DevOps Linux Sys Admin / Infrastructure Engineer

Join a growing enterprise scale business in West Yorkshire and take the next step in your career.

I am looking to speak to the best 3rd Line / Infrastructure Engineer who focus on hardware, servers and have had exposure to Red Hat Linux and are open to new opportunities.

A combination of the following skills are required:

• Red Hat Linux
• Virtualisation technologies
• Office 365
• Sharepoint
• Automation
• Monitoring service desk tools.
• SAN
• DevOps working practices
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Delivery techniques (e.g. Jenkins) and software Application Containerisation methods

You will benefit from free parking at the business HQ, flexibility to work from other offices and even from home.

Enjoy 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays, an annual bonus and an excellent working environment.

An incredible opportunity with a 1 stage interview – apply now!

DevOps Linux Sys Admin / Infrastructure Engineer

Join a growing enterprise scale business in West Yorkshire and take the next step in your career.

I am looking to speak to the best 3rd Line / Infrastructure Engineer who focus on hardware, servers and have had exposure to Red Hat Linux and are open to new opportunities.

A combination of the following skills are required:

• Red Hat Linux
• Virtualisation technologies
• Office 365
• Sharepoint
• Automation
• Monitoring service desk tools.
• SAN
• DevOps working practices
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Delivery techniques (e.g. Jenkins) and software Application Containerisation methods

You will benefit from free parking at the business HQ, flexibility to work from other offices and even from home.

Enjoy 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays, an annual bonus and an excellent working environment.

An incredible opportunity with a 1 stage interview – apply now!

The now 6x Consecutive Formula 1 World Champions’ are seeking a Senior IT Engineer to act as one of their senior engineers, delivering reliable IT services to the wider business.

The primary purpose of the role is to:

The purpose of the role is to focus on and improve reliability and availability across the IT application and infrastructure landscape, deliver new technologies that support, enable and enhance our mission to win F1 World Championships, lead by example as a senior technical escalation point for a broad range of IT support topics and deliver exceptional customer service and technical excellence, in a flexible way, particularly as we require support out of hours for maintenance changes and technical support (on a rota basis).

You'll be a senior technical escalation point for all IT support topics, delivering exceptional customer service in a flexible way, particularly as we require support on out of hours maintenance changes and support on a rota basis. To be right for my client, you'll have a strong, current and broad ranging technical background that means you can both step back and see the big picture, and get involved in a hands on way.

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a senior operational support role (3rd line or equivalent) within a fast paced medium to large sized enterprise, including support of the following:

Essential

• To maintain and secure all IT systems including (HPC, Databases, CAD, Enterprise Infrastructure).
• Support and optimization of a broad range of in-house and bespoke applications
• To recognise new technology, innovate current systems and implement new solutions.
• Champion learning and development, for self and the team.
• Open source technologies - Linux/Unix, DevOps, Clustering, Automation, CI/CD within a production environment.
• Client and server Operating Systems
• Server and Desktop Virtualization; VMware
• Security, encryption and Data Loss Prevention
• Vulnerability and malware threat prevention
• Infrastructure and application capacity, performance and availability monitoring
• Clustering and High Availability
• Backups and Disaster Recovery
• Datacentre Infrastructure
• Database support - SQL and DB2 to run SQL scripts
• Strong & proven stakeholder management

Beneficial Skills

• Experience within an Engineering focused role or company
• Computer Aided Design (CAD)/Manufacturing experience - LTA, Abaqus, High Performance Computing (HPC), Simulation Software
• Strong experience working to ITIL practices
• Proven Continual Service Improvement experience
• A good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Project lead and delivery experience working to a recognised methodology (i.e. PRINCE2, Agile)

Benefits

• Excellent Company Bonus Schemes
• Mercedes Lease Car Scheme
• Pension 10% Matched
• Private Healthcare & Optional Health Checks
• Subsidised Restaurant
• Subsidised Gym
• Team Clothing
• 25 Days Holiday
• Life Assurance

The now 6x Consecutive Formula 1 World Champions’ are seeking a Senior IT Engineer to act as one of their senior engineers, delivering reliable IT services to the wider business.

The primary purpose of the role is to:

The purpose of the role is to focus on and improve reliability and availability across the IT application and infrastructure landscape, deliver new technologies that support, enable and enhance our mission to win F1 World Championships, lead by example as a senior technical escalation point for a broad range of IT support topics and deliver exceptional customer service and technical excellence, in a flexible way, particularly as we require support out of hours for maintenance changes and technical support (on a rota basis).

You'll be a senior technical escalation point for all IT support topics, delivering exceptional customer service in a flexible way, particularly as we require support on out of hours maintenance changes and support on a rota basis. To be right for my client, you'll have a strong, current and broad ranging technical background that means you can both step back and see the big picture, and get involved in a hands on way.

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a senior operational support role (3rd line or equivalent) within a fast paced medium to large sized enterprise, including support of the following:

Essential

• To maintain and secure all IT systems including (HPC, Databases, CAD, Enterprise Infrastructure).
• Support and optimization of a broad range of in-house and bespoke applications
• To recognise new technology, innovate current systems and implement new solutions.
• Champion learning and development, for self and the team.
• Open source technologies - Linux/Unix, DevOps, Clustering, Automation, CI/CD within a production environment.
• Client and server Operating Systems
• Server and Desktop Virtualization; VMware
• Security, encryption and Data Loss Prevention
• Vulnerability and malware threat prevention
• Infrastructure and application capacity, performance and availability monitoring
• Clustering and High Availability
• Backups and Disaster Recovery
• Datacentre Infrastructure
• Database support - SQL and DB2 to run SQL scripts
• Strong & proven stakeholder management

Beneficial Skills

• Experience within an Engineering focused role or company
• Computer Aided Design (CAD)/Manufacturing experience - LTA, Abaqus, High Performance Computing (HPC), Simulation Software
• Strong experience working to ITIL practices
• Proven Continual Service Improvement experience
• A good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Project lead and delivery experience working to a recognised methodology (i.e. PRINCE2, Agile)

Benefits

• Excellent Company Bonus Schemes
• Mercedes Lease Car Scheme
• Pension 10% Matched
• Private Healthcare & Optional Health Checks
• Subsidised Restaurant
• Subsidised Gym
• Team Clothing
• 25 Days Holiday
• Life Assurance

JUNIOR DATA ENGINEER (PYTHON & AWS)
LONDON (EUSTON)
BETWEEN £45,000 - £50,000

The role of Junior Data Engineer will involve joining one of the fasted growing start ups in London. They are disrupting the used car space by employing advanced analytics to this industry. This company have built an analytics powered auction platform to provide customers with better choice and value - thus undercutting the entirety of the mainstream market. Whilst the company is at an early stage - this role will involve joining a highly mature Data Engineering team.

COMPANY:
The product built is highly data driven & this role will involve interacting with a variety of data sets. You be helping the data science to access data sets from telematics data through to customer data. You will be reporting into the Head of Data Engineering and working alongside a team of 5 Senior / Mid-level Engineers.

ROLE:

• Building data pipelines using Python OR PySpark
• Adherence to best practice software engineering principals (Python)(TDD, Unit testing, OOP)
• Developing the existing AWS infrastructure (Terraform, S3, Lambdas, Kinesis, EMR)
• Stakeholder engagement

SKILLS & EXPERIENCES:

• Infrastructure as code experience preferred
• Experience building complex & scalable ETL pipelines
• Adherence to best practices such as TDD & BDD
• Python programming experience

HOW TO APPLY:
Please register your interest by sending your CV to William Wrigley via the apply link on this page

JUNIOR DATA ENGINEER (PYTHON & AWS)
LONDON (EUSTON)
BETWEEN £45,000 - £50,000

The role of Junior Data Engineer will involve joining one of the fasted growing start ups in London. They are disrupting the used car space by employing advanced analytics to this industry. This company have built an analytics powered auction platform to provide customers with better choice and value - thus undercutting the entirety of the mainstream market. Whilst the company is at an early stage - this role will involve joining a highly mature Data Engineering team.

COMPANY:
The product built is highly data driven & this role will involve interacting with a variety of data sets. You be helping the data science to access data sets from telematics data through to customer data. You will be reporting into the Head of Data Engineering and working alongside a team of 5 Senior / Mid-level Engineers.

ROLE:

• Building data pipelines using Python OR PySpark
• Adherence to best practice software engineering principals (Python)(TDD, Unit testing, OOP)
• Developing the existing AWS infrastructure (Terraform, S3, Lambdas, Kinesis, EMR)
• Stakeholder engagement

SKILLS & EXPERIENCES:

• Infrastructure as code experience preferred
• Experience building complex & scalable ETL pipelines
• Adherence to best practices such as TDD & BDD
• Python programming experience

HOW TO APPLY:
Please register your interest by sending your CV to William Wrigley via the apply link on this page

A large non-profit organisation in Cambridge are currently recruiting a Systems Administrator to provide a high-quality technical support function for standard hardware and associated operating systems, telecommunications, back-office software and application

• Support and maintain the ESX 6.0+ VMWare virtualised environment.
• Support and maintain Windows Server 2003-2012 R2 for support, patching, maintenance.
• Complete disk extensions and additions via ESX/storage and capacity management.
• Ensure that technical risks are brought to the attention of the SRE team, and if necessary to the attention of the Head of IT Operations
• Troubleshooting, performing root cause analysis, and resolving issues from the network and application layers through to the system level.
• Responsible for the design, maintenance, development, support and evaluation of all core corporate infrastructure systems.
• Recommends proactive, innovative IT solutions for the improvement of IT design and operation whenever and wherever possible.

• Expert knowledge of VMWare ESX 6.0+
• Expert knowledge of Windows Server 2003-2012 R2 and Windows domain environments (AD/DNS)
• Expert knowledge of Veeam Backup solution and tape archiving
• Expert knowledge of Exchange 2010
• Strong knowledge of corporate IT infrastructure (virtualisation, networking, hardware, client devices, operating systems, active directory services, systems resiliency)
• Enthusiastic, highly motivated and a proactive team player, individually or with colleagues
• An excellent communicator that can explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical clients
• Understands and applies various project documentation

If you are interested in a one year fixed-term contract, are able to work in Cambridge and are available at short notice, please apply with a copy of your CV.

A large non-profit organisation in Cambridge are currently recruiting a Systems Administrator to provide a high-quality technical support function for standard hardware and associated operating systems, telecommunications, back-office software and application

• Support and maintain the ESX 6.0+ VMWare virtualised environment.
• Support and maintain Windows Server 2003-2012 R2 for support, patching, maintenance.
• Complete disk extensions and additions via ESX/storage and capacity management.
• Ensure that technical risks are brought to the attention of the SRE team, and if necessary to the attention of the Head of IT Operations
• Troubleshooting, performing root cause analysis, and resolving issues from the network and application layers through to the system level.
• Responsible for the design, maintenance, development, support and evaluation of all core corporate infrastructure systems.
• Recommends proactive, innovative IT solutions for the improvement of IT design and operation whenever and wherever possible.

• Expert knowledge of VMWare ESX 6.0+
• Expert knowledge of Windows Server 2003-2012 R2 and Windows domain environments (AD/DNS)
• Expert knowledge of Veeam Backup solution and tape archiving
• Expert knowledge of Exchange 2010
• Strong knowledge of corporate IT infrastructure (virtualisation, networking, hardware, client devices, operating systems, active directory services, systems resiliency)
• Enthusiastic, highly motivated and a proactive team player, individually or with colleagues
• An excellent communicator that can explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical clients
• Understands and applies various project documentation

If you are interested in a one year fixed-term contract, are able to work in Cambridge and are available at short notice, please apply with a copy of your CV.

ITIL Service Manager

Permanent – Full Time
Salary: £46,600 – £62,900
Location: Cambridge

What it’s about

We are looking for an experienced ITIL Service Manager to join the Service Management team to lead the integration of emerging Agile service management practices within an established ITIL v3 environment. We are continuing to mature our capabilities and seek an individual who can support the delivery of digital products and services into our complex IT environment.

In this business critical role you will promote the use of the service management policy, process and procedures to meet service transition and operational levels. You will ensure that working instructions and procedures are developed and followed, whilst continually identifying improvements to the way that the processes operate.

You will have experience of working within an Agile product delivery landscape and be familiar with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery as it intersects with the more formal Service Release and Transition processes.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop procedures and work instructions to deliver effective service management, ensuring they align with the Service Management Strategic Plan
• Accountable for providing evidence to ISO/IEC 20000 auditors that the processes are being complied with and are being measured, prepared to undertake internal audits as required

• Have responsibility for maintaining the Service Management Authority governance process through one or more ITIL processes, identifying improvement opportunities through CSI
• Own the Service Management System lifecycle elements and ensure compliance across the technical and delivery teams

What we’re looking for

The successful candidate will have the ability to work well under pressure, using their analytical skills they will identify trends and challenge were appropriate, due to this they will need excellent organisational and decision making skills. Whilst working to strict deadlines they will proactively manage the levels of demand using their excellent

The successful candidate will need:
• Significant experience of running an ITIL service management function in a complex environment
• Excellent ITIL v3 knowledge (at least Practitioner qualified), excellent Agile knowledge (any methodology) including CI/CD
• Capability to build an awareness of the Customer’s business priorities, objectives and business drivers
• Strong experience of stakeholder engagement and building relationships with both technical and non-technical resources
• Ability to understand business services and their usage, whilst also having a good appreciation of the underpinning technologies that deliver these services

Who we are

Cambridge Assessmentis Europe's largest assessment group, incorporating three major awarding bodies. It plays a leading role in researching, developing and delivering assessment to eight million candidates in 170 countries every year. The Group is a department of the University of Cambridge and a not-for-profit organisation.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a market leader and be rewarded with valuable learning opportunities, a competitive salary and benefits.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a comprehensive package of benefits to help with your life both inside and outside of work:

• Generous contributory pension
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Annual salary review and discretionary company bonus
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
• Employee discount and cash back scheme at 2,500 retailers
• Cycle scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Subsidised staff restaurants
• Support for professional qualifications
• Discounted access to the University of Cambridge Sport Centre, along with various other local gyms.

We know that diversity of thinking, backgrounds and approaches lead to innovation and create an atmosphere where everyone’s contribution is valued. As well as wanting to create diverse teams, we also value diversity in the way our people approach their work. Work/life balance is important to us at Cambridge Assessment and we offer our colleagues a range of flexible working options according to the needs of the business and the individual, so please let us know of any flexible working requirements when applying and we can see how we can support you.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 22/03/2020and interviews will be held on 30/Mar/2020.

If you’re successful at interview stage we will ask you to undergo background screening (carried out by Credence Background Screening Ltd), to ensure that all information provided to us is accurate. We wish you all the very best with your application.

CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

ITIL Service Manager

Permanent – Full Time
Salary: £46,600 – £62,900
Location: Cambridge

What it’s about

We are looking for an experienced ITIL Service Manager to join the Service Management team to lead the integration of emerging Agile service management practices within an established ITIL v3 environment. We are continuing to mature our capabilities and seek an individual who can support the delivery of digital products and services into our complex IT environment.

In this business critical role you will promote the use of the service management policy, process and procedures to meet service transition and operational levels. You will ensure that working instructions and procedures are developed and followed, whilst continually identifying improvements to the way that the processes operate.

You will have experience of working within an Agile product delivery landscape and be familiar with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery as it intersects with the more formal Service Release and Transition processes.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop procedures and work instructions to deliver effective service management, ensuring they align with the Service Management Strategic Plan
• Accountable for providing evidence to ISO/IEC 20000 auditors that the processes are being complied with and are being measured, prepared to undertake internal audits as required

• Have responsibility for maintaining the Service Management Authority governance process through one or more ITIL processes, identifying improvement opportunities through CSI
• Own the Service Management System lifecycle elements and ensure compliance across the technical and delivery teams

What we’re looking for

The successful candidate will have the ability to work well under pressure, using their analytical skills they will identify trends and challenge were appropriate, due to this they will need excellent organisational and decision making skills. Whilst working to strict deadlines they will proactively manage the levels of demand using their excellent

The successful candidate will need:
• Significant experience of running an ITIL service management function in a complex environment
• Excellent ITIL v3 knowledge (at least Practitioner qualified), excellent Agile knowledge (any methodology) including CI/CD
• Capability to build an awareness of the Customer’s business priorities, objectives and business drivers
• Strong experience of stakeholder engagement and building relationships with both technical and non-technical resources
• Ability to understand business services and their usage, whilst also having a good appreciation of the underpinning technologies that deliver these services

Who we are

Cambridge Assessmentis Europe's largest assessment group, incorporating three major awarding bodies. It plays a leading role in researching, developing and delivering assessment to eight million candidates in 170 countries every year. The Group is a department of the University of Cambridge and a not-for-profit organisation.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a market leader and be rewarded with valuable learning opportunities, a competitive salary and benefits.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a comprehensive package of benefits to help with your life both inside and outside of work:

• Generous contributory pension
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Annual salary review and discretionary company bonus
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
• Employee discount and cash back scheme at 2,500 retailers
• Cycle scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Subsidised staff restaurants
• Support for professional qualifications
• Discounted access to the University of Cambridge Sport Centre, along with various other local gyms.

We know that diversity of thinking, backgrounds and approaches lead to innovation and create an atmosphere where everyone’s contribution is valued. As well as wanting to create diverse teams, we also value diversity in the way our people approach their work. Work/life balance is important to us at Cambridge Assessment and we offer our colleagues a range of flexible working options according to the needs of the business and the individual, so please let us know of any flexible working requirements when applying and we can see how we can support you.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 22/03/2020and interviews will be held on 30/Mar/2020.

If you’re successful at interview stage we will ask you to undergo background screening (carried out by Credence Background Screening Ltd), to ensure that all information provided to us is accurate. We wish you all the very best with your application.

CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER