Music is Universal It's the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world's leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email . Job Summary: We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world's leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.As a Senior Observability Engineer, you will be a driving force for technical excellence and strategic vision within our global team. You will be instrumental in architecting, building, and leading our comprehensive observability strategy to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our critical IT systems. This senior role demands a passion for data-driven strategy, a commitment to automation, and the ability to mentor and lead. You will not only solve complex technical challenges but also influence the direction of observability practices across UMG globally, ensuring our technology landscape is as world-class as our music. Job Functions: Architecture & Strategy: Lead the architectural design and strategic roadmap for our observability stack. Drive the vision for world-class monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions across our hybrid and cloud-native environments. Innovate & Automate: Spearhead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of cutting-edge observability tools and platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana). Architect and build robust, automated observability pipelines. Take an active part in documenting and defining processes and best practice. Optimize & Analyze: Conduct deep-dive analysis of telemetry data to proactively identify performance bottlenecks, optimize resource utilization, and guide capacity planning. Lead & Mentor: Act as a technical leader and mentor for the observability team and wider engineering groups. Champion and enforce best practices, fostering a culture of proactive and data-informed decision-making. Drive Incident & Problem Management: Working with Operations teams on high-priority incident resolution efforts, utilizing deep analysis of telemetry data for swift root cause identification. Drive post-incident reviews and implement long-term solutions to enhance system resilience. Collaborate & Influence: Partner with Development, SRE, and Infrastructure leaders to embed observability into the entire technology lifecycle. Influence and drive the adoption of observability best practices across the global organization. Champion the use of observability in the global UMG environment. Make UMG the place to be: Mentoring, managing and genuinely leading the Observability team in a way that attracts and retains the best talent. UMG is a place where everyone can bring themselves fully to work and thrive, as a Leader you are a key part of this. Job Requirements: Essential Qualifications Experience: 5-7+ years of hands-on experience in an Observability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or DevOps role, with a proven track record of leading complex projects. Technical Leadership: Demonstrated experience in architecting and designing large-scale monitoring and observability solutions. Expert-Level Tooling: Deep expertise with modern observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, AWS Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, OpenTelemetry). Cloud & Infrastructure: Advanced knowledge of major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible). Programming & Automation: Strong programming and scripting skills (e.g., Python, Go, Shell) with a focus on creating scalable automation and custom tooling. Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and strategic problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead through complex technical challenges. Data Analysis: Expertise in analysing and visualising telemetry data into meaningful information to drive actions. Hands-on: Demonstratable hands-on engineering and coding experience, ability to deep-dive into existing and emerging technologies to identify opportunities and solutions. Containerization and Orchestration: Understanding of container technologies (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) to monitor and manage containerized applications. Networking Knowledge: Understanding of networking principles and protocols to effectively monitor and troubleshoot network-related issues. Security Awareness: Awareness of security best practices and the ability to integrate security monitoring into observability processes. Communication & Influence: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of articulating a technical vision to diverse audiences and influencing senior stakeholders. Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, convey findings, and discuss improvements with developers and operations teams. Continuous Learning: Given the dynamic nature of technology, a commitment to continuous learning and staying updated on the latest trends in observability and monitoring. Self-motivated with a high degree of initiative and excellent follow-up skills, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Travel may be required but is not part of the regular work schedule. Bachelor's degree in technology related field as well as 5+ years of relevant experience within the Observability field.Desired Qualifications Advanced Concepts: Proven experience with Chaos Engineering, AI-driven analytics, defining SLOs/SLIs, and advanced deployment strategies (Canary/Blue-Green). Software Engineering Foundation: Strong background in software engineering principles, database administration, and distributed systems architecture Certifications: Relevant senior-level industry certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator).Just So You Know The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement. Job Category: Universal Music Group
22/05/2026
Full time
Music is Universal It's the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world's leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email . Job Summary: We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world's leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.As a Senior Observability Engineer, you will be a driving force for technical excellence and strategic vision within our global team. You will be instrumental in architecting, building, and leading our comprehensive observability strategy to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our critical IT systems. This senior role demands a passion for data-driven strategy, a commitment to automation, and the ability to mentor and lead. You will not only solve complex technical challenges but also influence the direction of observability practices across UMG globally, ensuring our technology landscape is as world-class as our music. Job Functions: Architecture & Strategy: Lead the architectural design and strategic roadmap for our observability stack. Drive the vision for world-class monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions across our hybrid and cloud-native environments. Innovate & Automate: Spearhead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of cutting-edge observability tools and platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana). Architect and build robust, automated observability pipelines. Take an active part in documenting and defining processes and best practice. Optimize & Analyze: Conduct deep-dive analysis of telemetry data to proactively identify performance bottlenecks, optimize resource utilization, and guide capacity planning. Lead & Mentor: Act as a technical leader and mentor for the observability team and wider engineering groups. Champion and enforce best practices, fostering a culture of proactive and data-informed decision-making. Drive Incident & Problem Management: Working with Operations teams on high-priority incident resolution efforts, utilizing deep analysis of telemetry data for swift root cause identification. Drive post-incident reviews and implement long-term solutions to enhance system resilience. Collaborate & Influence: Partner with Development, SRE, and Infrastructure leaders to embed observability into the entire technology lifecycle. Influence and drive the adoption of observability best practices across the global organization. Champion the use of observability in the global UMG environment. Make UMG the place to be: Mentoring, managing and genuinely leading the Observability team in a way that attracts and retains the best talent. UMG is a place where everyone can bring themselves fully to work and thrive, as a Leader you are a key part of this. Job Requirements: Essential Qualifications Experience: 5-7+ years of hands-on experience in an Observability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or DevOps role, with a proven track record of leading complex projects. Technical Leadership: Demonstrated experience in architecting and designing large-scale monitoring and observability solutions. Expert-Level Tooling: Deep expertise with modern observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, AWS Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Splunk, OpenTelemetry). Cloud & Infrastructure: Advanced knowledge of major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible). Programming & Automation: Strong programming and scripting skills (e.g., Python, Go, Shell) with a focus on creating scalable automation and custom tooling. Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and strategic problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead through complex technical challenges. Data Analysis: Expertise in analysing and visualising telemetry data into meaningful information to drive actions. Hands-on: Demonstratable hands-on engineering and coding experience, ability to deep-dive into existing and emerging technologies to identify opportunities and solutions. Containerization and Orchestration: Understanding of container technologies (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) to monitor and manage containerized applications. Networking Knowledge: Understanding of networking principles and protocols to effectively monitor and troubleshoot network-related issues. Security Awareness: Awareness of security best practices and the ability to integrate security monitoring into observability processes. Communication & Influence: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of articulating a technical vision to diverse audiences and influencing senior stakeholders. Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, convey findings, and discuss improvements with developers and operations teams. Continuous Learning: Given the dynamic nature of technology, a commitment to continuous learning and staying updated on the latest trends in observability and monitoring. Self-motivated with a high degree of initiative and excellent follow-up skills, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Travel may be required but is not part of the regular work schedule. Bachelor's degree in technology related field as well as 5+ years of relevant experience within the Observability field.Desired Qualifications Advanced Concepts: Proven experience with Chaos Engineering, AI-driven analytics, defining SLOs/SLIs, and advanced deployment strategies (Canary/Blue-Green). Software Engineering Foundation: Strong background in software engineering principles, database administration, and distributed systems architecture Certifications: Relevant senior-level industry certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator).Just So You Know The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement. Job Category: Universal Music Group
At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you'll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors. You'll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you'll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth. We invest heavily in you-supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You'll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique. We offer: Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice. In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology. Your role and responsibilities Build, automate, and operate container platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI O. Deploy and manage infrastructure across multi cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Red Hack). Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and cloud native IaC tools. Implement high availability, disaster recovery, load balancing, and hybrid networking solutions. Integrate monitoring, SLOs, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to support resilient delivery. Administer Red Hat OpenShift clusters and support migrations to container platforms. Collaborate with architects and developers to enhance automation, performance, and security. Depending on seniority, contribute to technical leadership, shape DevOps practices, and mentor engineers. Required education None Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise Solid hands on experience in Linux engineering, AWS, and modern container platforms. Operating and managing Kubernetes clusters, including deployments, scaling, networking, upgrades, and security. Practical experience with Docker and CRI O container runtimes. Experience administering OpenShift and supporting migrations to container platforms. Cloud Platforms (AWS Focused) Strong experience with AWS services, with the ability to work across other clouds such as Azure or GCP when required. Exposure to hybrid and on prem environments, including modernisation of legacy systems. Understanding of VPC design, IAM and identity controls, and hybrid networking. Automation and Infrastructure as Code Experience using Terraform and/or Ansible for Linux platform automation. Familiarity with AWS CloudFormation or other cloud native IaC tools. Working knowledge of CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or Tekton. Observability and Reliability Experience using monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor. Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, load balancing, and resilience approaches. Awareness of SRE and GitOps methods. Security and Compliance Knowledge of platform security, Linux hardening, secrets management, and identity tooling. Experience integrating security controls into build and deployment pipelines. This role is subject to pre employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). Preferred technical and professional experience A strong foundation in Linux systems administration, with supporting knowledge in areas such as networking, security, or databases. Experience running and supporting production workloads on AWS, including on call support, incident response, and root cause analysis. Hands on automation of security or compliance tasks on Linux or AWS platforms, such as vulnerability remediation, scanning, or policy as code. Experience integrating traditional Linux infrastructure with AWS services and containerised environments. Ability to collaborate effectively with architecture, development, operations, and security teams. Desirable Certifications AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) IBM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. Other relevant job details IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment. Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer - eSC or eDV Clearance Required Job ID 110327 City / Township / Village State / Province Hampshire, Gloucestershire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester Country United Kingdom Work arrangement Hybrid Area of work Software Engineering Employment type Regular Position type Professional Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements) Company Shift General (daytime) Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
21/05/2026
Full time
At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you'll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors. You'll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you'll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth. We invest heavily in you-supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You'll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique. We offer: Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice. In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology. Your role and responsibilities Build, automate, and operate container platforms using Kubernetes, Docker, and CRI O. Deploy and manage infrastructure across multi cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Red Hack). Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, and cloud native IaC tools. Implement high availability, disaster recovery, load balancing, and hybrid networking solutions. Integrate monitoring, SLOs, and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to support resilient delivery. Administer Red Hat OpenShift clusters and support migrations to container platforms. Collaborate with architects and developers to enhance automation, performance, and security. Depending on seniority, contribute to technical leadership, shape DevOps practices, and mentor engineers. Required education None Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise Solid hands on experience in Linux engineering, AWS, and modern container platforms. Operating and managing Kubernetes clusters, including deployments, scaling, networking, upgrades, and security. Practical experience with Docker and CRI O container runtimes. Experience administering OpenShift and supporting migrations to container platforms. Cloud Platforms (AWS Focused) Strong experience with AWS services, with the ability to work across other clouds such as Azure or GCP when required. Exposure to hybrid and on prem environments, including modernisation of legacy systems. Understanding of VPC design, IAM and identity controls, and hybrid networking. Automation and Infrastructure as Code Experience using Terraform and/or Ansible for Linux platform automation. Familiarity with AWS CloudFormation or other cloud native IaC tools. Working knowledge of CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or Tekton. Observability and Reliability Experience using monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor. Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, load balancing, and resilience approaches. Awareness of SRE and GitOps methods. Security and Compliance Knowledge of platform security, Linux hardening, secrets management, and identity tooling. Experience integrating security controls into build and deployment pipelines. This role is subject to pre employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). Preferred technical and professional experience A strong foundation in Linux systems administration, with supporting knowledge in areas such as networking, security, or databases. Experience running and supporting production workloads on AWS, including on call support, incident response, and root cause analysis. Hands on automation of security or compliance tasks on Linux or AWS platforms, such as vulnerability remediation, scanning, or policy as code. Experience integrating traditional Linux infrastructure with AWS services and containerised environments. Ability to collaborate effectively with architecture, development, operations, and security teams. Desirable Certifications AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) IBM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. Other relevant job details IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment. Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer - eSC or eDV Clearance Required Job ID 110327 City / Township / Village State / Province Hampshire, Gloucestershire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester Country United Kingdom Work arrangement Hybrid Area of work Software Engineering Employment type Regular Position type Professional Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements) Company Shift General (daytime) Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
Responsibilities Lead and manage the Platform Engineering team, including day to day work allocation, goal setting, regular 1:1s and performance development. Define and deliver the platform engineering roadmap in collaboration with wider engineering leadership. Enable effective CI/CD and continuous deployment practices across engineering teams. Build and maintain an IDP that allows developers to deploy and manage services without manual intervention from Ops. Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure consistent, repeatable and scalable environments. Own the reliability, availability and performance of core platform services, including monitoring, logging and incident learnings. Act as a technical change leader, challenging existing ways of working and promoting modern engineering practices. Coach and support engineers in the effective use of containers and Kubernetes based platforms. Implement "Shift Left" security practices. Embed security practices early in the development lifecycle, working closely with SRE and security stakeholders. Represent Platform Engineering across engineering forums, sharing progress, risks and opportunities. Essential Qualifications Experience working in a Platform Engineering, DevOps or Infrastructure role within a cloud based environment. Deep expertise in GCP (primarily) and Azure/AWS. Background in Java development or familiarity with Java build and delivery ecosystems. Strong hands on experience with Kubernetes and container based architectures. Proven experience leading or managing engineers, with a people centred approach to development and feedback. Practical experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins, ArgoCD or similar). Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and/or Ansible. Solid understanding of modern software architectures, including microservices, service meshes (Istio/Linkerd, ideally), and networking fundamentals. Experience working with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry). Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to varied audiences. A collaborative mindset and confidence working across teams and disciplines. Desirable Experience supporting large or complex codebases, including monolithic architectures. Knowledge of service meshes and advanced Kubernetes networking concepts. Experience treating "platform" or "infrastructure" as a product, with a focus on user (developer) experience. Working with complex requirements in collaboration with business and technical roles to define priorities. Salary: £85,000 - £110,000 depending on experience Location: Hybrid. You must be UK based. You should be able to travel to the Birmingham, UK office once a week/a few times a month. Hours: Full time, Monday to Friday. Flexible working - To help you manage your personal responsibilities and interests, we offer a range of flexi working options, including hybrid working, as well as balancing your work responsibilities with other priorities, like picking up your children, caring for an aging parent or attending important events. Holidays - We operate a flexible holiday allowance scheme, we recommend employees take around days holiday plus public bank holidays per year. A flexible pension - We help you prepare for the future with a salary sacrifice pension and annual personal pension reviews with our external partner. Company sick pay - We offer peace of mind when you are ill with an enhanced Company Sick Pay policy. Family benefits - We offer a range of support and benefits including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay, enhanced paternity leave and shared parental leave. Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme - An easy to manage and affordable way of leasing a zero emission electric vehicle. Online learning platform - We offer full access to Udemy for all employees, which offers a variety of technical, business and personal development e learning courses. Financial, physical and wellbeing support - To help keep you at your best we provide our team with a health cash plan and if the worst should happen, we have a life assurance scheme. Access to a discount platform - Treat yourself with discounts and rewards from hundreds of leading retailers, restaurants, and destinations. Professional subscriptions - We offer reimbursement for professional subscriptions to a relevant institution if it's required to perform your job role. Charity giving - Support a charity of your choice by gifting money directly from your payroll; saving the national insurance contributions you need to pay. Cycle to work scheme - Make the most of this tax efficient scheme to improve your commute to work. Rewarding long service - We provide gifts to our employees who achieve milestone years of service working as part of our team. Flooid Ltd. is an Equal Opportunities employer. We are dedicated to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
21/05/2026
Full time
Responsibilities Lead and manage the Platform Engineering team, including day to day work allocation, goal setting, regular 1:1s and performance development. Define and deliver the platform engineering roadmap in collaboration with wider engineering leadership. Enable effective CI/CD and continuous deployment practices across engineering teams. Build and maintain an IDP that allows developers to deploy and manage services without manual intervention from Ops. Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure consistent, repeatable and scalable environments. Own the reliability, availability and performance of core platform services, including monitoring, logging and incident learnings. Act as a technical change leader, challenging existing ways of working and promoting modern engineering practices. Coach and support engineers in the effective use of containers and Kubernetes based platforms. Implement "Shift Left" security practices. Embed security practices early in the development lifecycle, working closely with SRE and security stakeholders. Represent Platform Engineering across engineering forums, sharing progress, risks and opportunities. Essential Qualifications Experience working in a Platform Engineering, DevOps or Infrastructure role within a cloud based environment. Deep expertise in GCP (primarily) and Azure/AWS. Background in Java development or familiarity with Java build and delivery ecosystems. Strong hands on experience with Kubernetes and container based architectures. Proven experience leading or managing engineers, with a people centred approach to development and feedback. Practical experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins, ArgoCD or similar). Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and/or Ansible. Solid understanding of modern software architectures, including microservices, service meshes (Istio/Linkerd, ideally), and networking fundamentals. Experience working with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry). Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to varied audiences. A collaborative mindset and confidence working across teams and disciplines. Desirable Experience supporting large or complex codebases, including monolithic architectures. Knowledge of service meshes and advanced Kubernetes networking concepts. Experience treating "platform" or "infrastructure" as a product, with a focus on user (developer) experience. Working with complex requirements in collaboration with business and technical roles to define priorities. Salary: £85,000 - £110,000 depending on experience Location: Hybrid. You must be UK based. You should be able to travel to the Birmingham, UK office once a week/a few times a month. Hours: Full time, Monday to Friday. Flexible working - To help you manage your personal responsibilities and interests, we offer a range of flexi working options, including hybrid working, as well as balancing your work responsibilities with other priorities, like picking up your children, caring for an aging parent or attending important events. Holidays - We operate a flexible holiday allowance scheme, we recommend employees take around days holiday plus public bank holidays per year. A flexible pension - We help you prepare for the future with a salary sacrifice pension and annual personal pension reviews with our external partner. Company sick pay - We offer peace of mind when you are ill with an enhanced Company Sick Pay policy. Family benefits - We offer a range of support and benefits including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay, enhanced paternity leave and shared parental leave. Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme - An easy to manage and affordable way of leasing a zero emission electric vehicle. Online learning platform - We offer full access to Udemy for all employees, which offers a variety of technical, business and personal development e learning courses. Financial, physical and wellbeing support - To help keep you at your best we provide our team with a health cash plan and if the worst should happen, we have a life assurance scheme. Access to a discount platform - Treat yourself with discounts and rewards from hundreds of leading retailers, restaurants, and destinations. Professional subscriptions - We offer reimbursement for professional subscriptions to a relevant institution if it's required to perform your job role. Charity giving - Support a charity of your choice by gifting money directly from your payroll; saving the national insurance contributions you need to pay. Cycle to work scheme - Make the most of this tax efficient scheme to improve your commute to work. Rewarding long service - We provide gifts to our employees who achieve milestone years of service working as part of our team. Flooid Ltd. is an Equal Opportunities employer. We are dedicated to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will lead the design, evolution, and reliability of the core platform that underpins our engineering ecosystem. You will set technical direction, define standards, and drive best practices that enable product teams to deliver securely, efficiently, and at scale. Your role goes beyond implementation, you will shape the platform strategy, influence architectural decisions, and act as a technical leader across teams. This is a hybrid role with occasional onsite collaboration - typically once every 2-3 months, but you are able to attend our offices as much as you like, at either our Welwyn Garden City or Livepore offices. From time to time, you may also travel between sites. Key responsibilities Owning and evolving the core platform infrastructure (e.g. AKS clusters, networking, API gateways), ensuring scalability, resilience, and operational excellence. Defining and enforcing platform standards, guardrails, and best practices across areas such as security, cost optimisation, reliability, and performance. Driving platform strategy and roadmap in collaboration with engineering leadership, aligning platform capabilities with business objectives. Partnering with product and engineering teams to understand pain points, proactively identify opportunities, and prioritise high impact platform improvements. Leading architecture and design discussions, providing expert guidance on cloud native patterns, distributed systems, and platform capabilities. Designing, implementing, and continuously improving CI/CD and GitOps workflows to enable safe, fast, and repeatable delivery. Championing DevSecOps principles, embedding security and compliance into the software delivery lifecycle. Establishing and improving observability, monitoring, and incident response practices, including vulnerability management and remediation. Mentoring engineers and contributing to a strong engineering culture through knowledge sharing, documentation, and technical leadership. Evaluating and introducing new tools, technologies, and approaches to keep the platform modern, efficient, and competitive. What we would like from you Strong experience in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps within a distributed cloud environment. Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerised workloads, ideally in managed environments such as AKS. Proven experience designing and operating scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure. Strong background in CI/CD, automation, and GitOps practices, including building and evolving pipelines at scale. Solid understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security principles, including container and Kubernetes security. Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management. Strong Linux systems administration knowledge. Demonstrated ability to make pragmatic, risk based decisions that balance business priorities with technical excellence. Experience shaping standards, influencing teams, and driving adoption of platform practices. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non technical stakeholders. It would be great if you have the following Experience with Helm, Kustomize, and Kubernetes ecosystem tooling. Familiarity with Azure and Azure DevOps. Experience with observability platforms and Kubernetes policy enforcement tools. Proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g. Bash, Python, PowerShell, C#). Experience designing multi region or highly available systems. Relevant certifications in Kubernetes, Azure, or cloud-native technologies. Our benefits if you decide to join us Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays as standard. On site gym at our office (Free), and nationwide corporate rate gym membership. Online benefits portal where you can access a range of deals and discounts. Contributory company pension scheme. Progression and development opportunities. Private medical insurance. Electric car scheme. Life assurance of 3 annual gross salary, with the option to purchase additional cover. Discounted rate benefits including critical illness cover, bicycles via the Cycle2Work scheme, dental insurance, and TasteCard dining discount card. Love2shop everyday benefits card. As a disability confident committed company, we have a passion for championing equality. We welcome all colleagues into a work environment where success is attainable for everyone, regardless of disability, age, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We are committed to ensuring that everyone has equal access to growth and opportunities in our workplace.
20/05/2026
Full time
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will lead the design, evolution, and reliability of the core platform that underpins our engineering ecosystem. You will set technical direction, define standards, and drive best practices that enable product teams to deliver securely, efficiently, and at scale. Your role goes beyond implementation, you will shape the platform strategy, influence architectural decisions, and act as a technical leader across teams. This is a hybrid role with occasional onsite collaboration - typically once every 2-3 months, but you are able to attend our offices as much as you like, at either our Welwyn Garden City or Livepore offices. From time to time, you may also travel between sites. Key responsibilities Owning and evolving the core platform infrastructure (e.g. AKS clusters, networking, API gateways), ensuring scalability, resilience, and operational excellence. Defining and enforcing platform standards, guardrails, and best practices across areas such as security, cost optimisation, reliability, and performance. Driving platform strategy and roadmap in collaboration with engineering leadership, aligning platform capabilities with business objectives. Partnering with product and engineering teams to understand pain points, proactively identify opportunities, and prioritise high impact platform improvements. Leading architecture and design discussions, providing expert guidance on cloud native patterns, distributed systems, and platform capabilities. Designing, implementing, and continuously improving CI/CD and GitOps workflows to enable safe, fast, and repeatable delivery. Championing DevSecOps principles, embedding security and compliance into the software delivery lifecycle. Establishing and improving observability, monitoring, and incident response practices, including vulnerability management and remediation. Mentoring engineers and contributing to a strong engineering culture through knowledge sharing, documentation, and technical leadership. Evaluating and introducing new tools, technologies, and approaches to keep the platform modern, efficient, and competitive. What we would like from you Strong experience in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps within a distributed cloud environment. Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerised workloads, ideally in managed environments such as AKS. Proven experience designing and operating scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure. Strong background in CI/CD, automation, and GitOps practices, including building and evolving pipelines at scale. Solid understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security principles, including container and Kubernetes security. Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management. Strong Linux systems administration knowledge. Demonstrated ability to make pragmatic, risk based decisions that balance business priorities with technical excellence. Experience shaping standards, influencing teams, and driving adoption of platform practices. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non technical stakeholders. It would be great if you have the following Experience with Helm, Kustomize, and Kubernetes ecosystem tooling. Familiarity with Azure and Azure DevOps. Experience with observability platforms and Kubernetes policy enforcement tools. Proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g. Bash, Python, PowerShell, C#). Experience designing multi region or highly available systems. Relevant certifications in Kubernetes, Azure, or cloud-native technologies. Our benefits if you decide to join us Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays as standard. On site gym at our office (Free), and nationwide corporate rate gym membership. Online benefits portal where you can access a range of deals and discounts. Contributory company pension scheme. Progression and development opportunities. Private medical insurance. Electric car scheme. Life assurance of 3 annual gross salary, with the option to purchase additional cover. Discounted rate benefits including critical illness cover, bicycles via the Cycle2Work scheme, dental insurance, and TasteCard dining discount card. Love2shop everyday benefits card. As a disability confident committed company, we have a passion for championing equality. We welcome all colleagues into a work environment where success is attainable for everyone, regardless of disability, age, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We are committed to ensuring that everyone has equal access to growth and opportunities in our workplace.
Description Quantum is now, and it's built here. Oxford Ionics, now part of IonQ, is pioneering the next generation of quantum computing. Using our world leading trapped ion technology, we're building the most powerful, accurate and reliable quantum systems to tackle problems that today's supercomputers cannot solve. Joining Oxford Ionics means becoming part of a global IonQ team that is transforming the future of quantum technology - faster, at scale, and with real world impact. What to expect We're growing our DevOps team and are looking for skilled and motivated Senior DevOps Engineers to join us at Oxford Ionics. This is an opportunity to shape the future of our quantum computing infrastructure as we scale our cutting edge quantum systems. As part of a newly formed team, you will have a significant impact on how we commission, deploy, and operate quantum systems. You'll work to enhance system commissioning, implement comprehensive observability across distributed systems, and build deployment pipelines that work in both connected and air gapped environments. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside scientists, engineers, and technicians building the world's most advanced quantum computers. See vacuum chambers, cryostats, superconducting magnets, and precision lasers in action at our on site laboratories. What makes this role unique Infrastructure for quantum computers - a cutting edge domain with unique challenges Mix of cloud connected and isolated/air gapped deployments Direct impact on scientific research and commercial quantum computing What you'll be responsible for As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll collaborate closely with our software, IT, systems, and science teams to build and maintain the infrastructure that powers our quantum computers. Your responsibilities will fall into four main areas: Infrastructure & System Commissioning Automate the provisioning and configuration of quantum system infrastructure Implement infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, Packer, and configuration management (Ansible) Build and maintain immutable VM images and containerised services Manage deployments to both networked and air gapped/isolated environments CI/CD & Release Management Maintain and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines running on self hosted runners Implement artifact management and versioning strategies (CalVer/SemVer) Enable nightly automated deployments with health checks and automatic rollback Optimise build times and caching for Rust and Python codebases Observability & Monitoring Deploy and configure OpenTelemetry collectors across all quantum systems Integrate with centralised observability platform (Grafana stack: Loki, Mimir, Tempo) Maintain local Grafana instances as backup for isolated systems Implement drift detection and configuration compliance monitoring Create dashboards and alerts for system health, quantum hardware metrics, and experiment execution Platform Evolution Help design and create a hybrid cloud / on premise platform architecture for managing quantum systems Enable the migration of existing workloads to container orchestration Further secure credential management and authentication You'll take ownership of critical infrastructure components including Artifact Management, self hosted GitHub Actions runners, OpenTelemetry collectors, and work closely with IonQ's infrastructure team to leverage shared services and best practices. Requirements To be successful, you will need previous DevOps/SRE experience and a background in managing and scaling complex infrastructure environments is essential for success in this role. You will bring technical depth, problem solving ability, and the ability to work as part of a team to manage critical systems supporting cutting edge research. We are looking for someone with strong expertise in administrating and maintaining Linux based systems (Ubuntu preferred). You will also have proven experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code tools such as Ansible or Terraform, as well as strong programming and scripting ability, ideally in Python and shell scripting. A sound understanding of security principles and best practices is essential, particularly around credential management, observability, and compliance. You should be proactive and detail oriented with strong communication skills, as you'll often bridge the gap between software engineering, IT infrastructure, and research teams. You'll be a great fit with: Experience with container technologies (Docker/Podman) and an understanding of orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad). Familiarity with Git workflows and CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar). Experience with observability and monitoring systems (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry). Understanding of artifact and package management for software deployments. It would be beneficial if you have additional experience with any of the following: Rust build systems, deploying air gapped or isolated network environments, immutable infrastructure patterns. A background with hardware integration or embedded systems would also be a plus. Prior experience in quantum computing is not required - we'll teach you about the unique aspects of quantum infrastructure. Benefits Be part of a team that's shaping the future of quantum. We offer more than just a role, you'll join a world class community of scientists, engineers and innovators working to unlock the full potential of quantum computing. We offer a range of benefits, including opportunities to further your career alongside industry leaders, a competitive salary with IonQ stock options, an annual performance bonus, generous annual leave, flexible hybrid working, private medical and dental insurance for you and your family, and much more. Join us and be part of the future of quantum computing. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
18/05/2026
Full time
Description Quantum is now, and it's built here. Oxford Ionics, now part of IonQ, is pioneering the next generation of quantum computing. Using our world leading trapped ion technology, we're building the most powerful, accurate and reliable quantum systems to tackle problems that today's supercomputers cannot solve. Joining Oxford Ionics means becoming part of a global IonQ team that is transforming the future of quantum technology - faster, at scale, and with real world impact. What to expect We're growing our DevOps team and are looking for skilled and motivated Senior DevOps Engineers to join us at Oxford Ionics. This is an opportunity to shape the future of our quantum computing infrastructure as we scale our cutting edge quantum systems. As part of a newly formed team, you will have a significant impact on how we commission, deploy, and operate quantum systems. You'll work to enhance system commissioning, implement comprehensive observability across distributed systems, and build deployment pipelines that work in both connected and air gapped environments. This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside scientists, engineers, and technicians building the world's most advanced quantum computers. See vacuum chambers, cryostats, superconducting magnets, and precision lasers in action at our on site laboratories. What makes this role unique Infrastructure for quantum computers - a cutting edge domain with unique challenges Mix of cloud connected and isolated/air gapped deployments Direct impact on scientific research and commercial quantum computing What you'll be responsible for As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll collaborate closely with our software, IT, systems, and science teams to build and maintain the infrastructure that powers our quantum computers. Your responsibilities will fall into four main areas: Infrastructure & System Commissioning Automate the provisioning and configuration of quantum system infrastructure Implement infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, Packer, and configuration management (Ansible) Build and maintain immutable VM images and containerised services Manage deployments to both networked and air gapped/isolated environments CI/CD & Release Management Maintain and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines running on self hosted runners Implement artifact management and versioning strategies (CalVer/SemVer) Enable nightly automated deployments with health checks and automatic rollback Optimise build times and caching for Rust and Python codebases Observability & Monitoring Deploy and configure OpenTelemetry collectors across all quantum systems Integrate with centralised observability platform (Grafana stack: Loki, Mimir, Tempo) Maintain local Grafana instances as backup for isolated systems Implement drift detection and configuration compliance monitoring Create dashboards and alerts for system health, quantum hardware metrics, and experiment execution Platform Evolution Help design and create a hybrid cloud / on premise platform architecture for managing quantum systems Enable the migration of existing workloads to container orchestration Further secure credential management and authentication You'll take ownership of critical infrastructure components including Artifact Management, self hosted GitHub Actions runners, OpenTelemetry collectors, and work closely with IonQ's infrastructure team to leverage shared services and best practices. Requirements To be successful, you will need previous DevOps/SRE experience and a background in managing and scaling complex infrastructure environments is essential for success in this role. You will bring technical depth, problem solving ability, and the ability to work as part of a team to manage critical systems supporting cutting edge research. We are looking for someone with strong expertise in administrating and maintaining Linux based systems (Ubuntu preferred). You will also have proven experience with configuration management and infrastructure as code tools such as Ansible or Terraform, as well as strong programming and scripting ability, ideally in Python and shell scripting. A sound understanding of security principles and best practices is essential, particularly around credential management, observability, and compliance. You should be proactive and detail oriented with strong communication skills, as you'll often bridge the gap between software engineering, IT infrastructure, and research teams. You'll be a great fit with: Experience with container technologies (Docker/Podman) and an understanding of orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad). Familiarity with Git workflows and CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions or similar). Experience with observability and monitoring systems (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry). Understanding of artifact and package management for software deployments. It would be beneficial if you have additional experience with any of the following: Rust build systems, deploying air gapped or isolated network environments, immutable infrastructure patterns. A background with hardware integration or embedded systems would also be a plus. Prior experience in quantum computing is not required - we'll teach you about the unique aspects of quantum infrastructure. Benefits Be part of a team that's shaping the future of quantum. We offer more than just a role, you'll join a world class community of scientists, engineers and innovators working to unlock the full potential of quantum computing. We offer a range of benefits, including opportunities to further your career alongside industry leaders, a competitive salary with IonQ stock options, an annual performance bonus, generous annual leave, flexible hybrid working, private medical and dental insurance for you and your family, and much more. Join us and be part of the future of quantum computing. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
Site Reliability Engineer Department: Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: London Reporting To: Head of Site Reliability Engineering Compensation: £85,000 - £90,000 / year Description Reward Gateway, together with Edenred, are a global market leader in benefits and employee engagement. We help our clients and their leaders to transform employee experience that will attract, engage and retain top talent through employee benefits, strategic reward and recognition, well being, and much more. With our shared missions of 'Making the World a Better Place to Work' and 'Enriching connections, For good'. You'll be contributing to improving employee engagement and building better, stronger and more resilient organisations to improve people's daily lives. Our shared mission guides our every action and charts a sustainable path to a better future. We have a highly talented team who live up to our shared values, bringing to life "Entrepreneurial Spirit". We love to "Push the Boundaries", but importantly show "Respect" in how we go about our work. Our "Speak Up" and "Be Human" culture is at the heart of what it is to work with us, and we encourage everyone to bring innovation and 'Imagination' to the work they do. Your Role in our Mission: We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help us transform our existing operational workloads to an SRE approach. You will embed with our Product Engineering teams to drive high availability, reliability, and uptime. In this role, you will use a code first approach to reduce toil, advance our observability platforms using SLIs/SLOs, and ensure high compliance. You will actively manage operational success by serving as a key Incident Commander, participating in the on call rotation, and balancing platform cost efficiency through agile collaboration. What's In It For Me? A chance to be part of an extremely well established, stable and high growth 'Unicorn' SaaS company with over 50 benefits in our employee benefits package, including: A flexible holiday plan of up to 40 days per year £400 a year Wellbeing Allowance Private Medical Insurance Allowance for professional development books, E books, and podcasts Contributory pension scheme Employee, friends and family discounts across 1200+ retail, hospitality and lifestyle brands Click here to see our full suite of benefits and perks dedicated to supporting all aspects of employee wellbeing! Flexible, Hybrid Working Collaboration, connection as a team, and strong internal relationships are part of the "RG Magic" that makes our culture thrive. Our teams work from our Dean Street office two days per week. What You'll be Doing: Integrating tightly with our Product Engineering teams Following SRE practices and maintaining high standards of compliance Implementing a new standard of observability utilising SLI/SLO/Error Budgets Continually evolving our observability platforms for greater coverage Using a code first approach to build and changes to reduce TOIL Advocating a strong focus on availability, reliability and uptime Liaising and embedding with the Engineering teams for the constant evolution of metrics Working towards planned roadmap goals Actively taking part in the daily stand ups and keeping sprints on track Keeping up to date documentation in the JIRA & Confluence tools Taking part in SRE Incident Management processes Acting as a key Incident Commander within the Incident Management process Taking part in SRE On Call Ensuring a focus on cost efficiency for the platforms & services Working with team members to foster collaboration and ongoing communication with stakeholders Experience and Skills You Need in this Role Proven experience in DevOps or SRE, with a keen interest in growing as a Site Reliability Engineer Experience with AWS or other cloud providers Enterprise experience in HA environments Automation skills through Terraform, Python, Bash or similar Wide reaching SRE skills and a deep understanding of SRE practices A strong understanding of SQL, PHP, Kubernetes, CI/CD Observability product experience (e.g., Datadog) Managing services using SLI/SLO & Error Budgets Ability to work both independently and as part of a team Ability to work under pressure and be highly reliable Adaptability and flexibility to change in a fast moving environment An ability to learn new tools and processes quickly and impart that knowledge The Interview Process Screening interview with the Talent Partner and Head of SRE Final interview with the Head of SRE and the Director of Infrastructure. At Reward Gateway Edenred, we are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you have any specific requirements or need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment journey, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know. Your needs are important to us, and we want to ensure an equitable experience for every candidate. Be comfortable. Be you. We want every employee to feel comfortable bringing their passion, creativity and individuality to work. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, because we believe diversity drives innovation and makes us stronger. Our approach to hiring and building teams is about more than filling roles - it's about creating an environment where everyone can thrive, feel supported, and contribute to our mission of making the world a better place to work!
18/05/2026
Full time
Site Reliability Engineer Department: Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: London Reporting To: Head of Site Reliability Engineering Compensation: £85,000 - £90,000 / year Description Reward Gateway, together with Edenred, are a global market leader in benefits and employee engagement. We help our clients and their leaders to transform employee experience that will attract, engage and retain top talent through employee benefits, strategic reward and recognition, well being, and much more. With our shared missions of 'Making the World a Better Place to Work' and 'Enriching connections, For good'. You'll be contributing to improving employee engagement and building better, stronger and more resilient organisations to improve people's daily lives. Our shared mission guides our every action and charts a sustainable path to a better future. We have a highly talented team who live up to our shared values, bringing to life "Entrepreneurial Spirit". We love to "Push the Boundaries", but importantly show "Respect" in how we go about our work. Our "Speak Up" and "Be Human" culture is at the heart of what it is to work with us, and we encourage everyone to bring innovation and 'Imagination' to the work they do. Your Role in our Mission: We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help us transform our existing operational workloads to an SRE approach. You will embed with our Product Engineering teams to drive high availability, reliability, and uptime. In this role, you will use a code first approach to reduce toil, advance our observability platforms using SLIs/SLOs, and ensure high compliance. You will actively manage operational success by serving as a key Incident Commander, participating in the on call rotation, and balancing platform cost efficiency through agile collaboration. What's In It For Me? A chance to be part of an extremely well established, stable and high growth 'Unicorn' SaaS company with over 50 benefits in our employee benefits package, including: A flexible holiday plan of up to 40 days per year £400 a year Wellbeing Allowance Private Medical Insurance Allowance for professional development books, E books, and podcasts Contributory pension scheme Employee, friends and family discounts across 1200+ retail, hospitality and lifestyle brands Click here to see our full suite of benefits and perks dedicated to supporting all aspects of employee wellbeing! Flexible, Hybrid Working Collaboration, connection as a team, and strong internal relationships are part of the "RG Magic" that makes our culture thrive. Our teams work from our Dean Street office two days per week. What You'll be Doing: Integrating tightly with our Product Engineering teams Following SRE practices and maintaining high standards of compliance Implementing a new standard of observability utilising SLI/SLO/Error Budgets Continually evolving our observability platforms for greater coverage Using a code first approach to build and changes to reduce TOIL Advocating a strong focus on availability, reliability and uptime Liaising and embedding with the Engineering teams for the constant evolution of metrics Working towards planned roadmap goals Actively taking part in the daily stand ups and keeping sprints on track Keeping up to date documentation in the JIRA & Confluence tools Taking part in SRE Incident Management processes Acting as a key Incident Commander within the Incident Management process Taking part in SRE On Call Ensuring a focus on cost efficiency for the platforms & services Working with team members to foster collaboration and ongoing communication with stakeholders Experience and Skills You Need in this Role Proven experience in DevOps or SRE, with a keen interest in growing as a Site Reliability Engineer Experience with AWS or other cloud providers Enterprise experience in HA environments Automation skills through Terraform, Python, Bash or similar Wide reaching SRE skills and a deep understanding of SRE practices A strong understanding of SQL, PHP, Kubernetes, CI/CD Observability product experience (e.g., Datadog) Managing services using SLI/SLO & Error Budgets Ability to work both independently and as part of a team Ability to work under pressure and be highly reliable Adaptability and flexibility to change in a fast moving environment An ability to learn new tools and processes quickly and impart that knowledge The Interview Process Screening interview with the Talent Partner and Head of SRE Final interview with the Head of SRE and the Director of Infrastructure. At Reward Gateway Edenred, we are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you have any specific requirements or need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment journey, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know. Your needs are important to us, and we want to ensure an equitable experience for every candidate. Be comfortable. Be you. We want every employee to feel comfortable bringing their passion, creativity and individuality to work. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, because we believe diversity drives innovation and makes us stronger. Our approach to hiring and building teams is about more than filling roles - it's about creating an environment where everyone can thrive, feel supported, and contribute to our mission of making the world a better place to work!
Performance Engineering Lead - Manchester Onsite / Hybrid Team Model: Hands on technical leader responsible for defining performance and scalabilitystrategy while actively designing, executing, and embedding performanceengineering practices across multiple cross functional engineering teams Reports to: CTO /VP of Engineering The Role: We are seeking a Performance Engineering Lead to own and drive the performance, scalability, and reliability engineering strategy for our platform. This role sits within Engineering and works closely with architects, developers, SRE/DevOps and product teams to ensure our systems meet current and future performance demands. Key Responsibilities Performance Strategy & Leadership Define and maintain the performance engineering strategy, frameworks, and standards across the platform. Partner with architects and senior engineers to ensure performance and scalability requirements are captured early in the design process. Lead, mentor, and guide engineers on performance best practices, approaches, and tooling. Test Design, Execution & Analysis Design and execute load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests across critical systems. Build, maintain, and evolve performance test scripts using industry standard tools. Conduct end to end performance analysis, identify bottlenecks, and recommend optimisations. Engineering Collaboration & Lifecycle Integration Embed performance considerations throughout the SDLC, from design through to production. Integrate performance testing and checks into CI/CD pipelines. Work with engineering and SRE/DevOps teams to improve platform scalability, resilience, and reliability. Reporting & Stakeholder Communication Produce clear, actionable performance reports and dashboards. Communicate risks, findings, and recommendations to technical and non technical stakeholders, both internal and external to Datalex. Establish and maintain measurable performance benchmarks and service thresholds. Required Experience & Skills 8+ years' experience in performance engineering, including leadership or senior ownership responsibilities. Strong hands on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, or BlazeMeter. Solid understanding of microservices architectures, APIs, and cloud based infrastructures. Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery workflows. Desirable Qualifications Experience with APM and observability tooling such as Dynatrace, New Relic, or AppDynamics. Knowledge of performance modelling, capacity planning, and forecasting. About Datalex Datalex is a market leader in airline e-commerce solutions. Datalex's Stellex product suite, launched in 2024, gives airlines the tools they need to drive revenue and profit as digital retailers. Datalex has a strong track record working with some of the most innovative airline brands worldwide, such as Air China, Air Macau, Air Transat, Aer Lingus, easyJet, and Edelweiss. The Group is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and maintains offices across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Learn more at
18/05/2026
Full time
Performance Engineering Lead - Manchester Onsite / Hybrid Team Model: Hands on technical leader responsible for defining performance and scalabilitystrategy while actively designing, executing, and embedding performanceengineering practices across multiple cross functional engineering teams Reports to: CTO /VP of Engineering The Role: We are seeking a Performance Engineering Lead to own and drive the performance, scalability, and reliability engineering strategy for our platform. This role sits within Engineering and works closely with architects, developers, SRE/DevOps and product teams to ensure our systems meet current and future performance demands. Key Responsibilities Performance Strategy & Leadership Define and maintain the performance engineering strategy, frameworks, and standards across the platform. Partner with architects and senior engineers to ensure performance and scalability requirements are captured early in the design process. Lead, mentor, and guide engineers on performance best practices, approaches, and tooling. Test Design, Execution & Analysis Design and execute load, stress, endurance, and scalability tests across critical systems. Build, maintain, and evolve performance test scripts using industry standard tools. Conduct end to end performance analysis, identify bottlenecks, and recommend optimisations. Engineering Collaboration & Lifecycle Integration Embed performance considerations throughout the SDLC, from design through to production. Integrate performance testing and checks into CI/CD pipelines. Work with engineering and SRE/DevOps teams to improve platform scalability, resilience, and reliability. Reporting & Stakeholder Communication Produce clear, actionable performance reports and dashboards. Communicate risks, findings, and recommendations to technical and non technical stakeholders, both internal and external to Datalex. Establish and maintain measurable performance benchmarks and service thresholds. Required Experience & Skills 8+ years' experience in performance engineering, including leadership or senior ownership responsibilities. Strong hands on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, or BlazeMeter. Solid understanding of microservices architectures, APIs, and cloud based infrastructures. Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery workflows. Desirable Qualifications Experience with APM and observability tooling such as Dynatrace, New Relic, or AppDynamics. Knowledge of performance modelling, capacity planning, and forecasting. About Datalex Datalex is a market leader in airline e-commerce solutions. Datalex's Stellex product suite, launched in 2024, gives airlines the tools they need to drive revenue and profit as digital retailers. Datalex has a strong track record working with some of the most innovative airline brands worldwide, such as Air China, Air Macau, Air Transat, Aer Lingus, easyJet, and Edelweiss. The Group is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and maintains offices across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Learn more at
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.We challenge where it matters and own the outcome.As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary expertscombine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world.Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deepexpertisein consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teamsoperateglobally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life. Join ourData Science team, part ofDigital & Data,working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross-disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions. Grow a flexible and uniqueconsultingcareer within a trust-based,inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have theoptionto progress with us on a technical career track. No need to go onto the Partner career track if thisdoesn'talign with what you want to do. Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors - no project is ever the same Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring Deepen yourexpertisethrough oura culture of learning and growth -you'llhave budget to take courses (technical and non-technical training), plus gain certifications Responsibilities As aData Architectyou willhelp drive data and AI transformations for our clientsby helping ourclients.You willbe responsible fordefining thedata blueprintand architecturefor our clients' most complex programmes. This role requires an understandingof both classic and latest generation platform capabilities. You will be architecting end-to-end data platforms which include ingestion, orchestration, governance, security, cost-optimisation, and observability.You will have strongclient-facing skills to translate business needs into scalable, resilient, and secure data solutions. While we advocate for using the right tech for the right task, youwill beexpectedtoarchitect solutionsforsomeoffollowing technologiesand capabilitiesto ensure scalable, high-performance applications: Multi-cloud,datawarehousingand datalakeplatforms Datamanipulation,integrationand ingestiontechnologies Programming/scriptinglanguages ML/AI frameworks Infrastructure & DevOpsconcepts andtooling, Semantic models and metrics layers Datagovernance tooling As a Principal Consultant, you will be expected to: Operate at a strategic and leadership-focused level Handle complex client challenges, lead teams, and take ownership of end-to-end assignment delivery Play arole in business growth through bid leadership,identifyingnew opportunities, andleveragea strong internal and external network Help connect and support newer team members. drive the development and sharing of thought leadership, champion best practice, and be seen as the go-to expert in your technical area Set direction for teams, create an inclusive environment, and push both capability and client outcomes to a higher standard What you can expectofourworking environment Work to agile best practices and cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders.You'llbe using your technical skills to problem solve with our clients Collaborate closelyas a core member of engineeringteams, often taking a lead SME role to define vision andestablishthe right practical architecture Hybrid working with the team on client site or in our office a minimum of two days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site. As part of our Digital team,you'llwork alongside colleagues from across PA - delivering transformative digital solutions to today's most complex business challenges. Our teams are trusted to deliver and given the space to be awesome.We're an inclusive community for the curious, generous, pragmatic and committed digital practitioner. Qualifications Even if youdon'tmeet every requirement below, feel free to still apply as we are often hiring for similar roles which your background might be better suited to. Hands-on data background with experience leading engineering teams to deliver applications and services Clear understanding and practical application ofdataarchitecture and delivery methodologies. Operate confidently acrossthe datadomainwith clear understanding of the impact of AI both in the solutionsrequiredand how those solutions are delivered Commitment to continuous improvement and professional development. You thrive in problem-solving and analytical thinking You enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment Certifications inappropriate methodologiesand cloud technologies areadvantageous. We'retechnology agnostic, using the right tools for the job at hand, andyou'llhave access to our strong partnerships with AWS,Azureand GCP.We'reinterested to hear fromDataArchitects with experience acrossthe majority ofleading vendors including Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform,Databricks, Snowflakeand more. Additional information Please note that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role. Quick call with one of our Tech Recruiters - to discuss your application, the role and PA Round 1: Either a competency or technical interview (60 mins) Round 2: Either a competency or technical interview, whichever youdidn'tdo at first round (60 mins) Final round : Meeting with a PA leader - a mini case study and discussion around your client-centricity (60 mins) Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA.It'sabout how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges.We'refocused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional,socialand financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: Health and lifestyleperksaccompanyingprivate healthcare for you and your family 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5additionaldays Generous company pension scheme Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives Annual performance-based bonus PA share ownership Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) We'recommitted to advancing equality.We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us
17/05/2026
Full time
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.We challenge where it matters and own the outcome.As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary expertscombine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world.Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deepexpertisein consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teamsoperateglobally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life. Join ourData Science team, part ofDigital & Data,working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross-disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions. Grow a flexible and uniqueconsultingcareer within a trust-based,inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have theoptionto progress with us on a technical career track. No need to go onto the Partner career track if thisdoesn'talign with what you want to do. Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors - no project is ever the same Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring Deepen yourexpertisethrough oura culture of learning and growth -you'llhave budget to take courses (technical and non-technical training), plus gain certifications Responsibilities As aData Architectyou willhelp drive data and AI transformations for our clientsby helping ourclients.You willbe responsible fordefining thedata blueprintand architecturefor our clients' most complex programmes. This role requires an understandingof both classic and latest generation platform capabilities. You will be architecting end-to-end data platforms which include ingestion, orchestration, governance, security, cost-optimisation, and observability.You will have strongclient-facing skills to translate business needs into scalable, resilient, and secure data solutions. While we advocate for using the right tech for the right task, youwill beexpectedtoarchitect solutionsforsomeoffollowing technologiesand capabilitiesto ensure scalable, high-performance applications: Multi-cloud,datawarehousingand datalakeplatforms Datamanipulation,integrationand ingestiontechnologies Programming/scriptinglanguages ML/AI frameworks Infrastructure & DevOpsconcepts andtooling, Semantic models and metrics layers Datagovernance tooling As a Principal Consultant, you will be expected to: Operate at a strategic and leadership-focused level Handle complex client challenges, lead teams, and take ownership of end-to-end assignment delivery Play arole in business growth through bid leadership,identifyingnew opportunities, andleveragea strong internal and external network Help connect and support newer team members. drive the development and sharing of thought leadership, champion best practice, and be seen as the go-to expert in your technical area Set direction for teams, create an inclusive environment, and push both capability and client outcomes to a higher standard What you can expectofourworking environment Work to agile best practices and cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders.You'llbe using your technical skills to problem solve with our clients Collaborate closelyas a core member of engineeringteams, often taking a lead SME role to define vision andestablishthe right practical architecture Hybrid working with the team on client site or in our office a minimum of two days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site. As part of our Digital team,you'llwork alongside colleagues from across PA - delivering transformative digital solutions to today's most complex business challenges. Our teams are trusted to deliver and given the space to be awesome.We're an inclusive community for the curious, generous, pragmatic and committed digital practitioner. Qualifications Even if youdon'tmeet every requirement below, feel free to still apply as we are often hiring for similar roles which your background might be better suited to. Hands-on data background with experience leading engineering teams to deliver applications and services Clear understanding and practical application ofdataarchitecture and delivery methodologies. Operate confidently acrossthe datadomainwith clear understanding of the impact of AI both in the solutionsrequiredand how those solutions are delivered Commitment to continuous improvement and professional development. You thrive in problem-solving and analytical thinking You enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment Certifications inappropriate methodologiesand cloud technologies areadvantageous. We'retechnology agnostic, using the right tools for the job at hand, andyou'llhave access to our strong partnerships with AWS,Azureand GCP.We'reinterested to hear fromDataArchitects with experience acrossthe majority ofleading vendors including Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform,Databricks, Snowflakeand more. Additional information Please note that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role. Quick call with one of our Tech Recruiters - to discuss your application, the role and PA Round 1: Either a competency or technical interview (60 mins) Round 2: Either a competency or technical interview, whichever youdidn'tdo at first round (60 mins) Final round : Meeting with a PA leader - a mini case study and discussion around your client-centricity (60 mins) Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA.It'sabout how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges.We'refocused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional,socialand financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: Health and lifestyleperksaccompanyingprivate healthcare for you and your family 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5additionaldays Generous company pension scheme Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives Annual performance-based bonus PA share ownership Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) We'recommitted to advancing equality.We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.We challenge where it matters and own the outcome.As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary expertscombine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world.Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deepexpertisein consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teamsoperateglobally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life. Join ourData Science team, part ofDigital & Data,working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross-disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions. Grow a flexible and uniqueconsultingcareer within a trust-based,inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have theoptionto progress with us on a technical career track. No need to go onto the Partner career track if thisdoesn'talign with what you want to do. Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors - no project is ever the same Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring Deepen yourexpertisethrough oura culture of learning and growth -you'llhave budget to take courses (technical and non-technical training), plus gain certifications Responsibilities As aData Architectyou willhelp drive data and AI transformations for our clientsby helping ourclients.You willbe responsible fordefining thedata blueprintand architecturefor our clients' most complex programmes. This role requires an understandingof both classic and latest generation platform capabilities. You will be architecting end-to-end data platforms which include ingestion, orchestration, governance, security, cost-optimisation, and observability.You will have strongclient-facing skills to translate business needs into scalable, resilient, and secure data solutions. While we advocate for using the right tech for the right task, youwill beexpectedtoarchitect solutionsforsomeoffollowing technologiesand capabilitiesto ensure scalable, high-performance applications: Multi-cloud,datawarehousingand datalakeplatforms Datamanipulation,integrationand ingestiontechnologies Programming/scriptinglanguages ML/AI frameworks Infrastructure & DevOpsconcepts andtooling, Semantic models and metrics layers Datagovernance tooling As a Principal Consultant, you will be expected to: Operate at a strategic and leadership-focused level Handle complex client challenges, lead teams, and take ownership of end-to-end assignment delivery Play arole in business growth through bid leadership,identifyingnew opportunities, andleveragea strong internal and external network Help connect and support newer team members. drive the development and sharing of thought leadership, champion best practice, and be seen as the go-to expert in your technical area Set direction for teams, create an inclusive environment, and push both capability and client outcomes to a higher standard What you can expectofourworking environment Work to agile best practices and cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders.You'llbe using your technical skills to problem solve with our clients Collaborate closelyas a core member of engineeringteams, often taking a lead SME role to define vision andestablishthe right practical architecture Hybrid working with the team on client site or in our office a minimum of two days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site. As part of our Digital team,you'llwork alongside colleagues from across PA - delivering transformative digital solutions to today's most complex business challenges. Our teams are trusted to deliver and given the space to be awesome.We're an inclusive community for the curious, generous, pragmatic and committed digital practitioner. Qualifications Even if youdon'tmeet every requirement below, feel free to still apply as we are often hiring for similar roles which your background might be better suited to. Hands-on data background with experience leading engineering teams to deliver applications and services Clear understanding and practical application ofdataarchitecture and delivery methodologies. Operate confidently acrossthe datadomainwith clear understanding of the impact of AI both in the solutionsrequiredand how those solutions are delivered Commitment to continuous improvement and professional development. You thrive in problem-solving and analytical thinking You enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment Certifications inappropriate methodologiesand cloud technologies areadvantageous. We'retechnology agnostic, using the right tools for the job at hand, andyou'llhave access to our strong partnerships with AWS,Azureand GCP.We'reinterested to hear fromDataArchitects with experience acrossthe majority ofleading vendors including Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform,Databricks, Snowflakeand more. Additional information Please note that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role. Quick call with one of our Tech Recruiters - to discuss your application, the role and PA Round 1: Either a competency or technical interview (60 mins) Round 2: Either a competency or technical interview, whichever youdidn'tdo at first round (60 mins) Final round : Meeting with a PA leader - a mini case study and discussion around your client-centricity (60 mins) Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA.It'sabout how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges.We'refocused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional,socialand financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: Health and lifestyleperksaccompanyingprivate healthcare for you and your family 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5additionaldays Generous company pension scheme Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives Annual performance-based bonus PA share ownership Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) We'recommitted to advancing equality.We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us
17/05/2026
Full time
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.We challenge where it matters and own the outcome.As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary expertscombine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world.Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deepexpertisein consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teamsoperateglobally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life. Join ourData Science team, part ofDigital & Data,working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross-disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions. Grow a flexible and uniqueconsultingcareer within a trust-based,inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have theoptionto progress with us on a technical career track. No need to go onto the Partner career track if thisdoesn'talign with what you want to do. Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors - no project is ever the same Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring Deepen yourexpertisethrough oura culture of learning and growth -you'llhave budget to take courses (technical and non-technical training), plus gain certifications Responsibilities As aData Architectyou willhelp drive data and AI transformations for our clientsby helping ourclients.You willbe responsible fordefining thedata blueprintand architecturefor our clients' most complex programmes. This role requires an understandingof both classic and latest generation platform capabilities. You will be architecting end-to-end data platforms which include ingestion, orchestration, governance, security, cost-optimisation, and observability.You will have strongclient-facing skills to translate business needs into scalable, resilient, and secure data solutions. While we advocate for using the right tech for the right task, youwill beexpectedtoarchitect solutionsforsomeoffollowing technologiesand capabilitiesto ensure scalable, high-performance applications: Multi-cloud,datawarehousingand datalakeplatforms Datamanipulation,integrationand ingestiontechnologies Programming/scriptinglanguages ML/AI frameworks Infrastructure & DevOpsconcepts andtooling, Semantic models and metrics layers Datagovernance tooling As a Principal Consultant, you will be expected to: Operate at a strategic and leadership-focused level Handle complex client challenges, lead teams, and take ownership of end-to-end assignment delivery Play arole in business growth through bid leadership,identifyingnew opportunities, andleveragea strong internal and external network Help connect and support newer team members. drive the development and sharing of thought leadership, champion best practice, and be seen as the go-to expert in your technical area Set direction for teams, create an inclusive environment, and push both capability and client outcomes to a higher standard What you can expectofourworking environment Work to agile best practices and cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders.You'llbe using your technical skills to problem solve with our clients Collaborate closelyas a core member of engineeringteams, often taking a lead SME role to define vision andestablishthe right practical architecture Hybrid working with the team on client site or in our office a minimum of two days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site. As part of our Digital team,you'llwork alongside colleagues from across PA - delivering transformative digital solutions to today's most complex business challenges. Our teams are trusted to deliver and given the space to be awesome.We're an inclusive community for the curious, generous, pragmatic and committed digital practitioner. Qualifications Even if youdon'tmeet every requirement below, feel free to still apply as we are often hiring for similar roles which your background might be better suited to. Hands-on data background with experience leading engineering teams to deliver applications and services Clear understanding and practical application ofdataarchitecture and delivery methodologies. Operate confidently acrossthe datadomainwith clear understanding of the impact of AI both in the solutionsrequiredand how those solutions are delivered Commitment to continuous improvement and professional development. You thrive in problem-solving and analytical thinking You enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment Certifications inappropriate methodologiesand cloud technologies areadvantageous. We'retechnology agnostic, using the right tools for the job at hand, andyou'llhave access to our strong partnerships with AWS,Azureand GCP.We'reinterested to hear fromDataArchitects with experience acrossthe majority ofleading vendors including Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform,Databricks, Snowflakeand more. Additional information Please note that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role. Quick call with one of our Tech Recruiters - to discuss your application, the role and PA Round 1: Either a competency or technical interview (60 mins) Round 2: Either a competency or technical interview, whichever youdidn'tdo at first round (60 mins) Final round : Meeting with a PA leader - a mini case study and discussion around your client-centricity (60 mins) Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA.It'sabout how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges.We'refocused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional,socialand financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: Health and lifestyleperksaccompanyingprivate healthcare for you and your family 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5additionaldays Generous company pension scheme Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives Annual performance-based bonus PA share ownership Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) We'recommitted to advancing equality.We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us
# Logs Specialist Logs Specialist Dynatrace is seeking a results-driven Log Management Domain Specialist to serve as the primary domain authority for our Log Management solution. This is a high-impact, domain role designed to drive the successful adoption, consumption, and displacement of legacy log tools. You will partner with our Global Sales organization to demonstrate the unique value of the Dynatrace GrailTM data lakehouse, helping customers transition from high-cost, fragmented logging silos to a unified, AI-powered observability platform. Core Responsibilities Domain Expertise: Act as the domain "subject matter expert" (SME) for Logs, staying ahead of industry trends like OpenTelemetry (OTel), log pipelines (Cribl/BindPane), and cloud-native logging (CloudWatch/Stackdriver). Articulate the architectural superiority of Dynatrace Grail-specifically how its schema-on-read and index-less storage solve the "cardinality explosion" of modern logs. Competitive Execution: Partner with Account Executives/SEs to identify and execute displacement plays against legacy incumbents. Lead high-stakes Proof of Concepts (POCs) that drive Logs consumption that prove ROI by reducing data ingest costs while increasing troubleshooting speed. Build "Economic Value" models that show customers how to optimize their SaaS consumption and maximize their Dynatrace investment. Solution Architecture: Expertise in architecting resilient, vendor neutral log ingestion frameworks utilizing Fluentd, Logstash, and OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines, etc. Help customers navigate complex log-routing scenarios, ensuring high-value data is prioritized for analytics while low-value data is archived cost-effectively. Consumption Advocacy: Identify "consumption bottlenecks" within existing accounts and proactively provide technical guidance to unlock more log data volume and user adoption. Conduct "Best Practice" workshops focused on log-based alerting, DQL (Dynatrace Query Language) proficiency, and dashboarding. What will help you succeed Qualifications & Requirements Experience: 5+ years in a domain, specialist, pre-sales, professional services, or SRE role, with at least 3 years specifically focused on Log Management or Big Data analytics. Technical Depth: Advanced proficiency in Query Languages (e.g., Splunk SPL, Kusto QL, SQL, or Lucene). Deep understanding of Log Ingestion pipelines and "Telemetry Pipelines" (Cribl, BindPlane, Vector). Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Serverless logging patterns. Cloud & DevOps: Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP logging ecosystems and automation tools like Terraform or Ansible. Business Acumen: Ability to translate "bits and bytes" into "dollars and cents"-explaining how log management impacts MTTR and operational overhead. Education: Bachelor's degree in - Computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. Hands on exposure to modern observability pipelines, including Cribl solutions or OpenTelemetry logging specifications. Familiarity with the Cribl ecosystem or OpenTelemetry logging specs. Experience with scripting (Python, Go, or Bash) for log transformation and data cleanup. Why you will love being a Dynatracer Dynatrace is a leader in unified observability and security. We provide a culture of excellence with competitive compensation packages designed to recognize and reward performance. Our employees work with the largest cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, and other leading partners worldwide to create strategic alliances. The Dynatrace platform uses cutting-edge technologies, including our own Davis hypermodal AI, to help our customers modernize and automate cloud operations, deliver software faster and more securely, and enable flawless digital experiences. Over 50% of the Fortune 100 companies are current customers of Dynatrace. Note to Recruiters and Agencies : Thank you for your interest in Dynatrace. Please note that we do not accept unsolicited agency resumes -do not forward them via our website or directly to Dynatrace employees. Dynatrace will not pay fees for unsolicited resumes, and any resumes received this way will be considered the property of Dynatrace. Benefits and work-life perksWe offer best-in-class core rewards, including paid time off, financial security benefits, retirement savings plans, and health insurance. Beyond that, you'll get other benefits and work-life perks designed to make your ride with us even more rewarding. Mental health supportOur Employee Assistance Program, powered by Telus Health, offers support for you and your family members. Wellness DaysFour company-designated extra paid days off for you to recharge batteries. FlexibilityOur hybrid working model and flexible working hours offer you the flexibility you need. Employee Stock Purchase PlanPurchase company stock (NYSE:DT) at a discounted price and become a shareholder. Learn & developCompany-wide learning perks, designated team's learning days, and more. Volunteering dayA day of paid volunteer time to support a community or cause you care about. Regular team eventsWe host Global Culture Parties, Family & Friends at Work Day, Global Breakfasts, Green Weeks, Pride Month, and beyond! International vibeMost of our offices and teams are proudly multicultural. English is our shared language, but we embrace and learn from each other's cultures.Rewards vary depending on your employment type. Some benefits and perks also differ by location - explore your city to see what's available there. About DynatraceDynatrace (NYSE: DT) is the leading AI-powered observability and security platform. We're advancing observability for today's digital businesses, helping transform modern digital ecosystems' complexity into powerful business assets.Our AI-driven insights cut through the noise, allowing customers to focus on what truly matters by automating manual tasks and resolving issues with pinpoint accuracy. Dynatrace offers simplicity, clarity, and reliability at scale to ensure teams can make informed decisions, minimize downtime, and drive their business forward with confidence.
16/05/2026
Full time
# Logs Specialist Logs Specialist Dynatrace is seeking a results-driven Log Management Domain Specialist to serve as the primary domain authority for our Log Management solution. This is a high-impact, domain role designed to drive the successful adoption, consumption, and displacement of legacy log tools. You will partner with our Global Sales organization to demonstrate the unique value of the Dynatrace GrailTM data lakehouse, helping customers transition from high-cost, fragmented logging silos to a unified, AI-powered observability platform. Core Responsibilities Domain Expertise: Act as the domain "subject matter expert" (SME) for Logs, staying ahead of industry trends like OpenTelemetry (OTel), log pipelines (Cribl/BindPane), and cloud-native logging (CloudWatch/Stackdriver). Articulate the architectural superiority of Dynatrace Grail-specifically how its schema-on-read and index-less storage solve the "cardinality explosion" of modern logs. Competitive Execution: Partner with Account Executives/SEs to identify and execute displacement plays against legacy incumbents. Lead high-stakes Proof of Concepts (POCs) that drive Logs consumption that prove ROI by reducing data ingest costs while increasing troubleshooting speed. Build "Economic Value" models that show customers how to optimize their SaaS consumption and maximize their Dynatrace investment. Solution Architecture: Expertise in architecting resilient, vendor neutral log ingestion frameworks utilizing Fluentd, Logstash, and OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines, etc. Help customers navigate complex log-routing scenarios, ensuring high-value data is prioritized for analytics while low-value data is archived cost-effectively. Consumption Advocacy: Identify "consumption bottlenecks" within existing accounts and proactively provide technical guidance to unlock more log data volume and user adoption. Conduct "Best Practice" workshops focused on log-based alerting, DQL (Dynatrace Query Language) proficiency, and dashboarding. What will help you succeed Qualifications & Requirements Experience: 5+ years in a domain, specialist, pre-sales, professional services, or SRE role, with at least 3 years specifically focused on Log Management or Big Data analytics. Technical Depth: Advanced proficiency in Query Languages (e.g., Splunk SPL, Kusto QL, SQL, or Lucene). Deep understanding of Log Ingestion pipelines and "Telemetry Pipelines" (Cribl, BindPlane, Vector). Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Serverless logging patterns. Cloud & DevOps: Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP logging ecosystems and automation tools like Terraform or Ansible. Business Acumen: Ability to translate "bits and bytes" into "dollars and cents"-explaining how log management impacts MTTR and operational overhead. Education: Bachelor's degree in - Computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. Hands on exposure to modern observability pipelines, including Cribl solutions or OpenTelemetry logging specifications. Familiarity with the Cribl ecosystem or OpenTelemetry logging specs. Experience with scripting (Python, Go, or Bash) for log transformation and data cleanup. Why you will love being a Dynatracer Dynatrace is a leader in unified observability and security. We provide a culture of excellence with competitive compensation packages designed to recognize and reward performance. Our employees work with the largest cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, and other leading partners worldwide to create strategic alliances. The Dynatrace platform uses cutting-edge technologies, including our own Davis hypermodal AI, to help our customers modernize and automate cloud operations, deliver software faster and more securely, and enable flawless digital experiences. Over 50% of the Fortune 100 companies are current customers of Dynatrace. Note to Recruiters and Agencies : Thank you for your interest in Dynatrace. Please note that we do not accept unsolicited agency resumes -do not forward them via our website or directly to Dynatrace employees. Dynatrace will not pay fees for unsolicited resumes, and any resumes received this way will be considered the property of Dynatrace. Benefits and work-life perksWe offer best-in-class core rewards, including paid time off, financial security benefits, retirement savings plans, and health insurance. Beyond that, you'll get other benefits and work-life perks designed to make your ride with us even more rewarding. Mental health supportOur Employee Assistance Program, powered by Telus Health, offers support for you and your family members. Wellness DaysFour company-designated extra paid days off for you to recharge batteries. FlexibilityOur hybrid working model and flexible working hours offer you the flexibility you need. Employee Stock Purchase PlanPurchase company stock (NYSE:DT) at a discounted price and become a shareholder. Learn & developCompany-wide learning perks, designated team's learning days, and more. Volunteering dayA day of paid volunteer time to support a community or cause you care about. Regular team eventsWe host Global Culture Parties, Family & Friends at Work Day, Global Breakfasts, Green Weeks, Pride Month, and beyond! International vibeMost of our offices and teams are proudly multicultural. English is our shared language, but we embrace and learn from each other's cultures.Rewards vary depending on your employment type. Some benefits and perks also differ by location - explore your city to see what's available there. About DynatraceDynatrace (NYSE: DT) is the leading AI-powered observability and security platform. We're advancing observability for today's digital businesses, helping transform modern digital ecosystems' complexity into powerful business assets.Our AI-driven insights cut through the noise, allowing customers to focus on what truly matters by automating manual tasks and resolving issues with pinpoint accuracy. Dynatrace offers simplicity, clarity, and reliability at scale to ensure teams can make informed decisions, minimize downtime, and drive their business forward with confidence.
The Open University UK
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
About the Role The Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Platform) role (known internally as Senior Engineer, DevOps) sits within the Cloud Platform team, focused on building, operating, and continuously improving shared cloud infrastructure and services that enable delivery teams across the organisation. The role emphasises platform operation, reliability, automation and security, and involves working closely with engineering and product teams to provide guardrails, tooling, and enablement on Microsoft Azure. You will contribute to a build run own operating model, supporting live services, participating in incident and on call rotations, and helping teams deploy and operate safely and efficiently at scale. The role will focus on: Building and operating shared Azure cloud platform capabilities. Automating infrastructure and deployments using Infrastructure as Code. Enabling delivery teams through CI/CD pipelines, guardrails, and tooling. Improving reliability, observability, security and resilience of cloud services. Supporting live services through incident, problem and on call rotations. Promoting DevOps and SRE practices through continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities Lead Software Development Projects: Guide the design, development, and implementation of software solutions, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and aligned with The Open University objectives. Provide technical leadership and mentorship, and may include line management, to junior team members. Architect and Design Systems: Develop and refine system architectures and software designs that meet requirements and technical specifications. Ensure that all designs are maintainable, secure, and optimised for performance, and systems are designed to be observable, supportable, and resilient in live operation, with appropriate monitoring, alerting, and operational documentation in place. Drive Technical Excellence: Champion best practices in software development, including coding standards, TDD and automated testing approaches (e.g. unit and integration), and version control, to ensure the delivery of high quality, scalable and maintainable software products. Oversee System Integration: Manage the integration of multiple software components, ensuring seamless interaction and functionality across the system. Data Management and Analysis: Lead efforts in data modelling, database design and business intelligence to support data driven decision making and improve system performance. Enhance User Experience: Collaborate with UX designers to ensure that user experience is a key consideration in the development process. Translate user needs into functional software features that deliver value. Monitor and Assess Emerging Technologies: Stay informed about new and emerging technologies, evaluating their potential to enhance current and future projects. Implement Security and Compliance Standards: Ensure that software solutions comply with security standards and industry regulations. Implement best practices to protect data and maintain system integrity. Quality Assurance and Testing: Oversee comprehensive testing strategies, including functional, non functional and security testing, to ensure software reliability and performance. Support Operational Excellence: Contribute to the stability and performance of software applications by supporting incident and problem management, utilising observability data, as part of a build run own approach, including out of hours as required, as well as service level and capacity planning. Conduct Services, Products and Requirements Analysis: Work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs, define technical requirements, and assess the feasibility of proposed solutions. Document and manage requirements to ensure alignment with project goals. Resource and Supplier Management: Assist in managing resource allocation and collaborate with external vendors to ensure project needs are met effectively and efficiently. About You Key Skills and Experience Proven Software Engineering Expertise: Extensive experience in software development (coding, test writing and debugging), reviewing other people's work, with a deep understanding of programming, system design, and testing practices. Strong System and Software Design Skills: Ability to design scalable and efficient systems, ensuring architectural integrity and alignment with The Open University objectives, with experience contributing to systems built using modern architectural patterns such as microservices, API first design and cloud native platforms. Advanced Data Management: Skilled in data modelling, database design and implementing business intelligence solutions to support analytics and decision making. User Centric Development: Experience in integrating user experience design principles into the software development process to create intuitive and effective user interfaces. Emerging Technology Enthusiast: Passion for exploring and integrating new technologies to enhance software solutions and business capabilities. Security and Compliance Focus: Knowledgeable in implementing security protocols and ensuring compliance with industry standards to protect systems and data. Quality Assurance Leader: Strong focus on quality, with experience in leading comprehensive testing strategies to ensure the reliability and performance of software products. Effective Analysis and Requirement Management: Proven ability to translate user needs into technical requirements and assess the feasibility of proposed solutions. Operational and Resource Management: Experience in managing resources, supporting application operations and working with external suppliers to meet project demands. Modern Engineering Practices and AI Enablement: Experience working in a modern engineering environment, applying practices such as automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, cloud native development and DevOps ways of working. Demonstrates effective use of AI assisted development tools to enhance productivity, improve code quality, support testing and documentation, and enable faster delivery, while being mindful of governance, security and cost considerations. Behaviours Leadership and Mentorship: You lead by example, providing guidance and support to team members, and fostering a collaborative, inclusive team environment. Analytical and Strategic Thinking: You are capable of understanding complex business challenges and developing strategic technical solutions to address them. Proactive and Innovative: You actively seek out opportunities for improvement and are eager to integrate new technologies and methodologies into your work. Attention to Detail: You ensure accuracy and quality in all aspects of your work, from coding and testing to documentation and analysis. Effective Communicator: You are able to convey technical concepts to both technical and non technical stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding and alignment. What's in it for you? At The Open University, we offer a range of benefits to recognise and reward great work, alongside policies and flexible working that contribute towards a great work life balance. Get all the details of what benefits we offer by visiting our Staff Benefits page. Flexible working We are open to discussions about flexible working. Whether it's a job share, part time, compressed hours or another working arrangement. Please reach out to us to discuss what works best for you. It is anticipated that a hybrid working pattern can be adopted for this role, where the successful candidate can work from home and the office. However, as this role is contractually aligned to our Milton Keynes office it is expected that some attendance in the office will be required when necessary and in response to business needs. We'd anticipate this to be on average once per month.
16/05/2026
Full time
About the Role The Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Platform) role (known internally as Senior Engineer, DevOps) sits within the Cloud Platform team, focused on building, operating, and continuously improving shared cloud infrastructure and services that enable delivery teams across the organisation. The role emphasises platform operation, reliability, automation and security, and involves working closely with engineering and product teams to provide guardrails, tooling, and enablement on Microsoft Azure. You will contribute to a build run own operating model, supporting live services, participating in incident and on call rotations, and helping teams deploy and operate safely and efficiently at scale. The role will focus on: Building and operating shared Azure cloud platform capabilities. Automating infrastructure and deployments using Infrastructure as Code. Enabling delivery teams through CI/CD pipelines, guardrails, and tooling. Improving reliability, observability, security and resilience of cloud services. Supporting live services through incident, problem and on call rotations. Promoting DevOps and SRE practices through continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities Lead Software Development Projects: Guide the design, development, and implementation of software solutions, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and aligned with The Open University objectives. Provide technical leadership and mentorship, and may include line management, to junior team members. Architect and Design Systems: Develop and refine system architectures and software designs that meet requirements and technical specifications. Ensure that all designs are maintainable, secure, and optimised for performance, and systems are designed to be observable, supportable, and resilient in live operation, with appropriate monitoring, alerting, and operational documentation in place. Drive Technical Excellence: Champion best practices in software development, including coding standards, TDD and automated testing approaches (e.g. unit and integration), and version control, to ensure the delivery of high quality, scalable and maintainable software products. Oversee System Integration: Manage the integration of multiple software components, ensuring seamless interaction and functionality across the system. Data Management and Analysis: Lead efforts in data modelling, database design and business intelligence to support data driven decision making and improve system performance. Enhance User Experience: Collaborate with UX designers to ensure that user experience is a key consideration in the development process. Translate user needs into functional software features that deliver value. Monitor and Assess Emerging Technologies: Stay informed about new and emerging technologies, evaluating their potential to enhance current and future projects. Implement Security and Compliance Standards: Ensure that software solutions comply with security standards and industry regulations. Implement best practices to protect data and maintain system integrity. Quality Assurance and Testing: Oversee comprehensive testing strategies, including functional, non functional and security testing, to ensure software reliability and performance. Support Operational Excellence: Contribute to the stability and performance of software applications by supporting incident and problem management, utilising observability data, as part of a build run own approach, including out of hours as required, as well as service level and capacity planning. Conduct Services, Products and Requirements Analysis: Work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs, define technical requirements, and assess the feasibility of proposed solutions. Document and manage requirements to ensure alignment with project goals. Resource and Supplier Management: Assist in managing resource allocation and collaborate with external vendors to ensure project needs are met effectively and efficiently. About You Key Skills and Experience Proven Software Engineering Expertise: Extensive experience in software development (coding, test writing and debugging), reviewing other people's work, with a deep understanding of programming, system design, and testing practices. Strong System and Software Design Skills: Ability to design scalable and efficient systems, ensuring architectural integrity and alignment with The Open University objectives, with experience contributing to systems built using modern architectural patterns such as microservices, API first design and cloud native platforms. Advanced Data Management: Skilled in data modelling, database design and implementing business intelligence solutions to support analytics and decision making. User Centric Development: Experience in integrating user experience design principles into the software development process to create intuitive and effective user interfaces. Emerging Technology Enthusiast: Passion for exploring and integrating new technologies to enhance software solutions and business capabilities. Security and Compliance Focus: Knowledgeable in implementing security protocols and ensuring compliance with industry standards to protect systems and data. Quality Assurance Leader: Strong focus on quality, with experience in leading comprehensive testing strategies to ensure the reliability and performance of software products. Effective Analysis and Requirement Management: Proven ability to translate user needs into technical requirements and assess the feasibility of proposed solutions. Operational and Resource Management: Experience in managing resources, supporting application operations and working with external suppliers to meet project demands. Modern Engineering Practices and AI Enablement: Experience working in a modern engineering environment, applying practices such as automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, cloud native development and DevOps ways of working. Demonstrates effective use of AI assisted development tools to enhance productivity, improve code quality, support testing and documentation, and enable faster delivery, while being mindful of governance, security and cost considerations. Behaviours Leadership and Mentorship: You lead by example, providing guidance and support to team members, and fostering a collaborative, inclusive team environment. Analytical and Strategic Thinking: You are capable of understanding complex business challenges and developing strategic technical solutions to address them. Proactive and Innovative: You actively seek out opportunities for improvement and are eager to integrate new technologies and methodologies into your work. Attention to Detail: You ensure accuracy and quality in all aspects of your work, from coding and testing to documentation and analysis. Effective Communicator: You are able to convey technical concepts to both technical and non technical stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding and alignment. What's in it for you? At The Open University, we offer a range of benefits to recognise and reward great work, alongside policies and flexible working that contribute towards a great work life balance. Get all the details of what benefits we offer by visiting our Staff Benefits page. Flexible working We are open to discussions about flexible working. Whether it's a job share, part time, compressed hours or another working arrangement. Please reach out to us to discuss what works best for you. It is anticipated that a hybrid working pattern can be adopted for this role, where the successful candidate can work from home and the office. However, as this role is contractually aligned to our Milton Keynes office it is expected that some attendance in the office will be required when necessary and in response to business needs. We'd anticipate this to be on average once per month.
Change your job, change your workplace, change your future Ricoh Europe is on an exciting journey to modernise and evolve our infrastructure landscape. We are building a culture of engineering excellence, operational reliability, and automation at scale. We are now looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure & Operations team. About the Role As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in driving reliability, performance, and operational excellence across Ricoh's hybrid cloud and on prem environments. You will help shape SRE practices, support incident and problem management, embed automation, and ensure infrastructure operations meet the highest security and compliance standards, including ISO 27001. This is a hands on technical role with significant influence across engineering, architecture, security, and operational teams. What you will be doing Delivering against SLIs, SLOs and managing error budgets for core services Implementing standards for availability, latency, performance, capacity, and scalability Leading and contributing to root cause analysis and major incident reviews Supporting a blameless post mortem culture with clear action tracking Defining and implementing SRE practices, tooling, and engineering standards Driving infrastructure as code and automation across Azure and on prem Improving image bakery pipelines for secure, repeatable server builds Embedding observability using metrics, logs, traces, and effective alerting Ensuring all practices align with ISO 27001 and internal security frameworks Managing automated patching, vulnerability remediation and configuration compliance Building dashboards and KPIs for reliability, MTTR, change failure rate, capacity and operational trends Reducing operational toil through automation and improved tooling Supporting the delivery and evolution of the SRE roadmap aligned to Ricoh's transformation strategy You will ideally have Technical Skills & Experience Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering or Production Engineering within medium to large scale environments Strong knowledge of Azure and on prem infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, networking, identity, storage) Hands on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep), configuration management (Ansible, PowerShell DSC), and CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) Experience with monitoring and observability stacks Solid understanding of OS fundamentals (Windows/Linux), security, networking Background in scripting or software development (PowerShell, Python, Go) Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS) Familiarity with ITSM practices and platforms such as ServiceNow Experience operating in ISO 27001 or similar regulated environments Business & Interpersonal Skills Experience contributing to incident response, root cause analysis and continuous improvement Ability to influence without direct authority and challenge the status quo Comfortable working with security, architecture, product and operational teams Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical issues to non technical audiences Calm and effective in high pressure situations, especially major incidents In Return For Your Commitment, You Can Expect A competitive salary package Industry leading benefits Ricoh is an exceptional place to work. A place where there is strong emphasis on career development for the right individuals. This is a role where you can excel within a fast paced environment and succeed within a thriving organisation. This is an excellent opportunity to join a global company where you can truly capitalise and build on your own experience. At Ricoh, we embrace and respect the collective and unique talents, experience, and perspectives of all people. Together we inspire remarkable innovation. That's how we live the Ricoh Way.
16/05/2026
Full time
Change your job, change your workplace, change your future Ricoh Europe is on an exciting journey to modernise and evolve our infrastructure landscape. We are building a culture of engineering excellence, operational reliability, and automation at scale. We are now looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure & Operations team. About the Role As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in driving reliability, performance, and operational excellence across Ricoh's hybrid cloud and on prem environments. You will help shape SRE practices, support incident and problem management, embed automation, and ensure infrastructure operations meet the highest security and compliance standards, including ISO 27001. This is a hands on technical role with significant influence across engineering, architecture, security, and operational teams. What you will be doing Delivering against SLIs, SLOs and managing error budgets for core services Implementing standards for availability, latency, performance, capacity, and scalability Leading and contributing to root cause analysis and major incident reviews Supporting a blameless post mortem culture with clear action tracking Defining and implementing SRE practices, tooling, and engineering standards Driving infrastructure as code and automation across Azure and on prem Improving image bakery pipelines for secure, repeatable server builds Embedding observability using metrics, logs, traces, and effective alerting Ensuring all practices align with ISO 27001 and internal security frameworks Managing automated patching, vulnerability remediation and configuration compliance Building dashboards and KPIs for reliability, MTTR, change failure rate, capacity and operational trends Reducing operational toil through automation and improved tooling Supporting the delivery and evolution of the SRE roadmap aligned to Ricoh's transformation strategy You will ideally have Technical Skills & Experience Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering or Production Engineering within medium to large scale environments Strong knowledge of Azure and on prem infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, networking, identity, storage) Hands on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep), configuration management (Ansible, PowerShell DSC), and CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) Experience with monitoring and observability stacks Solid understanding of OS fundamentals (Windows/Linux), security, networking Background in scripting or software development (PowerShell, Python, Go) Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS) Familiarity with ITSM practices and platforms such as ServiceNow Experience operating in ISO 27001 or similar regulated environments Business & Interpersonal Skills Experience contributing to incident response, root cause analysis and continuous improvement Ability to influence without direct authority and challenge the status quo Comfortable working with security, architecture, product and operational teams Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical issues to non technical audiences Calm and effective in high pressure situations, especially major incidents In Return For Your Commitment, You Can Expect A competitive salary package Industry leading benefits Ricoh is an exceptional place to work. A place where there is strong emphasis on career development for the right individuals. This is a role where you can excel within a fast paced environment and succeed within a thriving organisation. This is an excellent opportunity to join a global company where you can truly capitalise and build on your own experience. At Ricoh, we embrace and respect the collective and unique talents, experience, and perspectives of all people. Together we inspire remarkable innovation. That's how we live the Ricoh Way.
Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid - £60,000 Overview Fuel Recruitment is working with a leading technology organisation that is expanding its infrastructure and automation capability. They are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help design, deploy and optimise secure, resilient platforms across internal and customer environments. The role is focused on automation, observability and taking new solutions from proof-of-concept through to full production. This position is offered on a hybrid basis, with three days per week on-site . Key Responsibilities Deliver, upgrade and maintain core platforms, systems and automation. Develop and support monitoring and management tooling to ensure strong observability. Collaborate with engineers, developers and operations teams to design and harden resilient platforms. Architect, design and deploy proof-of-concepts and introduce new technologies into production. Conduct security risk and vulnerability assessments, ensuring systems are hardened and compliant. Build and maintain automation tooling using modern SRE and DevOps practices. Diagnose and resolve performance issues across Linux, containers, IaC and related technologies. Produce and maintain high-quality documentation and support the wider team. Key Skills/Experience Strong Linux and Windows OS administration experience (eg, Ubuntu). Scripting capability in Bash, Python, PHP or PowerShell. Experience with automation and IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and Git. Experience working with Azure or similar cloud environments. Understanding of Desired State Configuration and broader IaC principles. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to work across multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment. Desirable Skills Experience with IaC development life cycles and best practices. Awareness of security best practices and secure configuration. DSC/Ansible, ARM Templates or Terraform experience. Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) and Windows Server (2019/2022). Experience with COTS installation, configuration and automation. Docker/Podman and Kubernetes or Swarm orchestration. GitLab, JIRA and Azure/Azure Stack Hub. Monitoring tools such as Nagios or Splunk. Strong documentation skills (eg, Confluence). Experience supporting large-scale platforms and advocating SRE/DevOps principles. Understanding of Agile working practices. Ability to collaborate effectively with project managers, support teams and customers. Security Clearance Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be UK sole nationals and eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.
15/05/2026
Full time
Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid - £60,000 Overview Fuel Recruitment is working with a leading technology organisation that is expanding its infrastructure and automation capability. They are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help design, deploy and optimise secure, resilient platforms across internal and customer environments. The role is focused on automation, observability and taking new solutions from proof-of-concept through to full production. This position is offered on a hybrid basis, with three days per week on-site . Key Responsibilities Deliver, upgrade and maintain core platforms, systems and automation. Develop and support monitoring and management tooling to ensure strong observability. Collaborate with engineers, developers and operations teams to design and harden resilient platforms. Architect, design and deploy proof-of-concepts and introduce new technologies into production. Conduct security risk and vulnerability assessments, ensuring systems are hardened and compliant. Build and maintain automation tooling using modern SRE and DevOps practices. Diagnose and resolve performance issues across Linux, containers, IaC and related technologies. Produce and maintain high-quality documentation and support the wider team. Key Skills/Experience Strong Linux and Windows OS administration experience (eg, Ubuntu). Scripting capability in Bash, Python, PHP or PowerShell. Experience with automation and IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and Git. Experience working with Azure or similar cloud environments. Understanding of Desired State Configuration and broader IaC principles. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to work across multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment. Desirable Skills Experience with IaC development life cycles and best practices. Awareness of security best practices and secure configuration. DSC/Ansible, ARM Templates or Terraform experience. Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) and Windows Server (2019/2022). Experience with COTS installation, configuration and automation. Docker/Podman and Kubernetes or Swarm orchestration. GitLab, JIRA and Azure/Azure Stack Hub. Monitoring tools such as Nagios or Splunk. Strong documentation skills (eg, Confluence). Experience supporting large-scale platforms and advocating SRE/DevOps principles. Understanding of Agile working practices. Ability to collaborate effectively with project managers, support teams and customers. Security Clearance Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be UK sole nationals and eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.
Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer Permanent Hybrid (flexible) Up to £50,000 At Target Group, we build secure, scalable technology that powers critical services - and we're looking for a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer to help lead the next phase of our cloud and platform journey. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands on technical leader who thrives in AWS, DevOps automation, cloud networking and security. If you enjoy shaping engineering standards, mentoring others and building resilient platforms that enable modern delivery at scale, we'd love to hear from you. What can you expect? As a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer, you'll be a technical leader responsible for designing, building, securing and optimising cloud infrastructure and networking on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. You'll lead by example through hands on engineering while providing technical direction, standards and guidance across our DevOps and cloud engineering community. From shaping highly scalable, resilient and cost efficient platforms to influencing tooling, automation and operational excellence, you'll play a key role in how we build for the future. Working closely with DevOps, Security, SRE, platform and delivery teams, you'll help shape secure by design architectures, drive best practice in automation and reliability, and support a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement. What you'll be doing Acting as a senior technical authority for DevOps, cloud engineering and AWS platform design Leading the design, deployment and optimisation of secure, scalable and highly available AWS architectures Defining engineering standards, patterns and best practices for infrastructure, networking, security and automation Providing technical leadership for AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Route 53, load balancing and hybrid connectivity Championing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and GitOps approaches using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or GitLab CI Embedding security, observability, compliance and reliability into cloud-native and hybrid platforms Mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions and helping raise capability across the wider engineering community What we're looking for We're looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and collaboration skills - someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and supporting others to do their best work. Extensive hands on AWS experience across compute, networking, storage and security Deep expertise in AWS networking, including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ALB/NLB and PrivateLink Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Terragrunt and/or CloudFormation Proven experience with CI/CD, GitOps, containerisation and Kubernetes/EKS, plus strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell Desirable (but not essential): Experience supporting large scale data or analytics platforms Knowledge of Zero Trust and identity centric security models Experience with SIEM/SOC tooling and cloud threat detection capabilities Exposure to AWS Control Tower, Organisations and multi account governance AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, SysOps, Security Specialty or FinOps related accreditation A degree in Computer Science, IT, Cloud Computing or a related discipline Why join Target? We're proud to offer a competitive and flexible benefits package, designed to support your wellbeing, lifestyle and career growth: Core Benefits Competitive salary of up to £50,000 per annum depending on skills and experience 30 days holiday plus bank holidays - from day one Hybrid working policy Defined Contribution Pension Scheme (employer matched up to 6%) Company paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind) Group Life Assurance Group Income Protection Discretionary annual bonus scheme Annual pay review Flexible & Lifestyle Benefits My Flex benefits platform - access to a wide range of voluntary benefits Technology Buying Scheme (salary sacrifice) Gym Flex - discounted gym and health club memberships Dental Insurance Critical Illness Cover Health Cash Plan Cycle to Work scheme Tastecard / Coffee Club Employee Discount Scheme across hundreds of retailers Wellbeing & Support Wisdom Wellbeing - confidential health and wellbeing support, including EAP Free flu vaccinations and eye tests, plus contributions towards glasses Recognition Scheme celebrating successes across the business Free mortgage advice and support Charitable payroll giving Access to a GP 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year through GP24 Everest Funeral Concierge Free Bereavement and Probate Advice and Support Enhanced parental leave Life at Target You'll be joining a team that genuinely: Celebrates success through our My Recognition portal Invests in your development with regular feedback and support Cares about wellbeing as much as delivery Encourages curiosity, innovation and best practice We're committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive culture through the execution of our D&I strategy, community relationships, our people & leaders. Grow your future with us!
15/05/2026
Full time
Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer Permanent Hybrid (flexible) Up to £50,000 At Target Group, we build secure, scalable technology that powers critical services - and we're looking for a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer to help lead the next phase of our cloud and platform journey. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands on technical leader who thrives in AWS, DevOps automation, cloud networking and security. If you enjoy shaping engineering standards, mentoring others and building resilient platforms that enable modern delivery at scale, we'd love to hear from you. What can you expect? As a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer, you'll be a technical leader responsible for designing, building, securing and optimising cloud infrastructure and networking on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. You'll lead by example through hands on engineering while providing technical direction, standards and guidance across our DevOps and cloud engineering community. From shaping highly scalable, resilient and cost efficient platforms to influencing tooling, automation and operational excellence, you'll play a key role in how we build for the future. Working closely with DevOps, Security, SRE, platform and delivery teams, you'll help shape secure by design architectures, drive best practice in automation and reliability, and support a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement. What you'll be doing Acting as a senior technical authority for DevOps, cloud engineering and AWS platform design Leading the design, deployment and optimisation of secure, scalable and highly available AWS architectures Defining engineering standards, patterns and best practices for infrastructure, networking, security and automation Providing technical leadership for AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Route 53, load balancing and hybrid connectivity Championing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and GitOps approaches using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or GitLab CI Embedding security, observability, compliance and reliability into cloud-native and hybrid platforms Mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions and helping raise capability across the wider engineering community What we're looking for We're looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and collaboration skills - someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and supporting others to do their best work. Extensive hands on AWS experience across compute, networking, storage and security Deep expertise in AWS networking, including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ALB/NLB and PrivateLink Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Terragrunt and/or CloudFormation Proven experience with CI/CD, GitOps, containerisation and Kubernetes/EKS, plus strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell Desirable (but not essential): Experience supporting large scale data or analytics platforms Knowledge of Zero Trust and identity centric security models Experience with SIEM/SOC tooling and cloud threat detection capabilities Exposure to AWS Control Tower, Organisations and multi account governance AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, SysOps, Security Specialty or FinOps related accreditation A degree in Computer Science, IT, Cloud Computing or a related discipline Why join Target? We're proud to offer a competitive and flexible benefits package, designed to support your wellbeing, lifestyle and career growth: Core Benefits Competitive salary of up to £50,000 per annum depending on skills and experience 30 days holiday plus bank holidays - from day one Hybrid working policy Defined Contribution Pension Scheme (employer matched up to 6%) Company paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind) Group Life Assurance Group Income Protection Discretionary annual bonus scheme Annual pay review Flexible & Lifestyle Benefits My Flex benefits platform - access to a wide range of voluntary benefits Technology Buying Scheme (salary sacrifice) Gym Flex - discounted gym and health club memberships Dental Insurance Critical Illness Cover Health Cash Plan Cycle to Work scheme Tastecard / Coffee Club Employee Discount Scheme across hundreds of retailers Wellbeing & Support Wisdom Wellbeing - confidential health and wellbeing support, including EAP Free flu vaccinations and eye tests, plus contributions towards glasses Recognition Scheme celebrating successes across the business Free mortgage advice and support Charitable payroll giving Access to a GP 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year through GP24 Everest Funeral Concierge Free Bereavement and Probate Advice and Support Enhanced parental leave Life at Target You'll be joining a team that genuinely: Celebrates success through our My Recognition portal Invests in your development with regular feedback and support Cares about wellbeing as much as delivery Encourages curiosity, innovation and best practice We're committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive culture through the execution of our D&I strategy, community relationships, our people & leaders. Grow your future with us!
Contract: Permanent or Contract considered Location: Greater Oxford Area Working Pattern: Hybrid (2-3 days in office) Salary: Competitive A note from the Founders Oxford Dynamics is at an inflection point. We operate in some of the most complex and high stakes environments in the world - defence, national security, AI and robotics. The decisions we make now will define not just how fast we grow, but who we become. You will work closely with all the team. You will be trusted with judgment calls. You will influence the business. And you will see the impact of your work every day in the work we do. If you are excited by ownership, pace and purpose - and by building something that genuinely matters - we would love to hear from you. Who We Are Founded in 2020, Oxford Dynamics (OD) is a fast growing UK deep tech company developing AI and robotic systems designed to operate in mission critical environments. Our flagship AVIS (A Very Intelligent System) AI framework fuses multi modal data - text, imagery, telemetry and sensor feeds - enabling operators to interrogate complex information at speed and make better decisions under pressure. Our STRIDER robotic platform performs autonomous tasks in hazardous environments, protecting people while extending operational reach. Our ambition is simple but demanding: to converge AI and robotics so machines can sense, understand and act in complex, real world environments. We work with defence and security organisations internationally to help protect nations, infrastructure and lives. What you will be doing here/ why this role matters Oxford Dynamics is a small team who rely on a collaborative and positive approach and so the right attitude for this role is equally as important as experience. We are at an important stage and time in our growth, and as a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be an essential part of our success. We are looking for a seasoned DevOps professional with deep hands on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD who can also drive cloud native security. You will design, build and audit scalable infrastructure, automate delivery pipelines and champion cost efficient, highly available platforms while owning key processes that will help OD remain compliant with our various certifications also. Key Responsibilities Your responsibilities will include, but not limited to: End-to-end cloud ownership - architect, implement and maintain multi account, multi region environments using IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm). Platform reliability & automation - manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS/OpenShift), container registries and service meshes; create GitHub Actions / Argo CD pipelines for zero touch deployments. Security hardening - lead security posture reviews, implement GuardDuty, CloudWatch and IAM best practices. SRE & monitoring - uphold SLAs through observability stacks, proactive alerting and performance tuning of distributed systems. Collaboration & enablement - automate repetitive tasks, mentor developers and champion DevSecOps best practice across teams. Policy & audit ownership - steward the regular audits we need to put in place to remain compliant with industry standards ensuring provenance. Backup & DR - design AWS Backup plans, run annual restore drills, maintain RPO/RTO dashboards. Capacity & cost optimisation - run the monthly Capacity & Availability Checklist; leverage Compute Optimizer, Savings Plans and Graviton. Drift detection & golden images - operate Terraform/Helm drift alerts, AMI & container image pipelines with Inspector v2 scanning. Incident & hot fix response - coordinate emergency changes, rollbacks and post incident reviews. What you can bring to Oxford Dynamics A collaborative and supportive attitude to work is essential for this role. You will be expected to operate at multiple levels within the company, with a strong focus on delivery and attention to detail. You will be comfortable working alone, supporting team members as well as interacting with clients if required. Qualifications, experience and skills Proven experience in DevOps / SRE, with recent focus on AWS cloud engineering. Expert in AWS core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB/ELB, CloudFront, ECR/ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, Control Tower) and security tooling (GuardDuty, IAM Identity Center, CloudWatch). Strong Kubernetes (EKS/OpenShift) administration, Helm packaging and service mesh know how. Proficient in IaC (Terraform, Terraform Cloud, CloudFormation), containerisation (Docker, Docker Compose) and Linux systems. Solid CI/CD engineering with GitHub Actions and Argo CD. Experience integrating SAST and DAST best practices. Scripting in Bash and Python or Go for automation. Demonstrated success delivering cloud cost optimisation and high security solutions for enterprise clients. Expertise in implementing SSO across a variety of industry standard software. Preferred/ Bonus Experience with MLOps (Softwares such as Sagemaker, Kubeflow or ZenML). Deployment of on premise Kubernetes. Prometheus (or other stacks) observability. Experience with AWS Karpenter & Compute Optimizer. Compliance literacy - ISO 27001, NIST SSDF/OWASP SAMM, GDPR basics. Soft skills Process driven, documentation friendly mindset. "Can do" attitude, quick learner and unafraid of complex challenges. Excellent teammate with strong cross functional communication. Why This Role? You will join a culture that values secure, automated delivery and encourages experimentation. If you thrive on scaling cloud platforms, tightening security and shaving milliseconds (and money) off every deployment, we'd love to meet you. Why Oxford Dynamics? Join the most exciting growth area in the UK: AI and Robotics! Every member of the Oxford Dynamics team has a major impact on the products and services we provide. Regardless of job title, you'll get to make a real difference and learn from colleagues about all areas of our business. Benefits include Salary: negotiable based on experience and attitudes Rapid career progression with meaningful ownership of core systems Opportunity to shape the future of a fast growing, successful, early stage business Flexible working hours Hybrid working model Company pension (UK Government NEST scheme) with company contributions at 4% Private Healthcare 29 days holiday in addition to public holidays (Full Time Equivalent) Oxford Dynamics is committed to creating an inclusive team experience for all. Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or parental status, we believe our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their authentic self.
15/05/2026
Full time
Contract: Permanent or Contract considered Location: Greater Oxford Area Working Pattern: Hybrid (2-3 days in office) Salary: Competitive A note from the Founders Oxford Dynamics is at an inflection point. We operate in some of the most complex and high stakes environments in the world - defence, national security, AI and robotics. The decisions we make now will define not just how fast we grow, but who we become. You will work closely with all the team. You will be trusted with judgment calls. You will influence the business. And you will see the impact of your work every day in the work we do. If you are excited by ownership, pace and purpose - and by building something that genuinely matters - we would love to hear from you. Who We Are Founded in 2020, Oxford Dynamics (OD) is a fast growing UK deep tech company developing AI and robotic systems designed to operate in mission critical environments. Our flagship AVIS (A Very Intelligent System) AI framework fuses multi modal data - text, imagery, telemetry and sensor feeds - enabling operators to interrogate complex information at speed and make better decisions under pressure. Our STRIDER robotic platform performs autonomous tasks in hazardous environments, protecting people while extending operational reach. Our ambition is simple but demanding: to converge AI and robotics so machines can sense, understand and act in complex, real world environments. We work with defence and security organisations internationally to help protect nations, infrastructure and lives. What you will be doing here/ why this role matters Oxford Dynamics is a small team who rely on a collaborative and positive approach and so the right attitude for this role is equally as important as experience. We are at an important stage and time in our growth, and as a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be an essential part of our success. We are looking for a seasoned DevOps professional with deep hands on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD who can also drive cloud native security. You will design, build and audit scalable infrastructure, automate delivery pipelines and champion cost efficient, highly available platforms while owning key processes that will help OD remain compliant with our various certifications also. Key Responsibilities Your responsibilities will include, but not limited to: End-to-end cloud ownership - architect, implement and maintain multi account, multi region environments using IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm). Platform reliability & automation - manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS/OpenShift), container registries and service meshes; create GitHub Actions / Argo CD pipelines for zero touch deployments. Security hardening - lead security posture reviews, implement GuardDuty, CloudWatch and IAM best practices. SRE & monitoring - uphold SLAs through observability stacks, proactive alerting and performance tuning of distributed systems. Collaboration & enablement - automate repetitive tasks, mentor developers and champion DevSecOps best practice across teams. Policy & audit ownership - steward the regular audits we need to put in place to remain compliant with industry standards ensuring provenance. Backup & DR - design AWS Backup plans, run annual restore drills, maintain RPO/RTO dashboards. Capacity & cost optimisation - run the monthly Capacity & Availability Checklist; leverage Compute Optimizer, Savings Plans and Graviton. Drift detection & golden images - operate Terraform/Helm drift alerts, AMI & container image pipelines with Inspector v2 scanning. Incident & hot fix response - coordinate emergency changes, rollbacks and post incident reviews. What you can bring to Oxford Dynamics A collaborative and supportive attitude to work is essential for this role. You will be expected to operate at multiple levels within the company, with a strong focus on delivery and attention to detail. You will be comfortable working alone, supporting team members as well as interacting with clients if required. Qualifications, experience and skills Proven experience in DevOps / SRE, with recent focus on AWS cloud engineering. Expert in AWS core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB/ELB, CloudFront, ECR/ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, Control Tower) and security tooling (GuardDuty, IAM Identity Center, CloudWatch). Strong Kubernetes (EKS/OpenShift) administration, Helm packaging and service mesh know how. Proficient in IaC (Terraform, Terraform Cloud, CloudFormation), containerisation (Docker, Docker Compose) and Linux systems. Solid CI/CD engineering with GitHub Actions and Argo CD. Experience integrating SAST and DAST best practices. Scripting in Bash and Python or Go for automation. Demonstrated success delivering cloud cost optimisation and high security solutions for enterprise clients. Expertise in implementing SSO across a variety of industry standard software. Preferred/ Bonus Experience with MLOps (Softwares such as Sagemaker, Kubeflow or ZenML). Deployment of on premise Kubernetes. Prometheus (or other stacks) observability. Experience with AWS Karpenter & Compute Optimizer. Compliance literacy - ISO 27001, NIST SSDF/OWASP SAMM, GDPR basics. Soft skills Process driven, documentation friendly mindset. "Can do" attitude, quick learner and unafraid of complex challenges. Excellent teammate with strong cross functional communication. Why This Role? You will join a culture that values secure, automated delivery and encourages experimentation. If you thrive on scaling cloud platforms, tightening security and shaving milliseconds (and money) off every deployment, we'd love to meet you. Why Oxford Dynamics? Join the most exciting growth area in the UK: AI and Robotics! Every member of the Oxford Dynamics team has a major impact on the products and services we provide. Regardless of job title, you'll get to make a real difference and learn from colleagues about all areas of our business. Benefits include Salary: negotiable based on experience and attitudes Rapid career progression with meaningful ownership of core systems Opportunity to shape the future of a fast growing, successful, early stage business Flexible working hours Hybrid working model Company pension (UK Government NEST scheme) with company contributions at 4% Private Healthcare 29 days holiday in addition to public holidays (Full Time Equivalent) Oxford Dynamics is committed to creating an inclusive team experience for all. Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or parental status, we believe our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their authentic self.
Role: Senior Azure Platform Engineer Location: Manchester city centre Working Arrangement: Ideally 2 days per week in office but open to once per month in the office if needed Salary: Up to £90k plus benefits Key skills; Azure, AKS/Kubernetes, Terraform, Golang, AI tooling and platform engineering automation You ve spent years building and improving cloud platforms. You know what good infrastructure looks like, how to scale systems properly, and how to create environments that engineers actually enjoy working in. You re probably the person people come to when things get complicated. Whether that s improving Kubernetes environments, designing resilient Azure infrastructure, fixing bottlenecks in CI/CD pipelines, or helping teams adopt better engineering practices, you re the one who figures it out. You re also curious about where engineering is heading next, especially when it comes to AI. That s exactly why this role could be worth your attention. I m working with a technology business that is going all-in on AI across its engineering and platform function. They re investing heavily in AI-assisted tooling, automation, operational intelligence, and developer experience improvements, and they want Platform Engineers who are excited about being part of that journey. You ll be working in an environment where tools like GitHub Copilot, OpenAI models, Claude, Gemini, AI-powered observability platforms, intelligent deployment workflows, and internal AI tooling are actively being explored and introduced to improve how engineering teams work day to day. This isn t about ticking a buzzword box. They genuinely want to build a modern engineering environment where AI helps reduce repetitive work, improve operational visibility, speed up delivery, and make developers more effective. From a technical perspective, this is a senior, hands-on platform engineering role where you ll have a lot of influence over how things are built moving forward. You ll be designing and improving Azure infrastructure, evolving Kubernetes platforms within AKS, building reusable Infrastructure-as-Code patterns using Terraform and Crossplane, and helping improve reliability, observability, and security across the wider platform estate. You ll also spend time improving developer tooling and CI/CD processes, helping engineering teams deploy faster and more safely while reducing friction wherever possible. They re looking for someone who enjoys ownership. Someone who can lead large technical initiatives, mentor other engineers, and help shape engineering standards, while still being close to the technology. Technically, you ll need strong experience with: Azure cloud environments Kubernetes and AKS Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code Golang CI/CD tooling and automation Observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or LGTM stacks Platform reliability, scalability, and security best practices If you ve worked in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure environments where you ve helped modernise systems and improve engineering practices at scale, you ll likely fit in very well here. There s also plenty of room for progression. The platform function is continuing to grow, so this role has a clear path towards future Staff or Principal-level opportunities over time. On top of the salary, there s a strong benefits package including enhanced annual leave, personal training budgets, enhanced pension contributions, hybrid working, company-paid sick leave, enhanced family policies, and additional flexibility around holidays and working arrangements. If you re looking for a role where you can work with modern cloud technology, influence technical direction, and help shape how AI is integrated into platform engineering, this could be a very good fit for you. We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.
13/05/2026
Full time
Role: Senior Azure Platform Engineer Location: Manchester city centre Working Arrangement: Ideally 2 days per week in office but open to once per month in the office if needed Salary: Up to £90k plus benefits Key skills; Azure, AKS/Kubernetes, Terraform, Golang, AI tooling and platform engineering automation You ve spent years building and improving cloud platforms. You know what good infrastructure looks like, how to scale systems properly, and how to create environments that engineers actually enjoy working in. You re probably the person people come to when things get complicated. Whether that s improving Kubernetes environments, designing resilient Azure infrastructure, fixing bottlenecks in CI/CD pipelines, or helping teams adopt better engineering practices, you re the one who figures it out. You re also curious about where engineering is heading next, especially when it comes to AI. That s exactly why this role could be worth your attention. I m working with a technology business that is going all-in on AI across its engineering and platform function. They re investing heavily in AI-assisted tooling, automation, operational intelligence, and developer experience improvements, and they want Platform Engineers who are excited about being part of that journey. You ll be working in an environment where tools like GitHub Copilot, OpenAI models, Claude, Gemini, AI-powered observability platforms, intelligent deployment workflows, and internal AI tooling are actively being explored and introduced to improve how engineering teams work day to day. This isn t about ticking a buzzword box. They genuinely want to build a modern engineering environment where AI helps reduce repetitive work, improve operational visibility, speed up delivery, and make developers more effective. From a technical perspective, this is a senior, hands-on platform engineering role where you ll have a lot of influence over how things are built moving forward. You ll be designing and improving Azure infrastructure, evolving Kubernetes platforms within AKS, building reusable Infrastructure-as-Code patterns using Terraform and Crossplane, and helping improve reliability, observability, and security across the wider platform estate. You ll also spend time improving developer tooling and CI/CD processes, helping engineering teams deploy faster and more safely while reducing friction wherever possible. They re looking for someone who enjoys ownership. Someone who can lead large technical initiatives, mentor other engineers, and help shape engineering standards, while still being close to the technology. Technically, you ll need strong experience with: Azure cloud environments Kubernetes and AKS Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code Golang CI/CD tooling and automation Observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or LGTM stacks Platform reliability, scalability, and security best practices If you ve worked in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure environments where you ve helped modernise systems and improve engineering practices at scale, you ll likely fit in very well here. There s also plenty of room for progression. The platform function is continuing to grow, so this role has a clear path towards future Staff or Principal-level opportunities over time. On top of the salary, there s a strong benefits package including enhanced annual leave, personal training budgets, enhanced pension contributions, hybrid working, company-paid sick leave, enhanced family policies, and additional flexibility around holidays and working arrangements. If you re looking for a role where you can work with modern cloud technology, influence technical direction, and help shape how AI is integrated into platform engineering, this could be a very good fit for you. We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.
Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer Permanent Hybrid (flexible) Up to £50,000 At Target Group, we build secure, scalable technology that powers critical services - and we're looking for a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer to help lead the next phase of our cloud and platform journey. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands on technical leader who thrives in AWS, DevOps automation, cloud networking and security. If you enjoy shaping engineering standards, mentoring others and building resilient platforms that enable modern delivery at scale, we'd love to hear from you. What can you expect? As a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer, you'll be a technical leader responsible for designing, building, securing and optimising cloud infrastructure and networking on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. You'll lead by example through hands on engineering while providing technical direction, standards and guidance across our DevOps and cloud engineering community. From shaping highly scalable, resilient and cost efficient platforms to influencing tooling, automation and operational excellence, you'll play a key role in how we build for the future. Working closely with DevOps, Security, SRE, platform and delivery teams, you'll help shape secure by design architectures, drive best practice in automation and reliability, and support a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement. What you'll be doing Acting as a senior technical authority for DevOps, cloud engineering and AWS platform design Leading the design, deployment and optimisation of secure, scalable and highly available AWS architectures Defining engineering standards, patterns and best practices for infrastructure, networking, security and automation Providing technical leadership for AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Route 53, load balancing and hybrid connectivity Championing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and GitOps approaches using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or GitLab CI Embedding security, observability, compliance and reliability into cloud-native and hybrid platforms Mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions and helping raise capability across the wider engineering community What we're looking for We're looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and collaboration skills - someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and supporting others to do their best work. Extensive hands on AWS experience across compute, networking, storage and security Deep expertise in AWS networking, including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ALB/NLB and PrivateLink Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Terragrunt and/or CloudFormation Proven experience with CI/CD, GitOps, containerisation and Kubernetes/EKS, plus strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell Desirable (but not essential): Experience supporting large scale data or analytics platforms Knowledge of Zero Trust and identity centric security models Experience with SIEM/SOC tooling and cloud threat detection capabilities Exposure to AWS Control Tower, Organisations and multi account governance AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, SysOps, Security Specialty or FinOps related accreditation A degree in Computer Science, IT, Cloud Computing or a related discipline Why join Target? We're proud to offer a competitive and flexible benefits package, designed to support your wellbeing, lifestyle and career growth: Core Benefits Competitive salary of up to £50,000 per annum depending on skills and experience 30 days holiday plus bank holidays - from day one Hybrid working policy Defined Contribution Pension Scheme (employer matched up to 6%) Company paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind) Group Life Assurance Group Income Protection Discretionary annual bonus scheme Annual pay review Flexible & Lifestyle Benefits My Flex benefits platform - access to a wide range of voluntary benefits Technology Buying Scheme (salary sacrifice) Gym Flex - discounted gym and health club memberships Dental Insurance Critical Illness Cover Health Cash Plan Cycle to Work scheme Tastecard / Coffee Club Employee Discount Scheme across hundreds of retailers Wellbeing & Support Wisdom Wellbeing - confidential health and wellbeing support, including EAP Free flu vaccinations and eye tests, plus contributions towards glasses Recognition Scheme celebrating successes across the business Free mortgage advice and support Charitable payroll giving Access to a GP 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year through GP24 Everest Funeral Concierge Free Bereavement and Probate Advice and Support Enhanced parental leave Life at Target You'll be joining a team that genuinely: Celebrates success through our My Recognition portal Invests in your development with regular feedback and support Cares about wellbeing as much as delivery Encourages curiosity, innovation and best practice We're committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive culture through the execution of our D&I strategy, community relationships, our people & leaders. Grow your future with us!
11/05/2026
Full time
Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer Permanent Hybrid (flexible) Up to £50,000 At Target Group, we build secure, scalable technology that powers critical services - and we're looking for a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer to help lead the next phase of our cloud and platform journey. This is an exciting opportunity for a hands on technical leader who thrives in AWS, DevOps automation, cloud networking and security. If you enjoy shaping engineering standards, mentoring others and building resilient platforms that enable modern delivery at scale, we'd love to hear from you. What can you expect? As a Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer, you'll be a technical leader responsible for designing, building, securing and optimising cloud infrastructure and networking on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. You'll lead by example through hands on engineering while providing technical direction, standards and guidance across our DevOps and cloud engineering community. From shaping highly scalable, resilient and cost efficient platforms to influencing tooling, automation and operational excellence, you'll play a key role in how we build for the future. Working closely with DevOps, Security, SRE, platform and delivery teams, you'll help shape secure by design architectures, drive best practice in automation and reliability, and support a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement. What you'll be doing Acting as a senior technical authority for DevOps, cloud engineering and AWS platform design Leading the design, deployment and optimisation of secure, scalable and highly available AWS architectures Defining engineering standards, patterns and best practices for infrastructure, networking, security and automation Providing technical leadership for AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, Route 53, load balancing and hybrid connectivity Championing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and GitOps approaches using tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or GitLab CI Embedding security, observability, compliance and reliability into cloud-native and hybrid platforms Mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions and helping raise capability across the wider engineering community What we're looking for We're looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and collaboration skills - someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and supporting others to do their best work. Extensive hands on AWS experience across compute, networking, storage and security Deep expertise in AWS networking, including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ALB/NLB and PrivateLink Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Terragrunt and/or CloudFormation Proven experience with CI/CD, GitOps, containerisation and Kubernetes/EKS, plus strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell Desirable (but not essential): Experience supporting large scale data or analytics platforms Knowledge of Zero Trust and identity centric security models Experience with SIEM/SOC tooling and cloud threat detection capabilities Exposure to AWS Control Tower, Organisations and multi account governance AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, SysOps, Security Specialty or FinOps related accreditation A degree in Computer Science, IT, Cloud Computing or a related discipline Why join Target? We're proud to offer a competitive and flexible benefits package, designed to support your wellbeing, lifestyle and career growth: Core Benefits Competitive salary of up to £50,000 per annum depending on skills and experience 30 days holiday plus bank holidays - from day one Hybrid working policy Defined Contribution Pension Scheme (employer matched up to 6%) Company paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind) Group Life Assurance Group Income Protection Discretionary annual bonus scheme Annual pay review Flexible & Lifestyle Benefits My Flex benefits platform - access to a wide range of voluntary benefits Technology Buying Scheme (salary sacrifice) Gym Flex - discounted gym and health club memberships Dental Insurance Critical Illness Cover Health Cash Plan Cycle to Work scheme Tastecard / Coffee Club Employee Discount Scheme across hundreds of retailers Wellbeing & Support Wisdom Wellbeing - confidential health and wellbeing support, including EAP Free flu vaccinations and eye tests, plus contributions towards glasses Recognition Scheme celebrating successes across the business Free mortgage advice and support Charitable payroll giving Access to a GP 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year through GP24 Everest Funeral Concierge Free Bereavement and Probate Advice and Support Enhanced parental leave Life at Target You'll be joining a team that genuinely: Celebrates success through our My Recognition portal Invests in your development with regular feedback and support Cares about wellbeing as much as delivery Encourages curiosity, innovation and best practice We're committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive culture through the execution of our D&I strategy, community relationships, our people & leaders. Grow your future with us!
Overview Orgvue is a leading organizational design and planning software platform that captures the power of data visualization and modelling to build more adaptable, and better performing organizations. HR, finance and business leaders use Orgvue for actionable insight and analysis that helps them make faster workforce decisions in a constantly changing world. Orgvue is used by the world's largest and best-known enterprises and management consulting firms to visualize and confidently build the businesses they want tomorrow, today. The company is headquartered in London, with offices in Philadelphia, The Hague, Toronto, and Sydney. Role We are seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer who will be a senior technical leader focused on scaling and hardening our AWS- and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. Responsibilities Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across critical services Crafting and implementing a cloud infrastructure and tooling strategy Work across our Org to level up SRE practices Help implement robust observability metrics, logs & traces using our observability tool Guide the team in building automated, self-healing systems Own and evolve our incident response processes, including on-call practices and post-mortem culture Mentor engineers across the org on best practices in reliability, operational readiness, and scalable infrastructure Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudFormation and GitOps practices Collaborate closely with security, DevOps, and software teams to ensure compliance, scalability, and operational excellence Evaluate and introduce tools, patterns, and practices that improve the performance and reliability of our SaaS platform Qualifications Demonstrable experience leading SRE transformations Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) in production environments Strong experience withAWS core services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, ALB/NLB, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.) Expert in Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, with knowledge of GitOps workflows Strong background in observability: metrics, visualization, logging, and tracing Understanding of automation, SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and blue/green or canary releases Proven experience with incident management, disaster recovery planning, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews Benefits Hybrid working - 1+ days a week in the London office Wellbeing: Sanctus Coaching, Virtual fitness sessions, Wellbeing webinars, Annual Wellbeing day Subsidised Gym Membership Private Medical Insurance (including Dental and Vision) and Life Assurance 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days at a rate of 1 extra day per year) Summer Fridays (half-day Fridays for the months of July and August) Employer pension contribution of 5% of your gross salary, if you contribute a minimum of 3% Season ticket Loan Cycle to Work Scheme Annual Discretionary Bonus Here at Orgvue we promote individualism and a diverse workforce to build on our future success
09/05/2026
Full time
Overview Orgvue is a leading organizational design and planning software platform that captures the power of data visualization and modelling to build more adaptable, and better performing organizations. HR, finance and business leaders use Orgvue for actionable insight and analysis that helps them make faster workforce decisions in a constantly changing world. Orgvue is used by the world's largest and best-known enterprises and management consulting firms to visualize and confidently build the businesses they want tomorrow, today. The company is headquartered in London, with offices in Philadelphia, The Hague, Toronto, and Sydney. Role We are seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer who will be a senior technical leader focused on scaling and hardening our AWS- and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. Responsibilities Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across critical services Crafting and implementing a cloud infrastructure and tooling strategy Work across our Org to level up SRE practices Help implement robust observability metrics, logs & traces using our observability tool Guide the team in building automated, self-healing systems Own and evolve our incident response processes, including on-call practices and post-mortem culture Mentor engineers across the org on best practices in reliability, operational readiness, and scalable infrastructure Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudFormation and GitOps practices Collaborate closely with security, DevOps, and software teams to ensure compliance, scalability, and operational excellence Evaluate and introduce tools, patterns, and practices that improve the performance and reliability of our SaaS platform Qualifications Demonstrable experience leading SRE transformations Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) in production environments Strong experience withAWS core services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, ALB/NLB, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.) Expert in Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, with knowledge of GitOps workflows Strong background in observability: metrics, visualization, logging, and tracing Understanding of automation, SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and blue/green or canary releases Proven experience with incident management, disaster recovery planning, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews Benefits Hybrid working - 1+ days a week in the London office Wellbeing: Sanctus Coaching, Virtual fitness sessions, Wellbeing webinars, Annual Wellbeing day Subsidised Gym Membership Private Medical Insurance (including Dental and Vision) and Life Assurance 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days at a rate of 1 extra day per year) Summer Fridays (half-day Fridays for the months of July and August) Employer pension contribution of 5% of your gross salary, if you contribute a minimum of 3% Season ticket Loan Cycle to Work Scheme Annual Discretionary Bonus Here at Orgvue we promote individualism and a diverse workforce to build on our future success
Location: Hybrid / Ilkley LS29 8FL, UK job type: Permanent / Full-time Sector and subsector: Technology Systems & Infrastructure Salary: Competitive salary SmartSearch's distinctive Anti-Money Laundering verification software protects our clients by offering the most advanced and comprehensive features available from an AML provider. SmartSearch has grown rapidly by fostering an incredibly collaborative and supportive culture. As we continue our ambitious growth plans, we will strive to remain a truly exciting, rewarding, and unique place to work. HOW WILL YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE? We are looking for a Cloud Architect who will be responsible for defining, designing, and contributing to the delivery and continuous improvement of secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions that support our applications, services, and wider technology strategy. Reporting to the Head of Cloud Engineering, you will work closely with software engineering, SRE, operations, security, and business stakeholders to shape cloud architecture standards, create reference architectures, review technical designs, and ensure cloud environments follow best practices for security, reliability, performance, compliance, and cost optimisation. This is an architecture led role with a strong hands on element. You will be expected to contribute directly to cloud platform improvements, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, automation, Kubernetes environments, and cloud native services, helping teams turn architectural designs into practical, maintainable, and operationally effective solutions while driving ongoing improvements to cloud platforms, tooling, and engineering standards. VARIED DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES Defining and maintaining cloud architecture principles, standards, patterns, and best practices Designing secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions to support business critical services Contributing directly to the implementation and improvement of cloud infrastructure, platforms, automation, and tooling Creating and maintaining reference architectures for cloud platforms, application hosting, networking, security, and observability Providing technical leadership and practical engineering guidance to software engineering, SRE, operations, and security teams Reviewing cloud solution designs to ensure alignment with security, compliance, reliability, performance, and cost requirements Designing and evolving Azure landing zones, network topologies, identity models, and cloud governance controls Implementing and improving infrastructure as code to support repeatable, auditable, and well governed deployments Supporting the design, implementation, and improvement of CI/CD and GitOps based delivery approaches Working closely with development teams to ensure applications are designed, deployed, and operated effectively in the cloud Advising on and contributing to the use of Kubernetes, cloud native services, managed platforms, and modern application architectures Defining and supporting strategies for monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery Supporting capacity planning, scaling strategies, resilience improvements, and cost optimisation initiatives Troubleshooting and helping resolve complex cloud infrastructure and platform issues where architectural input or hands on support is required Producing clear documentation, including architecture diagrams, design decisions, standards, runbooks, and operational guidance Assessing new cloud technologies and recommending practical improvements to platforms, tooling, and engineering practices Contributing to continuous improvement of cloud architecture, platform strategy, technical governance, and engineering standards WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR IN A CANDIDATE? Strong experience designing, building, and operating cloud solutions in production environments Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure Experience defining cloud architecture standards, patterns, principles, and best practices Ability to contribute hands on to cloud engineering activities, including infrastructure, automation, deployment, and platform improvements Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, platform services, networking, security, resilience, and scalability Experience designing and contributing to secure cloud landing zones, network architectures, identity models, and governance frameworks Strong working knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or Ansible Experience with modern application architectures, including microservices, containerised workloads, APIs, and event driven systems Experience designing, supporting, and improving container platforms such as Kubernetes, AKS, and container registries Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, deployment strategies, and release practices Strong understanding of cloud security principles, identity and access management, compliance, and risk management Ability to design and contribute to backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies Experience supporting architecture and delivery decisions across multiple environments, including development, test, staging, and production Ability to work with technical and non technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into cloud solutions Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear architectural and operational documentation Desire to continuously learn and stay current with evolving cloud technologies, architecture patterns, and industry best practices ADVANTAGES 5+ years' experience in cloud, platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or software engineering roles 2+ years' experience in a Cloud Architect, Solution Architect, Platform Architect, Senior Cloud Engineer, or similar role Experience with Azure native services such as AKS, App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure Monitor, Key Vault, Azure Policy, and Azure Networking Experience designing and contributing to cloud landing zones and multi subscription or multi environment Azure estates Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, or cloud native equivalents Working knowledge of CI/CD, GitOps workflows, deployment strategies, and release governance Strong automation and scripting skills using Bash, PowerShell, Python, or Go Experience managing cloud costs and implementing cost optimisation strategies Understanding of reliability engineering, availability, scalability, and performance considerations in cloud platforms Experience contributing to technology roadmaps, architecture reviews, or technical governance forums Familiarity with architecture documentation methods such as diagrams, decision records, standards, and design reviews WHAT IS LIFE LIKE AT SMARTSEARCH? We are a multi award winning Tech company with an aspirational mentality Some of our most recent recognitions include: named in the renownedRegTech100 list for 2024, listed in theTop 100 Fasted Growing Tech CompaniesbyNorthern Tech Awards2024as well as being namedTechnology Provider of the YearbyCorporate Finance Awards 2024 We have beenGreat Place To Work Certified since 2022 There are excellent progression opportunities due to our growth and you will have personal development goals, regular feedback and support We are a diverse and inclusive team committed to promoting Diversity & Inclusion and Social Responsibility. Through our DE&I group, charitable initiatives and support for local schools, we actively foster a positive Impact on our community COMPANY BENEFITS 25 days holiday rising to 30 with each year of service Private Medical Insurance covering dental and optical Company pension scheme Life Assurance - 4x your annual salary 1 day paid volunteering per year Enhanced maternity / paternity offerings Employee Assistance Programme Cycle to work scheme Access to a gym
08/05/2026
Full time
Location: Hybrid / Ilkley LS29 8FL, UK job type: Permanent / Full-time Sector and subsector: Technology Systems & Infrastructure Salary: Competitive salary SmartSearch's distinctive Anti-Money Laundering verification software protects our clients by offering the most advanced and comprehensive features available from an AML provider. SmartSearch has grown rapidly by fostering an incredibly collaborative and supportive culture. As we continue our ambitious growth plans, we will strive to remain a truly exciting, rewarding, and unique place to work. HOW WILL YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE? We are looking for a Cloud Architect who will be responsible for defining, designing, and contributing to the delivery and continuous improvement of secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions that support our applications, services, and wider technology strategy. Reporting to the Head of Cloud Engineering, you will work closely with software engineering, SRE, operations, security, and business stakeholders to shape cloud architecture standards, create reference architectures, review technical designs, and ensure cloud environments follow best practices for security, reliability, performance, compliance, and cost optimisation. This is an architecture led role with a strong hands on element. You will be expected to contribute directly to cloud platform improvements, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, automation, Kubernetes environments, and cloud native services, helping teams turn architectural designs into practical, maintainable, and operationally effective solutions while driving ongoing improvements to cloud platforms, tooling, and engineering standards. VARIED DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES Defining and maintaining cloud architecture principles, standards, patterns, and best practices Designing secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions to support business critical services Contributing directly to the implementation and improvement of cloud infrastructure, platforms, automation, and tooling Creating and maintaining reference architectures for cloud platforms, application hosting, networking, security, and observability Providing technical leadership and practical engineering guidance to software engineering, SRE, operations, and security teams Reviewing cloud solution designs to ensure alignment with security, compliance, reliability, performance, and cost requirements Designing and evolving Azure landing zones, network topologies, identity models, and cloud governance controls Implementing and improving infrastructure as code to support repeatable, auditable, and well governed deployments Supporting the design, implementation, and improvement of CI/CD and GitOps based delivery approaches Working closely with development teams to ensure applications are designed, deployed, and operated effectively in the cloud Advising on and contributing to the use of Kubernetes, cloud native services, managed platforms, and modern application architectures Defining and supporting strategies for monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery Supporting capacity planning, scaling strategies, resilience improvements, and cost optimisation initiatives Troubleshooting and helping resolve complex cloud infrastructure and platform issues where architectural input or hands on support is required Producing clear documentation, including architecture diagrams, design decisions, standards, runbooks, and operational guidance Assessing new cloud technologies and recommending practical improvements to platforms, tooling, and engineering practices Contributing to continuous improvement of cloud architecture, platform strategy, technical governance, and engineering standards WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR IN A CANDIDATE? Strong experience designing, building, and operating cloud solutions in production environments Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure Experience defining cloud architecture standards, patterns, principles, and best practices Ability to contribute hands on to cloud engineering activities, including infrastructure, automation, deployment, and platform improvements Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, platform services, networking, security, resilience, and scalability Experience designing and contributing to secure cloud landing zones, network architectures, identity models, and governance frameworks Strong working knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or Ansible Experience with modern application architectures, including microservices, containerised workloads, APIs, and event driven systems Experience designing, supporting, and improving container platforms such as Kubernetes, AKS, and container registries Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, deployment strategies, and release practices Strong understanding of cloud security principles, identity and access management, compliance, and risk management Ability to design and contribute to backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies Experience supporting architecture and delivery decisions across multiple environments, including development, test, staging, and production Ability to work with technical and non technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into cloud solutions Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear architectural and operational documentation Desire to continuously learn and stay current with evolving cloud technologies, architecture patterns, and industry best practices ADVANTAGES 5+ years' experience in cloud, platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or software engineering roles 2+ years' experience in a Cloud Architect, Solution Architect, Platform Architect, Senior Cloud Engineer, or similar role Experience with Azure native services such as AKS, App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure Monitor, Key Vault, Azure Policy, and Azure Networking Experience designing and contributing to cloud landing zones and multi subscription or multi environment Azure estates Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, or cloud native equivalents Working knowledge of CI/CD, GitOps workflows, deployment strategies, and release governance Strong automation and scripting skills using Bash, PowerShell, Python, or Go Experience managing cloud costs and implementing cost optimisation strategies Understanding of reliability engineering, availability, scalability, and performance considerations in cloud platforms Experience contributing to technology roadmaps, architecture reviews, or technical governance forums Familiarity with architecture documentation methods such as diagrams, decision records, standards, and design reviews WHAT IS LIFE LIKE AT SMARTSEARCH? We are a multi award winning Tech company with an aspirational mentality Some of our most recent recognitions include: named in the renownedRegTech100 list for 2024, listed in theTop 100 Fasted Growing Tech CompaniesbyNorthern Tech Awards2024as well as being namedTechnology Provider of the YearbyCorporate Finance Awards 2024 We have beenGreat Place To Work Certified since 2022 There are excellent progression opportunities due to our growth and you will have personal development goals, regular feedback and support We are a diverse and inclusive team committed to promoting Diversity & Inclusion and Social Responsibility. Through our DE&I group, charitable initiatives and support for local schools, we actively foster a positive Impact on our community COMPANY BENEFITS 25 days holiday rising to 30 with each year of service Private Medical Insurance covering dental and optical Company pension scheme Life Assurance - 4x your annual salary 1 day paid volunteering per year Enhanced maternity / paternity offerings Employee Assistance Programme Cycle to work scheme Access to a gym
LocationLondon, England, United KingdomRole- Site Reliability Engineer Location : Hove, UK Work Mode :Hybrid Mandatory primary skills on Datadog / Dynatrace tools, SLO management skills (AWS cloud skills is secondary). Primary Responsibilities: • Work closely with Product Engineering team and implement strategies for modernizing IT operations enhancing observability and toil reduction. • Architect and deploy observability platforms to monitor system health, performance, and reliability effectively. • Propose & drive strategies for AI-driven alerting and proactive anomaly detection to reduce MTTD & MTTR. • Develop and enforce SRE best practices, including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets. • Establish & create AIOPS roadmap for improving operational efficiency. • Lead efforts to automate repetitive tasks (toil) using scripting, orchestration tools, and AI/ML-based solutions. • Drive toil automation initiatives for automated incident responses & self-healing automation for achieving autonomous operations. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and maintainable. • Drive incident management and root cause analysis processes through automation, ensuring continuous improvement to enable autonomous operations. • Partner with engineering, architecture, and product teams to enable shift-left engineering practices ensuring reliability. • Mentor and guide teams on adopting SRE principles and tools. • Advocate for a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement across the organization. Key Skills: • Strong expertise in implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles. • Advanced knowledge of establishing observability using tools - Dynatrace & Datadog (primary skills). • Proficiency in automation & scripting using Python & Ansible (primary skills). • Strong experience with cloud platforms - AWS & Azure (primary skills). • Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes. • Proficiency in cloud native distributed systems & microservices architecture. • Exposure to AI/ML techniques for predictive analytics and automated problem resolution. • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines & enabling automated release & deployment engineering solutions. • Good to have experience with chaos engineering tools like Gremlin or Chaos Monkey and implementing automation frameworks for resilience tracking. • Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively across teams. • Excellent problem solving, analytical thinking, and adaptability. • Strategic mindset balancing engineering excellence with business priorities. Preferred Qualifications: • 12+ years of experience in IT operations, SRE, or DevOps roles. • Proven track record of SRE experience in implementing observability and automation solutions in large-scale environments. • Certifications in cloud platforms, observability tools & other SRE related areas.# Site Reliability Engineer at N Consulting LtdLocationLondon, England, United KingdomSalary£80000 - £85000 /yearJob TypeContractDate PostedMarch 9th, 2026Apply Now
07/05/2026
Full time
LocationLondon, England, United KingdomRole- Site Reliability Engineer Location : Hove, UK Work Mode :Hybrid Mandatory primary skills on Datadog / Dynatrace tools, SLO management skills (AWS cloud skills is secondary). Primary Responsibilities: • Work closely with Product Engineering team and implement strategies for modernizing IT operations enhancing observability and toil reduction. • Architect and deploy observability platforms to monitor system health, performance, and reliability effectively. • Propose & drive strategies for AI-driven alerting and proactive anomaly detection to reduce MTTD & MTTR. • Develop and enforce SRE best practices, including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets. • Establish & create AIOPS roadmap for improving operational efficiency. • Lead efforts to automate repetitive tasks (toil) using scripting, orchestration tools, and AI/ML-based solutions. • Drive toil automation initiatives for automated incident responses & self-healing automation for achieving autonomous operations. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure systems are scalable, resilient, and maintainable. • Drive incident management and root cause analysis processes through automation, ensuring continuous improvement to enable autonomous operations. • Partner with engineering, architecture, and product teams to enable shift-left engineering practices ensuring reliability. • Mentor and guide teams on adopting SRE principles and tools. • Advocate for a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous improvement across the organization. Key Skills: • Strong expertise in implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles. • Advanced knowledge of establishing observability using tools - Dynatrace & Datadog (primary skills). • Proficiency in automation & scripting using Python & Ansible (primary skills). • Strong experience with cloud platforms - AWS & Azure (primary skills). • Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes. • Proficiency in cloud native distributed systems & microservices architecture. • Exposure to AI/ML techniques for predictive analytics and automated problem resolution. • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines & enabling automated release & deployment engineering solutions. • Good to have experience with chaos engineering tools like Gremlin or Chaos Monkey and implementing automation frameworks for resilience tracking. • Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects in a fast-paced environment. • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively across teams. • Excellent problem solving, analytical thinking, and adaptability. • Strategic mindset balancing engineering excellence with business priorities. Preferred Qualifications: • 12+ years of experience in IT operations, SRE, or DevOps roles. • Proven track record of SRE experience in implementing observability and automation solutions in large-scale environments. • Certifications in cloud platforms, observability tools & other SRE related areas.# Site Reliability Engineer at N Consulting LtdLocationLondon, England, United KingdomSalary£80000 - £85000 /yearJob TypeContractDate PostedMarch 9th, 2026Apply Now
