53 platform engineer jobs found in Edinburgh

Platform Engineer - Edinburgh - outside IR35 - 6 month contract Are you an Platform Engineer with experience of working on Site Resilience projects? I have an immediate contract opportunity in Edinburgh for a Platform Engineer to support and enhance existing storage and virtual platforms for a public sector client. Some of the work will involve contributing to NVMe adoption, enhancing organisational resilience, expanding backup services, and improving platform engineering for vMotion setup. Key Responsibilities: Work with the Product Managers and Technology teams to define and prioritise platform roadmaps Support virtual and storage platform development Propose and implement platform improvements Manage platform health, capacity, and integrity Monitor storage and archiving procedures Support disaster recovery events Skills Required: Proven experience with VMWare, Cisco UCS, NSX environments Skilled in disaster recovery planning, platform monitoring, and...

Platform Engineer - Site Resilience Location - Remote (with occasional trip to Edinburgh/ Glasgow as required) Duration - 6months (possible extensions) Day rate - £450 (OUTSIDE ir35) An experienced Platform Engineer is required to support and enhance a large-scale on-premise compute and storage platform , delivering resilience, performance and efficiency improvements across critical infrastructure services. This role sits within the Site Resilience domain, working as part of a collaborative, multi-functional and agile team responsible for core platform services. Key responsibilities Support and enhance virtualisation and storage platforms, ensuring availability, performance and resilience Contribute to the planning and adoption of NVMe storage technologies Improve platform engineering practices for VMware vMotion and workload mobility Enhance and expand the Commvault backup service , ensuring full platform coverage Strengthen disaster recovery...

Platform Engineer - Edinburgh - outside IR35 - 6 month contract Are you an Platform Engineer with experience of working on Site Resilience projects? I have an immediate contract opportunity in Edinburgh for a Platform Engineer to support and enhance existing storage and virtual platforms for a public sector client. Some of the work will involve contributing to NVMe adoption, enhancing organisational resilience, expanding backup services, and improving platform engineering for vMotion setup. Key Responsibilities: Work with the Product Managers and Technology teams to define and prioritise platform roadmaps Support virtual and storage platform development Propose and implement platform improvements Manage platform health, capacity, and integrity Monitor storage and archiving procedures Support disaster recovery events Skills Required: Proven experience with VMWare, Cisco UCS, NSX environments Skilled in disaster recovery planning, platform monitoring, and...

Platform Engineer - Site Resilience Location - Remote (with occasional trip to Edinburgh/Glasgow as required) Duration - 6months (possible extensions) Day rate - £450 (OUTSIDE ir35) An experienced Platform Engineer is required to support and enhance a large-scale on-premise compute and storage platform , delivering resilience, performance and efficiency improvements across critical infrastructure services. This role sits within the Site Resilience domain, working as part of a collaborative, multi-functional and agile team responsible for core platform services. Key responsibilities Support and enhance virtualisation and storage platforms, ensuring availability, performance and resilience Contribute to the planning and adoption of NVMe storage technologies Improve platform engineering practices for VMware vMotion and workload mobility Enhance and expand the Commvault backup service , ensuring full platform coverage Strengthen disaster recovery and...

Platform Engineer - Site Resilience Location - Remote (with occasional trip to Edinburgh/ Glasgow as required) Duration - 6months (possible extensions) Day rate - £450 (OUTSIDE ir35) An experienced Platform Engineer is required to support and enhance a large-scale on-premise compute and storage platform , delivering resilience, performance and efficiency improvements across critical infrastructure services. This role sits within the Site Resilience domain, working as part of a collaborative, multi-functional and agile team responsible for core platform services. Key responsibilities Support and enhance virtualisation and storage platforms, ensuring availability, performance and resilience Contribute to the planning and adoption of NVMe storage technologies Improve platform engineering practices for VMware vMotion and workload mobility Enhance and expand the Commvault backup service , ensuring full...

Morgan Hunt are working with a public sector organisation to recruit a Platform Engineer to work in the organisations Site Resilience team. The purpose of the role is to support and enhance the existing storage and computing platform. This includes implementing efficiency savings and additions to the existing platform. Key Responsibilities: Contribute and plan towards adoption of NVMe Continue to enhance organisational resilience position Enhance and expand Commvault backup service Improve platform engineering for vMotion setup Collaborate with stakeholders, including the Product Manager, to define, prioritise and maintain the platform roadmap and backlog. Develop, support and continuously improve virtualisation and storage platforms in line with product and architectural roadmaps. Ensure platform security, performance, availability and capacity through effective access control, monitoring and optimisation. Support application re-platforming and...

Platform/DevOps Engineer - 6 Month Contract (Outside IR35) - Remote Day Rate: £475 Harvey Nash's public sector client is looking for an experienced Platform engineer. Main Duties: * Contribute and plan towards adoption of NVMe * Continue to enhance organisational resilience position * Enhance and expand Commvault backup service * Improve platform engineering for vMotion setup Collaboratively design, plan and deploy new technology solutions (eg vRealize automation orchestration, vROPS, VMWare NSX, Nutantix, SAN migration, DR and BC enhancement) Essential Skills & Experience: Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas: * VMWare 6/7/8.X multi-site environments * Cisco UCS * NSX environments * Platform monitoring solutions and paradigms * Fibre Channel Fabrics, including Brocade switching * Disaster recovery planning and execution, including wider assurance activities * Data centre management and best practices * Windows and RHEL...

Job title: Platform Engineer | AWS Connect Job type: Outside IR35 Contract Contract Length: 6 Months (Likely Extension) Rate: £325 - £350 per day Role Location: Remote, Occasional onsite visits - Telford/Glasgow The company: IT Consultancy on Government Project Role And Responsibilities Design and implement enhancements to Amazon Connect and telephony systems. Manage vendor relationships (e.g., BT, Vodafone) for infrastructure-level issues. Ensure compliance with security and operational standards. Provide strategic input into platform upgrades, integrations, and roadmap planning. Develop and maintain architectural documentation and SOPs. Job Requirements Deep expertise in Amazon Connect, AWS architecture, and enterprise telephony. Strong understanding of voice network infrastructure and SIP routing. Experience with high-availability and disaster recovery planning. Ability to lead technical teams and coordinate with external vendors....

Network Engineer - Site Resilience Location - Remote (with occasional trip to Edinburgh as required) Duration - 6months (possible extensions) Day rate - £450 (OUTSIDE ir35) An experienced Network Engineer is required to support the design, build and ongoing operation of enterprise network infrastructure. This role sits within the Site Resilience domain and focuses on delivering resilient, secure and high-performing network services while supporting a wider transition from on-premise infrastructure towards cloud-based products. Key responsibilities Design and deliver new network infrastructure, including data centre re-location activities Install, configure and support routers, switches, firewalls and remote access devices Manage and plan data centre networking, including power distribution and best-practice design Improve network and firewall performance, efficiency and resilience Enhance the network platform through continuous, incremental...

Network Engineer Edinburgh (Remote, with some site visits) 6 months £400 - £450 p/d (Outside IR35) A highly skilled Network Engineer is required to support the design, build, and optimisation of new and existing network infrastructure within a cloud-focused, agile environment. The role sits within a multi-disciplinary resilience team committed to delivering robust, high-quality digital services. The role involves supporting the relocation of a datacentre, including the installation and configuration of Routers, Switches, Firewalls, and remote access devices, while also leading datacentre planning and management such as power distribution and best-practice design. It includes improving network and Firewall performance, enhancing the new network platform through ongoing incremental improvements, and maintaining vulnerability management processes. The position contributes to disaster recovery assurance activities, including scheduled weekend testing, and provides...

Network Engineer - Site Resilience Location - Remote (with occasional trip to Edinburgh as required) Duration - 6months (possible extensions) Day rate - £450 (OUTSIDE ir35) An experienced Network Engineer is required to support the design, build and ongoing operation of enterprise network infrastructure. This role sits within the Site Resilience domain and focuses on delivering resilient, secure and high-performing network services while supporting a wider transition from on-premise infrastructure towards cloud-based products. Key responsibilities Design and deliver new network infrastructure, including data centre re-location activities Install, configure and support Routers, Switches, Firewalls and remote access devices Manage and plan data centre networking, including power distribution and best-practice design Improve network and Firewall performance, efficiency and resilience Enhance the network platform through continuous, incremental improvements...

Network Engineer - Site Resilience Location - Remote (with occasional trip to Edinburgh as required) Duration - 6months (possible extensions) Day rate - £450 (OUTSIDE ir35) An experienced Network Engineer is required to support the design, build and ongoing operation of enterprise network infrastructure. This role sits within the Site Resilience domain and focuses on delivering resilient, secure and high-performing network services while supporting a wider transition from on-premise infrastructure towards cloud-based products. Key responsibilities Design and deliver new network infrastructure, including data centre re-location activities Install, configure and support routers, switches, firewalls and remote access devices Manage and plan data centre networking, including power distribution and best-practice design Improve network and firewall performance, efficiency and resilience Enhance the network...

Cloud Engineer - Outside IR35 - Hybrid (Mostly Remote) - Glasgow/Edinburgh Market Rates Duration - 2 months (Potential to extend) Harvey Nash's Public Sector Client are hiring a Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for leading cloud migration across the SCI platform, ensuring that best practice approaches, processes and solutions are utilised to serve the operational and strategic needs of stakeholders. The postholder will ensure that systems are secure, efficient, and aligned with strategic goals, in particular enabling the Client to be an intelligence led organisation. You will play a crucial role in delivering the strategic objectives. Key Responsibilities Providing technical leadership and direction, establishing and maintaining application architecture best practice and culture Lead on cloud migration of large production application to AWS Maintaining and developing comprehensive documentation of current and target cloud architecture, utilised for easy...

Job Title GCP Cloud Engineer Contract Type Contract – Outside IR35 Duration 6–12 months Working Model Fully Remote Day Rate £350–£400/Day Role OverviewWe are engaging an experienced GCP Cloud Engineer for an upcoming contract opportunity, supporting the design, build, and ongoing optimisation of cloud infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role will be hands-on and delivery-focused, working closely with platform, DevOps, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions in a production environment. Key Responsibilities Design, implement, and maintain GCP cloud infrastructure Work with core GCP services, including Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, VPC, and IAM Build and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) Support containerised workloads and Kubernetes-based platforms Implement and maintain cloud security best practices Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise cloud environments for...

QA Test Automation Engineer Remote Working (Must be UK-based) 3-month contract (Outside IR35) Market Rates Skills and Experience: Must have experience with Playwright and Typescript these are absolutely essential BDD (Gherkin) configuration and experience with Cucumber or similar tooling Page Object Model with separate locator structures Generic API client implementation Database connection and CRUD utilities Test and coverage reporting for both UI and API test suites and test data manipulation Experience with Non-functional testing and mobile applications would be highly desirable Set up a TypeScript-based project structure optimized for Playwright Configure build tools, package management and environment configuration layers Integrate Playwright test runner with custom configurations to support parallel execution, retries and reporting Support parallel test execution, environment configurations and test grouping via tagging Provide clear,...

QA Test Automation Engineer Remote Working (Must be UK-based) 3 -month contract (Outside IR35) Market Rates Skills and Experience: Must have experience with Playwright and Typescript these are absolutely essential BDD (Gherkin) configuration and experience with Cucumber or similar tooling Page Object Model with separate locator structures Generic API client implementation Database connection and CRUD utilities Test and coverage reporting for both UI and API test suites and test data manipulation Experience with Non-functional testing and mobile applications would be highly desirable Set up a TypeScript-based project structure optimized for Playwright Configure build tools, package management and environment configuration layers Integrate Playwright test runner with custom configurations to support parallel execution, retries and reporting Support parallel test execution, environment configurations and test grouping via tagging...

Backend Engineer (Contract) | Java / Rust (Primary) | React (Secondary) | Ruby or Python (Exposure) | Fully Remote (UK/EU-based) | £550-650/day | Outside IR35 | 12-month contract The Opportunity We’re supporting a fast-scaling, globally distributed tech business that is evolving its backend architecture and investing heavily in performance, scalability, and long-term platform direction. They’re looking for a Senior Backend Contractor with strong Java and/or Rust experience to help shape and build the next generation of backend services. Rust is particularly relevant to where the platform is heading, though Java remains important. On the frontend, the team works with React, and there is existing exposure to Ruby and Python, where a working, mid-level understanding is beneficial rather than core. This is a high-impact, long-term contract within an experienced engineering team, ideal for a contractor who enjoys working close to product and infrastructure while...

Digital Transformation and Software Development consultancy requires a Kotlin Multiplatform Engineer (KMP) for a fully remote OUTSIDE IR35 6 month contract starting on Monday 19th Jan 2026 to work with their world-renowned Sports Betting & Gambling client . You will have availability to have a one stage remote interview this week and start on Monday 19th Jan 2026. Contract Details: Start Date: Monday 19th January 2026. Duration: 6 months. Day Rate: £440 per day. Determination: OUTSIDE IR35. Base: Fully Remote. Project Scope: You will be working on a large-scale Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) trading/betting application built with Compose Multiplatform (CMP), supporting iOS, Android, Desktop, and Web platforms. The project features a sophisticated architecture with clean separation of concerns across domain, data, UI, and feature layers, utilising Koin for dependency injection, Ktor for networking, and WebSocket connections for...

Senior Software Engineer (Angular) Contract: 6-month renewable Rate: £450 per day – Outside IR35 Location: UK – Fully Remote Overview We’re working with a large enterprise client building a modern fulfilment and logistics platform . They’re looking for a Senior Angular Engineer to lead front-end development on a business-critical, client-facing portal used to manage orders, inventory, deliveries, and returns. This is a hands-on role with a strong focus on Angular and TypeScript , working closely with product, UX, and backend teams. What You’ll Do Build and lead front-end development using Angular (latest versions) Design scalable, reusable UI components using TypeScript & SCSS Integrate with backend APIs to deliver real-time operational data Ensure performance, accessibility, and security best practices Participate in code reviews and technical decision-making What You’ll Bring Strong commercial experience with Angular...

Principal Data Engineer - Microsoft Fabric Contract Outside IR35 £550-£600/day Remote-first iO Associates client is recruiting 2 Principal Data Engineers to support a major greenfield data transformation programme built on a brand-new Microsoft Fabric platform. This initiative will establish the core data architecture, pipelines, and models that will underpin Power BI, enterprise analytics, and future change programmes through to the end of 2026. This is not BAU or legacy support. You'll be joining at the ground floor to help design and build a new, modern data foundation from scratch. The Role As a Principal Data Engineer, you will: Design and build data pipelines, models, and architecture using Microsoft Fabric Create analytics-optimised data models to support Power BI and reporting Operate in a greenfield, fast-moving environment, influencing technical direction Work in a consultancy-style delivery team, challenging designs and contributing ideas Support and...