63 jobs found in Manchester

**FULLY REMOTE** WE URGENTLY REQUIRE SC CLEARED CHECK TEAM LEAD (CTL)/CHECK TEAM MEMBER (CTM), PEN TESTER/PENETRATION TESTER/ ETHICAL HACKER – FULLY REMOTE – CONTRACT – RATES £650/£700 PD OUTSIDE OF IR35 FULLY REMOTE with occasional client visits to Manchester, North West, or Newcastle upon-Tyne, North East. Working in an SC Security Cleared environment, You will hold current SC Clearance or DV (Developed Vetting) Skills required: CSTL or CSTM-essential (NCSC) Previous experience of penetration testing public sector or critical national infrastructure (CNI) systems and networks. Azure,AWS On-prem Infrastructure Containers,Kubernetes Excellent communication skills, with previous coaching and training skills Please apply on line   - SmartSourcing are a Disability Confident Employer and we promote, celebrate and value diversity, we are committed to promoting equality and inclusion for all.

AI Enablement Lead – Software & Product Engineering 6 to 12 month contract | Up to £1,250 per day | Outside IR35 | Manchester or London | Hybrid We’re working with an established software and technology business looking to hire an AI Enablement Lead to help change the way its product and engineering teams build and deliver software. This is not an AI strategy role, a research role or traditional change management. We’re looking for someone genuinely hands on with GenAI who can work directly with software engineering and product teams to embed AI into the product development lifecycle. The business has already started its AI journey. Teams are experimenting with the technology and there is good internal capability. The next step is bringing in somebody who is further ahead of that curve and has already applied this successfully within a commercial software environment. What you’ll be doing You’ll work directly with engineering and product teams, helping them move from...

AI Enablement Lead - Software & Product Engineering 6 to 12 month contract | Up to £1,250 per day | Outside IR35 | Manchester or London | Hybrid We're working with an established software and technology business looking to hire an AI Enablement Lead to help change the way its product and engineering teams build and deliver software. This is not an AI strategy role, a research role or traditional change management. We're looking for someone genuinely hands on with GenAI who can work directly with software engineering and product teams to embed AI into the product development lifecycle. The business has already started its AI journey. Teams are experimenting with the technology and there is good internal capability. The next step is bringing in somebody who is further ahead of that curve and has already applied this successfully within a commercial software environment. What you'll be doing You'll work directly...

MRI Housing Systems Consultant Rochdale/Hybrid - 1 Day per week on site 6-Month Contract -Potential Extensions £500-700 per day (Outside IR35) An experienced Housing Systems Consultant is required for our Housing client to support a major change programme across their housing technology landscape. This is a specialist role requiring strong expertise in MRI Housing One, DRS, and Totalmobile, alongside solid SQL and integration skills. Key Responsibilities Support and optimise MRI Housing One, DRS and Totalmobile platforms. Drive system improvements and support ongoing transformation initiatives. Review and enhance business processes, workflows and integrations. Develop and troubleshoot SQL queries, reports and data issues. Share knowledge with internal teams and help build in-house capability. Essential Experience Strong hands-on experience with MRI Housing One. Experience with DRS Scheduling and Housing One integrations. Experience supporting Totalmobile. Strong SQL...

MRI Housing Systems Consultant Rochdale/Hybrid - 1 Day per week on site 6-Month Contract -Potential Extensions £500-700 per day (Outside IR35) An experienced Housing Systems Consultant is required for our Housing client to support a major change programme across their housing technology landscape. This is a specialist role requiring strong expertise in MRI Housing One, DRS, and Totalmobile, alongside solid SQL and integration skills. Key Responsibilities Support and optimise MRI Housing One, DRS and Totalmobile platforms. Drive system improvements and support ongoing transformation initiatives. Review and enhance business processes, workflows and integrations. Develop and troubleshoot SQL queries, reports and data issues. Share knowledge with internal teams and help build in-house capability. Essential Experience Strong hands-on experience with MRI Housing One. Experience with DRS Scheduling and Housing One integrations. Experience supporting Totalmobile. Strong SQL...

Security Architect – DV Cleared – Defence contract role Location: Preston – onsite three days per week, two days per week remote Day rate: £750 - £800 per day Outside IR35 Initial contract: Four months, likely to extend for at least a further 12 months You will only be considered for this contract role if you hold a current DV clearance, this is essential to the nature of the work you will undertaking. NexGen Associates is recruiting for an experienced Senior Security Architect to support a highly sensitive technology programme within a secure environment on a contract basis. The successful contractor will provide security architecture expertise across complex, business-critical systems involving multiple technologies, suppliers and delivery teams. You will help shape the programme’s security direction, ensuring that risks and protection requirements are properly considered throughout the design and implementation process. Due to the sensitive nature of the...

Technical Cyber Security Specialist (OT/SCADA) Location - Hybrid with 1 day onsite in Leeds per week Rate - £700 pd Outside of IR35 Clearance - Valid SC or Eligible Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Technical Cyber Security Specialist with strong expertise across Operational Technology (OT), SCADA environments, and Cyber Security engineering . The successful candidate will play a key role in the design, deployment, hardening, and support of cyber security solutions across complex OT estates, working within a multi-supplier delivery environment and engaging with technical, security, and programme stakeholders. Technical Experience Strong background in both IT and Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure engineering . Proven experience working with SCADA and industrial control system environments . Experience deploying and supporting cyber security technologies within OT estates. Demonstrable experience in security hardening of...

Technical Cyber Security Specialist (OT/SCADA) Location - Hybrid with 1 day onsite in Leeds per week Rate - £700 pd Outside of IR35 Clearance - Valid SC Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Technical Cyber Security Specialist with strong expertise across Operational Technology (OT), SCADA environments, and Cyber Security engineering . The successful candidate will play a key role in the design, deployment, hardening, and support of cyber security solutions across complex OT estates, working within a multi-supplier delivery environment and engaging with technical, security, and programme stakeholders. Technical Experience Strong background in both IT and Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure engineering . Proven experience working with SCADA and industrial control system environments . Experience deploying and supporting cyber security technologies within OT estates. Demonstrable experience in security hardening of OT...

This is a fantastic opportunity to work as a Lead Network Security Engineer on a remote basis, outside IR35, for a major pharmaceutical company. The key skills required for this Lead Network Security Engineer position are: ZScaler Cisco Palo Alto Checkpoint SIEM If you do have the relevant experience for this long term remote contract Lead Network Security Engineer role, outside IR35, please do apply.

Devops Engineer Enhanced DV cleared Location :Cheltenham Salary/Rate : £600-£700 per day Outside IR35 Start Date : immediately Job Type : Long term contract/permanent options available Square One resources are Partnered with several consultancies that have immediate requirements for Devops and Sotware Engineers to support mission Critical projects. Location: Cheltenham (5 days onsite) Rate: £600-£700 per day (Outside IR35) Security Clearance: Active DV/eDV Clearance Required About the Role We are seeking an experienced EDV-cleared Devops and Infrastructure Engineers to support and enhance critical services used within government environments. Working closely with customers, engineers, and stakeholders, you will ensure systems remain secure, reliable, scalable, and high-performing while providing technical consultancy and acting as an escalation point for support queries. Key Responsibilities Design, maintain, and support physical and virtual...

Senior AI Engineer x 2 Contract - Outside IR35 - 6 months+ Oxfordshire OR London £700 - £900 per day DOE Our client is a rapidly scaling UK deep-tech company delivering advanced AI capability into some of the most consequence-heavy environments there are: defence and national security, critical national infrastructure, and enterprise clients whose decisions carry real weight. They're hiring two Senior Applied AI Engineers to take ownership of the agentic AI systems underpinning their platform, on a contract basis, with genuine influence over how those systems are architected and delivered. This role suits an engineer who designs and ships systems rather than assembling pre-built components - someone who cares more about how a system performs once it's live and under pressure than how impressive it looks in a demo. What You'll Be Doing Architecting and building multi-agent AI systems end-to-end, combining frameworks such as LangGraph or Haystack where they add value with...

Senior AI Engineer x 2 Contract - Outside IR35 - 6 months+ Oxfordshire OR London ??????? £700 - £900 per day DOE Our client is a rapidly scaling UK deep-tech company delivering advanced AI capability into some of the most consequence-heavy environments there are: defence and national security, critical national infrastructure, and enterprise clients whose decisions carry real weight. They're hiring two Senior Applied AI Engineers to take ownership of the agentic AI systems underpinning their platform, on a contract basis, with genuine influence over how those systems are architected and delivered. This role suits an engineer who designs and ships systems rather than assembling pre-built components - someone who cares more about how a system performs once it's live and under pressure than how impressive it looks in a demo. What You'll Be Doing Architecting and building multi-agent AI systems end-to-end, combining frameworks such as LangGraph or Haystack where they...

Senior AI Engineer (BioTech/Pharma) | Outside IR35 Contract £600 - 700pd | Hybrid, Oxford | 6 months Harvey Nash are working with an exciting consultancy who are looking to bring on a highly experienced AI Engineer to support on a crucial project within the BioTech/Pharma space. Industry domain knowledge would be beneficial. Key Technical Skills Required Senior Python engineer with strong production software engineering experience. Commercial experience building LLM, agentic AI or multi-agent systems. Hands-on experience with LangGraph, LangChain, Haystack or similar frameworks. Proven ability to deploy AI/ML systems into production environments. Strong knowledge of inference, latency, performance, data pipelines, memory and tool/function calling. Experience with large-scale search and retrieval, including embeddings, indexing and querying multi-modal datasets. Confident with Docker, Git and cloud platforms, ideally AWS. Understanding of secure deployments,...

Senior AI Engineer x 2 Contract - Outside IR35 - 6 months+ Oxfordshire OR London £700 - £900 per day DOE Our client is a rapidly scaling UK deep-tech company delivering advanced AI capability into some of the most consequence-heavy environments there are: defence and national security, critical national infrastructure, and enterprise clients whose decisions carry real weight. They 're hiring two Senior Applied AI Engineers to take ownership of the agentic AI systems underpinning their platform, on a contract basis, with genuine influence over how those systems are architected and delivered. This role suits an engineer who designs and ships systems rather than assembling pre-built components - someone who cares more about how a system performs once it 's live and under pressure than how impressive it looks in a demo. What You 'll Be Doing Architecting and building multi-agent AI systems end-to-end, combining frameworks such as LangGraph or...

Role: Senior Applied AI Engineer (Private Sector Contractor) Rate: £700–£900 per day, dependent on experience Location: Hybrid: 2 days a week on site at Harwell, Oxfordshire; remainder remote (UK-based) Engagement: Contract, outside IR35: initial [6]-month term with strong likelihood of extension Start: Immediate Start   A note from the Founders   Oxford Dynamics is at an inflection point. We build frontier AI for environments where the cost of a wrong decision is high: defence and national security, critical infrastructure, and commercial organisations making high-stakes decisions on complex data. We are growing fast, and the constraint on how fast is no longer ideas or opportunity. It is whether the systems we ship are good enough for the people who stake decisions on them. That is where you come in. We need engineers who can build the systems this mission depends on, and build them to a standard that...

Senior C# IAM Developer - Auth0, Identity & Access Control, AWS - OUTSIDE IR35 Contract: 8 months Rate: £700 - £750 OUTSIDE IR35 Location: 100% remote The Role: Working for a global, market leading B2B SaaS business, you'll lead the design and implementation of secure, identity-driven Back End services in a modern C#/.NET environment. Your work will centre on authentication, authorization, and secure event-driven architectures. You'll own our Auth0 integration end-to-end , ensuring our platform meets strict security, compliance, and reliability standards. This is a role for someone who thinks deeply about threat models, defence-in-depth, and secure-by-default engineering. What You'll Do: Architect and implement secure Back End services in C# & .Net Own and evolve our Auth0 identity platform: tenant configuration, flows, hooks, rules, MFA, RBAC Design and maintain token-based security models (OIDC, OAuth2, JWT lifecycle, refresh...

Senior C# Engineer – .NET 9/10, AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS – OUTSIDE IR35 £700–£800 per day • Outside IR35 ● 100% Remote • 11 month rolling contract Takeaway: Contribute to the architecture and build of a major greenfield B2B SaaS platform as a deeply senior, hands‑on C# engineer, with heavy emphasis on deep .NET engineering , high‑performance distributed systems , and real‑world AWS serverless delivery . You’ll also have the opportunity to develop hands‑on skills with Claude Code , one of the most advanced AI‑assisted development tools in the industry. Role Overview: You’ll operate as the technical spearhead for a greenfield product build, reporting to the Director of Engineering. Expect deep backend engineering, distributed system design, and high‑quality serverless delivery, plus the chance to adopt modern AI‑assisted development practices as part of your workflow. What You’ll Bring: Senior/Staff‑level backend mastery in C# and .NET 9/10 ,...

CTL/CTM Penetration Tester Remote - With occasional travel to Manchester and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Rate - £785 per day Outside IR35 Must have Valid SC About the Role We are seeking an experienced CTL/CTM Penetration Tester to join a large Public Sector client delivering high-assurance security testing. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex infrastructure, cloud, containerised, and enterprise environments, helping clients identify vulnerabilities and strengthen their security posture. You will be responsible for leading and delivering penetration testing engagements while providing expert guidance, coaching, and technical leadership to colleagues and clients. Essential Requirements/Certifications Cyber Scheme Team Leader (CSTL) or Crest Certified Tester (CCT) Principal UK Cyber Security Council Professional (PriCSP) Security Cleared Experience Demonstrable experience conducting...

Senior C# Engineer - .NET 9/10, AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS - OUTSIDE IR35 £700-£800 per day - Outside IR35 - 100% Remote - 11 month rolling contract Takeaway: Contribute to the architecture and build of a major greenfield B2B SaaS platform as a deeply senior, hands-on C# engineer, with heavy emphasis on deep .NET engineering , high-performance distributed systems , and real-world AWS serverless delivery . You'll also have the opportunity to develop hands-on skills with Claude Code , one of the most advanced AI-assisted development tools in the industry. Role Overview: You'll operate as the technical spearhead for a greenfield product build, reporting to the Director of Engineering. Expect deep Back End engineering, distributed system design, and high-quality serverless delivery, plus the chance to adopt modern AI-assisted development practices as part of your workflow. What You'll Bring: Senior/Staff-level Back End mastery in C# and .NET 9/10 , with the...

Remote | Initial 3 months + extensions once impletmentation timelines agreed | £900-£1000 per day | Outside IR35 We are looking for an experienced ClickHouse Solutions Architect to support the design and implementation of a greenfield, enterprise-scale observability platform for a global banking client. This is a genuine greenfield engagement with significant scale and complexity. You will take a leading role in defining the ClickHouse architecture from first principles, before helping prove and implement the solution. The environment The platform will provide a central repository for logs, metrics and traces , with requirements including: Sustained ingestion of approximately 3 million events per second Around 1,000 concurrent users and hundreds of Real Time dashboards Hundreds of application tenants requiring workload isolation, throttling and quotas OpenTelemetry-native architecture High-volume hot storage with longer-term object storage tiering...