A large government organisation based in London requires an experienced Security Cleared Project Support Officer for a 12 month contract.

The organisation is undergoing a large IT Transformation Programme and has committed to delivering a number of capital projects which will directly benefit their operational ability. This includes:

The Project Support Officer is therefore, required to provide support, assurance and project deliverables and to ensure that work is properly attributed and completed to a sufficient quality.

The Project Support Officer will be working in a fast paced Agile/Scrum environment and will be required to:

• Deliver consistent practice and standards for project and programme governance including planning, reporting, change control, risk & issue management, cost control and resource management
• Attend necessary governance meetings
• Facilitate and enforce appropriate gatekeeping process for all projects
• Deliver and maintain the project plan (from the consolidated project plans) so that it accurately reflects the status of key milestones, deliverables and activities
• Highlight dependencies external to the programme that have an impact on the programme plan to monitor the risk to and from those external dependencies
• Create and deliver status reports
• Perform a regular quality review of the Risks and Issues log
• Deliver, manage and administer the programme's document (deliverables) management process
• Create and maintain a resource management process which enables movement of resources on, off and within the programme
• Co-ordinate all external QA activities including reviews, audits and assurances.
• You will be working with Programme engagements and customers on work-plan management, production of status reports, analysis, metrics, Jira and Confluence reporting.
• Leading and driving through changes whilst supporting the Project Manager.
• Ensure delivery within relevant statutory and policy obligations.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Have a track record in providing PMO support on large, fast-paced, complex projects.
• Be experienced in Agile and Cloud environments
• Be proficient in planning and using MS Project
• Experienced with using Jira and Confluence

Please note, that you MUST hold current Security Clearance for this role. Due to the nature of the environment, you will also be required to undertake an "Enhanced" Clearance. For this reason, you must have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 years out of the past 5 years in order to provide the footprint required to conduct the necessary checks. This is a national requirement for any applicant to UK roles that require SC clearance.

This additional clearance can also take 3 to 4 months, so an expected start date will be end of May/beginning of June 2020

The role is also Inside Scope so rates will be based on working through an Umbrella Company.

A large government organisation based in London requires an experienced Security Cleared Project Support Officer for a 12 month contract.

The organisation is undergoing a large IT Transformation Programme and has committed to delivering a number of capital projects which will directly benefit their operational ability. This includes:

The Project Support Officer is therefore, required to provide support, assurance and project deliverables and to ensure that work is properly attributed and completed to a sufficient quality.

The Project Support Officer will be working in a fast paced Agile/Scrum environment and will be required to:

• Deliver consistent practice and standards for project and programme governance including planning, reporting, change control, risk & issue management, cost control and resource management
• Attend necessary governance meetings
• Facilitate and enforce appropriate gatekeeping process for all projects
• Deliver and maintain the project plan (from the consolidated project plans) so that it accurately reflects the status of key milestones, deliverables and activities
• Highlight dependencies external to the programme that have an impact on the programme plan to monitor the risk to and from those external dependencies
• Create and deliver status reports
• Perform a regular quality review of the Risks and Issues log
• Deliver, manage and administer the programme's document (deliverables) management process
• Create and maintain a resource management process which enables movement of resources on, off and within the programme
• Co-ordinate all external QA activities including reviews, audits and assurances.
• You will be working with Programme engagements and customers on work-plan management, production of status reports, analysis, metrics, Jira and Confluence reporting.
• Leading and driving through changes whilst supporting the Project Manager.
• Ensure delivery within relevant statutory and policy obligations.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Have a track record in providing PMO support on large, fast-paced, complex projects.
• Be experienced in Agile and Cloud environments
• Be proficient in planning and using MS Project
• Experienced with using Jira and Confluence

Please note, that you MUST hold current Security Clearance for this role. Due to the nature of the environment, you will also be required to undertake an "Enhanced" Clearance. For this reason, you must have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 years out of the past 5 years in order to provide the footprint required to conduct the necessary checks. This is a national requirement for any applicant to UK roles that require SC clearance.

This additional clearance can also take 3 to 4 months, so an expected start date will be end of May/beginning of June 2020

The role is also Inside Scope so rates will be based on working through an Umbrella Company.

Azure Reliability Engineer - £100-120,000 - Central London

Nigel Frank is working with one of its most successful clients to help find people to join Azure experts working on a particularly exciting project. The business needs someone who will be able add availability, performance and stability to their clients Azure platforms, through the work they do as this enterprise organisation completes a total cloud revamp.

The company has huge pipeline of projects and is looking for someone to help implement these further. The role involves working on client site predominantly and can offer some remote working as well. You will be liaising with other engineers, stakeholders and developers to help improve and work on the platforms.

This role presents the opportunity to be a big part of a very well know consulting company, particularly working on their highest profile projects. The business has a big focus on certifications and has dedicated time and budget to allow you to take as many as you can. There is a big focus on people being consultative and confident in front of clients given the scope of the role. You will be involved in technical architecture discussions, hands on DevOps work as well as infrastructure.

They are looking for a well rounded candidate who has expert knowledge of everything to do with Azure. The role will see you involved in discussions around architecture and how to get the best out of the platform; consulting and dealing with clients to understand and shape their requirements and also using a wide array of hands on technical skills.

You must be eligible to work in the UK for this role.

Experience

• In depth knowledge of Azure
• Engineer solutions on Azure and maintain the platform
• In depth knowledge of devops methodology
• CI/CD, IaaS, Terraform, PowerShell
• DevOps tools experience - a wide array of knowledge is preferable
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. Must be comfortable in dealing with clients regularly, including those who aren't as technical

• Personable and willingness to mentor colleagues
• Passion for technology is a must
• Experience liaising with people across a business

For more information, get in touch directly on or or apply today!

Azure Reliability Engineer - £100-120,000 - Central London

Nigel Frank is working with one of its most successful clients to help find people to join Azure experts working on a particularly exciting project. The business needs someone who will be able add availability, performance and stability to their clients Azure platforms, through the work they do as this enterprise organisation completes a total cloud revamp.

The company has huge pipeline of projects and is looking for someone to help implement these further. The role involves working on client site predominantly and can offer some remote working as well. You will be liaising with other engineers, stakeholders and developers to help improve and work on the platforms.

This role presents the opportunity to be a big part of a very well know consulting company, particularly working on their highest profile projects. The business has a big focus on certifications and has dedicated time and budget to allow you to take as many as you can. There is a big focus on people being consultative and confident in front of clients given the scope of the role. You will be involved in technical architecture discussions, hands on DevOps work as well as infrastructure.

They are looking for a well rounded candidate who has expert knowledge of everything to do with Azure. The role will see you involved in discussions around architecture and how to get the best out of the platform; consulting and dealing with clients to understand and shape their requirements and also using a wide array of hands on technical skills.

You must be eligible to work in the UK for this role.

Experience

• In depth knowledge of Azure
• Engineer solutions on Azure and maintain the platform
• In depth knowledge of devops methodology
• CI/CD, IaaS, Terraform, PowerShell
• DevOps tools experience - a wide array of knowledge is preferable
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. Must be comfortable in dealing with clients regularly, including those who aren't as technical

• Personable and willingness to mentor colleagues
• Passion for technology is a must
• Experience liaising with people across a business

For more information, get in touch directly on or or apply today!

Our client provides technical services and solutions to the Government and Defence sector. Due to additional workload, they have an immediate requirement for an experienced Security Cleared Project Support Officer on a 6 to 9 month basis, potentially longer.

Valid and current Security Clearance is essential for this role.

This role is essential in order for the Project Managers to be able to undertake higher value tasks and have more time to liaise with customers. You will therefore work across a versatile set of tasks and projects, including but not limited to the following:

• Driving consistency and efficiency into Project Management across the portfolio Producing project plans and supporting materials
• Standardising the reporting approaches across projects and preparing progress reports for the Project Managers and Portfolio Managers
• Assisting the Project Managers in proactively managing risk
• Asset and loan management including ITAR tracking.
• Set up bid/project folders within the PSO.
• On secondment projects, assist with timesheets, approve expenses (within limits of DOA) and monitor billing.
• Chasing up contracts for secondments and track spend on secondments against contracted hours.
• Act as another bridge between the organisation and on-site/client-site staff
• Transfer of documents between systems
• Production of delivery documents

You will undertake some of these tasks directly; others will be delegated to the Administration Team. You will need to actively consult with the Project Managers, Portfolio Manager and the Head of the PMO to identify and deliver these tasks

Essential Skills/Experience:

• You must have 3 to 5 years' experience of working in a PMO with significant exposure to working with large portfolios of projects (of varying sizes).
• Solid grounding in all PSO activities
• In depth specialist experience in risk management and project/portfolio reporting
• You must have (as a minimum) foundation training in either MoP, PRINCE2 or APM Project Fundamentals (PFQ) qualification.

It is also desirable that you have experience of working in an engineering environment and associated engineering processes

Please note, that this role falls Inside Scope and therefore, the rate of £400 is based working through an Umbrella company.

Our client provides technical services and solutions to the Government and Defence sector. Due to additional workload, they have an immediate requirement for an experienced Security Cleared Project Support Officer on a 6 to 9 month basis, potentially longer.

Valid and current Security Clearance is essential for this role.

This role is essential in order for the Project Managers to be able to undertake higher value tasks and have more time to liaise with customers. You will therefore work across a versatile set of tasks and projects, including but not limited to the following:

• Driving consistency and efficiency into Project Management across the portfolio Producing project plans and supporting materials
• Standardising the reporting approaches across projects and preparing progress reports for the Project Managers and Portfolio Managers
• Assisting the Project Managers in proactively managing risk
• Asset and loan management including ITAR tracking.
• Set up bid/project folders within the PSO.
• On secondment projects, assist with timesheets, approve expenses (within limits of DOA) and monitor billing.
• Chasing up contracts for secondments and track spend on secondments against contracted hours.
• Act as another bridge between the organisation and on-site/client-site staff
• Transfer of documents between systems
• Production of delivery documents

You will undertake some of these tasks directly; others will be delegated to the Administration Team. You will need to actively consult with the Project Managers, Portfolio Manager and the Head of the PMO to identify and deliver these tasks

Essential Skills/Experience:

• You must have 3 to 5 years' experience of working in a PMO with significant exposure to working with large portfolios of projects (of varying sizes).
• Solid grounding in all PSO activities
• In depth specialist experience in risk management and project/portfolio reporting
• You must have (as a minimum) foundation training in either MoP, PRINCE2 or APM Project Fundamentals (PFQ) qualification.

It is also desirable that you have experience of working in an engineering environment and associated engineering processes

Please note, that this role falls Inside Scope and therefore, the rate of £400 is based working through an Umbrella company.

Spectrum IT's Client are a global software business who are seeking an experienced Contract Software Engineer/Developer to join their Hampshire based Development team on an initial 3 month contract.

The company utilises a C#.NET, React, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and SQL Server tech stack with an Azure Cloud platform. Utilising a modern DevOps process they also focus on CI/CD work to ensure the delivery of regular updates.

As the Contract Software Engineer/Developer you will be highly involved in the full development life cycle including the development/operations of the public cloud hosted system. You will be part of a mixed sprint team including software engineers and testers.

Skills / Experience:

• Highly experienced in deploying and securing C# / .Net containerised applications into Azure (within a commercial SaaS environment)
• Extensive hands on C# & .NET Core framework experience
• React (or JavaScript Framework)
• MongoDB
• Elasticsearch
• TDD with a good understanding for scalability, security and resilience

Beneficial Experience:

• Deploying Dockerised microservice applications using Azure
• Experience with Azure Functions & Azure Service Bus
• Operational cloud-based SaaS system experience
• Cloud deployment & security experience

For more information and to state your interest, please apply with an updated CV.

Spectrum IT's Client are a global software business who are seeking an experienced Contract Software Engineer/Developer to join their Hampshire based Development team on an initial 3 month contract.

The company utilises a C#.NET, React, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and SQL Server tech stack with an Azure Cloud platform. Utilising a modern DevOps process they also focus on CI/CD work to ensure the delivery of regular updates.

As the Contract Software Engineer/Developer you will be highly involved in the full development life cycle including the development/operations of the public cloud hosted system. You will be part of a mixed sprint team including software engineers and testers.

Skills / Experience:

• Highly experienced in deploying and securing C# / .Net containerised applications into Azure (within a commercial SaaS environment)
• Extensive hands on C# & .NET Core framework experience
• React (or JavaScript Framework)
• MongoDB
• Elasticsearch
• TDD with a good understanding for scalability, security and resilience

Beneficial Experience:

• Deploying Dockerised microservice applications using Azure
• Experience with Azure Functions & Azure Service Bus
• Operational cloud-based SaaS system experience
• Cloud deployment & security experience

For more information and to state your interest, please apply with an updated CV.

AVoD Business Analyst | Digital Media Prod/Management House

A unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing digital media production and management house based in East Central London; this fun organisation has billions of monthly views and millions of subscribers across it's online platforms. Along with a sizeable freelance workforce, they are looking for an AVoD Business Analyst to provide insight towards a bespoke streaming service they're looking to create.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide full business analysis and collect functional requirements from all parts of the business
• Work closely with Head of Insights to ensure alignment with the company's future plans
• Work with external hosting vendors to ensure best value

Person Specification

• Experience and knowledge of business analysis within the digital and/or streaming space
• Experience of digital projects, with good understanding of technical documents and business
• Background in OTT / VoD technologies (AVoD desirable but not essential)
• Adaptable skill set with exceptional organisational skills with the ability to plan and manage multiple priorities
• An understanding of social media analytics would be advantageous

This is a fantastic and trendy company to work for, with a fantastic work culture to boot. Apply ASAP for success!

AVoD Business Analyst | Digital Media Prod/Management House

A unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing digital media production and management house based in East Central London; this fun organisation has billions of monthly views and millions of subscribers across it's online platforms. Along with a sizeable freelance workforce, they are looking for an AVoD Business Analyst to provide insight towards a bespoke streaming service they're looking to create.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide full business analysis and collect functional requirements from all parts of the business
• Work closely with Head of Insights to ensure alignment with the company's future plans
• Work with external hosting vendors to ensure best value

Person Specification

• Experience and knowledge of business analysis within the digital and/or streaming space
• Experience of digital projects, with good understanding of technical documents and business
• Background in OTT / VoD technologies (AVoD desirable but not essential)
• Adaptable skill set with exceptional organisational skills with the ability to plan and manage multiple priorities
• An understanding of social media analytics would be advantageous

This is a fantastic and trendy company to work for, with a fantastic work culture to boot. Apply ASAP for success!