16 infrastructure architect jobs found

Job Title: Network Architect (Active SC Clearance Required) Day Rate: £400/day (OUTSIDE IR35) Location: Fully Remote Contract Length: 6 months (extendable) Network Architect (Active SC Clearance Required) - Role & Responsibilities Provide technical leadership and governance for the design, development, implementation and testing of complex customer LAN/WAN solutions, working closely with project managers and delivery teams. Own the low-level design and discovery activities, ensuring successful transition from existing infrastructure to the target solution architecture. Review and sign off high-level designs and requirements, translating them into detailed technical deliverables and Statements of Work. Manage technical risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring solutions are delivered in line with quality and customer expectations. Coordinate internal, customer and third-party technical teams, providing...

My client is seeking an experienced Contract Site Reliability Engineer Team Lead to join their team. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring a strong technical background alongside the ability to lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing SRE function. There will be occasional travel to the client's offices in Central London. This role is paying £475 Per day and is Outside IR35. Responsibilities Provide technical leadership for the Site Reliability Engineering function, driving reliability, scalability, and performance improvements across critical production systems. Lead, mentor, and coach a team of SREs and engineers, fostering a culture of operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Remain hands-on with the design, implementation, and support of cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, and platform reliability initiatives. Define, implement, and govern SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, ensuring alignment between engineering...

AWS Cloud Engineer – £500 - £550 per day Outside IR35 – 12 months - Edinburgh (Hybrid) One of Lorien’s key public sector clients is looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer to join their team on an initial 12 month contract Key Responsibilities: Designing, building, and maintaining AWS cloud infrastructure across multi-account environments Implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform with modular, reusable best practices Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native tools (CodePipeline, CodeBuild) and Git-based workflows Optimising cloud environments for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and resilience Managing monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch and related tooling Implementing automated patching and configuration management using AWS Systems Manager Supporting database workloads in AWS, including RDS and associated backup and recovery processes Working closely with infrastructure and security teams to ensure best...

AWS Security Engineer - Glasgow/Hybrid - Outside IR35 Market Rates Duration - 12 months Harvey Nash are supporting a client seeking an experienced AWS Security Engineer to join their IT Infrastructure and Cyber function. This is a lead role in designing, implementing, and optimising AWS security controls across a multi-account cloud environment. This role requires a strong blend of hands-on AWS security engineering and strategic design capability, supporting secure cloud adoption and ongoing platform maturity. Key Responsibilities The AWS Security Engineer will: Design secure AWS architectures, including IAM strategy, access models, logging, monitoring, and compliance controls Define secure hosting approaches across EC2, containerised workloads, and supporting services Establish and enhance identity and access management frameworks, including RBAC and least-privilege models Implement centralised logging, monitoring, and threat detection using AWS-native tooling...

My client is seeking an experienced Contract Site Reliability Engineer Team Lead to join their team. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring a strong technical background alongside the ability to lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing SRE function. There will be occasional travel to the client's offices in Central London. Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Team Lead Provide technical leadership for the Site Reliability Engineering function, driving reliability, scalability, and performance improvements across critical production systems. Lead, mentor, and coach a team of SREs and engineers, fostering a culture of operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Remain hands-on with the design, implementation, and support of cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, and platform reliability initiatives. Define, implement, and govern SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, ensuring alignment between engineering priorities and business...

Senior AWS Engineer - Up to £500 per day 6 month initial contract Fully Remote - UK Based Outside IR35 Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS Engineer to join our Professional Services delivery team on a fixed term basis to support the delivery of a major AWS migration and separation programme for an enterprise customer. This role will form part of a multi-disciplinary delivery team working alongside Solution Architects, Project Managers, and customer technical stakeholders to build, migrate, and deploy AWS infrastructure and application services as part of a structured separation of an existing hybrid estate into a new AWS Organisation. The successful candidate will play a hands-on role in delivering landing zone implementation, networking build activities, server migration, and application platform deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approaches. This is a customer-facing delivery role within a professional services consultancy...

IT Business Analyst Newport (Hybrid) Initial 6 Month Contract OUTSIDE IR35 £450 Per Day Yolk recruitment are currenlty hiring for an IT Business Analyst on an intial 6 month contract with likely extension. This isn't a delivery heavy BA role. It's very much about the front end...shaping ideas, defining scope, and helping senior stakeholders make confident, well informed investment decisions. The Role You'll sit right at the start of the project lifecycle, taking early ideas and turning them into clear, structured, investment ready proposals that can actually move forward. Day to day, you'll be: Defining project scope, objectives, and high-level requirements Running workshops and working closely with stakeholders to capture and challenge requirements Partnering with technical architects to shape viable solution options Supporting or leading supplier selection and tender processes where needed Pulling together clear investment papers covering cost, risk, timelines, and...

IT Business Analyst Newport (Hybrid) Initial 6 Month Contract OUTSIDE IR35 £450 Per Day Yolk recruitment are currenlty hiring for an IT Business Analyst on an initial 6 month contract with likely extension. This isn't a delivery heavy BA role. It's very much about the Front End...shaping ideas, defining scope, and helping senior stakeholders make confident, well informed investment decisions. The Role You'll sit right at the start of the project life cycle, taking early ideas and turning them into clear, structured, investment ready proposals that can actually move forward. Day to day, you'll be: Defining project scope, objectives, and high-level requirements Running workshops and working closely with stakeholders to capture and challenge requirements Partnering with technical architects to shape viable solution options Supporting or leading supplier selection and tender processes where needed Pulling together clear investment papers covering cost, risk, timelines,...

IT Business Analyst Newport (Hybrid) Initial 6 Month Contract OUTSIDE IR35 £450 Per Day Yolk recruitment are currenlty hiring for an IT Business Analyst on an intial 6 month contract with likely extension. This isn 't a delivery heavy BA role. It 's very much about the front end...shaping ideas, defining scope, and helping senior stakeholders make confident, well informed investment decisions. The Role You 'll sit right at the start of the project lifecycle, taking early ideas and turning them into clear, structured, investment ready proposals that can actually move forward. Day to day, you 'll be: Defining project scope, objectives, and high-level requirements Running workshops and working closely with stakeholders to capture and challenge requirements Partnering with technical architects to shape viable solution options Supporting or leading supplier selection and tender processes where needed Pulling together clear...

Agile PMO & Scrum Master + Long term contract + Outside IR35 + £500 to £550 per day + DV Cleared role + Full time onsite in Hampshire Key Skills: + DV Clearance + Infrastructure & Network background + Full time onsite We are looking for a PMO & Associate Scrum Master to support a large-scale Defence IT programme operating within a SAFe Agile environment. This role is ideal for a PMO or Project Delivery professional with Defence experience who is looking to develop their Scrum Master skills while maintaining a strong delivery and governance focus. Key Responsibilities Support day-to-day programme and project delivery activities. Maintain project plans, schedules, milestones and dependency trackers. Monitor progress, risks and issues, providing regular status reporting. Coordinate meetings, workshops and Programme Increment (PI) Planning activities. Maintain project documentation, governance records and action logs. Support resource planning, change...

Agile PMO & Scrum Master + Long term contract + Outside IR35 + £500 to £550 per day + DV Cleared role + Full time onsite in Hampshire Key Skills: + DV Clearance + Infrastructure & Network background + Full time onsite We are looking for a PMO & Associate Scrum Master to support a large-scale Defence IT programme operating within a SAFe Agile environment. This role is ideal for a PMO or Project Delivery professional with Defence experience who is looking to develop their Scrum Master skills while maintaining a strong delivery and governance focus. Key Responsibilities Support day-to-day programme and project delivery activities. Maintain project plans, schedules, milestones and dependency trackers. Monitor progress, risks and issues, providing regular status reporting. Coordinate meetings, workshops and Programme Increment (PI) Planning activities. Maintain project documentation, governance records and action logs. Support resource planning,...

DV Cleared Infrastructure Test Engineers x 2 Location: Onsite in Hamsphire Contract Length: Initial 12 Months Rate: £480 to £530 per day - Outside IR35 Clearance: Active DV Clearance Required We are seeking experienced DV Cleared Infrastructure Test SMEs to support a major secure infrastructure programme. Working within a complex technical environment, you will be responsible for the planning, execution and assurance of infrastructure testing activities across critical platforms and services. The successful candidates will provide hands-on testing expertise, ensuring infrastructure components are validated against functional, performance and operational requirements while supporting defect management and stakeholder reporting throughout the test lifecycle. Key Responsibilities Develop, review and execute Infrastructure Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases. Perform functional, integration, system and performance testing across infrastructure environments. Manage defects...

DV Cleared Infrastructure Test Engineers x 2 Location: Onsite in Hamsphire Contract Length: Initial 12 Months Rate: £480 to £530 per day - Outside IR35 Clearance: Active DV Clearance Required We are seeking experienced DV Cleared Infrastructure Test SMEs to support a major secure infrastructure programme. Working within a complex technical environment, you will be responsible for the planning, execution and assurance of infrastructure testing activities across critical platforms and services. The successful candidates will provide hands-on testing expertise, ensuring infrastructure components are validated against functional, performance and operational requirements while supporting defect management and stakeholder reporting throughout the test life cycle. Key Responsibilities Develop, review and execute Infrastructure Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases. Perform functional, integration, system and performance testing across infrastructure environments....

Infrastructure Tester x2 Location: Hampshire (Onsite) Duration: 18 Months Clearance: DV Clearance required (Active) Rate: £500 - £550 a day per day - Outside IR35 We are seeking an experienced DV Cleared Infrastructure Tester to join a major secure government programme based on-site in Basingstoke. This is a hands-on testing role focused on validating and assuring complex Zero Trust Infrastructure environments supporting mission-critical services. Working within a highly secure delivery team, you will be responsible for planning, executing and reporting infrastructure testing activities across a range of technologies, ensuring solutions are robust, secure and fit for operational deployment. Key Responsibilities Design and execute infrastructure test plans, test cases and test scripts. Validate Zero Trust architecture components and supporting infrastructure. Perform end-to-end testing across servers, networks, security controls and integrations. Verify deployments,...

Infrastructure Tester x2 Location: Hampshire (Onsite) Duration: 18 Months Clearance: D V Clearance required (Active) Rate: £500 - £550 a day per day - Outside IR35 We are seeking an experienced DV Cleared Infrastructure Tester to join a major secure government programme based on-site in Basingstoke. This is a hands-on testing role focused on validating and assuring complex Zero Trust Infrastructure environments supporting mission-critical services. Working within a highly secure delivery team, you will be responsible for planning, executing and reporting infrastructure testing activities across a range of technologies, ensuring solutions are robust, secure and fit for operational deployment. Key Responsibilities Design and execute infrastructure test plans, test cases and test scripts. Validate Zero Trust architecture components and supporting infrastructure. Perform end-to-end testing across Servers, networks, security controls and integrations. Verify...

Azure & Cloud Migration Contractors Modernisation, M365 & Cost Optimisation | UK Outside IR35 · UK hybrid/remote · Contracts from a few weeks to several months Our client TheGuvnr is a new UK marketplace platform — launching this summer — that helps small and medium-sized businesses hire industry-leading contractors under structured delivery engagements. They're recruiting a founding cohort of cloud and Azure specialists ahead of a pipeline of engagements with UK SMEs modernising off legacy systems and getting more from the cloud. We'd like to hear from cloud specialists who can deliver real, well-run migrations and modernisation for small and medium-sized business clients: Cloud Migration — moving on-premise and legacy systems to Azure, lift-and-shift and re-platforming, data-centre and server exit Azure Setup & Architecture — landing zones, tenant and network design, well-architected reviews Microsoft 365 & Modern Workplace — M365 deployment, Teams,...