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Role title: SRE Performance Testing Analyst Location: Farnborough (Hybrid 3 days per week on-site) Day rate: £322 via Umbrella only Must have been a UK resident for at least 5 years Role Description: Design and implement performance testing strategies using tools like JMeter, Gatling, or LoadRunner. Monitor and analyse system performance metrics to identify bottlenecks and optimize infrastructure. Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support performance testing and deployment. Collaborate with development teams to ensure applications meet performance and reliability standards. Automate operational tasks using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Python scripts. Build and maintain monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana). Participate in incident response and conduct root cause analysis for performance-related issues. Document performance benchmarks, testing procedures, and system configurations.

Role Title: SRE Performance Testing Location: Farnborough (3 days on-site per week) Duration: Until 31/03/2026 Day Rate: £297.50 Inside IR35 The Role We are seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Performance Testing to join our team in Farnborough. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining performance testing frameworks to ensure application reliability, scalability, and efficiency. This role combines expertise in performance engineering, infrastructure automation, and observability to optimise system performance across production and pre-production environments. Your Responsibilities . Design and implement performance testing strategies using tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or LoadRunner. . Monitor and analyse system performance metrics to identify bottlenecks and optimise infrastructure. . Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support performance testing and automated deployments. . Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure applications meet performance and reliability standards. . Automate operational tasks and environment provisioning using Ansible, Terraform, or Python Scripting. . Build and maintain monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and related tools. . Participate in incident response and conduct root cause analysis for performance-related issues. . Document performance benchmarks, testing procedures, and system configurations to support continuous improvement. Your Profile Essential Skills & Experience: . Proven experience in performance testing and system reliability engineering. . Strong hands-on experience with JMeter, Gatling, or LoadRunner. . Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI. . Proficiency in Scripting languages such as Python or Bash. . Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Ansible, Terraform). . Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana). . Familiarity with Linux environments and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP). . Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. Desirable Skills: . Experience with Kubernetes and container-based environments. . Exposure to chaos engineering or resilience testing. . Understanding of network performance tuning and application load balancing. . Relevant certifications in performance testing or cloud engineering.

Performance & Reliability Director - Software House - Peterborough / Hybrid (Key skills: Performance Engineering, Reliability Engineering, SRE, Load Testing, Observability, Chaos Testing, Cloud Platforms, Microservices, Leadership, CI/CD, APM Tools) Are you a technology leader passionate about driving performance, scalability, and reliability across complex software platforms? Do you thrive in high-growth environments where innovation, engineering excellence, and resilience are core values? If so, this is a rare opportunity to define the performance strategy for a fast-moving, product-focused software house. Our client, a leading Software House based in Peterborough, is seeking a Performance & Reliability Director to lead its global performance and reliability initiatives. This role offers the chance to shape the technical vision for scalable, high-performing systems that underpin enterprise-grade software solutions used by clients worldwide. As Performance & Reliability Director, you'll lead cross-functional teams across development, DevOps, and infrastructure, embedding performance and resilience best practices throughout the software lifecycle. You'll oversee system profiling, capacity planning, and test strategies - ensuring every release meets the highest standards for speed, scalability, and reliability. You'll drive the adoption of observability and monitoring frameworks, leveraging platforms like Datadog and Dynatrace to build a proactive performance culture. You'll champion continuous improvement, implement chaos testing programmes, and ensure teams deliver fault-tolerant, data-driven solutions that perform predictably at scale. This is an outstanding opportunity to make a strategic impact within a forward-thinking software business that values autonomy, innovation, and technical mastery. Your leadership will directly influence how world-class software is built, tested, and delivered. Location: Peterborough, UK / Hybrid working Salary: £80,000 - £95,000 + Bonus + Benefits Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. NOIRUKTECHREC NOIRUKREC

Head of Performance & Reliability EngineeringFull-Time - Hybrid (3 days in Cambridgeshire) Up to £95,000 + Bonus This is an exceptional opportunity to join a major organisation at a pivotal stage in their digital transformation. As Head of Performance & Reliability Engineering You'll shape strategy, lead performance testing and chaos engineering initiatives, and embed reliability best practices across engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure teams. This is a senior, strategic leadership role focused on system excellence, observability, and continuous improvement. Ideal Candidate: Proven experience leading Performance Engineering, Reliability, or SRE functions Deep expertise in performance testing methodologies (load, stress, spike, soak) Strong hands-on background with LoadRunner and Dynatrace (plus tools such as NeoLoad, k6, or JMeter) Skilled in chaos engineering , resilience testing , and system scalability Experience defining and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets Strong knowledge of distributed systems , cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and microservice architectures Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and embed performance and reliability into the SDLC Inspirational leader with experience building, mentoring, and enabling high-performing engineering team What's on Offer? 33 days holiday (plus bank holidays) Private health cover option 6% matched pension contributions Funded professional qualifications and L&D opportunities Life event loan up to £3,000 Discounts on insurance & breakdown cover About the Role: Lead the performance and reliability strategy across critical platforms and services Oversee load, stress, and chaos testing initiatives to ensure systems perform and recover under real-world conditions Define and drive best practices for observability, monitoring, and APM adoption using tools like Dynatrace Drive incident reduction, faster recovery (MTTR) , and continuous reliability improvements Champion a culture of performance ownership , ensuring teams build with scalability, stability, and efficiency in mind Influence technology direction through deep technical insight and strong stakeholder engagements Reasonable Adjustments: Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients. If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason , please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

We're Atom The bank that's leading the fintech charge! We're not like the rest. We're true innovators, and we're redefining what a bank should be. Ours is a bank for today and the future, a mobile-first bank. Forget the stuffy branches, with Atom you can bank whenever, wherever, faster, and simpler. Could you be the next innovator to join us? Want to join us? Atom's Tech Delivery teams create new features that our customers love. We automate our internal processes, so our colleagues don't have to do things manually. Our Tech Delivery teams are responsible for managing and delivering all change in Atom, technical & non-technical. We achieve this by bringing people with different skills together into cross-functional & highly performant teams, to guide us on our mission of making banking better for everyone! We've aligned our Tech Delivery teams to business value streams covering Mortgages, Business Lending, Savings, Enterprise & Platform. These value streams are divided into sub-streams, such as Origination and Servicing within Mortgages. As an Atom Delivery Lead, you'll lead the Technology activity for a value sub-stream. You'll collaborate with your value stream & sub-stream commercial teams & product managers, understanding & contributing to the build of the business roadmap & product strategy, whilst also creating this for your sub-stream. A focus on delivering early value to customers frequently & predictably is key, whilst executing on the change programme. We are committed to applying DevOps principles & practices on our journey to become an elite delivery organisation, as part of this you'll need to nurture and inspire your sub-stream team to take accountability for their delivery process and the great outcomes they deliver. We do whatever it takes to get the job done, here at Atom, so this role will involve at points rolling up your sleeves and diving into UX design reviews, testing software, architecture & code reviews, writing user stories and editing technical documents. What will you be doing? You will also: Champion good practice within their teams to support their ongoing improvement. Work with their architecture team members to create a technology strategy. Help the team measure and understand their performance using relevant metrics (DORA and other metrics such as throughput, cycle time, happiness), using them as a basis for improvement. Utilise feedback for continuous learning and improvement in efficient and incremental value delivery to accelerate speed to market. Identify and implement improvements in People/Team Topologies, Process, Technology and Culture. Manage of the Run/Opex and Change/Capex budgets for their sub-stream, working with Finance on forecasts and actuals. What do we need from you? Be delivery focussed - You deliver to commitments whilst ensuring quality. Be customer focussed - You create products that our colleagues or customers love. Proven experience of successful Agile delivery Knowledge and understanding of frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, & Lean whilst working in Agile environments Knowledge and experience of other techniques that complement agility, such as Dev(Sec)Ops, Lean, Systems Thinking, Queuing Theory, Theory of Constraints Experience in leading delivery teams, and helping them become mature, high-performing, and autonomous. Understanding of modern technology, e.g. Cloud Computing, CI/CD, IaC, Microservices Possess a deep understanding of software delivery lifecycle. Experience managing products and backlogs in Jira and Confluence What's in it for you? Flexible Hybrid 4-day work week Annual Share Option - performance-related Incredibly generous company pension scheme (maximum of 13% of Atom input - you can put in more) 'All About Me' fund: £200 per year to spend on personal development. 22.5 days annual leave plus public holidays Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan & Life Insurance Enhanced Parental Leave Electric Vehicle Scheme PLEASE NOTE: You must have the legal right to work in the UK to apply for this role as Atom bank are unable to support Visa Applications/Sponsorship. Atom is an equal opportunities employer. We value you as an individual and therefore disregard race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation, maternity/pregnancy, age, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership and disability in any hiring decisions we make. Atom will always adhere to the Equality Act 2010. All roles within Atom must adhere to the Conduct Rules as set out by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). As part of Atom bank's commitment to the FCA's Consumer Duty, Atom will, take all reasonable steps to avoid causing foreseeable harm to customers, take all reasonable steps to enable customers to pursue their financial objectives and act in good faith.

C++ Software Engineer London Hybrid (2-3 days per week) Competitive salary + bonus Ncounter is partnering with a leading trading technology group to hire an exceptional C++ Software Engineer to build and evolve high-performance order gateway systems used in fast-moving fixed income markets. This is a hands-on role developing ultra-low-latency services that handle order validation, routing and exchange connectivity - the backbone of real-time trading. You'll join a collaborative team of developers, quants and platform engineers, working across a high-availability C++ codebase to deliver fast, resilient and observable services. You'll be empowered to design, implement and test software that directly impacts trading performance, scalability and reliability. Key Responsibilities: • Design and develop high-throughput order gateway components in modern C++ • Implement robust connectivity, order validation and routing logic for fixed income markets • Profile and optimise multi-threaded code paths, eliminating performance bottlenecks • Apply concurrency, lock-free and memory-efficient techniques to maximise throughput • Collaborate with quantitative researchers, traders and SRE teams to deliver reliable releases • Contribute to automated testing, verification and CI/CD pipelines • Provide 2nd/3rd line application support, analysing production telemetry and driving improvements Core Skills & Experience: • Strong proficiency in modern C++ (C+ or later) and STL • Deep understanding of multi-threading, low-latency optimisation and Linux systems • Experience working on high-frequency or real-time systems (financial or otherwise) • Familiarity with network programming, serialization and distributed architectures • Strong analytical and debugging skills, using profiling tools to measure performance • Exposure to Python, Bash, or similar for automation and testing is advantageous • Knowledge of fixed income products (corporate bonds, treasuries, IRS, CDS) is helpful This is an opportunity to work at the heart of a global trading platform, building technology that traders and researchers rely on every day. If you're a passionate C++ engineer who thrives on writing elegant, high-performance code, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now through Ncounter for a confidential discussion and to learn more about this role.

Site Reliability Engineer - (SRE, Terraform, AKS, Azure, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Datadog, Monitoring Tools) - Permanent - Remote Location: Remote (occasional travel to Nottinghamshire HQ) Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum + benefits Start Date: ASAP Charles Simon Associates are working with a global organisation who are looking to recruit a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on a permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking business where reliability, scalability, and automation are at the heart of technology delivery. Responsibilities include: Designing and enforcing SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs to ensure high reliability and performance. Building and maintaining monitoring/observability solutions (Datadog, Grafana, Azure Application Insights, Log Analytics). Managing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) for scalable, repeatable deployments. Automating with PowerShell, Python, or Bash to drive efficiency. Supporting Kubernetes and AKS environments in production. Leading incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement processes. Driving cost optimisation, capacity planning, and load testing. Championing best practices in cloud security and resilience. Key Skills & Experience Required: Proven Site Reliability Engineering background. Strong Terraform skills with live environment deployment. Kubernetes / AKS expertise. Scripting in PowerShell, Python or Bash. Monitoring experience (Datadog preferred, Azure or Grafana considered). Background in web applications and distributed systems. Desirable Skills: Knowledge of Microservices Architecture. Familiarity with Kanban. Experience with Puppet or Chef If you're passionate about Site Reliability Engineering and want to work in an environment where "that will do" is never good enough, this role is for you. Site Reliability Engineer - (SRE, Terraform, AKS, Azure, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Datadog, Monitoring Tools) - Permanent - Remote

Senior Software Engineer - 6 Month Contract Start Date: ASAP Rate: Market rates, outside ir35 Contract Length: 6 months Location: Manchester, hybrid Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Java, aligning with best practices for performance, reliability, and maintainability. Work with containerisation/orchestration technologies (Kubernetes) to deploy, manage, and scale services. Develop and maintain systems on Cloud Platform, leveraging cloud-native capabilities. Implement and manage message streaming / queuing architectures using Kafka (or similar), ensuring high throughput, resilience, and fault tolerance. Contribute to CI/CD processes: build pipelines, automated testing, code reviews. Collaborate cross-functionally with architects, DevOps/SRE, QA to define technical roadmap, troubleshoot production issues, and ensure observability. Essential Skills & Experience Strong and proven experience in Java, Spring Boot, in enterprise-scale backend systems. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, deploying microservices in production. Solid working knowledge of Cloud Platforms, including networking, storage, services like GKE, Pub/Sub, etc. In depth experience with Kafka: setting up clusters, producers/consumers, tuning, fault handling. Experience with microservices architecture, REST APIs, and distributed systems. Strong CI/CD and DevOps mindset; experience with automated testing, monitoring, logging, observability. Ability to work in agile environment; strong communication skills.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE, Terraform, AKS, Azure, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Datadog, Monitoring Tools) Permanent Remote Location: Remote (occasional travel to Nottinghamshire HQ) Salary: Up to £95,000 per annum + benefits Start Date: ASAP Charles Simon Associates is working with a global organisation who are looking to recruit a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on a permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking business where reliability, scalability, and automation are at the heart of technology delivery. Responsibilities include: Designing and enforcing SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs to ensure high reliability and performance. Building and maintaining monitoring/observability solutions (Datadog, Grafana, Azure Application Insights, Log Analytics). Managing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) for scalable, repeatable deployments. Automating with PowerShell, Python, or Bash to drive efficiency. Supporting Kubernetes and AKS environments in production. Leading incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement processes. Driving cost optimisation, capacity planning, and load testing. Championing best practices in cloud security and resilience. Key Skills & Experience Required: Proven Site Reliability Engineering background. Strong Terraform skills with live environment deployment. Kubernetes / AKS expertise. Scripting in PowerShell, Python or Bash. Monitoring experience (Datadog preferred, Azure or Grafana considered). Background in web applications and distributed systems. Desirable Skills: Knowledge of Microservices Architecture. Familiarity with Kanban. Experience with Puppet or Chef If you re passionate about Site Reliability Engineering and want to work in an environment where that will do is never good enough, this role is for you. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE, Terraform, AKS, Azure, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Datadog, Monitoring Tools) Permanent Remote

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE, Terraform, AKS, Azure, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Datadog, Monitoring Tools) Permanent Remote Location: Remote (occasional travel to Nottinghamshire HQ) Salary: Up to £95,000 per annum + benefits Start Date: ASAP Charles Simon Associates are working with a global organisation who are looking to recruit a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on a permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking business where reliability, scalability, and automation are at the heart of technology delivery. Responsibilities include: Designing and enforcing SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs to ensure high reliability and performance. Building and maintaining monitoring/observability solutions (Datadog, Grafana, Azure Application Insights, Log Analytics). Managing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) for scalable, repeatable deployments. Automating with PowerShell, Python, or Bash to drive efficiency. Supporting Kubernetes and AKS environments in production. Leading incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement processes. Driving cost optimisation, capacity planning, and load testing. Championing best practices in cloud security and resilience. Key Skills & Experience Required: Proven Site Reliability Engineering background. Strong Terraform skills with live environment deployment. Kubernetes / AKS expertise. Scripting in PowerShell, Python or Bash. Monitoring experience (Datadog preferred, Azure or Grafana considered). Background in web applications and distributed systems. Desirable Skills: Knowledge of Microservices Architecture. Familiarity with Kanban. Experience with Puppet or Chef If you re passionate about Site Reliability Engineering and want to work in an environment where that will do is never good enough, this role is for you. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE, Terraform, AKS, Azure, Kubernetes, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Datadog, Monitoring Tools) Permanent Remote

Senior Software Engineer - 6 Month Contract Start Date: ASAP Rate: Market rates, outside ir35 Contract Length: 6 months Location: Manchester, hybrid Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Java, aligning with best practices for performance, reliability, and maintainability. Work with containerisation/orchestration technologies (Kubernetes) to deploy, manage, and scale services. Develop and maintain systems on Cloud Platform, leveraging cloud-native capabilities. Implement and manage message streaming / queuing architectures using Kafka (or similar), ensuring high throughput, resilience, and fault tolerance. Contribute to CI/CD processes: build pipelines, automated testing, code reviews. Collaborate cross-functionally with architects, DevOps/SRE, QA to define technical roadmap, troubleshoot production issues, and ensure observability. Essential Skills & Experience Strong and proven experience in Java, Spring Boot, in enterprise-scale backend systems. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, deploying microservices in production. Solid working knowledge of Cloud Platforms, including networking, storage, services like GKE, Pub/Sub, etc. In depth experience with Kafka: setting up clusters, producers/consumers, tuning, fault handling. Experience with microservices architecture, REST APIs, and distributed systems. Strong CI/CD and DevOps mindset; experience with automated testing, monitoring, logging, observability. Ability to work in agile environment; strong communication skills.

ENET Engineer Whitehall Resources are currently looking for a ENET Engineer based in London 3 days a week, remainder remote for an initial 6-month contract. *INSIDE IR35.* Role Description Key Responsibilities: Deliver and support low latency connectivity and monitoring solutions for the Global Markets business, aligned with Front Office trading and regulatory needs. Apply SRE principles to improve availability, latency, performance, and capacity planning across trading infrastructure. Collaborate with network and platform engineers to design reliable, self-healing systems and reduce manual intervention through automation. Own and execute the Global Markets connectivity roadmap, from project delivery through to operational handoff and life cycle management. Partner with business stakeholders and platform owners to ensure infrastructure and observability tooling meets evolving trading requirements. Monitor and manage capacity and performance of global connectivity systems, working with regional teams to aggregate local intelligence. Conduct deep-dive post-incident analysis and forensic reviews during high-impact market events (eg, non-farm payroll), using packet analysis to identify systemic improvements. Develop and maintain automated alerting, health checks, and dashboards, supporting proactive detection of issues and system degradation. Lead lab-based testing and benchmarking initiatives for new connectivity solutions, ensuring readiness for production deployment. Produce operational and performance KPIs, SLO/SLI metrics, and executive summaries to support senior decision-making. Champion continuous improvement and innovation, driving technology adoption in monitoring, resiliency, and incident response tooling. Key Skills: Strong background in low latency network engineering, including TCP/IP, multicast, traffic shaping, and performance analysis. Proven experience with packet capture and analysis tools (Wireshark, tcpdump, Corvil/PICO); ability to build custom decoders is highly advantageous. Familiarity with SRE tools and practices, including infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, error budgets, and reliability-focused SLIs/SLOs. Experience supporting Real Time trading applications, including feed handlers, matching engines, and algo trading platforms. Strong working knowledge of messaging Middleware (Solace, 29West, Tibco, LBM, or equivalent) in performance-sensitive environments. Proficient in Scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell to streamline monitoring, alerting, and recovery workflows. Knowledge of FIX, market data, and order routing protocols in a trading environment. Exposure to observability platforms such as ITRS Geneos, Prometheus, Grafana, or custom telemetry stacks. Comfortable working across Linux systems, hybrid infrastructure, and global production environments. Excellent communication and reporting skills, with ability to translate technical data into actionable business insights. All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description. Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

Contents Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information Location Belfast, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London About the job Summary Join a team at the heart of the global economy! We create digital services, data tools and technology for businesses to prosper around the world. Have a look at our video ! Our Digital, Data and Technology team develops and operates tools, services, and platforms that enable the UK government to provide world leading support to businesses in the UK and overseas. Youll get to constantly push boundaries in an environment free of heavy legacy, driven by curiosity, social purpose, diversity of thought, entrepreneurship, and the aspiration to offer an incredible experience to all our users. Find out more on our blog, Digital Trade. Job description Can we rely on you to make us more reliable? The Department for International Trade (DIT) helps businesses export and invest, and we need Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) to make sure our internet services work as users expect . Responsibilities As SRE you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CD/CI pipelines. Youll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. Youll help build and scale our global product platform. Our tech stack includes: Amazon Web Services Azure Jenkins Terraform Kubernetes Elasticsearch Python PostgreSQL Sentry Redis Jenkins Essential Skills and Experience You should be able to demonstrate essential skills and experience of: Demonstrable experience and fluency in one or more programming languages, writing clean and effective code. Ability to build code defined, reliable and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems. Experience in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting distributed systems. Knowledge of Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking. Ability to see user impact in the infrastructure changes. Desirable Skills and Experience While not essential, it would be ideal if you have demonstrable skills and experience of: PaaS,Kubernetes,Django,oauth2/saml2 integrations in Python. Cloud experience with either Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services or Azure. Experience coding infrastructure (i.e., Terraform). Experience in defining and measuring Service Level Objectives. Experience in observability driven development. Experience in prototyping through reuseof existingOpen Sourcecomponents. Benefits Learning and development tailored to your role An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27% Things you need to know Security Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check . See our vetting charter . People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks. Selection process details We are closely monitoring the situation regarding the coronavirus, and will be following central Government advice as it is issued. There is therefore a risk that recruitment to this post may be subject to change at short notice. In addition, where appropriate, you may be invited to attend a video interview. Please continue to follow the application process as normal and ensure that you check your emails regularly as all updates from us will be sent to you this way. Assessment and Interview As part of the application process you will be asked to upload a CV which outlines your experience, skills and fit for the role. At the sift stage for this role, Inspire People will assess you against the essential criteria listed above to compile a longlist of applications. If you are progressed through to this stage, you will be asked to complete a short, pre-recorded video interview with Inspire People or provide written answers to questions. These applications will then be sifted by DIT hiring managers. At the interview stage for this role, we will assess your technical/specialist experience, outlined in the above role description, testing your ability through relevant assessments/presentations and ask you questions around Behaviours and Technical skills, which are part of the Civil Service Success Profiles . The technical element within the interview, where you will be asked a series of questions to demonstrate your specific professional skills and knowledge related directly to the job role and context, will assess against capabilities which are outlined under DevOps engineer within the DDaT framework which can be found here: . These Technical Skills include: Availability and capacity management Development process optimisations Information security Modern standards approach Programming and build (software engineering) Prototyping Service support Systems design Systems integration User focus You will also be assessed against the Behaviours of: Making Effective Decisions Communicating and influencing Developing Self and Others Changing and Improving Offer Stage Appointments may be made to candidates in merit order based on location preferences. The salary we will offer is determined using interview performance. Scores at interview translate to proficiency levels and an associated salary. Once a successful candidate has a proficiency level and is part of the capability framework, they will be given opportunities to self-assess to progress through the pay scale within their grade during their time at DIT. For further explanation of proficiency levels and more information about DDaT click here. The Department for International Trade embraces and values diversity in all forms. We welcome and pride ourselves on the positive impact diversity has on the work we do, and we promote equality of opportunity throughout the organisation. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. Candidates who pass the bar at interview but are not the highest scoring will be held on a 12-month reserve list for future appointments. Candidates who are judged to be a near miss at interview may be offered a post at the grade below the one advertised. If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out. Harmonised terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you. Please note the successful candidate will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of 18 months before being released for another role. Any move to the Department for International Trade from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band. Reasonable adjustment If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes. If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should contact the DDaT Recruitment team before the closing date to discuss your needs. Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment on the basis of fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact DIT by email: If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission. If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section. For further information and to apply please click the link to direct you to the advertisers website. Further Information This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 3 out of the past 5 years. For more information on security clearance, the Civil Service Code, our recruitment principles, and our complaints procedure, click here. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. 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Contents Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information Location Belfast, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London About the job Summary Join a team at the heart of the global economy! We create digital services, data tools and technology for businesses to prosper around the world. Have a look at our video ! Our Digital, Data and Technology team develops and operates tools, services, and platforms that enable the UK government to provide world leading support to businesses in the UK and overseas. Youll get to constantly push boundaries in an environment free of heavy legacy, driven by curiosity, social purpose, diversity of thought, entrepreneurship, and the aspiration to offer an incredible experience to all our users. Find out more on our blog, Digital Trade. Job description As our Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will lead a team of site reliability engineers who are committed to delivering excellent services and continual improvement. You will drive adaption of best practices and be responsible for managingour platform hosting. You will influence our future hosting strategy, helping to develop the team's roadmap of work and lead the support of several services offerings including CI/CD, Account Management, Containerisation, Network Connectivity, Cloud Cost Optimisation, Service Performance and Availability. Working with development teams to create reusable components, enabling service delivery at pace, you will automate the oversight of systems at scale, covering a hybrid cloud environment, including but not limited to AWS, GovUK PaaS, & Azure. Responsibilities In your day-to-day role, you will: Set the SRE teams technical direction, working with the technology leadership team. Provide technical leadership & guidance to the SRE team through coaching and mentoring. Lead the sharing of knowledge and good practice to develop the teams capability. Identify and lead on modernization initiatives through continuous improvement. Give development teams the tools for their job, including infrastructure, APM, exception, log aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CD/CI pipelines. Collaboratively develop the future hosting strategy. Actively lead the support of service offerings (Account Management, Security, CI/CD, Automation, Containerization, Service Performance & cloud Infrastructure). Ensure security, stability, and capacity are embedded in services deployments. Champion the adoption of emerging technology to automate tasks & deployments. Solve complex issues using root cause analysis, progressing opportunities to improve reliability, security, capability of infrastructure, application, and site services. Essential Skills and Experience Youll have demonstrable skills and experience of: Team leadership: managing workload, coaching, and mentoring technical staff. Setting the direction for technical teams, and liaising with colleagues to establish requirements and identify, propose, initiate work. Identifying good practices, sharing experiences, and championing your team's agenda, acting as the voice of the team. Working with cloud technology and the use of orchestration tools, developing infrastructure as code on top of cloud computing services. Deploying & managing CI/CD pipelines. Identification of process optimization opportunities and leading teams to deliver service improvements. Experience of information security, designing, quality-reviewing and quality-assurance solutions with security controls embedded. Designing and reviewing systems, selecting appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively. Benefits Learning and development tailored to your role An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27% Things you need to know Security Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check . See our vetting charter . People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks. Selection process details We are closely monitoring the situation regarding the coronavirus, and will be following central Government advice as it is issued. There is therefore a risk that recruitment to this post may be subject to change at short notice. In addition, where appropriate, you may be invited to attend a video interview. Please continue to follow the application process as normal and ensure that you check your emails regularly as all updates from us will be sent to you this way. Assessment and Interview As part of the application process you will be asked to upload a CV which outlines your experience, skills and fit for the role. At the sift stage for this role, Inspire People will assess you against the essential criteria listed above to compile a long list of applications. If you are progressed through to this stage, you will be asked to complete a short, pre-recorded video interview with Inspire People or provide written answers to questions. These applications will then be sifted by DIT hiring managers. Initial sifting will take place the week commencing 26th September, with CV submissions to DIT on the 30th September. Interviews will take place the week commencing 10th October. Please note that these dates are indicative and may be subject to change. At the interview stage for this role, we will assess your technical/specialist experience, outlined in the above role description, testing your ability through relevant assessments/presentations and ask you questions around Behaviours and Technical skills, which are part of the Civil Service Success Profiles . The technical element within the interview, where you will be asked a series of questions to demonstrate your specific professional skills and knowledge related directly to the job role and context, will assess against these Technical Skills: Availability and capacity management Information security Modern standards approach Programming and build (software engineering) Prototyping Service support Systems design Systems integration User focus You will also be assessed against the Behaviours of: Communicating and Influencing Developing Self and Others Changing and Improving Making Effective Decisions Offer Stage Appointments may be made to candidates in merit order based on location preferences. The salary we will offer is determined using interview performance. Scores at interview translate to proficiency levels and an associated salary. Once a successful candidate has a proficiency level and is part of the capability framework, they will be given opportunities to self-assess to progress through the pay scale within their grade during their time at DIT. For further explanation of proficiency levels and more information about DDaT click here. The Department for International Trade embraces and values diversity in all forms. We welcome and pride ourselves on the positive impact diversity has on the work we do, and we promote equality of opportunity throughout the organisation. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. Candidates who pass the bar at interview but are not the highest scoring will be held on a 12-month reserve list for future appointments. Candidates who are judged to be a near miss at interview may be offered a post at the grade below the one advertised. If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out. The Department for International Trade embraces and values diversity in all forms. We welcome and pride ourselves on the positive impact diversity has on the work we do, and we promote equality of opportunity throughout the organisation. Harmonised terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you. Please note the successful candidate will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of 18 months before being released for another role. Any move to the Department for International Trade from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band. Reasonable adjustment If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes. If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should contact the DDaT Recruitment team before the closing date to discuss your needs. ..... click apply for full job details

Site Reliability Engineer Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services requires a Site Reliability Engineer- Virtualisation SME based at their client's offices in London . You may be able to work some days remotely. This is a 1 year temporary contract to start ASAP. Day rate: Competitive market rate We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer - Virtualisation SME with 10+ years of experience having excellent knowledge of ESX VMWare and/or Nutanix HCI and of container orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes: Key Responsibilities Responsible for the reliability and efficiency of virtualisation infrastructure through the delivery of common, repeatable tools and processes that greatly reduce the amount of toil the OS and DB Platform Operations team must perform Responsible for writing software to make the virtualisation infrastructure self-managing and self-service. Responsible for automation and continuous service improvement by developing Infrastructure as Code. Responsible for elimination of manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical tasks that are devoid from value. Responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring and capacity planning. Responsible for improving system performance, making effective use of resources, distributing load and reducing latency. Responsible for identifying SLO's (Service Level Objectives) that align the team to meet availability and latency objectives. Responsible for developing pro-active monitoring solutions that alert on symptoms and not just on outages. Responsible for performing detailed root cause analysis (RCA's) on incidents and outages to prevent future occurrence. Responsible for partnering with development teams to improve services via rigorous testing and release procedures. Responsible for actively sharing knowledge and best practices across the organisation. Responsible for identifying technical debt and partner with application teams to build remediation plans. Responsible for developing standard operational procedures and producing effective documentation. Responsible for analysing workloads and devising suitable cloud migration strategies where appropriate. Responsible for participating in on-call rotation, triaging and addressing production issues as they arise. Responsible for performing the OS Platform Operations function as and when required. Responsible for mentoring and developing less experienced SA's and SRE's. Responsible for identifying cost saving and optimisation opportunities within the customer business. Responsible for building strong relationships across the customer functions and business areas, underpinned by trust and the core values of the customer. Key Skills Essential: Excellent knowledge of ESX VMWare and/or Nutanix HCI. Excellent knowledge of Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019. Excellent knowledge of Windows OS tuning utilities and commands. Excellent knowledge of configuring Windows OS systems for optimal performance. Excellent knowledge of Windows clustering and high-availability solutions. Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP and Kerberos. Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP Networking Protocols. Excellent knowledge of networking, storage, database and virtualization layers. Excellent knowledge of container orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes. Excellent knowledge of version control software such as GitHub and Subversion. Excellent knowledge of configuration management software such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform and SaltStack. Excellent knowledge of "Infrastructure as Code" principles and practices. Excellent knowledge of continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) principles and practices. Excellent knowledge of applications development using Agile, and DevOps best practices. Excellent knowledge of operating system security and auditing methods. Excellent knowledge of security hardening principles in line with CIS industry benchmarks. Excellent knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX. Excellent knowledge of cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle. Desirable: Good working knowledge of RedHat Enterprise Linux (6.x, 7.x, 8.x) and Solaris (10.x and 11.x). Good working knowledge of Unix/Linux OS tuning utilities and commands. Good working knowledge of Unix/Linux system internals and Kernel tuning for optimal performance. Good working knowledge of Red Hat Satellite. Good working knowledge of Anti-Virus software such as McAfee and Sophos. Good working knowledge of Ivanti LANDESK and Symantec Altiris. Good working knowledge of ThinPrint and EquiTrack (Follow-Me Printing). Good working knowledge of Rubrik. Good working knowledge of EMC, HDS and Pure storage arrays. Good working knowledge of Dell PowerEdge, IBM xSeries and Cisco UCS hardware. Good working knowledge of EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Good working knowledge of Infoblox DNS. Good working knowledge of Icinga 2 and OpManager. Good working knowledge of IBM Tivoli and Netcool. Good working knowledge of GitHub, Subversion and TeamCity. Good working knowledge of BMC Control-M. Good working knowledge of CyberArk. Good working knowledge of Splunk and IBM QRadar. Good working knowledge of Qualys. Good working knowledge of SharePoint, JIRA and Confluence. Good working knowledge of ServiceNow and Serena Business Manager. Candidate Specifications Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Ability to handle pressure during outages and systematically resolve issues Excellent problem-solving skills Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability A proactive, motivated approach The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly A structured and logical approach to work Attention to detail and accuracy Ability to perform well in a pressurised environment Ability to manage constructive conflict effectively The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines Able to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical persons at all levels

SRE & DevOps Engineer - Inside IR36 - 6 months - Leeds - hybrid Working Are you a Site reliability engineer with extensive experience within DevOps? Would you like to be part of one of the UK's Largest transformation projects? Can you turn your hand to working on ensuring resilience, observability, and release automation? Have you worked on building tooling and Complex automation across multiple teams? Illuminet are currently working with a retail client whose role will entail operational work such as handling escalations, being on-call to respond to production issues, and fixing problems. Secondly your focus will be on automation. The expectation is that this will be done hands on writing code. As an SRE engineer you will be focused on building tooling and automation across the various parts of the E-commerce platform to ensure it maintains its service level objectives. The Role Debug production issues across services and technology stack. Consult on new cloud patterns; improving system resilience, performance and stability. Support Prod deployments, pipeline engineering and maintenance & build failures (squads responsible for releasing their own code/packages) Platform Ops - L2 quick fixes (restart env/jobs, check monitoring dashboard, reset access etc) Monitoring & Observability - Configure & extend monitoring, egress/ingress data lake (consolidation of Azure Integration Services, 3rd party events), Business Monitoring Automation & Self-healing (incl. event based triggers) Ensuring consistency of technology usage across a programme, by continuously reviewing existing toolsets and code and suggesting re-use of components. Ensuring system SLOs/SLis and performance are monitored and alerted on. About You Software engineering background Hands-on experience designing, building, delivering and operating production-grade software at scale Experience with troubleshooting distributed systems Strong opinions informed by experience of continuous delivery, distributed architectures, testing, everything-as-code, containerisation, orchestration, cloud services and incident response Comfortable having in-depth discussions, troubleshooting and debugging systems and reading/writing code Experience working within an Agile environment Experience with enterprise APM monitoring tools Working knowledge of system architectures and networking Salesforce experience Azure cloud experience Experience with CI-CD tooling eg code quality, security, accessibility, testing framework integration Worked as DevOps/SRE engineer The role is flexible with working locations, but the successful applicant must be prepared to go to the client's head office 2-3 times a month.

Site Reliability Engineer - SRE - Outside IR355 - Fully Remote - 5-9 months Jefferson Frank are currently recruiting for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to grow an infrastructure team from scratch for a managed IT services company who are looking to onboard someone as soon as possible. For this role we would like to find out about your recent projects, demonstrating your skill and proven application of the below technologies. Within the role you will Grow a team of geographically distributed Infrastructure Engineers from scratch whislt mentoring the team throughout Participate in technical design, driving engineering initiatives and owning product quality Act as a point of contact between Product and Customer Service, peer engineering teams and other parts of the organisations Assist in the migration from the old AWS OU to new AWS OU Assist in the development and testing of IAM roles, Security policies and Service groups for members of the OU Administration and support of Kubernetes as recommended by AWS Assist in the Terraform refactoring and repository move to Gitlab Must Haves: Experience working with Terraform Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud) 2+ years of programming experience Experience working with containers and orchestration Familiarity with CI/CD processes Experience with monitoring tools 3+ years of platform experience, with at least 2 of them in an enterprise-scale high paced environment. Strong experience working with modern cloud-native technologies and modern software architecture (Micro-services-based architectures) Ongoing management of our clients cloud infrastructure Creating custom automation tooling Monitoring system health and performance and creating custom tooling to do so Ensuring system uptime and reliability meets the internal SLAs Background in coding Site Reliability Engineer | SRE | Terraform | Kubernetes | Microservices | Remote | Immediate Start If you like the sound of the role or know someone who would, regardless of experience, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me! You can call me direct, email (see below) or click apply on the advert and I will get back to you ASAP. Site Reliability Engineer | SRE | Terraform | Kubernetes | Microservices | Remote | Immediate Start

Senior Application Support / SRE Hybrid Working: Mix of Home Working / London EMEA HQ Permanent, Full Time As a trusted and preferred recruitment partner to this leading global provider of cloud-based solutions to the global financial sector, we have been asked to assist in the hire of a Senior Application Support Engineer to take responsibility for the availability and reliability of services used by over 23,000 customers across 90 countries (including 22 of the world's top 25 banks). In this role you will ensure all services exceed availability targets, have in-depth monitoring and are proactively managed. Already benefitting from a dominance in the North American finance industry, our client is expanding its London operations to better serve the UK and EU markets. This is an exciting time to join, and you will have the opportunity to work a mix of remotely and within their state-of-the-art EMEA HQ in London. Your Job *Service Reliability: Proactively identifying risks to service and remediate them. Reduce risk from deployments by improved use of resilience and ensuring appropriate testing of releases pre and post deployment. Provide support and troubleshooting when service incidents occur. Improve time to recover from service impacting incidents. Identifying trends and root causes to reduce volume of incidents. *Automation: Identify and deliver on opportunities to use automation to increase efficiency, reduce toil and drive service availability. Use automation and orchestration techniques to provide repeatable solutions and reduce risk of mis-operations. *Observability: Monitor and ensure smooth operation of all production services. Identifying gaps in coverage and improving observability of Production services. Ensuring appropriate events are generated for service failure or degradation scenarios. Responding to events and alerts in timely manner managing through to resolution. *Knowledge management: Continuously improving the knowledge of the Application Support team to become subject matter experts on the Product and the technology that runs it. Collaborating with other teams to understand how underpinning services support the Products. Identifying opportunities to share knowledge and decrease the time it takes to resolve customer related incidents. Tech Stacks: Platform and Database Tech: Linux, Cassandra, Kafka, ArangoDB; Containerisation/Virtualisation: Kubernetes/OpenShift, VMware; Instrumentation and Monitoring: Splunk, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana; Scripting: PowerShell, Python. Your Skills *Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Application Support Engineer or similar running highly available critical services (ideally SaaS) *Scripting abilities in PowerShell / Python *Understanding of networking, firewalls, protocols, databases and more *Java Debugging - ability to complete thread dumps and analysis *Experience with monitoring solutions *Splunk Experience - creating dashboards, events and analysis *CI/CD Delivery Practices *Troubleshooting connectivity issues: TCP/IP, DNS, Telnet, Trace Route, TCP dump and analysis *Awareness of Load Balancing Technologies such as HA Proxy, Nginx, F5 *Experience of collaboration technologies - email, archiving, instant messaging *Exposure to support Voice / SMS Tech nice to have Alongside a competitive salary, you will receive a benefits package which includes 25 Days Holiday (increases with service), Private Medical Cover, Bupa Dental Cover, Life Insurance, Income Protection, Secondment Opportunities to Global HQ in Vancouver, Pension Scheme (increases with service up to 7% employer contribution), Bonus Scheme (up to 8% dependent on revenues and team performance). This role would be suitable for those who have held the following job roles: Site Reliability Engineer, Senior SRE, Site Availability Engineer, Application Support Engineer, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Senior Application Support Engineer, Lead SRE, Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Lead Application Support. Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is one of the UK's leading IT Recruitment Agencies, trusted by many of the UK's leading employers. Established in 1997, we have over twenty years of experience as IT Recruitment Specialist. We will never send your CV anywhere without your authorisation and only after you have seen the complete details on this opportunity. Deerfoot is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. Each time Deerfoot sends a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation ().

We are looking for a reliable, competent Test Engineer with solid experience in testing and quality control for a company based just outside Cambridge. This is a new role and an excellent opportunity to take on the initial tasks of Applications Test and to create the test environment.Responsibilities* Liaise with internal teams (Product Management, Product Owners, etc) to understand requirements and develop testable Acceptance Criteria* Provide Test estimates to support project costing and task planning* Develop automation frameworks to deliver efficient and effective testing* Design, develop and execute functional and non-functional tests (automated and manual as required)* Peer review QA and Test team work* Prioritise workload to meet agreed commitments* Capture, record and document bugs allowing Development teams to readily reproduce issues* Application quality assurance* Performance and load testing* Functional testing* Creating, writing and executing test scripts* Documenting test results* Communicating findings to technical and non-technical colleagues* Working towards departmental and project deadlinesRequirements* Multichannel testing across web, mobile and native applications* Attention to detail and a result driven approach (personal attributes)* Coding skills to develop frameworks and automated tests using tools such as Gherkin, Visual Studio (C#), Selenium* Ability to develop clear, concise, test plans and cases, and perform manual and automated tests across desktop and web applications* Ability to interpret written requirements and technical specification documents* Knowledge of database architecture* API testing, Load and Performance testing* Confident written and verbal communicator including client facing roles* Experience managing test environments* Exploratory Testing* Automated Testing* Non-Functional Testing* API Testing* Software development experience with Java, Objective-C, JavaScript, .NET* Experience with command line usage* Demonstrable QA and Automated Test experience * Demonstrable Software testing experience across full SDLC* Knowledge and experience of developing robust, maintainable, efficient automated test frameworks * Experienced in developing SQL and scripts* Experience of Continuous Integration Experience / knowledge in the following would be an advantage: * Agile/SCRUM methodologies* Reporting tools such as Jira* Knowledge of testing windows applications* Scripting languages* Testing in different environments including web, iOS, Android and Universal Windows applications