Head of Cloud Strategy and Architecture - Nottingham We're currently hiring for a Head of Cloud Strategy and Architecture to join a well-known brand based out of their Head Office in Nottingham. The Head of Cloud Strategy and Architecture will join their expanding team of IT professionals to challenge how the cloud is used and improve the wider business utilize cloud capabilities. The role with have a focus of setting up the cloud centre of excellence and aim to build a team with the focus of working to architect development strategies that will enhance the capabilities of automation, AI and support the overall services that the team will manage. Responsibilities of the Head of Cloud Strategy and Architecture: - Challenge the current norm way of traditional on-prem thinking and strategies to improve the cloud capabilities. - Develop well architected cloud solutions, optimized for cost, operations, performance, reliability and security. - Develop the cloud strategy along with the introduction of new technologies and public cloud services, cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring strategies - Design target state Cloud Architecture, partnering with other areas, such as Cloud Network Architects, Cloud Solution Architects, Cloud Security Architects, and Cloud Engineering and Development teams. Requirements of the Head of Cloud Strategy and Architecture: - Strong background of Azure Cloud, architecture and strategy - Experience with different enterprise applications and IT services, and software development, compliance and security, and IT operations disciplines. - Experience with application and infrastructure cloud migrations, from on-premises-to-cloud, and from cloud-to-cloud. - Experience with Azure public cloud architecture, Cloud strategy, networking, security, compliance workload types, migration patterns/tools and/or experience re-architecting applications for cloud platforms. - Experience of leading Enterprise Cloud Strategies to ensure the Cloud team develops the right services to support the wider IT strategy. - Knowledge of cloud design patterns, cloud cost models and cloud operations with experience suggesting improvements. Benefits include; Retirement Savings Plan, Discretionary annual bonus, Generous employee discounts, Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child, holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes, Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme. To discuss this exciting opportunity in more detail, please APPLY NOW for a no obligation chat with your VIQU Consultant. Additionally, you can contact Danielle Keegan , by exploring the VIQU IT Recruitment website . If you know someone who would be ideal for this role, by way of showing our appreciation, VIQU is offering an introduction fee up to £1,000 once your referral has successfully started work with our client (terms apply).
16/09/2024
Full time
Head of Cloud Strategy and Architecture - Nottingham We're currently hiring for a Head of Cloud Strategy and Architecture to join a well-known brand based out of their Head Office in Nottingham. The Head of Cloud Strategy and Architecture will join their expanding team of IT professionals to challenge how the cloud is used and improve the wider business utilize cloud capabilities. The role with have a focus of setting up the cloud centre of excellence and aim to build a team with the focus of working to architect development strategies that will enhance the capabilities of automation, AI and support the overall services that the team will manage. Responsibilities of the Head of Cloud Strategy and Architecture: - Challenge the current norm way of traditional on-prem thinking and strategies to improve the cloud capabilities. - Develop well architected cloud solutions, optimized for cost, operations, performance, reliability and security. - Develop the cloud strategy along with the introduction of new technologies and public cloud services, cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring strategies - Design target state Cloud Architecture, partnering with other areas, such as Cloud Network Architects, Cloud Solution Architects, Cloud Security Architects, and Cloud Engineering and Development teams. Requirements of the Head of Cloud Strategy and Architecture: - Strong background of Azure Cloud, architecture and strategy - Experience with different enterprise applications and IT services, and software development, compliance and security, and IT operations disciplines. - Experience with application and infrastructure cloud migrations, from on-premises-to-cloud, and from cloud-to-cloud. - Experience with Azure public cloud architecture, Cloud strategy, networking, security, compliance workload types, migration patterns/tools and/or experience re-architecting applications for cloud platforms. - Experience of leading Enterprise Cloud Strategies to ensure the Cloud team develops the right services to support the wider IT strategy. - Knowledge of cloud design patterns, cloud cost models and cloud operations with experience suggesting improvements. Benefits include; Retirement Savings Plan, Discretionary annual bonus, Generous employee discounts, Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child, holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes, Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme. To discuss this exciting opportunity in more detail, please APPLY NOW for a no obligation chat with your VIQU Consultant. Additionally, you can contact Danielle Keegan , by exploring the VIQU IT Recruitment website . If you know someone who would be ideal for this role, by way of showing our appreciation, VIQU is offering an introduction fee up to £1,000 once your referral has successfully started work with our client (terms apply).
*Job Title:* Puppet Engineer (Remote, with Travel to London) *Location:* Remote (with occasional travel to London) *Job Type:* Contract Inside IR35 *About the Role:* We are seeking a skilled Puppet Engineer to join our team, focusing on supporting the upgrade path from Puppet 7 to Puppet 8. This role is primarily remote, with some travel required to our London office. As a Puppet Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth upgrade and ongoing management of our Puppet infrastructure, contributing to the automation and configuration management of our systems. *Key Responsibilities:* - Lead and support the upgrade process from Puppet 7 to Puppet 8, ensuring minimal disruption and adherence to best practices. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize Puppet configurations and modules. - Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Puppet infrastructure, providing technical support and guidance to other teams. - Develop and maintain documentation related to Puppet configurations, processes, and best practices. - Work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, assess risks, and develop strategies for Puppet automation. - Implement security and compliance standards within Puppet configurations. - Monitor system performance and automate tasks using Puppet to enhance efficiency and reliability. - Stay current with the latest Puppet updates and industry best practices to continuously improve our Puppet infrastructure. *Skills and Qualifications:* - Proven experience with Puppet, particularly in supporting upgrade paths from Puppet 7 to Puppet 8. - Strong understanding of automation, configuration management, and infrastructure as code (IaC) principles. - Proficient in writing Puppet modules, manifests, and hiera data. - Familiarity with Linux/Unix system administration and Scripting (eg, Bash, Ruby, Python). - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integration of Puppet with other automation tools. - Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a Puppet environment. - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a remote team setting. - Willingness to travel occasionally to London for team meetings and on-site support.
16/09/2024
Project-based
*Job Title:* Puppet Engineer (Remote, with Travel to London) *Location:* Remote (with occasional travel to London) *Job Type:* Contract Inside IR35 *About the Role:* We are seeking a skilled Puppet Engineer to join our team, focusing on supporting the upgrade path from Puppet 7 to Puppet 8. This role is primarily remote, with some travel required to our London office. As a Puppet Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth upgrade and ongoing management of our Puppet infrastructure, contributing to the automation and configuration management of our systems. *Key Responsibilities:* - Lead and support the upgrade process from Puppet 7 to Puppet 8, ensuring minimal disruption and adherence to best practices. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize Puppet configurations and modules. - Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Puppet infrastructure, providing technical support and guidance to other teams. - Develop and maintain documentation related to Puppet configurations, processes, and best practices. - Work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, assess risks, and develop strategies for Puppet automation. - Implement security and compliance standards within Puppet configurations. - Monitor system performance and automate tasks using Puppet to enhance efficiency and reliability. - Stay current with the latest Puppet updates and industry best practices to continuously improve our Puppet infrastructure. *Skills and Qualifications:* - Proven experience with Puppet, particularly in supporting upgrade paths from Puppet 7 to Puppet 8. - Strong understanding of automation, configuration management, and infrastructure as code (IaC) principles. - Proficient in writing Puppet modules, manifests, and hiera data. - Familiarity with Linux/Unix system administration and Scripting (eg, Bash, Ruby, Python). - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integration of Puppet with other automation tools. - Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a Puppet environment. - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a remote team setting. - Willingness to travel occasionally to London for team meetings and on-site support.
*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote* *We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role* A prestigious company is looking for a Sr. Director, Network Reliability Engineering. This Sr. Director will focus on improving network services, operations, reliability, engineering automation, API Driven approach, etc. Responsibilities: Lead the organization into building a network services API driven approach to enable seamless integration of network tools with various other network related services and enable easy consumption of network tools services to other teams Perform automated regular network infrastructure audits to ensure continuous compliance with best practices and industry standards. Lead the development and/or integration of self-service tools for other teams to troubleshoot and resolve network-related issues. Collaborate with other teams to design and implement tools that will help automate end-to-end processes within network infrastructure. Develop automated test suites and maintain clear documentation of solutions developed. Build and lead the sustainability and reliability network engineering function that owns infrastructure availability and performance. Build tools to lead through automation and proactive/predictive alerts by having a strong data analytical tool set to identify areas of improvement Implement comprehensive network service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance, including synthetic, real user, system, application performance, dashboards etc. Define, measure, and meet key Service Level Objectives including availability, performance, incidents and chronic problems Stand up a capacity planning that defines a framework to regularly measure performance and capacity and ensuring that there is no downtime due to capacity. Own end-to-end availability and performance of critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; eventually automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions. Build a DevOps culture to provide high quality, continuous operations, and ongoing support ensuring critical service level metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives. Qualifications: 15 + years of directly related professional experience College or advanced studies degree and/or a minimum of 12 + years of relevant IT and management experience Proven professional experience with operational and organizational management, leadership of teams, and enterprise-wide technology strategy Possess good interpersonal and collaboration skills with ability to communicate optimally with small and large groups of business partners and senior leadership
11/09/2024
Full time
*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote* *We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role* A prestigious company is looking for a Sr. Director, Network Reliability Engineering. This Sr. Director will focus on improving network services, operations, reliability, engineering automation, API Driven approach, etc. Responsibilities: Lead the organization into building a network services API driven approach to enable seamless integration of network tools with various other network related services and enable easy consumption of network tools services to other teams Perform automated regular network infrastructure audits to ensure continuous compliance with best practices and industry standards. Lead the development and/or integration of self-service tools for other teams to troubleshoot and resolve network-related issues. Collaborate with other teams to design and implement tools that will help automate end-to-end processes within network infrastructure. Develop automated test suites and maintain clear documentation of solutions developed. Build and lead the sustainability and reliability network engineering function that owns infrastructure availability and performance. Build tools to lead through automation and proactive/predictive alerts by having a strong data analytical tool set to identify areas of improvement Implement comprehensive network service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance, including synthetic, real user, system, application performance, dashboards etc. Define, measure, and meet key Service Level Objectives including availability, performance, incidents and chronic problems Stand up a capacity planning that defines a framework to regularly measure performance and capacity and ensuring that there is no downtime due to capacity. Own end-to-end availability and performance of critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; eventually automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions. Build a DevOps culture to provide high quality, continuous operations, and ongoing support ensuring critical service level metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives. Qualifications: 15 + years of directly related professional experience College or advanced studies degree and/or a minimum of 12 + years of relevant IT and management experience Proven professional experience with operational and organizational management, leadership of teams, and enterprise-wide technology strategy Possess good interpersonal and collaboration skills with ability to communicate optimally with small and large groups of business partners and senior leadership
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a global organisation as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - on a contract basis . The role is hybrid to be based in Dublin, Ireland. The role of SRE is to be the production readiness steward for client products. As a SRE, you would be responsible for ensuring that client platform is stable and healthy. Ultimately, the role of SRE is to align Product and Customer Focused priorities with Operational needs by providing continuous feedback throughout the life cycle. Roles & Responsibilities:- At least 6 to 9 years of experience as a SRE/DevOps Engineer Should Serve as the primary contact responsible for ensuring application scalability, performance, and resilience. Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead in DevOps automation and best practices. Experience in DevOPs automation . Increase automation and tooling to reduce toil and manual intervention Should have Familiarity with a broad range of technologies Analyses ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns. Experience in Supporting services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launh reviews. Experience Partnering with the development and product team of a new application to establish the right monitoring and alerting strategy and create the framework to achieve zero downtime during deployment. Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems while taking a holistic approach to problem solving and optimizing time to recover. Automate data-driven alerts to proactively escalate issues. Work with development teams to establish SLOs and improve reliability. Tackle complex development, automation, and business process problems. Engage in and improve the whole life cycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement. Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead in DevOps automation and best practices. Increase automation and tooling to reduce toil and manual intervention Have a good experience in Coding or Scripting. Experience with algorithms, data structures, Scripting, pipeline management, and software design Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive. Interest in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of Matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team. Ability to balance doing things right with fixing things quickly. Flexible and pragmatic, while working towards improving the long-term health of the system. Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure that expected system behaviour is understood and monitoring exists to detect anomalies. Tackle complex development, automation, and business process problems. Engage in and improve the whole life cycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement. Analyses ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to establish and maintain effective partnerships and working relations in a multi-cultural environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity. Excellent analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, interpersonal skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Having Strong experience in agile ways of working. If this position sounds of interest, please send across an updated CV and a member of the resource team will be in contact to proceed with your application.
11/09/2024
Project-based
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a global organisation as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - on a contract basis . The role is hybrid to be based in Dublin, Ireland. The role of SRE is to be the production readiness steward for client products. As a SRE, you would be responsible for ensuring that client platform is stable and healthy. Ultimately, the role of SRE is to align Product and Customer Focused priorities with Operational needs by providing continuous feedback throughout the life cycle. Roles & Responsibilities:- At least 6 to 9 years of experience as a SRE/DevOps Engineer Should Serve as the primary contact responsible for ensuring application scalability, performance, and resilience. Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead in DevOps automation and best practices. Experience in DevOPs automation . Increase automation and tooling to reduce toil and manual intervention Should have Familiarity with a broad range of technologies Analyses ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns. Experience in Supporting services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launh reviews. Experience Partnering with the development and product team of a new application to establish the right monitoring and alerting strategy and create the framework to achieve zero downtime during deployment. Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems while taking a holistic approach to problem solving and optimizing time to recover. Automate data-driven alerts to proactively escalate issues. Work with development teams to establish SLOs and improve reliability. Tackle complex development, automation, and business process problems. Engage in and improve the whole life cycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement. Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead in DevOps automation and best practices. Increase automation and tooling to reduce toil and manual intervention Have a good experience in Coding or Scripting. Experience with algorithms, data structures, Scripting, pipeline management, and software design Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive. Interest in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of Matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team. Ability to balance doing things right with fixing things quickly. Flexible and pragmatic, while working towards improving the long-term health of the system. Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure that expected system behaviour is understood and monitoring exists to detect anomalies. Tackle complex development, automation, and business process problems. Engage in and improve the whole life cycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement. Analyses ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to establish and maintain effective partnerships and working relations in a multi-cultural environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity. Excellent analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, interpersonal skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Having Strong experience in agile ways of working. If this position sounds of interest, please send across an updated CV and a member of the resource team will be in contact to proceed with your application.
NO SPONSORSHIP Infrastructure Architecture Senior Director - Network SALARY: $220k - $260k plus $40k - $50k bonus McLean, VA - 3 days on site SELLING POINTS: Senior Director of infrastructure architecture and network based services. Core network services routing switching WiFi data center end user connectivity enterprise SDW SD Wan strategy zero trust strategy road map perimeter security operations DNS directory IP management proxies load balancers automation the team they will manage 60 people vendor contracts software licensing component hardware assets. 15 years management End user supporting services Responsible for core infrastructure from perimeter to virtual edge (excludes clusters, service mesh, containers, and virtualized hosting) Core Network Services (Routing, Switching, Wi-Fi, Data Center, and End User Connectivity) Enterprise SDN/SDWAN Strategy Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap Perimeter Security & Operations Network based services (DNS, Directory, IP Management, Proxies, Load Balancers) Automation COE (FN - This should be a discussion point) In addition, as a direct report you will provide oversight of special programs in progress (ie Operational Automation, Secure File Transfer). Your Impact: Mentor existing team managers as the company embarks on building technology service automation to lead Technology delivery and Operations to improve efficiency Adopt and champion Agile methodologies to improve workflow velocity and improve leadership insight into project timelines and efficiency Standardize and automate processes aligned with enterprise frameworks to ensure sustainability and consistency Define and document high level understanding of division application workstreams Collaboration with IT teams to drive workflow efficiency in partnership with division COO organization Drive and adopt a culture driven by data - where key performance indicators are gathered from top to bottom and fed to automated tooling to improve system reliability and performance Prototype new tools & technologies based on organizational strategy and evolving threats while looking for opportunities to optimize, consolidate and manage out tools that no longer meet company needs Keep a critical eye towards what's working and what's not optimal to drive improvements Qualifications: 15+ years of Technology Management experience of large technology areas Lead and contribute to technology direction Lead and contribute to team development and workforce strategy 15+ years in running technology operations Core Network Services (Routing, Switching, Wi-Fi, Data Center and End User Connectivity) Enterprise SDN/SDWAN Strategy Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap Perimeter Security Expert in networking design or operations Experience in vendor management Experience in Operational Risk Management and three lines of defense operating models. Development experience a plus Experience designing and implementing self-service capabilities via automation for the technology services under their remit Experience participating in discussions with senior leadership to understand the vision and strategic goals being supported by the team. Experience with communicating and influencing senior business leaders in operational and risk management of their IAM landscape Experience communicating project and budget status to senior leadership on regular, defined intervals Experience with business financial management, compliance and regulatory requirements, program management, change management and risk management Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relative experience
10/09/2024
Full time
NO SPONSORSHIP Infrastructure Architecture Senior Director - Network SALARY: $220k - $260k plus $40k - $50k bonus McLean, VA - 3 days on site SELLING POINTS: Senior Director of infrastructure architecture and network based services. Core network services routing switching WiFi data center end user connectivity enterprise SDW SD Wan strategy zero trust strategy road map perimeter security operations DNS directory IP management proxies load balancers automation the team they will manage 60 people vendor contracts software licensing component hardware assets. 15 years management End user supporting services Responsible for core infrastructure from perimeter to virtual edge (excludes clusters, service mesh, containers, and virtualized hosting) Core Network Services (Routing, Switching, Wi-Fi, Data Center, and End User Connectivity) Enterprise SDN/SDWAN Strategy Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap Perimeter Security & Operations Network based services (DNS, Directory, IP Management, Proxies, Load Balancers) Automation COE (FN - This should be a discussion point) In addition, as a direct report you will provide oversight of special programs in progress (ie Operational Automation, Secure File Transfer). Your Impact: Mentor existing team managers as the company embarks on building technology service automation to lead Technology delivery and Operations to improve efficiency Adopt and champion Agile methodologies to improve workflow velocity and improve leadership insight into project timelines and efficiency Standardize and automate processes aligned with enterprise frameworks to ensure sustainability and consistency Define and document high level understanding of division application workstreams Collaboration with IT teams to drive workflow efficiency in partnership with division COO organization Drive and adopt a culture driven by data - where key performance indicators are gathered from top to bottom and fed to automated tooling to improve system reliability and performance Prototype new tools & technologies based on organizational strategy and evolving threats while looking for opportunities to optimize, consolidate and manage out tools that no longer meet company needs Keep a critical eye towards what's working and what's not optimal to drive improvements Qualifications: 15+ years of Technology Management experience of large technology areas Lead and contribute to technology direction Lead and contribute to team development and workforce strategy 15+ years in running technology operations Core Network Services (Routing, Switching, Wi-Fi, Data Center and End User Connectivity) Enterprise SDN/SDWAN Strategy Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap Perimeter Security Expert in networking design or operations Experience in vendor management Experience in Operational Risk Management and three lines of defense operating models. Development experience a plus Experience designing and implementing self-service capabilities via automation for the technology services under their remit Experience participating in discussions with senior leadership to understand the vision and strategic goals being supported by the team. Experience with communicating and influencing senior business leaders in operational and risk management of their IAM landscape Experience communicating project and budget status to senior leadership on regular, defined intervals Experience with business financial management, compliance and regulatory requirements, program management, change management and risk management Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relative experience
*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote* *We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role* A prestigious company is looking for a Senior Director, Network Infrastructure Architecture. This Sr Director will manage a team of 60+ full time employees. This role is focused on infrastructure architecture for network-based services such as routing/switching, WIFI, data center, end user connectivity, SDWAN, DNS, IP management, load balancing, automation, etc. Responsibilities: End user supporting services Responsible for core infrastructure from perimeter to virtual edge (excludes clusters, service mesh, containers, and virtualized hosting) Core Network Services (Routing, Switching, Wi-Fi, Data Center, and End User Connectivity) Enterprise SDN/SDWAN Strategy Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap Perimeter Security & Operations Network based services (DNS, Directory, IP Management, Proxies, Load Balancers) Automation COE (FN - This should be a discussion point) In addition, as a direct report you will provide oversight of special programs in progress (ie Operational Automation, Secure File Transfer). Mentor existing team managers as the company embarks on building technology service automation to lead Technology delivery and Operations to improve efficiency Adopt and champion Agile methodologies to improve workflow velocity and improve leadership insight into project timelines and efficiency Standardize and automate processes aligned with enterprise frameworks to ensure sustainability and consistency Define and document high level understanding of division application workstreams Collaboration with IT teams to drive workflow efficiency in partnership with division COO organization Drive and adopt a culture driven by data - where key performance indicators are gathered from top to bottom and fed to automated tooling to improve system reliability and performance Prototype new tools & technologies based on organizational strategy and evolving threats while looking for opportunities to optimize, consolidate and manage out tools that no longer meet company needs Qualifications: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relative experience 15+ years of Technology Management experience of large technology areas Lead and contribute to technology direction Lead and contribute to team development and workforce strategy 15+ years in running technology operations Core Network Services (Routing, Switching, Wi-Fi, Data Center and End User Connectivity) Enterprise SDN/SDWAN Strategy Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap Perimeter Security Expert in networking design or operations Experience in vendor management Experience in Operational Risk Management and three lines of defense operating models. Experience designing and implementing self-service capabilities via automation for the technology services under their remit Experience communicating project and budget status to senior leadership on regular, defined intervals Experience with business financial management, compliance and regulatory requirements, program management, change management and risk management
10/09/2024
Full time
*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote* *We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role* A prestigious company is looking for a Senior Director, Network Infrastructure Architecture. This Sr Director will manage a team of 60+ full time employees. This role is focused on infrastructure architecture for network-based services such as routing/switching, WIFI, data center, end user connectivity, SDWAN, DNS, IP management, load balancing, automation, etc. Responsibilities: End user supporting services Responsible for core infrastructure from perimeter to virtual edge (excludes clusters, service mesh, containers, and virtualized hosting) Core Network Services (Routing, Switching, Wi-Fi, Data Center, and End User Connectivity) Enterprise SDN/SDWAN Strategy Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap Perimeter Security & Operations Network based services (DNS, Directory, IP Management, Proxies, Load Balancers) Automation COE (FN - This should be a discussion point) In addition, as a direct report you will provide oversight of special programs in progress (ie Operational Automation, Secure File Transfer). Mentor existing team managers as the company embarks on building technology service automation to lead Technology delivery and Operations to improve efficiency Adopt and champion Agile methodologies to improve workflow velocity and improve leadership insight into project timelines and efficiency Standardize and automate processes aligned with enterprise frameworks to ensure sustainability and consistency Define and document high level understanding of division application workstreams Collaboration with IT teams to drive workflow efficiency in partnership with division COO organization Drive and adopt a culture driven by data - where key performance indicators are gathered from top to bottom and fed to automated tooling to improve system reliability and performance Prototype new tools & technologies based on organizational strategy and evolving threats while looking for opportunities to optimize, consolidate and manage out tools that no longer meet company needs Qualifications: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relative experience 15+ years of Technology Management experience of large technology areas Lead and contribute to technology direction Lead and contribute to team development and workforce strategy 15+ years in running technology operations Core Network Services (Routing, Switching, Wi-Fi, Data Center and End User Connectivity) Enterprise SDN/SDWAN Strategy Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap Perimeter Security Expert in networking design or operations Experience in vendor management Experience in Operational Risk Management and three lines of defense operating models. Experience designing and implementing self-service capabilities via automation for the technology services under their remit Experience communicating project and budget status to senior leadership on regular, defined intervals Experience with business financial management, compliance and regulatory requirements, program management, change management and risk management
Job Title: SC Cleared - Systems Architect Location: Flexible - Romsey | Gloucester | Woking Annul Salary: £70,0000 - £75,000 Job Type: Permanent We have an exciting opportunity available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! As a Systems Architect, you'll join an expanding Corporate Services IT department that supports mission-critical work completed by over 1200 end users across hundreds of Servers. The unique nature of the business areas you and your team will support creates complex and often time-critical demands to deliver effective, reliable, and enduring IT platforms across conventional on-premises systems, cloud computing, and air-gapped systems. Clearances: Due to the nature of this role, eligibility for DV clearance is required. As a result, candidates should be British Citizens and have resided in the U.K. for the last 10 years. Key Experience: In this role, you'll be understanding, maintaining, and developing specific aspects of an enterprise IT environment, encompassing tasks across technical design, implementation, and support. Systems engineering experience at a technical lead or architectural level with vendor technologies such as Microsoft, Amazon (AWS), VMWare, RedHat, or similar Ability to design, support, and maintain internal IT environments, platforms, and services at SME level or above. Awareness of Defence or National Security IT standards is preferable; experience within these domains, including environments that operate at multiple classification levels, is advantageous. Key Technologies: Below are some of the key enterprise IT technologies used, and while you do not need to be a specialist in all of these, training and support will be provided as needed: Corporate Microsoft Estate: Includes 1200+ desktops and hundreds of Servers across multiple sites This encompasses 'On-Prem' Microsoft full stack alongside O365, Azure, and AWS offerings. Cloud Platforms: Primarily AWS and Azure, including organisation design (layout), tenancy/account management, security, identity management, service provisioning, and reporting functions. Mobile Device Management: Overseeing 300+ deployed mobile devices, applying best practices and industry standards. Cyber Security and Information Assurance: Managing and maintaining intrusion detection apparatus, supporting queries/investigations, and ensuring hardened configuration of IT equipment. DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering: Supporting enterprise software teams and their CI/CD requirements using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, or SonarQube, among others. If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format. Disclaimer Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies. Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.
10/09/2024
Full time
Job Title: SC Cleared - Systems Architect Location: Flexible - Romsey | Gloucester | Woking Annul Salary: £70,0000 - £75,000 Job Type: Permanent We have an exciting opportunity available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! As a Systems Architect, you'll join an expanding Corporate Services IT department that supports mission-critical work completed by over 1200 end users across hundreds of Servers. The unique nature of the business areas you and your team will support creates complex and often time-critical demands to deliver effective, reliable, and enduring IT platforms across conventional on-premises systems, cloud computing, and air-gapped systems. Clearances: Due to the nature of this role, eligibility for DV clearance is required. As a result, candidates should be British Citizens and have resided in the U.K. for the last 10 years. Key Experience: In this role, you'll be understanding, maintaining, and developing specific aspects of an enterprise IT environment, encompassing tasks across technical design, implementation, and support. Systems engineering experience at a technical lead or architectural level with vendor technologies such as Microsoft, Amazon (AWS), VMWare, RedHat, or similar Ability to design, support, and maintain internal IT environments, platforms, and services at SME level or above. Awareness of Defence or National Security IT standards is preferable; experience within these domains, including environments that operate at multiple classification levels, is advantageous. Key Technologies: Below are some of the key enterprise IT technologies used, and while you do not need to be a specialist in all of these, training and support will be provided as needed: Corporate Microsoft Estate: Includes 1200+ desktops and hundreds of Servers across multiple sites This encompasses 'On-Prem' Microsoft full stack alongside O365, Azure, and AWS offerings. Cloud Platforms: Primarily AWS and Azure, including organisation design (layout), tenancy/account management, security, identity management, service provisioning, and reporting functions. Mobile Device Management: Overseeing 300+ deployed mobile devices, applying best practices and industry standards. Cyber Security and Information Assurance: Managing and maintaining intrusion detection apparatus, supporting queries/investigations, and ensuring hardened configuration of IT equipment. DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering: Supporting enterprise software teams and their CI/CD requirements using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, or SonarQube, among others. If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format. Disclaimer Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies. Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.
*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote* *We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role* A prestigious company is looking for a Sr. Director, Network Reliability Engineering. This Sr. Director will focus on improving network services, operations, reliability, engineering automation, API Driven approach, etc. Responsibilities: Lead the organization into building a network services API driven approach to enable seamless integration of network tools with various other network related services and enable easy consumption of network tools services to other teams Perform automated regular network infrastructure audits to ensure continuous compliance with best practices and industry standards. Lead the development and/or integration of self-service tools for other teams to troubleshoot and resolve network-related issues. Collaborate with other teams to design and implement tools that will help automate end-to-end processes within network infrastructure. Develop automated test suites and maintain clear documentation of solutions developed. Build and lead the sustainability and reliability network engineering function that owns infrastructure availability and performance. Build tools to lead through automation and proactive/predictive alerts by having a strong data analytical tool set to identify areas of improvement Implement comprehensive network service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance, including synthetic, real user, system, application performance, dashboards etc. Define, measure, and meet key Service Level Objectives including availability, performance, incidents and chronic problems Stand up a capacity planning that defines a framework to regularly measure performance and capacity and ensuring that there is no downtime due to capacity. Own end-to-end availability and performance of critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; eventually automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions. Build a DevOps culture to provide high quality, continuous operations, and ongoing support ensuring critical service level metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives. Qualifications: 15 + years of directly related professional experience College or advanced studies degree and/or a minimum of 12 + years of relevant IT and management experience Proven professional experience with operational and organizational management, leadership of teams, and enterprise-wide technology strategy Possess good interpersonal and collaboration skills with ability to communicate optimally with small and large groups of business partners and senior leadership
04/09/2024
Full time
*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote* *We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role* A prestigious company is looking for a Sr. Director, Network Reliability Engineering. This Sr. Director will focus on improving network services, operations, reliability, engineering automation, API Driven approach, etc. Responsibilities: Lead the organization into building a network services API driven approach to enable seamless integration of network tools with various other network related services and enable easy consumption of network tools services to other teams Perform automated regular network infrastructure audits to ensure continuous compliance with best practices and industry standards. Lead the development and/or integration of self-service tools for other teams to troubleshoot and resolve network-related issues. Collaborate with other teams to design and implement tools that will help automate end-to-end processes within network infrastructure. Develop automated test suites and maintain clear documentation of solutions developed. Build and lead the sustainability and reliability network engineering function that owns infrastructure availability and performance. Build tools to lead through automation and proactive/predictive alerts by having a strong data analytical tool set to identify areas of improvement Implement comprehensive network service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance, including synthetic, real user, system, application performance, dashboards etc. Define, measure, and meet key Service Level Objectives including availability, performance, incidents and chronic problems Stand up a capacity planning that defines a framework to regularly measure performance and capacity and ensuring that there is no downtime due to capacity. Own end-to-end availability and performance of critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; eventually automate response to all non-exceptional service conditions. Build a DevOps culture to provide high quality, continuous operations, and ongoing support ensuring critical service level metrics, customer requirements and financial objectives. Qualifications: 15 + years of directly related professional experience College or advanced studies degree and/or a minimum of 12 + years of relevant IT and management experience Proven professional experience with operational and organizational management, leadership of teams, and enterprise-wide technology strategy Possess good interpersonal and collaboration skills with ability to communicate optimally with small and large groups of business partners and senior leadership
Site Reliability Engineering Senior Lead - Permanent - [Sao Paulo, Brazil] Global Enterprise Partners is currently seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Senior Lead for a transformative project based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This role focuses on ensuring system reliability, performance, and scalability, aligning technical infrastructure with business objectives. Responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain scalable systems. Monitor system performance and security. Identify and resolve service availability issues. Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines. Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible. Collaborate with development teams for reliability-focused features. Conduct capacity planning and scaling. Requirements: Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Business Management, or related field. 7+ years in IT or relevant field. 3+ years in leadership, SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering . Strong understanding of SRE principles, DevOps practices, and cloud platforms. Excellent analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills. Experience with configuration management, Scripting, and monitoring tools. Understanding of business processes and ITSM processes. Excellent communication and teamwork skills. Start date: [ASAP] Duration: 12 Months Location: [Sao Paulo, Brazil] If you are interested in this role please reach out by sending an email with the latest version of your CV.
03/09/2024
Project-based
Site Reliability Engineering Senior Lead - Permanent - [Sao Paulo, Brazil] Global Enterprise Partners is currently seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Senior Lead for a transformative project based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This role focuses on ensuring system reliability, performance, and scalability, aligning technical infrastructure with business objectives. Responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain scalable systems. Monitor system performance and security. Identify and resolve service availability issues. Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines. Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible. Collaborate with development teams for reliability-focused features. Conduct capacity planning and scaling. Requirements: Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Business Management, or related field. 7+ years in IT or relevant field. 3+ years in leadership, SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering . Strong understanding of SRE principles, DevOps practices, and cloud platforms. Excellent analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills. Experience with configuration management, Scripting, and monitoring tools. Understanding of business processes and ITSM processes. Excellent communication and teamwork skills. Start date: [ASAP] Duration: 12 Months Location: [Sao Paulo, Brazil] If you are interested in this role please reach out by sending an email with the latest version of your CV.