1 to 25 of 31 Contract High Availability Jobs in the UK excluding London

Oracle DBA

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£350 - £375/day
ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters), Oracle Data Guard, Performance Tuning & Optimization, and RMAN (Backup & Recovery) , ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, optimal performance, and operational excellence across enterprise database platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for the installation, configuration, administration … Responsibilities Administer, maintain, and support Oracle database environments in production, testing, and development landscapes. Design, implement, and manage Oracle RAC configurations to ensure high availability, scalability, and failover capabilities. Configure, monitor, and support Oracle Data Guard environments, including physical and logical standby databases, switchover, and failover activities. Perform ...

Oracle DBA

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£365 per day
ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters), Oracle Data Guard, Performance Tuning & Optimization, and RMAN (Backup & Recovery), ensuring high availability, disaster recovery readiness, optimal performance, and operational excellence across enterprise database platforms.The successful candidate will be responsible for the installation, configuration, administration, monitoring … Responsibilities: *Administer, maintain, and support Oracle database environments in production, testing, and development landscapes.*Design, implement, and manage Oracle RAC configurations to ensure high availability, scalability, and failover capabilities.*Configure, monitor, and support Oracle Data Guard environments, including physical and logical standby databases, switchover, and failover activities.*Perform ...

Dev Sec Ops Solutions Architect

Hiring Organisation
TEKsystems
Location
Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
environments. Responsibilities Provide end-to-end solution architecture and technical design for the IDAM 2.0 programme across business, application, data and infrastructure domains. Produce high-quality High Level Designs (HLDs) and Low Level Designs (LLDs) that clearly describe identity and access management solutions. Translate business, security and regulatory … architectures using Policy-as-Code approaches. Define patterns for secrets management, certificate life cycle management and PKI integration. Design resilience, disaster recovery and high-availability architectures for IAM platforms and services. Ensure all solutions meet non-functional requirements for security, scalability, resilience and performance. Produce architecture decision records ...

DBA - Oracle / SQL

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £470/day
required Are you an experienced Database Administrator with strong Oracle and SQL Server expertise? We're looking for a skilled DBA to join a high-profile programme supporting business-critical database infrastructure within a secure enterprise environment. This is an exciting opportunity to work on complex, mission-critical systems … where reliability, performance and security are paramount. The Role You'll be responsible for ensuring the performance, availability and stability of Oracle and SQL Server databases, supporting BAU operations while maintaining high service standards in a secure environment. Working as part of an experienced infrastructure team ...

Database Administrator

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
Telford, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£447/day 447.50 Inside IR35
Telford 6 months initially My client is a well-known consultancy seeking an database administrator. You'll be responsible for ensuring the performance, integrity, availability, and security of our database environments while supporting critical business applications and services. Job Responsibilities: Install, configure, maintain, and upgrade database management systems. Monitor … procedures are tested and effective. Implement and maintain database security controls and access management. Optimise database structures, indexing, and queries for maximum performance. Support high-availability, replication, and disaster recovery solutions. Collaborate with development teams to improve application performance and database usage. Produce and maintain technical documentation, procedures ...

UNIX Engineer - MUST BE SC CLEARED - Barrow in Furness, Cumbria - 6 MONTHS+

Hiring Organisation
Octopus Computer Associates
Location
Barrow-in-furness, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
managing and supporting enterprise UNIX environments, focusing on Oracle Solaris platforms and advanced virtualization technologies. This role involves system configuration, migration projects, and ensuring high availability through resilient cluster setups. Key Responsibilities Administer and maintain Oracle Solaris systems on T-series hardware (T5, T7, T8). Configure … manage LDOMs (Logical Domains) for virtualization. Perform system migrations and upgrades across UNIX environments. Design and implement resilience clusters for high availability and disaster recovery. Monitor system performance and troubleshoot complex UNIX issues. Collaborate with infrastructure and application teams to ensure seamless integration. Maintain compliance with security ...

Unix Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Experis IT
Location
Barrow-in-furness, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 55,000 - 60,000 Annual
managing and supporting enterprise UNIX environments, focusing on Oracle Solaris platforms and advanced virtualization technologies. This role involves system configuration, migration projects, and ensuring high availability through resilient cluster setups. Key Responsibilities Administer and maintain Oracle Solaris systems on T-series hardware (T5, T7, T8). Configure … manage LDOMs (Logical Domains) for virtualization. Perform system migrations and upgrades across UNIX environments. Design and implement resilience clusters for high availability and disaster recovery. Monitor system performance and troubleshoot complex UNIX issues. Collaborate with infrastructure and application teams to ensure seamless integration. Maintain compliance with security ...

Systems Platform Manager

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Ipswich, Suffolk, East Anglia, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £420 per day
operates the UK's largest Public Wifi network. We need a systems administrator with strong Linux skills and experience of managing a large scale high availability platform to help support an existing legacy platform and play a part in defining the systems administration for a new platform. … customers. You will work closely with network and operational teams to ensure the existing platform is secure and maintained to ensure capacity requirements and availability targets are met. The systems administration work on the Wifi platform is varied and could include: Planning large scale operating system patching Planning ...

Linux Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract | Inside IR35 | Hybrid Working A leading telecommunications company is looking for an experienced Linux Platform Engineer to support and enhance a large-scale, high-availability customer platform. Working within an Agile operations team, you'll be responsible for Linux administration, platform maintenance, patching, deployments, capacity management, incident … resolution, and supporting the evolution of a next-generation platform. Essential Skills Linux Systems Administration Experience supporting large-scale, high-availability environments VMware Docker, Podman or container technologies Strong operational support and troubleshooting experience Security-focused approach to platform management Desirable Skills Bash scripting SQL Kafka, Cassandra ...

Cloud Platform Engineer - Competitive rate (Inside IR35) - Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Exalto Consulting ltd
Location
Surrey, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Infrastructure as Code best practices. Key Responsibilities: Cloud Platform Engineering Build and support cloud infrastructure across Azure Design resilient, scalable architectures aligned to high-availability requirements Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform Implement CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows Drive standardisation and security best practices ...

Platform Engineer - Kubernetes

Hiring Organisation
Akkodis
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£68,000 - £72,000 per annum
preferred) Container networking and storage technologies Monitoring and observability platforms Load balancing and web technologies Git and scripting (Bash and/or Python) High availability and disaster recovery solutions Infrastructure migrations and platform modernisation projects Any experience with CI/CD pipelines, enterprise networking, database technologies or systems ...

Infrastructure Engineer - Kubernetes, AWS

Hiring Organisation
Akkodis
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£65000 - £72000/annum
preferred) Container networking and storage technologies Monitoring and observability platforms Load balancing and web technologies Git and scripting (Bash and/or Python) High availability and disaster recovery solutions Infrastructure migrations and platform modernisation projects Any experience with CI/CD pipelines, enterprise networking, database technologies or systems ...

Infrastructure Engineer (Need Banking or Financial Services Background)

Hiring Organisation
2MRW GROUP LIMITED
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£70,000 - £75,000 per annum
across the organisation's core technology platforms while supporting wider transformation initiatives. Your responsibilities will include: Managing Windows Server and Linux environments to ensure high availability and operational stability. Supporting and optimising VMware virtual infrastructure across production environments. Maintaining enterprise backup, recovery and disaster recovery capabilities using industry … leading technologies. Monitoring infrastructure performance and proactively resolving capacity, availability and resilience issues. Administering Microsoft 365 services and supporting hybrid infrastructure technologies. Managing Active Directory, Group Policy, identity administration and user access management. Supporting desktop operating systems, laptops, mobile devices and collaboration technologies across multiple office locations. Maintaining endpoint ...

Telecoms OSS Systems Application Engineer

Hiring Organisation
MECS Communications Ltd
Location
Newbury, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Systems Administrator, Network & Application Support Engineer Role Purpose: Support, maintain and enhance critical telecoms production systems, applications and infrastructure whilst ensuring operational stability, service availability, security compliance and successful delivery of system changes across operational environments. Location: Hybrid working - Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 2FN & remote, home based Role Type: Temporary … operational support systems used for network inventory management and automated network configuration * Support integrations between OSS platforms and Cramer inventory environments * Monitor system performance, availability and operational health * Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents, service issues and application faults * Support application deployments, configuration changes and production releases * Develop and maintain ...

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (GCP | Kubernetes | DevSecOps)

Hiring Organisation
GCS
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £620/day
service mesh technologies and secure service-to-service communication. Manage ingress, API gateways and network routing components. Implement platform resilience, backup, disaster recovery and high availability capabilities. Support workload identity and platform authentication mechanisms. Ensure platform compliance with enterprise security, governance and regulatory requirements. Optimise platform performance, scalability ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Indotronix Avani UK Ltd
Location
Telford, Shropshire, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with strong, recent hands-on experience in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Exadata to join a high-profile programme. Core Purpose of the Role This is a senior technical role focused on: Leading and supporting Oracle-based infrastructure services in OCI and Exadata … Oracle RAC, ASM, AFD, HANFS, TAF Data Guard configuration and support RMAN backup and recovery OEM and OCI Database Management Patching, upgrades, and high availability mission-critical environments Cloud & Infrastructure Strong OCI experience (critical requirement) AWS experience (especially network segregation/security) Linux and/or AIX environments ...

Senior Network Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Defence
Location
Harlow, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Responsibilities: Lead the design, build, and replacement of legacy Cisco Wireless infrastructure with modern Cisco Catalyst 9800 WLC architecture, ensuring scalable, resilient, and high-performance wireless services Define and deliver end-to-end wireless migration strategies, including planning, staging, cutover execution, and post-implementation optimisation Architect and implement high-availability 9800 WLC deployments (SSO, redundancy models), ensuring minimal service disruption and operational resilience Design and implement enterprise wireless solutions, including SSID segmentation, policy profiles, VLAN mapping, RF optimisation, and seamless roaming Own the design, upgrade, and lifecycle management of Cisco ISE environments, including version upgrades, patching strategies ...

Oracle Linux KVM Infrastructure Engineer (SC Cleared)

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
Farnborough, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £630 per day + Inside IR-35
Oracle Linux KVM and Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM) * Own architecture and design across virtualisation platforms, including clusters, hosts and networking * Produce high-quality HLD and LLD documentation covering architecture, security, and operational models * Lead build, configuration, and deployment of KVM/OLVM environments * Define standards across security hardening … patching, monitoring and resilience * Design and implement high availability, disaster recovery, and live migration solutions * Collaborate with infrastructure, security and application teams to ensure integration and supportability * Support governance, assurance and technical design reviews * Drive implementation, migration, and operational readiness planning Key Skills & Experience * Strong hands-on experience ...

Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
Platform Engineer (Data Platforms) Location: London We're looking for a Platform Engineer to build and maintain scalable, secure and high-performance data platforms . You'll play a key role in ensuring reliable data services while working closely with data scientists, analysts and engineering teams. What … doing Building and maintaining scalable data platform infrastructure Ensuring high availability, performance and security of data services Developing and maintaining data pipelines Collaborating with data teams to integrate tools and services Troubleshooting complex platform and data infrastructure issues Supporting cross-team integration with wider systems and applications Driving ...

OpenStack Solution Architect

Hiring Organisation
Henderson Scott
Location
North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
lifecycle. Essential Skills Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise OpenStack environments. Strong infrastructure engineering background. Experience building OpenStack platforms from greenfield. Linux systems engineering. High Availability (HA) and resilient infrastructure design. Networking, storage and virtualisation expertise. Infrastructure as Code using Ansible and/or Terraform. Excellent stakeholder management … Neutron, Nova, Keystone, Glance, Cinder and Heat Secure by Design Automation and CI/CD This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-profile programme where you'll have the autonomy to shape the architecture, influence technical direction and deliver a modern enterprise private cloud platform. ...

Principal Cloud Architect

Hiring Organisation
TXP
Location
Southampton, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £600 per day
pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), networking patterns, and compute/storage design. Evaluate platform changes including major provider upgrades (AzureRM/Cloudflare), DR and high availability improvements, cost optimisation strategies, and observability frameworks. Lead technical designs for large-scale refactoring and provider upgrades, environment creation pipelines, secure container ...

Network Architect

Hiring Organisation
TechNest Talent
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 per day £400 per day, Outside IR35
GlobalProtect, Threat Prevention Cisco Meraki MX, MS, MR and SD-WAN Expertise in TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, network security, and high availability design. Experience delivering network and cloud transformation projects. ...

DV Cleared - Infrastructure Architect

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 400 - 500 Daily
infrastructure requirements Manage third-party requests and change processes, maintaining the integrity of architectural solutions Ensure infrastructure designs meet security standards and support resilient, high-availability environments Support the deployment of production implementations, overseeing service transition activities Work closely with various teams to foster collaboration and continuous improvement. ...

Unix Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Damia Group Ltd
Location
Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £550 per day
delivery of critical programmes across the Defence, Government and National Security sectors. We are currently seeking an experienced UNIX Engineer to join a high-profile programme supporting complex enterprise infrastructure within a secure environment. This is an excellent opportunity to work on large-scale, business-critical UNIX platforms, contributing … role in the administration, support and enhancement of enterprise Oracle Solaris environments. You'll work alongside infrastructure specialists to deliver resilient, secure and high-performing UNIX platforms supporting mission-critical services. Key Responsibilities Administer, support and maintain Oracle Solaris environments across enterprise infrastructure. Configure and manage Logical Domains (LDOMs ...

IAM Solutions Architect Contract

Hiring Organisation
Cathcart Technology
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£575 - £600 per day
large-scale IAM transformation programme. What You'll Be Doing Define end-to-end solution architecture across business, application, data and infrastructure domains. Produce High Level Designs (HLDs), Low Level Designs (LLDs) and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into secure technical solutions. Design … Architecture and API Security Event-Driven Architecture Policy-as-Code (OPA, Cedar or similar) PKI, Certificates and Secrets Management DevSecOps and CI/CD High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Resilience Design Security Architecture Architecture Governance and Design Reviews Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership experience ...