20 of 20 Cost Optimisation Jobs in Scotland

Lead Cloud Engineer

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
cloud migrations to AI enablement and platform engineering, you will lead the charge in building autonomous platforms, managing AI lifecycles, and enforcing strict cost governance across cloud estates. You are seen as a leader internally and externally, through your technical expertise, guidance, and professionalism, both … advanced Kubernetes administration (clusters, nodes, pods), hardcore networking (VPC peering, Service Mesh, Zero Trust security), and solution architecture experience, with a costoptimisation mindset. Software Engineering, Agentic & AI Development (30%): Solid software engineer principles (pipelines, toolsets, testing, linting, vulnerability scanning, etc.) Production‐level experience with tools such ...

Senior Cloud Engineer

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
models. FinOps Standards: Embed automated cost-estimation tools into the standard CI/CD deployment pipelines, ensuring auto-shutdown policies and resource optimisation are configured by default. Consultancy & Client Alignment Client Advisory: Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including tech leads, project managers, and enterprise architects, to ensure successful … architectures. Observability & Cost Management: SRE/Platform experience with the practical application of real-time monitoring and cloud cost optimisation using native CSP tools or utilities like Infracost and Karpenter. Domain & Sector Experience Regulated Industries: Experience delivering secure platforms within highly regulated environments, such ...

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Architect

Hiring Organisation
Diana Duggan UK Limited
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£450.00 per day
production environments. In-depth Google Cloud development experience -architecting, building, deploying, and operating production cloud-native workloads using core GCP services; understanding cost optimization and security best practices Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery -designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies Advanced understanding ...

Senior Platform Engineer

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
practices. Design scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and config management tools. Build and optimize cloud-native architectures across multiple cloud providers with cost efficiency in mind. Engineer containerized environments with advanced orchestration, networking, and security. Deliver internal platforms and self-service capabilities that improve developer experience … pipeline architecture. Mastery of IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi) and config management (e.g., Ansible, Chef). Strong AWS architecture skills and cost optimisation strategies Advanced containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.). Proficiency in observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry). Security-first mindset with hands ...

AI Tech Lead

Hiring Organisation
Thales Group
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
solutions using Large Language Models (LLMs).Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.Implement prompt engineering and AI orchestration frameworks.Evaluate AI model performance, accuracy and cost optimisation.Ensure effective use of Microsoft Copilot, Azure OpenAI and other enterprise AI services where appropriate.Governance, Risk & ComplianceEnsure responsible AI principles are embedded ...

Software Engineer III - Cloud Data Platform (AWS/Databricks, Terraform)

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
encryption, network segmentation, and auditability Improve platform reliability through observability tooling logging, metrics, and tracing alongside alerting, incident response practices, and performance and cost optimization Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into scalable platform designs, and document standards, patterns, and runbooks for team-wide ...

Software Engineer III - Cloud Data Platform (AWS/Databricks, Terraform)

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
encryption, network segmentation, and auditability Improve platform reliability through observability tooling — logging, metrics, and tracing — alongside alerting, incident response practices, and performance and cost optimization Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into scalable platform designs, and document standards, patterns, and runbooks for team‐wide ...

AWS Architect

Hiring Organisation
Version 1
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
research and prototype environments to enterprise‐ready architectures, balancing speed, robustness, and long‐term maintainability.Strong background in cloud security, networking, and cost optimisation for AI/ML workloads.Excellent stakeholder skills, able to translate business objectives and programme pressures into clear architectural decisions and technical direction for engineering ...

Transformation Consultant

Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Role: Cost & Productivity Transformation Consultant (Multiple Grades) Location: Edinburgh/hybrid, with regular client-site travel Salary: £70,000 - £90,000 A senior consulting role focused on delivering measurable cost and productivity improvement across complex TMT organisations. The work combines analytical depth, stakeholder leadership and hands … scale more efficiently. The role sits at the point where commercial reality, operational change and executive-level client management meet. - Lead cost optimisation and productivity programmes across large client environments. - Build baselines, test scenarios and shape recommendations using financial and operational analysis. - Identify and prioritise savings across ...

Lead Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
prompting strategies, tool/function calling, retrieval patterns, routing, and memory/state management where applicable Build guardrails, evaluation frameworks, monitoring pipelines, and cost/latency optimizations for production LLM-based systems Design, build, and operate REST and gRPC APIs and microservices, defining clear contracts using OpenAPI … transaction management Demonstrated experience building AI solutions using large language models in production environments, including quality assurance, safety controls, evaluation, observability, and cost management Strong API and microservices engineering experience, including service design, contract definition, security patterns, performance tuning, and distributed system observability Hands-on multi-cloud experience ...

Manager/Senior Manager - Energy Transition & Utilities (Energy Retail)

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
roadmaps, aligning business and technology transformation and standing up new AI and agentic services. Your focus will be on driving operational improvements and cost reduction, enhancing customer experience and strengthening market competitiveness.You will bring deep knowledge of the GB retail energy market, gained through experience working … technology-driven transformation programmes.Our support spans traditional B2C and B2B energy retail market challenges, billing, CRM, debt management and operational and cost optimisation, while also enabling innovation through leveraging emerging technologies such as agentic AI, helping clients position themselves as market leaders.As part of your role ...

Software Asset Manager

Hiring Organisation
Arnold Clark Automobiles
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
Street, Glasgow.Hours Full time: Monday – Friday, 37.5 hours per weekAbout the role As Software Asset Manager at Arnold Clark, you’ll lead the governance, optimisation and compliance of our software estate, helping ensure our technology investments deliver maximum value to the business.Working within our Digital Workplace function … digital teams to drive best practice, improve visibility and identify cost-saving opportunities.You’ll oversee licence compliance, supplier engagement, audit readiness and optimisation initiatives, while also leading and developing a team of SAM Analysts to deliver a consistent, high-quality SAM service across the business.Skills ...

Management Consultant - AML Investigations, Sanctions & Fraud

Hiring Organisation
Capco
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
DoLead or support advisory and transformation initiatives in financial crime, sanctions, and fraudDeliver operating model redesigns, technology enablement, and cost optimisation across three lines of defenceSupport clients in managing regulatory reviews, remediations, and operational backlogsBenchmark and assess controls, identify gaps, and design solutions to improve risk managementContribute ...

Senior FinOps / Cloud Optimisation Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Softcat
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 70 K
organization.· Utilising industry-leading cloud management tooling and native tooling to proactively leverage FinOps data.· Providing detailed reporting around cost visibility and optimisation, ensuring that insights reach the right stakeholders on the client side.· Providing break/fix support around industry-leading cloud management solutions and leveraging … Azure, and GCP. Certified in: AZ900, AWS Certified Practitioner, AZ104 (desired), AWS – Certified Solutions Architect (desired)· Extensive experience around multi cloud cost optimisation.· Experience with cloud cost management tooling (CloudHealth, Cloudability, Flexera, and native tools).· Ability to build relationships with multiple stakeholders within an enterprise ...

Applied AI ML Lead - Python & Agentic AI

Hiring Organisation
JP Morgan Chase
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
versioning, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance for models/prompts/agents.Implement robust testing (unit/integration), performance benchmarking (latency/cost), and observability (logging/metrics/tracing) for AI services.Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define requirements, success metrics, and rollout plans; communicate complex … industry and operating in regulated environments (auditability, controls, data handling).Exposure to distributed compute/training concepts (e.g., DDP, sharding) and performance/cost optimization.J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals ...

Principal AI Engineer IRC302972

Location
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
tooling (Weights & Biases, LangSmith, MLflow). A product‐first mindset: Fluency with evaluation frameworks (Ragas, DeepEval) and a track record of managing latency, cost, and hallucination tradeoffs in a live product, not a lab setting. Job responsibilities What You’ll Do Own end‐to‐end delivery: Architect … ship AI products, agentic frameworks, and multi‐modal application backends into production. Set the evaluation bar: Establish continuous evaluation pipelines, guardrails, observability, and costoptimization strategy for production LLM deployments. Decide the stack: Own build‐vs‐buy calls e.g. self‐hosted vLLM vs. a managed endpoint ...

Applied AIML Lead Research Engineer

Hiring Organisation
JP Morgan Chase
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 80 K
tone, lexicon, and domain-specific tasks that are currently brittle in promptsInvestigates inference efficiency and tokenomics: cost-per-output, model routing, and optimisation of production inferencePrototypes voice and image/multimodal capabilities (speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice agents, document and image understanding) to underwrite future … evaluation, and benchmarking of ML systemsAbility to bridge research and engineering: prototypes that become production-ready capabilitiesAwareness of inference cost, performance, and optimisation techniquesStrong communication skills, including translating research into business and engineering termsPublished in a top-tier AIML venue (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR ...

Principal AI Platform Engineer

Location
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
maintain RBAC/OIDC access controls and disciplined API key lifecycle management across the platform. Build caching layers and cost/latency optimisation strategies, and the adoption and reuse analytics that show whether the platform is actually being used. Contribute to API design, versioning, and promotion workflows ...

Associate Director, Digital Procurement, Supply Chain & Network Operations

Hiring Organisation
Deloitte
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
companies across a range of industries to deliver high profile, impactful, interesting and engaging projects. Ideally you will have experience leading and delivering cost out initiatives and/or process & technology transformation projects.Either a ‘trusted advisor’ to a specific set of clients where they manage engagements … delivery of multi-work stream procurement transformation programmes, including strategic sourcing, commercial strategies & procurement execution, digital sourcing and procurement, transformation of operating model, cost reduction, integration of third-party risk management and legal/contract management services and innovationPerforming the strategy, design, implementation and deployment of procurement technology ...

Associate Director, Digital Procurement, Supply Chain & Network Operations

Hiring Organisation
Deloitte
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
Salary
£ 60 K
companies across a range of industries to deliver high profile, impactful, interesting and engaging projects. Ideally you will have experience leading and delivering cost out initiatives and/or process & technology transformation projects.Either a ‘trusted advisor’ to a specific set of clients where they manage engagements … delivery of multi-work stream procurement transformation programmes, including strategic sourcing, commercial strategies & procurement execution, digital sourcing and procurement, transformation of operating model, cost reduction, integration of third-party risk management and legal/contract management services and innovationPerforming the strategy, design, implementation and deployment of procurement technology ...