Python Back End engineers are required by this leading Product company as they look to bring their development back in-house and build out the functionality on an already-successful platform operating in a niche space with a fantastic client base.You will be spearheading the creation and deployment of ground-breaking software solutions Key Responsibilities: Work as part of a cross-functional team to help drive the development of new features Lead change, innovation, and drive transformation within our teams: your expertise will identify opportunities for improvement in our Front End applications, tooling, and architecture. Ensure best practices and patterns: you will advocate and enforce best standards, and patterns. Your deep understanding of Front End technologies will help you to guide your peers - ensuring that our code is of high quality. Work on automation and process improvement: you will increase efficiency, reliability, and scalability, by creating automated processes that improve development workflows. Promote engineering ways of working: by taking the lead in establishing the importance of engineering first principles in your team and ensuring they are followed. Collaborate and share knowledge: you will engage with the engineering community, using your expertise to contribute to events and knowledge-sharing initiatives. You will inspire and motivate your peers to learn - improving their capabilities. Participate in hiring new engineers: you will be part of the interview and hiring process, using your experience and insights to identify top talent. You will help build the engineering team. Required Skills and Qualifications: Significant experience in API and web application development using Python with Flask and/or FastAPI Experience with creating REST APIs Experience with Cloud Functions, ideally in Google Cloud/Terraform Experience with containerisation - Docker/Kubernetes Ability to design architectures to meet scalability, reliability and security targets Good problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development In-depth understanding of best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns in Back End development. Experience in automating builds, code checks, and releases using industry-standard tools. Knowledge and experience of Agile methodologies and practices Experience of B2B2C SaaS products would be an advantage The role requires 2 days a week in the London office
15/05/2024
Full time
Python Back End engineers are required by this leading Product company as they look to bring their development back in-house and build out the functionality on an already-successful platform operating in a niche space with a fantastic client base.You will be spearheading the creation and deployment of ground-breaking software solutions Key Responsibilities: Work as part of a cross-functional team to help drive the development of new features Lead change, innovation, and drive transformation within our teams: your expertise will identify opportunities for improvement in our Front End applications, tooling, and architecture. Ensure best practices and patterns: you will advocate and enforce best standards, and patterns. Your deep understanding of Front End technologies will help you to guide your peers - ensuring that our code is of high quality. Work on automation and process improvement: you will increase efficiency, reliability, and scalability, by creating automated processes that improve development workflows. Promote engineering ways of working: by taking the lead in establishing the importance of engineering first principles in your team and ensuring they are followed. Collaborate and share knowledge: you will engage with the engineering community, using your expertise to contribute to events and knowledge-sharing initiatives. You will inspire and motivate your peers to learn - improving their capabilities. Participate in hiring new engineers: you will be part of the interview and hiring process, using your experience and insights to identify top talent. You will help build the engineering team. Required Skills and Qualifications: Significant experience in API and web application development using Python with Flask and/or FastAPI Experience with creating REST APIs Experience with Cloud Functions, ideally in Google Cloud/Terraform Experience with containerisation - Docker/Kubernetes Ability to design architectures to meet scalability, reliability and security targets Good problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development In-depth understanding of best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns in Back End development. Experience in automating builds, code checks, and releases using industry-standard tools. Knowledge and experience of Agile methodologies and practices Experience of B2B2C SaaS products would be an advantage The role requires 2 days a week in the London office
Prestigious opportunity for Senior Platform Engineers, who are hands on and possess a deep understanding of the Azure ecosystem to join delivery teams working on some of the most exciting digital programmes within the industry. Working in our hybrid model of up to 2 days a week in office/3 days WFH. Responsibilities Design, build and maintain secure cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, OWASP and release pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Deploy and monitor software and configuration changes with Ansible, Jfrog, AppD, Azure Monitor, etc. Understand Microsoft Azure, ideally their Platform as a Service offerings (App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Search, Azure Key Vault etc.), as well as Azure DevOps Use Terraform templates and Scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python. Use Test-Driven Development and associated technologies such as NUnit, XUnit Serve as a coach and mentor to team colleagues and act as an internal consultant and advisor for other technical teams with relation to leveraging automation technologies. Comfortable working in a highly visible and business-facing role where you need to break down complex problems, facilitate capturing requirements and provide creative solutions suitable to the stakeholder's problem statement. Demonstrate a passion for cloud engineering and eager to help shape an agile-minded cloud platform team ready for growth. Deliverables: Terraform provisioning templates that are supportable/maintainable. Building of the Azure Sandbox/Landing zones. Applying NSG/ASG and associated security. Providing an E2E solution for automating the provisioning of code, config, data. Proving documentation to cover the above. In return, you will be rewarded with ongoing training and career development with an excellent benefits package! 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.
14/05/2024
Full time
Prestigious opportunity for Senior Platform Engineers, who are hands on and possess a deep understanding of the Azure ecosystem to join delivery teams working on some of the most exciting digital programmes within the industry. Working in our hybrid model of up to 2 days a week in office/3 days WFH. Responsibilities Design, build and maintain secure cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, OWASP and release pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Deploy and monitor software and configuration changes with Ansible, Jfrog, AppD, Azure Monitor, etc. Understand Microsoft Azure, ideally their Platform as a Service offerings (App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Search, Azure Key Vault etc.), as well as Azure DevOps Use Terraform templates and Scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python. Use Test-Driven Development and associated technologies such as NUnit, XUnit Serve as a coach and mentor to team colleagues and act as an internal consultant and advisor for other technical teams with relation to leveraging automation technologies. Comfortable working in a highly visible and business-facing role where you need to break down complex problems, facilitate capturing requirements and provide creative solutions suitable to the stakeholder's problem statement. Demonstrate a passion for cloud engineering and eager to help shape an agile-minded cloud platform team ready for growth. Deliverables: Terraform provisioning templates that are supportable/maintainable. Building of the Azure Sandbox/Landing zones. Applying NSG/ASG and associated security. Providing an E2E solution for automating the provisioning of code, config, data. Proving documentation to cover the above. In return, you will be rewarded with ongoing training and career development with an excellent benefits package! 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.
Prestigious opportunity for DevOps/Platform Engineers, who have developed into this skill set in the last 18 months - 3 years! If you are seeking to further develop your experience with the Azure ecosystem, you will be working on some of the most exciting digital programmes within the market today. Hybrid model of up to 2 days a week in office/3 days WFH. As one of our Platform/DevOps Engineers, you will be part of a team who:- Design, build and maintain secure cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, OWASP and release pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Deploy and monitor software and configuration changes with Ansible, Jfrog, AppD, Azure Monitor, etc. Use Terraform templates and Scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python. Use Test-Driven Development and associated technologies such as NUnit, XUnit Demonstrate a passion for cloud engineering and eager to help shape an agile-minded cloud platform team ready for growth. If you possess a combination of some of the following skills, then LETS TALK! Experience in Azure cloud Terraform coding Writing CI/CD pipelines GITLAB AWS cloud In return, you will be rewarded with ongoing training and career development with an excellent benefits package! 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.
14/05/2024
Full time
Prestigious opportunity for DevOps/Platform Engineers, who have developed into this skill set in the last 18 months - 3 years! If you are seeking to further develop your experience with the Azure ecosystem, you will be working on some of the most exciting digital programmes within the market today. Hybrid model of up to 2 days a week in office/3 days WFH. As one of our Platform/DevOps Engineers, you will be part of a team who:- Design, build and maintain secure cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, OWASP and release pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Deploy and monitor software and configuration changes with Ansible, Jfrog, AppD, Azure Monitor, etc. Use Terraform templates and Scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python. Use Test-Driven Development and associated technologies such as NUnit, XUnit Demonstrate a passion for cloud engineering and eager to help shape an agile-minded cloud platform team ready for growth. If you possess a combination of some of the following skills, then LETS TALK! Experience in Azure cloud Terraform coding Writing CI/CD pipelines GITLAB AWS cloud In return, you will be rewarded with ongoing training and career development with an excellent benefits package! 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.
Global Technology Solutions Ltd
Aldermaston, Berkshire
JOB TITLE: Application Packager LOCATION: Aldermaston SALARY: £56,252 WORKING HOURS: Standard office hours 9 day working fortnight, every other Friday off Holding SC or DV clearance is a MUST. Due to the clearance required we can only progress with British nationals DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION: Purpose of the role We are looking for customer-focused and enthusiastic candidate for our clients Software Discovery and Packaging Team, who has a genuine interest in solving IT issues and is empathetic to our client needs and requirements. The applicant should have a very good understanding of software application packaging, possess good written and verbal communication skills and be willing to collaborate with the wider IT support teams. The Application Packaging Team is responsible for managing the end to end delivery of applications and Operating System gold builds, and the on-going life cycle management for those applications. Behaviours * Demonstrate the ability to methodically work through issues * Identify issues end users might be facing and drive improvement and simplifications to help end user process * Maintain good working relationship with key stakeholders and support teams * Must be able to deal directly with clients in a friendly and highly confident manner demonstrating excellent internal and external customer communication skills * Experience of Application Lifecycle Management in an Enterprise environment as part of a desktop transformation project * Strong Application Packaging experience using Flexera AdminStudio, InstallShield, IS Recapture & ORCA * Expert understanding of MSI technology, including transforms. * Document package configuration * Package defect remediation * Experience of large OS migration projects (preferably Windows 7 and Windows 10) * Data Analysis and reporting skills * Good communication skills (customer facing as you may need to speak to people in the business) * Experience of managing and maintaining a SCCM 2012 (or higher) production environment * SCCM deployment/Design experience * Some Operating System Deployment (OSD), including tools such as MDT * Experience of SCCM/WSUS patching technology * Microsoft Active Directory server * Microsoft Group Policy Objects (GPOs) * Software deployment and 3rd line support and troubleshooting * Understand and input into desktop engineering standards, processes and best practices * Involvement in delivering large scale deployments of software, eg Microsoft Office * Experience of large OS migration projects (preferably windows 10) * Highlight changes to processes or errors to the process owners. Maintain own process and working instruction documents * Work within the contractual guidelines and Statement of Work, or highlight any local shadow IT agreements * Be politically savvy and understand the concerns and priorities of our customer and our own support teams ESSENTIALS SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: * Basic Understanding of IT project management methodologies including agile and waterfall * Basic Knowledge of project management tools and techniques * Microsoft Active Directory server * Microsoft Group Policy Objects (GPOs) * Understand cloud technologies * Understand network topology * Must have packaged applications for Windows 7 and Windows 10 OS platforms. * Must have experience of complex application packaging. (eg Autodesk, MS Office, etc.) * Software deployment and 3rd line support and troubleshooting * Strong communication skills both written and verbal * Self-motivated with a can do attitude and comfortable working with ambiguity * Strong MSI technology * Application layering (VMware App Volumes) * Scripting experience using BAT, PowerShell and VB, C# Scripts * Ability to create and run reports * Awareness of Change and Release Management * Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a genuine enthusiasm towards IT service management * Excellent organisational skills and able to take a methodical approach * Excellent customer service skills * Strong and confident presentation skills * Professional verbal and written communication skills * Strong SCCM 2012 knowledge DESIRABLE SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: * ServiceNow * ITIL Foundation * Application virtualization (Microsoft APP-V) * Fundamental knowledge across Windows Operating Systems * MS SCCM 2012 As an Employee you will benefit from: * Flexible benefits including, private medial and health insurance, basic cover paid by employer * Free eye test vouchers * Company pension scheme * Income protection after 6 months' service should you be off work due to serious illness * 23 days holiday rising by 1 day per year to max 25 * Option to purchase/sell additional holiday * Life insurance * Employee Assistance Programme, free confidential advice covering a range of areas including mental health and financial support If you have the skill required, apply now! In applying for this position, you consent to your personal data being shared with the specified employer and for your details to remain with GTS for as long as is necessary to process your application. See our Privacy Notice for full information Global Technology Solutions is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
13/05/2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Application Packager LOCATION: Aldermaston SALARY: £56,252 WORKING HOURS: Standard office hours 9 day working fortnight, every other Friday off Holding SC or DV clearance is a MUST. Due to the clearance required we can only progress with British nationals DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION: Purpose of the role We are looking for customer-focused and enthusiastic candidate for our clients Software Discovery and Packaging Team, who has a genuine interest in solving IT issues and is empathetic to our client needs and requirements. The applicant should have a very good understanding of software application packaging, possess good written and verbal communication skills and be willing to collaborate with the wider IT support teams. The Application Packaging Team is responsible for managing the end to end delivery of applications and Operating System gold builds, and the on-going life cycle management for those applications. Behaviours * Demonstrate the ability to methodically work through issues * Identify issues end users might be facing and drive improvement and simplifications to help end user process * Maintain good working relationship with key stakeholders and support teams * Must be able to deal directly with clients in a friendly and highly confident manner demonstrating excellent internal and external customer communication skills * Experience of Application Lifecycle Management in an Enterprise environment as part of a desktop transformation project * Strong Application Packaging experience using Flexera AdminStudio, InstallShield, IS Recapture & ORCA * Expert understanding of MSI technology, including transforms. * Document package configuration * Package defect remediation * Experience of large OS migration projects (preferably Windows 7 and Windows 10) * Data Analysis and reporting skills * Good communication skills (customer facing as you may need to speak to people in the business) * Experience of managing and maintaining a SCCM 2012 (or higher) production environment * SCCM deployment/Design experience * Some Operating System Deployment (OSD), including tools such as MDT * Experience of SCCM/WSUS patching technology * Microsoft Active Directory server * Microsoft Group Policy Objects (GPOs) * Software deployment and 3rd line support and troubleshooting * Understand and input into desktop engineering standards, processes and best practices * Involvement in delivering large scale deployments of software, eg Microsoft Office * Experience of large OS migration projects (preferably windows 10) * Highlight changes to processes or errors to the process owners. Maintain own process and working instruction documents * Work within the contractual guidelines and Statement of Work, or highlight any local shadow IT agreements * Be politically savvy and understand the concerns and priorities of our customer and our own support teams ESSENTIALS SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: * Basic Understanding of IT project management methodologies including agile and waterfall * Basic Knowledge of project management tools and techniques * Microsoft Active Directory server * Microsoft Group Policy Objects (GPOs) * Understand cloud technologies * Understand network topology * Must have packaged applications for Windows 7 and Windows 10 OS platforms. * Must have experience of complex application packaging. (eg Autodesk, MS Office, etc.) * Software deployment and 3rd line support and troubleshooting * Strong communication skills both written and verbal * Self-motivated with a can do attitude and comfortable working with ambiguity * Strong MSI technology * Application layering (VMware App Volumes) * Scripting experience using BAT, PowerShell and VB, C# Scripts * Ability to create and run reports * Awareness of Change and Release Management * Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a genuine enthusiasm towards IT service management * Excellent organisational skills and able to take a methodical approach * Excellent customer service skills * Strong and confident presentation skills * Professional verbal and written communication skills * Strong SCCM 2012 knowledge DESIRABLE SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: * ServiceNow * ITIL Foundation * Application virtualization (Microsoft APP-V) * Fundamental knowledge across Windows Operating Systems * MS SCCM 2012 As an Employee you will benefit from: * Flexible benefits including, private medial and health insurance, basic cover paid by employer * Free eye test vouchers * Company pension scheme * Income protection after 6 months' service should you be off work due to serious illness * 23 days holiday rising by 1 day per year to max 25 * Option to purchase/sell additional holiday * Life insurance * Employee Assistance Programme, free confidential advice covering a range of areas including mental health and financial support If you have the skill required, apply now! In applying for this position, you consent to your personal data being shared with the specified employer and for your details to remain with GTS for as long as is necessary to process your application. See our Privacy Notice for full information Global Technology Solutions is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Global Technology Solutions Ltd
Aldermaston, Berkshire
SC Cleared Windows O/S Build Engineer £48,925p/a + £2000p/a DV allowance standard office hours Aldermaston, Reading SC clearance must be held and available to progress on DV clearance Purpose of the role We are looking for customer-focused and enthusiastic Windows O/S build Engineer to join our Infrastructure and Tooling Team. Day to day tasks include developing customer software builds to a high standard, covering new build creation, new hardware models and build updates. Finally overseeing the deployment of the build and transitioning support to the BAU resolver Teams. You should have a genuine interest in solving people's IT issues and empathetic to customer needs and requirements. You should possess good written and verbal communication skills and be willing to collaborate with the wider IT support teams and help us develop a strong partnership with our customers IT Leadership. Our organisation firmly believes is building progression and developing people at all levels. Part of the role is to coach individuals and facilitate plans training so that people can perform to the best of their abilities. * Determine and document technical build specifications * Automation of existing process * Maintaining security standards * Writing, editing and testing policies with customer service always in mind. * Provide diagnosis and troubleshooting in the event of Incidents and Problems arising from the Standard Builds. * Build and actively maintain relationships with key department heads. Be a credible communicator with the customer at all levels * Drive Service Management best-practice and ITIL process compliance across the business * Drive continuous service improvement * Planning and execution of customer site deployments from build, through go-live and into operational support * QA/UAT The site benefits from a restaurant, cafe, parking and good public transport links. As a company employee you'll have access to a large library of courses and accreditations to help further your skills and development. Benefits include workplace pension scheme, life insurance, health cashback plan, holiday insurance, private medical cover (medical cover comes in to effect after 6 months service) DESIRABLE SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: * Deployment using: o SYSPREP o Unattended installs using unattend.txt and WINNT.SIF o RIS - Remote Installation Services o ADS - Automated Deployment Services o WDS - Windows Deployment Server o WAIK - Windows Automated Installation Kit o SCCM - System Centre Configuration manager 2012/2016 o MDT - Microsoft Deployment Tool * Security and Patching using: o Unattended and silent Scripting o SUS1.1 Software Update Services o WSUS Windows Software Update services o SCCM - System Centre Configuration manager 2012/2016 * Operating systems and service packs: o Windows 10 and year update releases o Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 o Tuning, securing, troubleshooting, printing, blue screen debugging, maintaining bios & firmware upgrades. * AD and Group Policy: o Knowledge of Active Directory and the creation of Groups, OU, and Group Policy Objects * Fault diagnosis and error checking: o Knowledge for troubleshooting, Fault Diagnosis, and error checking within SCCM, AD, MDT, Windows OS, and Sys Internals applications. * Awareness of ITIL Change and Release Management As an Employee you will benefit from: * Flexible benefits including, private medical and health insurance, basic cover paid by employer * Free eye test vouchers * Company pension scheme * Income protection after 6 months' service should you be off work due to serious illness * 23 days holiday rising by 1 day per year to max 25 * Option to purchase/sell additional holiday * Life insurance * Employee Assistance Programme, free confidential advise covering a range of areas including mental health and financial support Apply now for consideration! "In applying for this position, you consent to your personal data being shared with the specified employer and for your details to remain with GTS for as long as is necessary to process your application. See our Privacy Notice for full information Global Technology Solutions is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
13/05/2024
Full time
SC Cleared Windows O/S Build Engineer £48,925p/a + £2000p/a DV allowance standard office hours Aldermaston, Reading SC clearance must be held and available to progress on DV clearance Purpose of the role We are looking for customer-focused and enthusiastic Windows O/S build Engineer to join our Infrastructure and Tooling Team. Day to day tasks include developing customer software builds to a high standard, covering new build creation, new hardware models and build updates. Finally overseeing the deployment of the build and transitioning support to the BAU resolver Teams. You should have a genuine interest in solving people's IT issues and empathetic to customer needs and requirements. You should possess good written and verbal communication skills and be willing to collaborate with the wider IT support teams and help us develop a strong partnership with our customers IT Leadership. Our organisation firmly believes is building progression and developing people at all levels. Part of the role is to coach individuals and facilitate plans training so that people can perform to the best of their abilities. * Determine and document technical build specifications * Automation of existing process * Maintaining security standards * Writing, editing and testing policies with customer service always in mind. * Provide diagnosis and troubleshooting in the event of Incidents and Problems arising from the Standard Builds. * Build and actively maintain relationships with key department heads. Be a credible communicator with the customer at all levels * Drive Service Management best-practice and ITIL process compliance across the business * Drive continuous service improvement * Planning and execution of customer site deployments from build, through go-live and into operational support * QA/UAT The site benefits from a restaurant, cafe, parking and good public transport links. As a company employee you'll have access to a large library of courses and accreditations to help further your skills and development. Benefits include workplace pension scheme, life insurance, health cashback plan, holiday insurance, private medical cover (medical cover comes in to effect after 6 months service) DESIRABLE SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: * Deployment using: o SYSPREP o Unattended installs using unattend.txt and WINNT.SIF o RIS - Remote Installation Services o ADS - Automated Deployment Services o WDS - Windows Deployment Server o WAIK - Windows Automated Installation Kit o SCCM - System Centre Configuration manager 2012/2016 o MDT - Microsoft Deployment Tool * Security and Patching using: o Unattended and silent Scripting o SUS1.1 Software Update Services o WSUS Windows Software Update services o SCCM - System Centre Configuration manager 2012/2016 * Operating systems and service packs: o Windows 10 and year update releases o Windows Server 2012/2016/2019 o Tuning, securing, troubleshooting, printing, blue screen debugging, maintaining bios & firmware upgrades. * AD and Group Policy: o Knowledge of Active Directory and the creation of Groups, OU, and Group Policy Objects * Fault diagnosis and error checking: o Knowledge for troubleshooting, Fault Diagnosis, and error checking within SCCM, AD, MDT, Windows OS, and Sys Internals applications. * Awareness of ITIL Change and Release Management As an Employee you will benefit from: * Flexible benefits including, private medical and health insurance, basic cover paid by employer * Free eye test vouchers * Company pension scheme * Income protection after 6 months' service should you be off work due to serious illness * 23 days holiday rising by 1 day per year to max 25 * Option to purchase/sell additional holiday * Life insurance * Employee Assistance Programme, free confidential advise covering a range of areas including mental health and financial support Apply now for consideration! "In applying for this position, you consent to your personal data being shared with the specified employer and for your details to remain with GTS for as long as is necessary to process your application. See our Privacy Notice for full information Global Technology Solutions is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.