design decisions across Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL and Azure Synapse. You'll combine deep Azure Data Platform knowledge with leadership, stakeholder management and project delivery experience, helping shape the organisation's data strategy and ensuring its data platforms provide secure, reliable and scalable foundations for Business Intelligence, analytics and data-driven decision-making. What You'll Be Doing As the Azure Data Platform Manager, you'll take ownership of the Azure Data Platform strategy, technical design, roadmap and ongoing development. You'll work closely with Data, Architecture, Security, Technology and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into robust enterprise data solutions. A major part of the role will involve Azure Data Platform architecture and solution design, including data ingestion, integration, transformation, storage and consumption. You'll drive enhancements across Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, Azure SQL and Synapse while ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, supportable and cost-effective. You'll also oversee platform performance, monitoring and incident management, lead migrations and platform upgrades, and promote best practice across Data Architecture, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Data Governance, Data Quality and Cloud Security. The Azure Data Platform Manager will additionally manage third-party technology partners and delivery providers while contributing to technology investment, budgeting and future platform planning. Azure Data Platform Design Experience This is an important distinction for the role. We're particularly interested in candidates who have personally designed Azure Data Platforms and Azure data solutions, rather than candidates whose experience has been predominantly project management, service management or team leadership. You'll ideally have strong experience across: Azure Data Architecture & Design: designing scalable enterprise Azure Data Platforms, data architectures, integration patterns, data pipelines and cloud-based data solutions. Azure Data Technologies: Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake (ADLS), Azure SQL, Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure PaaS. Data Engineering: data ingestion, ETL/ELT, transformation, integration, SQL, Python and/or PySpark. Platform Engineering: Azure DevOps, CI/CD, monitoring, performance optimisation, security, governance and cost optimisation. Data Management: data governance, data quality, security, resilience and enterprise data standards. You'll understand how these technologies fit together architecturally and be comfortable making and challenging technical design decisions. The Experience We're Looking For You'll have proven experience designing, delivering and managing Azure Data Platforms within a complex enterprise environment, ideally supporting multiple business areas, markets or geographies. We're open to candidates currently working as an Azure Data Platform Manager, Data Platform Manager, Data and Analytics Manager, Azure Data Architect, Data Platform Architect, Azure Data Engineering Manager, Data Engineering Manager, Data Platform Lead, Azure Data Lead or Lead Data Engineer where your role includes significant Azure architecture and platform design responsibility. Alongside your technical expertise, you'll need strong stakeholder management and communication skills. You'll be comfortable engaging with senior business stakeholders, understanding data requirements and translating those requirements into appropriate Azure data solutions. Experience managing major data projects, migrations, system rollouts, third-party suppliers and multiple concurrent priorities will also be important. Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Power Platform, advanced analytics or AI/ML data solutions would be advantageous, as would Microsoft Azure certifications and experience within FMCG, Retail or a multinational organisation. Why Consider This Azure Data Platform Manager Role? This isn't simply a BAU platform management position. You'll have the opportunity to influence the design and future direction of an enterprise Azure Data Platform, make key architectural and technology decisions and lead the development of modern cloud-based data capabilities across an international business. Salary: £80,000+ Bonus: Yes Benefits: Excellent corporate benefits package Location: Putney, London Working Pattern: Hybrid Employment: Permanent Core Platform: Microsoft Azure Focus: Azure Data Platform Design, Data Architecture, Data Engineering & Platform Leadership Ready for Your Next Move? If you're an experienced Azure Data Platform Manager, Azure Data Architect, Data Platform Architect, Data Engineering Manager, Azure Data Lead, Data Platform Lead or Lead Data Engineer with strong Azure Data Platform design experience, we'd like to hear from you. This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of a major Azure Data Platform, influence data strategy and architecture, and work across Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Azure DevOps and CI/CD. Apply today with your Word CV for a confidential discussion. Key Skills: Azure Data Platform Manager, Azure Data Platform, Azure Data Architect, Data Platform Architect, Data Platform Manager, Azure Data Engineering Manager, Data Engineering Manager, Data Platform Lead, Lead Data Engineer, Azure Data Architecture, Azure Data Platform Design, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Azure Data Factory, ADF, Azure Databricks, Databricks, Azure Data Lake, ADLS, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, Synapse Analytics, Azure PaaS, ETL, ELT, Data Pipelines, Data Integration, SQL, Python, PySpark, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Data Governance, Data Quality, Cloud Security, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Power Platform.
Senior Azure DevOps / Platform Engineer ARCA is looking to speak with experienced Azure DevOps / Platform Engineers to support a major digital programme. This is a hands-on role focused on Azure infrastructure, platform management, environment configuration, CI/CD and ongoing cloud migration activity. Key experience We are looking for strong experience across: Microsoft Azure infrastructure Azure networking Azure Front Door Azure Container Apps Azure Key Vault Azure DNS and DNS zone management Bicep Terraform Infrastructure as Code GitHub Actions Azure DevOps pipelines CI/CD and secure deployment patterns Environment provisioning and management Identity and authentication technologies such as Keycloak, OpenID or external identity providers Platform security, resilience and disaster recovery You should be comfortable working across Dev, QA, Demo, Training and Production environments and have experience managing cloud infrastructure in secure or regulated environments. Experience of tenant migration, platform hardening, penetration testing remediation and Azure migration programmes would be particularly useful. Contract details Hybrid working Up to 2 days per week in London or Leeds Candidates must hold SC clearance Please apply with an up-to-date CV outlining your relevant Azure platform and DevOps experience.
23/09/2026
Contractor
Senior Azure DevOps / Platform Engineer ARCA is looking to speak with experienced Azure DevOps / Platform Engineers to support a major digital programme. This is a hands-on role focused on Azure infrastructure, platform management, environment configuration, CI/CD and ongoing cloud migration activity. Key experience We are looking for strong experience across: Microsoft Azure infrastructure Azure networking Azure Front Door Azure Container Apps Azure Key Vault Azure DNS and DNS zone management Bicep Terraform Infrastructure as Code GitHub Actions Azure DevOps pipelines CI/CD and secure deployment patterns Environment provisioning and management Identity and authentication technologies such as Keycloak, OpenID or external identity providers Platform security, resilience and disaster recovery You should be comfortable working across Dev, QA, Demo, Training and Production environments and have experience managing cloud infrastructure in secure or regulated environments. Experience of tenant migration, platform hardening, penetration testing remediation and Azure migration programmes would be particularly useful. Contract details Hybrid working Up to 2 days per week in London or Leeds Candidates must hold SC clearance Please apply with an up-to-date CV outlining your relevant Azure platform and DevOps experience.
Role Title: Senior DevOps Engineer Duration: contract to run until 31/12/2026 Location: Remote Rate: up to 552 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Clearance required: UK National with SC Eligibility (Active SC Desired) Role purpose / summary ACP / Core Cloud Keycloak Entra S3 Mongo DB Postgres Github Actions CI/CD Kubernetes Docker Karpenter Data Migration experience (good to have) All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply! If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.
23/09/2026
Contractor
Role Title: Senior DevOps Engineer Duration: contract to run until 31/12/2026 Location: Remote Rate: up to 552 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Clearance required: UK National with SC Eligibility (Active SC Desired) Role purpose / summary ACP / Core Cloud Keycloak Entra S3 Mongo DB Postgres Github Actions CI/CD Kubernetes Docker Karpenter Data Migration experience (good to have) All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply! If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.
This forward-thinking education provider is committed to high standards, strong compliance, and continuous improvement. They want someone credible and confident who can work across teams, challenge when needed, and help raise quality consistently. The Organisation This forward-thinking education provider is committed to creating a positive, inclusive workplace where every member of staff can thrive. Their focus is on empowering people, strengthening leadership capability, and driving meaningful organisational change aligned to their long-term vision. Role Purpose Support the delivery, development and improvement of DevOps services, systems and IT projects. Provide senior technical support across key applications so staff and students have reliable systems for teaching, learning and day-to-day work. Help develop junior DevOps staff, improve processes and support wider digital transformation projects. Role Responsibilities Act as the technical specialist for key applications, databases, MIS systems and integrations. Support major IT projects, including the development of a new data warehouse. Provide 3rd line support for applications, systems, incidents, upgrades, patching and fault resolution. Build, maintain and optimise databases using tools such as SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL. Keep systems, code, configurations and technical processes properly documented. Mentor DevOps Application Engineers and help improve team knowledge, skills and service delivery. Essential Requirements Good understanding of Azure design, not just AWS, because Azure is set up and managed differently. Relevant qualification in IT, Computing or Business Administration. Around 5+ years' experience in a senior IT, MIS, DevOps or technical systems role. Strong experience with Azure DevOps, Jira and Microsoft-based systems. Strong communication, organisation, problem-solving and customer service skills. Benefits Generous annual leave and pension scheme. Professional development opportunities to support continued growth. Inclusive, supportive environment that values innovation and wellbeing. Access to staff discounts and health & wellbeing initiatives. Don't wait, apply today and be part of an inspiring educational environment that transforms lives! We have multiple jobs across this region currently so even if this one isn't quite right for you, we'd love to hear from you regardless. Important Notice Dovetail and Slate is a specialist education recruitment company. If this role isn't quite right, we welcome your CV and a call to explore other opportunities. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All appointments are subject to satisfactory vetting, including a right to work check and, where relevant, an enhanced DBS, PVG (Scotland), or EWC (Wales) check, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Dovetail and Slate Ltd phone number removed acts as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business under the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. We are an equal opportunities employer. By applying, you consent to your data being processed for recruitment purposes in line with our Privacy Policy. Because education matters. Dovetail and Slate Limited. Because education matters. Dovetail and Slate Limited phone number removed acts as an Employment Agency.
23/09/2026
Full time
This forward-thinking education provider is committed to high standards, strong compliance, and continuous improvement. They want someone credible and confident who can work across teams, challenge when needed, and help raise quality consistently. The Organisation This forward-thinking education provider is committed to creating a positive, inclusive workplace where every member of staff can thrive. Their focus is on empowering people, strengthening leadership capability, and driving meaningful organisational change aligned to their long-term vision. Role Purpose Support the delivery, development and improvement of DevOps services, systems and IT projects. Provide senior technical support across key applications so staff and students have reliable systems for teaching, learning and day-to-day work. Help develop junior DevOps staff, improve processes and support wider digital transformation projects. Role Responsibilities Act as the technical specialist for key applications, databases, MIS systems and integrations. Support major IT projects, including the development of a new data warehouse. Provide 3rd line support for applications, systems, incidents, upgrades, patching and fault resolution. Build, maintain and optimise databases using tools such as SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL. Keep systems, code, configurations and technical processes properly documented. Mentor DevOps Application Engineers and help improve team knowledge, skills and service delivery. Essential Requirements Good understanding of Azure design, not just AWS, because Azure is set up and managed differently. Relevant qualification in IT, Computing or Business Administration. Around 5+ years' experience in a senior IT, MIS, DevOps or technical systems role. Strong experience with Azure DevOps, Jira and Microsoft-based systems. Strong communication, organisation, problem-solving and customer service skills. Benefits Generous annual leave and pension scheme. Professional development opportunities to support continued growth. Inclusive, supportive environment that values innovation and wellbeing. Access to staff discounts and health & wellbeing initiatives. Don't wait, apply today and be part of an inspiring educational environment that transforms lives! We have multiple jobs across this region currently so even if this one isn't quite right for you, we'd love to hear from you regardless. Important Notice Dovetail and Slate is a specialist education recruitment company. If this role isn't quite right, we welcome your CV and a call to explore other opportunities. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. All appointments are subject to satisfactory vetting, including a right to work check and, where relevant, an enhanced DBS, PVG (Scotland), or EWC (Wales) check, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Dovetail and Slate Ltd phone number removed acts as an Employment Agency and an Employment Business under the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. We are an equal opportunities employer. By applying, you consent to your data being processed for recruitment purposes in line with our Privacy Policy. Because education matters. Dovetail and Slate Limited. Because education matters. Dovetail and Slate Limited phone number removed acts as an Employment Agency.
Software Engineering Specialist 6 months Hybrid Inside IR35 - umbrella only We are seeking a Voice Services Developer to build, maintain, and optimize our next-generation communication platforms. You will bridge the gap between traditional telecommunication protocols and modern cloud-based AI. Your core focus will be developing stable SIP services using Java, managing open-source media engines, and integrating advanced Speech AI technologies across multi-cloud environments. Key Responsibilities SIP Development: Develop, test, and maintain mid-to-high performance SIP-based voice services using JAIN SLEE, SIP Servlets. Media Server Administration: Configure, manage, and scale FreeSWITCH or Asterisk communication engines. Speech AI Integration: Implement Speech-to-Text (STT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) workflows into live voice streams. Cloud Operations: Deploy and monitor voice applications across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Troubleshooting: Use network analysis tools to diagnose audio quality issues, call drops, and latency problems. Team Collaboration: Work alongside senior architects and DevOps teams to roll out scalable conversational AI bots. Required Skills & Qualifications Core Language: Professional experience with Java, including multi-threading and network programming. In depth knowledge of Java Good knowledge of java applications using JAIN SLEE framework, SIP Servlet Frameworks Telephony Engines: Hands-on experience configuring and scripting with FreeSWITCH or Asterisk. Voice Protocols: Solid understanding of SIP, RTP/RTCP, and SDP. Speech AI: Experience integrating cloud speech APIs (e.g., AWS Transcribe/Polly, Azure Speech, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text). Multi-Cloud Exposure: Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Tools: Proficiency with Wireshark or sngrep for VoIP troubleshooting. Preferred Qualifications Experience with Java telephony frameworks like Metaswitch Rhino SLEE or Oracle OCCAS. Understanding of containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes in cloud environments. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.
23/09/2026
Contractor
Software Engineering Specialist 6 months Hybrid Inside IR35 - umbrella only We are seeking a Voice Services Developer to build, maintain, and optimize our next-generation communication platforms. You will bridge the gap between traditional telecommunication protocols and modern cloud-based AI. Your core focus will be developing stable SIP services using Java, managing open-source media engines, and integrating advanced Speech AI technologies across multi-cloud environments. Key Responsibilities SIP Development: Develop, test, and maintain mid-to-high performance SIP-based voice services using JAIN SLEE, SIP Servlets. Media Server Administration: Configure, manage, and scale FreeSWITCH or Asterisk communication engines. Speech AI Integration: Implement Speech-to-Text (STT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) workflows into live voice streams. Cloud Operations: Deploy and monitor voice applications across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Troubleshooting: Use network analysis tools to diagnose audio quality issues, call drops, and latency problems. Team Collaboration: Work alongside senior architects and DevOps teams to roll out scalable conversational AI bots. Required Skills & Qualifications Core Language: Professional experience with Java, including multi-threading and network programming. In depth knowledge of Java Good knowledge of java applications using JAIN SLEE framework, SIP Servlet Frameworks Telephony Engines: Hands-on experience configuring and scripting with FreeSWITCH or Asterisk. Voice Protocols: Solid understanding of SIP, RTP/RTCP, and SDP. Speech AI: Experience integrating cloud speech APIs (e.g., AWS Transcribe/Polly, Azure Speech, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text). Multi-Cloud Exposure: Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Tools: Proficiency with Wireshark or sngrep for VoIP troubleshooting. Preferred Qualifications Experience with Java telephony frameworks like Metaswitch Rhino SLEE or Oracle OCCAS. Understanding of containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes in cloud environments. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
City, Birmingham
We are seeking an experienced Senior Test Engineer to define and drive the overall test automation strategy across multiple digital delivery teams. In this role, you will provide technical leadership, set quality standards, and ensure the delivery of resilient, accessible, and secure digital services. You will act as the technical authority for quality engineering, establishing modern automated test frameworks from scratch, overseeing complex data and non-functional testing, and embedding continuous quality gates within modern CI/CD pipelines. Key Responsibilities Strategic Leadership & Governance Define Strategy: Set the strategic direction for test engineering across product teams, establishing robust, risk-based testing strategies and clear quality metrics. Technical Guidance: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to embedded QA engineers, raising team capability and promoting engineering best practices. Delivery Oversight: Lead testing activities across parallel workstreams, ensuring quality, time, and cost objectives are met. Escalation & Defect Management: Act as the primary technical point of escalation for complex issues, environmental blockers, and risk management (RAID). Stakeholder Alignment: Develop tailored test approaches and executive reporting mechanisms to gain alignment with senior business and technical stakeholders. Quality Engineering & Continuous Improvement Framework Architecture: Design, build, and maintain scalable, reusable automation frameworks for UI, API, and backend data flows using modern languages (TypeScript, Python, Java, or C#). Data & ETL Testing: Oversee end-to-end data testing strategies across complex, large-scale data environments, validating data transformations, schema integrity, and ETL pipelines (e.g., Informatica, Oracle, SQL). Non-Functional Testing (NFT): Embed usability, accessibility (WCAG 2.2 standards), security, stability, and capacity testing early into the development lifecycle. Tooling & Infrastructure: Select appropriate test technical tools, define test infrastructure approaches, and optimize execution times to reduce technical debt. Standardisation & Collaboration: Drive standardisation by sharing reusable automation libraries across teams, aligning cross-team dependencies, and promoting a culture of experimentation. Key Competencies & Capability Profile Problem Solving & Critical Thinking: Ability to investigate complex process problems, absorb large amounts of conflicting technical information, and formulate actionable recommendations. Test Planning & Governance: Expert-level knowledge of system and acceptance test planning, coordinating both functional and non-functional specifications. Non-Functional & Risk Management: Skilled in designing and executing non-functional testing techniques, evaluating risk profiles, and prioritizing defects based on severity. Delivery Methodologies: Proficient in Agile/Scrum and BDD environments; adept at helping teams visualize outcomes, manage priorities, and deliver against Minimum Viable Products (MVPs). Technical Landscape Mastery: Deep understanding of cloud environments (AWS/Azure), containerisation (Docker), microservices architecture, and modern digital technology boundaries. Essential & Desirable Criteria Essential Requirements: Clearance: Active UK Security Clearance (SC Cleared) or immediate eligibility for SC transfer. Automation Expertise: Proven experience building UI and API automation frameworks from scratch using tools such as Playwright , Cypress , Selenium , or Pytest . ETL & Database Testing: Hands-on experience working in large-scale data environments, writing complex SQL queries, and validating data pipelines (experience with Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle databases). CI/CD & Infrastructure: Experience integrating automated test suites into modern CI/CD deployment pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS). Test Leadership: Demonstrated track record of mentoring QA engineers, driving standardisation, and defining end-to-end test strategies. Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
23/09/2026
Contractor
We are seeking an experienced Senior Test Engineer to define and drive the overall test automation strategy across multiple digital delivery teams. In this role, you will provide technical leadership, set quality standards, and ensure the delivery of resilient, accessible, and secure digital services. You will act as the technical authority for quality engineering, establishing modern automated test frameworks from scratch, overseeing complex data and non-functional testing, and embedding continuous quality gates within modern CI/CD pipelines. Key Responsibilities Strategic Leadership & Governance Define Strategy: Set the strategic direction for test engineering across product teams, establishing robust, risk-based testing strategies and clear quality metrics. Technical Guidance: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to embedded QA engineers, raising team capability and promoting engineering best practices. Delivery Oversight: Lead testing activities across parallel workstreams, ensuring quality, time, and cost objectives are met. Escalation & Defect Management: Act as the primary technical point of escalation for complex issues, environmental blockers, and risk management (RAID). Stakeholder Alignment: Develop tailored test approaches and executive reporting mechanisms to gain alignment with senior business and technical stakeholders. Quality Engineering & Continuous Improvement Framework Architecture: Design, build, and maintain scalable, reusable automation frameworks for UI, API, and backend data flows using modern languages (TypeScript, Python, Java, or C#). Data & ETL Testing: Oversee end-to-end data testing strategies across complex, large-scale data environments, validating data transformations, schema integrity, and ETL pipelines (e.g., Informatica, Oracle, SQL). Non-Functional Testing (NFT): Embed usability, accessibility (WCAG 2.2 standards), security, stability, and capacity testing early into the development lifecycle. Tooling & Infrastructure: Select appropriate test technical tools, define test infrastructure approaches, and optimize execution times to reduce technical debt. Standardisation & Collaboration: Drive standardisation by sharing reusable automation libraries across teams, aligning cross-team dependencies, and promoting a culture of experimentation. Key Competencies & Capability Profile Problem Solving & Critical Thinking: Ability to investigate complex process problems, absorb large amounts of conflicting technical information, and formulate actionable recommendations. Test Planning & Governance: Expert-level knowledge of system and acceptance test planning, coordinating both functional and non-functional specifications. Non-Functional & Risk Management: Skilled in designing and executing non-functional testing techniques, evaluating risk profiles, and prioritizing defects based on severity. Delivery Methodologies: Proficient in Agile/Scrum and BDD environments; adept at helping teams visualize outcomes, manage priorities, and deliver against Minimum Viable Products (MVPs). Technical Landscape Mastery: Deep understanding of cloud environments (AWS/Azure), containerisation (Docker), microservices architecture, and modern digital technology boundaries. Essential & Desirable Criteria Essential Requirements: Clearance: Active UK Security Clearance (SC Cleared) or immediate eligibility for SC transfer. Automation Expertise: Proven experience building UI and API automation frameworks from scratch using tools such as Playwright , Cypress , Selenium , or Pytest . ETL & Database Testing: Hands-on experience working in large-scale data environments, writing complex SQL queries, and validating data pipelines (experience with Informatica PowerCenter and Oracle databases). CI/CD & Infrastructure: Experience integrating automated test suites into modern CI/CD deployment pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS). Test Leadership: Demonstrated track record of mentoring QA engineers, driving standardisation, and defining end-to-end test strategies. Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer £60-70k St. Ives If you want to develop yourself from a Senior to a Lead engineer with a leading company developing extremely precise systems. This is the role for you. Platform Recruitment is partnered with a global leader in extremely responsive control software for industrial automation, looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer. You ll be responsible for developing firmware & software, leading the software development team, and innovating the next generation of concepts. Responsibilities as an Embedded Software Engineer: Design, develop, optimise, and thoroughly test firmware and software for execution on bare-metal processors and embedded Linux/RTOS platforms Lead a cross-functional team of hardware and software engineers to define the requirements and lead the software development life cycle Requirements: Proven experience in leading firmware development for bare-metal and Linux/RTOS-based systems, with high proficiency in high-performance C/C++. Extensive knowledge of various communication protocols (e.g., TCP/UDP, SPI/I2C, CAN, RS232) High-level familiarity with electronics/schematics, and strong numerical/analytical skills Desirable skills for an Embedded Software Engineer: Experience developing on Arm Cortex platforms utilising either RTOS or bare metal Working knowledge of embedded security Experience with other embedded or high-level prototyping languages such as Rust, C#, or Python Apply now to develop the next generation of high-precision control software! Platform Recruitment: Platform recruitment covers a wide range of IT and Engineering positions, including C++, Embedded, Electronics, Mechanical, DevOps, Cloud, Support, Project Management, Technical Sales, and more.
23/09/2026
Full time
Senior Embedded Software Engineer £60-70k St. Ives If you want to develop yourself from a Senior to a Lead engineer with a leading company developing extremely precise systems. This is the role for you. Platform Recruitment is partnered with a global leader in extremely responsive control software for industrial automation, looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer. You ll be responsible for developing firmware & software, leading the software development team, and innovating the next generation of concepts. Responsibilities as an Embedded Software Engineer: Design, develop, optimise, and thoroughly test firmware and software for execution on bare-metal processors and embedded Linux/RTOS platforms Lead a cross-functional team of hardware and software engineers to define the requirements and lead the software development life cycle Requirements: Proven experience in leading firmware development for bare-metal and Linux/RTOS-based systems, with high proficiency in high-performance C/C++. Extensive knowledge of various communication protocols (e.g., TCP/UDP, SPI/I2C, CAN, RS232) High-level familiarity with electronics/schematics, and strong numerical/analytical skills Desirable skills for an Embedded Software Engineer: Experience developing on Arm Cortex platforms utilising either RTOS or bare metal Working knowledge of embedded security Experience with other embedded or high-level prototyping languages such as Rust, C#, or Python Apply now to develop the next generation of high-precision control software! Platform Recruitment: Platform recruitment covers a wide range of IT and Engineering positions, including C++, Embedded, Electronics, Mechanical, DevOps, Cloud, Support, Project Management, Technical Sales, and more.
Senior Azure Engineer - Azure application, DevOps & security Engineer - SC Cleared Senior Azure Application, DevOps & Security Engineer Location: London (TS) Contract: Temporary Duration: 02 November 2026 - 30 April 2027 Positions: 2 Rate: £385 per day Clearance: SC Clearance required Working: 50% onsite Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Azure Application, DevOps & Security Engineer to support a major technology programme within a regulated environment. This is a hands-on engineering role , focused on productionising an existing application hosted on Azure App Service and establishing a secure, reliable and repeatable Azure platform. You will be responsible for integrating Azure API Management (APIM) with App Service, implementing the security and identity model, improving CI/CD, monitoring and operational processes, and providing technical documentation and knowledge transfer. Key Responsibilities Configure and integrate Azure API Management with Azure App Service Develop and manage APIM policies, authentication, routing, certificates and error handling Configure Entra ID, Managed Identities and RBAC Implement secure API and application access models Configure App Service settings, networking, DNS and certificates Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments Implement infrastructure and configuration using Terraform Build and integrate REST APIs using Python Implement logging, monitoring, health checks and alerting using Azure Monitor/Application Insights Troubleshoot production deployment, connectivity, authentication and application issues Support repeatable deployment, testing, rollback and recovery processes Produce technical documentation, operational runbooks and reusable deployment patterns Provide knowledge transfer to internal technology teams Essential Skills Strong hands-on Azure engineering experience Azure API Management (APIM) Azure App Service Microsoft Entra ID Managed Identities & RBAC Azure application and API security Production CI/CD Python & REST APIs Networking, DNS and certificates Logging, monitoring and operational support Git-based development Infrastructure configuration/ Terraform Strong technical documentation and knowledge-transfer experience Experience working within a secure or regulated environment Active SC Clearance Desirable Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Azure Key Vault Azure Monitor/Application Insights Private Endpoints/VNet Integration APIM policies, rate limiting and request transformation Databricks AI/LLM or data-driven application experience Ideal Candidate We are looking for an engineer who can demonstrate recent, hands-on production experience across: APIM - App Service - Entra ID - RBAC/Managed Identity - Terraform - CI/CD - Monitoring Candidates should be able to demonstrate that they have personally implemented and supported these technologies in production , rather than operating solely in an architectural or advisory capacity. SC Clearance and 50% onsite attendance in London (TS) are mandatory.
23/09/2026
Contractor
Senior Azure Engineer - Azure application, DevOps & security Engineer - SC Cleared Senior Azure Application, DevOps & Security Engineer Location: London (TS) Contract: Temporary Duration: 02 November 2026 - 30 April 2027 Positions: 2 Rate: £385 per day Clearance: SC Clearance required Working: 50% onsite Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Azure Application, DevOps & Security Engineer to support a major technology programme within a regulated environment. This is a hands-on engineering role , focused on productionising an existing application hosted on Azure App Service and establishing a secure, reliable and repeatable Azure platform. You will be responsible for integrating Azure API Management (APIM) with App Service, implementing the security and identity model, improving CI/CD, monitoring and operational processes, and providing technical documentation and knowledge transfer. Key Responsibilities Configure and integrate Azure API Management with Azure App Service Develop and manage APIM policies, authentication, routing, certificates and error handling Configure Entra ID, Managed Identities and RBAC Implement secure API and application access models Configure App Service settings, networking, DNS and certificates Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments Implement infrastructure and configuration using Terraform Build and integrate REST APIs using Python Implement logging, monitoring, health checks and alerting using Azure Monitor/Application Insights Troubleshoot production deployment, connectivity, authentication and application issues Support repeatable deployment, testing, rollback and recovery processes Produce technical documentation, operational runbooks and reusable deployment patterns Provide knowledge transfer to internal technology teams Essential Skills Strong hands-on Azure engineering experience Azure API Management (APIM) Azure App Service Microsoft Entra ID Managed Identities & RBAC Azure application and API security Production CI/CD Python & REST APIs Networking, DNS and certificates Logging, monitoring and operational support Git-based development Infrastructure configuration/ Terraform Strong technical documentation and knowledge-transfer experience Experience working within a secure or regulated environment Active SC Clearance Desirable Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Azure Key Vault Azure Monitor/Application Insights Private Endpoints/VNet Integration APIM policies, rate limiting and request transformation Databricks AI/LLM or data-driven application experience Ideal Candidate We are looking for an engineer who can demonstrate recent, hands-on production experience across: APIM - App Service - Entra ID - RBAC/Managed Identity - Terraform - CI/CD - Monitoring Candidates should be able to demonstrate that they have personally implemented and supported these technologies in production , rather than operating solely in an architectural or advisory capacity. SC Clearance and 50% onsite attendance in London (TS) are mandatory.
Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Limited
City, London
Senior AI Consultant - Agentic AI & Generative AI £60,000 - £80,000 base + bonus, training and a strong benefits package | Hybrid working | Office base of your choice: London, Manchester or Glasgow | Full time, permanent If you want to build intelligent systems that actually make it into production not just proofs of concept that gather dust this is the role you've been holding out for. You'll join a highly regarded transformation consultancy where strategy, science, creativity and engineering meet, working with major public and private sector clients on Generative and Agentic AI solutions that deliver visible, real-world impact. You'll be part of a genuinely tech-obsessed team that experiments freely, works with the newest models and agentic frameworks, and regularly presents its work at major industry events and conferences. If you thrive on rapid prototyping, scaling AI products, and being trusted to explore what's next, you'll feel right at home. What You'll Be Doing Designing, developing, testing and deploying Front End and Back End components of GenAI and agentic applications within a data science and AI consulting team. Designing agentic workflows with HITL gates, auditability, policy controls and robust evaluation/monitoring suitable for regulated clients. Translating complex business challenges into AI-powered solutions using Generative AI, Agentic AI, data science and analytics. Collaborating with cloud architects, data scientists, product managers and business consultants to take ideas from concept to production. Supporting business development building AI demonstrators, contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, client pitches and client events. Contributing internally through campaign development, think-tanks, whitepapers, offering development and practice growth, alongside your own funded learning, training and certifications. What You'll Bring Experience gained in a major consulting firm, or in industry with a consulting mindset comfortable in a matrixed organisation and working directly with technical and non-technical client sponsors to shape requirements and build solutions. A track record of designing and developing full-stack applications across the entire life cycle from early PoCs, through MVPs and testing, to secure, scalable, production-grade deployments. Proven delivery of solutions using traditional Machine Learning, Generative AI models and Agentic AI frameworks in client-facing environments, including data engineering in cloud environments. Strong Python (3.10+), TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), SQL and Bash. Front End: React.js, Next.js (App Router & Server Components), Tailwind CSS, ShadCN UI, Redux, Zustand, Jest, Cypress plus AI product UX patterns such as streaming, review loops, provenance/citations, long-running tasks and error recovery. Back End: Django (5.x+), DRF, FastAPI, Pydantic, Celery, Django Channels, Flask and RESTful APIs. Databases and storage: PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Firestore, BigQuery, Azure Blob Storage. Cloud and DevOps: Azure (App Services, OpenAI, AKS), GCP (Vertex AI, Cloud Run), Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, RBAC and cost controls. Solid software engineering fundamentals: Clean Code (SOLID, DRY), DDD, modular architecture, TDD and code quality tooling. Desirable: RAG pipelines, MCP, LLM integration (OpenAI, Gemini, Hugging Face models), LangSmith, TruLens, and agentic frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, Autogen, OpenAI Agents and Google ADK. You won't need every technology on this list. A strong engineering foundation, a good cross-section of these skills, and the curiosity to pick up new tools as projects demand is what really matters. Why You'll Want This Role A competitive base salary of £60,000 - £80,000 plus bonus and a comprehensive benefits package including training budget Hybrid working with your choice of a London, Manchester or Glasgow office base. Structured training, certifications and genuine investment in your career development. Freedom to experiment with cutting-edge models and frameworks and see your work go live in the real world. Ready to Apply? If you're a self-starting innovator who loves technology and wants to build the future, apply now with your latest CV. Interviews are moving quickly, so don't wait. If you've held any of these roles or used these technologies/skills, this role could be a great fit: GenAI Engineer, Generative AI Engineer, Agentic AI Engineer, AI Engineer, AI Consultant, Machine Learning Engineer, ML Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Python Developer, Senior Consultant Data Science, Data Scientist, Solutions Architect AI, LLM Engineer, MLOps Engineer, AI Software Engineer, Django Developer, FastAPI Developer, React Developer, Next.js Developer, TypeScript Developer, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Autogen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, RAG, retrieval augmented generation, MCP, LangSmith, TruLens, prompt engineering, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, GCP, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, TDD, DDD. Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is a leading independent tech recruitment consultancy in the UK. For every CV sent to clients, we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation. We are a Climate Action Workforce in partnership with Ecologi. If this role isn't right for you, explore our referral reward program with payouts at interview and placement milestones. Visit our website for details. Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
23/09/2026
Full time
Senior AI Consultant - Agentic AI & Generative AI £60,000 - £80,000 base + bonus, training and a strong benefits package | Hybrid working | Office base of your choice: London, Manchester or Glasgow | Full time, permanent If you want to build intelligent systems that actually make it into production not just proofs of concept that gather dust this is the role you've been holding out for. You'll join a highly regarded transformation consultancy where strategy, science, creativity and engineering meet, working with major public and private sector clients on Generative and Agentic AI solutions that deliver visible, real-world impact. You'll be part of a genuinely tech-obsessed team that experiments freely, works with the newest models and agentic frameworks, and regularly presents its work at major industry events and conferences. If you thrive on rapid prototyping, scaling AI products, and being trusted to explore what's next, you'll feel right at home. What You'll Be Doing Designing, developing, testing and deploying Front End and Back End components of GenAI and agentic applications within a data science and AI consulting team. Designing agentic workflows with HITL gates, auditability, policy controls and robust evaluation/monitoring suitable for regulated clients. Translating complex business challenges into AI-powered solutions using Generative AI, Agentic AI, data science and analytics. Collaborating with cloud architects, data scientists, product managers and business consultants to take ideas from concept to production. Supporting business development building AI demonstrators, contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, client pitches and client events. Contributing internally through campaign development, think-tanks, whitepapers, offering development and practice growth, alongside your own funded learning, training and certifications. What You'll Bring Experience gained in a major consulting firm, or in industry with a consulting mindset comfortable in a matrixed organisation and working directly with technical and non-technical client sponsors to shape requirements and build solutions. A track record of designing and developing full-stack applications across the entire life cycle from early PoCs, through MVPs and testing, to secure, scalable, production-grade deployments. Proven delivery of solutions using traditional Machine Learning, Generative AI models and Agentic AI frameworks in client-facing environments, including data engineering in cloud environments. Strong Python (3.10+), TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), SQL and Bash. Front End: React.js, Next.js (App Router & Server Components), Tailwind CSS, ShadCN UI, Redux, Zustand, Jest, Cypress plus AI product UX patterns such as streaming, review loops, provenance/citations, long-running tasks and error recovery. Back End: Django (5.x+), DRF, FastAPI, Pydantic, Celery, Django Channels, Flask and RESTful APIs. Databases and storage: PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Firestore, BigQuery, Azure Blob Storage. Cloud and DevOps: Azure (App Services, OpenAI, AKS), GCP (Vertex AI, Cloud Run), Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, RBAC and cost controls. Solid software engineering fundamentals: Clean Code (SOLID, DRY), DDD, modular architecture, TDD and code quality tooling. Desirable: RAG pipelines, MCP, LLM integration (OpenAI, Gemini, Hugging Face models), LangSmith, TruLens, and agentic frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, Autogen, OpenAI Agents and Google ADK. You won't need every technology on this list. A strong engineering foundation, a good cross-section of these skills, and the curiosity to pick up new tools as projects demand is what really matters. Why You'll Want This Role A competitive base salary of £60,000 - £80,000 plus bonus and a comprehensive benefits package including training budget Hybrid working with your choice of a London, Manchester or Glasgow office base. Structured training, certifications and genuine investment in your career development. Freedom to experiment with cutting-edge models and frameworks and see your work go live in the real world. Ready to Apply? If you're a self-starting innovator who loves technology and wants to build the future, apply now with your latest CV. Interviews are moving quickly, so don't wait. If you've held any of these roles or used these technologies/skills, this role could be a great fit: GenAI Engineer, Generative AI Engineer, Agentic AI Engineer, AI Engineer, AI Consultant, Machine Learning Engineer, ML Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Python Developer, Senior Consultant Data Science, Data Scientist, Solutions Architect AI, LLM Engineer, MLOps Engineer, AI Software Engineer, Django Developer, FastAPI Developer, React Developer, Next.js Developer, TypeScript Developer, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Autogen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Google ADK, RAG, retrieval augmented generation, MCP, LangSmith, TruLens, prompt engineering, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, GCP, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, TDD, DDD. Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions Ltd is a leading independent tech recruitment consultancy in the UK. For every CV sent to clients, we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation. 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Data Engineer - DV Cleared Location: Bristol/Wiltshire - Hybrid Rate: £55-£60 per hour Inside IR35 Contract: 3 months initially, with a strong expectation of extension to 12 months Clearance: UK DV or EDV Clearance required Sector: Defence/MOD Condensed Working Week - Work 3 Days, Paid for 5 We're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a high-profile defence programme, working across secure data engineering projects for MOD customers. One of the key benefits of this opportunity is the potential to work a condensed week over just 3 days, while being paid for 5 days. This offers an excellent opportunity to maximise your earning potential while significantly improving your work-life balance. This is a great opportunity for a hands-on Data Engineer who enjoys solving complex data challenges, working with modern data technologies and collaborating with multidisciplinary technical teams. The Role You'll be responsible for designing, building and maintaining secure, scalable data solutions across the full data life cycle - from acquisition and integration through to processing, validation and analysis. You'll work closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, DevOps Engineers, Cyber Consultants and customer stakeholders to deliver robust, secure and maintainable data solutions. Key Responsibilities Design, build and maintain secure and scalable data engineering solutions. Develop and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines using Python, SQL and Apache NiFi . Design data models, schemas and data contracts/Interface Control Documents (ICDs) . Integrate data from REST APIs and other source systems. Work with Parquet and S3-compatible object storage . Implement data validation, assurance, metadata management and data lineage. Develop automation and data-driven tools to support customer requirements. Contribute to technical decisions and investigate emerging technologies where appropriate. Work collaboratively with technical and customer stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions. Take ownership of technical deliverables, ensuring they are secure, high quality and maintainable. Essential Experience Proven commercial experience delivering Data Engineering solutions in project or production environments. Strong Python and SQL skills. Hands-on experience with Apache NiFi and data pipeline orchestration. Data modelling and schema design. Parquet and S3-compatible object storage . REST API integration. OpenShift or Kubernetes . GitLab CI/CD and automated build, test and deployment pipelines. Developing data contracts or Interface Control Documents (ICDs) . Data validation and assurance. Metadata management, data lineage and traceability . Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Confident communication with technical and customer stakeholders. Desirable STEM, Data, AI, Programming or related degree. Experience influencing technical decisions or helping develop technical capability. Experience with big-data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop or NiFi . Exposure to Ansible and Terraform . Understanding of machine-learning algorithms and deployment. Clearance & Location DV clearance is essential for this role, with EDV clearance also welcomed . The role is based around Bristol and MOD sites in Wiltshire , with approximately 50% of the time spent on MOD sites and the remainder working on a hybrid basis. There may also be occasional requirements to work from other sites. Contract & Benefits £55-£60 per hour Inside IR35 3-month initial contract Strong expectation of extension, potentially up to 12 months Condensed working week - work 3 days and be paid for 5 Hybrid working Bristol-based with MOD/Wiltshire site work High-profile Defence/MOD programme DV or EDV clearance required If you're a DV-cleared Senior Data Engineer with strong Python, SQL and Apache NiFi experience and you're interested in a role offering a 3-day condensed working week with 5 days' pay , we'd be keen to hear from you.
23/09/2026
Contractor
Data Engineer - DV Cleared Location: Bristol/Wiltshire - Hybrid Rate: £55-£60 per hour Inside IR35 Contract: 3 months initially, with a strong expectation of extension to 12 months Clearance: UK DV or EDV Clearance required Sector: Defence/MOD Condensed Working Week - Work 3 Days, Paid for 5 We're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a high-profile defence programme, working across secure data engineering projects for MOD customers. One of the key benefits of this opportunity is the potential to work a condensed week over just 3 days, while being paid for 5 days. This offers an excellent opportunity to maximise your earning potential while significantly improving your work-life balance. This is a great opportunity for a hands-on Data Engineer who enjoys solving complex data challenges, working with modern data technologies and collaborating with multidisciplinary technical teams. The Role You'll be responsible for designing, building and maintaining secure, scalable data solutions across the full data life cycle - from acquisition and integration through to processing, validation and analysis. You'll work closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, DevOps Engineers, Cyber Consultants and customer stakeholders to deliver robust, secure and maintainable data solutions. Key Responsibilities Design, build and maintain secure and scalable data engineering solutions. Develop and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines using Python, SQL and Apache NiFi . Design data models, schemas and data contracts/Interface Control Documents (ICDs) . Integrate data from REST APIs and other source systems. Work with Parquet and S3-compatible object storage . Implement data validation, assurance, metadata management and data lineage. Develop automation and data-driven tools to support customer requirements. Contribute to technical decisions and investigate emerging technologies where appropriate. Work collaboratively with technical and customer stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions. Take ownership of technical deliverables, ensuring they are secure, high quality and maintainable. Essential Experience Proven commercial experience delivering Data Engineering solutions in project or production environments. Strong Python and SQL skills. Hands-on experience with Apache NiFi and data pipeline orchestration. Data modelling and schema design. Parquet and S3-compatible object storage . REST API integration. OpenShift or Kubernetes . GitLab CI/CD and automated build, test and deployment pipelines. Developing data contracts or Interface Control Documents (ICDs) . Data validation and assurance. Metadata management, data lineage and traceability . Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Confident communication with technical and customer stakeholders. Desirable STEM, Data, AI, Programming or related degree. Experience influencing technical decisions or helping develop technical capability. Experience with big-data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop or NiFi . Exposure to Ansible and Terraform . Understanding of machine-learning algorithms and deployment. Clearance & Location DV clearance is essential for this role, with EDV clearance also welcomed . The role is based around Bristol and MOD sites in Wiltshire , with approximately 50% of the time spent on MOD sites and the remainder working on a hybrid basis. There may also be occasional requirements to work from other sites. Contract & Benefits £55-£60 per hour Inside IR35 3-month initial contract Strong expectation of extension, potentially up to 12 months Condensed working week - work 3 days and be paid for 5 Hybrid working Bristol-based with MOD/Wiltshire site work High-profile Defence/MOD programme DV or EDV clearance required If you're a DV-cleared Senior Data Engineer with strong Python, SQL and Apache NiFi experience and you're interested in a role offering a 3-day condensed working week with 5 days' pay , we'd be keen to hear from you.
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer to support a Leonardo defence project. This is an opportunity to work on secure, complex data engineering solutions within a Defence environment, collaborating with technical specialists and customer stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Design, build and maintain secure, scalable data solutions across the full life cycle, including data acquisition, integration, storage, processing and analysis. Develop and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines using Apache NiFi, Python and SQL . Design data models, schemas, data contracts and Interface Control Documents (ICDs) to support reliable system integration. Integrate data from REST APIs and other source systems, including Parquet and S3-compatible object storage. Implement data validation, assurance, metadata management and data traceability. Develop tools to support data-driven insights and task automation. Work with customer and internal stakeholders to define data, interface and tool requirements. Collaborate with DevOps Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts and Cyber Consultants. Take ownership of technical deliverables, ensuring quality, security and maintainability. Essential Skills & Experience Candidates should have demonstrable experience in: Data engineering within a project or production environment. Strong Python and SQL skills, including developing, testing and optimising data pipelines. Hands-on experience with Apache NiFi for data ingestion, routing, transformation and orchestration. Data modelling and schema design, including data contracts or Interface Control Documents (ICDs). Parquet and S3-compatible object storage. REST API integration and troubleshooting data exchanges between systems. OpenShift or Kubernetes environments. GitLab CI/CD practices and automated build, test and deployment pipelines. Data validation, quality controls and assurance. Metadata management, data lineage and traceability. Strong problem-solving, critical thinking and stakeholder communication skills. Desirable Experience A degree in STEM, Data, AI, Programming or a related discipline. Experience influencing technical decisions and supporting capability development. Exposure to big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop or NiFi. Experience with Ansible and Terraform. Understanding of machine learning algorithms and deployment.
23/09/2026
Contractor
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer to support a Leonardo defence project. This is an opportunity to work on secure, complex data engineering solutions within a Defence environment, collaborating with technical specialists and customer stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Design, build and maintain secure, scalable data solutions across the full life cycle, including data acquisition, integration, storage, processing and analysis. Develop and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines using Apache NiFi, Python and SQL . Design data models, schemas, data contracts and Interface Control Documents (ICDs) to support reliable system integration. Integrate data from REST APIs and other source systems, including Parquet and S3-compatible object storage. Implement data validation, assurance, metadata management and data traceability. Develop tools to support data-driven insights and task automation. Work with customer and internal stakeholders to define data, interface and tool requirements. Collaborate with DevOps Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts and Cyber Consultants. Take ownership of technical deliverables, ensuring quality, security and maintainability. Essential Skills & Experience Candidates should have demonstrable experience in: Data engineering within a project or production environment. Strong Python and SQL skills, including developing, testing and optimising data pipelines. Hands-on experience with Apache NiFi for data ingestion, routing, transformation and orchestration. Data modelling and schema design, including data contracts or Interface Control Documents (ICDs). Parquet and S3-compatible object storage. REST API integration and troubleshooting data exchanges between systems. OpenShift or Kubernetes environments. GitLab CI/CD practices and automated build, test and deployment pipelines. Data validation, quality controls and assurance. Metadata management, data lineage and traceability. Strong problem-solving, critical thinking and stakeholder communication skills. Desirable Experience A degree in STEM, Data, AI, Programming or a related discipline. Experience influencing technical decisions and supporting capability development. Exposure to big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop or NiFi. Experience with Ansible and Terraform. Understanding of machine learning algorithms and deployment.
About Scrumconnect Scrumconnect Consulting is a UK-based digital transformation consultancy delivering secure, scalable, and user-centred solutions across government and enterprise organisations. We specialise in agile delivery, cloud platforms, data, and modern engineering practices-helping clients build reliable services that meet high operational and compliance standards. Role Overview - Senior Operational Acceptance Tester The Senior Operational Acceptance Tester (OAT) is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing Operational Acceptance Testing activities to ensure applications and services are fully operationally ready before production deployment. You will work closely with delivery teams, infrastructure, DevOps, service management, and business stakeholders to validate operational readiness, identify operational risks, and provide confidence for successful production releases. Key Responsibilities Operational Acceptance Testing Plan and execute Operational Acceptance Testing activities across multiple releases. Define operational test scenarios, test data, and execution plans. Validate operational readiness before production deployment. Ensure OAT activities align with release and deployment schedules. Operational Test Execution Execute and coordinate testing for: Monitoring and alert validation Alert simulation and escalation testing Backup and restore validation Failover and disaster recovery testing Batch processing and restart validation Stability and soak testing Operational support procedures Security and access validation Environment verification Defect & Evidence Management Produce comprehensive operational test evidence. Record, prioritise, and manage operational defects. Support root cause analysis of production readiness issues. Coordinate retesting after fixes. Maintain OAT documentation and audit artefacts. Collaboration Work closely with DevOps, Infrastructure, Service Management, and Development teams. Participate in release readiness and go-live reviews. Support operational sign-off activities. Contribute to continuous improvement of operational testing practices. Mentoring Support and mentor junior testers. Review operational test cases and evidence. Promote testing best practices across the team. Required Experience 4-7 years of Software Testing experience. Strong hands-on Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) experience. Experience executing production readiness testing. Good understanding of SIT, UAT, and Release Management. Experience with defect management tools. Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills. Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills. Experience working within Agile delivery teams. Experience working in regulated or enterprise environments. Nice to Have Exposure to AWS and/or Azure. Experience with monitoring and logging platforms. Understanding of ITIL processes. Knowledge of Change, Incident, and Problem Management. Exposure to CI/CD pipelines. Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion At Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe diversity drives innovation. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and supported. We actively encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, individuals from under-represented communities, and those seeking flexible working arrangements. As a Disability Confident Level 1 employer, we provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and employment to ensure equal opportunity for all.
23/09/2026
Full time
About Scrumconnect Scrumconnect Consulting is a UK-based digital transformation consultancy delivering secure, scalable, and user-centred solutions across government and enterprise organisations. We specialise in agile delivery, cloud platforms, data, and modern engineering practices-helping clients build reliable services that meet high operational and compliance standards. Role Overview - Senior Operational Acceptance Tester The Senior Operational Acceptance Tester (OAT) is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing Operational Acceptance Testing activities to ensure applications and services are fully operationally ready before production deployment. You will work closely with delivery teams, infrastructure, DevOps, service management, and business stakeholders to validate operational readiness, identify operational risks, and provide confidence for successful production releases. Key Responsibilities Operational Acceptance Testing Plan and execute Operational Acceptance Testing activities across multiple releases. Define operational test scenarios, test data, and execution plans. Validate operational readiness before production deployment. Ensure OAT activities align with release and deployment schedules. Operational Test Execution Execute and coordinate testing for: Monitoring and alert validation Alert simulation and escalation testing Backup and restore validation Failover and disaster recovery testing Batch processing and restart validation Stability and soak testing Operational support procedures Security and access validation Environment verification Defect & Evidence Management Produce comprehensive operational test evidence. Record, prioritise, and manage operational defects. Support root cause analysis of production readiness issues. Coordinate retesting after fixes. Maintain OAT documentation and audit artefacts. Collaboration Work closely with DevOps, Infrastructure, Service Management, and Development teams. Participate in release readiness and go-live reviews. Support operational sign-off activities. Contribute to continuous improvement of operational testing practices. Mentoring Support and mentor junior testers. Review operational test cases and evidence. Promote testing best practices across the team. Required Experience 4-7 years of Software Testing experience. Strong hands-on Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) experience. Experience executing production readiness testing. Good understanding of SIT, UAT, and Release Management. Experience with defect management tools. Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills. Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills. Experience working within Agile delivery teams. Experience working in regulated or enterprise environments. Nice to Have Exposure to AWS and/or Azure. Experience with monitoring and logging platforms. Understanding of ITIL processes. Knowledge of Change, Incident, and Problem Management. Exposure to CI/CD pipelines. Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion At Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe diversity drives innovation. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and supported. We actively encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, individuals from under-represented communities, and those seeking flexible working arrangements. As a Disability Confident Level 1 employer, we provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and employment to ensure equal opportunity for all.
