IT Infrastructure Engineer

Bristol

£225 - £280 p/day

To design, implement and maintain a secure, stable and responsive operating environment across the company's Linux and UNIX computer systems to support the business.
To maintain a stable, secure and efficient data centre and storage infrastructure. Whilst your specialism will be UNIX and Linux based systems, you will also be expected to work as integral member of the infrastructure team on windows based systems and general infrastructure projects.
To actively monitor all systems (regardless of operating system) and networks for security threats and vulnerabilities and to take appropriate action.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop a secure, stable and responsive operating environment to support the company's Linux and UNIX servers.
• Storage and Backup Administration. Utilising Netbackup and Veeam ensure that essential data is securely stored on networked servers and that the data is effectively backed-up and restore procedures are sufficient to support the business.
• Ensure the security and protection of the network and the servers.
• Manage, maintain and develop the remote access solutions and web proxy technologies.
• Ensure all UNIX and Linux systems and other non-windows systems under your control are patched appropriately in line with vendor specifications.
• Performance monitoring and alerting of all UNIX and Linux systems and other non-windows systems under your control using appropriate tools.
• Assess IT developments and their impact on the company's computing infrastructure, and supply technical input to implement new technologies that can provide business benefit.
• Work to continually improve the Infrastructure environment security, performance and reliability. This includes working on projects including new infrastructure roll outs and system upgrades.
• Contribute to an integrated infrastructure to enable data to be exchanged between all computing systems in the company and externally.
• Provide Documentation of server builds, including tested disaster recovery procedures and hand over training to Service Desk team.

Qualifications and Skills - Formal Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Degree Level or equivalent experience
• Certification in Linux/UNIX administration, or demonstrable equivalent experience

Desirable

• Formal qualification in ITIL.
• Project Management qualification - i.e. PRINCE 2 Practitioner
• Cyber security qualifications.
• NetBackup and Veeam experience
• Dell Compellent

Specific Functional Capability, Knowledge and Skills Required

Technically astute with a passion for IS/IT. Excellent communication skills. Knowledge and experience of how to manage risk in IS/IT in both an operational and development environment. Strong ability to influence others whilst maintaining honesty and integrity at all times. Organised and delivery focused with good project management skills. Advanced analytical & numeracy skills supported by strong Microsoft Office expertise. Self-starter who shows initiative as well as maintaining excellent collaboration with wider teams. Flexible approach and can manage diversity across technologies, people and international cultures. Vision, creativity and imagination for new solutions to continually improve.

Desirable

Good knowledge of manufacturing environments. Good knowledge of developing and/or managing a data-centre. Experience of the management and operation of IT environments including Server, SAN, and infrastructure design and build experience. Skype for Business and SharePoint Administration experience.

IT Infrastructure Engineer

Bristol

£225 - £280 p/day

To design, implement and maintain a secure, stable and responsive operating environment across the company's Linux and UNIX computer systems to support the business.
To maintain a stable, secure and efficient data centre and storage infrastructure. Whilst your specialism will be UNIX and Linux based systems, you will also be expected to work as integral member of the infrastructure team on windows based systems and general infrastructure projects.
To actively monitor all systems (regardless of operating system) and networks for security threats and vulnerabilities and to take appropriate action.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop a secure, stable and responsive operating environment to support the company's Linux and UNIX servers.
• Storage and Backup Administration. Utilising Netbackup and Veeam ensure that essential data is securely stored on networked servers and that the data is effectively backed-up and restore procedures are sufficient to support the business.
• Ensure the security and protection of the network and the servers.
• Manage, maintain and develop the remote access solutions and web proxy technologies.
• Ensure all UNIX and Linux systems and other non-windows systems under your control are patched appropriately in line with vendor specifications.
• Performance monitoring and alerting of all UNIX and Linux systems and other non-windows systems under your control using appropriate tools.
• Assess IT developments and their impact on the company's computing infrastructure, and supply technical input to implement new technologies that can provide business benefit.
• Work to continually improve the Infrastructure environment security, performance and reliability. This includes working on projects including new infrastructure roll outs and system upgrades.
• Contribute to an integrated infrastructure to enable data to be exchanged between all computing systems in the company and externally.
• Provide Documentation of server builds, including tested disaster recovery procedures and hand over training to Service Desk team.

Qualifications and Skills - Formal Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Degree Level or equivalent experience
• Certification in Linux/UNIX administration, or demonstrable equivalent experience

Desirable

• Formal qualification in ITIL.
• Project Management qualification - i.e. PRINCE 2 Practitioner
• Cyber security qualifications.
• NetBackup and Veeam experience
• Dell Compellent

Specific Functional Capability, Knowledge and Skills Required

Technically astute with a passion for IS/IT. Excellent communication skills. Knowledge and experience of how to manage risk in IS/IT in both an operational and development environment. Strong ability to influence others whilst maintaining honesty and integrity at all times. Organised and delivery focused with good project management skills. Advanced analytical & numeracy skills supported by strong Microsoft Office expertise. Self-starter who shows initiative as well as maintaining excellent collaboration with wider teams. Flexible approach and can manage diversity across technologies, people and international cultures. Vision, creativity and imagination for new solutions to continually improve.

Desirable

Good knowledge of manufacturing environments. Good knowledge of developing and/or managing a data-centre. Experience of the management and operation of IT environments including Server, SAN, and infrastructure design and build experience. Skype for Business and SharePoint Administration experience.

Murex Project Support - Investment Bank - City of London - 6 Month Contract - £495 per day

A leading Investment Bank based in the City of London are seeking a Murex project support person to join their ever expanding team.

You will working as a Murex project support person, where you will be assisting with the day to day support of the front office teams, on an oracle database supporting their Murex applications.

Experience required:

• Murex support
• Linux
• Shell Scripting
• Oracle
• Patch Management
• Windows

You will get the chance to work for a great market leading Investment Bank, where you will get the chance to further your career, working for a diverse a friendly organisation.

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Murex Project Support - Investment Bank - City of London - 6 Month Contract - £495 per day

A leading Investment Bank based in the City of London are seeking a Murex project support person to join their ever expanding team.

You will working as a Murex project support person, where you will be assisting with the day to day support of the front office teams, on an oracle database supporting their Murex applications.

Experience required:

• Murex support
• Linux
• Shell Scripting
• Oracle
• Patch Management
• Windows

You will get the chance to work for a great market leading Investment Bank, where you will get the chance to further your career, working for a diverse a friendly organisation.

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Role title: Full Stack Software Engineer Contractor (Java 11, Kotlin, Angular7)

Salary: £700-£800 per day (Inside IR35)

Duration: 6 months
Location: London (Zone1)

We are currently hiring for a talented Software Engineer to join a market-leading FinTech. Whilst they are a very established company they have a relatively new and modern engineering department in London. As a result, they can offer you greenfield development and complex problems to solve whilst enjoying a high level of autonomy and influence within the Spotify squads model.

Their SaaS platform is built with a microservices architecture with multiple web/mobile applications built on top. They use Java 11 on the back end and they are leveraging a combination of open source and third-party libraries/frameworks such as Eureka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Other technologies they use include Kotlin, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, CloudBees, Angular 6/8, TypeScript and many more!

Essential requirements:

- Experience with Java 8 and Java 11

- Good coding ability with JavaScript and experience using Angular 6/7

- Experience with both relational and non-relational databases

- Experience with various cloud-based technologies

- Experience with REST API design and microservices architecture.

- Understanding of HTTP, Caching and headers etc...

- Desire to work in a cross functional agile team

If you want to learn more, please apply with your CV!

Role title: Full Stack Software Engineer Contractor (Java 11, Kotlin, Angular7)

Salary: £700-£800 per day (Inside IR35)

Duration: 6 months
Location: London (Zone1)

We are currently hiring for a talented Software Engineer to join a market-leading FinTech. Whilst they are a very established company they have a relatively new and modern engineering department in London. As a result, they can offer you greenfield development and complex problems to solve whilst enjoying a high level of autonomy and influence within the Spotify squads model.

Their SaaS platform is built with a microservices architecture with multiple web/mobile applications built on top. They use Java 11 on the back end and they are leveraging a combination of open source and third-party libraries/frameworks such as Eureka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Other technologies they use include Kotlin, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, CloudBees, Angular 6/8, TypeScript and many more!

Essential requirements:

- Experience with Java 8 and Java 11

- Good coding ability with JavaScript and experience using Angular 6/7

- Experience with both relational and non-relational databases

- Experience with various cloud-based technologies

- Experience with REST API design and microservices architecture.

- Understanding of HTTP, Caching and headers etc...

- Desire to work in a cross functional agile team

If you want to learn more, please apply with your CV!

Javascript Developer - Full stack, NodeJS, React, Agile - Inside IR35

You will help to develop the digital platform that delivers services to our users, and you will:

• assist in the planning and development of our digital services platform
• assist in the development of individual tools and services within our digital services platform
• work with other disciplines to understand what needs to be built
• support other digital colleagues
• iterate and refactor your coding and those of colleagues to continuously improve the digital offering
• be responsible for the operational stability of the products you build, and ensure the on-going robustness and resilience of those products.

In this role you will be:

• responsible for development activities
• participate in the definition and analysis of user requirements and recommend improvements to current business solutions
• develop technical solutions to meet business requirements, ensuring compliance with best practice
• maintain and support the existing digital platform incident management, problem resolution, and implementation of enhancements to existing solutions
• ensure the analysis and design of tools and services adhere to appropriate standards and best practices including the policies and guidance of the Government Digital Service
• ensure existing documentation is up to date at all times

Essential knowledge, skills and experience

You will have experience of:

• working in an Agile environment
• working with continuous integration and continuous deployment
• working in a team using GitHub
• client-side JavaScript (in modern web browsers)
• server-side JavaScript (Node.js)
• working in a peer-reviewed environment

Desirable knowledge, skills and experience

Ideally, you will also have some experience with:

• serverless architecture, in particular Google Cloud and Firebase
• Single Page Applications, in particular Vue.js or React
• JavaScript testing frameworks, in particular Jest
• testing serverless architecture and Single Page Applications

Javascript Developer - Full stack, NodeJS, React, Agile - Inside IR35

You will help to develop the digital platform that delivers services to our users, and you will:

• assist in the planning and development of our digital services platform
• assist in the development of individual tools and services within our digital services platform
• work with other disciplines to understand what needs to be built
• support other digital colleagues
• iterate and refactor your coding and those of colleagues to continuously improve the digital offering
• be responsible for the operational stability of the products you build, and ensure the on-going robustness and resilience of those products.

In this role you will be:

• responsible for development activities
• participate in the definition and analysis of user requirements and recommend improvements to current business solutions
• develop technical solutions to meet business requirements, ensuring compliance with best practice
• maintain and support the existing digital platform incident management, problem resolution, and implementation of enhancements to existing solutions
• ensure the analysis and design of tools and services adhere to appropriate standards and best practices including the policies and guidance of the Government Digital Service
• ensure existing documentation is up to date at all times

Essential knowledge, skills and experience

You will have experience of:

• working in an Agile environment
• working with continuous integration and continuous deployment
• working in a team using GitHub
• client-side JavaScript (in modern web browsers)
• server-side JavaScript (Node.js)
• working in a peer-reviewed environment

Desirable knowledge, skills and experience

Ideally, you will also have some experience with:

• serverless architecture, in particular Google Cloud and Firebase
• Single Page Applications, in particular Vue.js or React
• JavaScript testing frameworks, in particular Jest
• testing serverless architecture and Single Page Applications

Role: Sr. Project Manager (SAP)

Location: Netherlands

Contract: 3 months

Job Description:

SAP SD - Sales and Distribution-L3 (Mandatory)

Years Of Experience Needed - 10+ years

Project Management-L3

As a Senior Consultant, you should have depth and breadth of technical / functional/ domain know-how. You should be able to work independently on defining solution for a mid side, complex projects or contribute to solution of a program. You are expected to specialize in a technology/domain/functional competency area. You should be able to prepare a road map for the competency/industry segment in form of competitive service offerings. You should get involved in practice reusable component inventory and knowledge management. You are expected to represent the practice/domain in deal negotiations in the sales support cycle, or lead delivery issue resolutions when required. You should get involved in assignments in large programs, help in defining business and technological solutions which help customer design and implement new generation business processes and organization capabilities.

Minimum work experience:>10 Years

Proficiency in English Language is Desirable

Role: Sr. Project Manager (SAP)

Location: Netherlands

Contract: 3 months

Job Description:

SAP SD - Sales and Distribution-L3 (Mandatory)

Years Of Experience Needed - 10+ years

Project Management-L3

As a Senior Consultant, you should have depth and breadth of technical / functional/ domain know-how. You should be able to work independently on defining solution for a mid side, complex projects or contribute to solution of a program. You are expected to specialize in a technology/domain/functional competency area. You should be able to prepare a road map for the competency/industry segment in form of competitive service offerings. You should get involved in practice reusable component inventory and knowledge management. You are expected to represent the practice/domain in deal negotiations in the sales support cycle, or lead delivery issue resolutions when required. You should get involved in assignments in large programs, help in defining business and technological solutions which help customer design and implement new generation business processes and organization capabilities.

Minimum work experience:>10 Years

Proficiency in English Language is Desirable