Summer-Browning Associates

RISK MANAGER Summer-Browning Associates is supporting our client in the Central Government who is seeking a Risk Manager for an initial 6-month assignment, with the potential for extension. Location: Milton Keynes Hybrid The ideal candidate will hold active SC clearance and possess a strong background in risk management within complex construction, engineering, or major infrastructure projects. Key skills and experience required include: Proficiency in Risk Management Leadership: Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for all aspects of risk management across assigned projects and programmes. Develop, maintain, and implement comprehensive risk management frameworks that align with industry standards and government best practices. Experience in Managing Tools, Systems & Processes: Oversee and continually improve project risk management tools. Provide expert guidance on risk modelling, Monte Carlo simulation, mitigation planning, and contingency estimation. Proven Experience in Project & Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate effectively with project managers, planners, cost managers, engineering leads, and commercial teams to ensure risks are fully understood and managed. Facilitate risk workshops, deep-dive sessions, and scenario planning exercises for projects and programmes. Solid Understanding of Reporting & Assurance: Produce high-quality risk reports, dashboards, heat maps, and insights to support project reviews and executive reporting. Essential qualifications include certifications such as IRM, MoR, PMI-RMP, or APM Risk Certificate. Experience working in regulated or highly complex public sector/defence environments is desired To apply, please submit your updated CV for review.

BUSINESS CHANGE MANAGER Summer-Browning Associates is supporting our client in the Central Government who is seeking a Technology Business Change Manager for an initial 6-month assignment, with the possibility of extension. Location: Milton Keynes London Hybrid The ideal candidate will hold an active SC clearance and have a solid background in Business Change Management working within a high-threat government environment, with the following skills and experience: Experience managing technical business change projects and programs. A solid understanding of change management principles, techniques, and tools. Proficiency in creating Business Change documentation, including policies, standards, processes, procedures, and patterns. Experience managing business change projects and programs in secure environments. Proven experience in Target Operating Model (TOM) planning, capability development, and organisational readiness assessments. Demonstrable experience in risk management and benefits realisation. Essential qualifications include: APMG Change Management Practitioner certification. To apply, please submit your latest CV for review.

SBA are currently supporting our client in the Defence sector, who are seeking a Project Planner on an initial 6 month contract. Location: Reading (Hybrid - 2 days p/w required) Experience Required: Expert-level knowledge of Primavera P6 Extensive experience as a planner across major construction and/or nuclear projects Communication skills and stakeholder engagement Essential: SC (Security Clearance) Expert-level knowledge of Primavera P6 for schedule development and maintenance. Extensive experience as a planner across major construction and/or nuclear projects 3+ years' planning experience Strong communication skills Proactive Stakeholder engagement Attention to detail Desirable: Problem solving mindset highly desirable EVM and Controls: understanding of Earned Value Management (EVM), performance reporting, and Schedule Performance Index (SPI) analysis. Ability to analyse complex data and recover schedules. NB: SC clearance is a requirement for this assignment. To apply, please submit latest CV

Summer-Browning Associates is currently supporting our healthcare client, who is seeking a Legal Business Partner for an initial six-month assignment with the option to extend. Location: Hybrid working - Leeds About the role: You will be responsible for helping to design legally compliant sourcing strategies, driving and supporting the operational business to deliver against its legal objectives and obligations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in delivery Legal and Business Case support, with the following skills and experience: Experience of managing and delivering a designated legal case work program. Knowledge of developing business cases or lead feasibility and assessment work for proposed and current projects to support the development and continuous review of business cases. Experience of providing specialist legal decision support to senior management, resolving complex or contentious queries and issues and enabling others to take appropriate actions. Experience of developing procedures and interpret and apply policy for area of expertise to achieve specified outputs.

Summer-Browning Associates are currently supporting our consultancy client on a Central Government project for an initial 12 month contracted located in London (hybrid) Vacancy: Network Engineer What You'll Be Doing Network Architecture Design: Designing and implementing multi-tenant virtual private networks, including complex routing, peering, and internal IP address management (IPAM). Hybrid & Private Connectivity: Configuring resilient site-to-site connectivity, including encrypted tunnels and dedicated private interconnects between distributed locations and central data centers. Load Balancing & DNS Management: Implementing sophisticated load balancing solutions for high-traffic applications and managing secure, private DNS zones and forwarding policies. Containerised Networking: Setting up and securing networking for Kubernetes (GKE), including private control planes, network policies, and specialised alias IP ranges. In particular, Istio Service Mesh. Network Observability: Utilising advanced diagnostic tools and flow logs to monitor network health, visualise throughput, and perform deep-packet troubleshooting. What You'll Bring Proven experience in designing and managing complex, resilient network architectures in a cloud or hybrid context. Ability to adapt core networking expertise to the specific constraints of secure, air-gapped, or distributed environments. Strong interpersonal skills to build trust across technical and non-technical stakeholders. Desirables: Current, non-expired Professional Cloud Network Engineer certification. Background in technology delivery across cyber security, digital services, or infrastructure domains. Experience with tooling commonly used in secure government contexts (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Gitlab). Experience working in air-gapped or disconnected environments with little or no internet connectivity Working on OFFICIAL/SECRET/TOP SECRET projects. NB: Applicant should be willing/be eligible to undertake SC & DV level vetting. To Apply, please submit latest CV.

Summer-Browning Associates is currently supporting our public sector client, who is seeking a GCP Test Lead for an initial twelve-month assignment with the option to extend. Location: Hybrid working - London (x3 days per week onsite) About the role: You will be responsible for supporting the validation, assurance, and testing of cloud-hosted platforms, infrastructure, and services operating within secure Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) and private cloud environments. The ideal candidate will hold Active SC or DV and have a strong background in delivery GCP Test Lead support, with the following skills and experience: Experience testing cloud-hosted or cloud-native platforms and services. Knowledge of Agile, DevOps, and DevSecOps delivery practice. Experience supporting infrastructure, integration, and platform testing activities Experience working with cloud platforms, ideally Google Cloud Platform Knowledge of Kubernetes, containerised platforms, and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts (e.g. Terraform) Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment approaches Experience with automated testing frameworks or scripting languages e.g. Python (Desirable) Google Cloud or testing-related certifications (Desirable)

Summer-Browning Associates are currently supporting our Central Government client, who are seeing a Data Centre Engineer on an initial 12 month contract, located in Bracknell. 5 DAYS ON SITE REQUIRED & A flexible approach to working hours, on call and overtime when required Essential: Previous experience working maintaining infrastructure and compute equipment in data centres. Knowledge of Infrastructure Technologies & Networking Concepts. An understanding of data centre best practices and industry standards. The use of fault diagnosis techniques with and without test equipment. An understanding of the health and safety requirements applicable to a data centre environment. Ability to work well within a team and also operate independently when required. Experience with different types of hardware appliance types, equipment installations, power technologies, line replaceable item swaps, upgrades, patching mediums (fibre/copper) etc. Troubleshooting, ability to diagnose potential issues and offer solutions as well as offering advice to product teams about physical constraints and limitations. Maintaining thorough documentation and creation of the required procedures and standards. Experience working with vendors to ensure compliance and compatibility. A Full UK driving license with a vehicle. (Must be able to commute or stay overnight). Desirable: You will have relevant Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security or Systems Engineering qualification; or equivalent related qualifications or experience Experience of working with Agile methodologies NB: The ideal candidate will hold current active security clearance - SC/DV To apply, please submit latest CV

Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer Senior Engineer, Infrastructure Operations - LINUX Summer-Browning Associates is currently supporting our central government client, which is seeking a Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer for an initial six-month assignment, with the option to extend. Location: Milton Keynes - Hybrid working The ideal candidate will hold an active security clearance and possess a strong background in Linux engineering, demonstrating the following skills and experience: Experience supporting enterprise Linux platforms in public sector secure environments. Extensive knowledge of system stability, performance, security, and troubleshooting across a range of Linux-based services. Significant experience in delivering Linux-based development activities, which include building and maintaining development environments, as well as containerising applications and services. Desirable qualifications include: RHCSA - Red Hat Certified System Administrator, Red Hat Certified Engineer or LFCS - Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator To apply, please submit your latest CV for review.

Summer-Browning Associates is currently supporting our public sector client, who is seeking a Senior Automation Tester for an initial twelve-month assignment with the option to extend. Location: Hybrid working - East Kilbride About the role: You will be responsible for the designing, developing and maintaining automated test scripts for UI, API, and integration testing. The ideal candidate will hold Active SC or DV clearance and have a strong background in delivery Senior Automation Testing support, with the following skills and experience: Experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or Appium. Experience of programming languages e.g. Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript or Python Experience with API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured, Karate) Experience with cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP) Experience of containerisation (Kubernetes/ Docker) ISTQB certification - Desirable

Senior VMware Infrastructure Engineer VMWare SME Summer-Browning Associates is currently supporting our central government client, which is seeking a Senior VMware Infrastructure Engineer for an initial six-month assignment, with the option to extend. Location: Milton Keynes - Hybrid working The ideal candidate will hold an active security clearance and have a strong background in VMware engineering, demonstrating the following skills and experience: Proven experience supporting VMware platforms in secure environments within the public sector. Proficiency in the design, configuration, administration, and support of VMware technologies, including ESXI, vSphere, HA configuration, vCenter, vSan & VmWare Aria Experience in VMware Private Cloud setup and management using VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and NSX architecture and design. VMware qualifications should include: VCP-DCV, NSX or VCAP. To apply, please submit your latest CV for review.

Summer-Browning Associates are currently supporting our client within the central government, who are seeking a Lead PMO Analyst on an initial 6-month assignment. Location: London Hybrid The ideal candidate will hold active SC Clearance and have a proven background in PMO / Portfolio Management and Financial Data Analytics, with the following skills and experience: Extensive PMO experience in maintaining portfolio plans, monitoring project change, conducting impact analysis, developing insight, and reporting. In-depth experience in the analysis of project schedules and finance data Highly proficient in Excel-based tools, with advanced capabilities. Understanding of the Treasury's Five Case Model/Green Book. Knowledge of RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) is desired. Familiarity with construction and capital estate projects is desired. To apply, please submit your latest CV for review.

Summer-Browning Associates is currently supporting our central government client, who is seeking a Policy Development and Support Analyst for an initial twelve-month assignment with the option to extend. Location: Hybrid working - London About the role: You will be responsible for analysing, delivering and supporting the improvement of operational process and policies for a Cyber and Information Security function. The ideal candidate will hold Active SC clearance and have a strong background in Cyber Policy support, with the following skills and experience: Experience in writing and producing policies. Experience of Cyber Standards and Frameworks (ISO27001, NIST, CAF) Experience in Gap Analysis & Business Analysis. Experience of conducting data analysis collection to support policy development.