4 platform engineer jobs found in Newcastle upon Tyne, tyne and wear

Senior Performance Test Engineer | Contract £450- £550 per day | Outside IR35 | ASAP Start | Initial 3 Months | Remote We 're supporting a client delivering a large-scale digital platform and are seeking an experienced Senior Performance Test Engineer to join an Agile delivery team. This is a hands-on role focused on designing, executing, and optimising performance testing strategies across cloud-based applications and API-driven services. You 'll play a key role in ensuring systems are scalable, resilient, and capable of delivering excellent performance under varying levels of demand. Key Skills Required Strong commercial experience as a Performance Test Engineer Expert-level experience with K6 (essential) Strong experience working within Microsoft Azure environments (essential) Proven experience of API Performance Testing , including load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing Experience testing applications built...

Senior DevOps Engineer (AKS / Kubernetes) Contract, 3 months (initial) Remote (UK hours), Outside IR35 We're hiring a senior DevOps engineer to join a small, sharp engineering team building serious infrastructure in the payments space. You'd work as an embedded part of that team, not a standalone consultant handing work back over the fence. There's an existing proof-of-concept Azure cluster in place. Your first job is to validate it, then harden and complete it, and take ownership of the platform going forward. What you'll be doing: Completing and maintaining an Azure (AKS) cluster and its GitOps pipeline. Hardening security through Azure Managed Identity and proper secrets handling. Owning the MSAL gateway and Databricks authentication flow. Validating the current POC, recommending improvements, and implementing them. Writing the documentation that supports handover and ongoing maintenance. What we need from you: Strong hands-on AKS...

Senior DevOps Engineer (AKS / Kubernetes) Contract, 3 months (initial) Remote (UK hours), Outside IR35 We're hiring a senior DevOps engineer to join a small, sharp engineering team building serious infrastructure in the payments space. You'd work as an embedded part of that team, not a standalone consultant handing work back over the fence. There's an existing proof-of-concept Azure cluster in place. Your first job is to validate it, then harden and complete it, and take ownership of the platform going forward. What you'll be doing: Completing and maintaining an Azure (AKS) cluster and its GitOps pipeline. Hardening security through Azure Managed Identity and proper secrets handling. Owning the MSAL gateway and Databricks authentication flow. Validating the current POC, recommending improvements, and implementing them. Writing the documentation that supports handover and ongoing maintenance. What we need...

Senior QA Automation Engineer | Contract | Remote / Occasional office visit £500 per day | Outside IR35 | September start | Initial 3 Months A cutting-edge trading technology team are seeking an experienced Senior QA Automation Engineer to join an Agile delivery function where quality, automation and innovation drive success. You 'll play a key role in testing a new trading algorithm, API integrations, and backend services, ensuring seamless performance through robust automation, exploratory testing, and CI/CD best practices. Key Skills Required Proven experience as an Automation Test Engineer / SDET. Strong hands-on API testing experience (REST) - request/response validation, status codes, payload assertions, contract testing. Solid exposure to .NET backends. Strong automation with Playwright using C# .NET Experience writing clear, maintainable test frameworks (e.g. Page Object Model, fixtures, reusable utilities)....