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.
The Company is a leading financial services firm. The technology is being transformed to a Cloud-First, Cloud-Native architectural model, utilizing DevSecOps processes and adoption of systems-thinking concepts to enhance productivity. The Cloud Engineers are responsible for delivering Cloud-native solutions that are fully automated through code, ensuring scalability and optimize availability and reliability 24/7. Responsibilities: - Have broad responsibilities to engineer and secure core platform services across the global footprint. - Ensure compute infrastructure is continually optimized to match business demands. - Design and operate storage strategy to optimize data storage based on latency, redundancy, and cost. - Collaborate with Cloud Security Engineering to automate vulnerability patching processes. - Optimize global network to ensure latency and performance meet business expectations. - Automate operational aspects of the infrastructure and systems life cycle. - Maintain Azure tagging/naming taxonomies across all Cloud assets. - Respond to incidents and ensure availability across the global infrastructure, providing support for service analysts on customer incidents. - Build and infrastructure with automation tools like PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, Azure DevOps CI/CD, and Kubernetes. - Document actions to turn findings into repeatable and automated processes. - Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure to enable scaling and support business growth. - Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack. Qualifications: - Strong knowledge of virtualization, containerization technologies on Azure. - Proficiency in object-oriented programming and developing automated solutions through code. - Passion for secure network design and protecting organizations from evolving cyber threats. - Continual learning and advancement of Microsoft Azure technologies like Compute, Storage, Networking. - Interest in Open-Source development and industry innovation. - Knowledge of configuration management systems like Ansible. - Collaborative and able to communicate effectively and asynchronously.
14/05/2024
Full time
The Company is a leading financial services firm. The technology is being transformed to a Cloud-First, Cloud-Native architectural model, utilizing DevSecOps processes and adoption of systems-thinking concepts to enhance productivity. The Cloud Engineers are responsible for delivering Cloud-native solutions that are fully automated through code, ensuring scalability and optimize availability and reliability 24/7. Responsibilities: - Have broad responsibilities to engineer and secure core platform services across the global footprint. - Ensure compute infrastructure is continually optimized to match business demands. - Design and operate storage strategy to optimize data storage based on latency, redundancy, and cost. - Collaborate with Cloud Security Engineering to automate vulnerability patching processes. - Optimize global network to ensure latency and performance meet business expectations. - Automate operational aspects of the infrastructure and systems life cycle. - Maintain Azure tagging/naming taxonomies across all Cloud assets. - Respond to incidents and ensure availability across the global infrastructure, providing support for service analysts on customer incidents. - Build and infrastructure with automation tools like PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, Azure DevOps CI/CD, and Kubernetes. - Document actions to turn findings into repeatable and automated processes. - Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure to enable scaling and support business growth. - Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack. Qualifications: - Strong knowledge of virtualization, containerization technologies on Azure. - Proficiency in object-oriented programming and developing automated solutions through code. - Passion for secure network design and protecting organizations from evolving cyber threats. - Continual learning and advancement of Microsoft Azure technologies like Compute, Storage, Networking. - Interest in Open-Source development and industry innovation. - Knowledge of configuration management systems like Ansible. - Collaborative and able to communicate effectively and asynchronously.
Senior and Lead DevOps Engineers with a background in Software Development are required by this major client, who is creating a new start up engineering capability in their Leeds offices, where you will lead some of their teams who provide Cloud Automation solutions on all three major Public Clouds to a wide range of major Public Sector organisations. As a result of the work that they do, this client requires applicants to hold or be capable of obtaining UK National Security Vetting, the requirements for which could include but not be limited to having resided in the UK for at least the past 5 years and being a UK national or dual UK national. Please note your application will not be taken forward if you cannot fulfil these requirements. In order to secure one of these Lead DevOps Engineer roles you must come from a Software Development background and still be technically hands on with coding/Scripting. You will also have good experience in client/stakeholder management, team leadership and organisational skills as well as being able to demonstrate the following experience: Experience in designing and building infrastructure using a DevOps mindset in any of the main public cloud providers including AWS/Azure/GCP Experience with distributed systems and ability to build secure cloud at scale Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc) Ability to manage key stakeholders, including clients on engagements with effective communication skills Experience with IaC such as Terraform Experience with CI/CD tooling (Github Actions, CircleCI etc) Experience building infrastructure testing within the pipeline for automated deployments This is an opportunity for significant growth, but with a start-up feel and mentality. In this role you will have the chance to build and be part of a new concept. This client is creating an onshore engineering team to gain access to a new segment of the technology market where there is opportunity for significant growth. They are looking for people to help establish the culture and ways of working of the team so we are well placed to make the most of this opportunity. We need help in curating and evolving this culture over time as it's the most important element to the business. IND_PC2 Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
13/05/2024
Full time
Senior and Lead DevOps Engineers with a background in Software Development are required by this major client, who is creating a new start up engineering capability in their Leeds offices, where you will lead some of their teams who provide Cloud Automation solutions on all three major Public Clouds to a wide range of major Public Sector organisations. As a result of the work that they do, this client requires applicants to hold or be capable of obtaining UK National Security Vetting, the requirements for which could include but not be limited to having resided in the UK for at least the past 5 years and being a UK national or dual UK national. Please note your application will not be taken forward if you cannot fulfil these requirements. In order to secure one of these Lead DevOps Engineer roles you must come from a Software Development background and still be technically hands on with coding/Scripting. You will also have good experience in client/stakeholder management, team leadership and organisational skills as well as being able to demonstrate the following experience: Experience in designing and building infrastructure using a DevOps mindset in any of the main public cloud providers including AWS/Azure/GCP Experience with distributed systems and ability to build secure cloud at scale Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes etc) Ability to manage key stakeholders, including clients on engagements with effective communication skills Experience with IaC such as Terraform Experience with CI/CD tooling (Github Actions, CircleCI etc) Experience building infrastructure testing within the pipeline for automated deployments This is an opportunity for significant growth, but with a start-up feel and mentality. In this role you will have the chance to build and be part of a new concept. This client is creating an onshore engineering team to gain access to a new segment of the technology market where there is opportunity for significant growth. They are looking for people to help establish the culture and ways of working of the team so we are well placed to make the most of this opportunity. We need help in curating and evolving this culture over time as it's the most important element to the business. IND_PC2 Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Surrey or Hampshire/Hybrid/WFH £60,000 to £65,000 + £4-5,000 oncall/overtime, plus bonus excellent benefits and growth potential (fantastic employer)/Surrey or Hampshire albeit 1, possibly 2 days per week in the office This role is a hybrid position and can be based in either their Dorking (Surrey) or Basingstoke (Hampshire) offices with the expectation of being in the office 4 - 6 times per month. The overall package is worth around £80-85k. A leading financial services company are recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to take a lead position within their infrastructure team: - with a requirement to be a senior technical engineer and lead by example. - a core element of this role is having the ability to affect technical change in their environment. - this can be as simple as leading new migrations, implementing new software or leading the support of their new Azure Cloud environment. - but you need to have the ability to articulate this and demonstrate what you have done and bring to the table. An understanding or appreciation of Azure and DevOps, is an advantage, but not essential as they are slowly moving their environment over to an infrastructure that supports Azure, although this will only be a small percentage of their estate and they have a hybrid on-prem/cloud (potentially around 20%) model. This is a great role working in a team where career progression is actively encouraged. Ideally you will possess core skills within Wintel/VMware technologies, have a DevOps appreciation and understanding, but this is definitely not a DevOps role. Any knowledge of Nutanix or the willingness to learn it as a new technology is well received and the ability to take on new technology and role with it is important. The primary day to day work for the Senior Infrastructure Engineer will consist of: Individuals in the Senior Infrastructure Engineer position are responsible for designing system and infrastructure architectures spanning the whole range of hardware and software technologies in their designated field, using approved system engineering practices. They will develop and maintain the high-level design plan for the overall logical and technical IT architecture. They will provide technical leadership and consulting across the organisation, from strategic decision making to project level planning. They will gain organisational commitment for all high-level Infrastructure plans and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans. They will work closely with decision makers throughout the organisation to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective information processing and communication technologies. They will benchmark, analyse, report on, and make recommendations for the improvement of the relevant IT Infrastructure and IT systems. They will apply proven analytical and problem-solving skills to help validate, verify, communicate, and resolve complex systems/software/networking/infrastructure applications and infrastructure issues. They are responsible for planning, designing and analysing the organisations operating system(s), storage management, agents/instrumentation, systems management, security, network, web administration, database management, automation, and application technical stacks. Additionally, this position may require working knowledge of multiple computing/networking platforms (including physical, virtual, and cloud,) while ensuring high levels of data quality and availability. They are also responsible for capacity planning, backup and restore process design, performance analysis, and developing data disaster recovery plans. Principal Duties and Responsibilities for the Senior Infrastructure Engineer role: Designs, builds and deploys solutions across the relevant infrastructure technologies, including Humanas Azure tenant. Designs automation of infrastructure as a service and capabilities including virtual networks, virtual machines, cloud services, web sites, data services, IoT, etc. Leads technical deployments that involve multiple IT teams and stakeholders. Develops and enhances the orchestration and automation of cloud enablement tools. Designs a highly scalable and redundant physical or virtual infrastructure to support the company's future growth. Provides innovative suggestions for complex implementation solutions. Creates documentation and implementation plans to allow support teams to build and manage the relevant environment. Develops and manages an infrastructure capacity plan. Required Skillset for the Senior Infrastructure Engineer position: Possess significantly developed hands-on technical expertise in multiple key operating systems or subsystem areas. Have some experience in creating as well as using Scripting and other tools to automate routine tasks Ability to automate manual tasks using Scripting languages (eg Shell, python, Perl, bash). Drive resolution of technical problems in a methodical and professional manner. Effectively summarise and clearly communicate software/hardware problems involving multiple support teams. Some Azure/Cloud exposure, with a DevOps understanding. Demonstrable related work experience (Wintel, VMWare) any experience with Nutanix Converged technologies, including Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor or AHV. Windows OS Configuring & troubleshooting 2016, 2019 and 2022 (nice to have). VMware Virtualisation 6.5+. AD/DNS/GPO configuration. ITIL Framework grounding (Incident, Change, etc). Any Scripting knowledge is an advantage. Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Surrey or Hampshire/Hybrid/WFH £60,000 to £65,000 + £4-5,000 oncall/overtime, plus bonus excellent benefits and growth potential (fantastic employer)/Surrey or Hampshire albeit 1, possibly 2 days per week in the office
13/05/2024
Full time
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Surrey or Hampshire/Hybrid/WFH £60,000 to £65,000 + £4-5,000 oncall/overtime, plus bonus excellent benefits and growth potential (fantastic employer)/Surrey or Hampshire albeit 1, possibly 2 days per week in the office This role is a hybrid position and can be based in either their Dorking (Surrey) or Basingstoke (Hampshire) offices with the expectation of being in the office 4 - 6 times per month. The overall package is worth around £80-85k. A leading financial services company are recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to take a lead position within their infrastructure team: - with a requirement to be a senior technical engineer and lead by example. - a core element of this role is having the ability to affect technical change in their environment. - this can be as simple as leading new migrations, implementing new software or leading the support of their new Azure Cloud environment. - but you need to have the ability to articulate this and demonstrate what you have done and bring to the table. An understanding or appreciation of Azure and DevOps, is an advantage, but not essential as they are slowly moving their environment over to an infrastructure that supports Azure, although this will only be a small percentage of their estate and they have a hybrid on-prem/cloud (potentially around 20%) model. This is a great role working in a team where career progression is actively encouraged. Ideally you will possess core skills within Wintel/VMware technologies, have a DevOps appreciation and understanding, but this is definitely not a DevOps role. Any knowledge of Nutanix or the willingness to learn it as a new technology is well received and the ability to take on new technology and role with it is important. The primary day to day work for the Senior Infrastructure Engineer will consist of: Individuals in the Senior Infrastructure Engineer position are responsible for designing system and infrastructure architectures spanning the whole range of hardware and software technologies in their designated field, using approved system engineering practices. They will develop and maintain the high-level design plan for the overall logical and technical IT architecture. They will provide technical leadership and consulting across the organisation, from strategic decision making to project level planning. They will gain organisational commitment for all high-level Infrastructure plans and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans. They will work closely with decision makers throughout the organisation to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective information processing and communication technologies. They will benchmark, analyse, report on, and make recommendations for the improvement of the relevant IT Infrastructure and IT systems. They will apply proven analytical and problem-solving skills to help validate, verify, communicate, and resolve complex systems/software/networking/infrastructure applications and infrastructure issues. They are responsible for planning, designing and analysing the organisations operating system(s), storage management, agents/instrumentation, systems management, security, network, web administration, database management, automation, and application technical stacks. Additionally, this position may require working knowledge of multiple computing/networking platforms (including physical, virtual, and cloud,) while ensuring high levels of data quality and availability. They are also responsible for capacity planning, backup and restore process design, performance analysis, and developing data disaster recovery plans. Principal Duties and Responsibilities for the Senior Infrastructure Engineer role: Designs, builds and deploys solutions across the relevant infrastructure technologies, including Humanas Azure tenant. Designs automation of infrastructure as a service and capabilities including virtual networks, virtual machines, cloud services, web sites, data services, IoT, etc. Leads technical deployments that involve multiple IT teams and stakeholders. Develops and enhances the orchestration and automation of cloud enablement tools. Designs a highly scalable and redundant physical or virtual infrastructure to support the company's future growth. Provides innovative suggestions for complex implementation solutions. Creates documentation and implementation plans to allow support teams to build and manage the relevant environment. Develops and manages an infrastructure capacity plan. Required Skillset for the Senior Infrastructure Engineer position: Possess significantly developed hands-on technical expertise in multiple key operating systems or subsystem areas. Have some experience in creating as well as using Scripting and other tools to automate routine tasks Ability to automate manual tasks using Scripting languages (eg Shell, python, Perl, bash). Drive resolution of technical problems in a methodical and professional manner. Effectively summarise and clearly communicate software/hardware problems involving multiple support teams. Some Azure/Cloud exposure, with a DevOps understanding. Demonstrable related work experience (Wintel, VMWare) any experience with Nutanix Converged technologies, including Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor or AHV. Windows OS Configuring & troubleshooting 2016, 2019 and 2022 (nice to have). VMware Virtualisation 6.5+. AD/DNS/GPO configuration. ITIL Framework grounding (Incident, Change, etc). Any Scripting knowledge is an advantage. Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Surrey or Hampshire/Hybrid/WFH £60,000 to £65,000 + £4-5,000 oncall/overtime, plus bonus excellent benefits and growth potential (fantastic employer)/Surrey or Hampshire albeit 1, possibly 2 days per week in the office
Your new company I am working with an industry-leading company specialising in cutting-edge multi-link connectivity solutions. Their innovative approach combines various network connections to create a highly efficient and robust virtual pipeline. With their state-of-the-art technology, which is compatible with any customer premises equipment (CPE), and our cloud-agnostic and auto-scaling Back End, we deliver optimal performance for mass-market applications. Your new role Your new role as a Network & System Engineer will involve a range of responsibilities. You will collaborate closely with senior management to define the long-term roadmap for their network infrastructure. Working alongside the Head of DevOps, you will actively participate in designing and architecting the enterprise network and systems. Your expertise will be crucial in implementing new network functions and systems, ensuring they are integrated smoothly with existing infrastructure. In addition, you will play a key role in maintaining the reliability, stability, and performance of our enterprise environment. As a point of escalation, you will provide valuable advice and technical expertise to our test and support teams. Network maintenance, including scheduled system patching, will also be part of your responsibilities. Furthermore, you will collaborate with the Operations team to enhance and maintain our CI/CD pipelines, contributing to the continuous improvement of our processes. What you'll need to succeed Strong experience working with Linux systems, including software-defined networking (Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat). Proficiency in configuration management tools to ensure consistent network configuration. Solid understanding of switching and routing, VLANs, and VPNs. Knowledge of virtualization technologies, particularly VMware. Comfortable writing Shell Scripts for automation purposes. Familiarity with cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenStack. Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or 365 platforms, preferably Azure AD. Understanding of system and network monitoring principles; exposure to Zabbix is a plus. Knowledge of CI/CD principles. What you'll get in return Competitive salary package based on experience . Generous holiday allowance of 25 days, plus bank holidays. Private health care coverage. Life insurance to ensure financial security. Convenient car parking facilities. Gym membership contribution for a healthy work-life balance. Workplace pension scheme for a secure future. 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 EA is a trading division of Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited and 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.
13/05/2024
Full time
Your new company I am working with an industry-leading company specialising in cutting-edge multi-link connectivity solutions. Their innovative approach combines various network connections to create a highly efficient and robust virtual pipeline. With their state-of-the-art technology, which is compatible with any customer premises equipment (CPE), and our cloud-agnostic and auto-scaling Back End, we deliver optimal performance for mass-market applications. Your new role Your new role as a Network & System Engineer will involve a range of responsibilities. You will collaborate closely with senior management to define the long-term roadmap for their network infrastructure. Working alongside the Head of DevOps, you will actively participate in designing and architecting the enterprise network and systems. Your expertise will be crucial in implementing new network functions and systems, ensuring they are integrated smoothly with existing infrastructure. In addition, you will play a key role in maintaining the reliability, stability, and performance of our enterprise environment. As a point of escalation, you will provide valuable advice and technical expertise to our test and support teams. Network maintenance, including scheduled system patching, will also be part of your responsibilities. Furthermore, you will collaborate with the Operations team to enhance and maintain our CI/CD pipelines, contributing to the continuous improvement of our processes. What you'll need to succeed Strong experience working with Linux systems, including software-defined networking (Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat). Proficiency in configuration management tools to ensure consistent network configuration. Solid understanding of switching and routing, VLANs, and VPNs. Knowledge of virtualization technologies, particularly VMware. Comfortable writing Shell Scripts for automation purposes. Familiarity with cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenStack. Experience with Microsoft Azure and/or 365 platforms, preferably Azure AD. Understanding of system and network monitoring principles; exposure to Zabbix is a plus. Knowledge of CI/CD principles. What you'll get in return Competitive salary package based on experience . Generous holiday allowance of 25 days, plus bank holidays. Private health care coverage. Life insurance to ensure financial security. Convenient car parking facilities. Gym membership contribution for a healthy work-life balance. Workplace pension scheme for a secure future. 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 EA is a trading division of Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited and 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.