LA International Computer Consultants Ltd
Sheffield, Yorkshire
GCP Cloud Engineer 2 Month contract initially Based: Hybrid/Sheffield or Birmingham or Edinburgh (Max 3 days p/w onsite) Rate: £Market rates p/d (via Umbrella company) We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We a great opportunity for a GCP Cloud Engineer to join the team. We have an excellent opportunity for a seasoned GCP Cloud Engineer to aid in the development of services on Public Cloud Platforms. Utilise your Cloud Engineering expertise and DevOps skills across GCP to deploy and configure robust Back End services, automate infrastructure, and employ CSP native services. This role offers the chance to work on impactful systems within a secure, high-availability setting at a leading global financial institution. Key Responsibilities: * Deploying, configuring and securing Back End REST API services using CSP native services. * Deploying, configuring and securing containerised application runtimes using Infrastructure as Code. * Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, focusing on traceability and regulatory controls. * Managing, monitoring, and optimising cloud infrastructure across GCP, ensuring performance, resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security. * Collaborating closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements. * Supporting live systems, conducting root cause analysis, fixing bugs and implementing solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks. Key Skills & Experience: * A background in Cloud Engineering with infrastructure experience. * Over 5 years of development experience, focusing on large-scale, distributed systems. * Hands-on experience with GCP, including CSP native services, networking, IAM, databases (PostgreSQL) and cost optimization. Experience with other cloud providers such as AWS is advantageous. * Proven experience with DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (eg, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg, Jenkins, GitLab CI), and containerization. * A strong understanding of security principles in cloud and enterprise systems. * Familiarity with audit and compliance considerations in regulated industries, particularly finance or banking. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information effectively to diverse audiences. * A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, using appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success. Essential Skills * Demonstrable experience of: o Public Cloud. o Infrastructure build and configurations for services including Compute, Storage, Networking. o Linux. o Relational and NoSQL databases. o Integration services such as messaging and streams. o Building RESTful API Services. o Containerisation, Kubernetes, serverless functions. o Microservices and distributed tracing. o Enterprise logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (eg, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana). o Automation Scripting (using languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.). * Experience with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools. * Experience working within an Agile environment. * A good understanding of cryptography (authentication, data encryption). * The ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools. * Good non-functional testing experience. This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work, If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, apply now for your CV to reach me directly, we will respond as soon as possible. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.
01/10/2025
Contractor
GCP Cloud Engineer 2 Month contract initially Based: Hybrid/Sheffield or Birmingham or Edinburgh (Max 3 days p/w onsite) Rate: £Market rates p/d (via Umbrella company) We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We a great opportunity for a GCP Cloud Engineer to join the team. We have an excellent opportunity for a seasoned GCP Cloud Engineer to aid in the development of services on Public Cloud Platforms. Utilise your Cloud Engineering expertise and DevOps skills across GCP to deploy and configure robust Back End services, automate infrastructure, and employ CSP native services. This role offers the chance to work on impactful systems within a secure, high-availability setting at a leading global financial institution. Key Responsibilities: * Deploying, configuring and securing Back End REST API services using CSP native services. * Deploying, configuring and securing containerised application runtimes using Infrastructure as Code. * Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, focusing on traceability and regulatory controls. * Managing, monitoring, and optimising cloud infrastructure across GCP, ensuring performance, resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security. * Collaborating closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements. * Supporting live systems, conducting root cause analysis, fixing bugs and implementing solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks. Key Skills & Experience: * A background in Cloud Engineering with infrastructure experience. * Over 5 years of development experience, focusing on large-scale, distributed systems. * Hands-on experience with GCP, including CSP native services, networking, IAM, databases (PostgreSQL) and cost optimization. Experience with other cloud providers such as AWS is advantageous. * Proven experience with DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (eg, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg, Jenkins, GitLab CI), and containerization. * A strong understanding of security principles in cloud and enterprise systems. * Familiarity with audit and compliance considerations in regulated industries, particularly finance or banking. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information effectively to diverse audiences. * A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, using appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success. Essential Skills * Demonstrable experience of: o Public Cloud. o Infrastructure build and configurations for services including Compute, Storage, Networking. o Linux. o Relational and NoSQL databases. o Integration services such as messaging and streams. o Building RESTful API Services. o Containerisation, Kubernetes, serverless functions. o Microservices and distributed tracing. o Enterprise logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (eg, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana). o Automation Scripting (using languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.). * Experience with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools. * Experience working within an Agile environment. * A good understanding of cryptography (authentication, data encryption). * The ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools. * Good non-functional testing experience. This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work, If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, apply now for your CV to reach me directly, we will respond as soon as possible. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.
You'll be joining the 6th largest IT Service Provider, present in more than 50 countries. From our roots in Japan, NTT DATA's mission is to facilitate business change and technology transformation across many industries for a better future for our business, people and community. Some of the projects we have supported include the digitising of The Open golf tournament and applying Formula 1 technology to support medical staff at University Hospitals Leicester. Everything we do is underpinned by our core values of 'Clients First', 'Teamwork' and 'Foresight' and we achieve these by putting people first. We support and celebrate our differences and preferences, these are what makes us unique. Some of our initiatives, collectively known as "DO Diversity", aim to create a space for us to learn and get involved in building a truly diverse environment. Our Culture & Ethnicity Network gives our colleagues a platform to share their various backgrounds; Our NINGEN programme allows the new generation of NTT DATA employees around the world to connect and shape the future of our organisation and the "City Gives Back" allows us to support our local community that has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic...and much more! NTT DATA UK is looking for a Lead Engineer/Application Architect to join our growing practise specifically focussed on the Law Enforcement/Security services domain. The role requires a hands-on technical leader with excellent customer facing skills and ability to influence business, architecture and technical stakeholders to manage and deliver successful solutions. You will be providing technical leadership and ownership of projects, guiding the client in shaping their ideas by applying your technical knowledge and experience primarily in cloud native technologies and agile delivery. You will coordinate and lead teams of Application and DevOps Engineers and continually drive forward quality, standards, tooling and development practices. You will be primarily responsible for: Being a hands-on contributor as well as providing technical leadership and support to the team(s) in order to manage and deliver successful solutions. Collaborating with other technology teams and technology governance functions to resolve dependencies e.g. interfaces, infrastructure, security. Designing and delivering complex full stack digital products encompassing a rich variety of technologies and using a mixture of agile and planned methods. Being a trusted technical advisor to customers and solving complex technical challenges, and establishing credibility and deep relationships with senior technical and business individuals within the customers' organisation, navigating both complex organisation / programme structures. Documenting and demonstrating solutions by writing documentation, creating and leading customer presentations, creating and maintaining solution / data models / interface specifications, reviewing low level designs and help solve technical challenges. Ensuring the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure within a complex existing client landscape (with pre-defined services and constraints). Owning delivery methodology, development practice, quality assurance process, etc. within the team(s) you are responsible for. Ensuring solution security compliance and supporting penetration testing assurance exercises in a high risk / trust landscape. In order to be successful in this role, you will have proven experience in and a solid understanding of most of the following: Experience with delivering integration micro-service patterns in multiple technologies but at least Java Spring Boot in a containerised environment on AWS Experience of working with SQL and NoSQL Cloud DBs and search services such as Elastic / Open Search Experience working with streaming data (e.g. Apache Kafka) and AWS native messaging/streaming features Strong knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in incremental delivery of software products. Systems design experience in a high risk / assurance environment, with the ability to architect or explain complex systems interactions including data flows, common interfaces, APIs and other methods, along with broad architecture skills, covering application, infrastructure, data and integration. Experience in leading software delivery lifecycles (both agile and more traditional forms), including: DevOps platforms CI / CD services and approaches Automated testing Experience with DevOps tooling and application hosting services such as: Jenkins, Drone, AWS CodeCommit / Pipeline / Deploy Atlassian stack, Azure DevOpsDocker / Kubernetes / Function as a Service deployments Leading design, delivery and test best practise, covering: Test strategies (contract led, automation, etc) Security assurance (ITHC, penetration testing) ITIL Service Management integration Cyber security and insider threat auditing Strong appreciation of front end delivery concerns including what well architected front end solutions look like (SPA, mobile and traditional MVC) preferably with knowledge of a FE framework such as React You will be comfortable working with and influencing varied seniority levels both internally and with clients; and training and educating at all levels. Education and Experience SC Cleared or Residency in the UK for the past 5 years (ideally British Passport Holder) Senior Developer experience Technical leadership experience Knowledge of Law Enforcement domain or security services A significant number of large scale, whole lifecycle, project experience Proven and successful leadership and delivery Our team believes in hard work. We celebrate each other's success and are always honest with each other to ensure we grow together. We aim to build a strong professional community where each individual can mentor others and be mentored, and can grow professionally through training and support to reach their career goals. Our focus on clients, teamwork and foresight forms our DNA and we are looking for someone who shares and embodies these core values, leading by example. To support your hard work and dedication, we will offer you the following: 25 days of holidays, with the possibility to buy or sell 5 days within your first month A MacBook or laptop The opportunity, as we grow, to experiment within new industries and technologies in both Private and Public Sectors, including Insurance, Automotive, Financial, Government and more. An online training platform with 3000+ courses, accessible from everywhere, to sharpen your skills Support for training and upskilling Industry leading employer pension contributions ...And much more!
23/09/2022
Full time
You'll be joining the 6th largest IT Service Provider, present in more than 50 countries. From our roots in Japan, NTT DATA's mission is to facilitate business change and technology transformation across many industries for a better future for our business, people and community. Some of the projects we have supported include the digitising of The Open golf tournament and applying Formula 1 technology to support medical staff at University Hospitals Leicester. Everything we do is underpinned by our core values of 'Clients First', 'Teamwork' and 'Foresight' and we achieve these by putting people first. We support and celebrate our differences and preferences, these are what makes us unique. Some of our initiatives, collectively known as "DO Diversity", aim to create a space for us to learn and get involved in building a truly diverse environment. Our Culture & Ethnicity Network gives our colleagues a platform to share their various backgrounds; Our NINGEN programme allows the new generation of NTT DATA employees around the world to connect and shape the future of our organisation and the "City Gives Back" allows us to support our local community that has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic...and much more! NTT DATA UK is looking for a Lead Engineer/Application Architect to join our growing practise specifically focussed on the Law Enforcement/Security services domain. The role requires a hands-on technical leader with excellent customer facing skills and ability to influence business, architecture and technical stakeholders to manage and deliver successful solutions. You will be providing technical leadership and ownership of projects, guiding the client in shaping their ideas by applying your technical knowledge and experience primarily in cloud native technologies and agile delivery. You will coordinate and lead teams of Application and DevOps Engineers and continually drive forward quality, standards, tooling and development practices. You will be primarily responsible for: Being a hands-on contributor as well as providing technical leadership and support to the team(s) in order to manage and deliver successful solutions. Collaborating with other technology teams and technology governance functions to resolve dependencies e.g. interfaces, infrastructure, security. Designing and delivering complex full stack digital products encompassing a rich variety of technologies and using a mixture of agile and planned methods. Being a trusted technical advisor to customers and solving complex technical challenges, and establishing credibility and deep relationships with senior technical and business individuals within the customers' organisation, navigating both complex organisation / programme structures. Documenting and demonstrating solutions by writing documentation, creating and leading customer presentations, creating and maintaining solution / data models / interface specifications, reviewing low level designs and help solve technical challenges. Ensuring the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure within a complex existing client landscape (with pre-defined services and constraints). Owning delivery methodology, development practice, quality assurance process, etc. within the team(s) you are responsible for. Ensuring solution security compliance and supporting penetration testing assurance exercises in a high risk / trust landscape. In order to be successful in this role, you will have proven experience in and a solid understanding of most of the following: Experience with delivering integration micro-service patterns in multiple technologies but at least Java Spring Boot in a containerised environment on AWS Experience of working with SQL and NoSQL Cloud DBs and search services such as Elastic / Open Search Experience working with streaming data (e.g. Apache Kafka) and AWS native messaging/streaming features Strong knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in incremental delivery of software products. Systems design experience in a high risk / assurance environment, with the ability to architect or explain complex systems interactions including data flows, common interfaces, APIs and other methods, along with broad architecture skills, covering application, infrastructure, data and integration. Experience in leading software delivery lifecycles (both agile and more traditional forms), including: DevOps platforms CI / CD services and approaches Automated testing Experience with DevOps tooling and application hosting services such as: Jenkins, Drone, AWS CodeCommit / Pipeline / Deploy Atlassian stack, Azure DevOpsDocker / Kubernetes / Function as a Service deployments Leading design, delivery and test best practise, covering: Test strategies (contract led, automation, etc) Security assurance (ITHC, penetration testing) ITIL Service Management integration Cyber security and insider threat auditing Strong appreciation of front end delivery concerns including what well architected front end solutions look like (SPA, mobile and traditional MVC) preferably with knowledge of a FE framework such as React You will be comfortable working with and influencing varied seniority levels both internally and with clients; and training and educating at all levels. Education and Experience SC Cleared or Residency in the UK for the past 5 years (ideally British Passport Holder) Senior Developer experience Technical leadership experience Knowledge of Law Enforcement domain or security services A significant number of large scale, whole lifecycle, project experience Proven and successful leadership and delivery Our team believes in hard work. We celebrate each other's success and are always honest with each other to ensure we grow together. We aim to build a strong professional community where each individual can mentor others and be mentored, and can grow professionally through training and support to reach their career goals. Our focus on clients, teamwork and foresight forms our DNA and we are looking for someone who shares and embodies these core values, leading by example. To support your hard work and dedication, we will offer you the following: 25 days of holidays, with the possibility to buy or sell 5 days within your first month A MacBook or laptop The opportunity, as we grow, to experiment within new industries and technologies in both Private and Public Sectors, including Insurance, Automotive, Financial, Government and more. An online training platform with 3000+ courses, accessible from everywhere, to sharpen your skills Support for training and upskilling Industry leading employer pension contributions ...And much more!
NTT DATA UK is looking for a MS Application Solution Architect to join our growing practise. The roles requires a hands-on contributor as well as providing technical leadership and support to the team(s) in order to manage and deliver successful solutions. Designing and delivering complex cross-domain solutions encompassing a rich variety of technologies and using a mixture of agile and planned methods. You will coordinate or lead teams of Engineers and DevOps Consultant. The teams will support some of our Tier 1 clients in their digital journey to build and manage the lifecycle of platforms and products using the latest tools, technologies and frameworks to develop cutting edge solutions that help organisations succeed. In this role, you will be primarily responsible for: Being a hands-on contributor as well as providing technical leadership and support to the team(s) in order to manage and deliver successful solutions. Designing and delivering complex cross-domain solutions encompassing a rich variety of technologies and using a mixture of agile and planned methods. Being a trusted technical advisor to customers and solving complex technical challenges, and establishing credibility and deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers' organization. Documenting and demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code. Ensuring the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure. In order to be successful in this role, you will have proven experience in and a solid understanding of most of the following: Experience working with solutions based on ASP.Net, .Net Core, Azure API gateway, Docker, Entity Framework, SQL, No-SQL and Micro-Services is essential. Experience with Azure Service Bus (or other service bus variant) and Event Based Architectures. Solid experience working with Architecture Methods (Micro-Service architecture and patterns, API Design, UML, Solution Architecture, etc.) and of development (back end and front end) and documentation tools. Strong knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in incremental delivery of software products. Significant experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence and leading and working in agile teams. Experience of using modern software development toolsets including DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery and Cloud. Systems design experience, with the ability to architect or explain complex systems interactions including data flows, common interfaces, APIs and other methods, along with broad architecture skills, covering application, infrastructure, data and integration. Responsive JS Frameworks experience such as React or Angular a big plus. Experience with integration with MS Dynamics is a big plus. You should currently be Security Cleared or willing to go through the process. Our team believes in hard work. We celebrate each other's success and are always honest with each other to ensure we grow together. We aim to build a strong professional community where each individual can mentor others and be mentored, and can grow professionally through training and support to reach their career goals. Our focus on clients, teamwork and foresight forms our DNA and we are looking for someone who shares and embodies these core values, leading by example. To support your hard work and dedication, we will offer you the following: 25 days of holidays, with the possibility to buy or sell 5 days within your first month A MacBook or laptop The opportunity, as we grow, to experiment within new industries and technologies in both Private and Public Sectors, including Insurance, Automotive, Financial, Government and more. An online training platform with 3000+ courses, accessible from everywhere, to sharpen your skills Support for training and upskilling Industry leading employer pension contributions ...And much more!
21/09/2022
Full time
NTT DATA UK is looking for a MS Application Solution Architect to join our growing practise. The roles requires a hands-on contributor as well as providing technical leadership and support to the team(s) in order to manage and deliver successful solutions. Designing and delivering complex cross-domain solutions encompassing a rich variety of technologies and using a mixture of agile and planned methods. You will coordinate or lead teams of Engineers and DevOps Consultant. The teams will support some of our Tier 1 clients in their digital journey to build and manage the lifecycle of platforms and products using the latest tools, technologies and frameworks to develop cutting edge solutions that help organisations succeed. In this role, you will be primarily responsible for: Being a hands-on contributor as well as providing technical leadership and support to the team(s) in order to manage and deliver successful solutions. Designing and delivering complex cross-domain solutions encompassing a rich variety of technologies and using a mixture of agile and planned methods. Being a trusted technical advisor to customers and solving complex technical challenges, and establishing credibility and deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers' organization. Documenting and demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code. Ensuring the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure. In order to be successful in this role, you will have proven experience in and a solid understanding of most of the following: Experience working with solutions based on ASP.Net, .Net Core, Azure API gateway, Docker, Entity Framework, SQL, No-SQL and Micro-Services is essential. Experience with Azure Service Bus (or other service bus variant) and Event Based Architectures. Solid experience working with Architecture Methods (Micro-Service architecture and patterns, API Design, UML, Solution Architecture, etc.) and of development (back end and front end) and documentation tools. Strong knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in incremental delivery of software products. Significant experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence and leading and working in agile teams. Experience of using modern software development toolsets including DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery and Cloud. Systems design experience, with the ability to architect or explain complex systems interactions including data flows, common interfaces, APIs and other methods, along with broad architecture skills, covering application, infrastructure, data and integration. Responsive JS Frameworks experience such as React or Angular a big plus. Experience with integration with MS Dynamics is a big plus. You should currently be Security Cleared or willing to go through the process. Our team believes in hard work. We celebrate each other's success and are always honest with each other to ensure we grow together. We aim to build a strong professional community where each individual can mentor others and be mentored, and can grow professionally through training and support to reach their career goals. Our focus on clients, teamwork and foresight forms our DNA and we are looking for someone who shares and embodies these core values, leading by example. To support your hard work and dedication, we will offer you the following: 25 days of holidays, with the possibility to buy or sell 5 days within your first month A MacBook or laptop The opportunity, as we grow, to experiment within new industries and technologies in both Private and Public Sectors, including Insurance, Automotive, Financial, Government and more. An online training platform with 3000+ courses, accessible from everywhere, to sharpen your skills Support for training and upskilling Industry leading employer pension contributions ...And much more!
