1 to 25 of 87 Contract Platform Engineering Jobs in the UK

Engineering Lead - Platform / Automation Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Essential Consulting
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£600 per day - Inside IR35
Engineering Lead - Platform/Automation Engineering Location: Sheffield (Hybrid 3 days onsite) Contract: Inside IR35 (c.£600pd) Duration: 6-12 months initially, with good potential for extension We are supporting a global banking organisation within their Digital Business Automation engineering function as they look to hire … Engineering Leads responsible for enterprise-scale automation and platform engineering teams. These roles sit within globally distributed engineering teams supporting critical enterprise platforms including Managed File Transfer and Service Orchestration & Automation capabilities. Historically the teams have been heavily aligned to vendor products/tools, however ...

Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
WRK DIGITAL LTD
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £75 to £75 per hour
Engineering Manager (Platform/Cloud) £600/day (Inside IR35) | Fully Remote | Contract Client: Leading Tech Consultancy (Government Programme) Overview Were partnering with a leading technology consultancy delivering a large-scale government cloud migration programme. They are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager with a strong Platform Engineering background to lead a growing team and drive the evolution of modern, secure cloud platforms. This role sits within a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) and the successful candidate will need to have excellent stakeholder management and interpersoonal sklls. The Role As Engineering Manager, you will ...

Associate Consultant

Hiring Organisation
RT Consulting
Location
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £600 per day
alignment with Government policy, stakeholder expectations, and long-term impact goals. We specialise in the delivery of Cloud & Digital Infrastructure services , including multi-cloud engineering (AWS, Azure, GCP), secure cloud platforms, DevSecOps and automation, Site Reliability Engineering, digital workplace technologies, and resilient, scalable infrastructure operations across complex … Invitation: We invite you to join our Cloud & Digital Infrastructure consulting team , where we can align you to current and upcoming demand across cloud engineering, secure platform engineering, DevSecOps/SRE, and modern infrastructure transformation. We are particularly building capability in: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Google ...

Secure Cloud & DevSecOps (GCP / GDC)

Hiring Organisation
RT Consulting
Location
Patchway, Bristol, Avon, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 - £600 per day
alignment with Government policy, stakeholder expectations, and long-term impact goals. We specialise in the delivery of Cloud & Digital Infrastructure services , including multi-cloud engineering (AWS, Azure, GCP), secure cloud platforms, DevSecOps and automation, Site Reliability Engineering, digital workplace technologies, and resilient, scalable infrastructure operations across complex … Invitation: We invite you to join our Cloud & Digital Infrastructure consulting team , where we can align you to current and upcoming demand across cloud engineering, secure platform engineering, DevSecOps/SRE, and modern infrastructure transformation. We are particularly building capability in: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Google ...

SENIOR APPLICATION SECURITY ENGINEER (OUTSIDE IR35)

Hiring Organisation
Secure Recruitment Ltd
Location
East London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £900 per day £800-900 per Day (Outside IR35)
SENIOR APPLICATION SECURITY ENGINEER AGENTIC AI SECURITY PLATFORM £800 - 900 per Day (Dependent on Experience) Our Client is a major Financial Services Organisation undertaking a major Security Architecture Programme. They are now entering the Production Build Phase of an Agentic Application Security Agent that will fundamentally change how their … Application Security is Delivered within the SDLC. Early Phases of the Programme have already defined the Target Architecture, Threat Model & Prompt Engineering Strategy . The Next Stage is to Transform this Foundation into a Production - Grade Capability Used Daily by Engineering Teams , enabling Developers to: Triage Application Security ...

Quality Engineer - AI (Contract)

Hiring Organisation
Tec Partners Recruitment Ltd
Location
London, Walbrook, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£650 - £750/day
Quality Engineer - AI Platform Engineering Employment Type: Inside IR35 Contract Duration: 6 Months Rate: £650 - £750/Day Location: Central London, Hybrid (3 Days Onsite per Week) Opportunity Overview A global organisation is building a centralised AI enablement and platform engineering function focused on delivering scalable … assistants, retrieval and search services, extensibility frameworks, and governance tooling. Programme Overview The programme is focused on delivering a production-grade internal agentic AI platform, including: Development of an enterprise AI assistant capable of reasoning, planning, and tool orchestration Operation of enterprise retrieval, search, and grounding services for approved ...

Lead DevOps Engineer - SC/DV/NPPV3

Hiring Organisation
IO Associates
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £850 per day
Lead DevOps Engineer to support the design, delivery, and operation of secure cloud and data platforms. You'll bring strong AWS and DevOps engineering experience, with the ability to work across platform engineering, data infrastructure, MLOps foundations, and technical assurance in complex or constrained environments. Key Skills … Experience Strong AWS platform engineering and operations experience Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise CI/CD delivery using GitLab CI and/or GitHub Actions Experience managing multi-environment platforms (dev, test, prod) Knowledge of cloud security, monitoring, logging, and cost optimisation Experience with secure or restricted ...

Integration Lead - Secure Digital Platform

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Integration Lead - Secure Digital Platform 6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - market rate Reading based - 5 days a week onsite Defence sector - need to be eligible for SC Clearance - current and active SC Cleared already is strongly preferred Role Description The Integration Lead is responsible for leading the technical design … within the Secure Digital Platform. The Integration Lead partners with Delivery Leads, product owners and architects, to lead and manage the technical implementation of platform capabilities and enterprise services to the roadmap planned for each platform. The Integration Lead acts as a hands-on technical leader and subject matter ...

Lead AI DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Engineer Technical leadership at the intersection of software, platforms, and AI We're seeking a Lead AI-Enabled DevOps Engineer to join a growing engineering capability and play a central role in shaping how AI is embedded into real, production-grade software systems . This is not a traditional … existing systems need to evolve to support new capabilities safely and effectively. You will: Provide technical leadership across AI-enabled software and DevOps engineering teams Set architectural direction for API-first design, system integration, and platform enablement for AI Lead the modernisation of legacy or existing applications toward ...

Platform Engineer - Leeds/Remote - £450+ p/d Inside IR35

Hiring Organisation
Exalto Consulting ltd
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450+ per day Inside IR35
Senior Python Developer with Platform Engineering Exposure Rate: £450 per day Inside IR35 Duration: 6 months initially Start: ASAP Location: Mostly remote, with travel to Leeds around once per month Clearance: SC clearance required or must be eligible On-call: Required once up to speed, currently … support a nationally critical healthcare integration and messaging platform. The role is primarily hands-on Python development, with responsibility for contributing to cloud-native platform work, improving CI/CD processes, supporting code quality gates, and helping ensure deployments meet security, technical and governance standards. Key Skills Strong Python ...

Python Developer - Leeds/Remote - £450+ p/d Inside IR35

Hiring Organisation
Exalto Consulting
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Senior Python Developer with Platform Engineering Exposure Rate: £450 per day Inside IR35 Duration: 6 months initially Start: ASAP Location: Mostly remote, with travel to Leeds around once per month Clearance: SC clearance required or must be eligible On-call: Required once up to speed, currently … support a nationally critical healthcare integration and messaging platform. The role is primarily hands-on Python development, with responsibility for contributing to cloud-native platform work, improving CI/CD processes, supporting code quality gates, and helping ensure deployments meet security, technical and governance standards. Key Skills Strong Python ...

Lead Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Lead Platform Engineer Building the platforms that make AI and machine learning work in production We're looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to join a growing engineering organisation and play a pivotal role in designing, building, and operating an MLOps platform that enables … . The focus is not simply on running Kubernetes clusters - it's on layering real MLOps capability on top of Kubernetes to create a platform that is usable, supportable, and trusted in live environments. What you'll be doing You'll act as a technical leader across platform ...

Senior Engineering Manager

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Senior Engineering Manager (AI) Growing people, teams, and modern engineering capability in an AI-enabled world We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager (AI) to support, grow, and enable high-performing engineering teams , with a strong focus on AI-assisted development, engineering acceleration … modern ways of working . This is a senior, people-focused leadership role for someone who brings deep credibility from a software engineering background and is ready to lead through coaching, influence, and judgement rather than hands-on delivery. You'll play a key role in shaping how teams ...

AWS Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Brio Digital
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£650/day
Platform Engineer - NHS Experience Required Location: Leeds (1 day per month on-site) Rate: £650 per day Inside IR35 Contract Length: Until November 2026 Overview We are looking for an experienced AWS Platform Engineer to join a critical NHS programme on a contract basis. You will be responsible … designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, leading the migration from Puppet to a fully Terraform-driven platform across a complex, regulated healthcare environment. Key Responsibilities Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform as the primary IaC tool Lead the transition away from Puppet toward Terraform-based configuration management ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pro Contract Jobs Ltd
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450 per day Inside IR35
Platform Engineer - Leeds/Remote - £450+ p/d Inside IR35 Senior Python Developer with Platform Engineering Exposure Rate: £450 per day Inside IR35 Duration: 6 months initially Start: ASAP Location: Mostly remote, with travel to Leeds around once per month Clearance: SC clearance required or must ...

DevOps Engineer (IAM - Identity Access Management)

Hiring Organisation
GCS
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £570/day
code, develop the capability to manage, maintain and write policies, Containerization & Kubernetes (GKE), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm/Kustomize, GKE Ops CI/CD engineering, pipeline authoring, artifacts management, testing automation, deployment strategy Data pipeline and DevOps (KAFKA/PubSub) - Kafka basics, schema registry, streaming infra and monitoring Graph platform engineering, Neo4j basics, backups, recovery and DR GDS/APOC, observability DevSecOps & platform security, security scanning, IAM and identity, network security, compliance Release engineering and governance, release ops, change management, documentation Regionalisation and compliance, regional deployments and failover, data residency, conditional access Soft Skills Strong problem ...

DevOps Engineer - SC / NPPV3

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 - £550 per day
looking for a hands-on DevOps/Platform Engineer to support an AWS-based platform, focusing on infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and platform reliability. You must have SC Clearance and Active NPPV3 to be considered for this role. Essential Skills Strong Terraform (IaC) experience Solid … Experience with DevOps practices & automation Scripting: Python, Bash, Ansible Docker & Kubernetes (working knowledge) Strong understanding of cloud security best practices 5+ years DevOps/Platform Engineering experience Desirable AWS data services (Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, QuickSight) GitLab/Artifactory administration Config mgmt tools (Puppet, Salt, Ansible) Monitoring: Grafana ...

Senior AI DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
operate modern software systems where AI meets production reality We're looking for a Senior AI-Enabled DevOps Engineer to join a growing engineering capability working on complex, important software systems that increasingly embed AI to improve delivery, decision-making, and operational effectiveness . This is a hands … senior engineering role for someone who enjoys operating across software development, DevOps, and modern cloud platforms . You won't be a people manager, but you will be a trusted senior engineer, shaping technical approaches, raising engineering standards, and helping teams deliver reliable systems in production. What ...

Platform Engineer - Azure, DevOps - CONTRACT (Outside IR35)

Hiring Organisation
BMR Associates Limited
Location
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Competitive salary
Azure DevOps, App Service, Azure SQL Database, IaC, Terraform, Application Gateway, API Management My client is actively seeking an AZURE DEVOPS/PLATFORM ENGINEER who is ready to hit the ground running for a number of new projects and has a proven track record of implementing Azure Infrastructure/… Platform solutions from the ground up. To be considered, you must have a strong Azure infrastructure and Platform background and come with 5 years demonstrable hands on Azure DevOps engineering experience, specifically App Service, API Management, Azure SQL Database, Databricks, Storage Accounts and ServiceBus. As well ...

Senior Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
Warwick, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550/day
Rate: £500-£550 per day (umbrella) Role Overview: As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the Interconnectors Data Platform (ICDP), a cloud-based data warehouse essential for commercial, financial modeling, and operational decision-making. With the platform evolving towards a modernized Medallion … Architecture and Azure-native ingestion patterns, your expertise will drive architectural direction and technical leadership. Key Responsibilities: Data Architecture & Platform Engineering: Lead the design and implementation of scalable data architectures using Bronze/Silver/Gold layered models. Shape the platform's architectural roadmap, ensuring alignment with ...

Data Engineer Lead Role - Hybrid - Banking

Hiring Organisation
GCS
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £700/day Inside IR35
days per week in an office in Liverpool Street (London) Role The Data Engineer Lead is responsible for designing, building, and supporting modern data platform, with a particular focus on Databricks, cloud-based data engineering, and leading the migration of legacy Oracle systems into scalable, cloud-native environments. … data models that enable analytics, regulatory reporting, and data-driven decision-making. The post holder plays a key leadership role within the Data Engineering function, shaping architectural direction, ensuring engineering excellence, and partnering with Technology, Architecture, and Business teams across the organisation. Tech Stack SQL Oracle Python ...

Senior Engineer

Hiring Organisation
WRK DIGITAL LTD
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £56.25 to £62.50 per hour
cloud estate of 20+ applications and services . This is a fast-paced, hands-on role where youll play a key part in ensuring platform stability, resolving complex incidents, and maintaining high availability across production environments. The Role Youll be embedded within a DevOps-focused support team, working across … cloud platforms and modern engineering environments to manage BAU operations and critical incidents. Key responsibilities include: Managing and resolving complex L3 incidents across multiple applications Supporting BAU operations for a large, production-critical estate Driving platform stability and performance improvements Collaborating with engineering, cloud, and delivery teams ...

DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
GCS
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £620/day
code, develop the capability to manage, maintain and write policies, Containerization & Kubernetes (GKE), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm/Kustomize, GKE Ops CI/CD engineering, pipeline authoring, artifacts management, testing automation, deployment strategy Data pipeline and DevOps (KAFKA/PubSub) - Kafka basics, schema registry, streaming infra and monitoring Graph platform engineering, Neo4j basics, backups, recovery and DR GDS/APOC, observability DevSecOps & platform security, security scanning, IAM and identity, network security, compliance Release engineering and governance, release ops, change management, documentation Regionalisation and compliance, regional deployments and failover, data residency, conditional access GCS is acting ...

DevOps Manager

Hiring Organisation
VIQU IT Recruitment
Location
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£325 per day
Cardiff VIQU have partnered with an NHS organisation who are looking for a DevOps Manager to take ownership of an Azure-based DevOps and platform function, combining hands-on technical leadership with line management responsibility for a small DevOps and test team. The successful DevOps Manager will play … role in maturing DevOps practices, improving CI/CD, automation, monitoring and platform reliability, while leading and setting clear expectations for the team across DevOps and test disciplines. Responsibilities: Lead and line manage a small multi-disciplinary DevOps and test team, providing day-to-day leadership, coaching and mentoring ...

Research Development Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Apex Systems US
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£35 - £40/hour
months intent) Location: A minimum of 50% per week is expected onsite rising to 60% at some point in the future. Required Strong software engineering skills in Python, with demonstrable experience building maintainable, well-tested, and production-quality systems, together with strong engineering hygiene practices including testing, code … Demonstrated ability to work in environments with high uncertainty, e.g., completed PhD or substantial R&D or startup experience. This focuses more on the engineering aspects than before: Shifted emphasis from evaluation/research to platform engineering, APIs, data pipelines, deployment, and operational reliability Added CI/ ...