As part of our digital transformation, Howdens Joinery are recruiting a DevOps Engineer to join us in our office in Northampton in Brackmills Industrial Estate.  At the end of 2020, this role will be moving to our new and purpose-built offices in Raunds, Northamptonshire. 

Working as part of the System Team you will design, develop, test and deploy to improve collaboration and productivity of our development teams by automating infrastructure, automating workflows and continuously measuring and improving application performance. 

As a DevOps Engineer you will bring your previous experience, best practice and a collaborative attitude to help drive DevOps initiatives.  You will also be accountable for the creation, maintenance and deployment of secure, highly available, fault tolerant systems at scale via on-premise and cloud-native architectures for development, testing and production environments. 

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll possess a keen mind for solving tough problems, able to understand complex concepts and be an excellent communicator as you’ll need to partner and work effectively with the IT Digital Solutions and software delivery teams.  There is a great opportunity for a high performer with a strong desire to implement change, growth, and maturity, within a department that’s fast-paced, dynamic, and quickly growing in all areas.

Key skills and experience required:

• Disciplined programmer with understanding of test-driven development and clean code principles with experience in languages such as Java and .Net C#
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Configuration management tools e.g. Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Azure.
• Practical experience with containerization and clustering technologies i.e. Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience of CI/CD Implementations i.e. Azure DevOps, Jenkins
• Experience of building automated CI/CD pipelines with tools such as; SonarQube, Fortify, Selenium, etc.
• High Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Bash, PowerShell, Python and JavaScript.
• Experience of monitoring and supporting deployed systems, infrastructure and Azure Cloud components through the use tools such as AppDynamics.
• Understanding of monitoring tools (Pagerduty, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sentry,etc)
• Fluency in Azure CLI and Azure Cloud Shell/Azure Power Shell
• Solid understanding of Cloud; including security, cloud fault tolerant solutions and resilience.

Howdens Joinery is a highly successful business, with more than 700 depots nationwide and more than 10,000 staff. Last year our sales reached circa £1.5 billion and we continue to experience significant growth and success. Despite our scale, Howdens remains a local business with traditional values. 

We have a very competitive salary and benefits package including 25 days holiday, company bonus and pension, free refreshments and snacks, onsite car parking, great social events and a friendly and supportive working environment.  As well as the opportunity to develop within a high-profile FTSE 250 company, you will be part of a rewarding organisation recognised for excellence in the workplace in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For. 

As part of our digital transformation, Howdens Joinery are recruiting a DevOps Engineer to join us in our office in Northampton in Brackmills Industrial Estate.  At the end of 2020, this role will be moving to our new and purpose-built offices in Raunds, Northamptonshire. 

Working as part of the System Team you will design, develop, test and deploy to improve collaboration and productivity of our development teams by automating infrastructure, automating workflows and continuously measuring and improving application performance. 

As a DevOps Engineer you will bring your previous experience, best practice and a collaborative attitude to help drive DevOps initiatives.  You will also be accountable for the creation, maintenance and deployment of secure, highly available, fault tolerant systems at scale via on-premise and cloud-native architectures for development, testing and production environments. 

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll possess a keen mind for solving tough problems, able to understand complex concepts and be an excellent communicator as you’ll need to partner and work effectively with the IT Digital Solutions and software delivery teams.  There is a great opportunity for a high performer with a strong desire to implement change, growth, and maturity, within a department that’s fast-paced, dynamic, and quickly growing in all areas.

Key skills and experience required:

• Disciplined programmer with understanding of test-driven development and clean code principles with experience in languages such as Java and .Net C#
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Configuration management tools e.g. Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Azure.
• Practical experience with containerization and clustering technologies i.e. Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience of CI/CD Implementations i.e. Azure DevOps, Jenkins
• Experience of building automated CI/CD pipelines with tools such as; SonarQube, Fortify, Selenium, etc.
• High Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Bash, PowerShell, Python and JavaScript.
• Experience of monitoring and supporting deployed systems, infrastructure and Azure Cloud components through the use tools such as AppDynamics.
• Understanding of monitoring tools (Pagerduty, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sentry,etc)
• Fluency in Azure CLI and Azure Cloud Shell/Azure Power Shell
• Solid understanding of Cloud; including security, cloud fault tolerant solutions and resilience.

Howdens Joinery is a highly successful business, with more than 700 depots nationwide and more than 10,000 staff. Last year our sales reached circa £1.5 billion and we continue to experience significant growth and success. Despite our scale, Howdens remains a local business with traditional values. 

We have a very competitive salary and benefits package including 25 days holiday, company bonus and pension, free refreshments and snacks, onsite car parking, great social events and a friendly and supportive working environment.  As well as the opportunity to develop within a high-profile FTSE 250 company, you will be part of a rewarding organisation recognised for excellence in the workplace in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For. 

Java Software Engineer - London

Do you want to work on software projects that will make a difference in medical science? Do you like the idea of your work making a wider impact for the better to the whole world?

My client a leading medical research technology company based in central London is on the lookout for multiple Java Software Engineer's with Java development, Microservices, Agile and continuous deployment experience is required. This role sits within a strong software development team that has multiple vacancies due to growth.

You should have experience of most of the following:

• Java 7+
• Experience with continuous integration and versioning control tools.
• Demonstrable experience of test-driven development.
• JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber
• Hibernate
• Spring 2.5/3 (including Spring MVC)
• JavaScript/AJAX
• jQuery
• Maven
• SQL
• XML/XSLT
• Scala

Desirable Skills:

• Agile and Microservices
• Docker, Kubernetes ECS etc
• Cloud development experience.

The role is one of the most exciting roles on the market currently for a company that develops software that is used by some of the UK's largest companies and globally within the medical research and healthcare (meaning lots of new projects) You will be involved in design, the architecture of new software, as well as improvement of the existing software. It is very much an Agile team, lots of flexibility and autonomy in the role from a development point of view. If you are feeling stagnated in your current software team, then this could be the exact kind of role you are looking for.

Recruiting multiple roles in the team, my client is looking to pay a starting salary of £50,000 - £70,000 + Flexible working. To apply press apply now or send your CV to matthew.leach @ circlerecruitment.com

Circle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Earn yourself a referral bonus if you refer somebody else who fills the role! We also offer an iPad if you refer a new client to us and we recruit for them. Follow us on Facebook - Circle Recruitment , Twitter - @Circle_Rec and LinkedIn - Circle Recruitment.

Java Software Engineer - London

Do you want to work on software projects that will make a difference in medical science? Do you like the idea of your work making a wider impact for the better to the whole world?

My client a leading medical research technology company based in central London is on the lookout for multiple Java Software Engineer's with Java development, Microservices, Agile and continuous deployment experience is required. This role sits within a strong software development team that has multiple vacancies due to growth.

You should have experience of most of the following:

• Java 7+
• Experience with continuous integration and versioning control tools.
• Demonstrable experience of test-driven development.
• JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber
• Hibernate
• Spring 2.5/3 (including Spring MVC)
• JavaScript/AJAX
• jQuery
• Maven
• SQL
• XML/XSLT
• Scala

Desirable Skills:

• Agile and Microservices
• Docker, Kubernetes ECS etc
• Cloud development experience.

The role is one of the most exciting roles on the market currently for a company that develops software that is used by some of the UK's largest companies and globally within the medical research and healthcare (meaning lots of new projects) You will be involved in design, the architecture of new software, as well as improvement of the existing software. It is very much an Agile team, lots of flexibility and autonomy in the role from a development point of view. If you are feeling stagnated in your current software team, then this could be the exact kind of role you are looking for.

Recruiting multiple roles in the team, my client is looking to pay a starting salary of £50,000 - £70,000 + Flexible working. To apply press apply now or send your CV to matthew.leach @ circlerecruitment.com

Circle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Earn yourself a referral bonus if you refer somebody else who fills the role! We also offer an iPad if you refer a new client to us and we recruit for them. Follow us on Facebook - Circle Recruitment , Twitter - @Circle_Rec and LinkedIn - Circle Recruitment.

Senior Frontend Developer - React

We are a leading organisation within the gaming & gambling sector! Based in both Paris and London, we invent the future of gaming with their developed technologies. This position offers Senior React developers an opportunity to work on a product which has a real life effect.

• One of the largest operators in the World Lottery Association
• Join a multi-talented team of 200 engineers based in Paris and London

As a Senior Frontend developer, you will be developing new functionality to support the product roadmap and several surrounding tools, libraries and frameworks. You will also be contributing to the design, development and maintenance of the core product. You will work closely with Java developers to evolve the product.

You will need:

• Experience with React js with Redux
• Experience integrating JavaScript with RESTful services
• Experience writing unit tests for JavaScript (Jasmine, Jest)

Bonus if you have:

• Exposure to a variety of frameworks and libraries (such as jQuery, handlebars and Bootstrap)
• Experience with React Native and native mobile app development
• Experience using node.js to run an SPA, including common build processes

Not only do we firmly believe that the gaming industry needs to change to adapt to new digital technologies, we also believe in the development of our developers, providing adequate training and support to further your career!

You will receive:

• An excellent salary of (£65,000-£80,000)
• Work within an ambitious and growing team
• Be entitled to a rewards & benefits package
• Flexible hours