Principal Real-Time Software Engineer Linux

Our client located in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is looking to recruit a Principal Real-time Software Engineer with excellent Linux kernel experience. Principal Real-Time Software Engineer Linux candidate requirements must have a good working knowledge of the Linux kernel, Linux kernel drivers, x86 microarchitecture, platforms and networking. The candidate will need to understand hardware platforms, such as interfaces (PCIe), networking adaptors (Ethernet and/or InfiniBand), network switches and FPGAs. This role involves the support of existing product environment (kernel maintenance, drivers, product roll out and product delivery) as well as providing new ideas, design and development of next generation products. The candidate must have experience of focussed software development experience in a C (or C++) environment, be passionate about software development and the use of Linux. Excellent communications skills, verbal and written are mandatorily required at this job level. You will be able to share your passion for and knowledge of your discipline to others, gaining their respect and in time being automatically recognised as a discipline leader. You may represent the company; both externally and internally, thus the utmost professionalism and ethical behaviour is required at this level. Principal Real-Time Software Engineer Linux with an extremely competitive salary plus bonus and excellent benefits.

Principal Real-Time Software Engineer Linux Candidate requirements:

Excellent university degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.

Excellent experience in Linux kernel development, user space development debugging and support.

Knowledge of several the following subjects:

• Linux kernel development, networking, I/O on x86 multi-core processors.
• PCIe, FPGAs
• Languages: C, C++, Python, bash scripting
• SCM: Git, Bitbucket
• Issue tracking: JIRA
• Networking: IPV4, IPV6, InfiniBand

A team player with good organization skills.

A confident communicator, both written and verbally.

The candidate must have hands on software development experience.

Line management experience is not required.

Keywords: Real-time, Software Engineer, Linux, kernel, PCIe, FPGAs, C, C++, Python, JIRA, IPV4, IPV6, InfiniBand

Principal Real-Time Software Engineer Linux

Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Salary: extremely competitive plus bonus and excellent benefits

Principal Real-Time Software Engineer Linux

Our client located in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is looking to recruit a Principal Real-time Software Engineer with excellent Linux kernel experience. Principal Real-Time Software Engineer Linux candidate requirements must have a good working knowledge of the Linux kernel, Linux kernel drivers, x86 microarchitecture, platforms and networking. The candidate will need to understand hardware platforms, such as interfaces (PCIe), networking adaptors (Ethernet and/or InfiniBand), network switches and FPGAs. This role involves the support of existing product environment (kernel maintenance, drivers, product roll out and product delivery) as well as providing new ideas, design and development of next generation products. The candidate must have experience of focussed software development experience in a C (or C++) environment, be passionate about software development and the use of Linux. Excellent communications skills, verbal and written are mandatorily required at this job level. You will be able to share your passion for and knowledge of your discipline to others, gaining their respect and in time being automatically recognised as a discipline leader. You may represent the company; both externally and internally, thus the utmost professionalism and ethical behaviour is required at this level. Principal Real-Time Software Engineer Linux with an extremely competitive salary plus bonus and excellent benefits.

Principal Real-Time Software Engineer Linux Candidate requirements:

Excellent university degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.

Excellent experience in Linux kernel development, user space development debugging and support.

Knowledge of several the following subjects:

• Linux kernel development, networking, I/O on x86 multi-core processors.
• PCIe, FPGAs
• Languages: C, C++, Python, bash scripting
• SCM: Git, Bitbucket
• Issue tracking: JIRA
• Networking: IPV4, IPV6, InfiniBand

A team player with good organization skills.

A confident communicator, both written and verbally.

The candidate must have hands on software development experience.

Line management experience is not required.

Keywords: Real-time, Software Engineer, Linux, kernel, PCIe, FPGAs, C, C++, Python, JIRA, IPV4, IPV6, InfiniBand

Principal Real-Time Software Engineer Linux

Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Salary: extremely competitive plus bonus and excellent benefits

***IT Manager - Contract - London**

IT Manager

West London

Contract

£Competitive pwd

The Role:

We are looking for an experienced interim IT Manager to oversee the IT team. The IT Manager will manage the day-to-day operation for the IT department, providing leadership and support to a small IT Support team and providing an efficient service and support to the wider business.

Role and Responsibilities

You will assume management responsibility for assigned services and activities of the Information Technology Department including designing, implementing, and administering company-wide information technology activities; manage, upgrade, and direct the installation, operation, and maintenance of information technology hardware and software; manage and maintain data and equipment security; administer and provide ongoing technical support and training for company staff.

* Design and managing regular checks on network and data security

* Demonstrate infrastructure architecture, support, development and governance capabilities

* Provide guidance on technical aspects of network and security infrastructure

* Monitor and resolve network/security problems and identifying, evaluating, and analysing resolution options

* Document configurations, instructional procedures, change management records, performance

* Identify and act on opportunities to improve and update software and systems

* Develop and implementing IT policy and best practice guides for the organisation

* Designing training programs and workshops for staff

* Conducting regular system audits

* Running and sharing regular operation system reports with senior staff

* Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and associated training plans for IT Infrastructure and Support delivery

* Overseeing and determining timeframes for major IT projects including system updates, upgrades, migrations and outages

* Design, configure and maintain data centre network infrastructure systems

* Deliver production IT services without disruption to business

* Develop and maintain a range of IT service offerings to the required customer base

* Deliver server management, network and security management and messaging/collaboration platforms to meet SLA targets

* Ensure integrity and security of the network and server estate, in line with standards and policies

* Managing and reporting on allocation of IT budget

* Providing direction for IT team members

* Purchases efficient and cost effective technological equipment and software

Qualifications & Experience Required:

* Hands on experience with ERP systems, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft operating systems, computer networks, network administration, network installation

* Good knowledge of Linux operating systems

* Experience of maintaining backups and backup strategy as systems evolve

* Analysis, implementation and evaluation of IT systems and their specifications

* Documenting and educating staff on new systems

* Significant technical knowledge including server, network and data infrastructure, and security

* Cyber Security - CISSP/CISA/CIW Web security

* VMware Certified Professional - VCP6

* Microsoft professional certified - such as MCSE

* Cisco certified - CCNA/CCNP/COMPTIA

* ITIL Service Management qualified (Foundation)

Skills

• Active Directory design, administration and maintenance (Group Policy, Login Scripts, FSMO)
• Strong knowledge of network management and design incl. WAN, LAN, DNS/WINS/DHCP
• Highly skilled in virtualisation technologies
• Knowledge and experience of Storage Area Networks (SAN)
• Knowledge of infrastructure related technologies

Experience

* Experience of leading an IT function, ideally covering IT infrastructure and security

* Experience with solution design and development from business requirements analysis through to day to day management

* Demonstrable track record of leading a Technical Infrastructure team

* Exceptional experience of issue management and coordination, with the ability to make sound and logical judgments and decisions

* Implementation and management of secure solutions

Information Security and Data Protection related responsibilities

* Adhere to policies including Information Security, Data Protection, Acceptable Use as well as relevant supporting documents

* Ensure that procedures for Information Security and Data Handling are adhered to

* Ensure that Data is handled securely and in accordance with its classification

* Report any security breaches and/or incidents identified to the relevant team.

Desirable:

* Experience with working within with ITIL and ISO frameworks

* An ability to work to tight deadlines and within constraints

* Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

* Ability to explain complex systems in simple terms

***IT Manager - Contract - London**

IT Manager

West London

Contract

£Competitive pwd

The Role:

We are looking for an experienced interim IT Manager to oversee the IT team. The IT Manager will manage the day-to-day operation for the IT department, providing leadership and support to a small IT Support team and providing an efficient service and support to the wider business.

Role and Responsibilities

You will assume management responsibility for assigned services and activities of the Information Technology Department including designing, implementing, and administering company-wide information technology activities; manage, upgrade, and direct the installation, operation, and maintenance of information technology hardware and software; manage and maintain data and equipment security; administer and provide ongoing technical support and training for company staff.

* Design and managing regular checks on network and data security

* Demonstrate infrastructure architecture, support, development and governance capabilities

* Provide guidance on technical aspects of network and security infrastructure

* Monitor and resolve network/security problems and identifying, evaluating, and analysing resolution options

* Document configurations, instructional procedures, change management records, performance

* Identify and act on opportunities to improve and update software and systems

* Develop and implementing IT policy and best practice guides for the organisation

* Designing training programs and workshops for staff

* Conducting regular system audits

* Running and sharing regular operation system reports with senior staff

* Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and associated training plans for IT Infrastructure and Support delivery

* Overseeing and determining timeframes for major IT projects including system updates, upgrades, migrations and outages

* Design, configure and maintain data centre network infrastructure systems

* Deliver production IT services without disruption to business

* Develop and maintain a range of IT service offerings to the required customer base

* Deliver server management, network and security management and messaging/collaboration platforms to meet SLA targets

* Ensure integrity and security of the network and server estate, in line with standards and policies

* Managing and reporting on allocation of IT budget

* Providing direction for IT team members

* Purchases efficient and cost effective technological equipment and software

Qualifications & Experience Required:

* Hands on experience with ERP systems, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft operating systems, computer networks, network administration, network installation

* Good knowledge of Linux operating systems

* Experience of maintaining backups and backup strategy as systems evolve

* Analysis, implementation and evaluation of IT systems and their specifications

* Documenting and educating staff on new systems

* Significant technical knowledge including server, network and data infrastructure, and security

* Cyber Security - CISSP/CISA/CIW Web security

* VMware Certified Professional - VCP6

* Microsoft professional certified - such as MCSE

* Cisco certified - CCNA/CCNP/COMPTIA

* ITIL Service Management qualified (Foundation)

Skills

• Active Directory design, administration and maintenance (Group Policy, Login Scripts, FSMO)
• Strong knowledge of network management and design incl. WAN, LAN, DNS/WINS/DHCP
• Highly skilled in virtualisation technologies
• Knowledge and experience of Storage Area Networks (SAN)
• Knowledge of infrastructure related technologies

Experience

* Experience of leading an IT function, ideally covering IT infrastructure and security

* Experience with solution design and development from business requirements analysis through to day to day management

* Demonstrable track record of leading a Technical Infrastructure team

* Exceptional experience of issue management and coordination, with the ability to make sound and logical judgments and decisions

* Implementation and management of secure solutions

Information Security and Data Protection related responsibilities

* Adhere to policies including Information Security, Data Protection, Acceptable Use as well as relevant supporting documents

* Ensure that procedures for Information Security and Data Handling are adhered to

* Ensure that Data is handled securely and in accordance with its classification

* Report any security breaches and/or incidents identified to the relevant team.

Desirable:

* Experience with working within with ITIL and ISO frameworks

* An ability to work to tight deadlines and within constraints

* Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

* Ability to explain complex systems in simple terms

• Fancy joining a market dominator who provides specialist solutions to UK’s national security?

• Like the idea of upgrading a platform that supports every police station in the UK to microservices & the cloud?

• How does 2-3 days per week remote working sound

NEED TO BE A BRITISH CITIZEN OR HAVE ILR TO PASS AN NPPV LEVEL 3 SECURITY CLEARANCE.

THE COMPANY: My client are the market leaders in providing specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. Their platform supports 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

Their platform consists of 3 main areas:

• A web application (Management Interface) built in Angular 7 and Javascript. This allows end-user to manage training needs and provides a central database for asset management.

• A desktop (Armoury Interface) based on the Electron framework, Node.js and Javascript which is used for access to the armoury for asset usage.

• A back-end RESTful API platform written in Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate at the core providing endpoints for the consuming applications. Utilises the spring cloud suite to provide resiliency, scalability, service discovery and distributed config.

THE ROLE: I’m looking for solid Java developers to join a growing product and engineering team to work on the next evolution of their versatile platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the platform services, but also to learn and work on the frontend Angular side of things when required.

Essential Skills -

• Excellent knowledge of the Core Java language - data structures, concurrency, multithreading
• Good understanding of the Spring framework (Spring Boot essential, spring cloud a bonus)
• Experience using Hibernate ORM
• Practical experience of TDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance), techniques and tools
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, postgreSQL)
• Experience building RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications

Bonus points for -

• Experience in service based, event driven and event sourced architectures
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication using messaging/stream processors like RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with web-application technology (we use Angular)
• Experience with containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes
• Good understanding of servlet containers (we use Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Linux and operating systems.

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A competitive salary of up to £65,000 (negotiable)
• Remote working on a weekly basis & flexi-hours
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidised private healthchoice
• An impressive 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (Option to flex this by five days)

• Fancy joining a market dominator who provides specialist solutions to UK’s national security?

• Like the idea of upgrading a platform that supports every police station in the UK to microservices & the cloud?

• How does 2-3 days per week remote working sound

NEED TO BE A BRITISH CITIZEN OR HAVE ILR TO PASS AN NPPV LEVEL 3 SECURITY CLEARANCE.

THE COMPANY: My client are the market leaders in providing specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. Their platform supports 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

Their platform consists of 3 main areas:

• A web application (Management Interface) built in Angular 7 and Javascript. This allows end-user to manage training needs and provides a central database for asset management.

• A desktop (Armoury Interface) based on the Electron framework, Node.js and Javascript which is used for access to the armoury for asset usage.

• A back-end RESTful API platform written in Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate at the core providing endpoints for the consuming applications. Utilises the spring cloud suite to provide resiliency, scalability, service discovery and distributed config.

THE ROLE: I’m looking for solid Java developers to join a growing product and engineering team to work on the next evolution of their versatile platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the platform services, but also to learn and work on the frontend Angular side of things when required.

Essential Skills -

• Excellent knowledge of the Core Java language - data structures, concurrency, multithreading
• Good understanding of the Spring framework (Spring Boot essential, spring cloud a bonus)
• Experience using Hibernate ORM
• Practical experience of TDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance), techniques and tools
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, postgreSQL)
• Experience building RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications

Bonus points for -

• Experience in service based, event driven and event sourced architectures
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication using messaging/stream processors like RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with web-application technology (we use Angular)
• Experience with containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes
• Good understanding of servlet containers (we use Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Linux and operating systems.

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A competitive salary of up to £65,000 (negotiable)
• Remote working on a weekly basis & flexi-hours
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidised private healthchoice
• An impressive 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (Option to flex this by five days)