*** AWS Cloud Engineer - £49736 - £62269 base salary +15% cash flex (guaranteed salary) + bonus - Knutsford ***

We are currently recruiting an AWS Cloud Engineer for a prestigious client's Financial Services Digital Practice. They are a global organization which focuses on key financial services domains and are dedicated to building innovative solutions.

Duties:

• Design technical solutions on AWS that address customer's requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Produce high-quality technical design, build blueprints
• Assist with implementation of AWS platform architectures, including account and network structure, deployment orchestration and automation, and security best practices
• Build and configure build plans, code pipelines and create automated solutions that can be frame worked and re-used.

Skills / Experience required:

* Experience in Linux Unix administration

Experience in working with the Java Platform Java Core Maven Gradle Git Stash.

* Experience with configuring continuous integration tools such as Team City Jenkins or equivalent.
* Experience with automation configuration management using Puppet Chef or an equivalent technology.
* Familiar with AWS services Understanding of Cloud concepts with practical hands on experience on AWS.
* Strong knowledge of key DevOps concepts continuous integration and delivery Scripting experience Bash Python etc.

This role is an urgent requirement for my client. Opportunities like this do not come around every day. Apply now to avoid disappointment! * You must have the Right to Work in the UK - my client will not sponsor candidates

Damia Group 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 our Data Protection Policy which can be found at (url removed)

Damia Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

*** AWS Cloud Engineer - £49736 - £62269 base salary +15% cash flex (guaranteed salary) + bonus - Knutsford ***

We are currently recruiting an AWS Cloud Engineer for a prestigious client's Financial Services Digital Practice. They are a global organization which focuses on key financial services domains and are dedicated to building innovative solutions.

Duties:

• Design technical solutions on AWS that address customer's requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Produce high-quality technical design, build blueprints
• Assist with implementation of AWS platform architectures, including account and network structure, deployment orchestration and automation, and security best practices
• Build and configure build plans, code pipelines and create automated solutions that can be frame worked and re-used.

Skills / Experience required:

* Experience in Linux Unix administration

Experience in working with the Java Platform Java Core Maven Gradle Git Stash.

* Experience with configuring continuous integration tools such as Team City Jenkins or equivalent.
* Experience with automation configuration management using Puppet Chef or an equivalent technology.
* Familiar with AWS services Understanding of Cloud concepts with practical hands on experience on AWS.
* Strong knowledge of key DevOps concepts continuous integration and delivery Scripting experience Bash Python etc.

This role is an urgent requirement for my client. Opportunities like this do not come around every day. Apply now to avoid disappointment! * You must have the Right to Work in the UK - my client will not sponsor candidates

Damia Group 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 our Data Protection Policy which can be found at (url removed)

Damia Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

ProIV Developer - Up to £46k + Excellent Benefits Package
Retail
Letchworth, Hertfordshire

A successful retail group based in Hertfordshire are looking to recruit a ProIV Developer to join their growing development team.

As a developer, you will be working on great products for the company's customers and staff, adding new features to existing products, support new and existing products and working as part of a close-knit team.

Skills / Environment
ProIV v7.1
Oracle & ISAM databases
Unix Scripting
Agile & Waterfall experience
Engaging with customers alongside business analysts
Good communications skills - you'll be working with people in and outside IT.
Working closely with 3rd party PROIV software development house

Role Overview
*Develop great products for our customers and staff
*Add new features to existing products
*Support existing and new products, including rota based out-of-hours
*Work as part of a team, mentoring as required
*Engage with our continual improvement programme
*Provide support to our users, enabling them to serve our customers

Salary: Up to £46k
Benefits: 25 Days annual leave, plus public holidays, Pension scheme, Employee discount scheme, 3x Salary life assurance, Pluralsight account

This role may suit candidates, who hold the following job titles: ProIV Developer, Software Developer

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. (phone number removed)).

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

ProIV Developer - Up to £46k + Excellent Benefits Package
Retail
Letchworth, Hertfordshire

A successful retail group based in Hertfordshire are looking to recruit a ProIV Developer to join their growing development team.

As a developer, you will be working on great products for the company's customers and staff, adding new features to existing products, support new and existing products and working as part of a close-knit team.

Skills / Environment
ProIV v7.1
Oracle & ISAM databases
Unix Scripting
Agile & Waterfall experience
Engaging with customers alongside business analysts
Good communications skills - you'll be working with people in and outside IT.
Working closely with 3rd party PROIV software development house

Role Overview
*Develop great products for our customers and staff
*Add new features to existing products
*Support existing and new products, including rota based out-of-hours
*Work as part of a team, mentoring as required
*Engage with our continual improvement programme
*Provide support to our users, enabling them to serve our customers

Salary: Up to £46k
Benefits: 25 Days annual leave, plus public holidays, Pension scheme, Employee discount scheme, 3x Salary life assurance, Pluralsight account

This role may suit candidates, who hold the following job titles: ProIV Developer, Software Developer

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. (phone number removed)).

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Data Developer - Norwich - £40,000

Is your current data role getting tired? Do you want to work in a more forward thinking team moving towards advanced cloud based data solutions… Look no further!

Tec Partners are exclusively working with a top outfit in the centre of Norwich city who are hoping to find a new data developer to join their growing technology team. The business have data at the very heart of everything they do, and as a result would like another data developer to join one of their cross-functional teams

We're looking for an experienced data warehouse developer, comfortable working with the likes of ETL, Data warehousing and SQL server, as well as the likes of Python/ Bash / Unix. As part of the recent transformation project, this role will get the opportunity to learn and work on a data lake solution utilising a host of AWS tools.

The typical experience we'd like to see includes:

- SQL
- ETL
- Data warehouse development
- Python / Unix / Bash Scripting

The business are moving in the direction of a more sophisticated cloud based estate. As a result you'll get the opportunity to learn the following technologies:

- AWS Redshift
- AWS Athena
- AWS S3
- AWS Spectrum
- AWS Lambda / step functions

If you have had exposure to any of the AWS tools above it's beneficial, however these are skills the business are happy to help you learn within the role - making this a great way to push your career forward whilst being part of an exciting project and a fun and vibrant team.

We see very few roles with type of opportunity available, especially within the data arena in Norwich. If you love data, but don't feel you're getting the challenges you want, this could be the role to shake things up in your career.

Apply with a current CV for more information.

Data Developer - Norwich - £40,000

Is your current data role getting tired? Do you want to work in a more forward thinking team moving towards advanced cloud based data solutions… Look no further!

Tec Partners are exclusively working with a top outfit in the centre of Norwich city who are hoping to find a new data developer to join their growing technology team. The business have data at the very heart of everything they do, and as a result would like another data developer to join one of their cross-functional teams

We're looking for an experienced data warehouse developer, comfortable working with the likes of ETL, Data warehousing and SQL server, as well as the likes of Python/ Bash / Unix. As part of the recent transformation project, this role will get the opportunity to learn and work on a data lake solution utilising a host of AWS tools.

The typical experience we'd like to see includes:

- SQL
- ETL
- Data warehouse development
- Python / Unix / Bash Scripting

The business are moving in the direction of a more sophisticated cloud based estate. As a result you'll get the opportunity to learn the following technologies:

- AWS Redshift
- AWS Athena
- AWS S3
- AWS Spectrum
- AWS Lambda / step functions

If you have had exposure to any of the AWS tools above it's beneficial, however these are skills the business are happy to help you learn within the role - making this a great way to push your career forward whilst being part of an exciting project and a fun and vibrant team.

We see very few roles with type of opportunity available, especially within the data arena in Norwich. If you love data, but don't feel you're getting the challenges you want, this could be the role to shake things up in your career.

Apply with a current CV for more information.

Our client is a leading and long-established Fintech / Financial Services vendor who counts the world’s leading investment banks and hedge funds amongst their clients. Due to continued organic growth, the need has arisen to hire an additional Application Support Production Engineer to complement their existing team. 

The tech stack consists of Linux, Apache, and MySQL with the core of the system coded in OO Perl. You will be fully trained to understand the bespoke applications and business in depth.

You will be working on 2nd and 3rd line support issues, production issues and client integrations tickets, increasing your technical and business skills. You will be able to work with our software’s base code, test and release your code and system changes to Production.

The applications delivering the services have significant server-based data processing components and a behind-the-scenes data gateway systems. Our services are delivered over the internet, via an interactive user interface.

This is a unique opportunity to join a relatively small company at the point where an Application and Production Support Analyst is required to help the team grow more and handle more complicated and advanced production issues and tickets. You will guide and help other Support members to increase their skills and improve the overall performance and knowledge of the team.

As the company and client services grow, more and new Products are handed over from Development to Support. You will be responsible for understanding and transferring the knowledge to the rest of the team. For existing products already handed over to Support, you will be responsible for creating any missing documentation, fill out any gaps in the knowledge of

these Products and train the other Support member to increase the level of Support the team can currently provide. This role will give you the opportunity to go one step further in your career and become an expert in the Support field, becoming the go to person for production resolution. You will work closely with the development teams to understand in depth the products they have built.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Application Support Engineer Fintech

•Be able to investigate and resolve complex level 2 and 3 Production issues impacting internal systems and clients

•Work independently, prioritise and handoff if necessary, to other teams

•Triage tickets to the rest of the Support team based on complexity

•Report common issues, analyse the root cause and prevent them from reoccurring, ideally with minimum interaction from the development team

•Responsive on time to internal and external client queries and support level 1,2 and 3 tickets

•Enjoy working within a team, taking ownership, guiding the rest of support team

•Work independently on boarding of new services for new and existing clients

•Updating system configuration across environments

•Automate whenever possible

•Take initiative, propose solutions, permanently fix recurring issues

•Discuss resolution with other team members to increase the knowledge and skills of the team

•Suggesting improvements to the production service, team effectiveness and work on making the improvements happen

•Use the in-house-built monitoring system, understand in depth how it works and work in resolving any issue that may appear

•Make improvements to existing alerts or add new alerts by making changes to the monitoring system’s base code and configuration

•Identify data in the database or other parts of the system that should be regularly monitored to ensure uninterrupted service for clients

•Improve the level of support the team can currently provide in currently supported Products

•Ensure new Products are handed over to Support efficiently with enough documentation and monitoring

•Participate in Client Service and Technology meetings

•Handle production incidents and problem management activities related to an incident

•Chair incident review meetings, propose action points or discuss with other developers and products owners mutually agreed action points

•Follow up on the agreed actions of incidents or even resolve them with minimum help from the development team

•Take ownership of various task of the Support team and provide regular updates to the Tech Support Lead

•Discuss with the Tech Support Lead possible improvements in day to day work, efficiency and effectiveness

•Work closely with the Tech Support Lead and sharing responsibilities whenever necessary

•Coordinate regular DC failover tests, report any issues may appear and ensure they are resolved on time

KEY SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Application Support Engineer Fintech

•Very good Unix/Linux, SQL knowledge to be able to work on daily Production issues

•Ability to apply previous support experience in a fast-paced environment

•Highly motivated, punctual, organised, responsible

•Able to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems

•Ability to understand quickly and in-depth big complex systems

•Able to prioritise and triage support issues and tickets based on complexity

•Ability to guide and train the support team and communicate effectively, especially during incidents

•Strong communication skills, including the ability to liaise with developers, client service, technical contacts at clients and to provide telephone & e-mail support to end users

•Able to gather technical or business knowledge from various development and business teams, document them, understand them in depth and transfer this knowledge to the rest of the Support team

•Knowledge of encryption protocols, tools and browser security

•Minimum technical training required to be able to support our systems

•Self-motivated

•Confident contacting clients

•Knowledge of file transfer protocols (i.e. FTP/SFTP)

•Experience with networking and firewalls

•Previous experience in monitoring tools

DESIRABLE SKILLS: Application Support Engineer Fintech

•Development experience

•Perl programming knowledge

•Business knowledge of financial products

•Message MQ, Kafka, JVM, Scala

Application Support Production Engineer 

Our client is a leading and long-established Fintech / Financial Services vendor who counts the world’s leading investment banks and hedge funds amongst their clients. Due to continued organic growth, the need has arisen to hire an additional Application Support Production Engineer to complement their existing team. 

The tech stack consists of Linux, Apache, and MySQL with the core of the system coded in OO Perl. You will be fully trained to understand the bespoke applications and business in depth.

You will be working on 2nd and 3rd line support issues, production issues and client integrations tickets, increasing your technical and business skills. You will be able to work with our software’s base code, test and release your code and system changes to Production.

The applications delivering the services have significant server-based data processing components and a behind-the-scenes data gateway systems. Our services are delivered over the internet, via an interactive user interface.

This is a unique opportunity to join a relatively small company at the point where an Application and Production Support Analyst is required to help the team grow more and handle more complicated and advanced production issues and tickets. You will guide and help other Support members to increase their skills and improve the overall performance and knowledge of the team.

As the company and client services grow, more and new Products are handed over from Development to Support. You will be responsible for understanding and transferring the knowledge to the rest of the team. For existing products already handed over to Support, you will be responsible for creating any missing documentation, fill out any gaps in the knowledge of

these Products and train the other Support member to increase the level of Support the team can currently provide. This role will give you the opportunity to go one step further in your career and become an expert in the Support field, becoming the go to person for production resolution. You will work closely with the development teams to understand in depth the products they have built.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Application Support Engineer Fintech

•Be able to investigate and resolve complex level 2 and 3 Production issues impacting internal systems and clients

•Work independently, prioritise and handoff if necessary, to other teams

•Triage tickets to the rest of the Support team based on complexity

•Report common issues, analyse the root cause and prevent them from reoccurring, ideally with minimum interaction from the development team

•Responsive on time to internal and external client queries and support level 1,2 and 3 tickets

•Enjoy working within a team, taking ownership, guiding the rest of support team

•Work independently on boarding of new services for new and existing clients

•Updating system configuration across environments

•Automate whenever possible

•Take initiative, propose solutions, permanently fix recurring issues

•Discuss resolution with other team members to increase the knowledge and skills of the team

•Suggesting improvements to the production service, team effectiveness and work on making the improvements happen

•Use the in-house-built monitoring system, understand in depth how it works and work in resolving any issue that may appear

•Make improvements to existing alerts or add new alerts by making changes to the monitoring system’s base code and configuration

•Identify data in the database or other parts of the system that should be regularly monitored to ensure uninterrupted service for clients

•Improve the level of support the team can currently provide in currently supported Products

•Ensure new Products are handed over to Support efficiently with enough documentation and monitoring

•Participate in Client Service and Technology meetings

•Handle production incidents and problem management activities related to an incident

•Chair incident review meetings, propose action points or discuss with other developers and products owners mutually agreed action points

•Follow up on the agreed actions of incidents or even resolve them with minimum help from the development team

•Take ownership of various task of the Support team and provide regular updates to the Tech Support Lead

•Discuss with the Tech Support Lead possible improvements in day to day work, efficiency and effectiveness

•Work closely with the Tech Support Lead and sharing responsibilities whenever necessary

•Coordinate regular DC failover tests, report any issues may appear and ensure they are resolved on time

KEY SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Application Support Engineer Fintech

•Very good Unix/Linux, SQL knowledge to be able to work on daily Production issues

•Ability to apply previous support experience in a fast-paced environment

•Highly motivated, punctual, organised, responsible

•Able to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems

•Ability to understand quickly and in-depth big complex systems

•Able to prioritise and triage support issues and tickets based on complexity

•Ability to guide and train the support team and communicate effectively, especially during incidents

•Strong communication skills, including the ability to liaise with developers, client service, technical contacts at clients and to provide telephone & e-mail support to end users

•Able to gather technical or business knowledge from various development and business teams, document them, understand them in depth and transfer this knowledge to the rest of the Support team

•Knowledge of encryption protocols, tools and browser security

•Minimum technical training required to be able to support our systems

•Self-motivated

•Confident contacting clients

•Knowledge of file transfer protocols (i.e. FTP/SFTP)

•Experience with networking and firewalls

•Previous experience in monitoring tools

DESIRABLE SKILLS: Application Support Engineer Fintech

•Development experience

•Perl programming knowledge

•Business knowledge of financial products

•Message MQ, Kafka, JVM, Scala

Application Support Production Engineer 

This role is INSIDE IR35

Key roles and responsibilities: 

The successful candidates will join a team focused on data discovery and be responsible for supporting the strategy and execution of the for data prediction. Principal to this will be acquiring and understanding the data, and using appropriate technologies and methods to analyze the data through traditional statistics and Machine Learning techniques. They will help forge the framework for integrating machine learning for data discovery; this includes integrating algorithms and productionizing the use of them to run across a parallel processed environment. 

 Duties 

• Collaborate in the production and development of data discovery solutions and integration of new models 
• Design and build predictive models that substantially increase the value that we provide to our customers and the efficiency of our operations by building automation of the data landscape.
• Working with Product Managers, software developers and subject matter experts, and also bring your own expertise to the team, helping to move from abstract concepts, through design and build, to scalable algorithms that will deliver the discovery goals. 
• Contribute to specifying the underlying infrastructure we are building to support data discovery and enable models to be easily productionised and run at scale. 
• Produce data visualizations that effectively communicate information related to where data discovery is needed for business case objectives. 

Experience Required 

• Use of Machine Learning methods to analyze large and complex datasets 
• Experience of pattern recognition and function approximation, uncovering relationship between variables 
• Deep Learning using multi-layer neural networks, as well as reinforcement learning approaches 
• Theoretical and practical experience of using supervised Machine Learning: regressions, classifications; Unsupervised Machine Learning: clustering, factor analyses as well as methods of Deep and Reinforcement Learning. 
• Experience on a variety of database technologies like Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Cassandra, Mongodb 
• Experience of data analysis and data processing using Java, Python, R, PL/SQL, TSQL, KSQL, CQL, Airflow, Bash, Jupyter Notebooks 

Skills 

• Solid Mathematical and Algorithms Knowledge 
• Well-Versed with Probability and Statistics 
• Efficiency in Distributed Computing, Good Command of Unix Tools 
• Knowledge of Advanced Signal Processing Techniques

You MUST HAVE the right to work in the UK for this role as they DO NOT sponsor. You will also be working for the client onsite with one of their clients, a large multi national Bank.

This role is INSIDE IR35

Key roles and responsibilities: 

The successful candidates will join a team focused on data discovery and be responsible for supporting the strategy and execution of the for data prediction. Principal to this will be acquiring and understanding the data, and using appropriate technologies and methods to analyze the data through traditional statistics and Machine Learning techniques. They will help forge the framework for integrating machine learning for data discovery; this includes integrating algorithms and productionizing the use of them to run across a parallel processed environment. 

 Duties 

• Collaborate in the production and development of data discovery solutions and integration of new models 
• Design and build predictive models that substantially increase the value that we provide to our customers and the efficiency of our operations by building automation of the data landscape.
• Working with Product Managers, software developers and subject matter experts, and also bring your own expertise to the team, helping to move from abstract concepts, through design and build, to scalable algorithms that will deliver the discovery goals. 
• Contribute to specifying the underlying infrastructure we are building to support data discovery and enable models to be easily productionised and run at scale. 
• Produce data visualizations that effectively communicate information related to where data discovery is needed for business case objectives. 

Experience Required 

• Use of Machine Learning methods to analyze large and complex datasets 
• Experience of pattern recognition and function approximation, uncovering relationship between variables 
• Deep Learning using multi-layer neural networks, as well as reinforcement learning approaches 
• Theoretical and practical experience of using supervised Machine Learning: regressions, classifications; Unsupervised Machine Learning: clustering, factor analyses as well as methods of Deep and Reinforcement Learning. 
• Experience on a variety of database technologies like Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Cassandra, Mongodb 
• Experience of data analysis and data processing using Java, Python, R, PL/SQL, TSQL, KSQL, CQL, Airflow, Bash, Jupyter Notebooks 

Skills 

• Solid Mathematical and Algorithms Knowledge 
• Well-Versed with Probability and Statistics 
• Efficiency in Distributed Computing, Good Command of Unix Tools 
• Knowledge of Advanced Signal Processing Techniques

You MUST HAVE the right to work in the UK for this role as they DO NOT sponsor. You will also be working for the client onsite with one of their clients, a large multi national Bank.