1 to 25 of 26 Performance Tuning Jobs in the North West

Database Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Oscar Associates (UK) Limited
Location
Wigan, Greater Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£50,000
Role: In the short term, the successful candidate will take ownership of modernising legacy application databases. This will involve designing and implementing scalable, high-performance database architectures to replace existing MySQL backends supporting application services. They will lead the migration of data from legacy platforms into new Microsoft … Server environments, ensuring data integrity, optimal performance and minimal disruption to live systems. The role will also be responsible for configuring SQL Server security and access controls, including the creation and management of developer roles and permissions to support application connectivity and deployment. Over time, the focus will shift ...

Akamai Security Engineers

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£490.0 - £620.0 per day + Up to Engineer £490pd / Senior £620pd
optimisation of Akamai security solutions across large-scale, high-traffic digital platforms. These are key engineering roles focused on strengthening web security, enhancing performance, and embedding best-practice Akamai configurations into global environments. Key Responsibilities Engineer Configure & maintain Akamai tools (KSD, WAF, Bot Manager, CDN) Support implementation of rulesets … policies & routing configs Monitor traffic, identify threats & assist in incident response Tune WAF & bot rules to reduce false positives Assist with CDN configuration, caching & performance tuning Manage certificates, redirects, and Akamai property updates Collaborate with application teams for secure deployments Produce documentation & support continuous improvement Senior Engineer Architect ...

Oracle Database Administration Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£650 - £700 per day
IR35 - umbrella only Hold active SC clearance - eligible candidates will be considered The Oracle Database Administrator plays a critical role in ensuring the stability, performance, and integrity of our core data platforms. Operating independently, the DBA safeguards the operational continuity of key systems by maintaining resilient databases, optimising performance … teams to understand technical requirements, diagnose database-related issues, and shape effective data solutions. Implements clear, robust recommendations and technical documentation, including backup strategies, performance improvement actions, and configuration standards, while identifying risks, gaps, and dependencies. Designs and optimises repeatable database patterns, ensuring scalability, resilience, and compliance across production ...

SQL Server DBA

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500/hour
scale, business-critical database platforms. You'll work as part of a collaborative team ensuring database systems remain secure, highly available, and optimised for performance across a complex enterprise environment. Key Responsibilities Administer and maintain SQL Server database environments, ensuring data integrity, security, and availability. Implement and maintain data … models, database designs, and access structures. Monitor database health and performance, proactively diagnosing and resolving issues. Support high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including clustering, database mirroring, log shipping, and AlwaysOn replication. Perform database performance tuning and optimisation using tools such as SQL Profiler, Extended Events, Database ...

DevOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Applause IT Recruitment Ltd
Location
Crewe, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
scaling using IaC (Cloud Development Kit or Terraform) Support application configuration, optimisation, and migration into high-availability setups Manage database deployments and contribute to performance planning Carry out load testing, capacity planning, and performance monitoring Investigate incidents, resolve issues, and improve system reliability Work closely with developers using … MSSQL administration Azure cloud services KongHQ/AWS API Gateway Azure DevOps CloudFront and other CDNs SSL certificate management, configuration hardening, domain setup Performance tuning and load testing Experience with pipeline-based mobile app builds/remote Mac builders What's on Offer Competitive salary and benefits package ...

Senior Developer

Hiring Organisation
Ascend Consulting
Location
North West London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£45,000 - £80,000 per annum
Server and SAP Business One backend tables Database Management : Write optimized SQL queries, stored procedures, and indexing strategies to efficiently handle large datasets Performance Optimization : Monitor and enhance API performance, database query execution, and application scalability Documentation : Maintain clear and detailed documentation for APIs, database structures … Code Quality : Conduct code reviews, debugging, and error handling to maintain system reliability Best Practices : Stay up to date with API design standards, database performance tuning, and cloud integration trends What You’ll Need 5+ years of backend development experience Strong .NET skills for API development and business ...

Cloud Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Infinity Quest
Location
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines enabling automated testing, seamless deployments, and continuous integration. Diagnose and resolve complex system‐level issues related to performance, scalability, networking, and automation. Collaborate with cross‐functional teams to deliver cloud‐native solutions aligned with engineering best practices and business goals. Required Skills … Kubernetes services such as CoreDNS , cert‐manager , Dynatrace , Cloudability , and Infoblox . Familiarity with OPA Gatekeeper for policy enforcement and tenant isolation. Security, Observability & Performance Strong security mindset with a proven track record of designing secure, resilient cloud-native systems. Experience implementing observability stacks including Prometheus , Dynatrace , and OpenTelemetry ...

Power BI Developer / BI Engineer (Data Modelling)

Hiring Organisation
Searchability
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 per day
hands-on Power BI specialist with strong data modelling expertise , capable of working in a highly regulated environment where data accuracy, lineage, and performance are critical . THE ROLE Design and develop scalable Power BI datasets and semantic models for enterprise reporting Build interactive dashboards and paginated reports with … business logic Perform data transformation using Power Query (M) and SQL-based pipelines Design robust data models (star schema, dimensional modelling) to support performance and scalability Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance standards across all BI assets Monitor and improve dataset performance, refresh reliability, and access controls Support ...

Senior Solaris Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
Warrington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £600 per day
implementing, managing and patching Sun Solaris infrastructure environments.6-month contractBased in Warrington (Hybrid/onsite first 3 weeks)Inside IR35Experience RequiredPerforming operating system installation, performance tuning, hardware/software upgrades, disaster recovery testing, and scripting for automation.Performance optimisation - includes tuning system parameters, monitoring performance, and performing ...

PEGA Developer

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £450 to £500 per day
Role PEGA Developer Your Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain PEGA-based applications and workflows to support data-driven banking use cases, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability. Collaborate with business stakeholders, data analysts, and product owners to translate functional and analytical requirements into effective Pega solutions. Build and configure case … decision-making. Design and develop user interfaces using Pega UI frameworks, ensuring usability, consistency, and alignment with enterprise standards. Perform unit testing, debugging, and performance tuning, proactively identifying and resolving defects and bottlenecks. Support application releases and deployments, working closely with DevOps, QA, and support teams across environments. ...

Senior .NET Developer

Hiring Organisation
MRJ Recruitment
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
support. Collaborate with platform engineering teams to maintain a robust CI/CD pipeline. Ensure all code is testable, covering unit, integration, UI, and performance tests. Who You Are: Solid commercial experience with .NET and C#. Hands-on experience with Akka.NET for building distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant systems. Familiar … . Strong understanding of OOP principles and design patterns. Experienced with Web Services, WebAPI, and WCF. Comfortable with SQL and NoSQL databases. Skilled in performance tuning and optimisation. Confident with Git and source control best practices. Experienced in Agile or Kanban environments. Excellent collaborator and communicator, with ...

Senior Vmware Engineer (Security)

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
City, Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 520 Daily
initiatives.The contractor will provide advanced engineering expertise across VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, and VMware NSX-T, ensuring stability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical academic and research systems. Scope of Work Provision, configure, and manage Linux and Windows VMs in enterprise clusters. Deploy and manage … vMotion. Design and manage network virtualisation using VMware NSX-T. Perform VM lifecycle management (build, template creation, cloning, migration, decommissioning) Conduct performance monitoring, capacity planning, and resource optimisation. Support storage integration (SAN/NAS/vSAN) and ensure optimal IOPS performance. Implement and support backup, replication, and disaster recovery ...

Senior Vmware Engineer (Security)

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£520 per day
initiatives.The contractor will provide advanced engineering expertise across VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, and VMware NSX-T, ensuring stability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical academic and research systems. Scope of Work Provision, configure, and manage Linux and Windows VMs in enterprise clusters. Deploy and manage … vMotion. Design and manage network virtualisation using VMware NSX-T. Perform VM lifecycle management (build, template creation, cloning, migration, decommissioning) Conduct performance monitoring, capacity planning, and resource optimisation. Support storage integration (SAN/NAS/vSAN) and ensure optimal IOPS performance. Implement and support backup, replication, and disaster recovery ...

Senior VMWare Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Certes IT Service Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£560 - £570 per day + Negotiable
proficient in providing advanced engineering expertise across VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere and VMware NSX-T; ensuring stability, scalability and performance of mission critical academic and research systems. Essential Skills & Experience required: As the Senior VMware Engineer you will possess the following: A minimum of 5+ … storage, networking, and security integration. Automation and scripting skills (PowerCLI, PowerShell, Bash, Python). Experience with vCenter administration and cluster design. Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning capabilities. Desirable Qualifications VMware certifications (VCP-DCV, VCAP). Experience with automation/orchestration (VMware Aria/vRealise, Ansible). Hybrid cloud ...

Senior Software Engineer C++

Hiring Organisation
Softweb
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£70,000
global product What you'll be doing: - Leading design and delivery of complex features in modern C++ (C++17) in Linux - Architecting robust, high performance solutions that balance security, maintainability and long term evolution - Technical leadership and mentoring of junior C++ Software Engineers - Driving best practices in tooling, testing … What we need from you: - Commercial C++ experience across the full software development lifecycle - Application development on Linux (or Windows), including memory management and performance tuning and systems level programming - Multi-threading and concurrent programming, including synchronisation primitives and lock free techniques- Experience designing systems, working on software ...

Technical Lead - TypeScript / Node.js

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£80,000
innovation Backend Architecture & Development Architect, build, and scale backend services and RESTful APIs Design, optimise, and maintain MongoDB database solutions Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability Resolve complex production issues with robust solutions Implement microservices and modern backend patterns Collaboration & Delivery Partner with Product, Design, and the founder … execution across initiatives Core Technical Expertise Youll thrive in this role if you have strong experience with: MongoDB (data modelling, indexing, aggregation pipelines, performance tuning) Node.js and the wider JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem Express.js and/or Fastify RESTful API design and distributed systems AWS or similar cloud ...

Report Developer

Hiring Organisation
JAM Recruitment Ltd
Location
Rochdale, Greater Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£40.00 - £42.11 per hour
Reports, BI Publisher, Oracle Analytics or relevant reporting tools (essential) Solid understanding of Oracle ERP database architecture Experience with joins, subqueries, analytic functions, and performance tuning Knowledge of XML, RTF templates, and report formatting (for BI Publisher) Familiarity with Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and Oracle Cloud deployments ...

Lead Software Engineer (MongoDB / Node.js / JavaScript)

Hiring Organisation
Adria Solutions
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£75,000
team Drive improvements in processes, tooling, and development practices Core Technical Skills Youll thrive if you have experience with: MongoDB (data modelling, indexing, aggregation, performance tuning) Node.js and the wider JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem Express.js and/or Fastify RESTful API design AWS or similar cloud platforms Microservices ...

VMWare Engineer - Inside IR35

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£525 - £550/day
contractor will provide advanced engineering expertise across VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, and VMware NSX-T, ensuring stability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical academic and research systems. Scope of Work Provision, configure, and manage Linux and Windows VMs in enterprise clusters. Deploy and manage workloads … vMotion. Design and manage network virtualisation using VMware NSX-T. Perform VM lifecycle management (build, template creation, cloning, migration, decommissioning). Conduct performance monitoring, capacity planning, and resource optimisation. Support storage integration (SAN/NAS/vSAN) and ensure optimal IOPS performance. Implement and support backup, replication, and disaster ...

SQL Database Administrator - £49k - Manchester - Hybrid

Hiring Organisation
Exalto Consulting ltd
Location
Greater Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£45,000
their career who has already built strong SQL and Azure database experience in a production environment. The role You will help support the performance, stability, security and ongoing maintenance of key database systems. The work is operational and hands on, with a focus on keeping services reliable, resolving issues … support the needs of the wider organisation. What you will be doing Supporting SQL Server database environments in day to day operations Monitoring database performance, health and availability Investigating and resolving database related incidents and issues Carrying out maintenance, patching and configuration work Supporting backup, recovery and resilience processes ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Candour
Location
Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
take ownership of their cloud data platform. This role focuses on managing and optimising Azure SQL and Cosmos DB, ensuring high levels of performance, availability, and data security across production systems. A key part of the position will involve leading data migrations from external client systems, as well … architecture in a secure and compliant cloud environment. Key Responsibilities: Design, manage, and optimise Azure SQL and Cosmos DB environments Monitor and tune database performance, including queries, indexes, and schema design Lead data migration projects from external platforms into the core system Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines ...

Cloud / PreSales Engineer - (AWS, Docker) - UK Remote

Hiring Organisation
Mayflower Recruitment Ltd
Location
Bolton, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
distributed containerized services using Docker and Docker Swarm. Respond to and resolve incidents, working to minimize downtime and ensure high system availability. Investigate system performance, log anomalies, and service issues, escalating when appropriate. Collaborate with DevOps and software engineering teams to implement improvements and automation. Maintain thorough documentation … system configurations, processes, and known issues. Assist in system upgrades, patching, and performance tuning. Support security compliance and auditing activities where applicable. Participate in an on-call support rotation. Required Skills & Experience: 2+ years of experience in a technical support, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering role. Strong hands-on experience ...

Database Administrator DBA

Hiring Organisation
Stealth IT Consulting Limited
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £400 to £415 per day Inside IR35
NoSQL technologies , alongside leadership responsibilities within an Oracle-focused team. You will work closely with developers, infrastructure teams, and project stakeholders to ensure database performance, security, availability, and scalability across critical systems. Key Responsibilities Provide hands-on database administration across PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MongoDB Manage and support an Oracle … team Design, maintain, and optimise database structures to ensure performance and reliability Ensure databases are kept up to date, secure, and well maintained Troubleshoot database issues and support database design and development activities Design and implement database maintenance procedures Manage database access, security, integrity, and backup processes Liaise with ...

Senior VMware Engineer - VCF / NSX-T

Hiring Organisation
Henderson Scott
Location
North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Edge nodes, T0/VRF, DFW, routing) Administer and optimise vSphere/ESXi clusters Support vSAN and storage integration VM lifecycle management (Linux & Windows) Performance tuning and capacity planning Advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis Work alongside infrastructure, security and networking teams Required Experience: Strong enterprise VMware engineering ...

Starburst Developer

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £450 to £500 per day
week MUFG Client Office) The Role Starburst Developer Your responsibilities: Design and maintain data pipelines using Starburst and related technologies. Optimize query performance and resolve data processing bottlenecks. Manage databases to ensure high availability, reliability and security. Integrate Starburst with various data sources including cloud services and APIs. Monitor … Avoid repetition) Minimum 8+ Years of Strong hands-on experience with Starburst Enterprise or Denodo Tool Advanced SQL skills, including query optimization and performance tuning. Experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks) Proficiency in any Scripting language (e.g. Python/Scala) Proficiency in data analytics and data engineering Desirable ...