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£45,000 - £65,-Month FTC Newcastle (Hybrid - 3 Days Onsite) Permanent Opportunity Following Initial Contract SC Eligibility Required A leading technology consultancy is expanding its engineering capability and is seeking experienced Senior Java Engineers to help deliver complex enterprise platforms and large-scale digital transformation programmes. This is an opportunity to take ownership of technical delivery, influence engineering standards and mentor other developers while remaining hands-on with modern Java engineering. Following the initial 12-month FTC , there is a strong expectation that successful candidates will move into a permanent position. Key Responsibilities Designing and developing large-scale Java solutions. Building and maintaining Spring Boot Microservices. Working with AWS-hosted cloud-native architectures. Leading technical workstreams and supporting solution delivery. Conducting code reviews and promoting engineering best practice. Mentoring and supporting less experienced engineers. Collaborating with architects, DevOps engineers and senior stakeholders. Supporting delivery through the full software lifecycle. Essential Skills 5+ years commercial Java development experience. Java (JDK 11+). Spring Boot. Microservices architecture. AWS. REST APIs. CI/CD pipelines. Agile/Scrum delivery. Experience reviewing code and supporting other engineers. Desirable Skills Docker Kubernetes Kafka Oracle WebLogic TDD JUnit / Mockito Enterprise Integration Platforms Technical leadership experience Security Clearance Requirement Applicants must be eligible for UK SC Clearance. This means you must typically: Be a British Citizen, hold Settled Status, or Indefinite Leave to Remain. Have lived continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. Have no periods of 30 days or longer spent outside the UK during that time. Package £45,000 - £65,000 12-Month FTC Strong route into permanent employment Hybrid working model Newcastle based Exposure to enterprise-scale digital transformation Technical leadership opportunities Leading consultancy environment Apply Now If you're a Java Engineer or Senior Java Engineer looking for your next challenge and meet the SC eligibility requirements, we'd love to hear from you. Submit your CV today for immediate consideration.

£35,000 - £45,-Month FTC Newcastle (Hybrid - 3 Days Onsite) Permanent Opportunity Following Initial Contract SC Eligibility Required We're looking for a talented Java Engineer to join a leading technology consultancy delivering large-scale digital transformation programmes for high-profile clients. This is an excellent opportunity to work on modern cloud-native applications, enterprise integrations and microservices architectures using the latest Java technologies within collaborative Agile engineering teams. The position is offered as a 12-month fixed-term contract , with a strong intention to move successful candidates into a permanent position following the initial term. What You'll Be Doing Developing Java-based enterprise applications and microservices. Building secure, scalable solutions using Java (JDK 11+) and Spring Boot. Working on AWS-hosted cloud solutions. Developing and consuming REST APIs. Contributing to modern Microservices architectures. Working closely with engineering, DevOps, testing and architecture teams. Participating in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives. Following engineering best practices including CI/CD, TDD and automated testing. Essential Skills Commercial Java development experience. Java (JDK 11+). Spring Boot. REST APIs. Microservices. AWS. Agile/Scrum. CI/CD exposure. Desirable Skills Docker Kubernetes Kafka JUnit / Mockito TDD Oracle WebLogic Enterprise-scale systems Security Clearance Requirement Applicants must be eligible for UK SC Clearance. This means you must typically: Be a British Citizen, hold Settled Status, or Indefinite Leave to Remain. Have lived continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. Have no periods of 30 days or longer spent outside the UK during that time. Package £35,000 - £45,000 12-Month FTC Strong route into permanent employment Hybrid working Newcastle based Leading consultancy environment Long-term career development If you're interested in hearing more, please apply with your latest CV!

Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure-delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function. Job Summary The Partner Solutions Architect (PSA) at NetApp is a senior technical enablement resource aligned to a defined set of strategic Channel Partners within the UKI region. This role is focused on developing, enabling, and influencing partner technical communities, ensuring partners are equipped to lead with NetApp solutions independently. The PSA does not function as a direct sales engineer or primary customer-facing resource. Instead, the role partners closely with Partner Managers and partner technical leadership to build NetApp mindshare, technical competency, and long-term partner capability across the NetApp portfolio. Success in this role is driven by partner engagement, technical readiness, and alignment to partner goals, rather than direct sales execution. Job Requirements Partner Enablement & Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical enablement resource for assigned Channel partners within the UKI region. Build a solution/Bill of Materials to enable a Partner to quote our technology stack Develop partner technical capability so partners can independently conduct technical discovery, solution positioning, and sales activities. Build and maintain strong relationships with senior partner technical leaders, Pre-Sales Managers and partner-facing technical teams. Influence partner technical strategy by aligning NetApp solutions to partner offerings and go-to-market motions. Partner Engagement & Programs: Work closely with Partner Managers to plan and deliver technical enablement activities, including partner-focused QBRs, lunch-and-learn sessions, and technical workshops. Design engagements that focus on educating and enabling partner technical teams, in addition to supporting individual deals from a technical lens. Assess partner technical maturity and tailor enablement plans to close capability gaps, and influence Partners' GTM and portfolio. Provide ongoing compliance checks and where needed train technical Partner teams to ensure ongoing adherence with the Global NetApp Partner compliance program. Portfolio & Technical Guidance: Educate partners on where and how NetApp fits within their portfolio and customer use cases. Guide partners on positioning NetApp solutions effectively within their own offerings. Support technical whiteboarding and solution discussions with partners when appropriate. Ensure partners understand the full NetApp portfolio and how to leverage it across infrastructure, data management, and cloud use cases. Qualifications 5+ years of recent experience in enterprise infrastructure technologies, including storage, datacentre architecture, networking, and compute. 5+ years of experience working with and enabling channel partners in a technical capacity, such as Sales Engineer, Channel Sales Engineer, or Solutions Architect supporting the channel. Strong understanding of partner ecosystems and how partners position, sell, and support enterprise technology solutions. A thorough understanding of major Customer imperatives and the appropriate technology drivers and trends Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and build credibility with senior technical stakeholders. Comfortable operating in a matrixed environment across partner and internal teams. At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment-you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed-they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support-rather than replace-human decision-making.

Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure-delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function. Job Summary As Sales Director - Enterprise at NetApp, you are accountable for leading all enterprise sales activity across a defined region, focused on the largest and most complex customer environments. You will own regional revenue performance while driving long term, multi year growth across a portfolio of strategically critical enterprise accounts. In this role, you will lead a highly matrixed enterprise go-to-market organization, aligning Client Executives, solution specialists, technical pre-sales, partners, and extended stakeholders to execute sophisticated, value-based sales motions. You will engage at the most senior levels of customer organizations, positioning NetApp as a trusted strategic platform partner aligned to enterprise-wide data, cloud, and digital transformation initiatives. As a senior executive presence both internally and externally, the Sales Director Enterprise serves as a trusted advisor to C suite leaders while providing strong leadership, coaching, and direction to a high-performing enterprise sales team. Job Requirements • Own and deliver enterprise segment revenue, pipeline, and growth objectives across a defined region, ensuring predictable execution and sustained account expansion. • Develop and execute regional enterprise account strategies that balance near-term results with multi-year transformation opportunities and strategic deal pursuits. • Build and maintain trusted executive-level relationships with CIO, CTO, CDO, CISO, and Line-of-Business leaders across enterprise customers. • Personally sponsor and lead the region's largest and most complex opportunities, ensuring disciplined qualification, governance, forecasting accuracy, and risk management. • Lead, coach, and develop a team of Enterprise Client Executives, setting clear expectations around account planning, value-based selling, and executive engagement. • Drive strategic partner engagement with systems integrators, cloud providers, and technology partners, integrating them into enterprise account strategies and deal execution. • Champion enterprise sales transformation through adoption of AI-enabled selling, data-driven decision-making, and modern sales execution practices. Skills & Qualifications • Proven experience leading enterprise-segment sales teams and managing large, complex, multi-year, high-value customer engagements. • Demonstrated track record of exceeding enterprise revenue targets and driving sustained growth in technology, infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise software environments. • Strong executive presence with the ability to influence, advise, and build credibility with C-suite and senior enterprise stakeholders. • Highly structured and disciplined leader capable of orchestrating multiple concurrent enterprise sales motions across matrixed organizations. • Strong business and financial acumen combined with technical credibility across data management, cloud, hybrid infrastructure, and modern enterprise architectures. • Exceptional communication, negotiation, and leadership skills, with the ability to inspire high-performing teams and drive alignment across stakeholders. • Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field required; MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment-you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed-they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support-rather than replace-human decision-making.

Our client, a leading UK insurance and technology organisation, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across complex enterprise platforms and customer-facing solutions. This permanent role offers a hybrid working pattern, with two days per week based in an office in London, Bournemouth or Stockport, alongside flexible working arrangements. Key Responsibilities: Lead software delivery across the full development lifecycle, ensuring applications are designed, built, tested, released and supported to high standards Provide strategic technical leadership across engineering teams and contribute to architecture decisions and technical direction Design and deliver integrated solutions across a diverse technology landscape, aligned with security, operational and business requirements Own complex technical challenges, leading root cause analysis and improving the resilience, scalability and stability of business-critical platforms Drive continuous improvement through code reviews, technical governance, engineering standards and modern development practices Collaborate with architects, product teams, delivery managers, senior stakeholders and third-party partners Translate complex business requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions Coach and mentor engineers, supporting technical development, innovation and a culture of engineering excellence Job Requirements: Significant experience in software engineering and enterprise-scale Java or JEE application development Recognised expertise in Java engineering, object-oriented design and SOLID principles Strong understanding of software architecture, systems integration and enterprise technology leadership Experience working with AWS cloud technologies, including S3 and Redis Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL and SQL, including database design and optimisation Experience integrating complex systems and services, with an understanding of LDAP, certificates and related authentication technologies Hands-on experience with messaging and event-driven architectures using Kafka, AMQP or equivalent platforms Knowledge of DevOps and containerisation tools, including Jenkins, Kubernetes and Docker Benefits: Performance-related bonus scheme Employer-supported pension scheme Health insurance with access to rewards and wellbeing benefits Life assurance Flexible hybrid working and support for a healthy work-life balance Professional development, career progression and mentoring opportunities Inclusive, supportive and purpose-driven working environment Opportunities to contribute to positive social and health-focused initiatives Our client is committed to creating an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, develop their strengths and contribute to meaningful technology solutions. If you are an experienced Principal Software Engineer with strong Java, architecture and systems integration expertise, apply now to take the next step in your career.

Data Transformation Consultant - Manchester (Hybrid) - SC Cleared - Up to £80,000 + Bonus Data Strategy - Microsoft Fabric - Azure / AWS - Databricks - Cloud Transformation I'm partnered with a leading digital and technology consultancy helping organisations unlock greater value from their data through large-scale cloud, analytics and transformation programmes across government, public sector and enterprise environments. As part of continued growth within their Data & Analytics practice, they're looking to hire an experienced Senior Analytics Consultant who enjoys operating at the intersection of business strategy, data and technology. This is a highly consultative role where you'll work directly with senior client stakeholders to shape data strategies, define transformation roadmaps and lead the design of modern analytics platforms. You'll help organisations modernise legacy estates, unlock greater value from their data and deliver meaningful business outcomes through cloud technologies and data-driven decision making. You'll be joining a collaborative consulting environment where you'll influence large-scale transformation programmes, lead discovery workshops, contribute to client growth opportunities and work alongside Architects, Data Engineers, Product Leaders and Analysts, giving you genuine influence over the direction of client programmes rather than simply delivering pre-defined requirements. What You'll Be Doing Leading client-facing discovery engagements and architecture workstreams. Running workshops to gather requirements and align business and technical teams. Designing modern cloud-based analytics, data warehouse and lakehouse solutions. Advising senior stakeholders on data strategy, governance and operating models. Supporting large-scale cloud migration and platform modernisation initiatives. Defining delivery roadmaps and translating business objectives into technical solutions. Working closely with Data Engineers, Analysts and Product teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Ensuring best practice across data quality, governance, metadata and platform design. Supporting pre-sales activities, solution shaping and proposal development. Acting as a trusted advisor to clients throughout the transformation lifecycle. What We're Looking For Experience in Solution Architecture, Data Architecture or leading data and analytics programmes. Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation capabilities. Experience delivering cloud-based data transformation projects within complex organisations. Strong understanding of modern data platforms, data warehousing and lakehouse architectures. Experience with Azure and/or AWS cloud ecosystems. Knowledge of tools such as Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Synapse or similar. Strong SQL and data analysis capabilities. Understanding of data governance, metadata management and data quality frameworks. Experience working within consulting environments or managing multiple client workstreams. Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and executive stakeholders. Why Consider This Opportunity? Join a rapidly growing and highly respected consultancy. Work on major transformation programmes across government and enterprise clients. Influence strategy rather than simply deliver against requirements. Clear progression pathway into Principal Consultant and Practice Leadership roles. Access to industry-leading training, certifications and mentoring. Exposure to the latest technologies across Cloud, Data, Analytics and AI. Performance bonus, private healthcare and strong pension package. Work directly with senior decision-makers to shape enterprise-wide data strategies. Opportunity to influence programmes from discovery and strategy through to delivery. Please note: Active SC Clearance (or eligibility to obtain it) is required for this role. Apply now!

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Pay up to £73,205 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us. What skills, knowledge and significant experience will you need? Lead Criteria: Demonstrable expertise in Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, including the design, implementation, support and optimisation of enterprise-scale identity and access management services with strong experience of hybrid identity solutions using Microsoft Entra Connect Significant experience delivering Identity and Access Management (IAM) services within a large, complex enterprise environment, working effectively across internal teams, multiple suppliers and third-party service providers. Strong experience of Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) and Joiner-Mover-Leaver (JML) lifecycle management, including access provisioning, role management, automation, auditing and compliance controls. Practical experience designing and implementing modern authentication and authorisation solutions, including Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Conditional Access, federation, and application integration with Microsoft Entra ID. Proven experience implementing and operating Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) solutions, including privileged account governance, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Just-in-Time (JIT) access, and technologies such as Microsoft Entra PIM or CyberArk. Experience applying Zero Trust principles to identity architectures, including least-privilege access, identity protection, privileged access controls and threat mitigation, with the ability to provide technical leadership and influence stakeholders at all levels. You and your role You'll start your day helping protect the identities and access of millions of users across one of the UK's largest IT environments. One moment you're working with Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory and cloud platforms like Azure and AWS, the next you're collaborating with Security, DevOps and Architecture teams to strengthen Zero Trust security, automate identity processes and improve privileged access management. This is a role where you'll solve complex technical challenges, influence the future direction of identity services and play a key part in delivering secure, resilient systems that people rely on every day. If you enjoy working at scale, driving innovation and making a real impact, you'll feel right at home here. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool or Manchester, whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £ 73,205 Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth over £16,000 per year. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Pay up to £73,205 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us. What skills, knowledge and significant experience will you need? Lead Criteria: Demonstrable expertise in Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, including the design, implementation, support and optimisation of enterprise-scale identity and access management services with strong experience of hybrid identity solutions using Microsoft Entra Connect Significant experience delivering Identity and Access Management (IAM) services within a large, complex enterprise environment, working effectively across internal teams, multiple suppliers and third-party service providers. Strong experience of Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) and Joiner-Mover-Leaver (JML) lifecycle management, including access provisioning, role management, automation, auditing and compliance controls. Practical experience designing and implementing modern authentication and authorisation solutions, including Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Conditional Access, federation, and application integration with Microsoft Entra ID. Proven experience implementing and operating Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) solutions, including privileged account governance, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Just-in-Time (JIT) access, and technologies such as Microsoft Entra PIM or CyberArk. Experience applying Zero Trust principles to identity architectures, including least-privilege access, identity protection, privileged access controls and threat mitigation, with the ability to provide technical leadership and influence stakeholders at all levels. You and your role You'll start your day helping protect the identities and access of millions of users across one of the UK's largest IT environments. One moment you're working with Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory and cloud platforms like Azure and AWS, the next you're collaborating with Security, DevOps and Architecture teams to strengthen Zero Trust security, automate identity processes and improve privileged access management. This is a role where you'll solve complex technical challenges, influence the future direction of identity services and play a key part in delivering secure, resilient systems that people rely on every day. If you enjoy working at scale, driving innovation and making a real impact, you'll feel right at home here. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool or Manchester, whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £ 73,205 Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth over £16,000 per year. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024 Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Tech Employer Awards Process: We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

Description At , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - We're looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on - across multiple regions and cloud providers globally. You'll be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will: Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation Build systems with security by design as a core foundation Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS Design and operate key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including support for cryptographic key ceremonies Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine - our approach, tooling, automation and architecture Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge: Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise's resource hierarchy Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and VPC Service Controls Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience with observability tooling - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry (we also use Grafana) Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity Experience with automation using a scripting language like Python or Go Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models Ideally you also have: Experience with Zero Trust security (mTLS, SSO) Experience with AWS Comfortable with bash and either Golang, Java or Python development Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between GCP and on-premise locations Awareness/ability to leverage Claude Skills during development The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Container-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test, to be discussed in the next interview Technical interview with some Engineers - 1.5 hours Final interview with our CTO / deputy CTO - 45 minutes Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you) An extra day's holiday for your birthday Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off 16 hours paid volunteering time a year Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton Generous family-friendly policies Incentives refer a friend scheme Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing About Us You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application . click apply for full job details

Description At , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - As a Security Engineer at Engine, you'll be working on helping to keep our infrastructure secure and compliant and our staff safe and productive. You'll be working on projects covering identity and access management, cloud and network security, vulnerability management, security monitoring, security hardening, compliance reviews, and more. It's a very varied role with lots of close interaction with the infrastructure, security engineering, cross-cutting and compliance teams. We are looking for an experienced Senior level GCP Security Engineer to join our established Security Engineering team, working closely with Information Security, Infrastructure and the various Engine Technology teams to make sure security is at the heart of all our technical processes. As our subject matter expert, you will take ownership of engineering the security foundations of our Google Cloud Platform environment. This is a hands-on role for a specialist with a proven track record of designing, building, and automating security controls specifically for GCP, including hardened GKE clusters. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a GCP Security Engineer, you will: Collaborate with stakeholders to define our Google Cloud security architecture (cloud identity, runtime security, security posture) Design, document, build and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure on GCP using Infrastructure as Code Be part of the team responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication and authorisation mechanisms are in place Engineer and automate technical controls within GCP to ensure and demonstrate continuous compliance with stringent standards such as PCI DSS and 3DS Drive security infrastructure deployments across our growing environments Perform regular security assessments, audits, threat modelling and architecture design reviews to identify risks and vulnerabilities, triage found risks, identify improvements appropriately and design controls to implement as corrective actions Lead incident response efforts, including investigation and remediation of security breaches Support our internal security awareness and training programs, advocating the DevSecOps mindset that we have created across our technology teams Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you have an innate passion for security and care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult problems, we'd love to hear from you. What skills are essential: Mature understanding of cloud security architecture, with deep expertise in GCP and a proven track record Experience creating a GCP landing zone, configuring services such as organisation policies and VPC Service Controls A deep understanding of GCP IAM and its limitations Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure on GCP (including GKE, Compute Engine, Shared VPC and Cloud SQL) Expertise in Kubernetes, securing clusters (GKE) and meshes (Cilium is preferable), networking best practices and RBAC implementation (CKA, CKS qualifications are a plus) Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly Terraform Experience configuring GCP-native security posture and threat management with Security Command Center Experience securing the software supply chain with Binary Authorization, Artifact Registry and Artifact Analysis Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience configuring and utilising cloud-native security logging, monitoring and detection services Strong programming skills - in security we write our own scripts for automation in Python, Go and other languages while contributing to open-source tools so we can utilise them In-depth knowledge of security principles, technologies, best practices, and threat detection and mitigation strategies Knowledge of common attack vectors and methodologies (OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK Framework and social engineering tactics) The ability to identify potential threats, attack vectors and vulnerabilities in systems and applications The ability to document security requirements from various stakeholders Excellent problem-solving, communication and active listening skills with an innate passion for security The ability to identify security gaps and create solutions to minimise risk and impact to us A proactive approach to staying updated with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques Thorough understanding of the incident response process (preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned) What skills are desirable: In-depth knowledge of network security, including core routing and switching concepts (TCP/IP, BGP, VPNs), security controls (firewalls, WAFs, IDS/IPS), and practical experience designing hybrid connectivity between GCP and on-premise environments Experience with data-residency and regulated-workload controls such as Assured Workloads and Access Transparency, relevant to deploying per-market for different banks' regulators Hands-on experience taking a company through security and compliance frameworks like NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Experience automating security controls and compliance checks against standards and frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS / 3DS Container security knowledge including container image provenance (e.g. Sigstore, Notary) with an in-depth knowledge of container runtimes, and an understanding of integrating security into the software development lifecycle Experience performing secure code reviews and security approvals, including the use of static and dynamic application security testing (SAST / DAST) tools Experience in cryptography management and enhancements Relevant security certifications such as ISC2 CC, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, AWS Security Specialty or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Microservice-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process: Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test, to be discussed in the next interview Technical interview with some Engineers - 1 . click apply for full job details

Description At , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on - across multiple regions and cloud providers globally. You'll be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will: Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation Build systems with security by design as a core foundation Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS Design and operate key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including support for cryptographic key ceremonies Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine - our approach, tooling, automation and architecture Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge: Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise's resource hierarchy Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and VPC Service Controls Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience with observability tooling - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry (we also use Grafana) Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity Experience with automation using a scripting language like Python or Go Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models Ideally you also have: Experience with Zero Trust security (mTLS, SSO) Experience with AWS Comfortable with bash and either Golang, Java or Python development Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between GCP and on-premise locations Awareness/ability to leverage Claude Skills during development The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Container-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test, to be discussed in the next interview Technical interview with some Engineers - 1.5 hours Final interview with our CTO / deputy CTO - 45 minutes Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you) An extra day's holiday for your birthday Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off 16 hours paid volunteering time a year Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton Generous family-friendly policies Incentives refer a friend scheme Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing About Us You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application . click apply for full job details

Description At , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - As a Security Engineer at Engine, you'll be working on helping to keep our infrastructure secure and compliant and our staff safe and productive. You'll be working on projects covering identity and access management, cloud and network security, vulnerability management, security monitoring, security hardening, compliance reviews, and more. It's a very varied role with lots of close interaction with the infrastructure, security engineering, cross-cutting and compliance teams. We are looking for an experienced Senior / Staff level GCP Security Engineer to join our established Security Engineering team, working closely with Information Security, Infrastructure and the various Engine Technology teams to make sure security is at the heart of all our technical processes. As our subject matter expert, you will take ownership of engineering the security foundations of our Google Cloud Platform environment. This is a hands-on role for a specialist with a proven track record of designing, building, and automating security controls specifically for GCP, including hardened GKE clusters. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a GCP Security Engineer, you will: Collaborate with stakeholders to define our Google Cloud security architecture (cloud identity, runtime security, security posture) Design, document, build and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure on GCP using Infrastructure as Code Be part of the team responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication and authorisation mechanisms are in place Engineer and automate technical controls within GCP to ensure and demonstrate continuous compliance with stringent standards such as PCI DSS and 3DS Drive security infrastructure deployments across our growing environments Perform regular security assessments, audits, threat modelling and architecture design reviews to identify risks and vulnerabilities, triage found risks, identify improvements appropriately and design controls to implement as corrective actions Lead incident response efforts, including investigation and remediation of security breaches Support our internal security awareness and training programs, advocating the DevSecOps mindset that we have created across our technology teams Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you have an innate passion for security and care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult problems, we'd love to hear from you. What skills are essential: Mature understanding of cloud security architecture, with deep expertise in GCP and a proven track record Experience creating a GCP landing zone, configuring services such as organisation policies and VPC Service Controls A deep understanding of GCP IAM and its limitations Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure on GCP (including GKE, Compute Engine, Shared VPC and Cloud SQL) Expertise in Kubernetes, securing clusters (GKE) and meshes (Cilium is preferable), networking best practices and RBAC implementation (CKA, CKS qualifications are a plus) Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly Terraform Experience configuring GCP-native security posture and threat management with Security Command Center Experience securing the software supply chain with Binary Authorization, Artifact Registry and Artifact Analysis Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience configuring and utilising cloud-native security logging, monitoring and detection services Strong programming skills - in security we write our own scripts for automation in Python, Go and other languages while contributing to open-source tools so we can utilise them In-depth knowledge of security principles, technologies, best practices, and threat detection and mitigation strategies Knowledge of common attack vectors and methodologies (OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK Framework and social engineering tactics) The ability to identify potential threats, attack vectors and vulnerabilities in systems and applications The ability to document security requirements from various stakeholders Excellent problem-solving, communication and active listening skills with an innate passion for security The ability to identify security gaps and create solutions to minimise risk and impact to us A proactive approach to staying updated with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques Thorough understanding of the incident response process (preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned) What skills are desirable: In-depth knowledge of network security, including core routing and switching concepts (TCP/IP, BGP, VPNs), security controls (firewalls, WAFs, IDS/IPS), and practical experience designing hybrid connectivity between GCP and on-premise environments Experience with data-residency and regulated-workload controls such as Assured Workloads and Access Transparency, relevant to deploying per-market for different banks' regulators Hands-on experience taking a company through security and compliance frameworks like NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Experience automating security controls and compliance checks against standards and frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS / 3DS Container security knowledge including container image provenance (e.g. Sigstore, Notary) with an in-depth knowledge of container runtimes, and an understanding of integrating security into the software development lifecycle Experience performing secure code reviews and security approvals, including the use of static and dynamic application security testing (SAST / DAST) tools Experience in cryptography management and enhancements Relevant security certifications such as ISC2 CC, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, AWS Security Specialty or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Microservice-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process: Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test, to be discussed in the next interview . click apply for full job details

Description At Engine by Starling , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and a year ago we split out as a separate business. Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success. Our technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. About Engineering at Engine by Starling - We're looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to help us design, build and run the cloud foundations our first-in-class, cloud-native banking platform is deployed on - across multiple regions and cloud providers globally. You'll be an inquisitive engineer with an aptitude for finding clean and simple solutions to technical problems, passionate about building observable, reliable and secure systems that positively impact the wider engineering organisation. Engine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear more from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will: Design, document, build and maintain scalable infrastructure on GCP Ensure the performance and reliability of cloud environments whilst measuring cost-effectiveness Embrace automation and be reluctant for manual implementation Build systems with security by design as a core foundation Ensure platform compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and 3DS Design and operate key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including support for cryptographic key ceremonies Rapidly diagnose and fix client-reported infrastructure issues while maintaining peak security and performance Write clear technical documentation and host training sessions for the team Demonstrate knowledge of new technologies and changes in the industry Lead complex infrastructure projects from inception through to run, and shape the future capabilities of Engine - our approach, tooling, automation and architecture Lead by example in your contributions, setting a high technical bar for others to aim for Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we'd love to hear from you. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer you will bring the below experience or knowledge: Proven GCP multi-region disaster recovery experience Confident at bootstrapping Google Cloud Organisations, hardening with policies and structuring an enterprise's resource hierarchy Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including GKE, Compute Engine, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud SQL, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and VPC Service Controls Experience writing clean, modular Terraform code Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure Experience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies Experience designing hybrid connectivity from GCP to co-located Payment HSMs using Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN and Dedicated / Partner Interconnect Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD Experience with observability tooling - Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus and OpenTelemetry (we also use Grafana) Experience setting up Google Workspace / Google Cloud Identity Experience with automation using a scripting language like Python or Go Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines An understanding of RESTful API and event-driven concepts Comfortable writing RFCs and ADRs which can be taken from design to implementation and into Production with documented runbooks and operating models Ideally you also have: Experience with Zero Trust security (mTLS, SSO) Experience with AWS Comfortable with bash and either Golang, Java or Python development Understanding of database monitoring, analysis, disaster recovery and performance tuning Understanding of networking and routing concepts (TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, BGP, etc.) and preferably experience designing and establishing connectivity between GCP and on-premise locations Awareness/ability to leverage Claude Skills during development The main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great! Java, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase GCP and AWS - we're cloud-native Container-based architecture Kubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS) TeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day) Terraform and Grafana RDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL Our Interview Process Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial interview with an Engineer - 45 minutes Take-home technical test, to be discussed in the next interview Technical interview with some Engineers - 1.5 hours Final interview with our CTO / deputy CTO - 45 minutes Benefits 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you) An extra day's holiday for your birthday Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off 16 hours paid volunteering time a year Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton Generous family-friendly policies Incentives refer a friend scheme Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing About Us You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems. Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent . click apply for full job details

Position: Senior Cloud Architect Location: Glasgow, Scotland (Hybrid: 2 days per week on-site) Duration: 6-Month Initial Contract (Potential for extension or permanent absorption) Role Overview: A senior platform architect is needed to lead the design and execution of global cloud platform projects within the energy and utilities sector. The role requires strong expertise in automated infrastructure provisioning, enterprise telemetry, and scalable cloud framework design. Key Responsibilities: Produce High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) specifications for global cloud platforms. Write, test, and deploy modular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform. Architect multi-region cloud landing zones, account structures, and core network transit routes. Integrate enterprise monitoring and telemetry frameworks to ensure platform health and performance. Align architectural patterns with industry regulatory standards and zero-trust security principles. Technical Requirements: Proven track record architecting multi-region enterprise cloud environments (AWS or Azure). Advanced proficiency in Terraform and automated deployment pipelines. Hands-on experience configuring enterprise observability and monitoring solutions. Strong communication skills, with Spanish language proficiency preferred to support global delivery teams. Let me know if you are interested and we can have a confidential chat. You can also drop me your CV and I will get back to you on call directly to discuss the role further. If this is not a great fit for you then please let me know if you know someone who can be suitable for the role. Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Senior Data Engineer - Python, Databricks & Counterparty Credit Risk Location: London - Hybrid We are recruiting for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a leading global banking organisation, working across a highly technical data environment supporting Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR), Credit Risk and wider risk data . This is a hands-on engineering position requiring strong expertise across Python, PySpark, SQL and Databricks , alongside experience designing, building and optimising scalable data pipelines and Lakehouse solutions. Candidates should ideally have previously worked with Counterparty Credit Risk or Credit Risk data , including areas such as counterparty/exposure data, risk analytics, regulatory risk or associated banking risk datasets. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain scalable data pipelines using Python, PySpark and Databricks Build and optimise ETL/ELT workflows using Spark and Delta Lake Engineer and transform data supporting Counterparty Credit Risk, Credit Risk and wider risk functions Work with datasets relating to areas such as counterparties, credit exposures, limits, collateral and risk analytics Design robust data models and architectures across Lakehouse / Medallion environments Develop and manage Databricks notebooks, jobs and workflows Optimise large-scale distributed data processing and troubleshoot Spark performance Implement strong data quality, reconciliation, governance and monitoring controls Build reliable logging and alerting across production data pipelines Integrate data platforms with Power BI dashboards and wider applications Support CI/CD and engineering best practices across development, testing and production environments Work closely with Risk, Technology, Analytics and other senior stakeholders Required Experience 10+ years' experience across Data Engineering or closely related data disciplines Strong hands-on Python development experience Strong PySpark / Apache Spark engineering experience Extensive hands-on experience with Databricks , including notebooks, jobs/workflows and Delta Lake Advanced SQL and relational database experience Strong track record designing and building scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines Experience with Delta Lake, Lakehouse and/or Medallion architectures Experience handling banking risk data , ideally within Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR), Credit Risk, counterparty exposure or closely related risk domains Strong understanding of data modelling, data quality and production data engineering Cloud experience across Azure, AWS and/or GCP Experience with modern data platforms/warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift Experience integrating data platforms with Power BI Experience with orchestration such as Databricks Workflows or Airflow Highly Desirable Direct experience engineering data for Counterparty Credit Risk , including exposure/counterparty datasets Knowledge of areas such as PFE, EPE, EAD, CVA/XVA, SA-CCR, collateral, netting or counterparty limits Previous experience within an investment bank, global bank or capital-markets environment Databricks Data Engineer certification Kafka / Structured Streaming experience Delta Lake CDC, Time Travel and optimisation CI/CD, Git and DevOps experience Docker / Kubernetes experience Experience exposing data through APIs or supporting React-based front-end applications Experience supporting analytics or ML workloads within Databricks We are particularly interested in genuinely hands-on Senior Data Engineers who can demonstrate the Databricks and Python solutions they have personally designed, built, optimised and supported in production. If you have strong Databricks, Python and PySpark engineering experience alongside exposure to Counterparty Credit Risk, Credit Risk or banking risk data , please apply for further information.

About The Role FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking Platform Engineers to work for our client within the Financial Services sector. This is initially a 6-12 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in Edinburgh. Our client is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to help design, build and evolve an enterprise Agentic AI Platform and its supporting engineering services. This is a senior, hands-on technical role combining platform engineering, cloud architecture, automation and governance. The successful candidate will work closely with CIO delivery teams to enable the safe and effective adoption of approved AI platform capabilities, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, reusable and aligned with enterprise architecture standards. Acting as a bridge between platform engineering, architecture, security and governance, the Platform Engineer will develop reusable services, automated workflows and platform controls while supporting the onboarding of teams, products and solutions. Responsibilities: Design, build and continuously evolve the Agentic AI Platform and its supporting engineering services. Develop reusable platform capabilities, templates, automations and workflows that accelerate delivery while maintaining appropriate governance. Implement, operate and enhance core platform services, including: Azure AI Foundry Azure API Management (APIM) Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Container Apps Azure AI Search Model Context Protocol (MCP) services and supporting infrastructure Establish and maintain platform standards, guardrails, policies and onboarding requirements. Review technical and solution designs, providing guidance to ensure alignment with approved architectural principles and platform patterns. Assess onboarding requests from teams, products and solutions seeking to use platform capabilities. Partner with CIO delivery teams to support successful platform adoption and implementation. Work collaboratively with architecture, security and governance teams to ensure platform controls remain aligned with enterprise requirements. Identify opportunities to improve platform reliability, performance, security, usability and cost efficiency. Monitor platform usage, adoption and operational health, using feedback and telemetry to drive continuous improvement. Produce and maintain platform documentation, reference architectures, onboarding guidance and reusable implementation patterns. Capture emerging requirements and lessons learned from CIO delivery groups to help shape the platform roadmap. Evaluate emerging AI technologies, engineering practices and delivery patterns to support the continued evolution of the platform About You Proven experience designing, building and operating cloud-native platforms. Strong knowledge of platform engineering, DevOps and software delivery lifecycle practices. Hands-on experience developing infrastructure automation and self-service platform capabilities. Experience working with Microsoft Azure platforms and services. Strong understanding of APIs, microservices and modern cloud architecture. Experience implementing security, governance and operational controls within engineering environments. Experience reviewing technical designs and defining engineering standards. Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment practices. The ability to work effectively with delivery teams to drive platform adoption and consumption. Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills. Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities. An interest in AI-assisted delivery and emerging agentic engineering approaches. Desirable: Experience with one or more of the following would be particularly valuable: Azure AI Foundry Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Container Apps Azure API Management (APIM) Azure AI Search GitHub Enterprise CI/CD tooling and automated delivery pipelines Infrastructure as Code Platform observability and monitoring Identity and Access Management Model Context Protocol services Agentic architecture and engineering patterns Typical Candidate Background: Platform Engineer Cloud Platform Engineer DevOps Engineer Site Reliability Engineer Platform Architect Infrastructure Automation Engineer About Us FDM is an award-winning global leader in tech and business talent solutions, backed by more than 35 years of industry experience. We have centres across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2500 employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer, currently listed on the FTSE4Good Index and as a 2026 Financial Times UK 'Best Employer'. Diversity and Inclusion FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws. Why join us Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field Annual leave and work-place pension

Storage Software Engineer Rate: £500 per day, Inside IR35 Location: Glasgow Working arrangement: Hybrid, minimum 3 days per week onsite in Glasgow Contract length: To confirm IR35 status: Inside IR35 Your new company You will be joining a leading global financial services organisation within its technology function. The team is seeking a multi-talented Software Developer to design and develop highly available and scalable solutions supporting enterprise storage infrastructure and associated technology. Your new role This is a development-focused role combining strong programming capability with exposure to enterprise storage and Linux environments. You will design and develop solutions used to manage large-scale storage infrastructure, including provisioning, monitoring, alerting, auditing and inventory management. You'll also contribute to the architecture and integration of storage solutions, work with third-party vendors, and develop in-house applications forming part of the wider technology platform. The role requires a minimum of 3 days per week onsite in Glasgow, with a face-to-face interview in Glasgow forming a mandatory part of the interview process. Candidates based locally or within a reasonable commuting distance are strongly preferred. Key responsibilities Design and develop highly available and scalable software solutions. Develop applications supporting storage provisioning, monitoring, alerting, auditing and inventory management. Develop in-house applications forming part of the wider technology platform. Architect and integrate storage solutions, including working with third-party vendors. Develop tools supporting problem management and preventative maintenance. Contribute to alert and capacity management solutions. Work with storage virtualisation, automation and provisioning technologies. Work with distributed and scale-out file systems and software-defined storage. Contribute to infrastructure automation and observability. Troubleshoot effectively across operating systems, networks and storage. Work collaboratively as part of a global team. Understand customer requirements and clearly communicate appropriate technical solutions. What you'll need to succeed The successful candidate will bring advanced programming capability combined with intermediate or above experience in storage and/or Linux. Essential skills and experience Strong software development experience. Advanced programming capability in Python and/or Perl. Experience with SDLC best practices on large software development projects. Good knowledge of computer science fundamentals. Strong organisational skills. Good English communication skills. Ability to prioritise multiple projects and objectives. Intermediate or above experience in storage and/or Linux. Desirable skills and experience Object-oriented programming concepts. SQL programming. Experience deploying, operating or administering Linux in an enterprise environment, particularly RHEL. Knowledge of storage technologies including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SCSI, NFS, CIFS, POSIX and Object Storage. Knowledge of SAS, SATA, NVMe, SSD, RAID and Erasure Coding. Distributed and scale-out storage experience. Knowledge of file systems and high-availability approaches. Working knowledge of databases. Understanding of networking protocols and connectivity. Enterprise UNIX/RHEL or Windows Server architecture experience. Container experience including Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes or Docker. Cloud exposure across Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. Understanding of client/server and scale-out architectures. Knowledge of virtualisation, performance and capacity management. Troubleshooting skills across operating systems, networking and storage. Exposure to technologies such as NetApp 7mode/cDOT/Engenio, IBM Spectrum Scale/GPFS, HDS Storage Arrays/HCP, EMC Atmos, Brocade SAN/FOS and Veritas Storage Foundation Suite. Knowledge of Sybase or DB2. What you'll get in return £500 per day Inside IR35 Hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days per week onsite in Glasgow Contract length: To confirm Opportunity to work within a large-scale technology environment developing solutions supporting enterprise storage infrastructure. How to apply If you're interested in this opportunity, apply with your latest CV, availability and preferred location. If this role isn't quite right for you, please get in touch for a confidential discussion about similar opportunities. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk