Plumstead Consulting

4 job(s) at Plumstead Consulting

Plumstead Consulting
Jul 10, 2026
Full time
DevOps Engineer Imagine a role where your expertise sets technical direction, influences engineering culture, and shapes how modern cloud platforms are built and operated. This is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation where your experience, judgement, and leadership will have a lasting impact. As a Mid-Level DevOps Engineer , you will play a key role in defining and advancing the DevOps strategy across the organisation. Acting as a technical authority, you will partner closely with engineering, product, and architecture teams-both onshore and offshore-to implement best-in-class DevOps practices and evolve a modern, serverless AWS platform. You will have significant influence over tooling, architecture, and ways of working, helping to mature the DevOps function and embedding reliability, security, and automation at scale. Key Responsibilities Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise across DevOps and cloud engineering Influence architectural and technology decisions, particularly within AWS serverless ecosystems Design, build and evolve robust CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable software delivery Partner with development teams to ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, and production-ready Champion reliability engineering practices, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response Drive high availability and operational excellence through proactive troubleshooting and optimisation Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Immutable Infrastructure standards Lead and contribute to design reviews, architectural discussions and code reviews Establish strong security practices, ensuring systems and data are protected by design Mentor and support engineers, fostering collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement Stay ahead of emerging DevOps and cloud technologies, introducing improvements where valuable What We're Looking For Significant experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering roles within cloud-native environments Strong software engineering background, preferably with hands-on development experience Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery A pragmatic, collaborative approach with excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills A platform-engineering mindset, with deep understanding of trade-offs and designing for failure Strong, hands-on AWS experience, including: Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge ECS, RDS, AWS SAM Solid networking and security knowledge, including VPCs, security groups and VPNs Technologies You'll Work With AWS Cloud Services & AWS Developer Tools JavaScript / TypeScript & Node.js SQL Git Docker & ECS Serverless Framework Developer security platforms This is a mid-level opportunity to shape platforms, influence engineering standards, and play a central role in delivering high-quality, cloud-native solutions at scale. If you're ready to lead, influence, and build the future of DevOps, we'd love to hear from you.
Plumstead Consulting
May 19, 2026
Contractor
QA Analyst - Contract 2 to 3 months - possible extension £225pd PAYE or £300pd LTD Hampshire Due to a busy project, our client is looking to take onboard a QA Analyst Contractor for 2 to 3 months. Experience and qualification in this area is a must. Duties included but not limited to:- Test Planning: agreeing testing requirements and approach; writing test scripts for specific scenarios; validating the change delivered against requirements. Test execution: executing test scripts; documenting test activities in Test rail / Jira; reporting test activities Ensuring components and features are tested, and behave in a consistent manner, reviewing and analysing Raising, triaging and managing defects within our internal management system. Implementing and maintaining test cases. Quality focused and with a commitment to best practice. Excellent communicator with the ability to describe complex subject matter to internal and offshore teams. Skills Experience testing web, desktop and/or mobile software Manual Testing Ability to prioritise based on project demands and risk Excellent communication skills Ability to write clear test conditions / cases & analyse Knowledge of manual test techniques - test rail or equivalent Technical skills: Confluence, Jira, Java, Python Power BI, Soap UI, SQL Working in phases of the test delivery life cycle including creation of Test Strategy / Plan documentation. Test Governance, Design, Estimation, Defect Triage, Defect Report, Execution, Test Progress Reporting and Test Closure Android and iOS familiarity & u nderstand of APIs Websockets Backend databases This Contract role is for 2 to 3 months initially with a possible extension. You will be required to attend the office. Salary circa £225 to £300 per day depending on experience and PAYE or LTD.
Plumstead Consulting Hook, Hampshire
May 08, 2026
Full time
DevOps Engineer Imagine a role where your expertise sets technical direction, influences engineering culture, and shapes how modern cloud platforms are built and operated. This is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation where your experience, judgement, and leadership will have a lasting impact. As a DevOps Engineer , you will play a key role in defining and advancing the DevOps strategy across the organisation. Acting as a technical authority, you will partner closely with engineering, product, and architecture teams-both onshore and offshore-to implement best-in-class DevOps practices and evolve a modern, serverless AWS platform. You will have significant influence over tooling, architecture, and ways of working, helping to mature the DevOps function and embedding reliability, security, and automation at scale. Key Responsibilities Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise across DevOps and cloud engineering Influence architectural and technology decisions, particularly within AWS serverless ecosystems Design, build and evolve robust CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable software delivery Partner with development teams to ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, and production-ready Champion reliability engineering practices, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response Drive high availability and operational excellence through proactive troubleshooting and optimisation Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Immutable Infrastructure standards Lead and contribute to design reviews, architectural discussions and code reviews Establish strong security practices, ensuring systems and data are protected by design Mentor and support engineers, fostering collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement Stay ahead of emerging DevOps and cloud technologies, introducing improvements where valuable What We're Looking For Significant experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering roles within cloud-native environments Strong software engineering background, preferably with hands-on development experience Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery A pragmatic, collaborative approach with excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills A platform-engineering mindset, with deep understanding of trade-offs and designing for failure Strong, hands-on AWS experience, including: Lambda, DynamoDB, AWS SAM Solid networking and security knowledge, including VPCs, security groups and VPNs Technologies You'll Work With AWS Cloud Services & AWS Developer Tools JavaScript / TypeScript & Node.js SQL Git Docker & ECS Serverless Framework Developer security platforms This is a senior-level opportunity to shape platforms, influence engineering standards, and play a central role in delivering high-quality, cloud-native solutions at scale. If you're ready to lead, influence, and build the future of DevOps, we'd love to hear from you.
Plumstead Consulting Reading, Berkshire
May 03, 2026
Full time
We are delighted to be working in partnership with our client a leading global organisation with offices across EMEA and HQ in USA. Our client is looking for an ambitious, forward-thinking Finance Manager to join the European Team. The role is based on our client's site and is supporting the Financial Controller to ensure compliance in all financial systems and help drive financial reporting and control across multiple UK legal entities. with oversight of entities in Europe. Responsibilities Month end corporate reporting within strict deadlines for UK entities Accounts payable, banking, receivables GL accounting daily tasks Support month end closing of ledgers of entities not supported by EMEA SSC Support statutory accounts preparation in accordance with accounting standards Preparation of monthly business forecasts and providing variance analysis actual v budget v forecast VAT return preparation and submission to HMRC Development and continuous improvement of internal financial controls Oversee and monitor compliance across IRFS and UK/US Gaap Point of contact for technical accounting matters with up-to-date knowledge of new accounting standards (US GAAP) Support the Financial Controller with ad hoc reporting and projects Consult with EMEA Regional finance teams, Global Finance, Tax, Treasury and External Auditors The desire to drive change and make improvements across the estates processes, procedures, and systems Qualifications Ideally a Qualified/Finalist Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with industry experience as a Financial Accountant/FINANCE MANAGER Required Skills Strong accounting knowledge including statutory and consolidated reporting (US GAAP an advantage) A keen eye for detail coupled with strong analytical skills A confident communicator able to liaise at all levels Excel skills and experience of an ERP System Strong technical accounting skills on entity and divisional level IFRS or US-GAAP Equal Opportunity Statement Our client is committed to diversity and inclusivity.