DevOps CI/CD Pipelines Cloud Automation A leading name in system integration require a DevOps Engineer for an on going Cloud Automation project. As part of the Test Automation you will be joining an existing DevOps team, you will be responsible for: Deployment & testing with CI/CD pipelines and FullStack Development. CI/CD - Python Gitlab Ansible You must have experience on of working on both private and public cloud based projects using AWS or Azure and worked on Global Cloud Automation projects. This is an initial 6 month contract remote contract.
Feb 28, 2021
Contractor
DevOps CI/CD Pipelines Cloud Automation A leading name in system integration require a DevOps Engineer for an on going Cloud Automation project. As part of the Test Automation you will be joining an existing DevOps team, you will be responsible for: Deployment & testing with CI/CD pipelines and FullStack Development. CI/CD - Python Gitlab Ansible You must have experience on of working on both private and public cloud based projects using AWS or Azure and worked on Global Cloud Automation projects. This is an initial 6 month contract remote contract.
Are you an experienced DevOps Engineer with AWS knowledge? Are you looking for a role where you can make a difference? Yes? Read on... My client, a large tech consultancy firm, are looking for people like you! This will provide the right individuals with the opportunity to work across a range of markets from Defence & Government to leading commercial businesses in Finance and Retail. They are an ever-growing presence within Public Sector and need talented engineers to help them grow this further. Hence, you could see yourself working on a variety of interesting projects, from Track & Trace to EU Exit strategy at the HMRC. In this role, you'll work collaboratively by following Agile principles to deploy and operate application and supporting systems. Help the development team to automate and streamline operations and processes. Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations and troubleshoot and resolve issues in our development, test and production environments. The client is looking for people with the following knowledge and experience: Hands-on experience of infrastructure deployment and configuration using Ansible Thorough knowledge of Python and Jenkins Experience with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) In-depth knowledge of containerisation including Docker Basic Terraform Scripting Good knowledge and experience of cloud IaaS platforms, ideally with AWS services Experience with CI/CD pipeline If you have SC clearance or experience working within Public Sector/Government that would be a real bonus! You must be eligible for SC as a minimum. You can expect: Competitive salary and bonus scheme Fantastic career development Talented, forward thinking colleagues Interesting projects that will benefit the lives of those around you
Feb 28, 2021
Full time
Are you an experienced DevOps Engineer with AWS knowledge? Are you looking for a role where you can make a difference? Yes? Read on... My client, a large tech consultancy firm, are looking for people like you! This will provide the right individuals with the opportunity to work across a range of markets from Defence & Government to leading commercial businesses in Finance and Retail. They are an ever-growing presence within Public Sector and need talented engineers to help them grow this further. Hence, you could see yourself working on a variety of interesting projects, from Track & Trace to EU Exit strategy at the HMRC. In this role, you'll work collaboratively by following Agile principles to deploy and operate application and supporting systems. Help the development team to automate and streamline operations and processes. Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations and troubleshoot and resolve issues in our development, test and production environments. The client is looking for people with the following knowledge and experience: Hands-on experience of infrastructure deployment and configuration using Ansible Thorough knowledge of Python and Jenkins Experience with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) In-depth knowledge of containerisation including Docker Basic Terraform Scripting Good knowledge and experience of cloud IaaS platforms, ideally with AWS services Experience with CI/CD pipeline If you have SC clearance or experience working within Public Sector/Government that would be a real bonus! You must be eligible for SC as a minimum. You can expect: Competitive salary and bonus scheme Fantastic career development Talented, forward thinking colleagues Interesting projects that will benefit the lives of those around you
Azure DevOps Engineer Manchester/Remote - £45,000 - £60,000 (negotiable dependent upon experience) A Manchester-based Microsoft Partner Consultancy who is dedicated to a cloud first future and whom supports enterprise-scale clients in realising their dreams of digitally transforming and making the right steps towards moving to cloud adoption, are currently looking to add an Azure DevOps Engineer to their experienced team The ideal candidate will possess the following skills & experience: Proven experience of working within a DevOps/Platform/Site Reliability Engineer position, with knowledge of at least one programming/Scripting language Experience configuring software development technologies such as Azure DevOps. Experience in building CI/CD pipelines Experience in building and deploying cloud infrastructure Experience with IaC tools, ideally Terraform Containerisation experience with Kubernetes What's in it for you: An excellent salary + benefits Remote/Flexible working with occasional travel to a shared office space (after Covid) You will join a vibrant culture that truly values their employees & will invest in your own development. This includes support in completing industry standard Microsoft certifications. To avoid missing out on interview slots, click 'apply' now. Alternatively, for more information, please give James Spence-Evans a call. DevOps, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Terraform, Automation, Deployment, CI/CD, Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer
Feb 28, 2021
Full time
Azure DevOps Engineer Manchester/Remote - £45,000 - £60,000 (negotiable dependent upon experience) A Manchester-based Microsoft Partner Consultancy who is dedicated to a cloud first future and whom supports enterprise-scale clients in realising their dreams of digitally transforming and making the right steps towards moving to cloud adoption, are currently looking to add an Azure DevOps Engineer to their experienced team The ideal candidate will possess the following skills & experience: Proven experience of working within a DevOps/Platform/Site Reliability Engineer position, with knowledge of at least one programming/Scripting language Experience configuring software development technologies such as Azure DevOps. Experience in building CI/CD pipelines Experience in building and deploying cloud infrastructure Experience with IaC tools, ideally Terraform Containerisation experience with Kubernetes What's in it for you: An excellent salary + benefits Remote/Flexible working with occasional travel to a shared office space (after Covid) You will join a vibrant culture that truly values their employees & will invest in your own development. This includes support in completing industry standard Microsoft certifications. To avoid missing out on interview slots, click 'apply' now. Alternatively, for more information, please give James Spence-Evans a call. DevOps, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Terraform, Automation, Deployment, CI/CD, Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer
A global professional services firm based in Manchester are currently recruiting for a Senior Application Support Developer/DevOps Engineer to join the firm on a permanent basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to work for one of the leading firms within their field who can provide a long-term career path at the firm. The firm offers flexible working from home long term! Essential skills Strong SQL experience (SSIS/SSRS) CI/CD DevOps .NET framework DevOps tools - Terraform/Puppet/Jenkins/PowerShell You will be part of a team driving automation across the IT teams to improve customer experience. You'll help to create support automations and the environment these are hosted in that will improve the overall operating efficiencies and deliver excellence in customer service to both the internal and external customers. The firm have a fantastic road map in place including a variety of projects to get stuck into as well as good investment into the DevOps environment. You will play a key part being a senior member of the team providing input into projects and requests for change. Tech stack includes: Experience using Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and above. Extensive experience using Microsoft tools and programming languages. Development experience using the .NET framework. Strong background in database design, analysis and development. Experience in Microsoft SQL Scripting and Server. Experience working with XML related technologies, including XSLT and Xpath. Experience working with Web Service related technologies, including SOAP and Automation Experience utilizing Process Automation Software suites such as (Terraform, Puppet, Jenkins/Puppet/Powershell) Awareness of alerting and monitoring tools ( AppDynamics.etc.) Experience working on Azure deployment pipelines and products Experience of Elite 3e Practice Management (Nice to have) Strong background in database design, analysis and development. Atlassian products such as JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket and Bamboo Understanding of programming C# .NET framework. If interested in hearing more about this opportunity please click apply now.
Feb 28, 2021
Full time
A global professional services firm based in Manchester are currently recruiting for a Senior Application Support Developer/DevOps Engineer to join the firm on a permanent basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to work for one of the leading firms within their field who can provide a long-term career path at the firm. The firm offers flexible working from home long term! Essential skills Strong SQL experience (SSIS/SSRS) CI/CD DevOps .NET framework DevOps tools - Terraform/Puppet/Jenkins/PowerShell You will be part of a team driving automation across the IT teams to improve customer experience. You'll help to create support automations and the environment these are hosted in that will improve the overall operating efficiencies and deliver excellence in customer service to both the internal and external customers. The firm have a fantastic road map in place including a variety of projects to get stuck into as well as good investment into the DevOps environment. You will play a key part being a senior member of the team providing input into projects and requests for change. Tech stack includes: Experience using Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and above. Extensive experience using Microsoft tools and programming languages. Development experience using the .NET framework. Strong background in database design, analysis and development. Experience in Microsoft SQL Scripting and Server. Experience working with XML related technologies, including XSLT and Xpath. Experience working with Web Service related technologies, including SOAP and Automation Experience utilizing Process Automation Software suites such as (Terraform, Puppet, Jenkins/Puppet/Powershell) Awareness of alerting and monitoring tools ( AppDynamics.etc.) Experience working on Azure deployment pipelines and products Experience of Elite 3e Practice Management (Nice to have) Strong background in database design, analysis and development. Atlassian products such as JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket and Bamboo Understanding of programming C# .NET framework. If interested in hearing more about this opportunity please click apply now.
DevOps Engineer c£55,000 + 15% bonus! Leeds/Remote (even post covid!) Fruition IT are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers , well versed in AWS and Automation tools for an award winning tech start-up based in Leeds This business is at the forefront of digital change, helping organisations to keep up with the pace of technology, and get their products and services into the cloud! What does the role involve? Deploying, upgrading, operating and scaling a suite of critical operational systems Managing cloud infrastructure alongside Security, Networking and Development teams Identifying and reducing operational cost of running the business Provide end-user support to engineering for products What skills do I need? Strong understanding of AWS and Linux services , specifically those associated with automation, infrastructure as code, alerting monitoring and audit Understanding of TCP/IP network addressing, routing Experience managing Git repositories with CI/CD for code quality checks and deployment automation Comfortable working with critical and sensitive systems And the benefits? 15% Bonus 7% employer pension contribution Remote working (only 2 days per month post covid required!) Autonomy If you are looking for your next opportunity in DevOps, whether that be in the North of England, London, or Remotely, apply now to Joe Cox or give me a call for a confidential chat to learn more and go over a full job spec. This position is fully-remote, however travel to Leeds 2 days per month is required post covid. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Apply now or contact me on the below details: Joe Cox Senior DevOps & Cloud Recruitment Consultant (see below)
Feb 27, 2021
Full time
DevOps Engineer c£55,000 + 15% bonus! Leeds/Remote (even post covid!) Fruition IT are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers , well versed in AWS and Automation tools for an award winning tech start-up based in Leeds This business is at the forefront of digital change, helping organisations to keep up with the pace of technology, and get their products and services into the cloud! What does the role involve? Deploying, upgrading, operating and scaling a suite of critical operational systems Managing cloud infrastructure alongside Security, Networking and Development teams Identifying and reducing operational cost of running the business Provide end-user support to engineering for products What skills do I need? Strong understanding of AWS and Linux services , specifically those associated with automation, infrastructure as code, alerting monitoring and audit Understanding of TCP/IP network addressing, routing Experience managing Git repositories with CI/CD for code quality checks and deployment automation Comfortable working with critical and sensitive systems And the benefits? 15% Bonus 7% employer pension contribution Remote working (only 2 days per month post covid required!) Autonomy If you are looking for your next opportunity in DevOps, whether that be in the North of England, London, or Remotely, apply now to Joe Cox or give me a call for a confidential chat to learn more and go over a full job spec. This position is fully-remote, however travel to Leeds 2 days per month is required post covid. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. Apply now or contact me on the below details: Joe Cox Senior DevOps & Cloud Recruitment Consultant (see below)
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Basingstoke, Hampshire
An exciting new opportunity has arisen within one of the most exciting new tech start-ups based in Basingstoke for a DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer . Joining the Tools and Automation team, you'll be responsible for delivering infrastructure and tooling to support all of the development, cloud computing, Kubernetes and deployment activities of the engineering team This is an excellent time to join with a proven and inspirational leadership and early successes means they are growing the development team in a number of areas and looking to increase the number of DevOps Engineers. The role of DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer is paying up to £80,000 DOE and comes with a wide range of benefits including Work from home 2 - 3 days per week 25 days holiday, stock options, Pension, free lunches daily and free car parking. The successful DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer will have the following skills: 18months + experience working in infrastructure or SRE domains within a cloud deployment environment Azure/AWS Docker/Kubernetes CI/CD Any of the following skills would be a bonus (but are not essential): IBM Cloud GitLab Golang/Python Kafka Interest in Data Science This role is also located 2 minutes from Basingstoke train station so is easily accessible via public transport. To apply for this DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer role please contact (see below) or call Tom.
Feb 27, 2021
Full time
An exciting new opportunity has arisen within one of the most exciting new tech start-ups based in Basingstoke for a DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer . Joining the Tools and Automation team, you'll be responsible for delivering infrastructure and tooling to support all of the development, cloud computing, Kubernetes and deployment activities of the engineering team This is an excellent time to join with a proven and inspirational leadership and early successes means they are growing the development team in a number of areas and looking to increase the number of DevOps Engineers. The role of DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer is paying up to £80,000 DOE and comes with a wide range of benefits including Work from home 2 - 3 days per week 25 days holiday, stock options, Pension, free lunches daily and free car parking. The successful DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer will have the following skills: 18months + experience working in infrastructure or SRE domains within a cloud deployment environment Azure/AWS Docker/Kubernetes CI/CD Any of the following skills would be a bonus (but are not essential): IBM Cloud GitLab Golang/Python Kafka Interest in Data Science This role is also located 2 minutes from Basingstoke train station so is easily accessible via public transport. To apply for this DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer role please contact (see below) or call Tom.
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE DevOps Site Reliability Engineer Amazon Web Services AWS ECS Python Terraform Kubernetes K8s Docker GitLab Artifactory Prometheus Grafana Python Automation Deployment CI CD Finance Asset Management Manager Investment Finance) required by our asset management client in London. You MUST have the following: Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or DevOps Engineer Strong Python coding ability- writing your own scripts from scratch Strong familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Terraform- writing and debugging Artifactory administration at scale Containerisation- Docker, ECS or Kubernetes- at scale The following is DESIRABLE, not essential: Prometheus or Grafana Experience working with global teams Finance Role: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE DevOps Site Reliability Engineer Amazon Web Services AWS ECS Python Terraform Kubernetes K8s Docker GitLab Artifactory Prometheus Grafana Python Automation Deployment CI CD Finance Asset Management Manager Investment Fi) required by our asset management client in London. You will be joining three other site recovery engineers in London and the US. Together they are part of a team of engineers who are developing an automated release and deployment tool, linking up Terraform, Artifactory, Docker and GitLab to create a seamless software deployment tool. In addition to this, they are creating a 'drag and drop' AWS release product. Your role, together with the other site recovery engineers (SRE's), will be to define and build out the Back End infrastructure. There are 6-8 Java developers who are creating the product itself. The site recovery engineers need to design and provide the Back End infrastructure (infrastructure as code/serverless) solution. The role will incorporate a large amount of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the use of Artifactory, Terraform, Docker and GitLab. The Scripting will largely be in Python for this position, although there may be some Java too. Some of the role will include monitoring/observability, so experience with Prometheus or Grafana is highly desirable but not essential. Terraform experience is essential and must include debugging. For Artifactory, also essential, you should have experience administering this at scale. The team use Docker but will accept experience with other containerization tools like Kubernetes or ECS. This should include building and deploying microservices. This is an excellent opportunity to join an international company that is investing heavily in technology. They are becoming increasingly technology-driven. This is a greenfield project. Once completed, there will be opportunities for new greenfield projects. There will also be the opportunity for progression and promotion in the future. Salary: £70k - 90k + 15% Bonus + 10% Pension
Feb 27, 2021
Full time
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE DevOps Site Reliability Engineer Amazon Web Services AWS ECS Python Terraform Kubernetes K8s Docker GitLab Artifactory Prometheus Grafana Python Automation Deployment CI CD Finance Asset Management Manager Investment Finance) required by our asset management client in London. You MUST have the following: Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or DevOps Engineer Strong Python coding ability- writing your own scripts from scratch Strong familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Terraform- writing and debugging Artifactory administration at scale Containerisation- Docker, ECS or Kubernetes- at scale The following is DESIRABLE, not essential: Prometheus or Grafana Experience working with global teams Finance Role: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE DevOps Site Reliability Engineer Amazon Web Services AWS ECS Python Terraform Kubernetes K8s Docker GitLab Artifactory Prometheus Grafana Python Automation Deployment CI CD Finance Asset Management Manager Investment Fi) required by our asset management client in London. You will be joining three other site recovery engineers in London and the US. Together they are part of a team of engineers who are developing an automated release and deployment tool, linking up Terraform, Artifactory, Docker and GitLab to create a seamless software deployment tool. In addition to this, they are creating a 'drag and drop' AWS release product. Your role, together with the other site recovery engineers (SRE's), will be to define and build out the Back End infrastructure. There are 6-8 Java developers who are creating the product itself. The site recovery engineers need to design and provide the Back End infrastructure (infrastructure as code/serverless) solution. The role will incorporate a large amount of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the use of Artifactory, Terraform, Docker and GitLab. The Scripting will largely be in Python for this position, although there may be some Java too. Some of the role will include monitoring/observability, so experience with Prometheus or Grafana is highly desirable but not essential. Terraform experience is essential and must include debugging. For Artifactory, also essential, you should have experience administering this at scale. The team use Docker but will accept experience with other containerization tools like Kubernetes or ECS. This should include building and deploying microservices. This is an excellent opportunity to join an international company that is investing heavily in technology. They are becoming increasingly technology-driven. This is a greenfield project. Once completed, there will be opportunities for new greenfield projects. There will also be the opportunity for progression and promotion in the future. Salary: £70k - 90k + 15% Bonus + 10% Pension
Job Title - Senior Technical Architect (cloud and software) Reporting to: Head of Technology Direct Reports: (technical reports and project teams) Contract Type: Permanent Are you a Senior Technical Architect that has experience in working within the public sector and comes from a hands-on development background, ideally fluent with open source technology? Methods: Since our establishment in 1990, Methods has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Our mission is to help safeguard public-facing services and apply digital thinking to make sure the future of our public services is centred around our citizens. The Development Unit is a new initiative within Methods Group, focusing on Software and Cloud Engineering, Consultancy, and Cyber Security. Our aim is to deliver profitable growth and value by establishing and maintaining a strong community of practice and reputation for quality software & cloud engineering built on a DevOps culture and Continuous Delivery principles to support digital, data and technology transformation in our target markets. Job Purpose and Scope: This is a senior technology role focused on growing and improving our engineering capability, contributing to pre-sales and marketing activity, as well as the core purpose of designing, building and assuring our software and cloud outcomes. Our aim is to grow a team of architects, engineers (dev, test, ops), consultants and graduate or vocational talent into a successful consulting practice that can: Deliver company growth by winning new business (application development, cloud and platform engineering, migration) Deliver won business (on time, to budget, and to excellent quality standards) Assure effectively (ensuring we operate efficiently, innovate appropriately, and build a reputation for engineering excellence) Grow & maintain our professional accreditations & standards (eg AWS partner status and Microsoft accreditations) Build a reputation for innovation and thought-leadership As well as excellent delivery expertise and experience, bringing an ability to design, deliver and assure complex solutions; this role will contribute to pre-sales, presentations, internal projects, communities of practice, culture, knowledge transfer and supporting technical team recruitment activity. Key responsibilities: Primary: Lead our solution approach and hands-on architecture work in building and migrating applications, software, cloud infrastructure and services for our customers to support transformation outcomes (following industry standards and principles such as the Digital by Default service standard, Technology Code of Practice, AWS Well-Architected Framework, and Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Architecture Framework) Lead our technical delivery teams, and ensure that our output and outcomes (solution designs, code, documentation etc) meet or exceed our delivery commitments through proactive mentoring and assurance Evangelise cloud-first, devsecops, and continuous delivery strategies, consult with clients and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful, efficient deployment and operation in the cloud Support pre-sales activity by developing compelling solution approach summaries, high level designs, estimates, presentations, product demonstrations and discussions (to support our sales and marketing team as they prospect, as well as bidding for specific opportunities) Lead technical estimating work across multiple projects, phases and client engagements Maintain good knowledge of emerging technology industry and trends relevant to software engineering, and actively promote this both internally and with our customers Build strong working relationships with senior technical individuals within our customer organisations, building trust and advocacy for our services Support and mentor more junior team members (both Methods' and client staff where needed), Support technical knowledge transfer outcomes (eg handover to clients, mentoring client staff, presenting to TDA or EAB forums etc) Secondary: Support cloud and software engineering community of practice and internal projects, as a subject expert, to build our expertise and collateral in this area both internally as well as engaging wider external communities with events and hackathons etc Build our industry recognition and credibility by attending and contributing to at industry and third-party technology conferences, trade shows and press events Author and contribute to customer and industry-facing publications such as whitepapers, blogs, articles etc, expressing our professional opinion Advise partners, Methods pre/sales & technical teams on best practice for customer facing solutions. This can be both a proactive activity where you build a plan with the partner to pursue a specific technical scenario or it can be a reactive response to a customer need or request for proposal The ideal candidate: Extensive experience in a hands-on architecture role(s) designing and implementing distributed, containerised and server-less hyperscale systems on public cloud platforms (in particular AWS and Azure, ideally Gov PaaS too) Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent Enjoy working with customers and partners in our target sectors (initially Government, Healthcare and NPO). You will have a passion for designing, building and operating excellent software solutions to meet a diverse and challenging set of business and user needs Experience of Government Digital Service Standards (DbDSS) and Development principles, ideally having been through all assessment stages (Alpha, Beta, Live) Extensive experience of working with Agile methodologies (a mix of techniques including Scrum and Kanban, on individual projects and at scale) Experience with automated testing, test-driven development and/or behaviour-driven development Experience architecting solutions with HTTP APIs and RESTful web services Knowledge of working with any several of the following languages: Node.js, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, Go, Bash, PowerShell; and deep expertise with specific languages in the context of digital transformation in government Extensive knowledge of configuration management and Infrastructure as Code tooling, practises and processes (eg Chef, CloudFormation, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, SALT) leveraging CI/CD tooling and processes (eg Jenkins, CircleCI, Code Pipeline) Bonus Skills: Experience in consulting around enterprise public cloud implementations preferably in public sector or in highly regulated environments (financial services, insurance, E-commerce etc) including hybrid and multi-cloud Experience of VMWare/Hyper-V/Citrix Xen environments and migration into AWS or private/public cloud platforms Application Performance Monitoring and Instrumentation (APM) experience (eg Dynatrace, App Dynamics, New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus) Performance Analytics experience (eg Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics etc) Benefits By joining us you can expect Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership A supportive and collaborative environment As well as this, we offer: Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme Social - office parties, pizza Friday and commitment to charitable causes Time off 25 days a year Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance Life Assurance of 4 times base salary Private Medical Insurance Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
Feb 27, 2021
Full time
Job Title - Senior Technical Architect (cloud and software) Reporting to: Head of Technology Direct Reports: (technical reports and project teams) Contract Type: Permanent Are you a Senior Technical Architect that has experience in working within the public sector and comes from a hands-on development background, ideally fluent with open source technology? Methods: Since our establishment in 1990, Methods has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Our mission is to help safeguard public-facing services and apply digital thinking to make sure the future of our public services is centred around our citizens. The Development Unit is a new initiative within Methods Group, focusing on Software and Cloud Engineering, Consultancy, and Cyber Security. Our aim is to deliver profitable growth and value by establishing and maintaining a strong community of practice and reputation for quality software & cloud engineering built on a DevOps culture and Continuous Delivery principles to support digital, data and technology transformation in our target markets. Job Purpose and Scope: This is a senior technology role focused on growing and improving our engineering capability, contributing to pre-sales and marketing activity, as well as the core purpose of designing, building and assuring our software and cloud outcomes. Our aim is to grow a team of architects, engineers (dev, test, ops), consultants and graduate or vocational talent into a successful consulting practice that can: Deliver company growth by winning new business (application development, cloud and platform engineering, migration) Deliver won business (on time, to budget, and to excellent quality standards) Assure effectively (ensuring we operate efficiently, innovate appropriately, and build a reputation for engineering excellence) Grow & maintain our professional accreditations & standards (eg AWS partner status and Microsoft accreditations) Build a reputation for innovation and thought-leadership As well as excellent delivery expertise and experience, bringing an ability to design, deliver and assure complex solutions; this role will contribute to pre-sales, presentations, internal projects, communities of practice, culture, knowledge transfer and supporting technical team recruitment activity. Key responsibilities: Primary: Lead our solution approach and hands-on architecture work in building and migrating applications, software, cloud infrastructure and services for our customers to support transformation outcomes (following industry standards and principles such as the Digital by Default service standard, Technology Code of Practice, AWS Well-Architected Framework, and Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Architecture Framework) Lead our technical delivery teams, and ensure that our output and outcomes (solution designs, code, documentation etc) meet or exceed our delivery commitments through proactive mentoring and assurance Evangelise cloud-first, devsecops, and continuous delivery strategies, consult with clients and participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful, efficient deployment and operation in the cloud Support pre-sales activity by developing compelling solution approach summaries, high level designs, estimates, presentations, product demonstrations and discussions (to support our sales and marketing team as they prospect, as well as bidding for specific opportunities) Lead technical estimating work across multiple projects, phases and client engagements Maintain good knowledge of emerging technology industry and trends relevant to software engineering, and actively promote this both internally and with our customers Build strong working relationships with senior technical individuals within our customer organisations, building trust and advocacy for our services Support and mentor more junior team members (both Methods' and client staff where needed), Support technical knowledge transfer outcomes (eg handover to clients, mentoring client staff, presenting to TDA or EAB forums etc) Secondary: Support cloud and software engineering community of practice and internal projects, as a subject expert, to build our expertise and collateral in this area both internally as well as engaging wider external communities with events and hackathons etc Build our industry recognition and credibility by attending and contributing to at industry and third-party technology conferences, trade shows and press events Author and contribute to customer and industry-facing publications such as whitepapers, blogs, articles etc, expressing our professional opinion Advise partners, Methods pre/sales & technical teams on best practice for customer facing solutions. This can be both a proactive activity where you build a plan with the partner to pursue a specific technical scenario or it can be a reactive response to a customer need or request for proposal The ideal candidate: Extensive experience in a hands-on architecture role(s) designing and implementing distributed, containerised and server-less hyperscale systems on public cloud platforms (in particular AWS and Azure, ideally Gov PaaS too) Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent Enjoy working with customers and partners in our target sectors (initially Government, Healthcare and NPO). You will have a passion for designing, building and operating excellent software solutions to meet a diverse and challenging set of business and user needs Experience of Government Digital Service Standards (DbDSS) and Development principles, ideally having been through all assessment stages (Alpha, Beta, Live) Extensive experience of working with Agile methodologies (a mix of techniques including Scrum and Kanban, on individual projects and at scale) Experience with automated testing, test-driven development and/or behaviour-driven development Experience architecting solutions with HTTP APIs and RESTful web services Knowledge of working with any several of the following languages: Node.js, Python, Ruby, Perl, Java, Go, Bash, PowerShell; and deep expertise with specific languages in the context of digital transformation in government Extensive knowledge of configuration management and Infrastructure as Code tooling, practises and processes (eg Chef, CloudFormation, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, SALT) leveraging CI/CD tooling and processes (eg Jenkins, CircleCI, Code Pipeline) Bonus Skills: Experience in consulting around enterprise public cloud implementations preferably in public sector or in highly regulated environments (financial services, insurance, E-commerce etc) including hybrid and multi-cloud Experience of VMWare/Hyper-V/Citrix Xen environments and migration into AWS or private/public cloud platforms Application Performance Monitoring and Instrumentation (APM) experience (eg Dynatrace, App Dynamics, New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus) Performance Analytics experience (eg Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics etc) Benefits By joining us you can expect Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership A supportive and collaborative environment As well as this, we offer: Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme Social - office parties, pizza Friday and commitment to charitable causes Time off 25 days a year Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance Life Assurance of 4 times base salary Private Medical Insurance Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE DevOps Site Reliability Engineer Amazon Web Services AWS ECS Python Terraform Kubernetes K8s Docker GitLab Artifactory Prometheus Grafana Python Automation Deployment CI CD Finance Asset Management Manager Investment Finance) required by our asset management client in London. You MUST have the following: Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or DevOps Engineer Strong Python coding ability- writing your own scripts from scratch Strong familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Terraform- writing and debugging Artifactory administration at scale Containerisation- Docker, ECS or Kubernetes- at scale The following is DESIRABLE, not essential: Prometheus or Grafana Experience working with global teams Finance Role: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE DevOps Site Reliability Engineer Amazon Web Services AWS ECS Python Terraform Kubernetes K8s Docker GitLab Artifactory Prometheus Grafana Python Automation Deployment CI CD Finance Asset Management Manager Investment Fi) required by our asset management client in London. You will be joining three other site recovery engineers in London and the US. Together they are part of a team of engineers who are developing an automated release and deployment tool, linking up Terraform, Artifactory, Docker and GitLab to create a seamless software deployment tool. In addition to this, they are creating a 'drag and drop' AWS release product. Your role, together with the other site recovery engineers (SRE's), will be to define and build out the Back End infrastructure. There are 6-8 Java developers who are creating the product itself. The site recovery engineers need to design and provide the Back End infrastructure (infrastructure as code/serverless) solution. The role will incorporate a large amount of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the use of Artifactory, Terraform, Docker and GitLab. The Scripting will largely be in Python for this position, although there may be some Java too. Some of the role will include monitoring/observability, so experience with Prometheus or Grafana is highly desirable but not essential. Terraform experience is essential and must include debugging. For Artifactory, also essential, you should have experience administering this at scale. The team use Docker but will accept experience with other containerization tools like Kubernetes or ECS. This should include building and deploying microservices. This is an excellent opportunity to join an international company that is investing heavily in technology. They are becoming increasingly technology-driven. This is a greenfield project. Once completed, there will be opportunities for new greenfield projects. There will also be the opportunity for progression and promotion in the future. Salary: £90k - 110k + 20% Bonus + 10% Pension
Feb 27, 2021
Full time
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE DevOps Site Reliability Engineer Amazon Web Services AWS ECS Python Terraform Kubernetes K8s Docker GitLab Artifactory Prometheus Grafana Python Automation Deployment CI CD Finance Asset Management Manager Investment Finance) required by our asset management client in London. You MUST have the following: Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or DevOps Engineer Strong Python coding ability- writing your own scripts from scratch Strong familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Terraform- writing and debugging Artifactory administration at scale Containerisation- Docker, ECS or Kubernetes- at scale The following is DESIRABLE, not essential: Prometheus or Grafana Experience working with global teams Finance Role: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE DevOps Site Reliability Engineer Amazon Web Services AWS ECS Python Terraform Kubernetes K8s Docker GitLab Artifactory Prometheus Grafana Python Automation Deployment CI CD Finance Asset Management Manager Investment Fi) required by our asset management client in London. You will be joining three other site recovery engineers in London and the US. Together they are part of a team of engineers who are developing an automated release and deployment tool, linking up Terraform, Artifactory, Docker and GitLab to create a seamless software deployment tool. In addition to this, they are creating a 'drag and drop' AWS release product. Your role, together with the other site recovery engineers (SRE's), will be to define and build out the Back End infrastructure. There are 6-8 Java developers who are creating the product itself. The site recovery engineers need to design and provide the Back End infrastructure (infrastructure as code/serverless) solution. The role will incorporate a large amount of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the use of Artifactory, Terraform, Docker and GitLab. The Scripting will largely be in Python for this position, although there may be some Java too. Some of the role will include monitoring/observability, so experience with Prometheus or Grafana is highly desirable but not essential. Terraform experience is essential and must include debugging. For Artifactory, also essential, you should have experience administering this at scale. The team use Docker but will accept experience with other containerization tools like Kubernetes or ECS. This should include building and deploying microservices. This is an excellent opportunity to join an international company that is investing heavily in technology. They are becoming increasingly technology-driven. This is a greenfield project. Once completed, there will be opportunities for new greenfield projects. There will also be the opportunity for progression and promotion in the future. Salary: £90k - 110k + 20% Bonus + 10% Pension
Senior DevOps Engineer | Manchester | £450-£550 per day | outside IR35 Based near Manchester and looking for your next contract within DevOps? Read on. Who will you be working with? A software consultancy with an outstanding reputation for Agile project delivery under challenging circumstances. They embed themselves within the culture of their clients before developing and delivering software which makes a real difference. People are noticing; they're winning major new projects across the North. As a result, they need more good people. You must live within commutable distance of Manchester . A number of their projects require you to be eligible for Security Clearance, meaning you'll have lived in the UK for (most of) the past five years. What will you be working on? Substantial digital transformation projects within major public and private sector organisations, from government departments through to some of the UK's best known brands. You'll get stuck into significant work from the outset: migrations to microservices, public cloud, new product conception/design/deployment. What will you bring to the table? You'll be a subject matter in DevOps/Platform/Site Reliability Engineering with at least 8-10 years of commercial IT experience. Common tooling you'll encounter: Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation/Terraform Cloud - AWS/Azure/GCP Development environments - Java/.NET/Go CI/CD & configuration management - Jenkins/Ansible/Chef Monitoring - Nagios/Grafana/Prometheus They particularly like speaking with people who are passionate about open source technologies and individuals who've worked across a range of domains. What's in it for you? Day rate of £450-550 Outside IR35 6-12 month initial contract It's been a successful few years for the team and they have multiple long term projects on-going in the North West. They operate to a flexible associate model; if you want years of work it will be there, but if you want to dip in and out you will always be welcomed back to future projects. Click Apply to learn more! Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.
Feb 27, 2021
Contractor
Senior DevOps Engineer | Manchester | £450-£550 per day | outside IR35 Based near Manchester and looking for your next contract within DevOps? Read on. Who will you be working with? A software consultancy with an outstanding reputation for Agile project delivery under challenging circumstances. They embed themselves within the culture of their clients before developing and delivering software which makes a real difference. People are noticing; they're winning major new projects across the North. As a result, they need more good people. You must live within commutable distance of Manchester . A number of their projects require you to be eligible for Security Clearance, meaning you'll have lived in the UK for (most of) the past five years. What will you be working on? Substantial digital transformation projects within major public and private sector organisations, from government departments through to some of the UK's best known brands. You'll get stuck into significant work from the outset: migrations to microservices, public cloud, new product conception/design/deployment. What will you bring to the table? You'll be a subject matter in DevOps/Platform/Site Reliability Engineering with at least 8-10 years of commercial IT experience. Common tooling you'll encounter: Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation/Terraform Cloud - AWS/Azure/GCP Development environments - Java/.NET/Go CI/CD & configuration management - Jenkins/Ansible/Chef Monitoring - Nagios/Grafana/Prometheus They particularly like speaking with people who are passionate about open source technologies and individuals who've worked across a range of domains. What's in it for you? Day rate of £450-550 Outside IR35 6-12 month initial contract It's been a successful few years for the team and they have multiple long term projects on-going in the North West. They operate to a flexible associate model; if you want years of work it will be there, but if you want to dip in and out you will always be welcomed back to future projects. Click Apply to learn more! Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.
Devops Engineer Permanent London with flex working Exciting opportunity for a DevOps Engineer to join this market-leading organisation. Job Purpose: The DevOps Engineer will automate the building, deploying, testing, monitoring and support of the internally developed and third-party applications You will have some experience in building CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Deployment and integrating test automation. You will support the realization of a modular framework focused around an API/micros-services approach within the Azure cloud platform. You will create and maintain a library of templated services and work closely with Application Developers to design, build and test the Azure services required to deliver an integration layer using an Azure API management gateway fronting serverless and database PaaS based microservices. Accountabilities: Design, develop, deploy and maintain robust, secure micro-services using Azure cloud platform, using a test-driven approach Build and implement pro-active monitoring and logging services Work closely with the architecture and integration teams to cultivate operational standards and best working practices Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, and deployment strategies Promote Agile best practices across teams Proactively suggest recommendations to improve DevOps processes, tooling and solutions Deliver quality work to set estimates/time frames Providing accurate estimates and effort of work Participation in the continuous evolution of DevOps best practices, standards and policies used within the team Contribute towards high level design and approach to project work Carry out 1st level testing to ensure new processes or amendments to existing are working as expected The ability to produce and input into technical documentation for all project work and existing systems Competencies: Experience in Microsoft software development including C#, SQL, dot.NET core Experience in a DevOps role Ideally experience in Microsoft Azure DevOps tools such as Repos, Pipelines, Boards and Artifacts. Other tools experience can also be considered Expertise in automating infrastructure as code using Terraform Experience of integrating tests such a code quality (eg Resharpener), test automation (eg Postman) and monitoring (eg App Insights) Working knowledge of popular open source technologies and cloud services (swagger, API, redis, mongoDB) Project People is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Feb 26, 2021
Full time
Devops Engineer Permanent London with flex working Exciting opportunity for a DevOps Engineer to join this market-leading organisation. Job Purpose: The DevOps Engineer will automate the building, deploying, testing, monitoring and support of the internally developed and third-party applications You will have some experience in building CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Deployment and integrating test automation. You will support the realization of a modular framework focused around an API/micros-services approach within the Azure cloud platform. You will create and maintain a library of templated services and work closely with Application Developers to design, build and test the Azure services required to deliver an integration layer using an Azure API management gateway fronting serverless and database PaaS based microservices. Accountabilities: Design, develop, deploy and maintain robust, secure micro-services using Azure cloud platform, using a test-driven approach Build and implement pro-active monitoring and logging services Work closely with the architecture and integration teams to cultivate operational standards and best working practices Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, and deployment strategies Promote Agile best practices across teams Proactively suggest recommendations to improve DevOps processes, tooling and solutions Deliver quality work to set estimates/time frames Providing accurate estimates and effort of work Participation in the continuous evolution of DevOps best practices, standards and policies used within the team Contribute towards high level design and approach to project work Carry out 1st level testing to ensure new processes or amendments to existing are working as expected The ability to produce and input into technical documentation for all project work and existing systems Competencies: Experience in Microsoft software development including C#, SQL, dot.NET core Experience in a DevOps role Ideally experience in Microsoft Azure DevOps tools such as Repos, Pipelines, Boards and Artifacts. Other tools experience can also be considered Expertise in automating infrastructure as code using Terraform Experience of integrating tests such a code quality (eg Resharpener), test automation (eg Postman) and monitoring (eg App Insights) Working knowledge of popular open source technologies and cloud services (swagger, API, redis, mongoDB) Project People is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
-Test Engineer -Edinburgh (Remote) -6 month contract (Outside IR35) -Excellent Day Rates -Immediate Start Our public sector client are currently looking for a seasoned Test Engineer to join the team, focussing on the testing of modern web applications. You will join a small, but skilled Test team, working within an Agile Development environment. Candidates will be expected to have a basic valid disclosure certificate. The work will be project-based and greenfield in nature. Main activities will include; Preparing test scripts - detailing steps in each test, the inputs involved as well as expected outcomes. These will be tested manually initially, then the focus will be on automation to alert for failures thereafter. You will also provide expert input into the analysis of infrastructure testing results and making recommendations for future testing. You will collaborate with the wider team and provide coaching/mentoring where required. Candidates from a variety of testing backgrounds will be considered for the role. Essential Skills: Broad blend of both automation and manual testing exposure including building and maintenance of automation frameworks Cypress skills essential Experience within a DevOps environment CI/CD pipeline deployment JavaScript knowledge beneficial, UI frameworks including React Linux Containers/Containerisation including Docker REST APIs Accessibility and Exploratory Testing Consistent and principled approach to testing Working in an Agile manner Strong collaboration skill set Coaching/mentoring skills Desirable Skills/Experience: AWS - CloudFormation, CDK, Lambda API Gateways Typescript GIS Technologies - OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGis The above is not exhaustive. For further information on this opportunity please forward an updated CV to (see below)
Feb 26, 2021
Contractor
-Test Engineer -Edinburgh (Remote) -6 month contract (Outside IR35) -Excellent Day Rates -Immediate Start Our public sector client are currently looking for a seasoned Test Engineer to join the team, focussing on the testing of modern web applications. You will join a small, but skilled Test team, working within an Agile Development environment. Candidates will be expected to have a basic valid disclosure certificate. The work will be project-based and greenfield in nature. Main activities will include; Preparing test scripts - detailing steps in each test, the inputs involved as well as expected outcomes. These will be tested manually initially, then the focus will be on automation to alert for failures thereafter. You will also provide expert input into the analysis of infrastructure testing results and making recommendations for future testing. You will collaborate with the wider team and provide coaching/mentoring where required. Candidates from a variety of testing backgrounds will be considered for the role. Essential Skills: Broad blend of both automation and manual testing exposure including building and maintenance of automation frameworks Cypress skills essential Experience within a DevOps environment CI/CD pipeline deployment JavaScript knowledge beneficial, UI frameworks including React Linux Containers/Containerisation including Docker REST APIs Accessibility and Exploratory Testing Consistent and principled approach to testing Working in an Agile manner Strong collaboration skill set Coaching/mentoring skills Desirable Skills/Experience: AWS - CloudFormation, CDK, Lambda API Gateways Typescript GIS Technologies - OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGis The above is not exhaustive. For further information on this opportunity please forward an updated CV to (see below)
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd
Hereford, Herefordshire
Solution Architect - DV Cleared A Solution Architect is required for a client based in Hereford. You will have experience of DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) through Azure Devops tooling and the use of Docker for portability. Skills: -C# and .NET Core -Angular and Nebular theme -MongoDB -Command query responsibility segregation pattern (CQRS) and event sourcing model For the application an updated CV is required. Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 18 weeks. LA International Computer Consultants Ltd is an HMG Approved Consultancy and operates as an IT & Engineering Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency, depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International Computer Consultants Ltd (Recruiter Awards for Excellence - Best IT, Best Public Sector & Gold Awards) and the most prestigious award that any business can receive The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2015.
Feb 26, 2021
Contractor
Solution Architect - DV Cleared A Solution Architect is required for a client based in Hereford. You will have experience of DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) through Azure Devops tooling and the use of Docker for portability. Skills: -C# and .NET Core -Angular and Nebular theme -MongoDB -Command query responsibility segregation pattern (CQRS) and event sourcing model For the application an updated CV is required. Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 18 weeks. LA International Computer Consultants Ltd is an HMG Approved Consultancy and operates as an IT & Engineering Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency, depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, we welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International Computer Consultants Ltd (Recruiter Awards for Excellence - Best IT, Best Public Sector & Gold Awards) and the most prestigious award that any business can receive The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2015.
Exciting DevOps assignment with one of the UK's leading software companies. Circa £75,000 + Benefits (WFH) DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared) Circa £75,000 + Benefits Croydon or Reading (WFH) Your new company Hays are exclusively recruiting for an internationally renowned software consultancy who deliver expansive change to public and private sector organisations. As part of large-scale digital transformation programme and heavy investment they now seek to appoint a Senior DevOps Engineer to enable advanced, Agile application delivery to their clients. Your new role You will deploy and integrate state-of-the-art applications into their impressive technical infrastructure, ensuring applications are compatible, resilient and fit for purpose. You'll be responsible for leading DevOps solutions within the group, acting as a vital link between development and infrastructure teams to ensure there is continuous deployment and integration (CI/CD). You will demonstrate a passion to fully understand both the technical aspects of current solutions, and how to identify new enhancements, making their software delivery and release process faster and more robust. What you'll need to succeed Critical to your success is your passion for delivering complex applications through innovative methods, such as automating continual deployment and integration. Linux Red Hat or CentOS experience will be fully utilised throughout your day, as will technical knowledge of Middleware products and AWS. This role is SC Cleared, so you will need to have lived in the UK for the past 5 years. What you'll get in return You'll be provided with the unique opportunity to help realise the technical strategy of one of the UK's leading service providers. You'll be rewarded with a generous salary of up to £75,000 plus an industry leading benefits package including flexible and home working arrangements, outstanding pension scheme, onsite library and café (when you choose to visit the office), childcare vouchers and a substantial holiday entitlement. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found on our website.
Feb 26, 2021
Full time
Exciting DevOps assignment with one of the UK's leading software companies. Circa £75,000 + Benefits (WFH) DevOps Engineer (SC Cleared) Circa £75,000 + Benefits Croydon or Reading (WFH) Your new company Hays are exclusively recruiting for an internationally renowned software consultancy who deliver expansive change to public and private sector organisations. As part of large-scale digital transformation programme and heavy investment they now seek to appoint a Senior DevOps Engineer to enable advanced, Agile application delivery to their clients. Your new role You will deploy and integrate state-of-the-art applications into their impressive technical infrastructure, ensuring applications are compatible, resilient and fit for purpose. You'll be responsible for leading DevOps solutions within the group, acting as a vital link between development and infrastructure teams to ensure there is continuous deployment and integration (CI/CD). You will demonstrate a passion to fully understand both the technical aspects of current solutions, and how to identify new enhancements, making their software delivery and release process faster and more robust. What you'll need to succeed Critical to your success is your passion for delivering complex applications through innovative methods, such as automating continual deployment and integration. Linux Red Hat or CentOS experience will be fully utilised throughout your day, as will technical knowledge of Middleware products and AWS. This role is SC Cleared, so you will need to have lived in the UK for the past 5 years. What you'll get in return You'll be provided with the unique opportunity to help realise the technical strategy of one of the UK's leading service providers. You'll be rewarded with a generous salary of up to £75,000 plus an industry leading benefits package including flexible and home working arrangements, outstanding pension scheme, onsite library and café (when you choose to visit the office), childcare vouchers and a substantial holiday entitlement. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found on our website.
Senior DevOps Opportunity - AWS - DevOps - Remote/Greater London We currently have a Senior DevOps opportunity available to lead a cloud migration project for a market leading, award winning organisation. The opportunity is initially 3 months and will be based remotely for the foreseeable to due Covid and then Greater London based thereafter. Key Skills DevOps - CI/CD and related tools and practices AWS deployment experience Technical background including; Linux, SQL, PHP and System Integration Experience working with containerised deployments using Kubernetes or Docker Experience working in Agile environments Desirable Skills Lead experience To be considered for this opportunity you must have experience with DevOps as well as Cloud technologies - ideally AWS. You will be responsible for leading DevOps Engineers on an exciting cloud migration project for our client. This is an excellent opportunity to join a leading brand in their sector based remotely in the interim due to Covid and Greater London based thereafter for an initial 3 month opportunity.
Feb 26, 2021
Contractor
Senior DevOps Opportunity - AWS - DevOps - Remote/Greater London We currently have a Senior DevOps opportunity available to lead a cloud migration project for a market leading, award winning organisation. The opportunity is initially 3 months and will be based remotely for the foreseeable to due Covid and then Greater London based thereafter. Key Skills DevOps - CI/CD and related tools and practices AWS deployment experience Technical background including; Linux, SQL, PHP and System Integration Experience working with containerised deployments using Kubernetes or Docker Experience working in Agile environments Desirable Skills Lead experience To be considered for this opportunity you must have experience with DevOps as well as Cloud technologies - ideally AWS. You will be responsible for leading DevOps Engineers on an exciting cloud migration project for our client. This is an excellent opportunity to join a leading brand in their sector based remotely in the interim due to Covid and Greater London based thereafter for an initial 3 month opportunity.
Test Engineer - Edinburgh - 6 Month Contract Our Public Sector client is offering an exciting opportunity for a Test Engineer to join their Edinburgh based team on a 6 month initial contract. The successful candidate will have significant and demonstrable experience of the following: Experienced in building and maintaining test automation frameworks Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams. Developing within GDS or Digital First (or similar) quality standards Working with the business, to understand the context, and to focus on delivering quality and value. Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana Working in Agile delivery models Making excellent quality software with other people. REST APIs Cypress Linux Accessibility testing Exploratory testing Docker Modern JavaScript UI frameworks, including React Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines Should this position be of interest please submit your CV and I will be in contact by telephone as required. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age
Feb 26, 2021
Contractor
Test Engineer - Edinburgh - 6 Month Contract Our Public Sector client is offering an exciting opportunity for a Test Engineer to join their Edinburgh based team on a 6 month initial contract. The successful candidate will have significant and demonstrable experience of the following: Experienced in building and maintaining test automation frameworks Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams. Developing within GDS or Digital First (or similar) quality standards Working with the business, to understand the context, and to focus on delivering quality and value. Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana Working in Agile delivery models Making excellent quality software with other people. REST APIs Cypress Linux Accessibility testing Exploratory testing Docker Modern JavaScript UI frameworks, including React Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines Should this position be of interest please submit your CV and I will be in contact by telephone as required. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age
Job Description Lead DevOps Engineer Job Type: Permanent Locations: London (must be willing to be based at and travel to client sites throughout the UK) Salary: £35,000 - £75,000+ pa + Benefits (based on experience and level) Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too. "Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us." - Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO As a team: Software Engineering is the home of our talented Technology people who are focused on engineering memorable yet differentiated and captivating customer experiences. Working as a key member of the team, we are looking for Engineers who are passionate about their work, with innovation and continuous learning at the forefront of their professional development. We are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers join our vibrant community of DevOps professionals, based out of our London offices on a full-time, permanent basis. We're looking for exceptional individuals to deliver specific solutions for our clients. In our team you will learn: Working within a high performing delivery team, you will engage directly with our clients to build cutting-edge DevOps Capabilities. Your professional development is important to us. From day one you will be working alongside and in partnership with some of the very best in the business. As part of your career growth, there are several internal and external qualifications that you will have access to, these include: Sponsored training and certifications for AWS, Azure, GCP, Mulesoft, CNCF CKAD and CKS, OpenShift, Hashicorp products and many more Accenture's internal DevOps Academy and DevOps Academy for Executives Accenture's internal Master Technology Architect program. The ability to attend and represent Accenture at well-known DevOps conferences; DevOps Days, DevOps enterprise summit, Kubecon and global events like Re:invent and Ignite Qualifications We are looking for experience in the following skills: Document as-is process and architectures and design to-be architectures Architect systems knowing what "good" looks like Automation design and delivery including installation, configuration, and administration of industry leading DevSecOps tools Keep up with the fast-paced tooling landscape in the industry, working on cutting edge and know about the bleeding edge Comfortable working in a fast-paced Agile delivery environment. Understand, design, and implement operational tools for monitoring, alerting, recovery, backups etc. Support production deployments and incidents occasionally. Have daily collaboration with one of the IT industry's largest networks of technical DevOps and transformation experts who work to frame and deliver cutting edge solutions for countless varieties of technologies and industries. In doing so, you will help define how DevOps evolves for the world. It's not all about Technical skills, we're also looking for Engineers who possess the below Consulting attributes as well: Ability to train internal or client teams in technologies, in DevOps practices, acting as Scrum Master when required and help bring the culture change to our clients. Client and internal stakeholder management, business problem solving acumen, working in a multi-supplier environment Experience required: CI/CD pipeline tooling ranging from Jenkins to modern PaaS one like Gitlab, Github and Azure DevOps Use IaC tools and techniques and follow everything-as-code principles (e.g. terraform, Ansible, cloudformation, ARM templates and GCP deployment manager) Hand-on experience with at least 1 public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) including respective cloud shell, serverless and other cloud native and offerings. Container orchestration with K8s, with on one or more of AKS, EKS, GKE, Anthos, Openshift, Mesos Advising clients on the principles of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment, DevOps and Agile delivery Scripting and automation skills (e.g. shell, Python, PowerShell, Javascript) Architecting and directing the implementation of all aspects of DevOps and Continuous Delivery solutions for Accenture clients Helping our clients realise the business benefits of Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Agile delivery and with associated culture change and ways of working aspects. Understanding of NFRs and meeting through design and delivery. Mentoring and developing junior DevOps engineers and leads (depending on your career level) Experience desirable (varying with experience and career level): Certification in at least the solution architect level and in more than 1 cloud service providers Experience with DevOps spin off movements like DevSecOps, DataDevOps, DevNetOps SRE experience and knowledge of principles including SLO/SLI, handling production incidents and following 50/50 toil reduction. Experience administering 1 or more operating systems (flavours of Linux, windows) Experience applying DevOps principles to COTS and PaaS products like SAP, Oracle, Salesforce or administering them. Advisory and thought leadership in the world of DevOps. (depending on level) The design and implementation of continuous delivery practices and release management methods from canary to red-black and blue-green deployments. Defining and managing a roadmap for the implementation of DevOps in an enterprise IT organisation Experience of Agile and Lean Software delivery methodologies Experience of leading consulting engagements Service support - the use of DevOps, Continuous Delivery and ITIL concepts as part of an effective support operation Accenture DevOps is part of a larger vision Accenture believes "Every Business is a Digital Business" and in so doing we support our clients to align and integrate their technology with our "Cloud Infrastructure Engineering" (CIE) group. CIE combines deep technology, business and industry expertise to design and deliver some of the largest, most challenging and highest profile technology solutions in the world. Our DevOps community is a part of the CIE practice and shares in its vibrant, sociable and learning culture where technology skills are valued and recognised. What's in it for you At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days' vacation per year, gym subsidy, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for. About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries - powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Closing Date for Applications 31/08/2021
Feb 26, 2021
Full time
Job Description Lead DevOps Engineer Job Type: Permanent Locations: London (must be willing to be based at and travel to client sites throughout the UK) Salary: £35,000 - £75,000+ pa + Benefits (based on experience and level) Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too. "Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us." - Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO As a team: Software Engineering is the home of our talented Technology people who are focused on engineering memorable yet differentiated and captivating customer experiences. Working as a key member of the team, we are looking for Engineers who are passionate about their work, with innovation and continuous learning at the forefront of their professional development. We are looking for experienced DevOps Engineers join our vibrant community of DevOps professionals, based out of our London offices on a full-time, permanent basis. We're looking for exceptional individuals to deliver specific solutions for our clients. In our team you will learn: Working within a high performing delivery team, you will engage directly with our clients to build cutting-edge DevOps Capabilities. Your professional development is important to us. From day one you will be working alongside and in partnership with some of the very best in the business. As part of your career growth, there are several internal and external qualifications that you will have access to, these include: Sponsored training and certifications for AWS, Azure, GCP, Mulesoft, CNCF CKAD and CKS, OpenShift, Hashicorp products and many more Accenture's internal DevOps Academy and DevOps Academy for Executives Accenture's internal Master Technology Architect program. The ability to attend and represent Accenture at well-known DevOps conferences; DevOps Days, DevOps enterprise summit, Kubecon and global events like Re:invent and Ignite Qualifications We are looking for experience in the following skills: Document as-is process and architectures and design to-be architectures Architect systems knowing what "good" looks like Automation design and delivery including installation, configuration, and administration of industry leading DevSecOps tools Keep up with the fast-paced tooling landscape in the industry, working on cutting edge and know about the bleeding edge Comfortable working in a fast-paced Agile delivery environment. Understand, design, and implement operational tools for monitoring, alerting, recovery, backups etc. Support production deployments and incidents occasionally. Have daily collaboration with one of the IT industry's largest networks of technical DevOps and transformation experts who work to frame and deliver cutting edge solutions for countless varieties of technologies and industries. In doing so, you will help define how DevOps evolves for the world. It's not all about Technical skills, we're also looking for Engineers who possess the below Consulting attributes as well: Ability to train internal or client teams in technologies, in DevOps practices, acting as Scrum Master when required and help bring the culture change to our clients. Client and internal stakeholder management, business problem solving acumen, working in a multi-supplier environment Experience required: CI/CD pipeline tooling ranging from Jenkins to modern PaaS one like Gitlab, Github and Azure DevOps Use IaC tools and techniques and follow everything-as-code principles (e.g. terraform, Ansible, cloudformation, ARM templates and GCP deployment manager) Hand-on experience with at least 1 public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) including respective cloud shell, serverless and other cloud native and offerings. Container orchestration with K8s, with on one or more of AKS, EKS, GKE, Anthos, Openshift, Mesos Advising clients on the principles of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment, DevOps and Agile delivery Scripting and automation skills (e.g. shell, Python, PowerShell, Javascript) Architecting and directing the implementation of all aspects of DevOps and Continuous Delivery solutions for Accenture clients Helping our clients realise the business benefits of Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Agile delivery and with associated culture change and ways of working aspects. Understanding of NFRs and meeting through design and delivery. Mentoring and developing junior DevOps engineers and leads (depending on your career level) Experience desirable (varying with experience and career level): Certification in at least the solution architect level and in more than 1 cloud service providers Experience with DevOps spin off movements like DevSecOps, DataDevOps, DevNetOps SRE experience and knowledge of principles including SLO/SLI, handling production incidents and following 50/50 toil reduction. Experience administering 1 or more operating systems (flavours of Linux, windows) Experience applying DevOps principles to COTS and PaaS products like SAP, Oracle, Salesforce or administering them. Advisory and thought leadership in the world of DevOps. (depending on level) The design and implementation of continuous delivery practices and release management methods from canary to red-black and blue-green deployments. Defining and managing a roadmap for the implementation of DevOps in an enterprise IT organisation Experience of Agile and Lean Software delivery methodologies Experience of leading consulting engagements Service support - the use of DevOps, Continuous Delivery and ITIL concepts as part of an effective support operation Accenture DevOps is part of a larger vision Accenture believes "Every Business is a Digital Business" and in so doing we support our clients to align and integrate their technology with our "Cloud Infrastructure Engineering" (CIE) group. CIE combines deep technology, business and industry expertise to design and deliver some of the largest, most challenging and highest profile technology solutions in the world. Our DevOps community is a part of the CIE practice and shares in its vibrant, sociable and learning culture where technology skills are valued and recognised. What's in it for you At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days' vacation per year, gym subsidy, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for. About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries - powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Closing Date for Applications 31/08/2021
Senior Software Engineer We build educational publishing and research tools for use within Adam Matthew, and our international customers. Our department's mission is to ensure the fast, predictable, and uninterrupted flow of planned work that delivers value to the business, by delivering stable and secure software, and minimising the impact of unplanned work. We do this by using Agile, Lean, and DevOps practices to build high quality software products that are valuable to our business. Software Engineers work as a team to plan and collaboratively build software that meets our quality standards. Engineers will feed into the product and technology roadmaps too, helping to identify potential value improvements, and refining solutions ready for the team to build. Engineers are responsible for ensuring their tools and practices are up to date and enable us to meet our goal ever more effectively. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will bring your expertise and experience to the table as we continue to learn and grow. You will encourage debate, collaboration, and experimentation, and investigation, and will mentor and coach others to do the same. You will also be able to demonstrate the following: An excellent understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and SOLID software design principles, as well as approaches to implementing them. The ability to build server- and client-side web applications using clean, well document and secure code. Experience with the following server-side languages, frameworks .Net framework (v4 and ideally Core) C#, MVC, Entity Framework, WebAPI SQL Server Experience with the following client-side languages and frameworks JavaScript, including ES6 CSS, including styling architecture techniques such as SASS JavaScript libraries such as Angular, React, Vue, Knockout, Typescript HTML including semantic HTML5 Node and npm/yarn dependency management Task runners such as Gulp or Webpack The ability to actively participate in group discussions, providing your own ideas and opinions and listening to others. A very good understanding of Agile, Lean and DevOps practices, as well as frameworks such as Scrum. The ability to research and share solutions to problems. An understanding of web application security risks and mitigation techniques Experience in designing data models and understanding of modelling techniques. An excellent understanding of modern distributed web application and architecture design patterns, such as microservices, functions. Understanding of DevOps methodologies and processes, including CI/CD and experience with build and deployment tooling such as Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Jenkins, Octopus. Experience with source control mechanisms such as Git or Mercurial, including branch management techniques such as GitFlow/GitHubFlow. Experience of AWS or other cloud platform service providers. The ability to teach and mentor both technical and non-technical subject matter. An expert understanding of TDD and BDD, and frameworks such as Gherkin/Cucumber. A passion for learning and experimenting with new technologies and approaches and sharing your knowledge with others. While all of the skill areas shown above are important, we will be particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate expertise in the following areas: - Mentoring - Teamwork and collaboration - Agile and Development Ops principles - CI/CD strategies and tools - Cloud orchestration, containerisation, IAC - Code branching strategies - TDD - AWS - Client Side/FE Programming - .Net Programming
Feb 26, 2021
Full time
Senior Software Engineer We build educational publishing and research tools for use within Adam Matthew, and our international customers. Our department's mission is to ensure the fast, predictable, and uninterrupted flow of planned work that delivers value to the business, by delivering stable and secure software, and minimising the impact of unplanned work. We do this by using Agile, Lean, and DevOps practices to build high quality software products that are valuable to our business. Software Engineers work as a team to plan and collaboratively build software that meets our quality standards. Engineers will feed into the product and technology roadmaps too, helping to identify potential value improvements, and refining solutions ready for the team to build. Engineers are responsible for ensuring their tools and practices are up to date and enable us to meet our goal ever more effectively. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will bring your expertise and experience to the table as we continue to learn and grow. You will encourage debate, collaboration, and experimentation, and investigation, and will mentor and coach others to do the same. You will also be able to demonstrate the following: An excellent understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and SOLID software design principles, as well as approaches to implementing them. The ability to build server- and client-side web applications using clean, well document and secure code. Experience with the following server-side languages, frameworks .Net framework (v4 and ideally Core) C#, MVC, Entity Framework, WebAPI SQL Server Experience with the following client-side languages and frameworks JavaScript, including ES6 CSS, including styling architecture techniques such as SASS JavaScript libraries such as Angular, React, Vue, Knockout, Typescript HTML including semantic HTML5 Node and npm/yarn dependency management Task runners such as Gulp or Webpack The ability to actively participate in group discussions, providing your own ideas and opinions and listening to others. A very good understanding of Agile, Lean and DevOps practices, as well as frameworks such as Scrum. The ability to research and share solutions to problems. An understanding of web application security risks and mitigation techniques Experience in designing data models and understanding of modelling techniques. An excellent understanding of modern distributed web application and architecture design patterns, such as microservices, functions. Understanding of DevOps methodologies and processes, including CI/CD and experience with build and deployment tooling such as Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Jenkins, Octopus. Experience with source control mechanisms such as Git or Mercurial, including branch management techniques such as GitFlow/GitHubFlow. Experience of AWS or other cloud platform service providers. The ability to teach and mentor both technical and non-technical subject matter. An expert understanding of TDD and BDD, and frameworks such as Gherkin/Cucumber. A passion for learning and experimenting with new technologies and approaches and sharing your knowledge with others. While all of the skill areas shown above are important, we will be particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate expertise in the following areas: - Mentoring - Teamwork and collaboration - Agile and Development Ops principles - CI/CD strategies and tools - Cloud orchestration, containerisation, IAC - Code branching strategies - TDD - AWS - Client Side/FE Programming - .Net Programming
An experienced DevOps/tooling engineer to work within the TA Matrix department to help build an ecosystem spanning multiple platforms, technologies and applications. The candidate should have strong knowledge and experience of CI/CD concepts combined with scalable distributed data platforms and software deployment automation. Strong skills are required in Bamboo/Azure DevOps, python, ansible, bash, and CI/CD pipelines creation, scheduling and automation. In depth experience on integrating test automation frameworks with monitoring, analytics, capacity management and referential systems. Utilisation of APM tooling and observability is also required. Good knowledge of event driven microarchitecture platforms is required and should include as a minimum Kubernetes and Kafka. Desirable but not essential to have a hybrid cloud transformation background including AWS, Azure or IBM and be able to work with both new and Legacy applications with a view of modernisation and automation. Familiarity with security concepts such as working with tokens, keys, secrets, cyphers and security vaults is advantageous. You will work closely with the Development squads in helping the department deliver a modern DEVOPS way of working to maximise the shift left concept to innovate and evolve the effectiveness of application releases. The DevOps representative will be working in the production element of the working model and will act as a technical representative promoting a DevOps mind set within the organisation and be a liaison between partners. Major Duties Further promote a DevOps mind set within the TA Matrix development and production teams Help encourage changing ways of working to modern day agile practices Work with the teams to promote application automation, deployment, configuration and monitoring integration Assist in streamlining and automating build jobs with a view to move towards a CI/CD deployment model of code Help build automated referential integration to feed and drive platform understanding and integrations Work with architecture teams to help improve automated toolsets in use and the TA Matrix strategy Release notes driven from git/JIRA Help monitor performance of the builds and make recommendations to improve pipeline performance and availability Assist in the environment configuration management to help ensure consistency and reliability of deployments Understand maven builds and integration of Sonar scans and quality control Experience with docker/Kubernetes/Tanzu environments and large microservice distributed platforms Integration of monitoring tools such as Geneos and Elastic APM advantageous along with understanding of ServiceMesh and E2E platform monitoring Collaborate closely with test managers and development to ensure efficient use of environments Maintain system documentation and supporting releases with the required project requirements Supporting the release management processes in place and follow incident, problem and change management Provide ongoing support for development environment builds Skills Experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban and DevOps software development methodologies; continuous integration tools Strong skills in tools such as Jira, Git/Bitbucket, Bamboo/Azure DevOps, Slack, Teams git, build tools such and Maven/Gradle and code assurance skills around unit testing, code coverage, sonar and quality control Experience in Networking security and Middleware technologies/interfaces (APIs) such as MQ, Kafka, Kubectl, ServiceNow Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, knowledge of MS SQL Server, Oracle, and Marklogic advantageous Able to automate with tools such as Ansible and Python and understand technologies like SWAGGER, API's, digital interfaces, secrets and rest calls Big data platforms beneficial, ELK and Geneos advantageous and understanding of limitations and considerations Understand public and private cloud security concepts and knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS etc. Understand of Java concepts such as JMX, memory usage and how to profile/monitor these Able to work in an autonomous way whilst being part of an interactive team/Scrums Experience of the full software delivery life cycle and systems environments; Source control tools and methods Understanding of Financial Services industry sectors, specifically Wealth, Private Banking & Commercial Banking advantageous Good analytical, troubleshooting and problem solving skills Clear, concise communication (written and verbal) Knowledge of Servicenow tool, JIRA and CMDB/referential Good understanding of change methodologies and frameworks (Waterfall, Agile, DevOps) Ability to communicate with stakeholders: Project Management, Testers, Application Support, Development, Infrastructure teams Good awareness of regulatory, governance deployments. Experience Required Experience in a DevOps capacity, experience with project tasks, support knowledge and understanding of incident, problem, release and change management. Experience working in highly regulated industries with globally distributed systems. Focus around test and pipeline automation to driver quality assurance.
Feb 26, 2021
Contractor
An experienced DevOps/tooling engineer to work within the TA Matrix department to help build an ecosystem spanning multiple platforms, technologies and applications. The candidate should have strong knowledge and experience of CI/CD concepts combined with scalable distributed data platforms and software deployment automation. Strong skills are required in Bamboo/Azure DevOps, python, ansible, bash, and CI/CD pipelines creation, scheduling and automation. In depth experience on integrating test automation frameworks with monitoring, analytics, capacity management and referential systems. Utilisation of APM tooling and observability is also required. Good knowledge of event driven microarchitecture platforms is required and should include as a minimum Kubernetes and Kafka. Desirable but not essential to have a hybrid cloud transformation background including AWS, Azure or IBM and be able to work with both new and Legacy applications with a view of modernisation and automation. Familiarity with security concepts such as working with tokens, keys, secrets, cyphers and security vaults is advantageous. You will work closely with the Development squads in helping the department deliver a modern DEVOPS way of working to maximise the shift left concept to innovate and evolve the effectiveness of application releases. The DevOps representative will be working in the production element of the working model and will act as a technical representative promoting a DevOps mind set within the organisation and be a liaison between partners. Major Duties Further promote a DevOps mind set within the TA Matrix development and production teams Help encourage changing ways of working to modern day agile practices Work with the teams to promote application automation, deployment, configuration and monitoring integration Assist in streamlining and automating build jobs with a view to move towards a CI/CD deployment model of code Help build automated referential integration to feed and drive platform understanding and integrations Work with architecture teams to help improve automated toolsets in use and the TA Matrix strategy Release notes driven from git/JIRA Help monitor performance of the builds and make recommendations to improve pipeline performance and availability Assist in the environment configuration management to help ensure consistency and reliability of deployments Understand maven builds and integration of Sonar scans and quality control Experience with docker/Kubernetes/Tanzu environments and large microservice distributed platforms Integration of monitoring tools such as Geneos and Elastic APM advantageous along with understanding of ServiceMesh and E2E platform monitoring Collaborate closely with test managers and development to ensure efficient use of environments Maintain system documentation and supporting releases with the required project requirements Supporting the release management processes in place and follow incident, problem and change management Provide ongoing support for development environment builds Skills Experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban and DevOps software development methodologies; continuous integration tools Strong skills in tools such as Jira, Git/Bitbucket, Bamboo/Azure DevOps, Slack, Teams git, build tools such and Maven/Gradle and code assurance skills around unit testing, code coverage, sonar and quality control Experience in Networking security and Middleware technologies/interfaces (APIs) such as MQ, Kafka, Kubectl, ServiceNow Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, knowledge of MS SQL Server, Oracle, and Marklogic advantageous Able to automate with tools such as Ansible and Python and understand technologies like SWAGGER, API's, digital interfaces, secrets and rest calls Big data platforms beneficial, ELK and Geneos advantageous and understanding of limitations and considerations Understand public and private cloud security concepts and knowledge of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS etc. Understand of Java concepts such as JMX, memory usage and how to profile/monitor these Able to work in an autonomous way whilst being part of an interactive team/Scrums Experience of the full software delivery life cycle and systems environments; Source control tools and methods Understanding of Financial Services industry sectors, specifically Wealth, Private Banking & Commercial Banking advantageous Good analytical, troubleshooting and problem solving skills Clear, concise communication (written and verbal) Knowledge of Servicenow tool, JIRA and CMDB/referential Good understanding of change methodologies and frameworks (Waterfall, Agile, DevOps) Ability to communicate with stakeholders: Project Management, Testers, Application Support, Development, Infrastructure teams Good awareness of regulatory, governance deployments. Experience Required Experience in a DevOps capacity, experience with project tasks, support knowledge and understanding of incident, problem, release and change management. Experience working in highly regulated industries with globally distributed systems. Focus around test and pipeline automation to driver quality assurance.
C# SQL Server DevOps Engineer - Leicester, Leicestershire Salary £55K basic + benefits package Due to expansion excellent opportunity to join one of the UK's largest communication providers of 360 outbound to inbound smart communications inc Digital, SMS, Push notifications etc... Key Technical skills: MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 (Expert) C#.Net/ASP.NET (Good understanding) CI/CD DevOps Online/TeamCity/Octopus Deploy. Puppet/Forman or other equivalent technology Windows Server Linux (CentOs, AIX) an advantage Source control DevOps Online/GIT Excellent problemsolving skills Knowledge of Web/Application Server architectures Diverse Web Authentication Methods Security awareness - PCI/OWASP Top Ten Understand POT capabilities of the business and the interaction with EA and Solutions (ie Quadient, Nexdox) Understand underlying business systems and interactions (eg DigiQ, Navision, PCI environment Apply a high level of accuracy and quality assurance to all work Ability to work with and communicate with other stakeholders (Technical and Business) to deliver business outcomes. Responsibilities: Resolve Support tickets for a range of technical issues (Application/database/Web deployments - configuration and optimisation) Be able to investigate issues to identify problems in production systems. Analysing data, workflow, logfiles, database and code. Deploy applications into the Test and Production Environments Build and deploy databases for use in production Build deploy and administer IIS, including Website deployments and associated configurations (eg DB connections) Execute assigned scheduled work with a high degree of autonomy (development, support, hotfix, etc.) Provide support and recommendations on system optimisation and performance tuning. Proactively monitor systems, developing automated scripts, routines, and dashboards to improve PCC's options. Comply with company process and protocols, eg Change management, PCI documentation, Security standards. policy documents and information will be provided Support live web application errors and solve program errors where appropriate, collaborating and communicating effectively with other teams to ensure a speedy resolution C# SQL Server DevOps Engineer - Leicester, Leicestershire
Feb 26, 2021
Full time
C# SQL Server DevOps Engineer - Leicester, Leicestershire Salary £55K basic + benefits package Due to expansion excellent opportunity to join one of the UK's largest communication providers of 360 outbound to inbound smart communications inc Digital, SMS, Push notifications etc... Key Technical skills: MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 (Expert) C#.Net/ASP.NET (Good understanding) CI/CD DevOps Online/TeamCity/Octopus Deploy. Puppet/Forman or other equivalent technology Windows Server Linux (CentOs, AIX) an advantage Source control DevOps Online/GIT Excellent problemsolving skills Knowledge of Web/Application Server architectures Diverse Web Authentication Methods Security awareness - PCI/OWASP Top Ten Understand POT capabilities of the business and the interaction with EA and Solutions (ie Quadient, Nexdox) Understand underlying business systems and interactions (eg DigiQ, Navision, PCI environment Apply a high level of accuracy and quality assurance to all work Ability to work with and communicate with other stakeholders (Technical and Business) to deliver business outcomes. Responsibilities: Resolve Support tickets for a range of technical issues (Application/database/Web deployments - configuration and optimisation) Be able to investigate issues to identify problems in production systems. Analysing data, workflow, logfiles, database and code. Deploy applications into the Test and Production Environments Build and deploy databases for use in production Build deploy and administer IIS, including Website deployments and associated configurations (eg DB connections) Execute assigned scheduled work with a high degree of autonomy (development, support, hotfix, etc.) Provide support and recommendations on system optimisation and performance tuning. Proactively monitor systems, developing automated scripts, routines, and dashboards to improve PCC's options. Comply with company process and protocols, eg Change management, PCI documentation, Security standards. policy documents and information will be provided Support live web application errors and solve program errors where appropriate, collaborating and communicating effectively with other teams to ensure a speedy resolution C# SQL Server DevOps Engineer - Leicester, Leicestershire
