SoCode has partnered with a software company creating innovative technology to create environments with efficient, organised and fun working practises, for employees working in the office or remote. The company is publicly listed and has one of the most envious working environments in Cambridge. Their brand-new office is based in south Cambridge, which includes large amounts of working flexibility and significant opportunities for remote working with this role.

They’re looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer to join an experienced team of exceptionally experienced DevOps engineers. This team is conducting DevOps as it should be and working directly with software development teams.

You will be joining their agile cross-functional team, comprising of Development, QA, UX Design and Product Management. Your new role will be responsible for designing and implementing technical solutions for new and existing products, almost exclusively on the AWS platform. You will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, solid communication skills, a desire to tackle the complex problems and a genuine passion for technology.

Ideally someone will come from an Infrastructure background, however you will need to be comfortable with writing scripts and basic software code to enhance and streamline responsibilities.

The team regularly adopt new and better technology; however, the team’s tech stack currently consists of:

• Cloud:  AWS - CloudFormation, EC2/ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, Cognito etc
• Operating Platforms – We work in a mixed Windows and Linux
• Scripting Languages - PowerShell, Bash CI / CD - Git, TeamCity, AWS CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, Terraform
• Other stuff - ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, NoSQL - DynamoDB, CouchBase, Docker, SQL - MySQL / SQL Server

We are looking for a mix of experience, you don’t need to have everything, but you will need experience in several areas:

• Senior technical infrastructure skills across servers, storage and networks
• Strong AWS experience
• Experience with programming and scripting in a server and/or web environment
• Experience in designing and implementing simple solutions to tricky problems
• Experience with application automation
• Understanding of microservice based architectures
• Experience with maintaining and supporting large scale customer facing environments
• Experience with implementing containerised workloads
• Good understanding of key web environments and protocols
• Good networking experience with at least basic understanding of IP, network traffic flow, network ports and protocols (e.g. http, https, smtp, ftp)
• Comfortable with using Windows and Linux command line tools for administration tasks
• Good knowledge of security as it relates to cloud-based infrastructure
• Experience with Scrum methodology
• Proficient oral and written communication skills
• Passion for technology and innovation

Skills & experience that would be highly desirable

• Managing large scale tasks from inception to completion
• Database administration including enhancing performance and building resilient solutions
• Javascript and/or Lambda function writing
• Automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible)
• CI/CD principles and best practices (Git-based workflows, pipelines, IaC, shift-left, immutable systems) Kubernetes/EKS Knowledge of .NET and .NET Core frameworks

At SoCode, we pride ourselves on an attractive referral scheme.

If you have Friends, Family or Colleagues looking for a new position in the near future tell them to contact us by either phone or email ensuring they provide us with your name. If we successfully find them a new position, we will provide you with thank you present to show our appreciation.

For further information, and to learn how you can become part of this company’s future please contact Bradleigh Barnes at SoCode by submitting your CV to (url removed)

SoCode has partnered with a software company creating innovative technology to create environments with efficient, organised and fun working practises, for employees working in the office or remote. The company is publicly listed and has one of the most envious working environments in Cambridge. Their brand-new office is based in south Cambridge, which includes large amounts of working flexibility and significant opportunities for remote working with this role.

They’re looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer to join an experienced team of exceptionally experienced DevOps engineers. This team is conducting DevOps as it should be and working directly with software development teams.

You will be joining their agile cross-functional team, comprising of Development, QA, UX Design and Product Management. Your new role will be responsible for designing and implementing technical solutions for new and existing products, almost exclusively on the AWS platform. You will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, solid communication skills, a desire to tackle the complex problems and a genuine passion for technology.

Ideally someone will come from an Infrastructure background, however you will need to be comfortable with writing scripts and basic software code to enhance and streamline responsibilities.

The team regularly adopt new and better technology; however, the team’s tech stack currently consists of:

• Cloud:  AWS - CloudFormation, EC2/ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, Cognito etc
• Operating Platforms – We work in a mixed Windows and Linux
• Scripting Languages - PowerShell, Bash CI / CD - Git, TeamCity, AWS CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, Terraform
• Other stuff - ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, NoSQL - DynamoDB, CouchBase, Docker, SQL - MySQL / SQL Server

We are looking for a mix of experience, you don’t need to have everything, but you will need experience in several areas:

• Senior technical infrastructure skills across servers, storage and networks
• Strong AWS experience
• Experience with programming and scripting in a server and/or web environment
• Experience in designing and implementing simple solutions to tricky problems
• Experience with application automation
• Understanding of microservice based architectures
• Experience with maintaining and supporting large scale customer facing environments
• Experience with implementing containerised workloads
• Good understanding of key web environments and protocols
• Good networking experience with at least basic understanding of IP, network traffic flow, network ports and protocols (e.g. http, https, smtp, ftp)
• Comfortable with using Windows and Linux command line tools for administration tasks
• Good knowledge of security as it relates to cloud-based infrastructure
• Experience with Scrum methodology
• Proficient oral and written communication skills
• Passion for technology and innovation

Skills & experience that would be highly desirable

• Managing large scale tasks from inception to completion
• Database administration including enhancing performance and building resilient solutions
• Javascript and/or Lambda function writing
• Automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible)
• CI/CD principles and best practices (Git-based workflows, pipelines, IaC, shift-left, immutable systems) Kubernetes/EKS Knowledge of .NET and .NET Core frameworks

At SoCode, we pride ourselves on an attractive referral scheme.

If you have Friends, Family or Colleagues looking for a new position in the near future tell them to contact us by either phone or email ensuring they provide us with your name. If we successfully find them a new position, we will provide you with thank you present to show our appreciation.

For further information, and to learn how you can become part of this company’s future please contact Bradleigh Barnes at SoCode by submitting your CV to (url removed)

Data Engineer
Insight & Data Services – Permanent
Salary guideline: £40,000 - £65,000 pa (DOE) + Benefits, pension up to 6% contributory, Health Insurance, Life Assurance etc.

Base Location: London – UK wide

Our client is a global leader in Systems Integration and IT Consultancy. They have built out a super advanced and respected industry wide Insights & Data Practise, which is currently working with the biggest companies across multiple sectors, including, Banking, Energy & Utilities, Fashion, Retail, CPG, Manufacturing, Automotive and Public Sector. They are engaged on the biggest and most cutting edge Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics enterprise scale programmes.

The Role:

They don’t really have a typical day or typical project my client.  Their clients expect advice, proof-of-values, industrialised solutions; they work on small and very large engagements across several different sectors, including public, CPG, retail, manufacturing and utilities. If you aren’t on a project, you could instead be involved in a bid, doing some training, working on a point-of-view, building a demo or contributing to their blog series.

My Clients Technical Stack:

• AWS (e.g Athena, Redshift, Glue, EMR)
• Google Cloud Platform
• IBM Cloud
• Python, Spark, SQL
• Experience of developing enterprise grade ETL/data pipelines with tools like Informatica and Talend
• Software engineering practices (coding practices to DS, unit testing, version control, code review)
• Hadoop (especially the Cloudera and Hortonworks distributions), other NoSQL (especially Neo4j and Elastic), and streaming technologies (especially Spark Streaming)
• Experience using development and deployment technologies, for instance virtualisation and management (e.g. Vagrant, Virtualbox), continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, Concourse, Drone, Bamboo), configuration management tooling (e.g. Ansible) and containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm)
• Experience building and deploying solutions to Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) including Cloud provisioning tools (e.g. Terraform)

To apply please click the “Apply” button and follow the instructions. For a further discussion, please contact Jordan Ford.

Data Engineer
Insight & Data Services – Permanent
Salary guideline: £40,000 - £65,000 pa (DOE) + Benefits, pension up to 6% contributory, Health Insurance, Life Assurance etc.

Base Location: London – UK wide

Our client is a global leader in Systems Integration and IT Consultancy. They have built out a super advanced and respected industry wide Insights & Data Practise, which is currently working with the biggest companies across multiple sectors, including, Banking, Energy & Utilities, Fashion, Retail, CPG, Manufacturing, Automotive and Public Sector. They are engaged on the biggest and most cutting edge Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics enterprise scale programmes.

The Role:

They don’t really have a typical day or typical project my client.  Their clients expect advice, proof-of-values, industrialised solutions; they work on small and very large engagements across several different sectors, including public, CPG, retail, manufacturing and utilities. If you aren’t on a project, you could instead be involved in a bid, doing some training, working on a point-of-view, building a demo or contributing to their blog series.

My Clients Technical Stack:

• AWS (e.g Athena, Redshift, Glue, EMR)
• Google Cloud Platform
• IBM Cloud
• Python, Spark, SQL
• Experience of developing enterprise grade ETL/data pipelines with tools like Informatica and Talend
• Software engineering practices (coding practices to DS, unit testing, version control, code review)
• Hadoop (especially the Cloudera and Hortonworks distributions), other NoSQL (especially Neo4j and Elastic), and streaming technologies (especially Spark Streaming)
• Experience using development and deployment technologies, for instance virtualisation and management (e.g. Vagrant, Virtualbox), continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, Concourse, Drone, Bamboo), configuration management tooling (e.g. Ansible) and containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm)
• Experience building and deploying solutions to Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) including Cloud provisioning tools (e.g. Terraform)

To apply please click the “Apply” button and follow the instructions. For a further discussion, please contact Jordan Ford.

We are seeking a passionate Software Developer who is steeped in the ways of Agile. We are considering Software Developers at all levels to support the development of a local business that are expanding their product portfolio. Your work will primarily be in Angular, but there are plenty of opportunities to take on full-stack tasks if you're up for the challenge!

This business creates IT products and services that transform the way their customers work. It’s an exciting time in the company’s history and a fantastic opportunity to be a part of a dynamic and developing team! They have strong and growing divisions that specialise in providing IT services, communication solutions and retail to business and home customers throughout the UK.

Stack Outlook

• API: REST, GraphQL
• Tooling: git, jenkins, JIRA, slack, ELK
• Infrastructure: OpenShift, OpenStack, Docker, RDS (MySQL), NoSQL
• Apps: angular, typescript, blazor, materials styled-components
• Backend services: C# or C++

Requirements

• Knowledge of Data Structures ideally
• Enjoy working in a continuous delivery environment
• Familiarity with the whole application development cycle ideally
• Experience with automatic unit testing and automatic UI testing ideally
• Have an interest in user behaviour, to drive forward the user experience

Company benefits

• Generous pension scheme
• Health Care and Wellbeing plans
• Salary sacrifice bicycle scheme
• 28 Days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) increasing to 33, pro-rata
• A friendly, progressive place of work in the South West
• Parking on site

This is a team who are growing, with a culture based on Agility. If you have the experience and are currently seeking a new and exciting challenge, then please submit an up to date CV by using the ‘apply’ button below, many thanks for your interest.

We are seeking a passionate Software Developer who is steeped in the ways of Agile. We are considering Software Developers at all levels to support the development of a local business that are expanding their product portfolio. Your work will primarily be in Angular, but there are plenty of opportunities to take on full-stack tasks if you're up for the challenge!

This business creates IT products and services that transform the way their customers work. It’s an exciting time in the company’s history and a fantastic opportunity to be a part of a dynamic and developing team! They have strong and growing divisions that specialise in providing IT services, communication solutions and retail to business and home customers throughout the UK.

Stack Outlook

• API: REST, GraphQL
• Tooling: git, jenkins, JIRA, slack, ELK
• Infrastructure: OpenShift, OpenStack, Docker, RDS (MySQL), NoSQL
• Apps: angular, typescript, blazor, materials styled-components
• Backend services: C# or C++

Requirements

• Knowledge of Data Structures ideally
• Enjoy working in a continuous delivery environment
• Familiarity with the whole application development cycle ideally
• Experience with automatic unit testing and automatic UI testing ideally
• Have an interest in user behaviour, to drive forward the user experience

Company benefits

• Generous pension scheme
• Health Care and Wellbeing plans
• Salary sacrifice bicycle scheme
• 28 Days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) increasing to 33, pro-rata
• A friendly, progressive place of work in the South West
• Parking on site

This is a team who are growing, with a culture based on Agility. If you have the experience and are currently seeking a new and exciting challenge, then please submit an up to date CV by using the ‘apply’ button below, many thanks for your interest.

A fantastic opportunity for a Machine Learning Developer working onsite with a leading international bank, on an initial 6-month fixed term contract.

This position is part of the Advanced Analytics (AA) team involved in the design, implementation and performance monitoring of predictive analytics tools and is based within Group Risk Analytics, Regulatory Compliance (GRA RC) function. As part of the AA team you will be involved in designing end-to-end predictive analytics solutions, developing data platforms, build Machine Learning models (supervised, unsupervised, reinforced and evolutionary algos) and create software products to deploy these solutions within Regulatory Compliance framework.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Data Scientists for development of predictive analytics tools, their prototyping and implementation
• Create Data Platform for Advanced Analytics teams to enable them in creating of end-to-end automation and AI capabilities
• Experienced in integrating multiple heterogeneous systems. Dealt with variety of languages and tools (e.g. scripting languages)
• Package AI/ML solutions developed by Advanced Analytics using docker/Kubernetes and host them as microservices on cloud (GCP/AWS)
• Develop CI/CD pipeline on both GCP and AWS infrastructure
• Create ETL script for sourcing and connecting data from structured and unstructured database
• Integrate new data management technologies and software engineering tools into existing structures
• Data Implementation Checks and Data Quality Assurance
• Conduct UAT to ensure error handling and user experience
• Development of bespoke solutions and tools to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of surveillance within Regulatory Compliance
• Document data architecture designs and associated platform development tasks
• Formally present platform requirements to IT and other relevant stakeholders
• Adhere with all the applicable compliance policies (Data security policy, operational risk, Functional manual, Group Compliance Manual, Audit recommendations, Internal Control requirements, relevant regulatory guidelines etc.) and the bank’s business standards as applicable.
• Lead projects and initiatives including supervision and mentoring of team members

Experience required

• Post Graduate qualifications in Software Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Electronic Engineering or any other relevant quantitative discipline;
• At least 5 years of experience of working in relevant Software Engineering or Analytics field. Experience within Financial Services highly desirable.
• Strong experience in creating infrastructure platforms for Machine Learning based solutions, experience in developing end-to-end solutions and deploying them. Experience in creating web services. Some experience in front-end development would be a plus.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and services like: BigQuery, Dataprep, Dataflow, Dialogue flow, Spanner, Dataproc, Cloud ML Engine, Kubernetes, Cloud Datastore and experience with equivalent services on AWS.
• Knowledge of database architectures, ETL scripting for Hadoop-based technologies (e.g MapReduce, Hive and Pig), SQL-based technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL and MySQL) and NoSQL technologies (e.g. Cassandra and MongoDB).
• Familiarity with data ingestion tools (Flume, Kafka, Sqoop, Storm) and data analysis tools such as Spark, ML flow, etc.
• Experience with some of the ML libraries would be an added value. Interest in Natural Language Processing and text analysis.
• Strong experience in at least two of the following: Python, Java, C/C++, Matlab, SAS, R relevant data visualisation tools;
• Very good knowledge of Linux
• Experience in Terraform highly desired.
• Experience with designing microservices and APIs, experience in serverless architectures
• Good understanding of trading cycles for financial instruments

A fantastic opportunity for a Machine Learning Developer working onsite with a leading international bank, on an initial 6-month fixed term contract.

This position is part of the Advanced Analytics (AA) team involved in the design, implementation and performance monitoring of predictive analytics tools and is based within Group Risk Analytics, Regulatory Compliance (GRA RC) function. As part of the AA team you will be involved in designing end-to-end predictive analytics solutions, developing data platforms, build Machine Learning models (supervised, unsupervised, reinforced and evolutionary algos) and create software products to deploy these solutions within Regulatory Compliance framework.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Data Scientists for development of predictive analytics tools, their prototyping and implementation
• Create Data Platform for Advanced Analytics teams to enable them in creating of end-to-end automation and AI capabilities
• Experienced in integrating multiple heterogeneous systems. Dealt with variety of languages and tools (e.g. scripting languages)
• Package AI/ML solutions developed by Advanced Analytics using docker/Kubernetes and host them as microservices on cloud (GCP/AWS)
• Develop CI/CD pipeline on both GCP and AWS infrastructure
• Create ETL script for sourcing and connecting data from structured and unstructured database
• Integrate new data management technologies and software engineering tools into existing structures
• Data Implementation Checks and Data Quality Assurance
• Conduct UAT to ensure error handling and user experience
• Development of bespoke solutions and tools to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of surveillance within Regulatory Compliance
• Document data architecture designs and associated platform development tasks
• Formally present platform requirements to IT and other relevant stakeholders
• Adhere with all the applicable compliance policies (Data security policy, operational risk, Functional manual, Group Compliance Manual, Audit recommendations, Internal Control requirements, relevant regulatory guidelines etc.) and the bank’s business standards as applicable.
• Lead projects and initiatives including supervision and mentoring of team members

Experience required

• Post Graduate qualifications in Software Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Econometrics, Electronic Engineering or any other relevant quantitative discipline;
• At least 5 years of experience of working in relevant Software Engineering or Analytics field. Experience within Financial Services highly desirable.
• Strong experience in creating infrastructure platforms for Machine Learning based solutions, experience in developing end-to-end solutions and deploying them. Experience in creating web services. Some experience in front-end development would be a plus.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and services like: BigQuery, Dataprep, Dataflow, Dialogue flow, Spanner, Dataproc, Cloud ML Engine, Kubernetes, Cloud Datastore and experience with equivalent services on AWS.
• Knowledge of database architectures, ETL scripting for Hadoop-based technologies (e.g MapReduce, Hive and Pig), SQL-based technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL and MySQL) and NoSQL technologies (e.g. Cassandra and MongoDB).
• Familiarity with data ingestion tools (Flume, Kafka, Sqoop, Storm) and data analysis tools such as Spark, ML flow, etc.
• Experience with some of the ML libraries would be an added value. Interest in Natural Language Processing and text analysis.
• Strong experience in at least two of the following: Python, Java, C/C++, Matlab, SAS, R relevant data visualisation tools;
• Very good knowledge of Linux
• Experience in Terraform highly desired.
• Experience with designing microservices and APIs, experience in serverless architectures
• Good understanding of trading cycles for financial instruments

Senior DevOps Engineer - Splunk SME

Role: Senior DevOps/Systems Reliability Engineer - Splunk
Location: London
Duration: 12 Months
Rate: £600 - £750 per day (DOE)
Start: ASAP

CPS Group UK are delighted to be seeking a Senior DevOps/Systems Reliability Engineer to join a leading, global brand in London. Using a software engineering approach to architect, design, automate monitor and build applications to scale, we require an Engineer with SME-level knowledge of Splunk.

The Splunk Engineer will play a pivotal role in keeping Splunk available and performing, whilst promoting and on-boarding new technologies that work in conjunction with Splunk, solving complex automation and scaling issues.

Role & Responsibilities

*Play a key role in supporting and evolving the next generation Splunk platform
*Evolve and develop Systems Reliability practices (automation & scaling)
*Evaluate the current state of the Enterprise Splunk environment
*Consulting, Designing, Building & Supporting Advancements for a large-scale Enterprise Splunk production environment
*Creating Telemetry for monitoring
*Automating Infrastructure & Operations
*Reinforcing best practices to secure Company & Customer data
*Systematic Load Testing, troubleshooting, Optimisation & Fine-Tuning
*Documentation - (Design, Play Books)

Candidate Criteria & Required Experience

*SME-Level Splunk knowledge and knowledge of Enterprise Security module
*Expertise with large-scale (enterprise) Splunk environments
*Expertise in multiple scripting languages and advanced skills in programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Node, Java)
*Systems administration on Linux & Windows platforms
*Experience with Source Control Management systems (e.g. Git)
*Expertise with public & private cloud hosting services (AWS, Azure, Google)
*Proficient with Data technologies (NoSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elastic)
*Able to diagnose simple/complex system & process issues
*Monitoring & Instrumentation - Site, Systems, Applications
*Networking skills & protocols (HTTP, TLS, SSH, DNS)

For more information, or immediate consideration for this opportunity please contact Charlie Grant at CPS Group UK on (phone number removed) or email (url removed)

Senior DevOps Engineer - Splunk SME

Role: Senior DevOps/Systems Reliability Engineer - Splunk
Location: London
Duration: 12 Months
Rate: £600 - £750 per day (DOE)
Start: ASAP

CPS Group UK are delighted to be seeking a Senior DevOps/Systems Reliability Engineer to join a leading, global brand in London. Using a software engineering approach to architect, design, automate monitor and build applications to scale, we require an Engineer with SME-level knowledge of Splunk.

The Splunk Engineer will play a pivotal role in keeping Splunk available and performing, whilst promoting and on-boarding new technologies that work in conjunction with Splunk, solving complex automation and scaling issues.

Role & Responsibilities

*Play a key role in supporting and evolving the next generation Splunk platform
*Evolve and develop Systems Reliability practices (automation & scaling)
*Evaluate the current state of the Enterprise Splunk environment
*Consulting, Designing, Building & Supporting Advancements for a large-scale Enterprise Splunk production environment
*Creating Telemetry for monitoring
*Automating Infrastructure & Operations
*Reinforcing best practices to secure Company & Customer data
*Systematic Load Testing, troubleshooting, Optimisation & Fine-Tuning
*Documentation - (Design, Play Books)

Candidate Criteria & Required Experience

*SME-Level Splunk knowledge and knowledge of Enterprise Security module
*Expertise with large-scale (enterprise) Splunk environments
*Expertise in multiple scripting languages and advanced skills in programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Node, Java)
*Systems administration on Linux & Windows platforms
*Experience with Source Control Management systems (e.g. Git)
*Expertise with public & private cloud hosting services (AWS, Azure, Google)
*Proficient with Data technologies (NoSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elastic)
*Able to diagnose simple/complex system & process issues
*Monitoring & Instrumentation - Site, Systems, Applications
*Networking skills & protocols (HTTP, TLS, SSH, DNS)

For more information, or immediate consideration for this opportunity please contact Charlie Grant at CPS Group UK on (phone number removed) or email (url removed)