1 to 25 of 27 Contract Cost Optimisation Jobs in the UK

MLOps Platform Manager, Palantir

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£550 - £700 per day
improvement backlog Prioritise improvements based on business value, risk, cost and developer experience Manage capacity, usage monitoring and cost optimisation Manage relationships with Palantir, delivery partners and other platform suppliers Define standards, reference architectures and reusable patterns for data products and ML workloads Requirements Strong … Nice to Have Cloud experience across Azure, AWS or GCP ITIL or formal service management experience Experience in regulated environments Cloud cost optimisation experience Model risk, responsible AI or AI governance experience Key Skills Palantir, Foundry, AIP, MLOps, Platform Management, Data Platform, Model Deployment, CI/ ...

Senior Finance Business Partner

Hiring Organisation
Distinct Recruitment
Location
Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£80,000 - £95,000 per annum
highly commercial role in which you will partner with senior leaders across Technology, Operations, and Support Functions to drive planning, cost optimisation, and strategic decision-making. You’ll take ownership of forecasting, reporting, and financial modelling across key cost areas, while playing a central role … Oversee accounting for capitalised development costs Support operating model and headcount planning Deliver insightful analysis and clear month-end commentary Drive cost optimisation and operational efficiency initiatives Build strong relationships with senior non-finance stakeholders About You: Strong FP&A, commercial finance, or business partnering background Experience ...

AVP - IT Finance

Hiring Organisation
HAYS
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 450 - 525 Daily
financial performance across Capex and Revex, highlighting risks and opportunities Providing financial analysis and insight to support decision-making and cost optimisation Producing detailed cost analytics and variance analysis against budget and forecast Managing cost-sharing agreements and service level arrangements with global … strong PowerPoint capability Confident communication and presentation skills A proactive, self-motivated approach and strong team ethic A good understanding of IT cost structures and, ideally, the IT project delivery lifecycle What you'll get in return n return, you'll receive: A competitive salary and benefits package ...

Senior Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Salt
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £650.00 per day
with developers, infrastructure teams, analysts and third party suppliers * Provide technical leadership and mentoring to project teams and junior architects * Support cost optimisation, monitoring and operational governance across Azure estates Required Experience * Proven experience working as a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect or Technical Architect within large scale ...

Infrastructure/Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£480 - £655 per day
role where your work directly translates into measurable performance gains and cost savings at scale. What you'll be doing Drive infrastructure optimisation initiatives across large-scale Kubernetes environments (GKE) Identify and implement improvements in resource utilisation (CPU, memory, workload placement) Tune JVM-based services to enhance … performance and efficiency Build automation to roll out optimisation changes safely across production systems Work closely with data to analyse usage patterns and drive cost-efficiency decisions Contribute to reliability practices, including safe deployments and incident response Tech stack Kubernetes (GKE), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Helm ...

AWS Cloud Platform Architect, OUTSIDE IR35, Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
aligned with our clients vision and strategy for cloud platforms. Lead AWS design of secure and scalable cloud platforms, ensuring resilience and cost efficiency. Collaborate with security … compliance and engineering teams to ensure seamless cloud integration with existing and future platforms. Develop robust technical governance for AWS including cost optimisation and compliance. Manage any architectural issues (e.g. technical debt), risks and escalations, documenting and raising via the appropriate governance structures. Advise on cloud platform ...

AWS Cloud Platform Architect, OUTSIDE IR35, Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
aligned with our clients vision and strategy for cloud platforms. Lead AWS design of secure and scalable cloud platforms, ensuring resilience and cost efficiency. Collaborate with security … compliance and engineering teams to ensure seamless cloud integration with existing and future platforms. Develop robust technical governance for AWS including cost optimisation and compliance. Manage any architectural issues (e.g. technical debt), risks and escalations, documenting and raising via the appropriate governance structures. Advise on cloud platform ...

Solutions Architect

Hiring Organisation
Henderson Scott
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £850 per day + inside IR35
defining technical standards, roadmaps and blueprints across services Cloud expertise across major providers (Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle), including IaC, governance and cost optimisation Desirable experience: Designing solutions for sensitive or secure environments Applying zero trust principles Embedding security into all phases of solution design Identity and access ...

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring Organisation
VIQU IT Recruitment
Location
Warwick, Warwickshire, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450 - 500 per day
vSphere/ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V. Operational Support & Incident Management Governance & Cost Management - Azure Understanding of governance frameworks, cost optimisation strategies, and usage monitoring across cloud and hybrid platforms. Experience with Infrastructure as a code would be beneficial Key Responsibilities from the Cloud Infrastructure … point for incidents, leading troubleshooting and root cause analysis. Apply security best practices using automation and Infrastructure as Code. Implement and improve governance, cost control, and compliance standards. Promote best practices in monitoring, backup, resilience, and disaster recovery. Collaborate with architecture and security teams to align with organisational ...

MLOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£550 - £650 per day
rollback where required. Implement and maintain security, risk and compliance controls for data and machine learning workloads. Manage the platform roadmap, cost optimisation activities and key supplier relationships. Your Skills & Experience Strong experience operating Palantir platforms in production, or comparable enterprise data platforms, with ownership of platform … working closely with security, risk and governance teams to evidence controls and support audits. Confident stakeholder management skills, able to balance delivery speed, cost and risk across technical and non technical teams. A service owner mindset with a focus on stability, continuous improvement and enabling delivery teams. ...

Azure Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Opus Recruitment Solutions
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £550/day InsideIR35
service engineering Embed DevOps, SRE, and DevSecOps best practices, driving automation, security, and continuous improvement Support incident management, root cause analysis, cost optimisation, and ensure scalable, resilient environments supporting modern architectures Platform Engineer | 6 month contract | £400-£550 InsideIR35 | Hybrid 2/3 days onsite london This ...

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Hiring Organisation
UA Consulting
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £300 to £400 per day
Role Were looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help shape and drive how we build and operate reliable, observable, and cost-efficient systems. Youll work closely with development, platform, and incident management teams to define what reliable means in measurable terms and build the tooling … guide engineering decisions. Enhance observability ensuring metrics, logs, and tracing are in place to detect and fix issues proactively. Lead cost optimisation initiatives: monitor spend, rightsize workloads, tune autoscaling, and drive efficient infrastructure usage. Strengthen production readiness with pre-deployment checks, post-release validation, and robust platform ...

MLOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£550 - £650 per day
planning, testing and communication to stakeholders.Implement and maintain security, risk and compliance controls across data and machine learning workloads.Manage platform roadmap, cost optimisation and supplier relationships to maximise value and developer experience. Your Skills and Experience Strong experience operating Databricks in production, including workspace administration, cluster policies … governance stakeholders to evidence controls and support audits.Ability to engage and influence across data engineering, data science and analytics teams, balancing speed, cost and risk. How to Apply: If this contract sounds like a good fit for your experience and interests, please apply to find out more. ...

Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring Organisation
VIQU IT
Location
Warwick, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £500/day
/ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V. Proven experience supporting production infrastructure and resolving complex technical incidents. Familiarity with operational governance, platform monitoring and cost management principles. Experience contributing to technical infrastructure projects and supporting delivery into live environments. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability … troubleshooting and root cause analysis, and coordinate timely service restoration. Assist with infrastructure governance activities, including platform standards, usage monitoring and cost optimisation initiatives. Contribute to infrastructure and platform projects through design, implementation, testing and transition into operational support. The Infrastructure Engineer is required to work onsite ...

Java Backend Developer - London, UK (Fully REMOTE)

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£650 - £750/day
Beam , Dataflow , or Spark ). Familiarity with BigQuery , SQL , Scala , and DevOps/Cloud infrastructure ( Kubernetes ). Prior experience with pipeline migrations and cost optimization This is an urgent vacancy with a deadline where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy ...

Principal Data Architect - Energy, Renewables, Azure

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
into technical controls Own CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, SLAs Ensure platform runs on a predictable monthly data cycle Manage cost optimisation and scaling Lead onboarding of external partners (asset owners) Communicate across technical and commercial stakeholders Build trust in a shared-data environment Nice ...

Interim Head of Software Engineering, Higher Education

Hiring Organisation
Tria
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£650 - £725/day
include: Large-scale AI and automation programmes Multi-cloud transformation across AWS and Azure Cloud migration activity Central data repository initiatives Cost optimisation programmes Introduction of new products and systems What We're Looking For We are keen to speak with candidates who can demonstrate: Strong software ...

AWS Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £725/day
solutions. You'll work closely with CloudOps, DevOps, engineering teams, and customer stakeholders to design cloud platforms that are scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective. This is a hands-on role but also highly collaborative and strategic - ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems while guiding … Establish central AWS transit and network infrastructure, acting as the core gateway for all inter-account communication and outbound traffic to external services. Cost Optimization: Designing cost-effective solutions by selecting appropriate AWS services and implementing cost management strategies. High Availability and Disaster Recovery ...

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Alzheimers Society
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£55,000
equally comfortable diving into a complex incident at pace and stepping back to think about how we build more resilient, secure and cost-effective cloud services over time. You take security seriously, communicate with clarity across technical and non-technical audiences, and you thrive in environments where collaboration … Security team to embed good practice across everything we build and run. Helping us get more from what we have through cost optimisation, service rationalisation and smarter configuration. Being a dependable partner to suppliers and managed service providers, holding them to the standard our users deserve. Championing ...

IT Project Manager - AWS Platform

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550/day
deployment. Requirements Proven experience managing AWS-based platforms and infrastructure projects. Strong background in vendor and 3rd-party management . Experience with cloud cost/resource optimization (FinOps mindset). Ability to work autonomously in an Outside IR35 capacity. Flexibility to visit the London office once per month. ...

Azure Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£650 - £690/day
staging, production) using Azure environment and release management principles. Experience applying Azure Well-Architected Framework and cloud design patterns (resilience, scalability, cost optimisation). Solid understanding of integration patterns, APIs, data flows, and interface design. Demonstrable experience working in multi vendor delivery landscapes. Strong documentation skills, with ...

Transformation Manager

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
Warwick, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£1000/day
days a week in office) Rate: £1,200 per day (umbrella) Key Responsibilities: Value Achievement : Lead the execution of a comprehensive set of cost optimization initiatives aimed at achieving $27M in savings over three years. Cost Analysis : Identify areas for cost reduction while ensuring … Vendor Management: Collaborate with the Vendor Management team to negotiate favourable pricing, discounts, and terms with vendors and suppliers. Explore alternative solutions for cost advantages. Process Improvement: Monitor and recommend enhancements to existing processes that lead to cost savings and improved operational effectiveness. Budget Management: Partner ...

Cloud Efficiency Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£700 - £720 per day
will be directly optimizing our massive, JVM-heavy infrastructure-tuning autoscalers, profiling services, and finding the perfect balance between peak reliability and cloud cost efficiency. What You'll Do Optimize GKE at Scale: Hands-on rightsizing of massive Kubernetes workloads and advanced autoscaler tuning. Profile JVM Services: Deep … Impact: Translate cloud pricing models and scheduling decisions into tangible, multi-million-dollar savings. Navigate Trade-offs: Masterfully balance infrastructure reliability with aggressive cost optimization. What We're Looking For 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure with a proven, hands-on track record in resource efficiency ...

Cloud Infra Engg - GCP

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
Nationwide, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £720/day
will be directly optimizing our massive, JVM-heavy infrastructure-tuning autoscalers, profiling services, and finding the perfect balance between peak reliability and cloud cost efficiency. What You'll Do Optimize GKE at Scale: Hands-on rightsizing of massive Kubernetes workloads and advanced autoscaler tuning. Profile JVM Services: Deep … Impact: Translate cloud pricing models and scheduling decisions into tangible, multi-million-dollar savings. Navigate Trade-offs: Masterfully balance infrastructure reliability with aggressive cost optimization. What We're Looking For 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure with a proven, hands-on track record in resource efficiency ...

Finance Solutions GPO - E-commerce

Hiring Organisation
Lexstra Plc
Location
Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Daily
Finance Solutions GPO E-commerce, needed to support the administration and optimisation of a global eCommerce payments platform. This role will work closely with international finance teams, legal stakeholders, E-commerce platform specialists, and payment suppliers to ensure the smooth operation, compliance, and continuous improvement of E-commerce payment … global finance teams with reconciliation, payouts, refunds, and chargebacks Ensuring compliance with KYC, AML, tax, and operational requirements Monitoring payment processing costs and identifying optimisation opportunities Building strong relationships with payment suppliers and internal stakeholders Driving process improvements across E-commerce finance operations Hybrid role. 1-2 days ...