1 to 25 of 33 Contract High Availability Jobs in the South East

DBA (SQL) - 6-month FTC

Hiring Organisation
Saga Group
Location
Folkestone, Kent, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£45,000
team. You will report to the Lead Technology Engineer and work alongside our expert DBAs. In this role you will be responsible for the availability, security, performance and stability of the SQL platforms used across the Saga Group. We will require you to have at least mid-level skill … need to be proficient with backups/recovery, monitoring, security, and SSIS/SSRS for ETL/reporting and monitoring tools. Also, knowledge of high availability (e.g., Always On, clustering), disaster recovery, security management and data migration would be beneficial for this FTC support to the team. ...

DBA Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£425 - £465/day
routine database maintenance tasks, including backups, restores, and patching. Monitor database performance and troubleshoot issues. Manage database security and access control. Implement and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Required Skills: Proven experience as a DBA Specialist or similar role. Strong understanding of database concepts and principles. … Azure SQL Database, Google Cloud SQL) is a plus. Experience with scripting languages (esp. PowerShell) is highly desirable. Experience with database replication, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions. Awareness of Apache Tomcat & JVM Experience of overcoming VLDB challenges. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. Strong communication and interpersonal ...

Juniper Network Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Tria
Location
Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £650/day
Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Key Responsibilities Design and implement enterprise LAN/WAN/WLAN networks using Juniper technologies Plan and deploy high-availability, resilient, and scalable network architectures Integrate on-premise infrastructure with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) Configure and manage Juniper routers, switches, and firewalls Implement … series or equivalent) Juniper switches (EX/QFX series) Juniper SRX firewalls Solid understanding of: Routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS) VLANs, MPLS, VPNs High-availability and failover technologies Experience integrating enterprise networks with AWS and/or Azure Strong troubleshooting capability in complex, multi-site environments Experience ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
MarkIT Placements
Location
Didcot, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £500 to £700 per day
permanent Key Responsibilities Yourresponsibilitieswillinclude, but not limited to: Backend architecture &APIs (primary focus) Design and evolve scalable backend services in Python using FastAPI for high-availability, high-throughput workloads. Build well-versioned RESTful APIs aligned to OpenAPI/Swagger, with strong conventions for consistency, idempotency, and backward …/ECS). Experience with API versioning, security, documentation strategies, and automated testing. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently with high ownership. Soft skills High-agency engineer who owns outcomes end to end. Pragmatic, research-driven approach with a bias to ship and iterate. ...

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Outsource
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
business and user outcomes. Lead incident management, post-incident reviews, and remediation planning. Architecture & Resilience Review and advise on system architecture to improve scalability, availability, and fault isolation. Design strategies for high availability, graceful degradation, and disaster recovery across multi-region environments. Quantify trade-offs between performance … Python, or Java, building automation or reliability systems. Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines with deployment safety guardrails. Proven track record leading high-severity incidents and driving systemic remediation. Excellent interpersonal skills with experience influencing cross-team decisions. Preferred Qualifications Experience with multi-cloud or multi-region ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sphere Digital Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£550 - £551 per day
defining reliability standards, influencing architectural improvements, managing complex incidents, and building automation to improve deployment safety and operational efficiency. Your work will directly support high-traffic systems used by a global audience. Key Responsibilities Reliability & Risk Engineering My client is looking for someone who can: Identify systemic reliability risks … network infrastructure is key Experiecne working as senrio SRE particularly around AWS Architecture & Resilience You will: Review and influence system architecture to improve scalability, availability, and fault isolation Design strategies for high availability, graceful degradation, and disaster recovery Evaluate trade-offs between performance, cost, and operational risk ...

Senior DevOps Engineer SC-Cleared

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Competitive salary
week in the office (base office can be London or Leeds) Please note: An active SC Clearance is required for this role Our high-profile Banking client is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join the team responsible for the Bank's Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS … Strong production support experience, including on-call and OOH releases. Significant hands-on experience with on-prem Kubernetes/OpenShift. Linux systems administration in high-availability environments. Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with CI/CD integration (Jenkins). Deep understanding of observability tooling: ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana. ...

Senior Java Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Total Recruitment Group
Location
Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £530 per day Inside IR35
month onsite in Oxford Contract Were hiring a security-focused Fullstack Java Engineer (Java + Angular) to support the modernisation of high-availability, cloud-native digital services operating at scale. This role is centred around secure coding, scalable architecture, relational database design, and strong cross-team communication within … DevSecOps environment. What Youll Be Doing: Designing and building secure, scalable microservices Developing high-performance REST APIs backed by Postgres/Oracle (advanced SQL, performance tuning, schema design) Modernising legacy systems into resilient, cloud-native architectures Embedding secure coding standards, identity and secrets management Supporting CI/CD pipelines ...

Red Hat Deployment and Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Wokingham, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £400 to £420 per day
Cleared Preferred SC Eligible Can be considered The Role We are seeking an experienced Red Hat Deployment and Platform Engineer to join our high-performance engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for deploying, automating, and maintaining enterprise-grade platforms built on Red Hat technologies and container orchestration … Responsibilities Platform Deployment & Engineering Deploy, configure, and manage platforms based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and related technologies. Implement and maintain Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability, and secure configurations. Manage build, deployment, and orchestration processes using Jenkins and similar CI/CD tools. Deployment Automation & Pipeline Management ...

PowerShell DSC Engineer ArcGIS Enterprise Automation

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Wokingham, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £350 to £380 per day
event responses, ensuring ArcGIS Enterprise components remain fully functional and consistent across all VMSS nodes. Optimize VMSS deployment images and custom script extensions for high availability GIS workloads. Cloud & Infrastructure Support Support automated deployments in Azure cloud environments. Manage infrastructure provisioning scripts using Terraform. Optimize system performance ...

Senior RedHat Linux Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£350 - £368/day
ensuring stability, automation, and continuous improvement across services. Working within an ITIL/DevSecOps-based support model, you will engage directly with customers, produce high-quality documentation, and ensure critical systems remain secure, optimised, and highly available. Knowledge, Experience & Technical Expertise Proven track record in the design, build … Strong understanding of network protocols and topologies Extensive customer-facing experience within an IT service environment Experience supporting business-critical, real-time systems with high availability requirements Methodical, positive, and solutions-focused approach to problem-solving Proven accountability in driving issues through to successful resolution Ability to produce ...

Senior Network Engineer - NSX - SC Cleared

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550/day
remote About the Role We are delivering a modern managed infrastructure platform designed to replace complex legacy enterprise environments. The programme focuses on high levels of automation, repeatable infrastructure design patterns, and rapid deployment of business solutions . The platform leverages modern Windows and VMware technologies and integrates automation … Implement network virtualisation and micro-segmentation strategies . Deploy and manage VMware AVI load balancers to support modern application delivery, automation, and analytics. Ensure high availability, performance optimisation, and security across network services. Design and maintain identity and access management solutions aligned with tiered access models . Conduct ...

Tech lead - AWS Connect AI - Luton, UK

Hiring Organisation
Infoplus Technologies UK Ltd
Location
Luton, Bedfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
including operations, data science, and Product, to define requirements and deliver robust solutions. Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance existing automation and AI systems to ensure high availability and performance. Stay abreast of new AWS features and emerging technologies in automation and AI, applying best practices to drive continuous improvement. ...

Network Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Rise Technical Recruitment
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550/day
client is looking for an experienced Network Engineer to be responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and maintaining enterprise network infrastructure with a focus on high availability, performance, and resilience. You will provide advanced technical leadership across routing, switching, firewall administration, and network security operations. ...

NSX-T Engineer / Architect | SC Cleared

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson
Location
Farnborough, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£550 - £750 per day
scalable network solutions across mission-critical environments. This is an opportunity to work at the forefront of software-defined networking within a complex, high-security landscape. Key Responsibilities Lead the design, deployment, and administration of VMware NSX-T, including logical switching, routing, distributed firewalls, and micro- Architect robust Layer … advanced firewalling and security controls, including segmentation strategies, IDS/IPS, and zero-trust methodologies. Support and optimise L4/L7 load balancing and high-availability patterns. Deploy and enhance SD-WAN architectures to ensure resilient, high-performance connectivity. Drive network automation using Python, Ansible, or vendor ...

NSX-T Engineer / Architect SC Cleared

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Government and Defence
Location
Farnborough, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £750 per day
scalable network solutions across mission-critical environments. This is an opportunity to work at the forefront of software-defined networking within a complex, high-security landscape. Key Responsibilities Lead the design, deployment, and administration of VMware NSX-T, including logical switching, routing, distributed firewalls, and micro- Architect robust Layer … advanced firewalling and security controls, including segmentation strategies, IDS/IPS, and zero-trust methodologies. Support and optimise L4/L7 load balancing and high-availability patterns. Deploy and enhance SD-WAN architectures to ensure resilient, high-performance connectivity. Drive network automation using Python, Ansible, or vendor ...

SQL DBA

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £417.22 per day + Inside IR-35
experienced SQL DBA to support a range of secure government platforms. You'll work within a skilled technical team to deliver reliable, high-performing database services across Microsoft SQL Server environments, with additional exposure to PostgreSQL and MySQL. Day to day, you'll handle installation, configuration, patching and maintenance … plus performance tuning, monitoring, and health checks. You'll own backup and recovery processes, high-availability solutions, and troubleshooting of complex database issues. You'll also support developers with database design, schema improvements and optimised SQL. The role involves improving performance through indexing strategies, query optimisation and capacity ...

Senior Network Architect - DV Cleared

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £550 per day
will design and deliver medium to large scale network solutions while supporting multiple work streams and engaging with technical and project stakeholders across a high profile environment. About the Role - Network Architect As a Network Architect , you will work closely with Programme and Project Managers to produce high … Network Architect Strong experience designing secure enterprise networks using Cisco , Juniper , and Gigamon technologies. Knowledge of routing protocols , VRFs, VPNs, QoS, security zones, high availability, and IP addressing design. Skilled in troubleshooting and resolving defects across multi vendor technologies. Experience of overseas infrastructure delivery is essential. Understanding ...

Infrastructure Engineer (Virtualisation)

Hiring Organisation
KBC Technologies UK LTD
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
operate, and continuously improve virtualisation platforms (VMware vSphere/ESXi, Hyper-V). Manage platform lifecycle: patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and hardware refreshes. Ensure high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness. Automate infrastructure provisioning and standardise virtualisation builds. Troubleshoot complex incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive ...

Infrastructure Virtualisation Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Guidant Global
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£350 - £500/day
implementation, and troubleshooting of the following: VMwareESXi Distributed Virtual Switches Distributed Resource Scheduler Distributed Power Management VMwarevSAN Hybrid and All Flash storage configurations VMwarevCenter High Availability; Clustering; Cross-site failure and resiliency VMwareNSX Microsegmentation Firewalling Cross Site VC NSX VMware Horizon At least one professional Virtualisation certification that ...

Senior Business Analyst (Microsoft 365)

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Slough, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£42,450 - £56,500 per annum
week. Supplier-provided Windows 11-compatible laptop required. We are seeking a highly skilled Critical Environment Field Service Engineer to support and maintain high-availability datacentre operations. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer with strong mechanical/electrical expertise and a passion for delivering safe … equipment maintenance, repairs, and emergency services. Share knowledge with team members to strengthen operational capability and technical understanding. Service Delivery Maximise Critical Environment (CE) availability in partnership with landlord datacenter teams. Oversee day-to-day operation and maintenance of mechanical and electrical systems (MOP/SOP/EOP review ...

DevOps Engineer - Contract - Inside IR35

Hiring Organisation
Morgan McKinley
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
with relevant teams Unblock infrastructure-related issues impacting delivery Monitoring & Reliability Support monitoring and alerting for platform services Work with Ops teams to ensure high availability and reliability Contribute to ongoing platform stability improvements Additional Responsibilities Support integration with upstream/downstream systems Assist with performance testing (including ...

IT Manager

Hiring Organisation
Robert Half
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
within a fast paced, regulated environment. Responsibilities: Manage and maintain all IT infrastructure including networks, servers, cloud platforms, endpoints, and core business applications Ensure high availability, performance, resilience, and security of IT systems Oversee 1st, 2nd, and 3rd line support and act as the senior escalation point Establish ...

Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring Organisation
VIQU IT
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£350 - £450/day
Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining, supporting, and optimising the organisation’s core infrastructure estate. You’ll play a key role in ensuring high availability, performance, and security across the Windows-based environment. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys operational stability, proactive improvement ...

ServiceNow Architect

Hiring Organisation
Infoplus Technologies UK Ltd
Location
Reading, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £500 to £550 per day
ability to create and debug patterns for application services. Sound understanding of ITIL/ITSM processes, including incident, problem, and change management. Experience with high-availability, multi-tier architectures. Preferred : ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist Event Management (CIS-EM) is preferred. Additional ServiceNow certifications (CSA, CAD, CIS-ITOM ...