Hamilton Barnes

Akamai Security Engineer (L3 SME) - 6 Month Contract - Hybrid (Farringdon) - Inside IR35 This role sits within the Cyber Security function and is responsible for managing, optimising and securing enterprise-scale Akamai environments. The successful candidate will operate as a Level 3 SME within a high-pressure Cyber Defence environment, ensuring performance, resilience and security across critical digital platforms. You will play a key role in protecting large-scale systems from advanced threats, optimising CDN performance, and ensuring compliance across both cloud and on-prem environments. Key Responsibilities Manage and optimise Akamai security suites including: WAF L7 Anti-DDoS Bot Manager Premier API Security Site Shield API Acceleration Implement advanced blocking measures and bot-attack prevention strategies to secure large-scale production systems. Ensure PCI compliance and maintain secure configurations across hybrid cloud and on-prem...

GCP Network Engineer - 6 Month Contract - Hybrid (Manchester) We are seeking an experienced Senior GCP Network Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise-grade network solutions with a strong focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role will act as the organisation's GCP networking subject-matter expert, guiding and upskilling existing engineers who are primarily experienced in Azure and AWS, while ensuring secure, scalable, and highly available connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Key Responsibilities Design, implement, and operate GCP networking architectures, including VPC design, hybrid connectivity, and secure interconnects. Act as the technical authority for GCP networking, providing design guidance and peer reviews to the wider network team. Design and manage VPCs, subnets, routing, and Firewall rule & Cloud VPN (HA VPN) deployments What You Will Ideally Bring GCP VPC architecture and design, Shared VPC and VPC...