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Senior EUC Engineer

Buckinghamshire

Contract

Full-time

Job ID:

88479

Published date:

06/11/2025

Lead Technologist

Contract

Full-time

Job ID:

88379

Published date:

03/11/2025

Summary

Lead Technologist

Duration: 6 Months

Location: London & remote (hybrid)

Rate: £675 per day

IR35 Status: Inside

Start: ASAP

Role Overview:

A Lead Technologist is required for our Government client to support the creation and delivery of public sector legacy technology strategy and gain endorsement.

You will identify and develop existing principles, standards, best practice and assurance approaches and promote them.

You will work with vendors to maximise their offer to the public sector, and help upskill others across the public sector in your work and technology modernisation practices.

The Client is responsible for driving digital transformation focused on users. They help build and maintain common platforms, products and tools for others to use and create great public services that are both accessible and easy to use.

Essential Skills & Experience required:

As the Lead Technologist you will possess the following:

Experience supporting the setting and delivery on a vision and leading digital and data change, with specific focus on service and technology modernisation
Experience designing and building technology and be able to use this to build credibility with others, evaluate proposals and decide an execution approach
Proficient in engaging with suppliers/vendors both formally and informally
Create written content and present to senior stakeholders, both technical (such as CTOs / CDOs across Government) and non-technical
Be keen to share your learning with those around you through coaching and mentoring
Understand the opportunities and issues delivering digital services and/or technology in government and the wider public sector

T Technical skills

You will be at the top skill levels in your Digital & Data specialism, most likely from the Architecture group, with experience across Data, IT Operations or Software Development.
Also hold relevant industry certifications eg: AWS or MS Azure

Possess on premise application modernisation, which range across any technology provider, taking old legacy and re-purposing for public cloud

Understand dependencies of operational support and commercial process for outsourcing

End to end lifecycle management and legacy modernisation

Experience of leading end-to-end technology and/or digital service modernisation

Technical skills - nice to have would be any Oracle, VMWare or Hyper-V

Agile delivery

An understanding of Government commercial framework

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Senior Software Developer Python

Contract

Full-time

Job ID:

88280

Published date:

30/10/2025

Summary

Senior Python Software Developer (SC Cleared)

Duration: 12 Months

Location: London & remote (hybrid)

Rate: £650 per day

IR35 Status: Inside

Start: ASAP

A Senior Python Software Developer (SC Cleared) is required for our government client, where you will be working on a specific project where they are transforming and redesigning their data hub, which provides access to a variety of public sector data.

Responsibilities include:

Work within a multi-disciplinary product team and lead the design, development, and maintenance of robust, scalable open data services and APIs
Provide strategic technical leadership by setting software architecture, engineering practices, and technical direction across the team
Define and evolve scalable, secure design patterns and coding standards, ensuring alignment with government standards and cross-government platforms
Collaborate with teams to select technologies, shape roadmaps, and deliver resilient, maintainable digital services that meet programme goals
Represent the department at technical forums, open-source communities, and government working groups
Ensure delivery aligns with the Service Standard, Technology Code of Practice, and departmental governance processes

Essential Skills & Experience required:

As the Senior Python Developer (SC Cleared) you will possess the following:

Significant experience in software engineering, including leading the development of production-level web services.
Strong coding ability in Python /Ruby and at least one other modern language
Strong experience working with GIT as a version control system and effectively documenting development.
Experience of developing containerised applications and the capability to work with engineers to deploy applications in the cloud.
Ability to engage with non-technical stakeholders and explain complex technical concepts in a clear, accessible way
Experience leading delivery across multi-disciplinary teams

Hybrid working - This role requires two days per week onsite at the clients office in London. However; if preferred you can be based two days per week at their Manchester office instead.

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Project Manager

Warwickshire

Contract

Full-time

Job ID:

88148

Published date:

28/10/2025

Site Reliability Engineer

Contract

Full-time

Job ID:

88082

Published date:

27/10/2025

Summary

Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared)

Duration: 12 Months

Rate: £675 per day

Location: London or Manchester & remote (hybrid working)

IR35 Status: Inside

Start: ASAP

Role Overview:

A Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared) is required for our government department to be part of a multidisciplinary team developing and supporting the clients data hub which provides access to a variety of public sector data.

Duties include:

To be part of a multidisciplinary team developing and supporting their data hub
Write infrastructure as code using terraform or CloudFormation to ensure their infrastructure is consistent, reusable and reliable
Deploy and configure observability tools to enable the teams to identify and respond to operational issues quickly and effectively
Build CI/CD pipelines to enable the team to get code into production quickly and reliably
Provide daily support for their platform and tools to ensure they remain available, secure and robust
Participate in on-call rotations if necessary
Able to solve complex and interesting problems
Also to share your knowledge and expertise with your peers and the wider team to drive consistency and develop a culture of openness and learning
Provide technical leadership within the team and work alongside other team members to identify the best approaches and solutions

Essential Skills & Experience required:

As the Site Reliability Engineer (SC Cleared) you will possess the following skills and experience:

A deep understanding of Linux operating system internals and comfortable working with Linux virtual machines or containers
Proficiency in Python
Any knowledge of Ruby is desirable.
Strong experience working with infrastructure technologies such as databases, web servers, DNS, CDNs, reverse proxies, message queues and load balancers
Experience of building and maintaining services in the cloud (AWS)
Extensive experience of creating infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation
Experience of using container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, ECS or serverless application design with AWS Lambda
Experience supporting large production services
Git experience
Experience of creating pipelines in a CI/CD tool like Github Actions or AWS Codepipeline
A strong understanding of security principles and how to keep large operational services secure
Any previous technical leadership experience e.g: have been a technical team lead or been responsible for a technical initiative.

To apply for this role please email your CV to Joanne Stanley: joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk

Certes IT Service Solutions welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds

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Virtualisation Platform Engineer

Manchester

Contract

Full-time

Job ID:

87622

Published date:

09/10/2025

Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer

Contract

Full-time

Job ID:

87258

Published date:

07/10/2025

Cloud Environment & Release Manager

Manchester

Contract

Full-time

Job ID:

87026

Published date:

18/09/2025

project Manager

Cardiff, UK

Contract

Full-time

Job ID:

86927

Published date:

16/09/2025

Solutions Architect

Cardiff, UK

Contract

Full-time

Job ID:

86630

Published date:

29/08/2025

Summary

Solutions Architect

Duration: 6 Months

Rate: £650 per day (negotiable)

Location: Cardiff & remote (hybrid)

IR35 Status: Outside

Start ASAP

A Solutions Architect is required for our public sector client to be part of their Retail/Digital team and to possess previous experience of CRM or Online portals.

This role supports the Enterprise Applications function to ensure that the strategy and roadmaps are communicated and applied across the business and appropriate third parties, by providing direction and guidance on all

technical and functional aspects of, and modifications to the application architecture.

This role will be the design authority on projects ensuring compliance of new solution designs with the agreed strategy and architecture.

The client has multiple projects on going and you will be part of a large team working on two projects simultaneously.

Essential Skills & Experience required

Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks eg: TOGAF, Gartner.

Previous experience of working with CRM systems or Online portals

Extensive experience of designing complex solution architecture from concept to ready to build across multiple technologies.

Ability to harvest architectural patterns in order to promote reuse and consistency.

Support Enterprise Applications function in defining and maintaining the solution architecture and applications roadmap.

Ensure current architecture is defined and maintained to agreed standards, supporting and adhering to defined architectural principles.

Maintain up-to-date knowledge, document solution artifacts including solution plans and harvest architectural patterns for reuse.
General understanding of the latest technology innovations which informs the overall technical direction.

Communicate proposed Solution Architecture options and designs to the relevant design authority to enable informed decision making.

Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and emerging standards, working with partners/vendors to understand new application releases or new applications being considered for use.

- Support Business Analysts / Product Managers in refining high level functional and non-functional requirements.
- Provide solution options based on defined requirements and create high-level solution designs as an input to the solution plan.
- Ensure any proposed solution designs adherence to the architecture standards and principles including “Secure By Design”.
- Proactively support SCRUM design sessions to refine implementation approaches as part of “five amigos” review.
- Support Technical Delivery Leads in informing the logical sequence of the build.
- Support the Design Authority decision making.
- Ensure all design documents are kept up to date throughout the delivery.

To apply for this role please email your CV to Joanne Stanley email: joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk

Certes IT Service Solutions welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds

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