JOB: Working across an Assets and Connections Portfolio, the successful candidate will be responsible for producing and assuring high quality electrical and circuit designs to an agreed scope. Designs to be delivered to cost, time and quality targets. All designs must meet design and CDM standards. These designs could be for APP and/or Connections (non-contestable and contestable) work. The successful candidate will be expected to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, delivering design technical excellence by ensuring compliance to design, CDM and relevant standards for the regulated network solutions for all APP and Connection schemes. ACCOUNTABILITIES: Production of Electrical Designs and circuit designs (below ground and in air) that can be constructed in compliance with standards and CDM requirements with no supervision and assure others designs. Deliver effective designs, which conform to all relevant Codes of Practice and company and industry standards, in conjunction with Electrical Design. Contribute to the production of technical, commercial and contractual documents for procurement of engineering products. Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, regulations, and company procedures. Compliance with design assurance and audit processes Preparation of concept and developed design, from specifications and drawings within defined periods. Provide an excellent service to the customer. Work as a Team Player within larger multi-disciplinary teams. Liaise with the operational teams to ensure a smooth process from initial enquiry through to final energisation and project closure. Complying with the requirements of the designer/principal designer as determined by the 2015 CDM Regulations. Ensure design eliminates any hazards which may give rise to risks; and reduce risks from any remaining hazards (in conjunction with CDM). Ensure solutions provide sufficient information about aspects of the design of the network, its construction and maintenance as will adequately assist clients, the CDM team, other designers, and contractors. Supporting and mentoring other members of the team to enhance their technical knowledge and experience. SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: Strong Electrical engineering background and experience in electrical engineering. Knowledge of power system and protection design at 132KV, 33KV, 11KV, and intermediate voltages. Electrical/Circuit Engineering degree or STEM equivalent with proven relevant Electrical/Cable/OHL and substation design experience. Circuit engineering background and extensive experience in EHV circuit design and construction works, ideally within Utility sector. Competence in resolving circuit network issues and ability to provide a sound understanding of company standards and policies and their application to this role. Awareness of current and technological developments in circuit engineering. Extensive Knowledge of design processes and relevant DNO, ENA and International Design Standards including relevant operational aspects to successfully deliver designs. Ability to work with external engineering organisations and customers/stakeholders representing UKPN to best effect. Capable to sign off the designs. A good safety culture and sound understanding of Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations and their application in this role. Ability to work unsupervised, set and comply with own targets, and identify and implement innovative cost saving solutions. Good team working skills. A good level of business, environmental, safety, financial, and regulatory awareness. A general appreciation of financial reporting systems. Knowledge of the ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 procedures relevant to the team's activities. Manage (not line manage) and communicate with the CAD team to produce design drawings suitable for construction. Experience of undertaking cable sizing/rating calculations for 11kV up to 132kV networks, for both solidly and cross bonded circuits (including de-rating aspects and short circuit loadings). Experience of undertaking cable pulling calculations for 11kV up to 132kV networks, in line with company standards. Experience in designing joint/pulling bays from 11kV up to 132kV. Experience in designing pilot/fibre cable routes, including splice chambers. Experience in terminations to indoor/outdoor switchgear/cable sealing ends. Experience in route proving, to determine the most cost effective and safest route install. Experience of directional drills and ability to advise/assure requirements accordingly. Excellent communication and organizational skills required, especially in relation to dealing with survey companies to obtain utility search information. Experience with producing Bills of Materials, particularly cable drum lengths, in coordination with pulling calculations. Liaise with Wayleaves and Consents to determine most feasible route. Knowledge of project management. Proficient in the use of Microsoft desktop applications, in particular: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Strong interpersonal skills and be competent in written and oral communications. Proficient in the use of AutoCAD and or Micro station. Awareness of current and technological developments in distribution plant and equipment. Input into innovative construction ideas and techniques, which feed into UK Power Networks Green Action Plan. Chartered Engineer or working towards achieving Chartership. PACKAGE: £70,000 - £78,132 - + car + London Allowance + bonus + benefit Annual Leave Personal Pension Plan - Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%) Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme Season ticket loan Occupational Health support Switched On - scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products. Discounted access to sports and social clubs Employee Assistance Programme
03/05/2024
Full time
JOB: Working across an Assets and Connections Portfolio, the successful candidate will be responsible for producing and assuring high quality electrical and circuit designs to an agreed scope. Designs to be delivered to cost, time and quality targets. All designs must meet design and CDM standards. These designs could be for APP and/or Connections (non-contestable and contestable) work. The successful candidate will be expected to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, delivering design technical excellence by ensuring compliance to design, CDM and relevant standards for the regulated network solutions for all APP and Connection schemes. ACCOUNTABILITIES: Production of Electrical Designs and circuit designs (below ground and in air) that can be constructed in compliance with standards and CDM requirements with no supervision and assure others designs. Deliver effective designs, which conform to all relevant Codes of Practice and company and industry standards, in conjunction with Electrical Design. Contribute to the production of technical, commercial and contractual documents for procurement of engineering products. Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, regulations, and company procedures. Compliance with design assurance and audit processes Preparation of concept and developed design, from specifications and drawings within defined periods. Provide an excellent service to the customer. Work as a Team Player within larger multi-disciplinary teams. Liaise with the operational teams to ensure a smooth process from initial enquiry through to final energisation and project closure. Complying with the requirements of the designer/principal designer as determined by the 2015 CDM Regulations. Ensure design eliminates any hazards which may give rise to risks; and reduce risks from any remaining hazards (in conjunction with CDM). Ensure solutions provide sufficient information about aspects of the design of the network, its construction and maintenance as will adequately assist clients, the CDM team, other designers, and contractors. Supporting and mentoring other members of the team to enhance their technical knowledge and experience. SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: Strong Electrical engineering background and experience in electrical engineering. Knowledge of power system and protection design at 132KV, 33KV, 11KV, and intermediate voltages. Electrical/Circuit Engineering degree or STEM equivalent with proven relevant Electrical/Cable/OHL and substation design experience. Circuit engineering background and extensive experience in EHV circuit design and construction works, ideally within Utility sector. Competence in resolving circuit network issues and ability to provide a sound understanding of company standards and policies and their application to this role. Awareness of current and technological developments in circuit engineering. Extensive Knowledge of design processes and relevant DNO, ENA and International Design Standards including relevant operational aspects to successfully deliver designs. Ability to work with external engineering organisations and customers/stakeholders representing UKPN to best effect. Capable to sign off the designs. A good safety culture and sound understanding of Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations and their application in this role. Ability to work unsupervised, set and comply with own targets, and identify and implement innovative cost saving solutions. Good team working skills. A good level of business, environmental, safety, financial, and regulatory awareness. A general appreciation of financial reporting systems. Knowledge of the ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 procedures relevant to the team's activities. Manage (not line manage) and communicate with the CAD team to produce design drawings suitable for construction. Experience of undertaking cable sizing/rating calculations for 11kV up to 132kV networks, for both solidly and cross bonded circuits (including de-rating aspects and short circuit loadings). Experience of undertaking cable pulling calculations for 11kV up to 132kV networks, in line with company standards. Experience in designing joint/pulling bays from 11kV up to 132kV. Experience in designing pilot/fibre cable routes, including splice chambers. Experience in terminations to indoor/outdoor switchgear/cable sealing ends. Experience in route proving, to determine the most cost effective and safest route install. Experience of directional drills and ability to advise/assure requirements accordingly. Excellent communication and organizational skills required, especially in relation to dealing with survey companies to obtain utility search information. Experience with producing Bills of Materials, particularly cable drum lengths, in coordination with pulling calculations. Liaise with Wayleaves and Consents to determine most feasible route. Knowledge of project management. Proficient in the use of Microsoft desktop applications, in particular: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Strong interpersonal skills and be competent in written and oral communications. Proficient in the use of AutoCAD and or Micro station. Awareness of current and technological developments in distribution plant and equipment. Input into innovative construction ideas and techniques, which feed into UK Power Networks Green Action Plan. Chartered Engineer or working towards achieving Chartership. PACKAGE: £70,000 - £78,132 - + car + London Allowance + bonus + benefit Annual Leave Personal Pension Plan - Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%) Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme Season ticket loan Occupational Health support Switched On - scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products. Discounted access to sports and social clubs Employee Assistance Programme
Job Title: Senior IP Test Engineer Location: Slough & Remote Job Type: Contract Duration: 3 months initially Start Date: May 2024 Pay Rate: TBC Flint UK Technology Services is looking for a Senior IP Test Engineer to join one of our telecoms clients on a minimum 3-month contract basis. The role is based in Slough - Buckingham Avenue and will require the successful candidate to travel to the office a minimum of 2 days per week. About You Excellent Knowledge of Juniper Routers essential Excellent knowledge of IP/MPLS Core network testing & troubleshooting practices Excellent IP skills (ability to troubleshoot the BGP/ISIS routing and other protocols around the MPLS Core estate) Have excellent technical people co-ordination, co-operation, management skills & work independently. Demonstrate tenacity and a proactive attitude to all the tasks defined. Be able to progress tasks concurrently to deliver in the allotted time. Provide regular updates to the Project and Transport Test team principal engineers. Respond to concerns raised by the Transport Test team principal engineers. Responsibilities Rapidly learn the existing MPLS Core connection/solution (including entwined IP Routers) Produce Test Plan including Test Case listing from the provided template (and old examples) and gain sign off from stakeholder though programme and project team. Gather existing Test Cases in Jira system. Review and validate the Test Cases in Jira system, removing duplication and creating more tests cases where required and agreed. Perform MoSCoW test case prioritisation to ensure test cycle is achievable in the time constraints. Review overarching MoPs/Imp Plans from the design teams and ensure all the MoPs work in unison to affect the migration in TestBed. Execute Baseline test cases. Execute Migration MoP Test cases including rollback. feedback on any technical matters to the design teams to improve the solution. Execute Regression suite of test cases once the solution is successfully implemented. Produce and manage defects/issue tracker and seek resolutions. Produce Test Exit Report with change risk assessment and gain sign-off. If you are interested in this role, please send your CV through and someone from the Strategic Resourcing team will review your application and contact you.
03/05/2024
Project-based
Job Title: Senior IP Test Engineer Location: Slough & Remote Job Type: Contract Duration: 3 months initially Start Date: May 2024 Pay Rate: TBC Flint UK Technology Services is looking for a Senior IP Test Engineer to join one of our telecoms clients on a minimum 3-month contract basis. The role is based in Slough - Buckingham Avenue and will require the successful candidate to travel to the office a minimum of 2 days per week. About You Excellent Knowledge of Juniper Routers essential Excellent knowledge of IP/MPLS Core network testing & troubleshooting practices Excellent IP skills (ability to troubleshoot the BGP/ISIS routing and other protocols around the MPLS Core estate) Have excellent technical people co-ordination, co-operation, management skills & work independently. Demonstrate tenacity and a proactive attitude to all the tasks defined. Be able to progress tasks concurrently to deliver in the allotted time. Provide regular updates to the Project and Transport Test team principal engineers. Respond to concerns raised by the Transport Test team principal engineers. Responsibilities Rapidly learn the existing MPLS Core connection/solution (including entwined IP Routers) Produce Test Plan including Test Case listing from the provided template (and old examples) and gain sign off from stakeholder though programme and project team. Gather existing Test Cases in Jira system. Review and validate the Test Cases in Jira system, removing duplication and creating more tests cases where required and agreed. Perform MoSCoW test case prioritisation to ensure test cycle is achievable in the time constraints. Review overarching MoPs/Imp Plans from the design teams and ensure all the MoPs work in unison to affect the migration in TestBed. Execute Baseline test cases. Execute Migration MoP Test cases including rollback. feedback on any technical matters to the design teams to improve the solution. Execute Regression suite of test cases once the solution is successfully implemented. Produce and manage defects/issue tracker and seek resolutions. Produce Test Exit Report with change risk assessment and gain sign-off. If you are interested in this role, please send your CV through and someone from the Strategic Resourcing team will review your application and contact you.
NO SPONSORSHIP Principal, Software Engineering Enterprise Cloud Monitoring - Splunk SALARY: $200k- $215k base w/up to 30% bonus LOCATION: Dallas, TX 3 days onsite, 2 days remote It is all about on-premises monitoring and cloud monitoring The products they are looking for outside of Splunk is Data Dog, Dynatrace, New Relic Heavy cloud, AWS, EC2, Automation, application performance monitoring, enterprise monitoring, any EMC patrol, Tivoli, and regulatory experience Responsibilities Translate middle and senior management strategic directives into workable technical directives Monitor project status and take remedial action on projects behind schedule and/or over budget Provide subject matter expertise for ongoing support of third-party tools like Splunk Provide expert-level technical mentoring to more junior members of the team Resolve complex support issues in non-production and production environments. Have an understanding of Cloud Native applications running on Kubernetes within AWS and how exposed APIs may be used to monitor them Assist production support and development staff in debugging environment defects using logging monitors and/or APM-related profiling data Create procedural and troubleshooting documentation related to enterprise monitoring systems and the applications they are monitoring Write complex automation scripts using common automation tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform for the installation, configuration, and/or upgrade of monitoring systems Qualifications Systems administration and change management practices Enterprise monitoring and reporting tools Experience Scripting and/or coding against APIs In-depth knowledge of common used management and monitoring tech Internet/Web based technologies ITLT Best Practices Experience with tech used to support microservices Network technologies AWS log collection such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs Monitoring and reporting using SNMP CI/CD tools such as Artifactory, Jenkins, and GIT Cloud native applications, including Terraform experience Technologies used to support microservices Encryption technologies (SSL/TLS, PKI Infrastructure management) Security controls as applied to software technologies Bachelor's degree 10+ years of related experience Minimum 10 years experience working in a distributed multi-platform environment. Minimum 3 years experience working with cloud native applications Minimum 3 years experience managing technical projects
30/04/2024
Full time
NO SPONSORSHIP Principal, Software Engineering Enterprise Cloud Monitoring - Splunk SALARY: $200k- $215k base w/up to 30% bonus LOCATION: Dallas, TX 3 days onsite, 2 days remote It is all about on-premises monitoring and cloud monitoring The products they are looking for outside of Splunk is Data Dog, Dynatrace, New Relic Heavy cloud, AWS, EC2, Automation, application performance monitoring, enterprise monitoring, any EMC patrol, Tivoli, and regulatory experience Responsibilities Translate middle and senior management strategic directives into workable technical directives Monitor project status and take remedial action on projects behind schedule and/or over budget Provide subject matter expertise for ongoing support of third-party tools like Splunk Provide expert-level technical mentoring to more junior members of the team Resolve complex support issues in non-production and production environments. Have an understanding of Cloud Native applications running on Kubernetes within AWS and how exposed APIs may be used to monitor them Assist production support and development staff in debugging environment defects using logging monitors and/or APM-related profiling data Create procedural and troubleshooting documentation related to enterprise monitoring systems and the applications they are monitoring Write complex automation scripts using common automation tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform for the installation, configuration, and/or upgrade of monitoring systems Qualifications Systems administration and change management practices Enterprise monitoring and reporting tools Experience Scripting and/or coding against APIs In-depth knowledge of common used management and monitoring tech Internet/Web based technologies ITLT Best Practices Experience with tech used to support microservices Network technologies AWS log collection such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs Monitoring and reporting using SNMP CI/CD tools such as Artifactory, Jenkins, and GIT Cloud native applications, including Terraform experience Technologies used to support microservices Encryption technologies (SSL/TLS, PKI Infrastructure management) Security controls as applied to software technologies Bachelor's degree 10+ years of related experience Minimum 10 years experience working in a distributed multi-platform environment. Minimum 3 years experience working with cloud native applications Minimum 3 years experience managing technical projects
NO SPONSORSHIP Principal, Software Engineering Enterprise Monitoring - Splunk SALARY: $200k- $215k base w/up to 30% bonus LOCATION: Chicago, IL 3 days onsite, 2 days remote Looking for a technical team lead over the enterprise splunk monitoring system. You will be the SME in Splunk Monitoring, Cloud Native Applications running on Kubernetes within AWS. Responsibilities Translate middle and senior management strategic directives into workable technical directives Monitor project status and take remedial action on projects behind schedule and/or over budget Provide subject matter expertise for ongoing support of third-party tools like Splunk Provide expert-level technical mentoring to more junior members of the team Resolve complex support issues in non-production and production environments. Have an understanding of Cloud Native applications running on Kubernetes within AWS and how exposed APIs may be used to monitor them Assist production support and development staff in debugging environment defects using logging monitors and/or APM-related profiling data Create procedural and troubleshooting documentation related to enterprise monitoring systems and the applications they are monitoring Write complex automation scripts using common automation tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform for the installation, configuration, and/or upgrade of monitoring systems Qualifications Systems administration and change management practices Enterprise monitoring and reporting tools Experience Scripting and/or coding against APIs In-depth knowledge of common used management and monitoring tech Internet/Web based technologies ITLT Best Practices Experience with tech used to support microservices Network technologies AWS log collection such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs Monitoring and reporting using SNMP CI/CD tools such as Artifactory, Jenkins, and GIT Cloud native applications, including Terraform experience Technologies used to support microservices Encryption technologies (SSL/TLS, PKI Infrastructure management) Security controls as applied to software technologies Bachelor's degree 10+ years of related experience Minimum 10 years experience working in a distributed multi-platform environment. Minimum 3 years experience working with cloud native applications Minimum 3 years experience managing technical projects
30/04/2024
Full time
NO SPONSORSHIP Principal, Software Engineering Enterprise Monitoring - Splunk SALARY: $200k- $215k base w/up to 30% bonus LOCATION: Chicago, IL 3 days onsite, 2 days remote Looking for a technical team lead over the enterprise splunk monitoring system. You will be the SME in Splunk Monitoring, Cloud Native Applications running on Kubernetes within AWS. Responsibilities Translate middle and senior management strategic directives into workable technical directives Monitor project status and take remedial action on projects behind schedule and/or over budget Provide subject matter expertise for ongoing support of third-party tools like Splunk Provide expert-level technical mentoring to more junior members of the team Resolve complex support issues in non-production and production environments. Have an understanding of Cloud Native applications running on Kubernetes within AWS and how exposed APIs may be used to monitor them Assist production support and development staff in debugging environment defects using logging monitors and/or APM-related profiling data Create procedural and troubleshooting documentation related to enterprise monitoring systems and the applications they are monitoring Write complex automation scripts using common automation tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform for the installation, configuration, and/or upgrade of monitoring systems Qualifications Systems administration and change management practices Enterprise monitoring and reporting tools Experience Scripting and/or coding against APIs In-depth knowledge of common used management and monitoring tech Internet/Web based technologies ITLT Best Practices Experience with tech used to support microservices Network technologies AWS log collection such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs Monitoring and reporting using SNMP CI/CD tools such as Artifactory, Jenkins, and GIT Cloud native applications, including Terraform experience Technologies used to support microservices Encryption technologies (SSL/TLS, PKI Infrastructure management) Security controls as applied to software technologies Bachelor's degree 10+ years of related experience Minimum 10 years experience working in a distributed multi-platform environment. Minimum 3 years experience working with cloud native applications Minimum 3 years experience managing technical projects
NO SPONSORSHIP Associate Principal, Technology Operations - Production Support - 3rd SHIFT SALARY: $102k- $120k w 15% bonus no shift differential LOCATION: REMOTE 3rd shift, Tuesday - Saturday, 11pm - 730am Do you have Production Operations (not engineering) experience? Do you have experience with Schedulers? (UC4 or Control M) or other? Why are you seeking an off shift position? What is your experience level/experience with JCL/IBM? Production support for hardware and software problems ITIL applications and infrastructure problems incident management storage Unix Windows networking Business operations etc. The Associate Principal of Technology Operations is responsible for reviewing processes and procedures throughout the Production environment and driving improvements throughout. This role will reside in Technology Operations and will work closely with a broad cross-section of the organization including the following teams: Production Control, Production Support, Release Management, Platform Services, Storage, Unix, Networking, Business Operations, Change/Problem/Incident Management. The primary focus of this role is to ensure that Production runs as efficiently as possible by being an evangelist for Continues Improvement (CI), and being a technical liaison to teams to ensure that operational readiness best practices are being adhered to. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Focus on shifting the overall operational posture from re-active to pro-active Analyze and report upon Production performance CI opportunities Analyze and report upon Production capacity CI opportunities Analyze and report upon Production critical-path processing CI opportunities Stand-up SWATs if when needed to drive resolution of ongoing Production issues Identifies and diagnoses complex problems and factors affecting Production performance Troubleshoot hardware and software problems Move between tactical & strategic Bachelors degree 5+ years experience production systems operations or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
30/04/2024
Full time
NO SPONSORSHIP Associate Principal, Technology Operations - Production Support - 3rd SHIFT SALARY: $102k- $120k w 15% bonus no shift differential LOCATION: REMOTE 3rd shift, Tuesday - Saturday, 11pm - 730am Do you have Production Operations (not engineering) experience? Do you have experience with Schedulers? (UC4 or Control M) or other? Why are you seeking an off shift position? What is your experience level/experience with JCL/IBM? Production support for hardware and software problems ITIL applications and infrastructure problems incident management storage Unix Windows networking Business operations etc. The Associate Principal of Technology Operations is responsible for reviewing processes and procedures throughout the Production environment and driving improvements throughout. This role will reside in Technology Operations and will work closely with a broad cross-section of the organization including the following teams: Production Control, Production Support, Release Management, Platform Services, Storage, Unix, Networking, Business Operations, Change/Problem/Incident Management. The primary focus of this role is to ensure that Production runs as efficiently as possible by being an evangelist for Continues Improvement (CI), and being a technical liaison to teams to ensure that operational readiness best practices are being adhered to. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Focus on shifting the overall operational posture from re-active to pro-active Analyze and report upon Production performance CI opportunities Analyze and report upon Production capacity CI opportunities Analyze and report upon Production critical-path processing CI opportunities Stand-up SWATs if when needed to drive resolution of ongoing Production issues Identifies and diagnoses complex problems and factors affecting Production performance Troubleshoot hardware and software problems Move between tactical & strategic Bachelors degree 5+ years experience production systems operations or an equivalent combination of education and work experience