Looking for something different? Do you have strong IT management skills? Do you want to join one of the UK’s leading NSI Alarm Receiving Centres as an IT Manager?

As IT Manager, you will be full of ideas, have the ambition to identify business opportunities and above all be able to lead new projects to roll out IT infrastructures across various technologies.

Duties of the IT Manager:

• Effective stakeholder management and communication to ensure all levels are engaged in IT Services, their use, and improvement
• Strategic development of service and service improvement
• Ownership, governance, and management of services
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues related to internal IT - including PC’s, servers, routers, printers and software applications
• Create and maintain a strategic direction for IT Services in line with organisational strategy
• Provide remote customer support to security installers and end-users
• Liaising with external parties in relation to software platforms Microsoft SQL and SQL databases
• Liaising with external agencies, such as Webwayone, Emizon and software vendors to achieve company requirements
• Ensure service quality and integrity alongside a variety of projects including system implementations
• Ensure that all documentation associated to the IT Service is in place and regularly maintained

Salary:£37000 - £45000 DOE

Hours: Between 8:30 am - 5:30 pm (flexible) Monday to Friday

(you may be required on rare occasions to support out of hours on-call - this time will be paid back in lieu)

Desirable:

• 2+ years of experience working in IT operations
• Experience of IT service management across the service life cycle (end-to-end)
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience. CompTIA A+ certification or equivalent.

• Knowledge of:

- Zyxel
- VOIP Telephony
- Mimecast/other email spam filter vendors
- HyperV
- VMWarevirtualisation

Please apply today to discuss further

Looking for something different? Do you have strong IT management skills? Do you want to join one of the UK’s leading NSI Alarm Receiving Centres as an IT Manager?

As IT Manager, you will be full of ideas, have the ambition to identify business opportunities and above all be able to lead new projects to roll out IT infrastructures across various technologies.

Duties of the IT Manager:

• Effective stakeholder management and communication to ensure all levels are engaged in IT Services, their use, and improvement
• Strategic development of service and service improvement
• Ownership, governance, and management of services
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues related to internal IT - including PC’s, servers, routers, printers and software applications
• Create and maintain a strategic direction for IT Services in line with organisational strategy
• Provide remote customer support to security installers and end-users
• Liaising with external parties in relation to software platforms Microsoft SQL and SQL databases
• Liaising with external agencies, such as Webwayone, Emizon and software vendors to achieve company requirements
• Ensure service quality and integrity alongside a variety of projects including system implementations
• Ensure that all documentation associated to the IT Service is in place and regularly maintained

Salary:£37000 - £45000 DOE

Hours: Between 8:30 am - 5:30 pm (flexible) Monday to Friday

(you may be required on rare occasions to support out of hours on-call - this time will be paid back in lieu)

Desirable:

• 2+ years of experience working in IT operations
• Experience of IT service management across the service life cycle (end-to-end)
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience. CompTIA A+ certification or equivalent.

• Knowledge of:

- Zyxel
- VOIP Telephony
- Mimecast/other email spam filter vendors
- HyperV
- VMWarevirtualisation

Please apply today to discuss further

Cost Engineering Consultant - MOD

Our client are aprofessional services and technology partner to global, defence, energy, space and intelligence & communications programmes.

As a Cost Engineering Consultant, you will be providing the cost estimates and engineering support to help the UK MOD and industry make better decisions. This may be working autonomously within customer teams to support business cases with analytical thinking and outcomes, estimating of procurement and in-service costs, or leading workshops with customers and Subject Matter Experts to improve accuracy and understanding of project costs.

Responsibilities for the Cost Engineering Consultant will include:

• Delivering technical consulting projects.
• Identifying and winning work within mission, business and safety critical programmes and systems.
• Building new relationships and maintaining the relationships with their current customers.
• Using and developing problem structuring methods and a variety of tools and techniques, including novel approaches where required.
• Support the project teams through review of plans and proposals ensuring value for money and ensuring delivery of plans is as required.
• Working organically in customer teams to deliver rapid turn-around analysis or using one of the company’s offices as a team hub from which to plan and deliver tasks.

Essential Requirements:

• Knowledge of Investment Appraisals, Trade Studies, Business Cases, and Cost Benefit Analysis to support stage gate approvals.
• Good knowledge of statistics in support of parametric modelling, sampling and risk assessment.
• Independent Cost Estimating. Experience in methods of estimating including; detailed, comparative and parametric techniques in support of both hardware and software systems acquisitions and through life support.
• Understanding and developing cost estimates that take account of; development, manufacture and support environments; allowances; overheads; profit, Government Furnished Assets & Resources, historical costs, and Estimating Maturity Assessment levels.
• Cost Model Development. Development of robust cost models that satisfy independent Verification & Validation scrutiny.
• Cost / Schedule Risk Analysis. Knowledge of quantitative assessment of uncertainty, cost and schedule risk assessment.
• Independent Verification and Validation audit against 3rd party supplied cost models.
• Knowledge of Earned Value Management. Understand the techniques and formulas used to create EV outputs. Have experience in managing data and processing the outcomes to deliver analysis of results.
• Using logical and analytical thinking to solve complex problems for the client. Strives to deliver ahead of targets.
• Working in a client’s team to influence strategic decision makers whilst delivering practical solutions.
• Be a trusted individual who can perform when working as part of a team or when acting independently with support from colleagues.
• Be articulate with good presentation and written communication skills.
• Be a member of an appropriate professional body (such as ICEAA, ACostE) and have a desire for further professional development.
• Be dependable, committed and have a genuine enthusiasm to contribute to the growth of a successful business.
• The ideal candidate will be educated to degree level (or have experience that will enable them to meet ICEAA or AcostE membership criteria).

Preferred but not essential:

• Knowledge of and application of Visual Basic.
• Experience as a cost engineering consultant in DE&S, wider MOD or public sector project environment.
• Application of Risk tools such as @Risk.

Travel UK wide

Keywords - Cost Engineering, Defence, MOD, DE&S, ICEAA, ACostE, @Risk, Risk tools, Analysis, Risk Management, EVM

Cost Engineering Consultant - MOD

Salary - £35K-£55K plus 25 days holiday, Pension, Benefits

Location - Bristol

Cost Engineering Consultant - MOD

Our client are aprofessional services and technology partner to global, defence, energy, space and intelligence & communications programmes.

As a Cost Engineering Consultant, you will be providing the cost estimates and engineering support to help the UK MOD and industry make better decisions. This may be working autonomously within customer teams to support business cases with analytical thinking and outcomes, estimating of procurement and in-service costs, or leading workshops with customers and Subject Matter Experts to improve accuracy and understanding of project costs.

Responsibilities for the Cost Engineering Consultant will include:

• Delivering technical consulting projects.
• Identifying and winning work within mission, business and safety critical programmes and systems.
• Building new relationships and maintaining the relationships with their current customers.
• Using and developing problem structuring methods and a variety of tools and techniques, including novel approaches where required.
• Support the project teams through review of plans and proposals ensuring value for money and ensuring delivery of plans is as required.
• Working organically in customer teams to deliver rapid turn-around analysis or using one of the company’s offices as a team hub from which to plan and deliver tasks.

Essential Requirements:

• Knowledge of Investment Appraisals, Trade Studies, Business Cases, and Cost Benefit Analysis to support stage gate approvals.
• Good knowledge of statistics in support of parametric modelling, sampling and risk assessment.
• Independent Cost Estimating. Experience in methods of estimating including; detailed, comparative and parametric techniques in support of both hardware and software systems acquisitions and through life support.
• Understanding and developing cost estimates that take account of; development, manufacture and support environments; allowances; overheads; profit, Government Furnished Assets & Resources, historical costs, and Estimating Maturity Assessment levels.
• Cost Model Development. Development of robust cost models that satisfy independent Verification & Validation scrutiny.
• Cost / Schedule Risk Analysis. Knowledge of quantitative assessment of uncertainty, cost and schedule risk assessment.
• Independent Verification and Validation audit against 3rd party supplied cost models.
• Knowledge of Earned Value Management. Understand the techniques and formulas used to create EV outputs. Have experience in managing data and processing the outcomes to deliver analysis of results.
• Using logical and analytical thinking to solve complex problems for the client. Strives to deliver ahead of targets.
• Working in a client’s team to influence strategic decision makers whilst delivering practical solutions.
• Be a trusted individual who can perform when working as part of a team or when acting independently with support from colleagues.
• Be articulate with good presentation and written communication skills.
• Be a member of an appropriate professional body (such as ICEAA, ACostE) and have a desire for further professional development.
• Be dependable, committed and have a genuine enthusiasm to contribute to the growth of a successful business.
• The ideal candidate will be educated to degree level (or have experience that will enable them to meet ICEAA or AcostE membership criteria).

Preferred but not essential:

• Knowledge of and application of Visual Basic.
• Experience as a cost engineering consultant in DE&S, wider MOD or public sector project environment.
• Application of Risk tools such as @Risk.

Travel UK wide

Keywords - Cost Engineering, Defence, MOD, DE&S, ICEAA, ACostE, @Risk, Risk tools, Analysis, Risk Management, EVM

Cost Engineering Consultant - MOD

Salary - £35K-£55K plus 25 days holiday, Pension, Benefits

Location - Bristol

Reports Analyst / Information Analyst - T-SQL/SSRS - Law Firm - Salary circa £40k plus - London

Our global Legal client is searching for an individual pursuing a finance and IT related reporting services (SSRS) position - candidates with SQL, Visual Studio and SSRS skills are a must.

In the role, you will be working with the finance and business heads to gather data, work with the finance and IT teams, producing extensive data reports and systems. You will help to develop reporting services, evaluate data, update change control registers (ISO 27001).

The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills in order to provide customer service to business colleagues.

Candidates with strong SSRS and SQL knowledge are highly desirable.

Location: Central London

Requirements:

• Excellent SQL (SSRS) (2012 or above) reporting skills
• Excellent Visual Studio (2012 or above) query writing skills
• Knowledge of SOS or other Progress-based accounting package an advantage
• problem-solving
• Excellent financial and commercial skills
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Experience in training and rolling out new reports/tools desirable
• Ability to communicate persuasively and concisely at all levels
• Good decision-making capabilities
• Reports Developer - SQL/SSRS - Law Firm - Salary circa £40k plus - London

Reports Analyst / Information Analyst - T-SQL/SSRS - Law Firm - Salary circa £40k plus - London

Our global Legal client is searching for an individual pursuing a finance and IT related reporting services (SSRS) position - candidates with SQL, Visual Studio and SSRS skills are a must.

In the role, you will be working with the finance and business heads to gather data, work with the finance and IT teams, producing extensive data reports and systems. You will help to develop reporting services, evaluate data, update change control registers (ISO 27001).

The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills in order to provide customer service to business colleagues.

Candidates with strong SSRS and SQL knowledge are highly desirable.

Location: Central London

Requirements:

• Excellent SQL (SSRS) (2012 or above) reporting skills
• Excellent Visual Studio (2012 or above) query writing skills
• Knowledge of SOS or other Progress-based accounting package an advantage
• problem-solving
• Excellent financial and commercial skills
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Experience in training and rolling out new reports/tools desirable
• Ability to communicate persuasively and concisely at all levels
• Good decision-making capabilities
• Reports Developer - SQL/SSRS - Law Firm - Salary circa £40k plus - London

DevOps Engineer (Azure, .NET)

Location: Filton, Bristol

Salary: £37-43,000

Our client is looking either for candidates with Azure DevOps experience or .NET Developers with some continuous integration and/or continuous deployment experience looking to move into a DevOps Engineer role.

Training will be provided for candidates without Azure experience, but in this case, candidates must have .NET experience with some experience of continuous integration and/or continuous deployment experience.

DevOps Engineer (Azure, .NET) - Key Skills:

- Microsoft Azure

- .NET programming experience.

- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.

- Must have good written and oral English communication skills.

- Must be eligible to work in the UK.

About the Role:

As a DevOps Engineer your responsibilities will include;

- Maintaining and developing CI/CD pipelines.

- Building of environments in Microsoft Azure.

- Preparing release plans and executing releases.

For more information on this DevOps Engineer role (Azure, .NET), please apply now for an interview.

DevOps Engineer (Azure, .NET)

Location: Filton, Bristol

Salary: £37-43,000

Our client is looking either for candidates with Azure DevOps experience or .NET Developers with some continuous integration and/or continuous deployment experience looking to move into a DevOps Engineer role.

Training will be provided for candidates without Azure experience, but in this case, candidates must have .NET experience with some experience of continuous integration and/or continuous deployment experience.

DevOps Engineer (Azure, .NET) - Key Skills:

- Microsoft Azure

- .NET programming experience.

- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.

- Must have good written and oral English communication skills.

- Must be eligible to work in the UK.

About the Role:

As a DevOps Engineer your responsibilities will include;

- Maintaining and developing CI/CD pipelines.

- Building of environments in Microsoft Azure.

- Preparing release plans and executing releases.

For more information on this DevOps Engineer role (Azure, .NET), please apply now for an interview.