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. 

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Full Stack Developer (React & Node)
London/Remote
£50,000 - £65,000

Working with a very innovative start up based in London, you will be joining as a Full Stack Developer working on building new functions for an existing platform and improving/maintaining existing components of the platform.

Joining a small team, it is vital that you are strong at problem solving and be confident having responsibility and making decisions on how the product moves forward.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is looking to have the flexibility of working within a start up environment and wants to eventually build a team around them.

Essential Skills for the suitable Full Stack Developer (React & Node)

• Node - 2+ Years
• React - 2+ Years
• AWS

Beneficial Skills for the suitable Full Stack Developer (React & Node)

• Lambda
• Kubernetes
• Typescript

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Full Stack Developer (React & Node)
London/Remote
£50,000 - £65,000

Working with a very innovative start up based in London, you will be joining as a Full Stack Developer working on building new functions for an existing platform and improving/maintaining existing components of the platform.

Joining a small team, it is vital that you are strong at problem solving and be confident having responsibility and making decisions on how the product moves forward.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is looking to have the flexibility of working within a start up environment and wants to eventually build a team around them.

Essential Skills for the suitable Full Stack Developer (React & Node)

• Node - 2+ Years
• React - 2+ Years
• AWS

Beneficial Skills for the suitable Full Stack Developer (React & Node)

• Lambda
• Kubernetes
• Typescript

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A leading insurance software vendor are on the lookout for a Technical Data Product Manager to join their product team, become an expert in their bespoke platform and serve and grow their client base.

The Company

This exciting software vendor are leading the insurance industry in leveraging their data using a cloud based, azure platform, providing real time insights through data virtualisation technology, and allowing advanced data analysis. Functioning as a Software-as-a-Service platform, this platform provides clients with the next generation of market insights.

Product Manager Role 

The Product Manager role will give you the opportunity to develop on the successful running of the platform, working within a complex industry environment with exciting innovations and technological changes. You will be working in a highly important role for the company, owning a stream of products around the platform focusing on analytics and data integrations, with an agile environment working with external and internal development teams on a global scale.

You’ll be responsible for the roadmap of the platform, having the opportunity to lead a junior product team as well as leading demo’s, gathering requirements from internal and external stakeholders and working cross functionally across the business. You will be continually enhancing the businesses data and analytics function, driving adoption of the platform and providing consistent support to clients.

Essential Experience

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Product Management / Ownership
• Experience working with data and analytical technologies including SQL, Tableau and BI Tools
• Competence with web cloud technologies
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment
• Excellent written verbal and communication skills

They are paying £55,000-£75,000 for this exciting Product Manager role and initial telephone interviews are being booked in from Thursday 5th March. If you could be interested please apply by sending your CV to  for immediate consideration! Or, connect with me on LinkedIn: https://in/dean-abberley/ and we can discuss the role in more detail.

A leading insurance software vendor are on the lookout for a Technical Data Product Manager to join their product team, become an expert in their bespoke platform and serve and grow their client base.

The Company

This exciting software vendor are leading the insurance industry in leveraging their data using a cloud based, azure platform, providing real time insights through data virtualisation technology, and allowing advanced data analysis. Functioning as a Software-as-a-Service platform, this platform provides clients with the next generation of market insights.

Product Manager Role 

The Product Manager role will give you the opportunity to develop on the successful running of the platform, working within a complex industry environment with exciting innovations and technological changes. You will be working in a highly important role for the company, owning a stream of products around the platform focusing on analytics and data integrations, with an agile environment working with external and internal development teams on a global scale.

You’ll be responsible for the roadmap of the platform, having the opportunity to lead a junior product team as well as leading demo’s, gathering requirements from internal and external stakeholders and working cross functionally across the business. You will be continually enhancing the businesses data and analytics function, driving adoption of the platform and providing consistent support to clients.

Essential Experience

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Product Management / Ownership
• Experience working with data and analytical technologies including SQL, Tableau and BI Tools
• Competence with web cloud technologies
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment
• Excellent written verbal and communication skills

They are paying £55,000-£75,000 for this exciting Product Manager role and initial telephone interviews are being booked in from Thursday 5th March. If you could be interested please apply by sending your CV to  for immediate consideration! Or, connect with me on LinkedIn: https://in/dean-abberley/ and we can discuss the role in more detail.

A rapidly expanding AI consultancy is currently looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join their pioneering team. From disruptive software to cutting-edge technology, the company is thinking big and looking to bring the right characters into the organisation to facilitate their ideas in partnership with AWS. They actively encourage free thinkers who revel in environments without corporate restraints or small-minded mentalities.

This role will see you delivering bespoke algorithms as an innovative solution to a range of their high profile global clients. You will be involved with the contribution of code, therefore, strong programming skills within data science in Python and the libraries around this (Tensorflow, NumPy, Pandas, Sckit-Learn) would be essential. Alongside this, the successful candidate will need to have experience of some, if not all, standard data science techniques such as supervised/unsupervised machine learning, classification such as Random Forest, time-series analysis and NLP. Candidates that have prior experience in a client-facing work environment would go to the top of the pile.

The company are well established and respected in the market and while leveraging the impressive skillset you have to offer, they will also provide high-level training from AWS to help you excel even more in your role. Alongside the training, a competitive starting salary and benefits package is on offer and joining the company at this time of rapid expansion would give the opportunity to play an integral part in the bright future for the company.

Please get in touch if you would like to hear more about this opportunity. Thank you for your interest - "it's about people, not sales!"

A rapidly expanding AI consultancy is currently looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join their pioneering team. From disruptive software to cutting-edge technology, the company is thinking big and looking to bring the right characters into the organisation to facilitate their ideas in partnership with AWS. They actively encourage free thinkers who revel in environments without corporate restraints or small-minded mentalities.

This role will see you delivering bespoke algorithms as an innovative solution to a range of their high profile global clients. You will be involved with the contribution of code, therefore, strong programming skills within data science in Python and the libraries around this (Tensorflow, NumPy, Pandas, Sckit-Learn) would be essential. Alongside this, the successful candidate will need to have experience of some, if not all, standard data science techniques such as supervised/unsupervised machine learning, classification such as Random Forest, time-series analysis and NLP. Candidates that have prior experience in a client-facing work environment would go to the top of the pile.

The company are well established and respected in the market and while leveraging the impressive skillset you have to offer, they will also provide high-level training from AWS to help you excel even more in your role. Alongside the training, a competitive starting salary and benefits package is on offer and joining the company at this time of rapid expansion would give the opportunity to play an integral part in the bright future for the company.

Please get in touch if you would like to hear more about this opportunity. Thank you for your interest - "it's about people, not sales!"