• Working with the Office Manager and Accounts team to purchase equipment
• General support to the Office manager
• Providing advice on product lead-times
• Managing channel agreements with suppliers
• Negotiating the best purchase price with suppliers
• Work with the Service Delivery Manager to purchase licences, renewals and revocations
• Stock control, including inventory creation, equipment issue and receipts
• Manage packaging, labelling and couriers including tracking deliveries and updating the customer
• Dealing with faulty items and returns covered by a warranty

• Proven experience and/or qualifications in logistics management, supply chain or business administration
• Proven experience and/or qualifications in IT product management
• Experience/Qualification in CISCO, or a desire to self-learn the CISCO product purchase and licensing process
• Good IT skills, including MS Word, MS Excel, the use of database
• Good communication skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• A high degree of accuracy
• Reliable, Motivated, proactive and a team player

• Working with the Office Manager and Accounts team to purchase equipment
• General support to the Office manager
• Providing advice on product lead-times
• Managing channel agreements with suppliers
• Negotiating the best purchase price with suppliers
• Work with the Service Delivery Manager to purchase licences, renewals and revocations
• Stock control, including inventory creation, equipment issue and receipts
• Manage packaging, labelling and couriers including tracking deliveries and updating the customer
• Dealing with faulty items and returns covered by a warranty

• Proven experience and/or qualifications in logistics management, supply chain or business administration
• Proven experience and/or qualifications in IT product management
• Experience/Qualification in CISCO, or a desire to self-learn the CISCO product purchase and licensing process
• Good IT skills, including MS Word, MS Excel, the use of database
• Good communication skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• A high degree of accuracy
• Reliable, Motivated, proactive and a team player

Day Webster, one of the largest Recruitment Agency’s in the UK, is seeking an extremely talented Full Stack C# .Net MVC Developer. You will be part of a team of developers working at the forefront of recruitment technology. Responsible for designing, building, testing and documenting large, maintainable, end-to-end web systems.

Your primary focus will be development of code, design and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the Front End. You should be able to deliver in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible.

Top notch communication skills are essential.

Salary - negotiable.

Experience - min 1-year post qualification.

Role:-

• Design, develop, maintain and optimise programs using a variety of technologies and applications including, but not limited to: C#, .NET MVC 5, LINQ, Entity Framework 6/Core, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, BootStrap, SignalR, SQL Server and Transact-SQL, Git.
• Design functional websites from visual concepts adhering to standards and industry best practice methodologies
• Provide web application interfaces for Front End developers to consume.
• Design, develop, maintain and optimise relational and non-relational database systems and queries.
• Design, develop and maintain mission-critical communications systems.
• ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the Front End
• RPA experience useful

Experience Required for the Full Stack C# .Net MVC 5 Developer

• 12mths min post Grad commercial experience
• Proven track record of C# .NET MVC 5 software development, and experience with developing software for SQL Server.
• Experience with delivering large and complex (yet maintainable) systems.
• A working knowledge of Front End technologies and platforms will be required, such as JavaScript, JQuery, BootStrap, HTML, and CSS.
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimising output to match the specific platform

Day Webster, one of the largest Recruitment Agency’s in the UK, is seeking an extremely talented Full Stack C# .Net MVC Developer. You will be part of a team of developers working at the forefront of recruitment technology. Responsible for designing, building, testing and documenting large, maintainable, end-to-end web systems.

Your primary focus will be development of code, design and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the Front End. You should be able to deliver in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible.

Top notch communication skills are essential.

Salary - negotiable.

Experience - min 1-year post qualification.

Role:-

• Design, develop, maintain and optimise programs using a variety of technologies and applications including, but not limited to: C#, .NET MVC 5, LINQ, Entity Framework 6/Core, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, BootStrap, SignalR, SQL Server and Transact-SQL, Git.
• Design functional websites from visual concepts adhering to standards and industry best practice methodologies
• Provide web application interfaces for Front End developers to consume.
• Design, develop, maintain and optimise relational and non-relational database systems and queries.
• Design, develop and maintain mission-critical communications systems.
• ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the Front End
• RPA experience useful

Experience Required for the Full Stack C# .Net MVC 5 Developer

• 12mths min post Grad commercial experience
• Proven track record of C# .NET MVC 5 software development, and experience with developing software for SQL Server.
• Experience with delivering large and complex (yet maintainable) systems.
• A working knowledge of Front End technologies and platforms will be required, such as JavaScript, JQuery, BootStrap, HTML, and CSS.
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimising output to match the specific platform

To see more Mandarin/Cantonese vacancies please follow us on WeChat: teamchinapf AND pfteamchina

Your New Job Title: Mandarin Chinese Speaking IT Assistant

The Skills You'll Need:

Basic IT knowledge, data mining / AI / Big data experience preferred

Your New Salary: c£25k

Location: Central London

Who You'll Be Working for: an international bank

What You'll be Doing Each Day:

• Assist to support the bank’s employees with IT requirements to ensure they have the right technology and IT support for their day-to-day work.
• Assist to support the bank’s IT infrastructure and system maintenance.
• In addition to these duties, the Employee may from time to time be required to undertake additional or other duties within his/her capacity as necessary to meet the needs of the bank's business.
• Ad hoc requirements.

The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Degree Holder minimum.
• Major in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Automation, Finance engineering, etc.
• Fluent in both Mandarin and English would be a bonus
• Computer languages like Python, VBA, PHP.
• Database knowledge like MYSQL, MSSQL.
• Problem Solving ability.
• Keen to learn new technology.
• Data Mining, AI, Big Data experience will be highly preferred.

Job status: Permanent

Start date: ASAP

Working hours: 9 to 5

Please view all our vacancies at www.people-first.co.uk

Please follow us on Linkedin: people-first-team-china

We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

People First (Recruitment) Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent and fixed term contract recruitment and as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Please note that by applying for this job you accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy which can be found on our website.

To see more Mandarin/Cantonese vacancies please follow us on WeChat: teamchinapf AND pfteamchina

Your New Job Title: Mandarin Chinese Speaking IT Assistant

The Skills You'll Need:

Basic IT knowledge, data mining / AI / Big data experience preferred

Your New Salary: c£25k

Location: Central London

Who You'll Be Working for: an international bank

What You'll be Doing Each Day:

• Assist to support the bank’s employees with IT requirements to ensure they have the right technology and IT support for their day-to-day work.
• Assist to support the bank’s IT infrastructure and system maintenance.
• In addition to these duties, the Employee may from time to time be required to undertake additional or other duties within his/her capacity as necessary to meet the needs of the bank's business.
• Ad hoc requirements.

The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Degree Holder minimum.
• Major in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Automation, Finance engineering, etc.
• Fluent in both Mandarin and English would be a bonus
• Computer languages like Python, VBA, PHP.
• Database knowledge like MYSQL, MSSQL.
• Problem Solving ability.
• Keen to learn new technology.
• Data Mining, AI, Big Data experience will be highly preferred.

Job status: Permanent

Start date: ASAP

Working hours: 9 to 5

Please view all our vacancies at www.people-first.co.uk

Please follow us on Linkedin: people-first-team-china

We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

People First (Recruitment) Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent and fixed term contract recruitment and as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Please note that by applying for this job you accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy which can be found on our website.

Job reference number 119647

Senior Security Engineer

Full time

Permanent

Royal Mail Farringdon

We have an exciting new role for a Senior Security Engineer based up in our Farringdon office.

Senior Security Engineer – Cyber Security

Job Purpose

RMG Cyber Security Operations primary functions are to protect information assets and detect, analyse and respond to security information and events. In support of these objectives, RMG Cyber Security Operations are looking to augment their existing team through the addition of a Senior Security Engineer whose primary functions will be to:

• Lead and oversee the maintenance and development of key security technologies that provide protective, detective, and analytical capabilities across RMG’s technology estate.
• Provide senior Information security technical SME expertise to ensure successful delivery and information security project workstreams into the BAU Cyber Security Operations function.

Key Accountabilities

• Cyber Security Operations. Working under the direction and guidance of the Head of Security Engineering and following the Security Engineering strategy, maintain and develop key security technologies within the RMG estate to ensure that the Cyber Security Operations team have optimized, accurate access to the required toolsets and information.
• Technology. Working closely with Head of Security Engineering, security architects and technology operations teams to ensure the correct operation, and optimal configuration of supporting security technologies.
• Value. Lead technical teams to enable and develop appropriate levels of protection and logging from new and existing security technologies, maximizing their value to the Cyber Security Operations team.
• Reporting. Deliver and present appropriate KPI, KRI and other requisite reporting to the Heads of Security Engineering and Cyber Security Operations and act as an SME for projects and initiatives relevant to the role.
• Stakeholder Management. Work closely with RMG technology teams, providing guidance and direction to ensure the correct placement, maintenance and support of security technologies relevant to the role. Build professional relationships to ensure cooperation between stakeholders and Cyber Security Operations.
• Supplier Management. Lead and direct third-party suppliers to ensure that delivery, maintenance and support of security technologies is provided effectively and within project timescales and service level agreements.

Key dimensions

• Influencing Skills and judgement. Strong leadership, influencing and negotiating skills to build trust\confidence, and using judgement to make risk based recommendations and decisions within parameters.

• Analytical Skills. Excellent analytical skills and the ability to see the big picture and apply the relevant detail to it. Ability to cut through the noise and provide clear and appropriate recommendations and direction at pace and under stress.

• Communications Skills. Demonstrable strong ability to clearly represent the implication of threats to the business in both verbal, written, and presentational form and to make recommendations contributing to, or solely providing senior leadership decisions. Articulate a clear ability to innovate and tailor messages and delivery methods for different audiences.

• Calmness under pressure. A cool head required to think clearly under pressure and to make good timely decisions whilst keeping in pace with the emerging picture as it applies to RMG’s business risk appetite and context. Must be able to inspire confidence at the most senior levels of the firm, demonstrating control during chaotic events.

Key competencies:

• Strong experience in a similar role within a large, complex and technologically diverse organisation.
• Experience of deploying, maintaining and configuring a wide range of security technologies with a large and complex environment
• Must have in depth technical knowledge of security technologies including but not limited to:
  
  • SIEM solutions
  • DLP Solutions
  • Firewall Solutions
  • Cloud Security Centres
  • Firewalls
  • IPS
  • CTI solutions
  • Vulnerability Scanners

Qualifications

• Computer Science or Cyber Security Degree or Equivalent is desired.

Technical and professional qualifications relevant to security technologies.

About Royal Mail:

The Royal Mail Technology team is passionate about delivering high-quality products and outstanding digital experiences to our customers. Technology is instrumental in helping us achieve our objective to be recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe

With a workforce of almost 160,000, our core network handles c.14 billion letters and c.1.8 billion parcels a year, delivering to c. 30 million addresses, 6 days a week. Our technology therefore needs to operate at scale. As a data driven business, with the largest PDA estate in the country, our systems need to handle more than 60m scan events and 1.4bn data points per day.

Royal Mail is committed to building an internal development and testing capability, driving digital innovation across the business enabling our business to transform at pace. You will be working for a brand that’s a household name and a critical part of the UK’s infrastructure.

Our technology vision is to “Enable, Digitise, Realise”:

• Enable - Create environments where open conversations are the norm and where teams work alongside each other to complement skills.
• Digitise - Utilise Technology to support the business. Making Technology thinking integral to the business. Increase the level of automation and implement connected systems.
• Realise - Invest in technology and keep taking all opportunities to consolidate systems. Focus on removing complexity within our systems and enable our cost base to decrease.

We are fully embracing Agile and DevOps, and using tools such as Alexa, Azure and Google Cloud, Chatbot, Microsoft .NET Core, Angular and mobile apps.

Our priorities include:

Job reference number 119647

Senior Security Engineer

Full time

Permanent

Royal Mail Farringdon

We have an exciting new role for a Senior Security Engineer based up in our Farringdon office.

Senior Security Engineer – Cyber Security

Job Purpose

RMG Cyber Security Operations primary functions are to protect information assets and detect, analyse and respond to security information and events. In support of these objectives, RMG Cyber Security Operations are looking to augment their existing team through the addition of a Senior Security Engineer whose primary functions will be to:

• Lead and oversee the maintenance and development of key security technologies that provide protective, detective, and analytical capabilities across RMG’s technology estate.
• Provide senior Information security technical SME expertise to ensure successful delivery and information security project workstreams into the BAU Cyber Security Operations function.

Key Accountabilities

• Cyber Security Operations. Working under the direction and guidance of the Head of Security Engineering and following the Security Engineering strategy, maintain and develop key security technologies within the RMG estate to ensure that the Cyber Security Operations team have optimized, accurate access to the required toolsets and information.
• Technology. Working closely with Head of Security Engineering, security architects and technology operations teams to ensure the correct operation, and optimal configuration of supporting security technologies.
• Value. Lead technical teams to enable and develop appropriate levels of protection and logging from new and existing security technologies, maximizing their value to the Cyber Security Operations team.
• Reporting. Deliver and present appropriate KPI, KRI and other requisite reporting to the Heads of Security Engineering and Cyber Security Operations and act as an SME for projects and initiatives relevant to the role.
• Stakeholder Management. Work closely with RMG technology teams, providing guidance and direction to ensure the correct placement, maintenance and support of security technologies relevant to the role. Build professional relationships to ensure cooperation between stakeholders and Cyber Security Operations.
• Supplier Management. Lead and direct third-party suppliers to ensure that delivery, maintenance and support of security technologies is provided effectively and within project timescales and service level agreements.

Key dimensions

• Influencing Skills and judgement. Strong leadership, influencing and negotiating skills to build trust\confidence, and using judgement to make risk based recommendations and decisions within parameters.

• Analytical Skills. Excellent analytical skills and the ability to see the big picture and apply the relevant detail to it. Ability to cut through the noise and provide clear and appropriate recommendations and direction at pace and under stress.

• Communications Skills. Demonstrable strong ability to clearly represent the implication of threats to the business in both verbal, written, and presentational form and to make recommendations contributing to, or solely providing senior leadership decisions. Articulate a clear ability to innovate and tailor messages and delivery methods for different audiences.

• Calmness under pressure. A cool head required to think clearly under pressure and to make good timely decisions whilst keeping in pace with the emerging picture as it applies to RMG’s business risk appetite and context. Must be able to inspire confidence at the most senior levels of the firm, demonstrating control during chaotic events.

Key competencies:

• Strong experience in a similar role within a large, complex and technologically diverse organisation.
• Experience of deploying, maintaining and configuring a wide range of security technologies with a large and complex environment
• Must have in depth technical knowledge of security technologies including but not limited to:
  
  • SIEM solutions
  • DLP Solutions
  • Firewall Solutions
  • Cloud Security Centres
  • Firewalls
  • IPS
  • CTI solutions
  • Vulnerability Scanners

Qualifications

• Computer Science or Cyber Security Degree or Equivalent is desired.

Technical and professional qualifications relevant to security technologies.

About Royal Mail:

The Royal Mail Technology team is passionate about delivering high-quality products and outstanding digital experiences to our customers. Technology is instrumental in helping us achieve our objective to be recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe

With a workforce of almost 160,000, our core network handles c.14 billion letters and c.1.8 billion parcels a year, delivering to c. 30 million addresses, 6 days a week. Our technology therefore needs to operate at scale. As a data driven business, with the largest PDA estate in the country, our systems need to handle more than 60m scan events and 1.4bn data points per day.

Royal Mail is committed to building an internal development and testing capability, driving digital innovation across the business enabling our business to transform at pace. You will be working for a brand that’s a household name and a critical part of the UK’s infrastructure.

Our technology vision is to “Enable, Digitise, Realise”:

• Enable - Create environments where open conversations are the norm and where teams work alongside each other to complement skills.
• Digitise - Utilise Technology to support the business. Making Technology thinking integral to the business. Increase the level of automation and implement connected systems.
• Realise - Invest in technology and keep taking all opportunities to consolidate systems. Focus on removing complexity within our systems and enable our cost base to decrease.

We are fully embracing Agile and DevOps, and using tools such as Alexa, Azure and Google Cloud, Chatbot, Microsoft .NET Core, Angular and mobile apps.

Our priorities include: