Our client is a well-established digital agency with a strong reputation for delivering multi-platform solutions for a range of blue chip clients. They are looking for an experienced AWS Engineer to join their growing team working on site with a globally recognised brand based in West London.

As an AWS Engineer you will be responsible for making the existing mobile platform more scalable and reliable.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience with the core AWS services.
• Good background in serverless and IaC environment administration.
• Proficiency NodeJs and/or Java.
• Strong notions of security best practices (e.g. using IAM Roles, KMS, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, Splunk.
• Previous exposure to large-scale systems design.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed system.
• Knowledge of writing infrastructure as code (IaC) using CloudFormation, Serverless or Terraform.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Experience with the Serverless approaches using AWS Lambda is required.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Define processes with a security first approach.
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Define service capacity planning strategies.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the GitLab CI/CD stack.
• Write infrastructure as code using Serverless, Terraform or similar.
• Understand / define the requirements to maintain and isolate multiple environments / stages under one account.
• Write code to maintain best practices.
• Develop automated testing strategies.

In return for your dedication and hard work, the benefits package with this position outweighs the norm. Flexible working arrangements allowing you to alter your starting and finishing times and a generous holiday allowance with bank holidays as extra. The company also offers a pension plan, company healthcare and plenty of promotion opportunities.

If you are interested in this role, click “apply” below and one of our consultants will be in touch to tell you more.

Our client is a well-established digital agency with a strong reputation for delivering multi-platform solutions for a range of blue chip clients. They are looking for an experienced AWS Engineer to join their growing team working on site with a globally recognised brand based in West London.

As an AWS Engineer you will be responsible for making the existing mobile platform more scalable and reliable.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience with the core AWS services.
• Good background in serverless and IaC environment administration.
• Proficiency NodeJs and/or Java.
• Strong notions of security best practices (e.g. using IAM Roles, KMS, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, Splunk.
• Previous exposure to large-scale systems design.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed system.
• Knowledge of writing infrastructure as code (IaC) using CloudFormation, Serverless or Terraform.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Experience with the Serverless approaches using AWS Lambda is required.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Define processes with a security first approach.
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Define service capacity planning strategies.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the GitLab CI/CD stack.
• Write infrastructure as code using Serverless, Terraform or similar.
• Understand / define the requirements to maintain and isolate multiple environments / stages under one account.
• Write code to maintain best practices.
• Develop automated testing strategies.

In return for your dedication and hard work, the benefits package with this position outweighs the norm. Flexible working arrangements allowing you to alter your starting and finishing times and a generous holiday allowance with bank holidays as extra. The company also offers a pension plan, company healthcare and plenty of promotion opportunities.

If you are interested in this role, click “apply” below and one of our consultants will be in touch to tell you more.

JavaScript / Node.JS Developer

As we enter into our next growth phase we are looking for a talented JavaScript / Node.js Developer. You will benefit from working on the latest cloud platform technology, significant career development opportunities within a financially secure company with the look and feel of a start-up, based in Kentish Town, North London.

Why should I apply:

• Inclusive supportive culture with financial backing to support substantial growth.
• Opportunity to work on greenfield cloud platform.
• Growing business with significant opportunities for career development.

BASIC SALARY: Highly competitive, discretionary bonus.

BENEFITS:

• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Hols + Holiday buy back scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Pension, Life Assurance & Income Protection Insurance
• Gym membership, free fruit / coffee (our coffee machine is legendary).
• Active social scene (arcade room), etc.

LOCATION: Kentish Town, North London

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Harlow, Chelmsford, St Albans, Luton Milton Keynes, Watford, Reading, Guildford, Enfield

A bit about us: JavaScript / Node.js Developers - we are an exciting mix of a start-up business with the financial support and security of a major company - fun and agile environment without large company bureaucracy. We already hold a portfolio of leading web based gaming products, with ambitious plans for growth and migrate to AWS cloud platform.

Job Description: We're looking for JavaScript / Node.js Developers who are willing to train as full-stack or already have full stack experience. You will be working with a talented and ambitious team who develop our proprietary gaming content. This includes all types of games from arcade, slots, skill and casino games, with amazing graphics and incredible technology behind. Our team are fast-paced and collaborative with a mix of skills and views about various technologies, frameworks and approaches to delivery.

We are looking for JavaScript / Node.js Developers with the following:

• Front End Developers with exposure / willing to train on Full Stack
• Cloud technologies exposure with AWS
• Proven Node.JS development skills
• Familiarity with Git
• Designing / Implementing RESTful APIs and Microservices
• Ideally from a regulated industry such as Gaming/Betting, Financial, Banking, etc.

Tech/Skills: Agile Environment, Unit Test, TDD, BDD, CI/CD, Version Control (Git), OO principles and design patterns, RESTful

Front End: PixiJS, React, TypeScript

Back End: Node.js, Express, Sequelize, Socket.IO

INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.

This job role may also be known as Java Developer, Senior Java Developer, Lead Java Developer, gaming, betting, financial, banking, fintech.

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JavaScript / Node.JS Developer

As we enter into our next growth phase we are looking for a talented JavaScript / Node.js Developer. You will benefit from working on the latest cloud platform technology, significant career development opportunities within a financially secure company with the look and feel of a start-up, based in Kentish Town, North London.

Why should I apply:

• Inclusive supportive culture with financial backing to support substantial growth.
• Opportunity to work on greenfield cloud platform.
• Growing business with significant opportunities for career development.

BASIC SALARY: Highly competitive, discretionary bonus.

BENEFITS:

• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Hols + Holiday buy back scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Pension, Life Assurance & Income Protection Insurance
• Gym membership, free fruit / coffee (our coffee machine is legendary).
• Active social scene (arcade room), etc.

LOCATION: Kentish Town, North London

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Harlow, Chelmsford, St Albans, Luton Milton Keynes, Watford, Reading, Guildford, Enfield

A bit about us: JavaScript / Node.js Developers - we are an exciting mix of a start-up business with the financial support and security of a major company - fun and agile environment without large company bureaucracy. We already hold a portfolio of leading web based gaming products, with ambitious plans for growth and migrate to AWS cloud platform.

Job Description: We're looking for JavaScript / Node.js Developers who are willing to train as full-stack or already have full stack experience. You will be working with a talented and ambitious team who develop our proprietary gaming content. This includes all types of games from arcade, slots, skill and casino games, with amazing graphics and incredible technology behind. Our team are fast-paced and collaborative with a mix of skills and views about various technologies, frameworks and approaches to delivery.

We are looking for JavaScript / Node.js Developers with the following:

• Front End Developers with exposure / willing to train on Full Stack
• Cloud technologies exposure with AWS
• Proven Node.JS development skills
• Familiarity with Git
• Designing / Implementing RESTful APIs and Microservices
• Ideally from a regulated industry such as Gaming/Betting, Financial, Banking, etc.

Tech/Skills: Agile Environment, Unit Test, TDD, BDD, CI/CD, Version Control (Git), OO principles and design patterns, RESTful

Front End: PixiJS, React, TypeScript

Back End: Node.js, Express, Sequelize, Socket.IO

INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.

This job role may also be known as Java Developer, Senior Java Developer, Lead Java Developer, gaming, betting, financial, banking, fintech.

Please Note:

For further details of the curve group privacy policy please click the following link, https://privacy-policy/

• 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)

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