5 of 5 Contract Platform Engineering Jobs in Central London

Backend Platform Engineer Remote, UK 6 Month Contract An exciting opportunity for a Backend Platform Engineer with a strong software engineering background to join a prestigious tech client on a contract basis. This is a well-regarded engineering environment where contractors speak highly of the fast-paced, collaborative culture, and the real autonomy they're given … to make an impact. As a Backend Platform Engineer, you'll focus on building tools, services, and systems that make life easier for developers and accelerate delivery across the business. From improving CI/CD pipelines and service deployment to shaping internal platforms and runtime environments, your work will help enable fast, secure, and reliable software delivery at scale. … and engineers across the stack to enhance developer experience, troubleshoot complex systems, and improve observability. This isn't a maintenance role - you'll be building, iterating, and solving meaningful engineering problems, with a strong focus on clean code, robust security practices, and modern cloud infrastructure. Backend Platform Engineer - Key Requirements: Solid experience in software engineering, platform More ❯

Google Platform Engineer with strong GCP DevOps, Jenkins and/or Harness pipeline automation, Terraform, Python, GKE Location: [London] | Hybrid/Remote Duration: [3-6 months initial, likely long term extension] We're looking for an experienced Google Platform Engineer to lead a key migration project moving our CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to Harness . If … you're passionate about automation, cloud native technologies and building scalable infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) , we'd love to hear from you. What You'll Bring: CI/CD & DevOps Tooling Deep hands-on experience with Jenkins , including: Shared Libraries SonarQube & Nexus integration Docker builds and image publishing Google Artifact Registry (GAR) integration Infrastructure & Cloud Strong knowledge More ❯

Remote with occasional travel to London or Corsham Duration: 6-month initial contract SC clearance required. About the Role You are a systems thinker with deep experience in backend engineering and distributed data infrastructure. You thrive in high-stakes environments, know how to ship reliable code fast, and are pragmatic about trade-o=s. You understand the unique constraints … Defence contexts. You will help create and manage robust, portable pipelines for data ingestion, orchestration, model interaction, and querying - all within a classified, compute-constrained environment. While our SaaS platform handles production-scale workflows, this project demands thoughtful downscaling and adaptation, not replication. You will work closely with a crossfunctional team of frontend engineers, data scientists, platform engineers … querying, dynamic visualisation, and reporting * Ensure system portability via containerisation * Collaborate closely with data scientists to integrate self-hosted LLMs and analysis models into the backend infrastructure * Work with platform engineers to tune deployments for hardware-limited environments What You Bring * Strong experience building secure, scalable backend systems in Python and/or Go * Deep understanding of containerised services More ❯

company that has secured a significant MOD-backed delivery programme. They are building a mission-critical AI capability to be deployed in a secure, environment and they need backend engineering specialists who thrive in complexity. This is a unique opportunity to build adaptable, containerised backend systems to support real-time inference, transcription pipelines, and natural-language interaction layers, enabling … deliver interactive dashboards and NLP-driven workflows Ensuring system portability via containerisation (Kubernetes, Docker) Collaborating closely with data scientists to integrate self-hosted LLMs and analysis models Working with platform engineers to optimise performance in hardware-constrained deployments What You’ll Bring: Expertise in Python and/or Go for backend development in secure, distributed systems Experience working with More ❯

This is a fantastic opportunity to work as a remote Azure Platform Engineer for a FTSE listed company, inside IR35. It's important to note that this Azure Platform Engineer will be required on site for 2 days per week in either Blackfriars, London, or Sheffield city centre. The key experience required for this Azure Platform Engineer … role is: Azure Terraform Azure networking ARM If you do have the relevant skills for this Azure Platform Engineer contract, please do apply. More ❯