28 jobs found in Preston

Cloud Engineer - x 4 Defence 6 months £365 per day - Inside IR35 Mostly remote - 1-2 days per month in Preston (Flexible)     The Azure Engineer is responsible for building, operating, and optimising cloud infrastructure and platform services within Microsoft Azure. This role provides hands‑on engineering, operational support, and continuous improvement of Azure services to ensure secure, scalable, and resilient cloud delivery. The engineer works closely with architects, security teams, and application owners to implement solutions that follow best practice, automation standards, and governance controls   Deploy, configure, and maintain Azure infrastructure across compute, network, storage, and platform services. Implement Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) for consistent and automated environment provisioning. Apply Azure security and governance controls including RBAC, Policy, and network security rulesets....

Solutions Architect - On Prem Design 2 Positions Available 7 month contracts £96.36 per hour (Inside IR35) 2-3 Days a week - Preston   We are seeking a highly experienced architect to join a team to design and implement a complex on-premises solution within a defence environment. The ideal candidate would have experience delivering solutions involving virtualised environments spanning multiple countries, virtual desktop solutions, and enterprise collaboration applications from Microsoft and others.   Typical duties include : Architect & Design: Work within a team on the technical design and architecture of on-premises hosted VMWare-based platforms tailored for defence applications. Consultancy & Advisory: provide input to the lead architect on approaches for design and implementation of core elements of the solution, owning specific areas to create designs for those areas within a team of architects...

  SAP Basis BTP Devops Engineer £678.26 per day (Inside IR35) Occasional visits to Preston 6 month contract   We are seeking an experienced SAP Basis BTP DevOps Engineer to support and enhance our SAP landscape across on-premise and cloud environments. The successful candidate will be responsible for SAP Basis administration, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) operations, automation, DevOps practices, and cloud integration initiatives.   This role requires strong technical expertise in SAP systems administration, CI/CD automation, cloud-native technologies, and operational support for mission-critical SAP environments.   Key Responsibilities SAP Basis Administration Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain SAP systems including: SAP S/4HANA SAP ECC SAP NetWeaver SAP Solution Manager SAP HANA databases Perform system monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting, and performance...

Work at Sellafield Ltd, and you're not just building a career. You're embarking on a mission. Joining 11,000 people on a 100-year project transforming the Sellafield site for all the generations that follow.   We have the site at Sellafield (West Cumbria) and our office at Risley (near Warrington). Join us and you'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with industry-leading - sometimes world-leading - experts. There are generations and generations of knowledge here and people are only too willing to share it. Our culture of continuous improvement is underpinned by commitment to professional and personal development few can match.   Our relentless pursuit of excellence is reflected in our health, safety, security, resilience, and environmental performance standards as well as the quality of the products and services we deliver to our customers.   As a Cyber Security Incident Manager your main responsibilities will be to:   Review and update...

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a non-departmental public body created through the Energy Act 2004 .   We have 5 offices across the UK, in Cumbria, Dounreay, Harwell, Warrington and London. We have 17 sites including the first fleet of nuclear power stations, research centres, fuel-related facilities, and Sellafield, which has the largest radioactive inventory and the most complex facilities to decommission.   We are sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and supported by Dounreay, Magnox, Nuclear Waste Services, Nuclear Transport Solutions and Sellafield. The Scottish government also has a governance role, working closely with DESNZ to ensure its expectations are met.   Our role is strategic - we establish the overall approach, allocate budgets, set targets and monitor progress.   We do not have a hands-on role in cleaning up our facilities. Instead, we deliver our mission through others,...

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a non-departmental public body created through the Energy Act 2004 .   We have 5 offices across the UK, in Cumbria, Dounreay, Harwell, Warrington and London. We have 17 sites including the first fleet of nuclear power stations, research centres, fuel-related facilities, and Sellafield, which has the largest radioactive inventory and the most complex facilities to decommission.   We are sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and supported by Dounreay, Magnox, Nuclear Waste Services, Nuclear Transport Solutions and Sellafield. The Scottish government also has a governance role, working closely with DESNZ to ensure its expectations are met.   Our role is strategic - we establish the overall approach, allocate budgets, set targets and monitor progress.   We do not have a hands-on role in cleaning up our facilities. Instead, we deliver our mission through others,...

Work at Sellafield Ltd, and you're not just building a career. You're embarking on a mission. Joining 11,000 people on a 100-year project transforming the Sellafield site for all the generations that follow.   We have the site at Sellafield (West Cumbria) and our office at Risley (near Warrington). Join us and you'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with industry-leading - sometimes world-leading - experts. There are generations and generations of knowledge here and people are only too willing to share it. Our culture of continuous improvement is underpinned by commitment to professional and personal development few can match.   Our relentless pursuit of excellence is reflected in our health, safety, security, resilience, and environmental performance standards as well as the quality of the products and services we deliver to our customers.   As an Incident Management Transformation Consultant your main responsibilities will be:   Review...

Work at Sellafield Ltd, and you’re not just building a career. You’re embarking on a mission. Joining 11,000 people on a 100-year project transforming the Sellafield site for all the generations that follow.  We have the site at Sellafield (West Cumbria) and our office at Risley (near Warrington). Join us and you’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with industry-leading – sometimes world-leading – experts. There are generations and generations of knowledge here and people are only too willing to share it. Our culture of continuous improvement is underpinned by commitment to professional and personal development few can match. Our relentless pursuit of excellence is reflected in our health, safety, security, resilience, and environmental performance standards as well as the quality of the products and services we deliver to our customers.   As a Security Incident Response Engineer your main responsibilities will be to: Design...

  Description We are looking for an experienced Salesforce Strategy & Implementation Lead to drive the design, delivery, and adoption of our Customer Data Platform to start ASAP for a duration of six months initially. Ideally based in a commutable distance to Manchester for occasional office trips. Key Responsibilities: Lead a team of Salesforce specialists to define best case marketing use cases and requirements on data Own the delivery plan for a detailed definition of a Salesforce Data360 implementation, leading workshops with clients to define requirements, priorities and data needs Own dependency management across programmes and technical initiatives to ensure aligned delivery Support the internal team in analysing existing data quality and identify gaps that prevent key marketing use cases to be delivered Support CDP vendor selection (currently expected to be Data360) through requirements definition and scoring frameworks Support...

Contract Role: OUTSIDE of IR35 Job Overview We are seeking an experienced PEGA Lead Business Architect to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing enterprise architecture solutions, with a focus on PEGA systems, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and industry best practices. This role offers an excellent opportunity to lead complex projects, influence strategic decisions, and drive innovation within a collaborative environment. The ideal applicant will possess extensive expertise in solution architecture, cloud infrastructure, and system design, contributing to the development of scalable and secure IT solutions. Responsibilities Lead the development of comprehensive business architecture strategies aligned with organisational objectives and enterprise standards. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective solution architectures using PEGA platform...

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology integrator and supply chain solutions provider. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome.   World Wide Technology UK is looking for a hands-on Cloud Engineer with strong expertise in HPC and AI/ML performance workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role focuses on benchmarking, optimizing, and validating performance across advanced accelerator platforms including NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs, and Google TPUs.   This is a contract Role & Inside IR35 HPC AI Cloud Engineer Contract Duration :  6 months! Location:   Manchester,  United Kingdom (Hybrid with 2-3 days a week to onsite)   Job Description: Key Responsibilities Design and execute HPC & AI performance benchmarks (training, inference, scientific workloads) Provision and optimize GPU/TPU-based infrastructure on GCP...

Contract Role: OUTSIDE of IR35 Job Overview We are seeking an experienced PEGA Lead Business Architect to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing enterprise architecture solutions, with a focus on PEGA systems, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and industry best practices. This role offers an excellent opportunity to lead complex projects, influence strategic decisions, and drive innovation within a collaborative environment. The ideal applicant will possess extensive expertise in solution architecture, cloud infrastructure, and system design, contributing to the development of scalable and secure IT solutions. Responsibilities Lead the development of comprehensive business architecture strategies aligned with organisational objectives and enterprise standards. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective solution architectures using PEGA platform...

About the role: We are looking for a Senior Oracle DBA to join DWP's HCS Database Platforms team. This team supports the database services that underpin some of the most critical systems in the UK, directly affecting the daily lives of millions of citizens. You'll support and enhance DWP's mission critical Oracle database platforms, including on prem and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). You'll be working alongside highly skilled Database Specialists and Engineers who ensure DWP services are designed, delivered and maintained to high standards, using agile methods and robust engineering practices.   As a Senior Oracle DBA your main responsibilities will be: Supporting highly available Oracle databases across Linux and AIX environments. Managing Oracle RAC, ASM, AFD, HANFS, and TAF. Implementing, automating and maintaining HA/DR solutions including Data Guard. Performing patching, upgrades, performance tuning and resilience improvements....

Core Purpose  Join DWP's Digital Payment Services team on a major, multi-year transformation programme modernising one of the UK's largest and most critical payment platforms. As the UK's biggest payer, supporting over 22 million citizens and processing approximately £230 billion in payments annually, this programme is re-platforming core systems to improve resilience, scalability and future innovation across government services.   As part of an Agile delivery team, you will support the delivery of applications across AME Payments, contributing to the reliability and performance of critical citizen-facing services.   As a Test Engineer , your main responsibilities will be to: Test applications that underpin critical citizen services, ensuring usability, accessibility, security, stability and performance. Build and maintain robust automated test frameworks and test suites. Identify, log and support resolution of defects impacting...

Core Purpose Join DWP's Digital Payment Services team on a major, multi-year transformation programme modernising one of the UK's largest and most critical payment platforms. As the UK's biggest payer, supporting over 22 million citizens and processing approximately £230 billion in payments annually, this programme is re-platforming core systems to improve resilience, scalability and future innovation across government services. As a Senior Test Engineer, you will play a key role within an Agile delivery team, leading testing activity across applications within AME Payments, working across primarily JavaScript-based projects. You will take ownership of automation strategy while mentoring and supporting a small team of Test Engineers, contributing to the reliability and performance of critical citizen-facing services.   As a Senior Test Engineer , your main responsibilities will be to: Lead testing across applications supporting critical citizen...

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active SC clearance.    The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.   Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:   Help people to move into work and...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.   Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to: Help people to move into work and support those already in work to progress, with the aim of increasing overall workforce participation Help people to plan and save for later life, while providing a safety net for those who need it now Provide effective, efficient, and innovative services to the millions of claimants who rely on us every day, including the most vulnerable in society Improve experience of our services...

Full job description Contract Role: OUTSIDE of IR35 Job Overview We are seeking an experienced PEGA Lead Business Architect to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing enterprise architecture solutions, with a focus on PEGA systems, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and industry best practices. This role offers an excellent opportunity to lead complex projects, influence strategic decisions, and drive innovation within a collaborative environment. The ideal applicant will possess extensive expertise in solution architecture, cloud infrastructure, and system design, contributing to the development of scalable and secure IT solutions. Responsibilities Lead the development of comprehensive business architecture strategies aligned with organisational objectives and enterprise standards. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective solution...

Location: Manchester (Hybrid, 2 days a week in the office) Start date: 10/08/2026 Duration: We are planning the assignment until 9th April 2027. (8 months) Hours: 37.5 hours per week Rate: Inside IR35   At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere.   About Rides: From our hubs in Manchester, London & Amsterdam, Trips Business Unit exists to give our customers the best, seamless experience across their whole trip whether they’re booking a flight, renting a car, hailing a taxi or visiting an attraction. Our Rides business, which offers both Taxis and Rail, plays a key role in driving the Booking.com Connected Trip vision. Our mission in Rides is for every traveller, the easiest and most convenient way to travel for any ride on any trip, great experience every time, with airport pickups at our heart.   Role Description: We are looking for an enthusiastic...

Service Designer   Duration: 6-Months Initially Location: Hybrid will require travel to Manchester Clearance: SC Eligible (Active SC would be preferred) Engagement Type: Inside IR35 Start Date: 29/06/2026   We’re looking for a thoughtful, adaptable, and proactive Service Designer to join a complex and evolving programme environment where ambiguity is part of the challenge — and part of the opportunity. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in environments that are still taking shape, can build trust across difficult stakeholder landscapes, and is motivated by influencing change where traditional delivery structures don’t always exist.   The Opportunity You’ll play a key role in shaping internally focused services that currently have broad applications but no clearly defined end-user landscape yet. This means working across multiple teams, uncovering needs as you go, and helping...