27 security operations service design lead jobs found

Role : SCIDA - Specialist Services (Active DV required) Type : Contract for 12 months Location: Hemel Hempstead (some UK wide travel)Job Description : SCIDA - You will be responsible for ALL SCIDA activities of a large complex highly secure Managed Service; you are to strictly adhere to ALL platform and building SYOPS's, processes, procedures and local work instructions (inc any BT/Customer requested sub activities) as authorised and directed by the OSM (detail cannot be disclosed on this medium). As the SCIDA you are to assist in attaining and maintaining the strictest government/MoD security assurance and accreditation of the Managed Service. You are to create and maintain brilliant collaborative relationships across the Managed Service to include immediate and matrix'd teams from across different Line of Business (LoBs), 3rd Party Suppliers, 3rd Party contractors, customer authority and multiple user authorities as defined in the Security Aspects Letter (SAL) and contract....

Job Description: Title: Site Reliability Engineer Employment type: Long term contract Location: London, UK Mode: 5 days onsite Domain: Banking As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you'll help build a meaningful engineering discipline, combining software and systems to develop creative engineering solutions to operations problems. Much of our support and software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and reducing work through automation. You’ll join a team of curious problem solvers with a diverse set of perspectives who are thinking big and taking risks. In this environment, you’ll take the lead on relevant projects, supported by an organization that provides the support and mentorship you need to learn and grow. As an SRE, you’ll be focused on running better production applications and systems. Job Responsibilities * Design, code, test, and deliver software to automate manual operational work * Troubleshoot priority...

Network Solutions Design Specialist 6 months Remote Inside IR35 - Umbrella only Join our clients Government, Health and Policing team as a Network Solutions Design Specialist, where your work will help design and deliver secure solutions that support critical programmes and contribute to keeping the UK safe and secure. This is a customer facing and customer focused role, and you must be able to lead the technical direction of projects and build a strong, trusted relationship with them and senior stakeholders. You'll work closely with other teams such as our Solution Architects, Operations and Security teams and be a Subject matter expert enabling the successful delivery of complex, bespoke solutions. What you'll be doing :- Produce High quality, complex, multi-vendor High level and Low level Design from concept to delivery. Collaborating with our customer to turn their business needs into practical solutions. Technically Leading complex, bespoke projects. Building strong...

Technical Design Authority (Security / SD-WAN / Fortinet) is required by fast growing and highly successful IT services and consulting provider. Role Summary: In the role of TDA you will be responsible for designing, documenting and managing technical collateral to support agreed strategic objectives and the development of standard offerings and blueprint solutions in the security area. Also, you will be guarding the overall solution architecture of customer designs and be involved in the implementation, testing and handover to operations of these solutions. The TDA will actively participate in the presales process as well to allow continuity through service fulfilment. Duties and Responsibilities: * Design bespoke customer network security models, review and approve advanced (best practices and standards) security configuration and be personally involved in first deployments of the solution as well as in proof of concepts. * Be engaged in the pre-sales process, supporting...

Derby | Metrology Engineer - Hybrid We are looking for an experienced Metrology Engineer to join our manufacturing team at our Derby site. Salary💷 £50,000 per annum Monday – Thursday: 8.00am - 17.00pm Friday - 8.00am to 1.00pm Benefits * Competitive salary * Company pension scheme * 25 days annual leave + 8 statutory holidays, Christmas shut down * BUPA Health care * Free onsite parking * Death in Service benefit * Long Service awards Purpose of role and accountabilities: The Metrology / CMM Engineer will lead the evaluation, optimisation, and standardisation of measurement methodologies across the Group. Initially focusing on CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) activities, the role will identify inefficiencies in current programs, measurement frequency, equipment utilisation, and processes. The successful candidate will then develop and deploy a Group‑wide CMM Strategy grounded in best practices, modern metrology standards, and manufacturing requirements. This position plays a...

Platform Engineer Hybrid – 3 days onsite | 2 days remote |5-Month Contract | Warwickshire VIQU is seeking an experienced Senior Hybrid Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to join a major enterprise customer based in Warwickshire. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the evolution of a complex hybrid platform environment, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure (approximately 75%) supported by on-premises infrastructure (approximately 25%). We're looking for a technically hands-on engineer who can drive platform transformation, lead infrastructure change, and support business-critical production environments. This role requires strong Azure expertise alongside solid VMware and on-prem infrastructure experience, with Terraform playing a key role in platform automation. The Role As the technical lead for platform engineering initiatives, you will own technical design decisions from concept through to implementation. You'll play a key role in modernising enterprise...

Life Safety Systems Manager Location: Weybridge - Hybrid 3 days office / 2 days home Contract: 3-6 Months Rate: £(Apply online only) per day (Inside IR35) Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance Closing Date CV Deadline: 28th July COP (4pm) Life Safety Systems Manager – Defra Charlton Recruitment is recruiting on behalf of Defra for an experienced Life Safety Systems Manager to join a specialist team on an initial 6-month contract. This is an excellent opportunity to play a pivotal role in ensuring the safety, compliance, and operational resilience of life safety systems across one of the UK's most complex scientific estates. Working from Defra’s Weybridge site houses the Animal and Plant Health Agency central laboratories, serving as the UK's primary scientific facility for animal health, disease surveillance, and the upcoming National Biosecurity Centre, you will provide technical leadership and governance across high-risk environments where safety, compliance, and operational...

The position works closely with IAM architects, business stakeholders and technology partners. In this role, you will: Build and maintain cloud-native platform services supporting the IDAM 2.0 programme. Design, deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and supporting platform components. Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for repeatable, automated deployments. Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps deployment workflows. Manage cloud networking, connectivity and platform security. Implement platform observability including logging, monitoring, metrics and distributed tracing. Automate platform provisioning, configuration management and operational tasks. Support deployment and operation of identity platform components and supporting services. Implement secure secrets management and certificate lifecycle automation. Configure service mesh technologies and secure service-to-service communication. Manage ingress, API gateways and network routing components. Implement...

Senior Technical Design Authority (TDA) - Cisco SD-WAN Architect Location: UK (Remote) Job Type: Contract About the Role We are looking for a Lead Network Architect / Senior TDA to drive complex, multi-vendor enterprise network transformations from concept to delivery. You will work directly with clients to translate business needs into scalable solutions, lead technical design governance, and author complete HLD/LLD packages. What You'll Do Design & Delivery: Produce High-Level (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD) for complex enterprise networks. Technical Leadership: Guide design teams and operational staff while driving design assurance through peer reviews and governance checkpoints. Client Engagement: Work directly with customer stakeholders to define technical strategy, Statements of Work (SOW), and Bills of Materials (BOM). Mentorship: Coach junior/mid-level engineers and support teams. What You Need Cisco SD-WAN: Proven design experience with Cisco SD-WAN...

Control System Senior Design Engineer - Sellafield Altrad are currently looking for an experienced Control System Senior Design Engineer to join the Silos MSSS SEP1&2 CE&I Design Team, supporting projects associated with the Sellafield site. This role will involve leading a team of Programmable Electronic System (PES) based Control System Design Engineers, delivering and checking control system designs and updates to meet functional and business requirements. The procurement, integration, installation and commissioning activities are undertaken by others and are therefore outside the scope of this position. The role is based on a 37-hour working week over 4½ days, with a minimum of 3 days per week working from Hinton House, Warrington, Cheshire, and visits to the MSSS plant on the Sellafield site as required. Security Clearance: SC Clearance required Key Deliverables: • Lead and support a team of PES-based Control System Design Engineers in the delivery of control system...

Cassandra Database Engineer - NoSQL** (Contract) Duration: Up until 31 March 2026 (Possibility for extension) Location: London/Hybrid (3 days per week on site) Rate: A highly competitive Umbrella Day Rate is available for suitable candidates Role Purpose The Financial Crime Technology team requires specialist Apache Cassandra (NoSQL) expertise to support the design and operational readiness of high-volume, real-time data platforms underpinning the fraud detection ecosystem. This capability does not currently exist in-house, as the team's core expertise is centred on Actimize application engineering, Oracle PL/SQL, and integration middleware (IIB/MQ). This is a time-bound requirement aligned to specific deliverables, including the real-time payment capture and replay platform and its supporting data infrastructure, rather than a permanent headcount need. As such, a contract engagement is the most appropriate and cost-effective resourcing model. Without this role, delivery...

Network Engineer Hybrid Working | Regional Travel Required Contract Duration: 6 Months initially Outside IR35 We are seeking a Senior Network Architect to join a growing communications and infrastructure technology team delivering advanced networking and security solutions across large-scale transportation and critical operational environments. This is an exciting opportunity to design and deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing network architectures that underpin essential public services. This role offers flexible working alongside visits to regional offices and project sites across the UK. The Opportunity As a Network Architect, you will take ownership of the design and delivery of complex telecommunications and network solutions, supporting operational systems including: Secure LAN/WAN network infrastructure SCADA and control system networks CCTV and surveillance systems Voice and communications platforms Passenger information and operational technology systems...

The Opportunity: Our client is supporting a major UK Government Agency on the delivery of a large-scale digital transformation programme and is seeking an experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer to join an established agile delivery team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on the development of modern, cloud-native services within a complex public sector environment, contributing across the full software development lifecycle. You'll play a key role in designing, developing and deploying scalable microservices and web applications, working across frontend, backend and DevOps disciplines using modern technologies and engineering best practices. The successful candidate will be a collaborative software engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills and a passion for delivering secure, high-quality digital services. Skills and Experience: * Strong commercial experience developing applications using TypeScript, Node.js and Fastify. * Excellent...

Network Engineer Hybrid Working | Regional Travel Required Contract Duration: 6 Months initially Outside IR35 We are seeking a Senior Network Architect to join a growing communications and infrastructure technology team delivering advanced networking and security solutions across large-scale transportation and critical operational environments. This is an exciting opportunity to design and deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing network architectures that underpin essential public services. This role offers flexible working alongside visits to regional offices and project sites across the UK. The Opportunity As a Network Architect, you will take ownership of the design and delivery of complex telecommunications and network solutions, supporting operational systems including: Secure LAN/WAN network infrastructure SCADA and control system networks CCTV and surveillance systems Voice and communications platforms Passenger information and operational technology systems...

Platform Architect Rate: up to £524.40 per day - Umbrella only Duration: 4 months Location: London - 3 days a week in the office Platform Architect to lead the evolution of our Enterprise Data Platform (EDP), driving platform engineering, FinOps, DevOps automation, and data engineering capabilities across the organization. This role is ideal for an architect who can combine strategic architecture leadership with DevOps, FinOps, and Data Engineering expertise to deliver measurable business value, modernize the EDP landscape, and drive significant operational and cost efficiencies. Key Responsibilities Lead platform modernization initiatives aligned with enterprise technology and data strategies. Databricks Serverless Enablement Lead the design and implementation of Databricks Serverless capabilities across the platform. Establish governance and monitoring frameworks to track Serverless consumption and ROI. Establish workload governance 3. FinOps Enablement & Cost...

We’re Aioi R&D Lab - an AI tech hub in one of the fastest-growing insurance companies. We research and develop AI systems that catapult insurance from a slow-moving, traditional past into a data-driven, technology-lead and society-defining future. We’re looking for dynamic, driven professionals like you to help evolve our business in new directions. You’ll need first-class credentials and a proactive attitude to help us drive the change the underpins our mission. As a Senior Software Engineer 1 (ML Ops) you’ll be contributing to the design, build, and operation of cloud infrastructure supporting a privacy-preserving AI research programme, working under the direction of the Technical Lead. You will help deliver model hosting and training infrastructure, secure data storage, and agentic development tooling - the foundations the programme’s research tracks depend on. If you’d like to be part of our brighter future, and share in our success, we’d love to hear from you....

An excellent, long term contract opportunity for a Security Cleared Resident Electrical Engineer, ideally with electrical power experience, to join a leading client based onsite, full time in Plymouth Devon. Hourly rate: £65.00, negotialbe. The purpose of the post is: Ensure the delivery of site Quality by managing, providing advice and support, and witnessing the installation and commissioning process through construction works in the submarine refit complex. Primary focus will be Electrical activity. You will be accountable to the Lead Construction Manager for day-to-day planning matters. You will assist the construction and Project team by providing advice and communicating with contractors and relevant internal stakeholders to resolve site issues/ Technical Queries during construction in line with contract timescales. You will ensure the contractor adheres to the Scope of works and Change requests. You will undertake and record inspections to ensure adherence to scope and...

Hotel Duty Manager The shifts are 630am - 330pm and 3pm to 11pm / 5 out of 7 days including evenings and weekends Based in Uxbridge £18.57 per hour 6 - 12 months Main accountabilities: Leading by example to develop and motivate the team. Operate the Opera Hotel Property Management System to effectively manage all guest reservations. Support completion of month end financial submission. Recruiting, training and actively managing in house staff to ensure a satisfactory performance is achieved on time. Ensuring that staff whilst on duty, are working to the standards expected by management and that accurate records on time sheets are recorded for payment purposes. Must be able to arrange cover or step in should there be a staff shortage on shift Observe and monitor workers' performance to make sure that company rules and procedures are being followed. Confer and co-operate with other department managers to co-ordinate hotel activities Answer questions about hotel policies and...

Our client has an opportunity for a Software Engineer to join them on a contract basis for 12 months. You will be joining a collaborative, forward thinking Agile Scrum team, working on innovative Geospatial software, using the latest cloud-based technologies. Role: Software Engineer Location: Newcastle or Guildford Hours: 35 per week Hourly Rate: £60 per hour via Umbrella, inside IR35 Clearance: SC required before starting - active SC on application is preferred What you'll be doing: Develop high-quality, readable, scalable and easily maintained code, using Java and related technologies, meeting requirements and coding standards. Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enhance team velocity. Contribute to quality assurance by writing unit and automated tests. Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines Ensure code is sufficiently...

Solution Architect - Cloud and Infrastructure Location: Bristol – hybrid, 2–3 days onsite per week Contract: 6 months Rate: Up to £750 per day, outside IR35 Security Clearance: SC minimum We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to support a major defence programme, designing secure infrastructure and hybrid cloud solutions across complex, mission-critical environments. The role will involve defining end-to-end technical architectures spanning data centres, Microsoft Azure, Azure Local, Azure Arc and VMware, while providing architecture governance, technical assurance and strategic direction across multiple workstreams. Key responsibilities * Lead the design of secure, scalable and resilient hybrid cloud and infrastructure solutions. * Produce solution designs, architecture artefacts, technical roadmaps and standards. * Translate business and technical requirements into integrated cloud and infrastructure architectures. * Provide architecture governance,...