Open Source Integration Engineer

Reading

To £70K plus extensive benefits package

Due to the nature of this work all candidates must be British Nationals, and already hold or be eligible to hold UK Security Clearance to SC level or higher.

Role description:

Our client develops, builds, and runs a cutting-edge Big Data platform for their own meaningful and strategic customer. They are heavy on automation, have great software engineering hardware, a mix of physical and virtual platforms and take on steep learning curves. They are delivering to their customer faster than they have experienced before and are motivated to improve the state of the art, for their customer, and for other engineers or consumers working on similar systems.

The team’s focus is a shared ownership and drive to achieve the customer’s goals. Our client aims for everyone to be involved in software integration, testing, deployment and operations. They all have direct contact with the customer on a daily basis, and the team can ask questions directly to ensure they build what is really needed. Everyone takes ownership of a customer 'story’ from beginning to end. If you are interested in technology integration (as opposed to developing from the ground up), rapid prototyping, regular demonstration of completed work, creating sustainable systems, and thinking ahead but not over complicating for today, this will suit you.

Essential experience required:

Our client is looking for Open Source Integration Engineers at all levels of career experience and would consider graduates with a science related degree (including practical computer programming experience) through to skilled software integration and DevOps professionals.

Applications are invited from individuals who have a solid Linux foundation, an enthusiasm for technology., and demonstrable experience in the following:

• At least one of: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu
• At least one of, or a desire to learn: Python, Java, JavaScript, C or C++
• Familiarity with the following core tools, or a desire to learn: git, ssh, Unix command line, browsers, Bash
• Some exposure to Azure Cloud is highly desirable

Desirable experience:

• Linux experience as a deployment platform and day to day development environment - e.g., can describe package management, networking configuration, log files, environment variables
• Deep Linux experience - e.g., can describe SELinux, chroot, ssh tunnelling, differences between Linux distributions
• Starting from scratch, and building on top of existing systems
• Web development and awareness of vulnerabilities and how to defend against them
• Experience of test-driven development and Automated testing of web applications
• Networking familiarity - e.g., can describe HTTP protocol, TCP/IP
• Experience of Hadoop or distributed computation
• Experience of automating software deployment
• Experience of network engineering including switches, taps and firewalls and pcap analysis
• Awareness of system and network security principles such as system hardening, log analysis or IDS/IPS

Job role responsibilities:

Specifically, you would be involved in technical tasks such as the following:

• GNU/Linux software customisation, configuration and integration
• Hadoop customisation and API integration and its configuration with Ansible and Ambari
• Implementation of bespoke NiFi processors using Java and integration with commercial security software
• Ansible deployment automation of software, upgrades and Linux configuration
• Robot Framework and Selenium based test automation for post-build and post-deploy health checks
• Bug and technical debt triage, trouble shooting and resolution
• Production environment change back-porting to our Git repository
• Enhancement of our Bamboo based build and continuous integration processes
• System performance analysis and improvement of multiple, high spec large clusters
• Third line support of production environments with our system administrators

In addition, the following form part of the broader role:

• Review, elaboration and accurate estimation of new requirements with our Product Owner
• Estimation and commitment, as a team, to deliver tested work every 2 weeks
• Development of work following strict ways of working, standards and levels of quality
• Regular presentation of progress and completed work to the team and the customer
• Stay up to date by following industry developments and be active in the Open Source community
• A drive to meet your personal objectives which are aligned to the business plan for the financial year
• Investment in your own skills development with support from the team and wider organisation

Projects are based at our clients office or a customer site but may require travel to other locations. The successful candidate must be able and willing to spend time working away from home if required. This is fully expensed.

About the company:

Our client is a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world.

They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale.

Open Source Integration Engineer

Open Source Integration Engineer

Open Source Integration Engineer

Reading

To £70K plus extensive benefits package

Due to the nature of this work all candidates must be British Nationals, and already hold or be eligible to hold UK Security Clearance to SC level or higher.

Role description:

Our client develops, builds, and runs a cutting-edge Big Data platform for their own meaningful and strategic customer. They are heavy on automation, have great software engineering hardware, a mix of physical and virtual platforms and take on steep learning curves. They are delivering to their customer faster than they have experienced before and are motivated to improve the state of the art, for their customer, and for other engineers or consumers working on similar systems.

The team’s focus is a shared ownership and drive to achieve the customer’s goals. Our client aims for everyone to be involved in software integration, testing, deployment and operations. They all have direct contact with the customer on a daily basis, and the team can ask questions directly to ensure they build what is really needed. Everyone takes ownership of a customer 'story’ from beginning to end. If you are interested in technology integration (as opposed to developing from the ground up), rapid prototyping, regular demonstration of completed work, creating sustainable systems, and thinking ahead but not over complicating for today, this will suit you.

Essential experience required:

Our client is looking for Open Source Integration Engineers at all levels of career experience and would consider graduates with a science related degree (including practical computer programming experience) through to skilled software integration and DevOps professionals.

Applications are invited from individuals who have a solid Linux foundation, an enthusiasm for technology., and demonstrable experience in the following:

• At least one of: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu
• At least one of, or a desire to learn: Python, Java, JavaScript, C or C++
• Familiarity with the following core tools, or a desire to learn: git, ssh, Unix command line, browsers, Bash
• Some exposure to Azure Cloud is highly desirable

Desirable experience:

• Linux experience as a deployment platform and day to day development environment - e.g., can describe package management, networking configuration, log files, environment variables
• Deep Linux experience - e.g., can describe SELinux, chroot, ssh tunnelling, differences between Linux distributions
• Starting from scratch, and building on top of existing systems
• Web development and awareness of vulnerabilities and how to defend against them
• Experience of test-driven development and Automated testing of web applications
• Networking familiarity - e.g., can describe HTTP protocol, TCP/IP
• Experience of Hadoop or distributed computation
• Experience of automating software deployment
• Experience of network engineering including switches, taps and firewalls and pcap analysis
• Awareness of system and network security principles such as system hardening, log analysis or IDS/IPS

Job role responsibilities:

Specifically, you would be involved in technical tasks such as the following:

• GNU/Linux software customisation, configuration and integration
• Hadoop customisation and API integration and its configuration with Ansible and Ambari
• Implementation of bespoke NiFi processors using Java and integration with commercial security software
• Ansible deployment automation of software, upgrades and Linux configuration
• Robot Framework and Selenium based test automation for post-build and post-deploy health checks
• Bug and technical debt triage, trouble shooting and resolution
• Production environment change back-porting to our Git repository
• Enhancement of our Bamboo based build and continuous integration processes
• System performance analysis and improvement of multiple, high spec large clusters
• Third line support of production environments with our system administrators

In addition, the following form part of the broader role:

• Review, elaboration and accurate estimation of new requirements with our Product Owner
• Estimation and commitment, as a team, to deliver tested work every 2 weeks
• Development of work following strict ways of working, standards and levels of quality
• Regular presentation of progress and completed work to the team and the customer
• Stay up to date by following industry developments and be active in the Open Source community
• A drive to meet your personal objectives which are aligned to the business plan for the financial year
• Investment in your own skills development with support from the team and wider organisation

Projects are based at our clients office or a customer site but may require travel to other locations. The successful candidate must be able and willing to spend time working away from home if required. This is fully expensed.

About the company:

Our client is a global Tier 1 company involved in many leading mission critical projects. They are highly regarded within the industry and are one of the largest independent technology & business services firms in the world.

They consider employees as highly valued members of the business and offer extensive progression opportunities for those wishing to move further in their career on a local, national or global scale.

Open Source Integration Engineer

Open Source Integration Engineer

Data Engineer

London

£50,000 - £75,000

Fantastic opportunity for a Data Engineer to become an integral part of the clients newly formed Data team, reporting to the Head of Data, you will be responsible for shaping the technologies, and long term success of the Data function of the business.

This role will suit an ambitious Data Engineer who would like to down the line lead a team of Data specialists and elect the best technologies for the client to use.

What skills do you need?

• AWS/ Azure / GCP
• Python, Java or Scala
• ETL
• Hadoop and Spark

As mentioned, this is still early days for the clients entrance into the Big Data and analytics space, so there is no real wish list of skills. They are looking for a candidate with a proven track record of adapting to new technologies and a candidate to discuss ideas with Senior Stakeholders.

The client offers excellent career opportunities with the ability to carry out ongoing skills development and certifications.

Don't hesitate to contact me to hear more regarding this role:

Data Engineer

London

£50,000 - £75,000

Fantastic opportunity for a Data Engineer to become an integral part of the clients newly formed Data team, reporting to the Head of Data, you will be responsible for shaping the technologies, and long term success of the Data function of the business.

This role will suit an ambitious Data Engineer who would like to down the line lead a team of Data specialists and elect the best technologies for the client to use.

What skills do you need?

• AWS/ Azure / GCP
• Python, Java or Scala
• ETL
• Hadoop and Spark

As mentioned, this is still early days for the clients entrance into the Big Data and analytics space, so there is no real wish list of skills. They are looking for a candidate with a proven track record of adapting to new technologies and a candidate to discuss ideas with Senior Stakeholders.

The client offers excellent career opportunities with the ability to carry out ongoing skills development and certifications.

Don't hesitate to contact me to hear more regarding this role:

Linux System Administrator - Scripting - Award Winning Co.

Here is an opportunity to join an award-winning technology start up In Central London. They are well funded and now hugely revenue generating. They are a leader in their field that have truly revolutionised their industry. Our client has been so successful in their market their product is being utilised by 50 million customers globally and have clients both at government and global crop sector level. Our client receives 1.5 trillion monthly data requests from their customers!

Their infrastructure spans six continents and consists of more than 700 servers as well as third party edge infrastructure. Most of these servers are bare metal, which act as endpoints for speed tests and other measurement traffic. These have very high bandwidth - sometimes 100Gbit/s! Their broader infrastructure uses a mixture of bare metal and cloud-hosted services.

They use MySQL for their smaller databases, and Presto (built on top of Hadoop) for their data warehouse that powers their analytics platform. Their web applications all run on Apache or Nginx, and are written in PHP, with Java and Go in the mix too.

Our Client is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Systems Administrator to join their growing Infrastructure team. The team is responsible for building and supporting the sizeable infrastructure that is the foundation of their services

Apply if you have a strong background in Linux as it is essential for this role.

Requirements:

• Linux server administration background (preferably CentOS / Red hat)
• Shell scripting knowledge
• Experience with administering MySQL servers
• Knowledge of Puppet or a similar automation tool is highly beneficial
• A willingness to be part of on-call rota one week in three

Desirable:

• GitHub experience is beneficial
• Configuring Apache and Nginx experience
• Server monitoring tools experience, such as Nagios
• A good understanding of DNS.
• Open Stack software

Benefits:

• Paid on-call - very stress free on call
• A stimulating working environment in central London
• Opportunity for growth
• Private health care
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days holiday leave per year plus bank holidays
• Training and book budget
• New office
• Choice of hardware
• 12 Work from home days per year
• Season ticket loan

You will gain exposure to:

• Jenkins
• Docker
• Hadoop
• Presto
• Java
• Go
• PHP

Part of this role involves participating in their on-call rota, which you would typically be on once every three weeks. There is extra pay for any days you are on-call, even if you aren't called out.

Linux System Administrator - Scripting - Award Winning Co.

Linux System Administrator - Scripting - Award Winning Co.

Here is an opportunity to join an award-winning technology start up In Central London. They are well funded and now hugely revenue generating. They are a leader in their field that have truly revolutionised their industry. Our client has been so successful in their market their product is being utilised by 50 million customers globally and have clients both at government and global crop sector level. Our client receives 1.5 trillion monthly data requests from their customers!

Their infrastructure spans six continents and consists of more than 700 servers as well as third party edge infrastructure. Most of these servers are bare metal, which act as endpoints for speed tests and other measurement traffic. These have very high bandwidth - sometimes 100Gbit/s! Their broader infrastructure uses a mixture of bare metal and cloud-hosted services.

They use MySQL for their smaller databases, and Presto (built on top of Hadoop) for their data warehouse that powers their analytics platform. Their web applications all run on Apache or Nginx, and are written in PHP, with Java and Go in the mix too.

Our Client is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic Systems Administrator to join their growing Infrastructure team. The team is responsible for building and supporting the sizeable infrastructure that is the foundation of their services

Apply if you have a strong background in Linux as it is essential for this role.

Requirements:

• Linux server administration background (preferably CentOS / Red hat)
• Shell scripting knowledge
• Experience with administering MySQL servers
• Knowledge of Puppet or a similar automation tool is highly beneficial
• A willingness to be part of on-call rota one week in three

Desirable:

• GitHub experience is beneficial
• Configuring Apache and Nginx experience
• Server monitoring tools experience, such as Nagios
• A good understanding of DNS.
• Open Stack software

Benefits:

• Paid on-call - very stress free on call
• A stimulating working environment in central London
• Opportunity for growth
• Private health care
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days holiday leave per year plus bank holidays
• Training and book budget
• New office
• Choice of hardware
• 12 Work from home days per year
• Season ticket loan

You will gain exposure to:

• Jenkins
• Docker
• Hadoop
• Presto
• Java
• Go
• PHP

Part of this role involves participating in their on-call rota, which you would typically be on once every three weeks. There is extra pay for any days you are on-call, even if you aren't called out.

Linux System Administrator - Scripting - Award Winning Co.

Data Architect
London
£60,000 - £75,000

This is a great opportunity for a Data Architect to join a greenfield project & a team who operate right across a high-successful, market-leading platform. This role offers a unique opportunity to learn and develop your skills whilst moving the business forward with future data initiatives and lead the development of the Data Warehouse

THE COMPANY:

The company are a market leading auctioning platform transforming the market for buying and selling goods. They are listed in the Top 100 most innovative companies in Europe and operate a highly-profitable, unique product.

THE ROLE - DATA ARCHITECT:

• Build and maintain the global data warehouse infrastructure.
• Full responsibility/awareness of and integration with the data warehouse development process.
• Scrutiny of new dimensions/metrics/processes prior to release.
• Manage a team of offshore developers.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• A solid foundation in data warehousing: SSIS; Data Modelling methodologies etc.
• Experience with Data Engineering, SQL Server Reporting and Analysis Services
• Experience with data warehousing (preferably Azure OR AWS OR GCP)
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent ETL experience

HOW TO APPLY:

To apply, please do so via this site. For more information, reach out to Liam Wilson.

KEYWORDS:

SQL Server, SSIS, Data Warehousing, Kimball, Hadoop, Spark, Big Data, Data Developer, Financial Services, GCP, Azure, AWS

Data Architect
London
£60,000 - £75,000

This is a great opportunity for a Data Architect to join a greenfield project & a team who operate right across a high-successful, market-leading platform. This role offers a unique opportunity to learn and develop your skills whilst moving the business forward with future data initiatives and lead the development of the Data Warehouse

THE COMPANY:

The company are a market leading auctioning platform transforming the market for buying and selling goods. They are listed in the Top 100 most innovative companies in Europe and operate a highly-profitable, unique product.

THE ROLE - DATA ARCHITECT:

• Build and maintain the global data warehouse infrastructure.
• Full responsibility/awareness of and integration with the data warehouse development process.
• Scrutiny of new dimensions/metrics/processes prior to release.
• Manage a team of offshore developers.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• A solid foundation in data warehousing: SSIS; Data Modelling methodologies etc.
• Experience with Data Engineering, SQL Server Reporting and Analysis Services
• Experience with data warehousing (preferably Azure OR AWS OR GCP)
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent ETL experience

HOW TO APPLY:

To apply, please do so via this site. For more information, reach out to Liam Wilson.

KEYWORDS:

SQL Server, SSIS, Data Warehousing, Kimball, Hadoop, Spark, Big Data, Data Developer, Financial Services, GCP, Azure, AWS