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INGRES DBA
  • Beckenham
  • £300.00 - £400.00 per day
    • Contract
  • 04 Mar 2020

The Company

An industry leading Media technology company specialising in software based solutions for the delivery of content.

The Brief

To provide technical expertise and support of system on Ingres databases and installations both locally and at client sites on Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems for a . The role involves the provision of technical leadership on database and server related environments.

The work will involve:

  • Ensuring that database changes are rolled out to internal databases,
  • Packaging and installing releases to clients,
  • Monitoring and maintaining database installations,
  • Writing batch scripts to support the work
  • Providing 2nd-line support for technical issues.
  • You will work closely with Software Engineering and Systems Administrators. They will join a rota to provide 24/7 support for clients.
  • Provide technical expertise in the areas of database administration, application deployments and upgrades both on internal and external client installations.
  • Test and prepare implementation of database software upgrades and patch releases for customers.
  • Create and make available databases for Support, Development and Test.
  • Manage standard DBA tasks, including securing databases, managing space, monitoring performance, installing patches.
  • Provide 24/7 on-call support as part of a rota.
  • Maintain documentation of new or amended procedures
  • Conduct Technical Surveys and contribute to strategic planning.
  • Ensure all working practices comply with Health and Safety legislation.

Experience/Knowledge:

Essential

  • Deep knowledge of Ingres and a good grounding in Unix/Linux.
  • You will be able write and run basic sql to interrogate and update a database without using an sql builder tool.
  • You will be comfortable navigating in Unix and be able to run basic commands on the command line to list files/directories, understand permissions, search for processes. Experience in the vi editor and/or writing batch scripts is desirable.
  • Database administration experience
  • Windows
  • Scripting - Python, Bash, Shell
  • Experience of applying Critical Patch updates to databases and applications in production environments.
  • Commercial experience of software deployments and installations
  • Analytical ability to investigate, using appropriate tools, database failures, error log entries and other problem indications and to propose and implement solutions
  • Effectively communicate issues to others with less detailed database knowledge such that problems can be explained to clients
  • Work under pressure and remain calm and objective when dealing with problems whilst having due regard for the urgency of situations where issues are impacting operational service levels
  • Professional client facing skills and the ability to plan and prioritise workload and complete documentation
  • Available to work out of standard business hours and as part of an emergency on call rota when required.
  • Undertake occasional travel as required.
  • Take decisions on actions required within the bounds of responsibility and to escalate problems as necessary to management

Desirable

  • Experience of Oracle and SQL Server will be an advantage
  • Professional Database Certification or other advanced technical qualification

INGRES DBA
  • Beckenham
  • £300.00 - £400.00 per day
    • Contract
  • 04 Mar 2020

The Company

An industry leading Media technology company specialising in software based solutions for the delivery of content.

The Brief

To provide technical expertise and support of system on Ingres databases and installations both locally and at client sites on Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems for a . The role involves the provision of technical leadership on database and server related environments.

The work will involve:

  • Ensuring that database changes are rolled out to internal databases,
  • Packaging and installing releases to clients,
  • Monitoring and maintaining database installations,
  • Writing batch scripts to support the work
  • Providing 2nd-line support for technical issues.
  • You will work closely with Software Engineering and Systems Administrators. They will join a rota to provide 24/7 support for clients.
  • Provide technical expertise in the areas of database administration, application deployments and upgrades both on internal and external client installations.
  • Test and prepare implementation of database software upgrades and patch releases for customers.
  • Create and make available databases for Support, Development and Test.
  • Manage standard DBA tasks, including securing databases, managing space, monitoring performance, installing patches.
  • Provide 24/7 on-call support as part of a rota.
  • Maintain documentation of new or amended procedures
  • Conduct Technical Surveys and contribute to strategic planning.
  • Ensure all working practices comply with Health and Safety legislation.

Experience/Knowledge:

Essential

  • Deep knowledge of Ingres and a good grounding in Unix/Linux.
  • You will be able write and run basic sql to interrogate and update a database without using an sql builder tool.
  • You will be comfortable navigating in Unix and be able to run basic commands on the command line to list files/directories, understand permissions, search for processes. Experience in the vi editor and/or writing batch scripts is desirable.
  • Database administration experience
  • Windows
  • Scripting - Python, Bash, Shell
  • Experience of applying Critical Patch updates to databases and applications in production environments.
  • Commercial experience of software deployments and installations
  • Analytical ability to investigate, using appropriate tools, database failures, error log entries and other problem indications and to propose and implement solutions
  • Effectively communicate issues to others with less detailed database knowledge such that problems can be explained to clients
  • Work under pressure and remain calm and objective when dealing with problems whilst having due regard for the urgency of situations where issues are impacting operational service levels
  • Professional client facing skills and the ability to plan and prioritise workload and complete documentation
  • Available to work out of standard business hours and as part of an emergency on call rota when required.
  • Undertake occasional travel as required.
  • Take decisions on actions required within the bounds of responsibility and to escalate problems as necessary to management

Desirable

  • Experience of Oracle and SQL Server will be an advantage
  • Professional Database Certification or other advanced technical qualification

Front-Office Sophis Support
  • Central London
  • Salary negotiable
    • Contract
  • 04 Mar 2020

Front-Office Application Support - Financial Services

I'm currently working closely with a hiring manager at an Investment Bank in the City to assist him in finding a Front-Office Application Support contractor to join his team.

You'll be brought in to their DevOps team supporting securities finance systems (Bonds and Repos) and they require someone with good Sophis knowledge. This is a long-term contract role paying £730 per day. Would you be interested in finding out more?

You must have the following skills/experience:

  • Sophis
  • Bonds and Repos
  • Scripting
  • Unix

This is a contract role inside IR35 paying £730

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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

Front-Office Sophis Support
  • Central London
  • Salary negotiable
    • Contract
  • 04 Mar 2020

Front-Office Application Support - Financial Services

I'm currently working closely with a hiring manager at an Investment Bank in the City to assist him in finding a Front-Office Application Support contractor to join his team.

You'll be brought in to their DevOps team supporting securities finance systems (Bonds and Repos) and they require someone with good Sophis knowledge. This is a long-term contract role paying £730 per day. Would you be interested in finding out more?

You must have the following skills/experience:

  • Sophis
  • Bonds and Repos
  • Scripting
  • Unix

This is a contract role inside IR35 paying £730

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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

Migration Engineer Role Linux & Windows
  • City Of London
  • £450.00 - £500.00 per day
    • Contract
  • 04 Mar 2020
Migration Engineer (Windows & Linux)

Duration - 6 Months +
Location - London (City)
Day Rate - £500 (Must Use an Umbrella Company)
IR35 - INSIDE

A public sector client of ours is currently looking for a Migration engineer, the primary focus of this role will be to assist with the design and implementation of a large-scale migration of users (approx. 1500 users), services and applications. There will also be the requirement to provide support for the services and applications within our clients site.

Key responsibilities:
*Provide consultancy and support for the migration of services from our client's research area into a centralised IT delivery model.
*Provide day to day support of systems to include support of Windows, Active Directory, Unix / Linux and research specific applications.
*Responsible for the successful delivery of technical aspects of the migration project within a Service Management framework and in line with the agreed standards and Service Levels.
*Represent changes to the Research environment in Change Advisory Board meetings, daily and weekly Service Review meetings and the Design Authority.
*Responsible for working closely with the other teams within IT to provide an excellent IT Service.
*Responsible for peer reviewing and contributing to proposed Research solutions to ensure they are fit for purpose and provide optimal value for money.
*Responsible for the adoption into service of new solutions ensuring operational suitability.

Key Skills Needed:
*Experience of migration design and execution for services such as Active Directory, Windows File Services, virtual servers, applications and services
*Experience in designing and delivering secure cloud solutions based on Microsoft Azure (IaaS) in an enterprise environment
*Good knowledge of LAMP stack (Linux Apache, MySQL, PHP) both from a support and implementation perspective
*ITIL Foundation qualification
*Good knowledge of IT Security protocols, networking, processes, policies and standards
*Knowledge of IT service management, including change and incident management
*Excellent knowledge of ICT technical standards
*Experience of working with enterprise scale applications, infrastructure and software
*In-depth understanding of complex technical issues
*Demonstrated flexibility and positive attitude towards implementation of technical services in a fast-paced environment with inherent risks and many stakeholders with differing views of success
*Good standard server-based skill set (Windows and Linux)

Spring Technology acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Spring Group UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Spring. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explains how we will use your information - please copy and paste the following link in to your browser: candidate-privacy-information-statement

Migration Engineer Role Linux & Windows
  • City Of London
  • £450.00 - £500.00 per day
    • Contract
  • 04 Mar 2020
Migration Engineer (Windows & Linux)

Duration - 6 Months +
Location - London (City)
Day Rate - £500 (Must Use an Umbrella Company)
IR35 - INSIDE

A public sector client of ours is currently looking for a Migration engineer, the primary focus of this role will be to assist with the design and implementation of a large-scale migration of users (approx. 1500 users), services and applications. There will also be the requirement to provide support for the services and applications within our clients site.

Key responsibilities:
*Provide consultancy and support for the migration of services from our client's research area into a centralised IT delivery model.
*Provide day to day support of systems to include support of Windows, Active Directory, Unix / Linux and research specific applications.
*Responsible for the successful delivery of technical aspects of the migration project within a Service Management framework and in line with the agreed standards and Service Levels.
*Represent changes to the Research environment in Change Advisory Board meetings, daily and weekly Service Review meetings and the Design Authority.
*Responsible for working closely with the other teams within IT to provide an excellent IT Service.
*Responsible for peer reviewing and contributing to proposed Research solutions to ensure they are fit for purpose and provide optimal value for money.
*Responsible for the adoption into service of new solutions ensuring operational suitability.

Key Skills Needed:
*Experience of migration design and execution for services such as Active Directory, Windows File Services, virtual servers, applications and services
*Experience in designing and delivering secure cloud solutions based on Microsoft Azure (IaaS) in an enterprise environment
*Good knowledge of LAMP stack (Linux Apache, MySQL, PHP) both from a support and implementation perspective
*ITIL Foundation qualification
*Good knowledge of IT Security protocols, networking, processes, policies and standards
*Knowledge of IT service management, including change and incident management
*Excellent knowledge of ICT technical standards
*Experience of working with enterprise scale applications, infrastructure and software
*In-depth understanding of complex technical issues
*Demonstrated flexibility and positive attitude towards implementation of technical services in a fast-paced environment with inherent risks and many stakeholders with differing views of success
*Good standard server-based skill set (Windows and Linux)

Spring Technology acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Spring Group UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Spring. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explains how we will use your information - please copy and paste the following link in to your browser: candidate-privacy-information-statement

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer
  • Oxford, Oxfordshire
  • £65,000 - £75,000/annum
    • Permanent
  • 03 Mar 2020

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer // Oxford // Up to £75,000 // Cutting edge AI and data driven software company //

I am partnered with a unique software brand in Oxford, who area revolutionising D2C and B2B energy technologies with cutting edge AI and data driven software/hardware and are about to launch a new key strategic pillar. This is an exciting start up, backed by a major industry player.

Due to continued growth and scalability within the platform, my client is hiring an exceptional Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to work with the talented, high performance team, ensuring reliability and to maintain, develop and scale the platform/platforms.

Being a key member of the team, your responsibilities will be varied, and will involve numerous aspects of technical operations including platform reliability, release management, tool building, fault escalation processes, fault investigation and more.

As well as this, you will be working side-by-side with my client’s talented software and DevOps Engineers to help design, build and evolve the architecture, improve software release pipeline, data management, security, and compliance procedures.

The successful candidate will possess the following experience:

  • Expert cloud compute platform knowledge; AWS (essential), Azure, GCE
  • "Serverless" architectural approach; e.g. AWS Lambda
  • Deployment automation tooling; e.g. Terraform, Ansible
  • Deep knowledge of Unix/Linux systems
  • Extensive experience of tool creation in scripting languages; bash, Python etc
  • Package and dependency management systems; Debian, RPM, Homebrew
  • Container technologies; Docker, ECS, Fargate.
  • Monitoring and logging solutions
  • Backup and recovery techniques

Benefits:

  • 25 days annual leave
  • Flexible working
  • Private medical (with Bupa)
  • Strong pension
  • Relaxed, fun working environment
  • 5 minute walk from Oxford train station
  • Monthly team activities
  • Office pool table, free (decent I may add!) coffee

Sound interesting? Apply today to find out more!

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer
  • Oxford, Oxfordshire
  • £65,000 - £75,000/annum
    • Permanent
  • 03 Mar 2020

Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer // Oxford // Up to £75,000 // Cutting edge AI and data driven software company //

I am partnered with a unique software brand in Oxford, who area revolutionising D2C and B2B energy technologies with cutting edge AI and data driven software/hardware and are about to launch a new key strategic pillar. This is an exciting start up, backed by a major industry player.

Due to continued growth and scalability within the platform, my client is hiring an exceptional Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to work with the talented, high performance team, ensuring reliability and to maintain, develop and scale the platform/platforms.

Being a key member of the team, your responsibilities will be varied, and will involve numerous aspects of technical operations including platform reliability, release management, tool building, fault escalation processes, fault investigation and more.

As well as this, you will be working side-by-side with my client’s talented software and DevOps Engineers to help design, build and evolve the architecture, improve software release pipeline, data management, security, and compliance procedures.

The successful candidate will possess the following experience:

  • Expert cloud compute platform knowledge; AWS (essential), Azure, GCE
  • "Serverless" architectural approach; e.g. AWS Lambda
  • Deployment automation tooling; e.g. Terraform, Ansible
  • Deep knowledge of Unix/Linux systems
  • Extensive experience of tool creation in scripting languages; bash, Python etc
  • Package and dependency management systems; Debian, RPM, Homebrew
  • Container technologies; Docker, ECS, Fargate.
  • Monitoring and logging solutions
  • Backup and recovery techniques

Benefits:

  • 25 days annual leave
  • Flexible working
  • Private medical (with Bupa)
  • Strong pension
  • Relaxed, fun working environment
  • 5 minute walk from Oxford train station
  • Monthly team activities
  • Office pool table, free (decent I may add!) coffee

Sound interesting? Apply today to find out more!

Frontend Developer
  • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
    • Permanent
  • 03 Mar 2020

Frontend Software Engineer - Platform

Description

Our client is a European leader developing software for self-driving vehicles.

They’re a fast growing team unified by our goal to deliver level 5 autonomy, having trialled in a major London project last Autumn 2019, they’re solving interesting and difficult problems to service millions of people daily.

With experienced founders, renowned academic advisors and world-class scientists and engineers, our clients team is at the leading edge in research and in the application of research to the real world.

What will you do

You’ll be responsible for designing and building both supervised and unsupervised learning technologies to parse objects and determine their state as far as it is relevant to driving decisions. States might include object classifications, traffic signal states, orientations, wheel angles and human actions.

What will you do?

As a Frontend Software Engineer, you’ll be a vital member of the Platform Team, deploying our self-driving tech stack both onto our fleet of vehicles and into cloud-based simulation environments. We are constantly testing the latest versions of software, as well as performing data collection missions in London and elsewhere. We index and annotate vast quantities of data from real-world missions, and use this together with simulation to improve the capability and safety levels of our stack.

You’ll develop tools to launch, run and monitor our autonomous driving stack, working closely with many different teams across the company from sensors, computer vision and machine learning to deliver features and improve performance.

Requirements

About You:

  • You’re fluent in Javascript, Python and shell scripting
  • You have built and delivered projects with React
  • You have knowledge of current software engineering best practices and methodologies.
  • You have experience across the full software development lifecycle in a fast-moving and innovative industry.
  • You are curious to learn, enjoy getting stuff done and discovering how things work.
  • You’re excited about being part of a high performing, self-organising team on a pioneering mission.

Bonus Skills

  • Experience with a typed Javascript superset such as Typescript or Flow
  • Experience with Webpack, Babel, Gulp, NPM or other Javascript tooling
  • Experience of working with Docker
  • Experience developing in a Unix based environment
  • Experience with designing APIs and their interaction with databases
  • An eye for good design and UX patterns
  • Experience using Cypress, Selenium or other end-to-end testing framework
  • Use of WebAssembly to optimise application performance

Benefits

  • Join a European leader bringing autonomous vehicles to market and feel like there is a part of you ‘on the car’.
  • Benefit from working closely with our founders who have previously built and run successful tech companies from working closely with world-class researchers and engineers.
  • Have an immediate impact on a smart, growing, low-ego multi-cultural team.
  • Grow with us as we scale up whilst delivering meaningful work that really matters.
  • Enjoy a competitive salary package, BUPA medical care and stock options.

Our client is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all.

Frontend Developer
  • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
    • Permanent
  • 03 Mar 2020

Frontend Software Engineer - Platform

Description

Our client is a European leader developing software for self-driving vehicles.

They’re a fast growing team unified by our goal to deliver level 5 autonomy, having trialled in a major London project last Autumn 2019, they’re solving interesting and difficult problems to service millions of people daily.

With experienced founders, renowned academic advisors and world-class scientists and engineers, our clients team is at the leading edge in research and in the application of research to the real world.

What will you do

You’ll be responsible for designing and building both supervised and unsupervised learning technologies to parse objects and determine their state as far as it is relevant to driving decisions. States might include object classifications, traffic signal states, orientations, wheel angles and human actions.

What will you do?

As a Frontend Software Engineer, you’ll be a vital member of the Platform Team, deploying our self-driving tech stack both onto our fleet of vehicles and into cloud-based simulation environments. We are constantly testing the latest versions of software, as well as performing data collection missions in London and elsewhere. We index and annotate vast quantities of data from real-world missions, and use this together with simulation to improve the capability and safety levels of our stack.

You’ll develop tools to launch, run and monitor our autonomous driving stack, working closely with many different teams across the company from sensors, computer vision and machine learning to deliver features and improve performance.

Requirements

About You:

  • You’re fluent in Javascript, Python and shell scripting
  • You have built and delivered projects with React
  • You have knowledge of current software engineering best practices and methodologies.
  • You have experience across the full software development lifecycle in a fast-moving and innovative industry.
  • You are curious to learn, enjoy getting stuff done and discovering how things work.
  • You’re excited about being part of a high performing, self-organising team on a pioneering mission.

Bonus Skills

  • Experience with a typed Javascript superset such as Typescript or Flow
  • Experience with Webpack, Babel, Gulp, NPM or other Javascript tooling
  • Experience of working with Docker
  • Experience developing in a Unix based environment
  • Experience with designing APIs and their interaction with databases
  • An eye for good design and UX patterns
  • Experience using Cypress, Selenium or other end-to-end testing framework
  • Use of WebAssembly to optimise application performance

Benefits

  • Join a European leader bringing autonomous vehicles to market and feel like there is a part of you ‘on the car’.
  • Benefit from working closely with our founders who have previously built and run successful tech companies from working closely with world-class researchers and engineers.
  • Have an immediate impact on a smart, growing, low-ego multi-cultural team.
  • Grow with us as we scale up whilst delivering meaningful work that really matters.
  • Enjoy a competitive salary package, BUPA medical care and stock options.

Our client is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all.