Heard of us?

We're an award-winning bank; backing people to fulfil life's hopes and dreams.

Now is your chance…

The Non-Production Environments and DevOps team are a small, multi-skilled team who look after Aldermore's test and development environments, as well as the development and roll-out of DevOps and other automation solutions across the whole Bank. The team's role is expanding as the Bank transforms and we are also becoming the primary support point for Aldermore's cloud hosted solutions.

We attract talent; by being fully immersed in our business, influencing and understanding our short, medium and long term aspirations. We develop our people; to ensure they fulfil their hopes and dreams, whilst continuing to meet the needs and expectations of our dynamic business.

We are a high performing, high profile team. We have worked hard to establish ourselves as trusted advisors; providing the correct balance of knowledge and challenge which supports managers and leaders make the right decisions at difficult times.

The role of DevOps and Environment Support Engineer is really important to us. You will be supporting the existing non-production environments, assisting the Bank's new and existing cloud hosted environments, and designing and developing automated deployment and configuration solutions.

Based in our dynamic Reading office, you will sit amongst a wide team and report to the Non-Production Environments and DevOps Manager

What would your day look like?

This is not a pure DevOps role. It is expected that the duties related to supporting the existing manually delivered environments will continue for some time and will make up a significant part of the day to day activities; however it presents an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to be part of a changing organisation.

DevOps

Environment Support

Change Management

Configuration Management

What do we expect of you?

• Proven experience with some of the following:

Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Artifactory, SonarQube, Sentinel, GitHub, TFS, Maven, Ant, MSBuild, Docker

• Extensive Technical background in Azure and AWS cloud hosting solutions,

VMWare ESXi and/or Microsoft Hyper-V, networks, firewalls, load-balancers and web-application firewalls

• Good experience of Java and .NET software development environments
• A good working knowledge of Java EE application servers e.g. JBOSS, WebLogic etc.
• Experience supporting Windows Server and Linux operating systems (installation, configuration, patching)
• Good knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server (or another enterprise DBMS e.g. Oracle)
• A good understanding of the waterfall and agile software development methodologies

What can you expect of us?

• A friendly and flexible culture, synonymous with our proposition to our Customers.
• A smart yet comfortable working environment, well located for the daily commute and those lunchtime errands.
• A growing organisation that defines itself as being nimble, lean and strong.
• A drive for continuous improvement, for which you will be empowered to get behind from day one.
• A visible and approachable ExCo; who you will very likely to bump into whilst making your morning coffee.

And of course you will be compensated competitively, with a good range of core benefits and bonus potential.

Still Curious?

A lot can happen in a year!

In 2019 the Group was formed; bringing together two very successful businesses, under the group umbrella. Whilst our parent company operates internationally from their HQ in South Africa, we are a UK-based financial services specialist that supports our customers across a range of products and services, with hubs throughout the UK, including London, Reading, Manchester and Cardiff.

We also celebrated our 10th Birthday and fundamentally 10 years of helping those with ideas; by saying yes to our customers. We've propelled entrepreneurs on their journeys; we've given first-timers a leg-up onto the property ladder; and we've opened up the lending market to many.

As for what the next 12 months has to offer; we are embarking upon the delivery of our Purpose; a Purpose that underpins our next 3 to 5 years as a growing business. Join us today and we will make the same Promises to you as an employee, as we do to each of our Customers.

We do not accept speculative agency CVs. Any CV received will be treated as a gift and not eligible for an agency fee. PSL agencies should only send CVs if authorised to do so by HR.

Where a DBS check or CIFAS check is identified as necessary, all application forms, job adverts and recruitment briefs will contain a statement that an application for a DBS certificate or a CIFAS check will be submitted in the event of the individual being offered the position.

Our client is an equal opportunities employer.

Heard of us?

We're an award-winning bank; backing people to fulfil life's hopes and dreams.

Now is your chance…

The Non-Production Environments and DevOps team are a small, multi-skilled team who look after Aldermore's test and development environments, as well as the development and roll-out of DevOps and other automation solutions across the whole Bank. The team's role is expanding as the Bank transforms and we are also becoming the primary support point for Aldermore's cloud hosted solutions.

We attract talent; by being fully immersed in our business, influencing and understanding our short, medium and long term aspirations. We develop our people; to ensure they fulfil their hopes and dreams, whilst continuing to meet the needs and expectations of our dynamic business.

We are a high performing, high profile team. We have worked hard to establish ourselves as trusted advisors; providing the correct balance of knowledge and challenge which supports managers and leaders make the right decisions at difficult times.

The role of DevOps and Environment Support Engineer is really important to us. You will be supporting the existing non-production environments, assisting the Bank's new and existing cloud hosted environments, and designing and developing automated deployment and configuration solutions.

Based in our dynamic Reading office, you will sit amongst a wide team and report to the Non-Production Environments and DevOps Manager

What would your day look like?

This is not a pure DevOps role. It is expected that the duties related to supporting the existing manually delivered environments will continue for some time and will make up a significant part of the day to day activities; however it presents an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to be part of a changing organisation.

DevOps

Environment Support

Change Management

Configuration Management

What do we expect of you?

• Proven experience with some of the following:

Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, Artifactory, SonarQube, Sentinel, GitHub, TFS, Maven, Ant, MSBuild, Docker

• Extensive Technical background in Azure and AWS cloud hosting solutions,

VMWare ESXi and/or Microsoft Hyper-V, networks, firewalls, load-balancers and web-application firewalls

• Good experience of Java and .NET software development environments
• A good working knowledge of Java EE application servers e.g. JBOSS, WebLogic etc.
• Experience supporting Windows Server and Linux operating systems (installation, configuration, patching)
• Good knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server (or another enterprise DBMS e.g. Oracle)
• A good understanding of the waterfall and agile software development methodologies

What can you expect of us?

• A friendly and flexible culture, synonymous with our proposition to our Customers.
• A smart yet comfortable working environment, well located for the daily commute and those lunchtime errands.
• A growing organisation that defines itself as being nimble, lean and strong.
• A drive for continuous improvement, for which you will be empowered to get behind from day one.
• A visible and approachable ExCo; who you will very likely to bump into whilst making your morning coffee.

And of course you will be compensated competitively, with a good range of core benefits and bonus potential.

Still Curious?

A lot can happen in a year!

In 2019 the Group was formed; bringing together two very successful businesses, under the group umbrella. Whilst our parent company operates internationally from their HQ in South Africa, we are a UK-based financial services specialist that supports our customers across a range of products and services, with hubs throughout the UK, including London, Reading, Manchester and Cardiff.

We also celebrated our 10th Birthday and fundamentally 10 years of helping those with ideas; by saying yes to our customers. We've propelled entrepreneurs on their journeys; we've given first-timers a leg-up onto the property ladder; and we've opened up the lending market to many.

As for what the next 12 months has to offer; we are embarking upon the delivery of our Purpose; a Purpose that underpins our next 3 to 5 years as a growing business. Join us today and we will make the same Promises to you as an employee, as we do to each of our Customers.

We do not accept speculative agency CVs. Any CV received will be treated as a gift and not eligible for an agency fee. PSL agencies should only send CVs if authorised to do so by HR.

Where a DBS check or CIFAS check is identified as necessary, all application forms, job adverts and recruitment briefs will contain a statement that an application for a DBS certificate or a CIFAS check will be submitted in the event of the individual being offered the position.

Our client is an equal opportunities employer.

DevOps Lead - AWS - You will have choice of direction & tooling!

A unique opportunity here to join a well-established East London (Liverpool Street) 6yr old EdTech startup. Our client has 900,000 monthly web visits and 3000 transactions taking place per day! They are self-revenue generating and profit making yet still have investors knocking on the door! Currently at 45 heads this role is a newly created position to replace a contractor and for you to shape and build a future DevOps/SRE team.

Reporting to the CTO, in this role you will have autonomy and direction in how you instil a DevOps culture and collaborate with the tech team and the business as well as have autonomy on selection of software vendors/tooling.

Our client also utilises machine learning technology that maximises their product for the client based and helps them to gain market share.

Core tech environment:

• AWS - AWS - AWS ! (native AWS tools used at the moment)
• EC2 - x4 containers
• S3
• RDS for databases
• CI/CD - Codebuild & CodePipeline
• Lambda (some)

Our client's core application that sits on the above infrastructure is written in Java with a MySQL database backend.

Core projects will be to continue to bring in-house all of the hosting and pipelines from a 3rd party consultancy. You will be instrumental in improving the pipeline velocity and effectiveness (migrating code utiliseing Bamboo into Codebuild & code pipeline). You will be breaking down a monolith application and help architect and manage a truly microservices environment.

Whilst products such as Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes are not in place currently, there is no reason where you cannot implement such products if this is the right direction for you to take.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years' experience as a DevOps Engineer or equivalent software-engineering role.
• You have been a tech lead before in your area of expertise
• Solid experience with AWS (3+ years) - CloudFormation, CodePipeline, RDS, EC2, CloudFront, SNS, SQS
• Infrastructure-as-code and automating the heck out of everything is your motto
• You have experience in network, server, and application-status monitoring.
• Familiarity with development in Java-based backend microservice or serverless technologies (Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, etc)
• Experience with integration tools: Bitbucket, GIT, Bamboo, Jenkins, CodePipeline, DroneCI, Docker etc.
• You can work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.

This is a great time to be joining this organisation and is a bit of a one-off opportunity to take the lead here!

Benefits

• A flexible work-from-home policy (1 day per week) and option for flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work autonomously and make use of your creative flair
• Tuesday Breakfasts, Team lunches, Friday socials and regular team events & outings
• 25 days holiday
• Cycle to Work scheme and tech acquisition schemes
• Contrib Pension

APPLY ASAP!

DevOps Lead - AWS - You will have choice of direction & tooling!

DevOps Lead - AWS - You will have choice of direction & tooling!

A unique opportunity here to join a well-established East London (Liverpool Street) 6yr old EdTech startup. Our client has 900,000 monthly web visits and 3000 transactions taking place per day! They are self-revenue generating and profit making yet still have investors knocking on the door! Currently at 45 heads this role is a newly created position to replace a contractor and for you to shape and build a future DevOps/SRE team.

Reporting to the CTO, in this role you will have autonomy and direction in how you instil a DevOps culture and collaborate with the tech team and the business as well as have autonomy on selection of software vendors/tooling.

Our client also utilises machine learning technology that maximises their product for the client based and helps them to gain market share.

Core tech environment:

• AWS - AWS - AWS ! (native AWS tools used at the moment)
• EC2 - x4 containers
• S3
• RDS for databases
• CI/CD - Codebuild & CodePipeline
• Lambda (some)

Our client's core application that sits on the above infrastructure is written in Java with a MySQL database backend.

Core projects will be to continue to bring in-house all of the hosting and pipelines from a 3rd party consultancy. You will be instrumental in improving the pipeline velocity and effectiveness (migrating code utiliseing Bamboo into Codebuild & code pipeline). You will be breaking down a monolith application and help architect and manage a truly microservices environment.

Whilst products such as Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes are not in place currently, there is no reason where you cannot implement such products if this is the right direction for you to take.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years' experience as a DevOps Engineer or equivalent software-engineering role.
• You have been a tech lead before in your area of expertise
• Solid experience with AWS (3+ years) - CloudFormation, CodePipeline, RDS, EC2, CloudFront, SNS, SQS
• Infrastructure-as-code and automating the heck out of everything is your motto
• You have experience in network, server, and application-status monitoring.
• Familiarity with development in Java-based backend microservice or serverless technologies (Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, etc)
• Experience with integration tools: Bitbucket, GIT, Bamboo, Jenkins, CodePipeline, DroneCI, Docker etc.
• You can work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.

This is a great time to be joining this organisation and is a bit of a one-off opportunity to take the lead here!

Benefits

• A flexible work-from-home policy (1 day per week) and option for flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work autonomously and make use of your creative flair
• Tuesday Breakfasts, Team lunches, Friday socials and regular team events & outings
• 25 days holiday
• Cycle to Work scheme and tech acquisition schemes
• Contrib Pension

APPLY ASAP!

DevOps Lead - AWS - You will have choice of direction & tooling!

Thought about working for one of 2020’s highly tipped start-up’s? We’re a social application that is changing the way our customer’s find love! Already over 2 million members!

As a tech start-up, our product is everything. We use our own style of agile to release and iterate extremely frequently. After a successful growth phase, we’re seeking a Lead Back Engineer (PHP) to help take us to the next level.

What we offer

• Salary up to 100k
• Cool office close to the tech hub of Old Street
• Opportunity to have an impact early on and reap the rewards!

Requirements

• +5 years’ experience in PHP, tackling hard problems!
• We use PHP 7+ with Slim
• Exposure to Microservices and Cloud (AWS)
• Experience building RESTful APIs
• MySQL/Maria DB
• Agile - Scrum and Kanban

Role

Lead a team of engineers that build and support APIs that handle millions of requests a day. You'll also contribute technically writing code, designing schemas, new features and leading the direction of our overall architecture to support and scale our platform.

You'll work with every other team within engineering - to help build and scale the platform our products sit on. This is an exciting role for the right candidate who wants to make an impact at a fast growing start-up.

Other Perks

• Super flexible on hours in the office wanting productivity over just being present
• Everyone in the team has 2 days minimum WFH per month
• Monthly team building activities and dinners/lunches out

Why Join?

We have a change-the-world attitude. We are already the market leader in our area, but with so much growth to come it’s a really exciting place to work.

Sound of interest? Please apply to find out more!

Thought about working for one of 2020’s highly tipped start-up’s? We’re a social application that is changing the way our customer’s find love! Already over 2 million members!

As a tech start-up, our product is everything. We use our own style of agile to release and iterate extremely frequently. After a successful growth phase, we’re seeking a Lead Back Engineer (PHP) to help take us to the next level.

What we offer

• Salary up to 100k
• Cool office close to the tech hub of Old Street
• Opportunity to have an impact early on and reap the rewards!

Requirements

• +5 years’ experience in PHP, tackling hard problems!
• We use PHP 7+ with Slim
• Exposure to Microservices and Cloud (AWS)
• Experience building RESTful APIs
• MySQL/Maria DB
• Agile - Scrum and Kanban

Role

Lead a team of engineers that build and support APIs that handle millions of requests a day. You'll also contribute technically writing code, designing schemas, new features and leading the direction of our overall architecture to support and scale our platform.

You'll work with every other team within engineering - to help build and scale the platform our products sit on. This is an exciting role for the right candidate who wants to make an impact at a fast growing start-up.

Other Perks

• Super flexible on hours in the office wanting productivity over just being present
• Everyone in the team has 2 days minimum WFH per month
• Monthly team building activities and dinners/lunches out

Why Join?

We have a change-the-world attitude. We are already the market leader in our area, but with so much growth to come it’s a really exciting place to work.

Sound of interest? Please apply to find out more!

Nigel Frank has been appointed by an MS Gold Partner that is in search for an AX/365 F&O Senior Project Manager.

The client has planed to expand worldwide by 14% in order to keep up with the project pipeline. The company aims to provide more Dynamics AX/365 projects and is looking for a project manager that will act as a main point of contact for the client through the process of implementing Dynamics AX/365 F&O.

The Project Manager will have the overall responsibility of implementing Dynamics AX/365 including, data migration, be able to identify a gap in the process and build a report. Also, the Project Manager will be responsible for resolving issues when implementing Dynamics AX/365 and is able to adapt to changes quickly.

My client operates with in various industries involving manufacturing, retail and finance. The company offers market leading benefits - paid trips to Ibiza, Amsterdam and Las Vegas. Moreover, the client believes in investing in its people, therefore, the company provides a car and MAC Book pro laptop for all its new starters.

Required Skills:

• Experience with Dynamics AX/365 F&O
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Able to deal with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with Microsoft reporting tools such as Power BI

CANDIDATES CONSIDERED FROM EUROPE THAT ARE WILLING AND KEEN TO WORK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

If you are interested in this position please send your CV to or call me to discuss this role in further detail.

I understand the need for discretion and would welcome the chance to speak to any Microsoft Dynamics candidates that are considering a new career or job either now or in the future. For more information on the Microsoft Dynamics market and available opportunities I can be contacted by email confidentiality is of course guaranteed.

Nigel Frank has been appointed by an MS Gold Partner that is in search for an AX/365 F&O Senior Project Manager.

The client has planed to expand worldwide by 14% in order to keep up with the project pipeline. The company aims to provide more Dynamics AX/365 projects and is looking for a project manager that will act as a main point of contact for the client through the process of implementing Dynamics AX/365 F&O.

The Project Manager will have the overall responsibility of implementing Dynamics AX/365 including, data migration, be able to identify a gap in the process and build a report. Also, the Project Manager will be responsible for resolving issues when implementing Dynamics AX/365 and is able to adapt to changes quickly.

My client operates with in various industries involving manufacturing, retail and finance. The company offers market leading benefits - paid trips to Ibiza, Amsterdam and Las Vegas. Moreover, the client believes in investing in its people, therefore, the company provides a car and MAC Book pro laptop for all its new starters.

Required Skills:

• Experience with Dynamics AX/365 F&O
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Able to deal with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with Microsoft reporting tools such as Power BI

CANDIDATES CONSIDERED FROM EUROPE THAT ARE WILLING AND KEEN TO WORK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

If you are interested in this position please send your CV to or call me to discuss this role in further detail.

I understand the need for discretion and would welcome the chance to speak to any Microsoft Dynamics candidates that are considering a new career or job either now or in the future. For more information on the Microsoft Dynamics market and available opportunities I can be contacted by email confidentiality is of course guaranteed.