Performance Test Engineer (Python Automation for large-scale, low-latency, distributed systems Remote Europe) Location: Remote (Europe & UK only) Full-Time | 6-Month Contract | Start Date: within 1-2 weeks £350pd IR35 Outside TBC We're seeking a hands-on Performance Test Engineer with Strong Python and automation expertise to design, build, and execute the performance testing … latency under millions of concurrent users, and drive system optimizations across cloud infrastructure and code. This is a technical, high-impact role ideal for someone passionate about distributed systems performance, automation, and data-driven tuning. Profile: 3-5+ years of performanceengineering for large-scale, low-latency, distributed systems. Proven success meeting p95/p99 latency … strong documentation and collaboration skills. Based in EU or UK with English (C1 or higher). Nice to have: Java, Bash scripting, Terraform. Key Responsibilities: Define and execute comprehensive performance test plans (load, stress, spike, soak, scalability, failover). Model real-world streaming traffic patterns (burstiness, fan-out, cache behavior, cold-start, geo distribution). Build automated load frameworks More ❯
Lead SRE/Observability Engineering Lead - (Outside IR35 Contract/Remote) Location: Bristol/London HQ - Largely Remote (Occasional Travel) Day Rate: Outside IR35 - £650 to £750 p/d Duration: 3-6 Months Initial - with intention to extend Payment Terms: Monthly Our client is a FTSE100 Wealth/Asset Management firm seeking to engage a Lead SRE Engineer … instrumentation of their new Observability solution. This role will be critical in delivering against our Digital OKRs by embedding observability best practices, frameworks, and tooling across digital platforms and engineering teams. Key Responsibilities: Strategy & Roadmap: Define and drive the observability roadmap in alignment with business priorities and digital platform objectives. Champion observability-by-design standards across the Software Development … Lifecycle (SDLC). Reliability & Performance: Establish and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to track and improve system reliability. Support capacity and availability planning through real-time telemetry and predictive analytics. Instrumentation & Runbooks: Design and implement observability runbooks covering metrics, logs, traces, synthetics, and customer journey monitoring. Set standards for instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, and enable teams to self-serve More ❯
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Sanderson Recruitment
Lead SRE/Observability Engineering Lead - (Outside IR35 Contract/Remote) Location: Bristol/London HQ - Largely Remote (Occasional Travel) Day Rate: Outside IR35 - £650 to £750 p/d Duration: 3-6 Months Initial - with intention to extend Payment Terms: Monthly Our client is a FTSE100 Wealth/Asset Management firm seeking to engage a Lead SRE Engineer … instrumentation of their new Observability solution. This role will be critical in delivering against our Digital OKRs by embedding observability best practices, frameworks, and tooling across digital platforms and engineering teams. Key Responsibilities: Strategy & Roadmap: Define and drive the observability roadmap in alignment with business priorities and digital platform objectives. Champion observability-by-design standards across the Software Development … Lifecycle (SDLC). Reliability & Performance: Establish and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to track and improve system reliability. Support capacity and availability planning through real-time telemetry and predictive analytics. Instrumentation & Runbooks: Design and implement observability runbooks covering metrics, logs, traces, synthetics, and customer journey monitoring. Set standards for instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, and enable teams to self-serve More ❯
Power BI. The role requires deep technical expertise in Spotfire s visual and scripting frameworks, alongside the ability to reverse-engineer, redesign and optimize data models for scalable, high-performance reporting in Power BI. This role is critical to navigating functional parity, data transformation and performance alignment between platforms, working closely with business users, report owners and Power … and Power BI developers to align source data, dataflows and model transformations. Work with business stakeholders to define functional parity, consolidate multiple versions and recommend optimisations. Provide guidance on performanceengineering approaches in Power BI, including model size reduction, incremental refresh, composite models, DirectQuery/Import trade-offs. Support UAT by validating that migrated Power BI reports meet More ❯
