As a senior data scientist within the exciting, new claims advanced analytics capability, you will be building end to end data science solutions to solve some of the organization’s toughest problems and deliver significant business value. This is a really exciting time to join as you will leverage our new cloud based data lake, design our advanced machine learning and AI models, and mentor and shape our talented data scientists

Responsibilities:

1. Work closely with all areas of Claims to understands business problems and pro-actively identify opportunities where data science techniques can be utilized to enhance decisions and provide real business benefit
2. Design, build and implement end to end advanced analytics solution ensuring buy in and effectiveness for end users
3. Leads development of complex models and algorithms that drive innovation throughout the organization.
4. Conduct / supervise advanced statistical analysis to provide actionable insights, identify trends, and measure performance
5. Mentor and help develop fellow Data Scientists
6. Be the key point of contact for data science projects and lead projects through to delivery, including meetings with stakeholders.
7. Provides thought leadership by researching best practices, conducting experiments, and collaborating with industry leaders and strong links with academic world.

Ensure Claims Analytics are a key member of the data science community both in UK and Globally, with a focus on identifying best practice, re-use and collaboration opportunities across the business and optimising use of data science

Measures:

1. Identification of user cases that can add real business benefit
2. Tracking for delivered user cases and feedback from operation/claims about success of outcome
3. Become the point of contact for Data Science solutions in claims
4. Provides comprehensive and robust insight into claims initiatives within claims through clear, valid, value-adding analysis and recommendations
5. Continuous development, growth and effectiveness of the claim’s analytics team.
6. Recognised by claims organisation as expert in claims data science
7. Identification and knowledge sharing of cutting-edge techniques. Attending conferences and meetings with external thought leaders

Active member of community and known in the organisation as expert in claims data science

Key Skills:

• Bachelor, MS/PhD(preferable) in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or operations research or related technical discipline
• 5-7 years’ experience in a statistical and/or data science role
• Deep knowledge of machine learning, statistics and/or optimization
• Deep experience with Python
• Experience of delivering end to end data science solutions to achieve business benefit
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with strong desire to work in cross functional teams
• Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment
• Experience working with large data sets from multiple sources, simulation/ optimization and distributed computing tools (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Gurobi, Arena, etc.)
• Experience in software engineering

Passionate about data science and mentoring more junior members of the team

As a senior data scientist within the exciting, new claims advanced analytics capability, you will be building end to end data science solutions to solve some of the organization’s toughest problems and deliver significant business value. This is a really exciting time to join as you will leverage our new cloud based data lake, design our advanced machine learning and AI models, and mentor and shape our talented data scientists

Responsibilities:

1. Work closely with all areas of Claims to understands business problems and pro-actively identify opportunities where data science techniques can be utilized to enhance decisions and provide real business benefit
2. Design, build and implement end to end advanced analytics solution ensuring buy in and effectiveness for end users
3. Leads development of complex models and algorithms that drive innovation throughout the organization.
4. Conduct / supervise advanced statistical analysis to provide actionable insights, identify trends, and measure performance
5. Mentor and help develop fellow Data Scientists
6. Be the key point of contact for data science projects and lead projects through to delivery, including meetings with stakeholders.
7. Provides thought leadership by researching best practices, conducting experiments, and collaborating with industry leaders and strong links with academic world.

Ensure Claims Analytics are a key member of the data science community both in UK and Globally, with a focus on identifying best practice, re-use and collaboration opportunities across the business and optimising use of data science

Measures:

1. Identification of user cases that can add real business benefit
2. Tracking for delivered user cases and feedback from operation/claims about success of outcome
3. Become the point of contact for Data Science solutions in claims
4. Provides comprehensive and robust insight into claims initiatives within claims through clear, valid, value-adding analysis and recommendations
5. Continuous development, growth and effectiveness of the claim’s analytics team.
6. Recognised by claims organisation as expert in claims data science
7. Identification and knowledge sharing of cutting-edge techniques. Attending conferences and meetings with external thought leaders

Active member of community and known in the organisation as expert in claims data science

Key Skills:

• Bachelor, MS/PhD(preferable) in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or operations research or related technical discipline
• 5-7 years’ experience in a statistical and/or data science role
• Deep knowledge of machine learning, statistics and/or optimization
• Deep experience with Python
• Experience of delivering end to end data science solutions to achieve business benefit
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with strong desire to work in cross functional teams
• Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment
• Experience working with large data sets from multiple sources, simulation/ optimization and distributed computing tools (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Gurobi, Arena, etc.)
• Experience in software engineering

Passionate about data science and mentoring more junior members of the team

As a senior data scientist within the exciting, new claims advanced analytics capability, you will be building end to end data science solutions to solve some of the organization’s toughest problems and deliver significant business value. This is a really exciting time to join as you will leverage our new cloud based data lake, design our advanced machine learning and AI models, and mentor and shape our talented data scientists

Responsibilities:

1. Work closely with all areas of Claims to understands business problems and pro-actively identify opportunities where data science techniques can be utilized to enhance decisions and provide real business benefit
2. Design, build and implement end to end advanced analytics solution ensuring buy in and effectiveness for end users
3. Leads development of complex models and algorithms that drive innovation throughout the organization.
4. Conduct / supervise advanced statistical analysis to provide actionable insights, identify trends, and measure performance
5. Mentor and help develop fellow Data Scientists
6. Be the key point of contact for data science projects and lead projects through to delivery, including meetings with stakeholders.
7. Provides thought leadership by researching best practices, conducting experiments, and collaborating with industry leaders and strong links with academic world.

Ensure Claims Analytics are a key member of the data science community both in UK and Globally, with a focus on identifying best practice, re-use and collaboration opportunities across the business and optimising use of data science

Measures:

1. Identification of user cases that can add real business benefit
2. Tracking for delivered user cases and feedback from operation/claims about success of outcome
3. Become the point of contact for Data Science solutions in claims
4. Provides comprehensive and robust insight into claims initiatives within claims through clear, valid, value-adding analysis and recommendations
5. Continuous development, growth and effectiveness of the claim’s analytics team.
6. Recognised by claims organisation as expert in claims data science
7. Identification and knowledge sharing of cutting-edge techniques. Attending conferences and meetings with external thought leaders

Active member of community and known in the organisation as expert in claims data science

Key Skills:

• Bachelor, MS/PhD(preferable) in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or operations research or related technical discipline
• 5-7 years’ experience in a statistical and/or data science role
• Deep knowledge of machine learning, statistics and/or optimization
• Deep experience with Python
• Experience of delivering end to end data science solutions to achieve business benefit
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with strong desire to work in cross functional teams
• Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment
• Experience working with large data sets from multiple sources, simulation/ optimization and distributed computing tools (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Gurobi, Arena, etc.)
• Experience in software engineering

Passionate about data science and mentoring more junior members of the team

As a senior data scientist within the exciting, new claims advanced analytics capability, you will be building end to end data science solutions to solve some of the organization’s toughest problems and deliver significant business value. This is a really exciting time to join as you will leverage our new cloud based data lake, design our advanced machine learning and AI models, and mentor and shape our talented data scientists

Responsibilities:

1. Work closely with all areas of Claims to understands business problems and pro-actively identify opportunities where data science techniques can be utilized to enhance decisions and provide real business benefit
2. Design, build and implement end to end advanced analytics solution ensuring buy in and effectiveness for end users
3. Leads development of complex models and algorithms that drive innovation throughout the organization.
4. Conduct / supervise advanced statistical analysis to provide actionable insights, identify trends, and measure performance
5. Mentor and help develop fellow Data Scientists
6. Be the key point of contact for data science projects and lead projects through to delivery, including meetings with stakeholders.
7. Provides thought leadership by researching best practices, conducting experiments, and collaborating with industry leaders and strong links with academic world.

Ensure Claims Analytics are a key member of the data science community both in UK and Globally, with a focus on identifying best practice, re-use and collaboration opportunities across the business and optimising use of data science

Measures:

1. Identification of user cases that can add real business benefit
2. Tracking for delivered user cases and feedback from operation/claims about success of outcome
3. Become the point of contact for Data Science solutions in claims
4. Provides comprehensive and robust insight into claims initiatives within claims through clear, valid, value-adding analysis and recommendations
5. Continuous development, growth and effectiveness of the claim’s analytics team.
6. Recognised by claims organisation as expert in claims data science
7. Identification and knowledge sharing of cutting-edge techniques. Attending conferences and meetings with external thought leaders

Active member of community and known in the organisation as expert in claims data science

Key Skills:

• Bachelor, MS/PhD(preferable) in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or operations research or related technical discipline
• 5-7 years’ experience in a statistical and/or data science role
• Deep knowledge of machine learning, statistics and/or optimization
• Deep experience with Python
• Experience of delivering end to end data science solutions to achieve business benefit
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with strong desire to work in cross functional teams
• Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment
• Experience working with large data sets from multiple sources, simulation/ optimization and distributed computing tools (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Gurobi, Arena, etc.)
• Experience in software engineering

Passionate about data science and mentoring more junior members of the team

DevOps Engineer

Reading

To £65K plus extensive benefits package

Due to the nature of this work all candidates must be British Nationals, and already hold or be eligible to hold UK Security Clearance to SC level or higher.

Essential experience required:

Our client is looking for DevOps Engineers at all levels of career experience and would consider graduates with a science related degree (including practical computer programming experience) through to skilled software integration and DevOps professionals.

Applications are invited from individuals who have a solid Linux foundation, an enthusiasm for technology, and demonstrable experience in the following:

• At least one of: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu
• At least one of: Python, Java, JavaScript, C or C++
• Familiarity with the following core tools: git, ssh, Unix command line, browsers, Bash

Desirable experience:

• Linux experience as a deployment platform and day to day development environment - e.g., can describe package management, networking configuration, log files, environment variables
• Deep Linux experience - e.g., can describe SELinux, chroot, ssh tunnelling, differences between Linux distributions
• Starting from scratch, and building on top of existing systems
• Web development and awareness of vulnerabilities and how to defend against them
• Experience of test-driven development and Automated testing of web applications
• Networking familiarity - e.g., can describe HTTP protocol, TCP/IP
• Experience of Hadoop or distributed computation
• Experience of automating software deployment
• Experience of network engineering including switches, taps and firewalls and pcap analysis
• Awareness of system and network security principles such as system hardening, log analysis or IDS/IPS

Job role responsibilities:

Specifically, you would be involved in technical tasks such as the following:

• GNU/Linux software customisation, configuration and integration
• Hadoop customisation and API integration and its configuration with Ansible and Ambari
• Implementation of bespoke NiFi processors using Java and integration with commercial security software
• Ansible deployment automation of software, upgrades and Linux configuration
• Robot Framework and Selenium based test automation for post-build and post-deploy health checks
• Bug and technical debt triage, trouble shooting and resolution
• Production environment change back-porting to our Git repository
• Enhancement of our Bamboo based build and continuous integration processes
• System performance analysis and improvement of multiple, high spec large clusters
• Third line support of production environments with our system administrators

In addition, the following form part of the broader role:

• Review, elaboration and accurate estimation of new requirements with our Product Owner
• Estimation and commitment, as a team, to deliver tested work every 2 weeks
• Development of work following strict ways of working, standards and levels of quality
• Regular presentation of progress and completed work to the team and the customer
• Stay up to date by following industry developments and be active in the Open Source community
• A drive to meet your personal objectives which are aligned to the business plan for the financial year
• Investment in your own skills development with support from the team and wider organisation

Our clients projects are based in their office or client site but may require travel to other locations. The successful candidate must be able and willing to spend time working away from home if required.

Role description:

Our client develops, builds, and runs a cutting-edge Big Data platform for their own meaningful and strategic customer. They are heavy on automation, have great software engineering hardware, a mix of physical and virtual platforms and take on steep learning curves. They are delivering to their customer faster than they have experienced before and are motivated to improve the state of the art, for their customer, and for other engineers or consumers working on similar systems.

The team’s focus is a shared ownership and drive to achieve the customer’s goals. Our client aims for everyone to be involved in software integration, testing, deployment and operations. They all have direct contact with the customer on a daily basis, and the team can ask questions directly to ensure they build what is really needed. Everyone takes ownership of a customer 'story’ from beginning to end. If you are interested in technology integration (as opposed to developing from the ground up), rapid prototyping, regular demonstration of completed work, creating sustainable systems, and thinking ahead but not over complicating for today, this will suit you. Being a part of a team which is jointly responsible for designing, integrating, building, testing, maintenance and on-going operations of the production platform.

About the company:

Our client is a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world.

They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale.

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Reading

To £65K plus extensive benefits package

Due to the nature of this work all candidates must be British Nationals, and already hold or be eligible to hold UK Security Clearance to SC level or higher.

Essential experience required:

Our client is looking for DevOps Engineers at all levels of career experience and would consider graduates with a science related degree (including practical computer programming experience) through to skilled software integration and DevOps professionals.

Applications are invited from individuals who have a solid Linux foundation, an enthusiasm for technology, and demonstrable experience in the following:

• At least one of: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu
• At least one of: Python, Java, JavaScript, C or C++
• Familiarity with the following core tools: git, ssh, Unix command line, browsers, Bash

Desirable experience:

• Linux experience as a deployment platform and day to day development environment - e.g., can describe package management, networking configuration, log files, environment variables
• Deep Linux experience - e.g., can describe SELinux, chroot, ssh tunnelling, differences between Linux distributions
• Starting from scratch, and building on top of existing systems
• Web development and awareness of vulnerabilities and how to defend against them
• Experience of test-driven development and Automated testing of web applications
• Networking familiarity - e.g., can describe HTTP protocol, TCP/IP
• Experience of Hadoop or distributed computation
• Experience of automating software deployment
• Experience of network engineering including switches, taps and firewalls and pcap analysis
• Awareness of system and network security principles such as system hardening, log analysis or IDS/IPS

Job role responsibilities:

Specifically, you would be involved in technical tasks such as the following:

• GNU/Linux software customisation, configuration and integration
• Hadoop customisation and API integration and its configuration with Ansible and Ambari
• Implementation of bespoke NiFi processors using Java and integration with commercial security software
• Ansible deployment automation of software, upgrades and Linux configuration
• Robot Framework and Selenium based test automation for post-build and post-deploy health checks
• Bug and technical debt triage, trouble shooting and resolution
• Production environment change back-porting to our Git repository
• Enhancement of our Bamboo based build and continuous integration processes
• System performance analysis and improvement of multiple, high spec large clusters
• Third line support of production environments with our system administrators

In addition, the following form part of the broader role:

• Review, elaboration and accurate estimation of new requirements with our Product Owner
• Estimation and commitment, as a team, to deliver tested work every 2 weeks
• Development of work following strict ways of working, standards and levels of quality
• Regular presentation of progress and completed work to the team and the customer
• Stay up to date by following industry developments and be active in the Open Source community
• A drive to meet your personal objectives which are aligned to the business plan for the financial year
• Investment in your own skills development with support from the team and wider organisation

Our clients projects are based in their office or client site but may require travel to other locations. The successful candidate must be able and willing to spend time working away from home if required.

Role description:

Our client develops, builds, and runs a cutting-edge Big Data platform for their own meaningful and strategic customer. They are heavy on automation, have great software engineering hardware, a mix of physical and virtual platforms and take on steep learning curves. They are delivering to their customer faster than they have experienced before and are motivated to improve the state of the art, for their customer, and for other engineers or consumers working on similar systems.

The team’s focus is a shared ownership and drive to achieve the customer’s goals. Our client aims for everyone to be involved in software integration, testing, deployment and operations. They all have direct contact with the customer on a daily basis, and the team can ask questions directly to ensure they build what is really needed. Everyone takes ownership of a customer 'story’ from beginning to end. If you are interested in technology integration (as opposed to developing from the ground up), rapid prototyping, regular demonstration of completed work, creating sustainable systems, and thinking ahead but not over complicating for today, this will suit you. Being a part of a team which is jointly responsible for designing, integrating, building, testing, maintenance and on-going operations of the production platform.

About the company:

Our client is a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world.

They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale.

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

This role is based in Reading which is easily commutable from Oxford

To £65K plus extensive benefits package

Due to the nature of this work all candidates must be British Nationals, and already hold or be eligible to hold UK Security Clearance to SC level or higher.

Essential experience required:

Our client is looking for DevOps Engineers at all levels of career experience and would consider graduates with a science related degree (including practical computer programming experience) through to skilled software integration and DevOps professionals.

Applications are invited from individuals who have a solid Linux foundation, an enthusiasm for technology, and demonstrable experience in the following:

• At least one of: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu
• At least one of: Python, Java, JavaScript, C or C++
• Familiarity with the following core tools: git, ssh, Unix command line, browsers, Bash

Desirable experience:

• Linux experience as a deployment platform and day to day development environment - e.g., can describe package management, networking configuration, log files, environment variables
• Deep Linux experience - e.g., can describe SELinux, chroot, ssh tunnelling, differences between Linux distributions
• Starting from scratch, and building on top of existing systems
• Web development and awareness of vulnerabilities and how to defend against them
• Experience of test-driven development and Automated testing of web applications
• Networking familiarity - e.g., can describe HTTP protocol, TCP/IP
• Experience of Hadoop or distributed computation
• Experience of automating software deployment
• Experience of network engineering including switches, taps and firewalls and pcap analysis
• Awareness of system and network security principles such as system hardening, log analysis or IDS/IPS

Job role responsibilities:

Specifically, you would be involved in technical tasks such as the following:

• GNU/Linux software customisation, configuration and integration
• Hadoop customisation and API integration and its configuration with Ansible and Ambari
• Implementation of bespoke NiFi processors using Java and integration with commercial security software
• Ansible deployment automation of software, upgrades and Linux configuration
• Robot Framework and Selenium based test automation for post-build and post-deploy health checks
• Bug and technical debt triage, trouble shooting and resolution
• Production environment change back-porting to our Git repository
• Enhancement of our Bamboo based build and continuous integration processes
• System performance analysis and improvement of multiple, high spec large clusters
• Third line support of production environments with our system administrators

In addition, the following form part of the broader role:

• Review, elaboration and accurate estimation of new requirements with our Product Owner
• Estimation and commitment, as a team, to deliver tested work every 2 weeks
• Development of work following strict ways of working, standards and levels of quality
• Regular presentation of progress and completed work to the team and the customer
• Stay up to date by following industry developments and be active in the Open Source community
• A drive to meet your personal objectives which are aligned to the business plan for the financial year
• Investment in your own skills development with support from the team and wider organisation

Our clients projects are based in their office or client site but may require travel to other locations. The successful candidate must be able and willing to spend time working away from home if required.

Role description:

Our client develops, builds, and runs a cutting-edge Big Data platform for their own meaningful and strategic customer. They are heavy on automation, have great software engineering hardware, a mix of physical and virtual platforms and take on steep learning curves. They are delivering to their customer faster than they have experienced before and are motivated to improve the state of the art, for their customer, and for other engineers or consumers working on similar systems.

The team’s focus is a shared ownership and drive to achieve the customer’s goals. Our client aims for everyone to be involved in software integration, testing, deployment and operations. They all have direct contact with the customer on a daily basis, and the team can ask questions directly to ensure they build what is really needed. Everyone takes ownership of a customer 'story’ from beginning to end. If you are interested in technology integration (as opposed to developing from the ground up), rapid prototyping, regular demonstration of completed work, creating sustainable systems, and thinking ahead but not over complicating for today, this will suit you. Being a part of a team which is jointly responsible for designing, integrating, building, testing, maintenance and on-going operations of the production platform.

About the company:

Our client is a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world.

They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale.

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

This role is based in Reading which is easily commutable from Oxford

To £65K plus extensive benefits package

Due to the nature of this work all candidates must be British Nationals, and already hold or be eligible to hold UK Security Clearance to SC level or higher.

Essential experience required:

Our client is looking for DevOps Engineers at all levels of career experience and would consider graduates with a science related degree (including practical computer programming experience) through to skilled software integration and DevOps professionals.

Applications are invited from individuals who have a solid Linux foundation, an enthusiasm for technology, and demonstrable experience in the following:

• At least one of: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu
• At least one of: Python, Java, JavaScript, C or C++
• Familiarity with the following core tools: git, ssh, Unix command line, browsers, Bash

Desirable experience:

• Linux experience as a deployment platform and day to day development environment - e.g., can describe package management, networking configuration, log files, environment variables
• Deep Linux experience - e.g., can describe SELinux, chroot, ssh tunnelling, differences between Linux distributions
• Starting from scratch, and building on top of existing systems
• Web development and awareness of vulnerabilities and how to defend against them
• Experience of test-driven development and Automated testing of web applications
• Networking familiarity - e.g., can describe HTTP protocol, TCP/IP
• Experience of Hadoop or distributed computation
• Experience of automating software deployment
• Experience of network engineering including switches, taps and firewalls and pcap analysis
• Awareness of system and network security principles such as system hardening, log analysis or IDS/IPS

Job role responsibilities:

Specifically, you would be involved in technical tasks such as the following:

• GNU/Linux software customisation, configuration and integration
• Hadoop customisation and API integration and its configuration with Ansible and Ambari
• Implementation of bespoke NiFi processors using Java and integration with commercial security software
• Ansible deployment automation of software, upgrades and Linux configuration
• Robot Framework and Selenium based test automation for post-build and post-deploy health checks
• Bug and technical debt triage, trouble shooting and resolution
• Production environment change back-porting to our Git repository
• Enhancement of our Bamboo based build and continuous integration processes
• System performance analysis and improvement of multiple, high spec large clusters
• Third line support of production environments with our system administrators

In addition, the following form part of the broader role:

• Review, elaboration and accurate estimation of new requirements with our Product Owner
• Estimation and commitment, as a team, to deliver tested work every 2 weeks
• Development of work following strict ways of working, standards and levels of quality
• Regular presentation of progress and completed work to the team and the customer
• Stay up to date by following industry developments and be active in the Open Source community
• A drive to meet your personal objectives which are aligned to the business plan for the financial year
• Investment in your own skills development with support from the team and wider organisation

Our clients projects are based in their office or client site but may require travel to other locations. The successful candidate must be able and willing to spend time working away from home if required.

Role description:

Our client develops, builds, and runs a cutting-edge Big Data platform for their own meaningful and strategic customer. They are heavy on automation, have great software engineering hardware, a mix of physical and virtual platforms and take on steep learning curves. They are delivering to their customer faster than they have experienced before and are motivated to improve the state of the art, for their customer, and for other engineers or consumers working on similar systems.

The team’s focus is a shared ownership and drive to achieve the customer’s goals. Our client aims for everyone to be involved in software integration, testing, deployment and operations. They all have direct contact with the customer on a daily basis, and the team can ask questions directly to ensure they build what is really needed. Everyone takes ownership of a customer 'story’ from beginning to end. If you are interested in technology integration (as opposed to developing from the ground up), rapid prototyping, regular demonstration of completed work, creating sustainable systems, and thinking ahead but not over complicating for today, this will suit you. Being a part of a team which is jointly responsible for designing, integrating, building, testing, maintenance and on-going operations of the production platform.

About the company:

Our client is a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world.

They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale.

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

This role is based in Reading which is easily commutable from Slough

To £65K plus extensive benefits package

Due to the nature of this work all candidates must be British Nationals, and already hold or be eligible to hold UK Security Clearance to SC level or higher.

Essential experience required:

Our client is looking for DevOps Engineers at all levels of career experience and would consider graduates with a science related degree (including practical computer programming experience) through to skilled software integration and DevOps professionals.

Applications are invited from individuals who have a solid Linux foundation, an enthusiasm for technology, and demonstrable experience in the following:

• At least one of: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu
• At least one of: Python, Java, JavaScript, C or C++
• Familiarity with the following core tools: git, ssh, Unix command line, browsers, Bash

Desirable experience:

• Linux experience as a deployment platform and day to day development environment - e.g., can describe package management, networking configuration, log files, environment variables
• Deep Linux experience - e.g., can describe SELinux, chroot, ssh tunnelling, differences between Linux distributions
• Starting from scratch, and building on top of existing systems
• Web development and awareness of vulnerabilities and how to defend against them
• Experience of test-driven development and Automated testing of web applications
• Networking familiarity - e.g., can describe HTTP protocol, TCP/IP
• Experience of Hadoop or distributed computation
• Experience of automating software deployment
• Experience of network engineering including switches, taps and firewalls and pcap analysis
• Awareness of system and network security principles such as system hardening, log analysis or IDS/IPS

Job role responsibilities:

Specifically, you would be involved in technical tasks such as the following:

• GNU/Linux software customisation, configuration and integration
• Hadoop customisation and API integration and its configuration with Ansible and Ambari
• Implementation of bespoke NiFi processors using Java and integration with commercial security software
• Ansible deployment automation of software, upgrades and Linux configuration
• Robot Framework and Selenium based test automation for post-build and post-deploy health checks
• Bug and technical debt triage, trouble shooting and resolution
• Production environment change back-porting to our Git repository
• Enhancement of our Bamboo based build and continuous integration processes
• System performance analysis and improvement of multiple, high spec large clusters
• Third line support of production environments with our system administrators

In addition, the following form part of the broader role:

• Review, elaboration and accurate estimation of new requirements with our Product Owner
• Estimation and commitment, as a team, to deliver tested work every 2 weeks
• Development of work following strict ways of working, standards and levels of quality
• Regular presentation of progress and completed work to the team and the customer
• Stay up to date by following industry developments and be active in the Open Source community
• A drive to meet your personal objectives which are aligned to the business plan for the financial year
• Investment in your own skills development with support from the team and wider organisation

Our clients projects are based in their office or client site but may require travel to other locations. The successful candidate must be able and willing to spend time working away from home if required.

Role description:

Our client develops, builds, and runs a cutting-edge Big Data platform for their own meaningful and strategic customer. They are heavy on automation, have great software engineering hardware, a mix of physical and virtual platforms and take on steep learning curves. They are delivering to their customer faster than they have experienced before and are motivated to improve the state of the art, for their customer, and for other engineers or consumers working on similar systems.

The team’s focus is a shared ownership and drive to achieve the customer’s goals. Our client aims for everyone to be involved in software integration, testing, deployment and operations. They all have direct contact with the customer on a daily basis, and the team can ask questions directly to ensure they build what is really needed. Everyone takes ownership of a customer 'story’ from beginning to end. If you are interested in technology integration (as opposed to developing from the ground up), rapid prototyping, regular demonstration of completed work, creating sustainable systems, and thinking ahead but not over complicating for today, this will suit you. Being a part of a team which is jointly responsible for designing, integrating, building, testing, maintenance and on-going operations of the production platform.

About the company:

Our client is a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world.

They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale.

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

This role is based in Reading which is easily commutable from Slough

To £65K plus extensive benefits package

Due to the nature of this work all candidates must be British Nationals, and already hold or be eligible to hold UK Security Clearance to SC level or higher.

Essential experience required:

Our client is looking for DevOps Engineers at all levels of career experience and would consider graduates with a science related degree (including practical computer programming experience) through to skilled software integration and DevOps professionals.

Applications are invited from individuals who have a solid Linux foundation, an enthusiasm for technology, and demonstrable experience in the following:

• At least one of: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu
• At least one of: Python, Java, JavaScript, C or C++
• Familiarity with the following core tools: git, ssh, Unix command line, browsers, Bash

Desirable experience:

• Linux experience as a deployment platform and day to day development environment - e.g., can describe package management, networking configuration, log files, environment variables
• Deep Linux experience - e.g., can describe SELinux, chroot, ssh tunnelling, differences between Linux distributions
• Starting from scratch, and building on top of existing systems
• Web development and awareness of vulnerabilities and how to defend against them
• Experience of test-driven development and Automated testing of web applications
• Networking familiarity - e.g., can describe HTTP protocol, TCP/IP
• Experience of Hadoop or distributed computation
• Experience of automating software deployment
• Experience of network engineering including switches, taps and firewalls and pcap analysis
• Awareness of system and network security principles such as system hardening, log analysis or IDS/IPS

Job role responsibilities:

Specifically, you would be involved in technical tasks such as the following:

• GNU/Linux software customisation, configuration and integration
• Hadoop customisation and API integration and its configuration with Ansible and Ambari
• Implementation of bespoke NiFi processors using Java and integration with commercial security software
• Ansible deployment automation of software, upgrades and Linux configuration
• Robot Framework and Selenium based test automation for post-build and post-deploy health checks
• Bug and technical debt triage, trouble shooting and resolution
• Production environment change back-porting to our Git repository
• Enhancement of our Bamboo based build and continuous integration processes
• System performance analysis and improvement of multiple, high spec large clusters
• Third line support of production environments with our system administrators

In addition, the following form part of the broader role:

• Review, elaboration and accurate estimation of new requirements with our Product Owner
• Estimation and commitment, as a team, to deliver tested work every 2 weeks
• Development of work following strict ways of working, standards and levels of quality
• Regular presentation of progress and completed work to the team and the customer
• Stay up to date by following industry developments and be active in the Open Source community
• A drive to meet your personal objectives which are aligned to the business plan for the financial year
• Investment in your own skills development with support from the team and wider organisation

Our clients projects are based in their office or client site but may require travel to other locations. The successful candidate must be able and willing to spend time working away from home if required.

Role description:

Our client develops, builds, and runs a cutting-edge Big Data platform for their own meaningful and strategic customer. They are heavy on automation, have great software engineering hardware, a mix of physical and virtual platforms and take on steep learning curves. They are delivering to their customer faster than they have experienced before and are motivated to improve the state of the art, for their customer, and for other engineers or consumers working on similar systems.

The team’s focus is a shared ownership and drive to achieve the customer’s goals. Our client aims for everyone to be involved in software integration, testing, deployment and operations. They all have direct contact with the customer on a daily basis, and the team can ask questions directly to ensure they build what is really needed. Everyone takes ownership of a customer 'story’ from beginning to end. If you are interested in technology integration (as opposed to developing from the ground up), rapid prototyping, regular demonstration of completed work, creating sustainable systems, and thinking ahead but not over complicating for today, this will suit you. Being a part of a team which is jointly responsible for designing, integrating, building, testing, maintenance and on-going operations of the production platform.

About the company:

Our client is a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world.

They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale.

DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer