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Software Architect 12 Month Contract - 37 Hours Per Week Newcastle (Hybrid) Inside IR35 Role Overview - Belcan are currently working with one of the leaders in the Aviation industry for a software architect to join their team in Newcastle. The role is based at their Newcastle office. Flexible working arrangements are in place for the team. The successful candidate is expected to be in the office 3 days a week, with the opportunity to work 2 days from home. They are looking for the following; Responsibilities • Work with System Architects to translate business goals and high-level requirements into robust software architectures, balancing performance, security, reliability, and compliance, • Design scalable, flexible, and maintainable architectures for complex geospatial systems using the latest modern cloud based technologies and tools, • Identify technical risks early and define pragmatic mitigation strategies, • Work in an AGILE scrum team, collaborating closely with software engineers, testers and the Product Owner, providing clear guidance and hands-on architectural support, • Collaborate with development teams to select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and patterns, • Ensure delivered solutions align with the agreed architecture and meet both functional and non-functional requirements, • Produce clear, structured documentation covering architecture decisions and design rationale Essential • Strong experience designing and owning software architectures for complex systems, preferably in a cloud environment with an awareness of DevSecOps, • Ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery, • Confidence communicating architectural designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, • Experience working in environments with security, reliability, and compliance constraints, preferably in the geospatial domain., • A collaborative mindset and passion for mentoring and supporting engineering teams If interested, please apply now, and we will be in touch! This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan

Job Title: National Sales Manager\nLocation: Newcastle\nSalary: £50,000 – £70,000 DOE\n\nThe Company:\nOur client is a world-class electronic manufacturing organisation based in the North East of England, delivering high-quality, reliable and cost-effective solutions across aviation, automotive, medical, security and health & safety sectors.\n\nThe business operates with a straightforward, honest approach—no jargon, just integrity, quality, and doing what they say they will do. Customer service is central to everything they do, supported by modern manufacturing capability, strong processes, and ongoing investment in people and development.\n\nWorking Hours:\nMonday to Friday – Flexible / Hybrid working\n\nBenefits:\n\n * Competitive salary plus bonus structure\n\n * Flexible / remote working options\n\n * Strong development and progression potential\n\n * Exposure to high-value engineering sectors\n\n * Supportive, low-pressure working environment\n\nJob Description:\nAs a Sales Manager, you will act as the face of a highly respected electronic manufacturing business, responsible for introducing new customers to the organisation and promoting its capability, culture, and technical strength.\n\nThe Sales Manager will be focused primarily on new business development, building a strong pipeline of opportunities and engaging prospective customers across the UK. Once customers are onboarded, operational teams will take over delivery, allowing the Sales Manager to focus on driving further growth and opportunity creation.\n\nThis Sales Manager role involves researching and identifying potential customers, initiating contact through outreach, networking, LinkedIn engagement, and attending trade shows and industry events. A key part of the role is bringing customers into the factory environment, where the capability, quality, and people effectively sell themselves.\n\nThis Sales Manager position requires someone who can confidently communicate technical manufacturing capability in a clear and engaging way, particularly within contract electronics and production engineering environments. The role is long-term focused, with expectations centred on building sustainable pipelines rather than immediate results.\n\nThe Sales Manager will also support the business in raising its profile through PR activity, digital engagement, and industry networking, while working closely with internal teams to align customer requirements with capability.\n\nThere is also scope for the Sales Manager to evolve into a more senior leadership position over time, potentially overseeing wider geographic areas or additional team members as the business grows.\n\nSkills & Experience:\n\n * Experience in a Sales Manager role within technical or manufacturing environments\n\n * Background in contract electronics or production engineering highly desirable\n\n * Strong ability to build relationships and generate new business opportunities\n\n * Confident communicator able to engage senior decision-makers\n\n * Experience in pipeline development and proactive business development\n\n * Ability to work independently and manage own schedule nationally\n\n * Strong interpersonal skills with a personable, credible approach\n\n * Experience using LinkedIn, networking events, trade shows and outreach campaigns\n\n * Ability to analyse and present sales data effectively\n\nWhy Should You Apply?\nThis Sales Manager position offers the opportunity to join a stable, forward-thinking manufacturing business where success is built on relationships, capability, and long-term growth rather than short-term pressure.\n\nThe Sales Manager will benefit from a supportive environment, realistic expectations, and the chance to build something meaningful within a respected engineering organisation that values honesty, integrity, and quality above all else

Role: Mid-Senior DevOps Engineer 4-day workweek: 32 hours per week Pay: £50,000.00-£55,000.00 per year Work Location: Remote-first, home-based UK role with travel to Canterbury once every 2 weeks Job Type: Full-time Job Description: The Role We’re seeking a Mid-Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our cloud platform, CI/CD, security, reliability and cost-efficiency across multiple regions. This is a pivotal and exciting role as we expand into new markets and continue to grow rapidly. In this role, you’ll have high autonomy, and your impact on the team and wider company will be far-reaching. Your focus will be on cloud infrastructure, automation and supporting high developer productivity. You’ll collaborate closely with Developers, QA and the Technical Lead to build a robust, well-documented and auditable platform that lets the team ship safely and quickly. This role is remote, home-based (UK) with occasional travel to Canterbury once every 2 weeks. Salary & Benefits Competitive Salary, DOE. EOT Scheme beneficiary after 12 months of service Extra time off at Christmas Private Healthcare Scheme EAP Scheme Cycle to Work Scheme Up to 6 Fully Paid Company Activity Days per annum Discretionary Occupational Sick Pay Scheme Introduction AIRDAT is a UK based systems, training & consultancy company providing services specifically to the Aviation sector. Our products relate to the management of training, assurance, compliance, fleet and auditing. In addition, AIRDAT offers airports an array of support services. AIRDAT is proudly an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT). Joining our Employee Ownership Trust means becoming an integral part of a company where your contributions directly impact our shared success. As an employee-owner, you'll have a stake in the company's achievements, fostering a collaborative and empowered work culture. Our commitment to shared ownership promotes a supportive environment where your dedication is rewarded, creating a fulfilling and mutually beneficial workplace. At AIRDAT, it’s all about life-work balance. Working only 4 days a week, you will get 22.5 holiday days and bonus time during the Christmas/New Year period too. The company also runs around 6 free ‘activity days’ throughout the year (including things like Go Karting, Off-Road Driving,Spa Day, Kayaking) - you can vote for other activities you’d like to do and you can book onto as many of these as you like (or not!) - plus our team Christmas Party. We operate a cycle to work scheme, ‘meet free Fridays’, a Private Healthcare Scheme, Discretionary Occupational Sick Pay and an EAP Scheme too. You’ll be provided with all the equipment you need and we reserve an annual budget to help improve skills and further your development too. In addition, all team members receive a purchasing card, so no using your own funds to make company purchases. As an integral part of our digital solutions team, you will be working on our three core digital products, including our mobile app, our public site and the development of new products and features. You’ll be empowered and working as part of a small, highly supportive agile team, delivering bespoke, complex systems to the aviation industry. Most importantly, we take our work seriously, but never ourselves. Our company values are Proactive, Evolving, Confident and Supportive - these should resonate with any potential applicants. Core Responsibilities Platform Reliability, Security & Governance Patch management across Windows/Linux servers; automate updates and manage maintenance windows and rollback plans. Security hardening: manage access policies, accounts, secrets and least-privilege controls across servers, DBs and AWS. User access security: maintain IAM roles and server/DB access, manage JML and periodic access reviews. Vulnerability management: operate and tune Intruder, Sophos and similar tools; triage findings and track remediation. Secure SDLC: maintain Snyk/SonarCloud integrations, alerts, thresholds and quality gates. CI/CD Own and improve TeamCity pipelines; troubleshoot agent, server and process issues; keep agent images current. Improve build stability and reduce QA/dev interruptions through proactive detection and pipeline optimisation. Extend release automation across all deployables, including mobile apps; standardise promotion flows with approvals and audit trails. Continuously optimise pipelines for speed, cost and reliability; maintain CI metrics and SLOs. Produce runbooks and documentation for CI/CD, branching strategy, release calendars and incident processes. Cloud Operations (AWS) Cost-aware architecture: right-size workloads, refine autoscaling and propose modern AWS services for performance/cost gains. Environment hygiene: maintain and sanitise EC2/AMIs/volumes/snapshots; enforce retention and naming/tagging standards. Network/perimeter: review and rationalise Security Groups and ingress/egress rules. Data lifecycle & backups: define/enforce retention for DBs/S3; manage backup/restore tests for data and deployment artefacts. Multi-region growth: extend and automate patterns for new clients/regions, including one-click tenant provisioning and CI/CD cost/config updates. Monitoring/alerting: maintain actionable dashboards and alerts across infra, CI and applications; reduce noise. Database Operations Improve MySQL performance (indexing, query plans, connections) and track changes via migration tooling. Implement data privacy practices: anonymisation, retention and related controls. Documentation & Compliance Maintain accurate documentation for servers, cloud architecture, CI/CD and operations. Contribute to security reviews/audits; ensure evidence capture (change logs, approvals, test results, DR/backup tests). Strengths & Behaviours Are you: Comfortable proposing better ways of working; thrives in a small, agile team. Works at pace with minimal supervision; dependable and delivery-driven. Automation-first mindset: scripting, config management. Observability fundamentals and practical alerting design. Excellent documentation skills and a security-first approach. Role Requirements Required Proven DevOps/Platform/Infra experience for .NET workloads in AWS. Strong Windows Server admin/patching; proficient with PowerShell and Bash. CI/CD expert (TeamCity, Jira) and skilled at pipeline debugging. Solid AWS knowledge: EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Route 53, Lambda, SNS, IAM, VPC/Security Groups. MySQL admin, tuning and analysis. Observability fundamentals and practical alerting. Desireable AWS certification. Experience with .NET Core deployments; REST/SOAP; blue/green or canary strategies. Familiarity with Snyk, SonarCloud, Intruder, Sophos. Mobile CI/CD (e.g. Bitrise). Experience with Atlassian tools and Git workflows. Exposure to SSO/identity (OIDC, OAuth2, SAML; e.g. Okta). Knowledge of cost-optimised architectures. DR planning experience. Benefits: Additional leave Bereavement leave Casual dress Company events Company pension Cycle to work scheme Enhanced maternity leave Enhanced paternity leave Flexitime Free parking Health & wellbeing programme Life insurance On-site parking Private medical insurance Profit sharing Sick pay Work from home Experience: DevOps: 2 years (required) Language: English (required)

Software Architect 12 Month Contract - 37 Hours Per Week Newcastle (Hybrid) Inside IR35 Role Overview - Belcan are currently working with one of the leaders in the Aviation industry for a software architect to join their team in Newcastle. The role is based at their Newcastle office. Flexible working arrangements are in place for the team. The successful candidate is expected to be in the office 3 days a week, with the opportunity to work 2 days from home. They are looking for the following; Responsibilities Work with System Architects to translate business goals and high-level requirements into robust software architectures, balancing performance, security, reliability, and compliance Design scalable, flexible, and maintainable architectures for complex geospatial systems using the latest modern cloud based technologies and tools Identify technical risks early and define pragmatic mitigation strategies Work in an AGILE scrum team, collaborating closely with software engineers, testers and the Product Owner, providing clear guidance and hands-on architectural support Collaborate with development teams to select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and patterns Ensure delivered solutions align with the agreed architecture and meet both functional and non-functional requirements Produce clear, structured documentation covering architecture decisions and design rationale Contribute to and support technical and architectural reviewsSkill Set Essential Strong experience designing and owning software architectures for complex systems, preferably in a cloud environment with an awareness of DevSecOps Ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery Confidence communicating architectural designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Experience working in environments with security, reliability, and compliance constraints, preferably in the geospatial domain. A collaborative mindset and passion for mentoring and supporting engineering teams If interested, please apply now, and we will be in touch! This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan

Our client has an opportunity for a Software Architect to join them on a 12-month contract. Role: Software Architect Hourly Rate: £70 per hour Umbrella - inside IR35 Location: Newcastle Hours: Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week, 12-month contract Clearance: Security Clearance required to start Responsibiltes Work with System Architects to translate business goals and high-level requirements into robust software architectures, balancing performance, security, reliability, and compliance Design scalable, flexible, and maintainable architectures for complex geospatial systems using the latest modern cloud based technologies and tools Identify technical risks early and define pragmatic mitigation strategies Work in an AGILE scrum team, collaborating closely with software engineers, testers and the Product Owner, providing clear guidance and hands-on architectural support Collaborate with development teams to select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and patterns Ensure delivered solutions align with the agreed architecture and meet both functional and non-functional requirements Produce clear, structured documentation covering architecture decisions and design rationale Contribute to and support technical and architectural reviews Requirements: Strong experience designing and owning software architectures for complex systems, preferably in a cloud environment with an awareness of DevSecOps Ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery Confidence communicating architectural designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Experience working in environments with security, reliability, and compliance constraints, preferably in the geospatial domain. A collaborative mindset and passion for mentoring and supporting engineering teams If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please apply immediately! Line Up Aviation is a specialist aviation and aerospace recruitment company that has been operating all over the world for more than 30 years. We work with some of the industry's best-known companies and pride ourselves with working to the highest standard of service supported by an ingrained culture of honesty and integrity. "Follow @LineUpAviation on Twitter for all of our latest vacancies, news and pictures from our busy UK Head Office. Interact with us using the #LineUpAviation tag at anytime! Thank you for your follow