A leading Independent IT Infrastructure and Services Consultancy are looking for a Red Hat Consultant to work with a Legal client , 3 month contract based in Manchester, Inside IR35. Assisting with the management of their enterprise datacenter an experienced Linux specialist is required to support the upgrade of key areas of its enterprise Linux estate & asset with the design and delivery of the key upgrade elements for the Linux based solutions.

Experience of Red Hat Linux, experience of other Unix versions is ideal. A knowledge of OpenShift or any other RHEL technology stack is highly desirable. A knowledge of automation using shell scripting, Bash, ansible or puppet is required

The Ideal Candidate
Certified in RedHat Linux to at least Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) level
A detailed knowledge of the RHEL operating system and key components such as SELinux.
Good knowledge and hands-on experience in common programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript, C)
Demonstrate experience of automation for infrastructure using ansible, puppet or similar
A good knowledge of the Red Hat Opensource technology stack, ideally with exposure to OpenShift, Openstack, ansible tower or RHV
Understanding of container runtime, orchestrator, networking and storage concepts.
Experience of source code control systems – ideally Git.
Working knowledge of application security best practices, and methods required to secure RHEL systems automated pipelines and operations.
An enthusiastic approach and deep interest in Opensource technologies
Accreditations
Red Hat Certified system administrator (RHCSA)
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

Responsibilities
Responsible for engaging with solution and application stakeholders, to consult and help achieve the rollout and upgrade to TLS1.2, upgrading from TLS1.1. The role requires an individual who can plan the rollout, work in test cycles to prove the process and then take this into production. The individual will need to work well within consulting teams and has a proven track record in delivering and upgrading Linux solutions.
Solution Design
Design the upgrade and rollout to high availability solutions
Designing robust implementation and migration plans;
RHEL and Unix Server solution testing
Proven troubleshooting skills
Scalability planning
RHEL and Unix Server maintenance and operations
experience in conducting technical performance and testing reviews,
Consult and advise on the TLS upgrade of enterprise RHEL and Unix solutions, across multiple datacentre locations in both a physical and virtualised model.
Work with consulting peers to understand current project strategies
Work with Solutions Architects and Infrastructure engineers to deliver required upgrade plan
Prepare, attend and present at customer workshops and meetings

A leading Independent IT Infrastructure and Services Consultancy are looking for a Red Hat Consultant to work with a Legal client , 3 month contract based in Manchester, Inside IR35. Assisting with the management of their enterprise datacenter an experienced Linux specialist is required to support the upgrade of key areas of its enterprise Linux estate & asset with the design and delivery of the key upgrade elements for the Linux based solutions.

Experience of Red Hat Linux, experience of other Unix versions is ideal. A knowledge of OpenShift or any other RHEL technology stack is highly desirable. A knowledge of automation using shell scripting, Bash, ansible or puppet is required

The Ideal Candidate
Certified in RedHat Linux to at least Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) level
A detailed knowledge of the RHEL operating system and key components such as SELinux.
Good knowledge and hands-on experience in common programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript, C)
Demonstrate experience of automation for infrastructure using ansible, puppet or similar
A good knowledge of the Red Hat Opensource technology stack, ideally with exposure to OpenShift, Openstack, ansible tower or RHV
Understanding of container runtime, orchestrator, networking and storage concepts.
Experience of source code control systems – ideally Git.
Working knowledge of application security best practices, and methods required to secure RHEL systems automated pipelines and operations.
An enthusiastic approach and deep interest in Opensource technologies
Accreditations
Red Hat Certified system administrator (RHCSA)
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

Responsibilities
Responsible for engaging with solution and application stakeholders, to consult and help achieve the rollout and upgrade to TLS1.2, upgrading from TLS1.1. The role requires an individual who can plan the rollout, work in test cycles to prove the process and then take this into production. The individual will need to work well within consulting teams and has a proven track record in delivering and upgrading Linux solutions.
Solution Design
Design the upgrade and rollout to high availability solutions
Designing robust implementation and migration plans;
RHEL and Unix Server solution testing
Proven troubleshooting skills
Scalability planning
RHEL and Unix Server maintenance and operations
experience in conducting technical performance and testing reviews,
Consult and advise on the TLS upgrade of enterprise RHEL and Unix solutions, across multiple datacentre locations in both a physical and virtualised model.
Work with consulting peers to understand current project strategies
Work with Solutions Architects and Infrastructure engineers to deliver required upgrade plan
Prepare, attend and present at customer workshops and meetings

Your new company
This exciting new opportunity is with a world-recognised professional services organisation, located in central Edinburgh. This organisation has a global presence and is currently looking for an experienced developer to join their high – performing IT team as it expands.

Your new role
The role holder will be responsible for building and implementing IT systems across the business and will offer you the opportunity to design and build web-based systems using modern technologies.

You will be involved in full-stack development, but it is highly beneficial if you have substantial experience working with UI/UX tools such as Adobe XD and Azure.

The organisation is committed to providing every employee with personal development opportunities that will enable you to build a highly successful career.

What you'll need to succeed
To succeed in this role, you will be an experienced developer with a background developing and implementing IT systems. Technical skills include:

• Skilled using UI/UX tools such as Adobe XD and Azure
• Exposure to front-end development (HTML, CSS, React, Angular)

• Full stack .Net Experience
• C#
• ASP.NET

What you'll get in return
As well as a competitive salary and benefits package, this role offers you the opportunity to be part of global organisation that puts its’ employees first.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Your new company
This exciting new opportunity is with a world-recognised professional services organisation, located in central Edinburgh. This organisation has a global presence and is currently looking for an experienced developer to join their high – performing IT team as it expands.

Your new role
The role holder will be responsible for building and implementing IT systems across the business and will offer you the opportunity to design and build web-based systems using modern technologies.

You will be involved in full-stack development, but it is highly beneficial if you have substantial experience working with UI/UX tools such as Adobe XD and Azure.

The organisation is committed to providing every employee with personal development opportunities that will enable you to build a highly successful career.

What you'll need to succeed
To succeed in this role, you will be an experienced developer with a background developing and implementing IT systems. Technical skills include:

• Skilled using UI/UX tools such as Adobe XD and Azure
• Exposure to front-end development (HTML, CSS, React, Angular)

• Full stack .Net Experience
• C#
• ASP.NET

What you'll get in return
As well as a competitive salary and benefits package, this role offers you the opportunity to be part of global organisation that puts its’ employees first.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

The Business
Sea/ is the world’s first end-to-end digital shipping platform. It’s made up of a suite of tools for trade that connect to create efficiencies and digitise workflows. We’re bringing true digital transformation to the global shipping industry by designing, developing and bringing to market, technology that enhances the way shipping professionals work. This is Smarter Shipping. This is Sea/.
We have an incredible team in London at St Katharine Dock’s and are growing fast with a new office in Birmingham City Centre, where we are building a new tech and development hub to further expand and grow the Sea/ platform. This is a truly exciting time to join us and work on industry changing technology solutions and be part of a team where innovation never stops. Are You Ready?

The Culture
We are building a world class team of motivated and passionate multi discipline technologists who all share the vision to continuously improve and share an eagerness to learn, support one another, operate as a high functioning and performing team, and drive the product development through effective technology and innovation. We operate in a very supportive and team-based environment, where we use a lean and agile environment and apply DevOps philosophies and practises to deliver a continuous delivery approach with a fail fast, learn fast mentality.

The Role
We are looking for a Senior BA to join our new team we are building in central Birmingham and work on cutting edge web/cloud development projects. If you are a great communicator, well organised and passionate about technology, as well as eager to develop your existing skills and experience within a fast-paced environment, then this role could be for you.

You will be providing leadership for a small team and undertake analysis work relating to business/systems requirement analysis on both new and existing systems, for various departments from broking to operations and finance. This may include some testing and training on the solutions developed in-house or externally. The role will also include an element of project management and self-organisation.

This is a great opportunity for someone with business analysis experience in an agile applications development environment. You will be managing several more junior BAs, alongside a development team, QA and product owner. Ideally, you will be educated to degree level in a technical or science related discipline or have suitable knowledge/experience and initiative to analyse and write effective and efficient requirement specifications. You will have experience interfacing with senior stakeholders up to C- level and represent the team in requirements and prioritisation sessions with the business teams. On occasions you will act as the product owner to set the strategy and delivery scope of releases based on business priority and ensure we are working on the priorities that the business require.

Key Responsibilities
Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver any artefacts as needed, including the following:

• Lead the Business Analysis function and act as Product Owner when required;
• Functional specification documents, User stories, change requests, screen and interface designs;
• Engage in multiple projects simultaneously;
• Work with stakeholders up to C-level on prioritisation and product strategy and ensure these are effectively communicated to;
• Serve as the conduit between the customer community and the software development team through which requirements flow;
• Collaborate with the development team, product owner and subject matter experts to ensure business and systems requirements are understood and effectively transitioned into robust technical designs;
• Propose solutions to problems and considers timeliness, effectiveness, and practicality in addressing client needs;
• Proactively carry out project support /administrative functions;
• Effectively manage and prioritise own workload, providing regular status updates as required;
• Where required, plan and participate in system testing activity and facilitate UAT and system training;
• Write or provide guidance to others for the completion of support documentation, including user help documentation, guides and manuals and updates to the internal applications wiki;
• Manage and organise development sprints, which includes scheduling of resources;
• Create project plans for delivery of software development projects.

Skills & Experience
Core Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrable experience as a Business Analyst/Senior BA covering the full project lifecycle
• Effective leadership skills to motivate and drive the Business Analysis team
• Strong communication & interpersonal skills
• Ideal experience acting as a product owner to drive a product roadmap and product strategy forward interface effectively with the stakeholders
• Ability to effectively represent the team with senior stakeholders and hold your own related to prioritise and workload
• Good attention to detail in both analysis and written work
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to engage confidently with stakeholders at all levels across both the business and IT
• Ability to work within tight deadlines
• Experience of project management disciplines including waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Ability to plan and schedule development backlog into sprints in an Agile environment
• Demonstrable experience in producing project plans
• Ability to lead a development team in delivery of a project
• Analytical and process-based skills, i.e. process flow diagrams, business & process modelling, data analysis
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio)
• Experience of using JIRA and Confluence, or Azure Dev Ops a distinct advantage

Desirable:

• Experience of training users on software applications
• Some familiarity of the financial services industry
• Some experience of testing or analysing mathematical/analytical scenarios
• Degree educated in a technical or science related subject

What you can expect from us
We will provide you with a fantastic, fun working environment, which offers support and coaching and is exceptionally team focused.
We offer an excellent package, comprising of a competitive salary, annual bonus opportunity and amazing benefits including:

25 days holiday per annum (in addition to UK bank holidays)

An additional day off on your birthday

Option to buy and sell an extra 5 days holiday

Exceptional pension scheme, with Company contribution at 10%

Investment in you and your career with an individual training budget offered towards your training

Opportunity to use and work on cutting edge technology including Azure Cloud, Devops, Microservices

Opportunity for a sabbatical after 5 years’ service

Stay healthy with a cycle to work scheme

Life assurance & private medical scheme

Access to Employee Assistance Programme

Annual Flu Jab

Free teas & coffees!

For more detailed information, or to view other vacancies with this organisation, please visit our dedicated recruitment website https://webmicrosites.hays.co.uk/web/sea

The Business
Sea/ is the world’s first end-to-end digital shipping platform. It’s made up of a suite of tools for trade that connect to create efficiencies and digitise workflows. We’re bringing true digital transformation to the global shipping industry by designing, developing and bringing to market, technology that enhances the way shipping professionals work. This is Smarter Shipping. This is Sea/.
We have an incredible team in London at St Katharine Dock’s and are growing fast with a new office in Birmingham City Centre, where we are building a new tech and development hub to further expand and grow the Sea/ platform. This is a truly exciting time to join us and work on industry changing technology solutions and be part of a team where innovation never stops. Are You Ready?

The Culture
We are building a world class team of motivated and passionate multi discipline technologists who all share the vision to continuously improve and share an eagerness to learn, support one another, operate as a high functioning and performing team, and drive the product development through effective technology and innovation. We operate in a very supportive and team-based environment, where we use a lean and agile environment and apply DevOps philosophies and practises to deliver a continuous delivery approach with a fail fast, learn fast mentality.

The Role
We are looking for a Senior BA to join our new team we are building in central Birmingham and work on cutting edge web/cloud development projects. If you are a great communicator, well organised and passionate about technology, as well as eager to develop your existing skills and experience within a fast-paced environment, then this role could be for you.

You will be providing leadership for a small team and undertake analysis work relating to business/systems requirement analysis on both new and existing systems, for various departments from broking to operations and finance. This may include some testing and training on the solutions developed in-house or externally. The role will also include an element of project management and self-organisation.

This is a great opportunity for someone with business analysis experience in an agile applications development environment. You will be managing several more junior BAs, alongside a development team, QA and product owner. Ideally, you will be educated to degree level in a technical or science related discipline or have suitable knowledge/experience and initiative to analyse and write effective and efficient requirement specifications. You will have experience interfacing with senior stakeholders up to C- level and represent the team in requirements and prioritisation sessions with the business teams. On occasions you will act as the product owner to set the strategy and delivery scope of releases based on business priority and ensure we are working on the priorities that the business require.

Key Responsibilities
Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver any artefacts as needed, including the following:

• Lead the Business Analysis function and act as Product Owner when required;
• Functional specification documents, User stories, change requests, screen and interface designs;
• Engage in multiple projects simultaneously;
• Work with stakeholders up to C-level on prioritisation and product strategy and ensure these are effectively communicated to;
• Serve as the conduit between the customer community and the software development team through which requirements flow;
• Collaborate with the development team, product owner and subject matter experts to ensure business and systems requirements are understood and effectively transitioned into robust technical designs;
• Propose solutions to problems and considers timeliness, effectiveness, and practicality in addressing client needs;
• Proactively carry out project support /administrative functions;
• Effectively manage and prioritise own workload, providing regular status updates as required;
• Where required, plan and participate in system testing activity and facilitate UAT and system training;
• Write or provide guidance to others for the completion of support documentation, including user help documentation, guides and manuals and updates to the internal applications wiki;
• Manage and organise development sprints, which includes scheduling of resources;
• Create project plans for delivery of software development projects.

Skills & Experience
Core Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrable experience as a Business Analyst/Senior BA covering the full project lifecycle
• Effective leadership skills to motivate and drive the Business Analysis team
• Strong communication & interpersonal skills
• Ideal experience acting as a product owner to drive a product roadmap and product strategy forward interface effectively with the stakeholders
• Ability to effectively represent the team with senior stakeholders and hold your own related to prioritise and workload
• Good attention to detail in both analysis and written work
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to engage confidently with stakeholders at all levels across both the business and IT
• Ability to work within tight deadlines
• Experience of project management disciplines including waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Ability to plan and schedule development backlog into sprints in an Agile environment
• Demonstrable experience in producing project plans
• Ability to lead a development team in delivery of a project
• Analytical and process-based skills, i.e. process flow diagrams, business & process modelling, data analysis
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio)
• Experience of using JIRA and Confluence, or Azure Dev Ops a distinct advantage

Desirable:

• Experience of training users on software applications
• Some familiarity of the financial services industry
• Some experience of testing or analysing mathematical/analytical scenarios
• Degree educated in a technical or science related subject

What you can expect from us
We will provide you with a fantastic, fun working environment, which offers support and coaching and is exceptionally team focused.
We offer an excellent package, comprising of a competitive salary, annual bonus opportunity and amazing benefits including:

25 days holiday per annum (in addition to UK bank holidays)

An additional day off on your birthday

Option to buy and sell an extra 5 days holiday

Exceptional pension scheme, with Company contribution at 10%

Investment in you and your career with an individual training budget offered towards your training

Opportunity to use and work on cutting edge technology including Azure Cloud, Devops, Microservices

Opportunity for a sabbatical after 5 years’ service

Stay healthy with a cycle to work scheme

Life assurance & private medical scheme

Access to Employee Assistance Programme

Annual Flu Jab

Free teas & coffees!

For more detailed information, or to view other vacancies with this organisation, please visit our dedicated recruitment website https://webmicrosites.hays.co.uk/web/sea