IT Systems Engineer - MS Cloud, Datacentre & Cloud Applications Location: London, City (off site datacentre access required) Salary: £60,000pa + Benefits + Hybrid Working Role Overview The IT Systems Engineer will play a key role in supporting and improving cloud, datacentre and enterprise systems across a fast moving technology environment. This role will act as a senior escalation point within the support function, working closely with internal teams, vendors and project stakeholders to ensure high availability, security and performance of core IT services. Key Accountabilities Cloud and Datacentre Infrastructure Cloud and Datacentre Applications Additional Requirements Candidates must be London-based or within reasonable travel distance due to the requirement to access datacentres, on call rota including out of hours call outs for critical infrastructure incidents. Skills, Experience & Qualifications Essential Strong experience in supporting enterprise IT infrastructure in a 3rd line or senior support capacity. Microsoft 365 and Azure administration experience. Solid knowledge of networking, security principles and ITIL based service delivery. Strong troubleshooting, documentation and stakeholder communication skills. A proactive, adaptable team player comfortable working across a broad technical estate. Desirable Microsoft certifications (M365, Endpoint, Security, Azure). Linux and networking certifications (e.g. MCSE, Linux, CCNA).
24/05/2026
Full time
IT Systems Engineer - MS Cloud, Datacentre & Cloud Applications Location: London, City (off site datacentre access required) Salary: £60,000pa + Benefits + Hybrid Working Role Overview The IT Systems Engineer will play a key role in supporting and improving cloud, datacentre and enterprise systems across a fast moving technology environment. This role will act as a senior escalation point within the support function, working closely with internal teams, vendors and project stakeholders to ensure high availability, security and performance of core IT services. Key Accountabilities Cloud and Datacentre Infrastructure Cloud and Datacentre Applications Additional Requirements Candidates must be London-based or within reasonable travel distance due to the requirement to access datacentres, on call rota including out of hours call outs for critical infrastructure incidents. Skills, Experience & Qualifications Essential Strong experience in supporting enterprise IT infrastructure in a 3rd line or senior support capacity. Microsoft 365 and Azure administration experience. Solid knowledge of networking, security principles and ITIL based service delivery. Strong troubleshooting, documentation and stakeholder communication skills. A proactive, adaptable team player comfortable working across a broad technical estate. Desirable Microsoft certifications (M365, Endpoint, Security, Azure). Linux and networking certifications (e.g. MCSE, Linux, CCNA).
Infrastructure Architect with IAM experience London, United Kingdom Posted on 11/02/2026 We provide end-to-end IT solutions and services including Applications services, Data & Analytics services, AI/ML Technologies and Professional services in the UK and EU market. Job Description Details Role: Infrastructure Architect with IAM experience Location: Harbour Exchange Square, London Mode: Hybrid (2 days to office) Experience: 8 to 15 years Job Type: Fixed term contract and Hybrid Job Purpose The Infrastructure Architect plays a key role in CVS architecture / technology division. The role involves producing designs and overseeing the implementation of solutions encompassing hardware, software, and security to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability; bridging business needs on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, providing technical leadership, and ensuring designs meet CVS architectural principles and security standards. The architect should be a strong technologist that is very aware of current developments in the technology spectrum. Key Responsibilities Produce high-quality high-level Design documentation describing technical systems solutions, providing overall design direction and recommendations for resolution of complex technical issues. Analyse existing Design documents, find recommended options in the market, produce presentations to the Architect team with options and reasoning and later proceed with Design documents. Provide technical leadership and direction to the IT engineering, delivery and test teams throughout implementation phases. Support the Enterprise Architects in the development of infrastructure road maps to support the evolution of the technical and digital portfolios from current to future state. Act as liaison between Architecture and Engineering and direct the development of technical standards and platforms, quality, and best practices. Required Skills and Experience Strong technical knowledge including Microsoft technologies, Red Hat Linux, datacentre and cloud, enterprise networking: WAN/LAN/WLAN, routing, firewall, ID/IP/IPS, WAN optimization, proxy, VPN services, load balancing, and IT security. Experience designing, documenting, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions across on-premises and cloud environments such as AWS. Knowledge of networking, storage and server hardware configuration and design. Good knowledge of cloud networking (AWS and Azure) components. Ability to communicate solutions to other stakeholders. Ability to assess and recommend third-party tools and systems to complement existing offerings. Knowledge of security design. Good knowledge of risk management. Work closely with other architecture disciplines including Enterprise, Infrastructure and Security, as well Engineering and Operations. Provide technical guidance to team members and other stakeholders. Identify and recommend opportunities for efficiency. Stay updated on new features and capabilities and best practices. Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage diversity. Share knowledge within the team and contribute to the organization's learning culture. Education and Certifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience). Industry-recognized certifications such as TOGAF, CITA, RHCA.
18/05/2026
Full time
Infrastructure Architect with IAM experience London, United Kingdom Posted on 11/02/2026 We provide end-to-end IT solutions and services including Applications services, Data & Analytics services, AI/ML Technologies and Professional services in the UK and EU market. Job Description Details Role: Infrastructure Architect with IAM experience Location: Harbour Exchange Square, London Mode: Hybrid (2 days to office) Experience: 8 to 15 years Job Type: Fixed term contract and Hybrid Job Purpose The Infrastructure Architect plays a key role in CVS architecture / technology division. The role involves producing designs and overseeing the implementation of solutions encompassing hardware, software, and security to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability; bridging business needs on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, providing technical leadership, and ensuring designs meet CVS architectural principles and security standards. The architect should be a strong technologist that is very aware of current developments in the technology spectrum. Key Responsibilities Produce high-quality high-level Design documentation describing technical systems solutions, providing overall design direction and recommendations for resolution of complex technical issues. Analyse existing Design documents, find recommended options in the market, produce presentations to the Architect team with options and reasoning and later proceed with Design documents. Provide technical leadership and direction to the IT engineering, delivery and test teams throughout implementation phases. Support the Enterprise Architects in the development of infrastructure road maps to support the evolution of the technical and digital portfolios from current to future state. Act as liaison between Architecture and Engineering and direct the development of technical standards and platforms, quality, and best practices. Required Skills and Experience Strong technical knowledge including Microsoft technologies, Red Hat Linux, datacentre and cloud, enterprise networking: WAN/LAN/WLAN, routing, firewall, ID/IP/IPS, WAN optimization, proxy, VPN services, load balancing, and IT security. Experience designing, documenting, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions across on-premises and cloud environments such as AWS. Knowledge of networking, storage and server hardware configuration and design. Good knowledge of cloud networking (AWS and Azure) components. Ability to communicate solutions to other stakeholders. Ability to assess and recommend third-party tools and systems to complement existing offerings. Knowledge of security design. Good knowledge of risk management. Work closely with other architecture disciplines including Enterprise, Infrastructure and Security, as well Engineering and Operations. Provide technical guidance to team members and other stakeholders. Identify and recommend opportunities for efficiency. Stay updated on new features and capabilities and best practices. Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage diversity. Share knowledge within the team and contribute to the organization's learning culture. Education and Certifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience). Industry-recognized certifications such as TOGAF, CITA, RHCA.
Who are we? At Technimove, we're passionate about transforming the way the world's leading IT service providers manage their data centres. As the market leader in Data Centre Transformations, we deliver high-quality Professional Services and Data Centre Migrations for global clients, from ambitious start ups to some of the most recognisable names in tech. Our secret weapon? Our TechniPeople, we've built a diverse, supportive, and ambitious team that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and passion. Some of our colleagues have been with us for over a decade, while many others are just starting their journey - but all share the same energy, drive, and love for what we do. Location: Hayes Rota-based shift schedule covering Monday to Sunday, including morning, day, and night rotations. The Role We are seeking multiple Level 1 and Level 2 Data Centre Engineers to support ongoing operations at our customers data centre in Hayes. This role is hands on and business critical, ensuring the smooth installation, maintenance, and decommissioning of data centre infrastructure. You will be responsible for providing advanced technical support, troubleshooting, break fix and maintenance of high performance datacentre systems that include GPUs, networking, cooling, and storage technologies. This role is critical to guaranteeing uptime, performance, and reliability of infrastructure and requires strong collaboration with engineering, operations, and vendor partners in order to meet our SLAs. Key responsibilities Deliver advanced smart hands support across the clients data centre environments, including complex racking, stacking, structured cabling, hardware lifecycle tasks, and on site diagnostics. Independently execute and oversee technical migration, installation, and engineering engagements to a high standard. Collaborate closely with Consultancy, Project/Programme Management, and customer technical teams to lead onsite execution under defined project structures. Perform installation, upgrade, remediation, and verification of enterprise compute, network, storage and AI/high density hardware (NVIDIA, Dell XE/XE9680, Lenovo ThinkSystem, Supermicro GPU servers, Nokia AirFrame/Cloud). Support documentation creation including LLDs, runbooks, test plans, rack plans, and post engagement reports. Execute site surveys, assess infrastructure readiness, and provide technical input into Statements of Work. Champion safety standards, including correct lifting practices, ESD handling, power safety, and risk identification. Participate in on call rotations to provide 24/7 coverage for critical infrastructure incidents. Technical skills Experience supporting datacentre infrastructure, including servers, network hardware, and storage systems. Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex hardware and infrastructure issues. Working knowledge of Linux system administration. Familiarity with networking protocols, topologies, and troubleshooting (e.g., TCP/IP, BGP, VLANs). Understanding of datacentre cooling, power distribution, and resiliency best practices. Experience working in large scale cloud or datacentre environments. Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across global teams.
16/05/2026
Full time
Who are we? At Technimove, we're passionate about transforming the way the world's leading IT service providers manage their data centres. As the market leader in Data Centre Transformations, we deliver high-quality Professional Services and Data Centre Migrations for global clients, from ambitious start ups to some of the most recognisable names in tech. Our secret weapon? Our TechniPeople, we've built a diverse, supportive, and ambitious team that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and passion. Some of our colleagues have been with us for over a decade, while many others are just starting their journey - but all share the same energy, drive, and love for what we do. Location: Hayes Rota-based shift schedule covering Monday to Sunday, including morning, day, and night rotations. The Role We are seeking multiple Level 1 and Level 2 Data Centre Engineers to support ongoing operations at our customers data centre in Hayes. This role is hands on and business critical, ensuring the smooth installation, maintenance, and decommissioning of data centre infrastructure. You will be responsible for providing advanced technical support, troubleshooting, break fix and maintenance of high performance datacentre systems that include GPUs, networking, cooling, and storage technologies. This role is critical to guaranteeing uptime, performance, and reliability of infrastructure and requires strong collaboration with engineering, operations, and vendor partners in order to meet our SLAs. Key responsibilities Deliver advanced smart hands support across the clients data centre environments, including complex racking, stacking, structured cabling, hardware lifecycle tasks, and on site diagnostics. Independently execute and oversee technical migration, installation, and engineering engagements to a high standard. Collaborate closely with Consultancy, Project/Programme Management, and customer technical teams to lead onsite execution under defined project structures. Perform installation, upgrade, remediation, and verification of enterprise compute, network, storage and AI/high density hardware (NVIDIA, Dell XE/XE9680, Lenovo ThinkSystem, Supermicro GPU servers, Nokia AirFrame/Cloud). Support documentation creation including LLDs, runbooks, test plans, rack plans, and post engagement reports. Execute site surveys, assess infrastructure readiness, and provide technical input into Statements of Work. Champion safety standards, including correct lifting practices, ESD handling, power safety, and risk identification. Participate in on call rotations to provide 24/7 coverage for critical infrastructure incidents. Technical skills Experience supporting datacentre infrastructure, including servers, network hardware, and storage systems. Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex hardware and infrastructure issues. Working knowledge of Linux system administration. Familiarity with networking protocols, topologies, and troubleshooting (e.g., TCP/IP, BGP, VLANs). Understanding of datacentre cooling, power distribution, and resiliency best practices. Experience working in large scale cloud or datacentre environments. Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across global teams.
About Graphcore How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity? Graphcore products have set the standard in made-for-AI compute hardware and software, gaining global attention and industry acclaim. Now we are developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models, help scientists unlock exciting new discoveries, and power companies around the world as they put AI at the heart of their business. Graphcore recently joined SoftBank Group - bringing large and ongoing investment from one of the world's leading backers of innovative AI companies. Job Summary We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team and help develop and deploy clouds and services. Working closely with our colleagues in Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development teams, you will deploy services on our fleet of cutting edge AI systems. As part of our Software Platform organisation, you will be involved in the cloud integration, validation, performance benchmarking, optimisation, and development of our high-performance AI solutions. These include in-house AI systems alongside off the shelf high-performance servers, switches and storage solutions. This is a hands on technical role requiring a solid background in the use of cloud infrastructure, deployment using Infrastructure as Code, observability, high-performance networking and storage systems. You may have been working in an IT organisation, a datacentre, a cloud provider or as a developer of orchestration or cloud services. The Software Platform team at Graphcore We build Graphcore products into large-scale AI solutions for our customers and the Cloud Platform Team is responsible for providing such systems to both internal users via private clouds and customers via our own public clouds. Often the internal systems will be using and developing pre-release hardware and software, so it's vital you are comfortable with unproven components. Responsibilities and Duties Develop and operate high-performance ethernet infrastructure on our private clouds and support internal users in their use. You will turn end user and product requirements into deployed services. Help to build automation to collect and analyse metrics and other data from the network infrastructure to support clear identification and reporting of any issues. Work with users to provide information of any product related issues to Engineering and QA departments. Work with our Datacentre Operations Engineers to maintain, tune and operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance in our private clouds. Work with external vendors of off the shelf switches, servers and storage solutions to integrate third party products into our Cloud Reference Design, with a focus on network performance, automation and resilience. Skills and Experience (all required) Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject. Significant hands on experience with one or more vendor's high end (100Gb/s+) Ethernet switch solutions. Experience managing on premises or private cloud environments. Solid software engineering or IT experience with a proven track record of delivering technical output as an individual contributor. Experience working in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, including understanding of priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints. Strong proven Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed). Strong proven Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants). Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and using it to manage system configuration or automation. Experience with Continuous Integration or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar. A solid hands on understanding of the technologies underpinning cloud services (APIs, virtualization of CPUs, IO, systems) and how they relate to high-performance networking. Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible). Experience with container deployment and management tools (e.g. docker). Experience with solutions for monitoring and observability e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki. Good communication and presentation skills, and experience dealing with end users of IT services. An ability to work independently on critical infrastructure with minimal oversight, and with a focus on end user availability. Desirable but not required Experience with OpenStack cloud platforms. Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments using SLURM or similar batch workload solutions. Experience with hardware offloading on RDMA capable NICs and how that integrates with virtual networking on Open vSwitch, KVM/QEMU. Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads with an automation tool such as ArgoCD. Benefits In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments. Sponsorship Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications.
15/05/2026
Full time
About Graphcore How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity? Graphcore products have set the standard in made-for-AI compute hardware and software, gaining global attention and industry acclaim. Now we are developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models, help scientists unlock exciting new discoveries, and power companies around the world as they put AI at the heart of their business. Graphcore recently joined SoftBank Group - bringing large and ongoing investment from one of the world's leading backers of innovative AI companies. Job Summary We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team and help develop and deploy clouds and services. Working closely with our colleagues in Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development teams, you will deploy services on our fleet of cutting edge AI systems. As part of our Software Platform organisation, you will be involved in the cloud integration, validation, performance benchmarking, optimisation, and development of our high-performance AI solutions. These include in-house AI systems alongside off the shelf high-performance servers, switches and storage solutions. This is a hands on technical role requiring a solid background in the use of cloud infrastructure, deployment using Infrastructure as Code, observability, high-performance networking and storage systems. You may have been working in an IT organisation, a datacentre, a cloud provider or as a developer of orchestration or cloud services. The Software Platform team at Graphcore We build Graphcore products into large-scale AI solutions for our customers and the Cloud Platform Team is responsible for providing such systems to both internal users via private clouds and customers via our own public clouds. Often the internal systems will be using and developing pre-release hardware and software, so it's vital you are comfortable with unproven components. Responsibilities and Duties Develop and operate high-performance ethernet infrastructure on our private clouds and support internal users in their use. You will turn end user and product requirements into deployed services. Help to build automation to collect and analyse metrics and other data from the network infrastructure to support clear identification and reporting of any issues. Work with users to provide information of any product related issues to Engineering and QA departments. Work with our Datacentre Operations Engineers to maintain, tune and operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance in our private clouds. Work with external vendors of off the shelf switches, servers and storage solutions to integrate third party products into our Cloud Reference Design, with a focus on network performance, automation and resilience. Skills and Experience (all required) Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject. Significant hands on experience with one or more vendor's high end (100Gb/s+) Ethernet switch solutions. Experience managing on premises or private cloud environments. Solid software engineering or IT experience with a proven track record of delivering technical output as an individual contributor. Experience working in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, including understanding of priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints. Strong proven Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed). Strong proven Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants). Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and using it to manage system configuration or automation. Experience with Continuous Integration or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar. A solid hands on understanding of the technologies underpinning cloud services (APIs, virtualization of CPUs, IO, systems) and how they relate to high-performance networking. Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible). Experience with container deployment and management tools (e.g. docker). Experience with solutions for monitoring and observability e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki. Good communication and presentation skills, and experience dealing with end users of IT services. An ability to work independently on critical infrastructure with minimal oversight, and with a focus on end user availability. Desirable but not required Experience with OpenStack cloud platforms. Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments using SLURM or similar batch workload solutions. Experience with hardware offloading on RDMA capable NICs and how that integrates with virtual networking on Open vSwitch, KVM/QEMU. Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads with an automation tool such as ArgoCD. Benefits In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments. Sponsorship Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications.
About Graphcore How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity? Graphcore products have set the standard in made-for-AI compute hardware and software, gaining global attention and industry acclaim. Now we are developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models, help scientists unlock exciting new discoveries, and power companies around the world as they put AI at the heart of their business. Graphcore recently joined SoftBank Group - bringing large and ongoing investment from one of the world's leading backers of innovative AI companies. Job Summary We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team and help develop and deploy clouds and services. Working closely with our colleagues in Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development teams, you will deploy services on our fleet of cutting edge AI systems. As part of our Software Platform organisation, you will be involved in the cloud integration, validation, performance benchmarking, optimisation, and development of our high-performance AI solutions. These include in house AI systems alongside off the shelf high-performance servers, switches and storage solutions. This is a hand on technical role requiring a solid background in the use of cloud infrastructure, deployment using Infrastructure as Code, observability, high-performance networking and storage systems. You may have been working in an IT organisation, a datacentre, a cloud provider or as a developer of orchestration or cloud services. The Software Platform team at Graphcore We build Graphcore products into large scale AI solutions for our customers and the Cloud Platform Team is responsible for providing such systems to both internal users via private clouds and customers via our own public clouds. Often the internal systems will be using and developing pre release hardware and software, so it's vital you are comfortable with unproven components. Responsibilities and Duties Develop and operate Kubernetes managed end user services on our private clouds and support internal users in their use. You will turn end user and product requirements into deployed services. Work with our Datacentre Operations Engineers to maintain and operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance in our private clouds. Configure and test new Graphcore AI hardware and systems using Continuous Deployment and Infrastructure as code in internal and external datacentres. Skills and Experience (all required) Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject. Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads with a continuous delivery tool such as ArgoCD. Solid software engineering or IT experience with a proven track record of delivering technical output as an individual contributor. Experience working in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, including understanding of priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints. Strong proven Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed). Strong proven Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants). Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and using it to manage system configuration or automation. Experience with Continuous Integration or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar. A solid hands on understanding of the technologies underpinning cloud services (APIs, virtualisation of CPUs, IO, systems), virtual networks, block storage, resource management and monitoring. Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer). Good communication and presentation skills, and experience dealing with end users of IT services. An ability to work independently on critical infrastructure with minimal oversight, and with a focus on end user availability. Desirable but not required: Experience with OpenStack cloud platform(s). Experience with solutions for monitoring and observability. e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki. Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments using SLURM or similar batch workload solutions. Programming experience with Python3 utilising classes and inheritance. Benefits In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments. Sponsorship Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications.
14/05/2026
Full time
About Graphcore How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity? Graphcore products have set the standard in made-for-AI compute hardware and software, gaining global attention and industry acclaim. Now we are developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models, help scientists unlock exciting new discoveries, and power companies around the world as they put AI at the heart of their business. Graphcore recently joined SoftBank Group - bringing large and ongoing investment from one of the world's leading backers of innovative AI companies. Job Summary We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team and help develop and deploy clouds and services. Working closely with our colleagues in Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development teams, you will deploy services on our fleet of cutting edge AI systems. As part of our Software Platform organisation, you will be involved in the cloud integration, validation, performance benchmarking, optimisation, and development of our high-performance AI solutions. These include in house AI systems alongside off the shelf high-performance servers, switches and storage solutions. This is a hand on technical role requiring a solid background in the use of cloud infrastructure, deployment using Infrastructure as Code, observability, high-performance networking and storage systems. You may have been working in an IT organisation, a datacentre, a cloud provider or as a developer of orchestration or cloud services. The Software Platform team at Graphcore We build Graphcore products into large scale AI solutions for our customers and the Cloud Platform Team is responsible for providing such systems to both internal users via private clouds and customers via our own public clouds. Often the internal systems will be using and developing pre release hardware and software, so it's vital you are comfortable with unproven components. Responsibilities and Duties Develop and operate Kubernetes managed end user services on our private clouds and support internal users in their use. You will turn end user and product requirements into deployed services. Work with our Datacentre Operations Engineers to maintain and operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance in our private clouds. Configure and test new Graphcore AI hardware and systems using Continuous Deployment and Infrastructure as code in internal and external datacentres. Skills and Experience (all required) Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject. Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads with a continuous delivery tool such as ArgoCD. Solid software engineering or IT experience with a proven track record of delivering technical output as an individual contributor. Experience working in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, including understanding of priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints. Strong proven Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed). Strong proven Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants). Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and using it to manage system configuration or automation. Experience with Continuous Integration or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar. A solid hands on understanding of the technologies underpinning cloud services (APIs, virtualisation of CPUs, IO, systems), virtual networks, block storage, resource management and monitoring. Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer). Good communication and presentation skills, and experience dealing with end users of IT services. An ability to work independently on critical infrastructure with minimal oversight, and with a focus on end user availability. Desirable but not required: Experience with OpenStack cloud platform(s). Experience with solutions for monitoring and observability. e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki. Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments using SLURM or similar batch workload solutions. Programming experience with Python3 utilising classes and inheritance. Benefits In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments. Sponsorship Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications.
IT Systems Engineer - Cloud, Datacentre & Cloud Applications Location: London, City (off-site datacentre access required) Hybrid: 3 days on site per week Salary: £65,000pa to £70,000pa + Benefits Reporting to: IT Infrastructure Manager Role Overview: The IT Systems Engineer will play a key role in supporting and improving cloud, datacentre and enterprise systems across a fast-moving technology environment. This role will act as a senior escalation point within the support function, working closely with internal teams, vendors and project stakeholders to ensure high availability, security and performance of core IT services. Additional Requirements: MUST HAVE relevant experience working in a Cloud Datacentre Environment MUST HAVE relevant & up to date Technical Industry Accreditations Microsoft certifications (M365, Endpoint, Security, Azure) MUST HAVE Linux and networking certifications (e.g. MCSE, Linux, CCNA). MUST BE London-based or within reasonable travel distance due to the requirement to access datacentres, on-call rota including out of hours call outs for critical infrastructure incidents. Key Accountabilities: Cloud and Datacentre Infrastructure & Cloud and Datacentre Applications Key Responsibilities: Provide 3rd line support across Microsoft 365, Azure, AvePoint and third party cloud platforms (e.g. VoIP, CRM). Support and administer on prem and cloud infrastructure including Linux (RedHat and variants), Windows Server, VMware virtualisation, Veeam Backup & Replication and SAN technologies (Fibre/iSCSI). Respond to, investigate and remediate incidents identified through security and monitoring platforms (e.g. M365 XDR, MDR/SIEM tooling). Own incidents through their full lifecycle, ensuring SLA compliance and clear stakeholder communication. Work closely with 1st/2nd Line teams, providing escalation support and technical guidance. Identify root causes of recurring issues and propose system improvements, raising RFCs where required. Support project delivery and platform development initiatives. Maintain accurate system documentation, asset registers and inventory records. Skills, Experience & Qualifications Essential: Strong experience in supporting enterprise IT infrastructure in a 3rd line or senior support capacity. Microsoft 365 and Azure administration experience. Solid knowledge of networking, security principles and ITIL-based service delivery. Strong troubleshooting, documentation and stakeholder communication skills. A proactive, adaptable team player comfortable working across a broad technical estate.
12/05/2026
Full time
IT Systems Engineer - Cloud, Datacentre & Cloud Applications Location: London, City (off-site datacentre access required) Hybrid: 3 days on site per week Salary: £65,000pa to £70,000pa + Benefits Reporting to: IT Infrastructure Manager Role Overview: The IT Systems Engineer will play a key role in supporting and improving cloud, datacentre and enterprise systems across a fast-moving technology environment. This role will act as a senior escalation point within the support function, working closely with internal teams, vendors and project stakeholders to ensure high availability, security and performance of core IT services. Additional Requirements: MUST HAVE relevant experience working in a Cloud Datacentre Environment MUST HAVE relevant & up to date Technical Industry Accreditations Microsoft certifications (M365, Endpoint, Security, Azure) MUST HAVE Linux and networking certifications (e.g. MCSE, Linux, CCNA). MUST BE London-based or within reasonable travel distance due to the requirement to access datacentres, on-call rota including out of hours call outs for critical infrastructure incidents. Key Accountabilities: Cloud and Datacentre Infrastructure & Cloud and Datacentre Applications Key Responsibilities: Provide 3rd line support across Microsoft 365, Azure, AvePoint and third party cloud platforms (e.g. VoIP, CRM). Support and administer on prem and cloud infrastructure including Linux (RedHat and variants), Windows Server, VMware virtualisation, Veeam Backup & Replication and SAN technologies (Fibre/iSCSI). Respond to, investigate and remediate incidents identified through security and monitoring platforms (e.g. M365 XDR, MDR/SIEM tooling). Own incidents through their full lifecycle, ensuring SLA compliance and clear stakeholder communication. Work closely with 1st/2nd Line teams, providing escalation support and technical guidance. Identify root causes of recurring issues and propose system improvements, raising RFCs where required. Support project delivery and platform development initiatives. Maintain accurate system documentation, asset registers and inventory records. Skills, Experience & Qualifications Essential: Strong experience in supporting enterprise IT infrastructure in a 3rd line or senior support capacity. Microsoft 365 and Azure administration experience. Solid knowledge of networking, security principles and ITIL-based service delivery. Strong troubleshooting, documentation and stakeholder communication skills. A proactive, adaptable team player comfortable working across a broad technical estate.
Ready for your next career move? Join a leading UK enterprise technology provider with a long-standing reputation for putting people at the heart of its success. The organisation has built strong commercial and technical teams to support clients effectively, delivering agile and responsive services across infrastructure, cloud, security, software, and AI. By combining these capabilities into a unified delivery model, it provides end-to-end solutions designed to meet a wide range of business requirements. Don't miss this exciting opportunity! Responsibilities Deploy and manage Cloudflare WAF and Zero Trust solutions Support AWS and Azure cloud environments with a focus on security and performance Administer Windows and Linux systems across production environments Manage virtualisation platforms including VMware, Hyper V, and KVM based solutions Implement and maintain network monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, and SolarWinds Produce and maintain technical documentation including HLDs and LLDs Configure and manage load balancers and reverse proxies Support networking infrastructure including firewalls, routing, switching, and VPNs Work within datacentre environments supporting physical and virtual infrastructure Manage centralised logging platforms such as Graylog and Elasticsearch Administer Microsoft 365 / Office 365 environments Support backup and disaster recovery solutions including Veeam Manage PKI environments and certificate services Carry out vulnerability scanning and patch management using tools such as Nessus and OpenVAS Skills / Must have Strong experience with Cloudflare (WAF / Zero Trust) or similar technologies Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms Strong Windows and Linux administration skills Hands on experience with virtualisation platforms (VMware, Hyper V, KVM, Proxmox) Solid networking knowledge (firewalls, VPNs, routing, switching) Experience with monitoring and logging tools Understanding of vulnerability management and security best practices Experience producing technical documentation Strong troubleshooting and communication skills Benefits Exposure to a broad range of cloud, infrastructure, and security technologies Opportunity to work on complex, end-to-end environments Clear progression and development opportunities Collaborative and technical team environment Varied role with real ownership Salary £60,000 - £65,000 base salary per annum
09/05/2026
Full time
Ready for your next career move? Join a leading UK enterprise technology provider with a long-standing reputation for putting people at the heart of its success. The organisation has built strong commercial and technical teams to support clients effectively, delivering agile and responsive services across infrastructure, cloud, security, software, and AI. By combining these capabilities into a unified delivery model, it provides end-to-end solutions designed to meet a wide range of business requirements. Don't miss this exciting opportunity! Responsibilities Deploy and manage Cloudflare WAF and Zero Trust solutions Support AWS and Azure cloud environments with a focus on security and performance Administer Windows and Linux systems across production environments Manage virtualisation platforms including VMware, Hyper V, and KVM based solutions Implement and maintain network monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, and SolarWinds Produce and maintain technical documentation including HLDs and LLDs Configure and manage load balancers and reverse proxies Support networking infrastructure including firewalls, routing, switching, and VPNs Work within datacentre environments supporting physical and virtual infrastructure Manage centralised logging platforms such as Graylog and Elasticsearch Administer Microsoft 365 / Office 365 environments Support backup and disaster recovery solutions including Veeam Manage PKI environments and certificate services Carry out vulnerability scanning and patch management using tools such as Nessus and OpenVAS Skills / Must have Strong experience with Cloudflare (WAF / Zero Trust) or similar technologies Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms Strong Windows and Linux administration skills Hands on experience with virtualisation platforms (VMware, Hyper V, KVM, Proxmox) Solid networking knowledge (firewalls, VPNs, routing, switching) Experience with monitoring and logging tools Understanding of vulnerability management and security best practices Experience producing technical documentation Strong troubleshooting and communication skills Benefits Exposure to a broad range of cloud, infrastructure, and security technologies Opportunity to work on complex, end-to-end environments Clear progression and development opportunities Collaborative and technical team environment Varied role with real ownership Salary £60,000 - £65,000 base salary per annum
London, United Kingdom Posted on 11/02/2026 Job Description Role: Infrastructure Architect with IAM experience Location: Harbour Exchange Square, London Mode: Hybrid (2 days to office) Experience: 8 to 15 years Job Type: Fixed term contract and Hybrid. Job Purpose The Infrastructure Architect plays a key role in CVS architecture / technology division. The role involves producing designs and overseeing the implementation of solutions encompassing hardware, software, and security to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability; bridging business needs on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, providing technical leadership, and ensuring designs meet CVS architectural principles and security standards. The architect should be a strong technologist that is very aware of current developments in the technology spectrum. Key Responsibilities Produce high-quality high-level Design documentation describing technical systems solutions, providing overall design direction and recommendations for resolution of complex technical issues. Analyse existing Design documents, find recommended options in the market, produce presentations to the Architect team with options and reasoning and later proceed with Design documents. Provide technical leadership and direction to the IT engineering, delivery and test teams throughout implementation phases. Support the Enterprise Architects in the development of infrastructure road maps to support the evolution of the technical and digital portfolios from current to future state. Act as liaison between Architecture and Engineering and direct the development of technical standards and platforms, quality, and best practices. Required Skills and Experience Strong technical knowledge including Microsoft technologies, Red Hat Linux, datacentre and cloud, enterprise networking: WAN/LAN/WLAN, routing, firewall, ID/IP/IPS, WAN optimization, proxy, VPN services, load balancing, and IT security. Experience designing, documenting, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions across on-premises and cloud environments such as AWS. Knowledge of networking, storage and server hardware configuration and design. Good knowledge of cloud networking (AWS and Azure) components. Ability to communicate solutions to other stakeholders. Ability to assess and recommend third-party tools and systems to complement existing offerings. Knowledge of security design. Good knowledge of risk management. Work closely with other architecture disciplines including Enterprise, Infrastructure and Security, as well Engineering and Operations. Provide technical guidance to team members and other stakeholders. Identify and recommend opportunities for efficiency. Stay updated on new features and capabilities and best practices. Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage diversity. Share knowledge within the team and contribute to the organization's learning culture. Education and Certifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience). Industry recognized certifications such as TOGAF, CITA, RHCA.
09/05/2026
Full time
London, United Kingdom Posted on 11/02/2026 Job Description Role: Infrastructure Architect with IAM experience Location: Harbour Exchange Square, London Mode: Hybrid (2 days to office) Experience: 8 to 15 years Job Type: Fixed term contract and Hybrid. Job Purpose The Infrastructure Architect plays a key role in CVS architecture / technology division. The role involves producing designs and overseeing the implementation of solutions encompassing hardware, software, and security to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability; bridging business needs on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, providing technical leadership, and ensuring designs meet CVS architectural principles and security standards. The architect should be a strong technologist that is very aware of current developments in the technology spectrum. Key Responsibilities Produce high-quality high-level Design documentation describing technical systems solutions, providing overall design direction and recommendations for resolution of complex technical issues. Analyse existing Design documents, find recommended options in the market, produce presentations to the Architect team with options and reasoning and later proceed with Design documents. Provide technical leadership and direction to the IT engineering, delivery and test teams throughout implementation phases. Support the Enterprise Architects in the development of infrastructure road maps to support the evolution of the technical and digital portfolios from current to future state. Act as liaison between Architecture and Engineering and direct the development of technical standards and platforms, quality, and best practices. Required Skills and Experience Strong technical knowledge including Microsoft technologies, Red Hat Linux, datacentre and cloud, enterprise networking: WAN/LAN/WLAN, routing, firewall, ID/IP/IPS, WAN optimization, proxy, VPN services, load balancing, and IT security. Experience designing, documenting, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions across on-premises and cloud environments such as AWS. Knowledge of networking, storage and server hardware configuration and design. Good knowledge of cloud networking (AWS and Azure) components. Ability to communicate solutions to other stakeholders. Ability to assess and recommend third-party tools and systems to complement existing offerings. Knowledge of security design. Good knowledge of risk management. Work closely with other architecture disciplines including Enterprise, Infrastructure and Security, as well Engineering and Operations. Provide technical guidance to team members and other stakeholders. Identify and recommend opportunities for efficiency. Stay updated on new features and capabilities and best practices. Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage diversity. Share knowledge within the team and contribute to the organization's learning culture. Education and Certifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience). Industry recognized certifications such as TOGAF, CITA, RHCA.
We are looking for talented consultants to join the Restoration & Recovery team within our growing Incident Response practice at an Associate level. These individuals will play a critical role in the continued success of our Cyber Security division. You will work across the full lifecycle of security incidents to help our clients respond and recover, including: Overseeing r estoration workstreams during Incident Response cases : you will be integral to supporting the Incident Response team to develop bespoke restoration strategies during live incidents, focusing on ensuring security and capability is maintained . Delivering hands on technical support to assist clients with restoration and recovery during cyber incidents. Leading and developing relationships with supporting restoration partners : in some cases where we need to surge additional resources through our partners, you will need to be able to manage and direct them to achieve a positive resolution . Developing plans, policies, and training: you will be part of a team designed to strengthen the Incident Response process regarding restoration, training the Incident Response team in this area to ensure effective collaboration during cases . Developing and sharing domain expertise : we will support you in growing your cyber expertise , including sharing it with the wider team through internal initiatives and programs. Participating in an on call rotation to lead our US & APAC restoration and recovery capabilities, and provide 24 x 7 x 365 client incident coverage. On site Restoration Support: in some cases, it may be beneficial to support clients locally at their data centres or office locations. You may be expected to attend their sites during the early stages of restoration to help support these efforts. The nature of this role means that some overnight and/or international travel is required . Other features of the role include: Variety of casework: no day will be the same . Our team responds to a huge variety of incidents for both public and corporate clients. Developing an understanding of Incident Response : you will have opportunities to broaden your security awareness into t he wider incident response process, learning how restoration fits into the bigger picture of a response . Flexible working practices: responding to incidents can be intense, high pressure work . We are mindful of our team's work/life balance and offer flexible working options to support your wellbeing. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR We are looking for Associates with 3 years or more relevant experience in IT Engineering, System Administration, or Infrastructure and Networking. Candidates will also have a demonstrated track record of deploying their skills specifically in IR scenarios and have experience working on time sensitive restoration projects for impacted clients. Candidates with the following qualifications and experience are likely to succeed as Consultants within our Restoration & Recovery team. That said, if you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box-we're looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas and have some interest and capabilities in others. We nurture a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion and we are dedicated to developing a workforce that displays a variety of talents, experiences and perspectives. We're looking for candidates with: In depth knowledge of virtualisation ( VMware ESXi / Hyper V especially) and Cloud hosted (AWS / Azure / GCP) configuration and implementation In depth knowledge of Active Directory and Windows Domain functions, implementation, and configuration, including integrations with AzureAD functionality. Demonstratable experience with networking, including configuration of VLAN's on switches and general configuration and troubleshooting of f irewalls. Comprehensive understanding of standard backup solution practices, restoration of data and preparing systems for introduction into production environments. It would be advantageous for candidates to poses hands on technical experience with the following : Microsoft 365, including Exchange Online and Intune Cisco n etworking and firewalls (such as Catalyst and Nexus , ASA and FTD ) Linux (such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian etc) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, such as Citrix XenDesktop , VMware Horizon , or Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid infrastructures, including environments that utilise a combination of on premise , colo datacentres, cloud, and SaaS. Relevant industry certifications are not required for this role. However, holding any of the following is beneficial: Microsoft role based certifications to either Administrator, Network Engineer, Security Engineer , or Support Engineer level. Networking Certifications such as CompTIA Network+, Cisco CCNA, or Aruba Certified Professional . OUR BENEFITS We offer thoughtful, balanced rewards and support to help our people do their best work and live their lives outside it, this includes but is not exhaustive of: 25 days holiday per year in addition to bank holidays (+1 day for every day of service up to a maximum of 30 days); Hybrid working and flexible working hours; Matching pension contribution up to 7% (up to a maximum of 14% combined), and financial education; Life Insurance 4X Annual salary. Parental Support: Fertility treatment leave - 5 days of leave per cycle of treatment per year; Maternity leave - 26 weeks of full pay followed by 13 weeks of half pay; Paternity leave - 6 weeks of full pay. Various Health and Medical Benefits including: Private dental and medical insurance (taxable benefit) for you and your family; Virtual GP for you and your family members that live in the same household; Various gym discounts for you and your partner; EAP programme for you and your immediate family; Free access to the world famous mindfulness app Headspace. The role will be based in our London office. However, we have flexible working arrangements available.
06/05/2026
Full time
We are looking for talented consultants to join the Restoration & Recovery team within our growing Incident Response practice at an Associate level. These individuals will play a critical role in the continued success of our Cyber Security division. You will work across the full lifecycle of security incidents to help our clients respond and recover, including: Overseeing r estoration workstreams during Incident Response cases : you will be integral to supporting the Incident Response team to develop bespoke restoration strategies during live incidents, focusing on ensuring security and capability is maintained . Delivering hands on technical support to assist clients with restoration and recovery during cyber incidents. Leading and developing relationships with supporting restoration partners : in some cases where we need to surge additional resources through our partners, you will need to be able to manage and direct them to achieve a positive resolution . Developing plans, policies, and training: you will be part of a team designed to strengthen the Incident Response process regarding restoration, training the Incident Response team in this area to ensure effective collaboration during cases . Developing and sharing domain expertise : we will support you in growing your cyber expertise , including sharing it with the wider team through internal initiatives and programs. Participating in an on call rotation to lead our US & APAC restoration and recovery capabilities, and provide 24 x 7 x 365 client incident coverage. On site Restoration Support: in some cases, it may be beneficial to support clients locally at their data centres or office locations. You may be expected to attend their sites during the early stages of restoration to help support these efforts. The nature of this role means that some overnight and/or international travel is required . Other features of the role include: Variety of casework: no day will be the same . Our team responds to a huge variety of incidents for both public and corporate clients. Developing an understanding of Incident Response : you will have opportunities to broaden your security awareness into t he wider incident response process, learning how restoration fits into the bigger picture of a response . Flexible working practices: responding to incidents can be intense, high pressure work . We are mindful of our team's work/life balance and offer flexible working options to support your wellbeing. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR We are looking for Associates with 3 years or more relevant experience in IT Engineering, System Administration, or Infrastructure and Networking. Candidates will also have a demonstrated track record of deploying their skills specifically in IR scenarios and have experience working on time sensitive restoration projects for impacted clients. Candidates with the following qualifications and experience are likely to succeed as Consultants within our Restoration & Recovery team. That said, if you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box-we're looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas and have some interest and capabilities in others. We nurture a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion and we are dedicated to developing a workforce that displays a variety of talents, experiences and perspectives. We're looking for candidates with: In depth knowledge of virtualisation ( VMware ESXi / Hyper V especially) and Cloud hosted (AWS / Azure / GCP) configuration and implementation In depth knowledge of Active Directory and Windows Domain functions, implementation, and configuration, including integrations with AzureAD functionality. Demonstratable experience with networking, including configuration of VLAN's on switches and general configuration and troubleshooting of f irewalls. Comprehensive understanding of standard backup solution practices, restoration of data and preparing systems for introduction into production environments. It would be advantageous for candidates to poses hands on technical experience with the following : Microsoft 365, including Exchange Online and Intune Cisco n etworking and firewalls (such as Catalyst and Nexus , ASA and FTD ) Linux (such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian etc) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, such as Citrix XenDesktop , VMware Horizon , or Azure Virtual Desktop Hybrid infrastructures, including environments that utilise a combination of on premise , colo datacentres, cloud, and SaaS. Relevant industry certifications are not required for this role. However, holding any of the following is beneficial: Microsoft role based certifications to either Administrator, Network Engineer, Security Engineer , or Support Engineer level. Networking Certifications such as CompTIA Network+, Cisco CCNA, or Aruba Certified Professional . OUR BENEFITS We offer thoughtful, balanced rewards and support to help our people do their best work and live their lives outside it, this includes but is not exhaustive of: 25 days holiday per year in addition to bank holidays (+1 day for every day of service up to a maximum of 30 days); Hybrid working and flexible working hours; Matching pension contribution up to 7% (up to a maximum of 14% combined), and financial education; Life Insurance 4X Annual salary. Parental Support: Fertility treatment leave - 5 days of leave per cycle of treatment per year; Maternity leave - 26 weeks of full pay followed by 13 weeks of half pay; Paternity leave - 6 weeks of full pay. Various Health and Medical Benefits including: Private dental and medical insurance (taxable benefit) for you and your family; Virtual GP for you and your family members that live in the same household; Various gym discounts for you and your partner; EAP programme for you and your immediate family; Free access to the world famous mindfulness app Headspace. The role will be based in our London office. However, we have flexible working arrangements available.
Network Engineer We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Network Engineer required to join our highly skilled Infrastructure team to deliver exceptional 3rd Line Support to the global infrastructure network and deliver various network projects within tight timeframes. Based in the City of London, working for a Global FTSE business. Qualifications Experienced engineer with at least CCNP level certification or above Strong experience as Level 3 Network Engineer Vendor Experience: Cisco and Meraki products Experience in configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco FTD, Cisco FMC, Cisco Switches & Nexus 5k/9k switches Experience in configuration and troubleshooting of Meraki Products - MX, MS, MR, and SD-WAN Administration of Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco ISR routers and Cisco DNA Center CUCM/ Cisco Voice experience In-depth experience in working with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) Fundamental Multicast problem-solving skills Good Understanding and troubleshooting skills of Azure cloud-based networks Network Automation - Write and execute scripts in Python Configuration and troubleshooting Cisco Anyconnect remote access VPN Ideally some Linux experience Knowledge and application of ITIL processes Responsibilities Lead or contribute to the technical delivery of various network projects that include design, configuration and installation of office moves and expansion, replacement of existing vendors, and managing datacentres networks Create and maintain project-related documentation, ensuring that accurate information is available to the team members and the other teams Conduct workshops at regular intervals to share knowledge with others Create and maintain site documentation and technical documentation Develop knowledge in a specific technology area, to become a trusted SME in that field Proactive monitoring of IT systems and preventive measures taken to reduce system downtime Write post incident review documents and suggest/implement recommendation plans to reduce/prevent further incidents Test business applications, network, and server performance, provide performance statistics and reports, develop strategies for maintaining and improving core infrastructure Adherence to all IT security policies and assistance in enforcing and monitoring of IT security policies Spot potential vulnerabilities and suggest resolution Evaluate, design, maintain infrastructure systems, including LANs, WANs, Internet, intranet, security, and incident and change management systems Understand requirements of business and suggest appropriate technologies to help deliver business goals On call rota and regular weekend network maintenance Date: 19 Jul 2023 Sector: IT Type: Permanent Location: London Salary: £80000 - 85000 per annum Email: Ref: db41245
03/05/2026
Full time
Network Engineer We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Network Engineer required to join our highly skilled Infrastructure team to deliver exceptional 3rd Line Support to the global infrastructure network and deliver various network projects within tight timeframes. Based in the City of London, working for a Global FTSE business. Qualifications Experienced engineer with at least CCNP level certification or above Strong experience as Level 3 Network Engineer Vendor Experience: Cisco and Meraki products Experience in configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco FTD, Cisco FMC, Cisco Switches & Nexus 5k/9k switches Experience in configuration and troubleshooting of Meraki Products - MX, MS, MR, and SD-WAN Administration of Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco ISR routers and Cisco DNA Center CUCM/ Cisco Voice experience In-depth experience in working with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) Fundamental Multicast problem-solving skills Good Understanding and troubleshooting skills of Azure cloud-based networks Network Automation - Write and execute scripts in Python Configuration and troubleshooting Cisco Anyconnect remote access VPN Ideally some Linux experience Knowledge and application of ITIL processes Responsibilities Lead or contribute to the technical delivery of various network projects that include design, configuration and installation of office moves and expansion, replacement of existing vendors, and managing datacentres networks Create and maintain project-related documentation, ensuring that accurate information is available to the team members and the other teams Conduct workshops at regular intervals to share knowledge with others Create and maintain site documentation and technical documentation Develop knowledge in a specific technology area, to become a trusted SME in that field Proactive monitoring of IT systems and preventive measures taken to reduce system downtime Write post incident review documents and suggest/implement recommendation plans to reduce/prevent further incidents Test business applications, network, and server performance, provide performance statistics and reports, develop strategies for maintaining and improving core infrastructure Adherence to all IT security policies and assistance in enforcing and monitoring of IT security policies Spot potential vulnerabilities and suggest resolution Evaluate, design, maintain infrastructure systems, including LANs, WANs, Internet, intranet, security, and incident and change management systems Understand requirements of business and suggest appropriate technologies to help deliver business goals On call rota and regular weekend network maintenance Date: 19 Jul 2023 Sector: IT Type: Permanent Location: London Salary: £80000 - 85000 per annum Email: Ref: db41245
Senior Credit Controller & Reinsurance Accounting Technician Our client is looking for a Senior Credit Controller. Reinsurance Accounting Technician to £50,000. We are looking for a graduate with a Degree in Accounting. Our client is a Global Financial Markets Trading Company. Our client is a small Exchange based Trading and Broking. Job Details Date: 3 Aug 2023 Sector: IT Type: Permanent Location: London Salary: £80000 - 85000 per annum Email: Ref: db412 Network Engineer - Automation (Python) We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Network Engineer with some Automation experience (Python) to join our highly skilled Infrastructure team to deliver exceptional 3rd Line Support to the global infrastructure network and deliver various network projects within tight timeframes. Based in the City of London, working for a Global FTSE business. The ideal candidate has the following experience: Experienced engineer with at least CCNP level certification or above Strong experience as Level 3 Network Engineer Vendor Experience: Cisco and Meraki products Experience in configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco FTD, Cisco FMC, Cisco Switches & Nexus 5k/9k switches Experience in configuration and troubleshooting of Meraki Products - MX, MS, MR, and SD-WAN Administration of Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco ISR routers and Cisco DNA Center CUCM/ Cisco Voice experience In-depth experience in working with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) Fundamental Multicast problem-solving skills Good Understanding and troubleshooting skills of Azure cloud-based networks Network Automation - Write and execute scripts in Python Configuration and troubleshooting Cisco Anyconnect remote access VPN Ideally some Linux experience Knowledge and application of ITIL processes Responsibilities: Lead or contribute to the technical delivery of various network projects that include design, configuration and installation of office moves and expansion, replacement of existing vendors, and managing datacentres networks. Create and maintain project-related documentation, ensuring that accurate information is available to the team members and the other teams. Conduct workshops at regular intervals to share the knowledge with others. Create and maintain site documentations and technical documentations. Develop knowledge in a specific technology area, to become a trusted SME in that field. Proactive monitoring of IT systems and preventative measures taken to reduce system downtime. Write post incident review documents and suggest/implement recommendation plans to reduce/prevent further incidents. Test business applications, network, and server performance, provide performance statistics and reports, develop strategies for maintaining and improving core infrastructure. Adherence to all IT security policies and assistance in enforcing and monitoring of IT security policies. Be able to spot potential vulnerabilities and suggest resolution. Evaluate, design, maintain, infrastructure systems, including LANs, WANs, Internet, intranet, security, and incident and change management systems. Understand requirements of business and suggest appropriate technologies to help deliver business goals. On-call Rota & regular weekend network maintenance.
03/05/2026
Full time
Senior Credit Controller & Reinsurance Accounting Technician Our client is looking for a Senior Credit Controller. Reinsurance Accounting Technician to £50,000. We are looking for a graduate with a Degree in Accounting. Our client is a Global Financial Markets Trading Company. Our client is a small Exchange based Trading and Broking. Job Details Date: 3 Aug 2023 Sector: IT Type: Permanent Location: London Salary: £80000 - 85000 per annum Email: Ref: db412 Network Engineer - Automation (Python) We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Network Engineer with some Automation experience (Python) to join our highly skilled Infrastructure team to deliver exceptional 3rd Line Support to the global infrastructure network and deliver various network projects within tight timeframes. Based in the City of London, working for a Global FTSE business. The ideal candidate has the following experience: Experienced engineer with at least CCNP level certification or above Strong experience as Level 3 Network Engineer Vendor Experience: Cisco and Meraki products Experience in configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco FTD, Cisco FMC, Cisco Switches & Nexus 5k/9k switches Experience in configuration and troubleshooting of Meraki Products - MX, MS, MR, and SD-WAN Administration of Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco ISR routers and Cisco DNA Center CUCM/ Cisco Voice experience In-depth experience in working with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) Fundamental Multicast problem-solving skills Good Understanding and troubleshooting skills of Azure cloud-based networks Network Automation - Write and execute scripts in Python Configuration and troubleshooting Cisco Anyconnect remote access VPN Ideally some Linux experience Knowledge and application of ITIL processes Responsibilities: Lead or contribute to the technical delivery of various network projects that include design, configuration and installation of office moves and expansion, replacement of existing vendors, and managing datacentres networks. Create and maintain project-related documentation, ensuring that accurate information is available to the team members and the other teams. Conduct workshops at regular intervals to share the knowledge with others. Create and maintain site documentations and technical documentations. Develop knowledge in a specific technology area, to become a trusted SME in that field. Proactive monitoring of IT systems and preventative measures taken to reduce system downtime. Write post incident review documents and suggest/implement recommendation plans to reduce/prevent further incidents. Test business applications, network, and server performance, provide performance statistics and reports, develop strategies for maintaining and improving core infrastructure. Adherence to all IT security policies and assistance in enforcing and monitoring of IT security policies. Be able to spot potential vulnerabilities and suggest resolution. Evaluate, design, maintain, infrastructure systems, including LANs, WANs, Internet, intranet, security, and incident and change management systems. Understand requirements of business and suggest appropriate technologies to help deliver business goals. On-call Rota & regular weekend network maintenance.
End Date We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary . Job Description Who? Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading digital bank, with over 16 million online customers, we're the UK's largest mobile bank. Our corporate strategy of helping Britain proposer outlines bold plans to deepen our customer relationships across our businesses. This is driving the need to invest £Bs to innovate, modernise and simplify our technology further. We're looking for architecture leaders to help drive this transformation. Technology is at the heart of our business and architecture is at the heart of technology leadership - it is an integral part of our corporate strategy. As we go through this business and IT transformation, we need to be innovative, creative and forward thinking. Our goal is to ensure our services are based on modern, scalable and resilient technologies that deliver value to both our customers and our business. About the role Our culture brings together inquisitive and driven people from a diverse group of backgrounds where all can thrive. You'll be joining a small, dynamic team of strategy setting Enterprise Architects, focused on the technology enablers that support all our colleague and customer services. For example: Cloud, Infrastructure, Data and API services. We collaborate closely with business and engineering leaders across the organisation to drive strategy, deliver strategic roadmaps, provide thought leadership and inspire innovative solutions. We must view problems from many different perspectives and our architectural decisions must balance strategy with pragmatism to deliver the best outcome. In the role, you'll be aligned to a technology enabler engaging with senior leaders, advising them on how to utilise technology to achieve outcomes and articulate options that balance the different drivers of change. More About our Technology Enablers: Data Our data architecture team supports workloads across a wide range of data repositories including relational and NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes. We're focused on modernising our data technology ecosystem through real-time streaming with Kafka and public cloud services like BigQuery. We develop strategic direction for our data models, optimise data for performance and reuse, embed data management controls, and drive exploitation of our data assets using analytical tools and AI/ML models. Cloud Enterprise scale solutions on both private and public clouds platforms, including Azure, GCP and AWS at web-scale; Cloud Native principles and supporting technologies (e.g., Microservices, DevOps, Containers & CI/CD); Public Cloud security tools and technologies; large-scale workload migrations from traditional hosting technologies to Public or Private Cloud. Infrastructure Our Infrastructure platforms cover a wide range of traditional hosting (X86 Wintel/Linux, Midrange Unix, Mainframe), networking, operational tooling, and datacentre services. These technologies support all our important business services and are crucial to the operation of the Group. Much of the focus in this area is modernising and simplifying our technology enabling agile, efficient change that can deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective solutions at pace. Api In response to customers choosing different ways of integrating with us, we are leading transformation of how we deliver digital capability to best meet customer needs. Standards including OpenID Connect profiles, API gateways, microservices including event driven architectures, and domain driven design methodology. About you You're a forward-looking and enthusiastic enterprise architect who can combine thought leadership, a passion for change, an ability to logically decompose complex problems and influence all levels of the organisation. You'll typically have broad architecture experience spanning a variety of traditional, modern, and emerging technologies, ideally but not critically, in a financial or regulated industry. You ll have a background in strategy setting, enterprise architecture or technology consulting roles. Ideally you'll have had experience in engineering and solution architecture during your career. You define architecture direction in the context of industry trends and understand how that can bring value to the organisation. Key accountabilities All architecture decisions made for the area you support. Build compelling architecture strategies and roadmaps with comprehensive inputs from Business, Engineering, Operations, Industry and Vendors. Pro-actively drive forward the agenda to simplify and modernise our technology landscape. Keep pace with the latest industry direction and vendor offerings to ensure our strategies capitalise on new opportunities. Influence our investment portfolios and the direction of major change programmes to ensure strategic architecture outcomes. Build strong relationships and credibly communicate with key business and engineering collaborators across the organisation including CxOs. You're an authority for an architecture domain with deep and broad knowledge of technology, methodology and assurance techniques. Desirable technical experience: Broad experience covering many of the following, with a deep knowledge of at least one ( T shaped): Cloud platform technologies covering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services on Azure, GCP and AWS. Hybrid hosting architecture of cloud and tradition platforms including Midrange Unix and Mainframe technologies. API architecture standards including OpenID Connect profiles, API gateways, microservices including event driven architectures. Data trends including relational, NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes. Designing critically important systems which have challenging service parameters, for example RPO/RTO Zero. Broad appreciation of cyber security (e.g., zero trust) and the architectural implications it has on application design. Modern progressive technologies - e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence, block chain etc. About working for LBG The environment we work in is fast paced, collaborative and dynamic: we also have fun along the way! We're hybrid working - so you'll need to live within a commute of a hub location to get in one or two days a week and there may be elements of out of hours working which is well compensated. But with a supportive and nurturing Leadership team we have the scale to provide you with ongoing opportunities to develop and achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career with us as well you receiving A competitive salary A performance related annual bonus Generous pension contribution of up to 15% 30 days holiday plus the bank holidays on top A flexible cash pot (4% salary) you can spend on lifestyle benefits Private health cover Various share schemes, including free shares We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process. We re simply committed to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. So if you have the technical background we re seeking and this opportunity appeals then get in touch, we d love to hear from you At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
18/08/2023
Full time
End Date We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary . Job Description Who? Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading digital bank, with over 16 million online customers, we're the UK's largest mobile bank. Our corporate strategy of helping Britain proposer outlines bold plans to deepen our customer relationships across our businesses. This is driving the need to invest £Bs to innovate, modernise and simplify our technology further. We're looking for architecture leaders to help drive this transformation. Technology is at the heart of our business and architecture is at the heart of technology leadership - it is an integral part of our corporate strategy. As we go through this business and IT transformation, we need to be innovative, creative and forward thinking. Our goal is to ensure our services are based on modern, scalable and resilient technologies that deliver value to both our customers and our business. About the role Our culture brings together inquisitive and driven people from a diverse group of backgrounds where all can thrive. You'll be joining a small, dynamic team of strategy setting Enterprise Architects, focused on the technology enablers that support all our colleague and customer services. For example: Cloud, Infrastructure, Data and API services. We collaborate closely with business and engineering leaders across the organisation to drive strategy, deliver strategic roadmaps, provide thought leadership and inspire innovative solutions. We must view problems from many different perspectives and our architectural decisions must balance strategy with pragmatism to deliver the best outcome. In the role, you'll be aligned to a technology enabler engaging with senior leaders, advising them on how to utilise technology to achieve outcomes and articulate options that balance the different drivers of change. More About our Technology Enablers: Data Our data architecture team supports workloads across a wide range of data repositories including relational and NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes. We're focused on modernising our data technology ecosystem through real-time streaming with Kafka and public cloud services like BigQuery. We develop strategic direction for our data models, optimise data for performance and reuse, embed data management controls, and drive exploitation of our data assets using analytical tools and AI/ML models. Cloud Enterprise scale solutions on both private and public clouds platforms, including Azure, GCP and AWS at web-scale; Cloud Native principles and supporting technologies (e.g., Microservices, DevOps, Containers & CI/CD); Public Cloud security tools and technologies; large-scale workload migrations from traditional hosting technologies to Public or Private Cloud. Infrastructure Our Infrastructure platforms cover a wide range of traditional hosting (X86 Wintel/Linux, Midrange Unix, Mainframe), networking, operational tooling, and datacentre services. These technologies support all our important business services and are crucial to the operation of the Group. Much of the focus in this area is modernising and simplifying our technology enabling agile, efficient change that can deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective solutions at pace. Api In response to customers choosing different ways of integrating with us, we are leading transformation of how we deliver digital capability to best meet customer needs. Standards including OpenID Connect profiles, API gateways, microservices including event driven architectures, and domain driven design methodology. About you You're a forward-looking and enthusiastic enterprise architect who can combine thought leadership, a passion for change, an ability to logically decompose complex problems and influence all levels of the organisation. You'll typically have broad architecture experience spanning a variety of traditional, modern, and emerging technologies, ideally but not critically, in a financial or regulated industry. You ll have a background in strategy setting, enterprise architecture or technology consulting roles. Ideally you'll have had experience in engineering and solution architecture during your career. You define architecture direction in the context of industry trends and understand how that can bring value to the organisation. Key accountabilities All architecture decisions made for the area you support. Build compelling architecture strategies and roadmaps with comprehensive inputs from Business, Engineering, Operations, Industry and Vendors. Pro-actively drive forward the agenda to simplify and modernise our technology landscape. Keep pace with the latest industry direction and vendor offerings to ensure our strategies capitalise on new opportunities. Influence our investment portfolios and the direction of major change programmes to ensure strategic architecture outcomes. Build strong relationships and credibly communicate with key business and engineering collaborators across the organisation including CxOs. You're an authority for an architecture domain with deep and broad knowledge of technology, methodology and assurance techniques. Desirable technical experience: Broad experience covering many of the following, with a deep knowledge of at least one ( T shaped): Cloud platform technologies covering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services on Azure, GCP and AWS. Hybrid hosting architecture of cloud and tradition platforms including Midrange Unix and Mainframe technologies. API architecture standards including OpenID Connect profiles, API gateways, microservices including event driven architectures. Data trends including relational, NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes. Designing critically important systems which have challenging service parameters, for example RPO/RTO Zero. Broad appreciation of cyber security (e.g., zero trust) and the architectural implications it has on application design. Modern progressive technologies - e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence, block chain etc. About working for LBG The environment we work in is fast paced, collaborative and dynamic: we also have fun along the way! We're hybrid working - so you'll need to live within a commute of a hub location to get in one or two days a week and there may be elements of out of hours working which is well compensated. But with a supportive and nurturing Leadership team we have the scale to provide you with ongoing opportunities to develop and achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career with us as well you receiving A competitive salary A performance related annual bonus Generous pension contribution of up to 15% 30 days holiday plus the bank holidays on top A flexible cash pot (4% salary) you can spend on lifestyle benefits Private health cover Various share schemes, including free shares We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process. We re simply committed to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. So if you have the technical background we re seeking and this opportunity appeals then get in touch, we d love to hear from you At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
End Date We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary . Job Description Who? Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading digital bank, with over 16 million online customers, we're the UK's largest mobile bank. Our corporate strategy of helping Britain proposer outlines bold plans to deepen our customer relationships across our businesses. This is driving the need to invest £Bs to innovate, modernise and simplify our technology further. We're looking for architecture leaders to help drive this transformation. Technology is at the heart of our business and architecture is at the heart of technology leadership - it is an integral part of our corporate strategy. As we go through this business and IT transformation, we need to be innovative, creative and forward thinking. Our goal is to ensure our services are based on modern, scalable and resilient technologies that deliver value to both our customers and our business. About the role Our culture brings together inquisitive and driven people from a diverse group of backgrounds where all can thrive. You'll be joining a small, dynamic team of strategy setting Enterprise Architects, focused on the technology enablers that support all our colleague and customer services. For example: Cloud, Infrastructure, Data and API services. We collaborate closely with business and engineering leaders across the organisation to drive strategy, deliver strategic roadmaps, provide thought leadership and inspire innovative solutions. We must view problems from many different perspectives and our architectural decisions must balance strategy with pragmatism to deliver the best outcome. In the role, you'll be aligned to a technology enabler engaging with senior leaders, advising them on how to utilise technology to achieve outcomes and articulate options that balance the different drivers of change. More About our Technology Enablers: Data Our data architecture team supports workloads across a wide range of data repositories including relational and NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes. We're focused on modernising our data technology ecosystem through real-time streaming with Kafka and public cloud services like BigQuery. We develop strategic direction for our data models, optimise data for performance and reuse, embed data management controls, and drive exploitation of our data assets using analytical tools and AI/ML models. Cloud Enterprise scale solutions on both private and public clouds platforms, including Azure, GCP and AWS at web-scale; Cloud Native principles and supporting technologies (e.g., Microservices, DevOps, Containers & CI/CD); Public Cloud security tools and technologies; large-scale workload migrations from traditional hosting technologies to Public or Private Cloud. Infrastructure Our Infrastructure platforms cover a wide range of traditional hosting (X86 Wintel/Linux, Midrange Unix, Mainframe), networking, operational tooling, and datacentre services. These technologies support all our important business services and are crucial to the operation of the Group. Much of the focus in this area is modernising and simplifying our technology enabling agile, efficient change that can deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective solutions at pace. Api In response to customers choosing different ways of integrating with us, we are leading transformation of how we deliver digital capability to best meet customer needs. Standards including OpenID Connect profiles, API gateways, microservices including event driven architectures, and domain driven design methodology. About you You're a forward-looking and enthusiastic enterprise architect who can combine thought leadership, a passion for change, an ability to logically decompose complex problems and influence all levels of the organisation. You'll typically have broad architecture experience spanning a variety of traditional, modern, and emerging technologies, ideally but not critically, in a financial or regulated industry. You ll have a background in strategy setting, enterprise architecture or technology consulting roles. Ideally you'll have had experience in engineering and solution architecture during your career. You define architecture direction in the context of industry trends and understand how that can bring value to the organisation. Key accountabilities All architecture decisions made for the area you support. Build compelling architecture strategies and roadmaps with comprehensive inputs from Business, Engineering, Operations, Industry and Vendors. Pro-actively drive forward the agenda to simplify and modernise our technology landscape. Keep pace with the latest industry direction and vendor offerings to ensure our strategies capitalise on new opportunities. Influence our investment portfolios and the direction of major change programmes to ensure strategic architecture outcomes. Build strong relationships and credibly communicate with key business and engineering collaborators across the organisation including CxOs. You're an authority for an architecture domain with deep and broad knowledge of technology, methodology and assurance techniques. Desirable technical experience:Broad experience covering many of the following, with a deep knowledge of at least one ( T shaped): Cloud platform technologies covering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services on Azure, GCP and AWS. Hybrid hosting architecture of cloud and tradition platforms including Midrange Unix and Mainframe technologies. API architecture standards including OpenID Connect profiles, API gateways, microservices including event driven architectures. Data trends including relational, NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes. Designing critically important systems which have challenging service parameters, for example RPO/RTO Zero. Broad appreciation of cyber security (e.g., zero trust) and the architectural implications it has on application design. Modern progressive technologies - e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence, block chain etc. About working for LBG The environment we work in is fast paced, collaborative and dynamic: we also have fun along the way! We're hybrid working - so you'll need to live within a commute of a hub location to get in one or two days a week and there may be elements of out of hours working which is well compensated. But with a supportive and nurturing Leadership team we have the scale to provide you with ongoing opportunities to develop and achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career with us as well you receiving A competitive salary A performance related annual bonus Generous pension contribution of up to 15% 30 days holiday plus the bank holidays on top A flexible cash pot (4% salary) you can spend on lifestyle benefits Private health cover Various share schemes, including free shares We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process. We re simply committed to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. So if you have the technical background we re seeking and this opportunity appeals then get in touch, we d love to hear from you At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
18/08/2023
Full time
End Date We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary . Job Description Who? Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading digital bank, with over 16 million online customers, we're the UK's largest mobile bank. Our corporate strategy of helping Britain proposer outlines bold plans to deepen our customer relationships across our businesses. This is driving the need to invest £Bs to innovate, modernise and simplify our technology further. We're looking for architecture leaders to help drive this transformation. Technology is at the heart of our business and architecture is at the heart of technology leadership - it is an integral part of our corporate strategy. As we go through this business and IT transformation, we need to be innovative, creative and forward thinking. Our goal is to ensure our services are based on modern, scalable and resilient technologies that deliver value to both our customers and our business. About the role Our culture brings together inquisitive and driven people from a diverse group of backgrounds where all can thrive. You'll be joining a small, dynamic team of strategy setting Enterprise Architects, focused on the technology enablers that support all our colleague and customer services. For example: Cloud, Infrastructure, Data and API services. We collaborate closely with business and engineering leaders across the organisation to drive strategy, deliver strategic roadmaps, provide thought leadership and inspire innovative solutions. We must view problems from many different perspectives and our architectural decisions must balance strategy with pragmatism to deliver the best outcome. In the role, you'll be aligned to a technology enabler engaging with senior leaders, advising them on how to utilise technology to achieve outcomes and articulate options that balance the different drivers of change. More About our Technology Enablers: Data Our data architecture team supports workloads across a wide range of data repositories including relational and NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes. We're focused on modernising our data technology ecosystem through real-time streaming with Kafka and public cloud services like BigQuery. We develop strategic direction for our data models, optimise data for performance and reuse, embed data management controls, and drive exploitation of our data assets using analytical tools and AI/ML models. Cloud Enterprise scale solutions on both private and public clouds platforms, including Azure, GCP and AWS at web-scale; Cloud Native principles and supporting technologies (e.g., Microservices, DevOps, Containers & CI/CD); Public Cloud security tools and technologies; large-scale workload migrations from traditional hosting technologies to Public or Private Cloud. Infrastructure Our Infrastructure platforms cover a wide range of traditional hosting (X86 Wintel/Linux, Midrange Unix, Mainframe), networking, operational tooling, and datacentre services. These technologies support all our important business services and are crucial to the operation of the Group. Much of the focus in this area is modernising and simplifying our technology enabling agile, efficient change that can deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective solutions at pace. Api In response to customers choosing different ways of integrating with us, we are leading transformation of how we deliver digital capability to best meet customer needs. Standards including OpenID Connect profiles, API gateways, microservices including event driven architectures, and domain driven design methodology. About you You're a forward-looking and enthusiastic enterprise architect who can combine thought leadership, a passion for change, an ability to logically decompose complex problems and influence all levels of the organisation. You'll typically have broad architecture experience spanning a variety of traditional, modern, and emerging technologies, ideally but not critically, in a financial or regulated industry. You ll have a background in strategy setting, enterprise architecture or technology consulting roles. Ideally you'll have had experience in engineering and solution architecture during your career. You define architecture direction in the context of industry trends and understand how that can bring value to the organisation. Key accountabilities All architecture decisions made for the area you support. Build compelling architecture strategies and roadmaps with comprehensive inputs from Business, Engineering, Operations, Industry and Vendors. Pro-actively drive forward the agenda to simplify and modernise our technology landscape. Keep pace with the latest industry direction and vendor offerings to ensure our strategies capitalise on new opportunities. Influence our investment portfolios and the direction of major change programmes to ensure strategic architecture outcomes. Build strong relationships and credibly communicate with key business and engineering collaborators across the organisation including CxOs. You're an authority for an architecture domain with deep and broad knowledge of technology, methodology and assurance techniques. Desirable technical experience:Broad experience covering many of the following, with a deep knowledge of at least one ( T shaped): Cloud platform technologies covering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services on Azure, GCP and AWS. Hybrid hosting architecture of cloud and tradition platforms including Midrange Unix and Mainframe technologies. API architecture standards including OpenID Connect profiles, API gateways, microservices including event driven architectures. Data trends including relational, NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes. Designing critically important systems which have challenging service parameters, for example RPO/RTO Zero. Broad appreciation of cyber security (e.g., zero trust) and the architectural implications it has on application design. Modern progressive technologies - e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence, block chain etc. About working for LBG The environment we work in is fast paced, collaborative and dynamic: we also have fun along the way! We're hybrid working - so you'll need to live within a commute of a hub location to get in one or two days a week and there may be elements of out of hours working which is well compensated. But with a supportive and nurturing Leadership team we have the scale to provide you with ongoing opportunities to develop and achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career with us as well you receiving A competitive salary A performance related annual bonus Generous pension contribution of up to 15% 30 days holiday plus the bank holidays on top A flexible cash pot (4% salary) you can spend on lifestyle benefits Private health cover Various share schemes, including free shares We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process. We re simply committed to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. So if you have the technical background we re seeking and this opportunity appeals then get in touch, we d love to hear from you At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
Are you an Infrastructure Engineer looking for a new challenge? The role of the server engineer will be to manage and ensure the correct functioning and overall lifecycle of the client's servers. This role will involve supporting end-to-end provisioning, operation, monitoring, managing and decommissioning of physical and virtual servers or server farms, with different OS (Windows, Linux, etc.), along the whole lifecycle. In addition providing support for automation in management, deployment and operations of servers, acting as PoCs for private cloud functionality and operation with edge datacentres and support for in-memory computing functionality may be required. What you will be doing: Provide resolution of server service issues and supports delivery of user requests Maintain records of current server configurations Ensure servers remain in support by hardware manufacturers Proactively monitor server use and performance Commission additional servers as required Perform lock-down configuration and administration of servers Server Availability Planning in line with requirements Install and assemble server hardware and OS including updates and patches Connect servers to the client network and configure server interfaces Incorporate the server into the normal operation process and ensure that the server is running and can be accessed, monitored and operated Operate server services at the quality defined in the respective SLAs/ OLAs with ensured security compliance and business continuity Perform preventive maintenance tasks What you will bring: Maintain accurate records and documentation Know hot to apply ITIL methodology Able to work as part of a small team MS-Windows or Linux administration in a data centre environment Experience in Server capacity planning Can perform administrating in a virtualised environment Experience of working on a client site as a service provider It would be great if you had: Experience involving multiple Operating System vendors Knowledge of Storage Technologies Knowledge of Lan/WAN Technologies Willing to work out of hours and attend remote sites Experience working in virtualised environment Provision and sizing of VDI Experience in automation in management, deployment and operations of servers, private cloud functionality, use of edge datacentres and in-memory computing. Experience of working in an Agile environment If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you! Employment Type: Full-time Location: Stevenage Security Clearance Level: Must be eligible for Security Clearance Internal Recruiter: Josh Huggins-Smith Salary: £40,000 to £45,000 + 10k on call allowance Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company? Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets. Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, along with supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
21/09/2022
Full time
Are you an Infrastructure Engineer looking for a new challenge? The role of the server engineer will be to manage and ensure the correct functioning and overall lifecycle of the client's servers. This role will involve supporting end-to-end provisioning, operation, monitoring, managing and decommissioning of physical and virtual servers or server farms, with different OS (Windows, Linux, etc.), along the whole lifecycle. In addition providing support for automation in management, deployment and operations of servers, acting as PoCs for private cloud functionality and operation with edge datacentres and support for in-memory computing functionality may be required. What you will be doing: Provide resolution of server service issues and supports delivery of user requests Maintain records of current server configurations Ensure servers remain in support by hardware manufacturers Proactively monitor server use and performance Commission additional servers as required Perform lock-down configuration and administration of servers Server Availability Planning in line with requirements Install and assemble server hardware and OS including updates and patches Connect servers to the client network and configure server interfaces Incorporate the server into the normal operation process and ensure that the server is running and can be accessed, monitored and operated Operate server services at the quality defined in the respective SLAs/ OLAs with ensured security compliance and business continuity Perform preventive maintenance tasks What you will bring: Maintain accurate records and documentation Know hot to apply ITIL methodology Able to work as part of a small team MS-Windows or Linux administration in a data centre environment Experience in Server capacity planning Can perform administrating in a virtualised environment Experience of working on a client site as a service provider It would be great if you had: Experience involving multiple Operating System vendors Knowledge of Storage Technologies Knowledge of Lan/WAN Technologies Willing to work out of hours and attend remote sites Experience working in virtualised environment Provision and sizing of VDI Experience in automation in management, deployment and operations of servers, private cloud functionality, use of edge datacentres and in-memory computing. Experience of working in an Agile environment If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you! Employment Type: Full-time Location: Stevenage Security Clearance Level: Must be eligible for Security Clearance Internal Recruiter: Josh Huggins-Smith Salary: £40,000 to £45,000 + 10k on call allowance Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible. Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company? Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets. Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, along with supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
About you: Reporting to the Operations Centre Manager, as a Operations Centre Engineer, you will play a key role administering and supporting infrastructure platforms (public, private and hybrid clouds) and BaaS/DRaaS services to support the business and Access customer base, ensuring that all systems remain available, operate efficiently and are service performant. Working closely with Senior Systems Engineers, you will be exposed to hands on, platform and hypervisor implementation, management and troubleshooting together associated systems support. You will need to apply your knowledge of compute, hypervisor, storage, backup and replication solutions to ensure best practice configuration, performance and security. This is a technical role but also carries a strong need for service and SLA orientated thinking with a customer first mentality. Day-to-day, you will: Proactively handle technical problems, incidents and service requests, change requests and their resolutions via tickets and calls in our ITIL compliant ITSM solution FreshService. Perform Datacentre / infrastructure platform installations i.e. physical hardware, cabling and power including its post-deployment administration, monitoring and ongoing support. The scope includes compute, storage, hypervisor systems, platform networking, backup and replication software that assure our services and the Windows and Linux infrastructure management servers that control them. Deploy system patches and upgrades based on vender supported matrices and recommendations, continually looking to optimise these BAU processes. Improve platform visibility and availability by ensuring systems, services and thresholds are correctly monitored and any issue alerted is resolved quickly and correctly. Work closely with Principal & Senior Systems engineers to ensure platforms remain optimised and performant, you will conduct log analysis and follow audit trails to understand root causes of issues and implement improvements. Innovate recommendations for operational efficiencies and working practices including automation. Carry out technical and operations standards and procedures, maintain and update technical documentation. Participate in the on-call rota. As a well-rounded Systems Engineer, your Skills and Experiences likely include: Good experience working with VMware vSphere 6.5 or higher, working towards VCP certification if not already certified Experience with enterprise server and associated hardware technology (Cisco blade compute technologies advantageous) Experience of Virtual environment backup systems (Veeam desirable) SAN administration experience (particularly NetApp / EqualLogic) Good understanding of network and firewall principles Load balancer awareness and/or experience Good Windows and/or Linux Server system administration skills Familiarity with good practice monitoring and patching activities Good written and oral communication skills Ability to work to Service SLAs and Support targets What does Access offer you? We are a growing technology company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your own personal success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday and a flexible benefits scheme which includes a matched contributory pension you will get: A Competitive Salary Giving Back/Charity days Quarterly Socials 6 weeks Sabbaticals (after 6 years of service) The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain or the option to take an extra two days holiday instead
05/02/2022
Full time
About you: Reporting to the Operations Centre Manager, as a Operations Centre Engineer, you will play a key role administering and supporting infrastructure platforms (public, private and hybrid clouds) and BaaS/DRaaS services to support the business and Access customer base, ensuring that all systems remain available, operate efficiently and are service performant. Working closely with Senior Systems Engineers, you will be exposed to hands on, platform and hypervisor implementation, management and troubleshooting together associated systems support. You will need to apply your knowledge of compute, hypervisor, storage, backup and replication solutions to ensure best practice configuration, performance and security. This is a technical role but also carries a strong need for service and SLA orientated thinking with a customer first mentality. Day-to-day, you will: Proactively handle technical problems, incidents and service requests, change requests and their resolutions via tickets and calls in our ITIL compliant ITSM solution FreshService. Perform Datacentre / infrastructure platform installations i.e. physical hardware, cabling and power including its post-deployment administration, monitoring and ongoing support. The scope includes compute, storage, hypervisor systems, platform networking, backup and replication software that assure our services and the Windows and Linux infrastructure management servers that control them. Deploy system patches and upgrades based on vender supported matrices and recommendations, continually looking to optimise these BAU processes. Improve platform visibility and availability by ensuring systems, services and thresholds are correctly monitored and any issue alerted is resolved quickly and correctly. Work closely with Principal & Senior Systems engineers to ensure platforms remain optimised and performant, you will conduct log analysis and follow audit trails to understand root causes of issues and implement improvements. Innovate recommendations for operational efficiencies and working practices including automation. Carry out technical and operations standards and procedures, maintain and update technical documentation. Participate in the on-call rota. As a well-rounded Systems Engineer, your Skills and Experiences likely include: Good experience working with VMware vSphere 6.5 or higher, working towards VCP certification if not already certified Experience with enterprise server and associated hardware technology (Cisco blade compute technologies advantageous) Experience of Virtual environment backup systems (Veeam desirable) SAN administration experience (particularly NetApp / EqualLogic) Good understanding of network and firewall principles Load balancer awareness and/or experience Good Windows and/or Linux Server system administration skills Familiarity with good practice monitoring and patching activities Good written and oral communication skills Ability to work to Service SLAs and Support targets What does Access offer you? We are a growing technology company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your own personal success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday and a flexible benefits scheme which includes a matched contributory pension you will get: A Competitive Salary Giving Back/Charity days Quarterly Socials 6 weeks Sabbaticals (after 6 years of service) The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain or the option to take an extra two days holiday instead
Infrastructure Engineer / 3rd Line Senior Infrastructure Engineer Lincoln Up to £40,000 Your new role You will assist in supporting business critical IT systems and implement new Infrastructure projects across my clients UK and European operations. The successful candidate will provide support to the 1st & 2nd line functions of the IT Infrastructure Team in addition to project activities. This role requires strong experience with VMware, Microsoft Windows Server (2012/16/19), Active Directory, Enterprise Wintel technologies and experience with the Microsoft Azure platform. Responsibilities As well as providing day-to-day 3rd and 4th line support for business-critical applications, you will also have a good all-round understanding of back-office infrastructure, with strong practical experience in managing, monitoring and maintaining a large, UK & European dispersed server estate. Actively contribute to continuous application and process improvement through product and documentation review, process refinement and systems configuration and implementation Handle, prioritise and effectively respond to a wide variety of user request encompassing issues including laptops, networks, backups, servers and software Contribute to service improvement through the monitoring and tracking of case closure to ensure SLAs are met Support the implementation of new technologies, solutions and services, in line with current industry standards and business strategy Providing 3rd and 4th line support of Physical and Virtual Windows Servers and associated Wintel back-office infrastructure e.g., AD, DFS, DHCP, DNS, ADFS, WDS, WSUS. Ongoing maintenance of standards and processes relating to Systems Engineering's services. Proactive scheduled maintenance, BCP, DR and capacity planning. Experience needed VMware ESXi v6.7/7.0, Microsoft Hyper-V Windows Server 2 Experience administering the O365 Microsoft stack Have extensive Microsoft OS Platform and Active Directory support experience Good understanding of Microsoft Azure as well as mail hygiene solutions such as Mimecast Experience of managing a mixture of physical, virtual/cloud and hybrid datacentre environments, along with experience of managing DR environments and managing failover DR environments, as well as substantial experience of troubleshooting and problem solving Windows patch management Knowledge of end point security/protection/encryption Good working knowledge of network infrastructure Experience of producing detailed documentation Accustomed to working within the ITIL framework Accustomed to working within an ISO 27001 accredited organisation Have a minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar role Have achieved Microsoft Certified Professional status and VMWare certified professional Veeam Backup Technologies Linux Technologies PKI Certificate infrastructure Avaya telephony platforms An understanding of HPE enterprise architectures around compute & storage (Simplivity Hyperconverged Platform) Experience of supporting Aruba Infrastructure - switches and access points Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
14/09/2021
Full time
Infrastructure Engineer / 3rd Line Senior Infrastructure Engineer Lincoln Up to £40,000 Your new role You will assist in supporting business critical IT systems and implement new Infrastructure projects across my clients UK and European operations. The successful candidate will provide support to the 1st & 2nd line functions of the IT Infrastructure Team in addition to project activities. This role requires strong experience with VMware, Microsoft Windows Server (2012/16/19), Active Directory, Enterprise Wintel technologies and experience with the Microsoft Azure platform. Responsibilities As well as providing day-to-day 3rd and 4th line support for business-critical applications, you will also have a good all-round understanding of back-office infrastructure, with strong practical experience in managing, monitoring and maintaining a large, UK & European dispersed server estate. Actively contribute to continuous application and process improvement through product and documentation review, process refinement and systems configuration and implementation Handle, prioritise and effectively respond to a wide variety of user request encompassing issues including laptops, networks, backups, servers and software Contribute to service improvement through the monitoring and tracking of case closure to ensure SLAs are met Support the implementation of new technologies, solutions and services, in line with current industry standards and business strategy Providing 3rd and 4th line support of Physical and Virtual Windows Servers and associated Wintel back-office infrastructure e.g., AD, DFS, DHCP, DNS, ADFS, WDS, WSUS. Ongoing maintenance of standards and processes relating to Systems Engineering's services. Proactive scheduled maintenance, BCP, DR and capacity planning. Experience needed VMware ESXi v6.7/7.0, Microsoft Hyper-V Windows Server 2 Experience administering the O365 Microsoft stack Have extensive Microsoft OS Platform and Active Directory support experience Good understanding of Microsoft Azure as well as mail hygiene solutions such as Mimecast Experience of managing a mixture of physical, virtual/cloud and hybrid datacentre environments, along with experience of managing DR environments and managing failover DR environments, as well as substantial experience of troubleshooting and problem solving Windows patch management Knowledge of end point security/protection/encryption Good working knowledge of network infrastructure Experience of producing detailed documentation Accustomed to working within the ITIL framework Accustomed to working within an ISO 27001 accredited organisation Have a minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar role Have achieved Microsoft Certified Professional status and VMWare certified professional Veeam Backup Technologies Linux Technologies PKI Certificate infrastructure Avaya telephony platforms An understanding of HPE enterprise architectures around compute & storage (Simplivity Hyperconverged Platform) Experience of supporting Aruba Infrastructure - switches and access points Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
Description
Job Title: Senior Network & Security Engineer
Purpose of Role:
To design, implement, maintain, troubleshoot and support all aspects of network and security on the Options PIPE network infrastructure.
As a member of the UK Networks team, the senior network engineer will work closely with the global network team (US and Asiapac). They will be responsible for the timely delivery of changes to the network environment to facilitate the onboarding of new clients, to deliver new features or service to the PIPE platform or to correct production issues.
Key Tasks:
The role requires a flexible, highly skilled engineer who is capable of managing multiple work streams in a fast-paced service provider environment. Teamwork and ability to work on own initiative is imperative for the role which includes (but is not restricted to the following key areas):
New Client Solutions/Designs:
Involves design and implementation of new client network architecture ready for client on-boarding in to our private cloud, the Options PIPE®. These designs range from (but are not limited to) redundant Gig-E connections to multiple OTL datacentres, site to site VPNs, data centre x-connects, secure web hosting services and layered firewall security, through to software VPN access, and home/office network connectivity using site-to-site Internet VPNs.
Ideally the candidate will have performed firewall migrations in the past.
Evolution of PIPE services:
Example projects include data centre Greenfield builds, data centre relocation projects, and global deployments of new network/application services. In doing so, you will use a wide range of enterprise-level network and security technologies including Catalyst switches, Cisco routers (39xx/29xx) and Nokia Checkpoint firewalls.
3rd Party Network Connections:
Options provides broker/venue connectivity as part of its PIPE Core® offering, typically to Tier 1 Investment Banks, brokers or pools of liquidity. We deliver these either via direct fibre circuits, via x-connects, or through the use of global MSP networks (e.g. BT Radianz, TNS).
Direct Exchange Connectivity:
Options provides connectivity to and market data services from the global catalogue of stock exchanges and venues/MTFs. We deliver ultra-low latency market data and on-exchange trading services. Currently connected exchanges include Nasdaq, NYSE, CME/CBOT, LSE, Deutsche Börse (Xetra/Eurex) as well as MTFs such as BATS Chi-X Europe and Direct Edge.
Technical Skills should include most of the following:
Security Platforms:
Fortinet Fortigates – in depth experience.
Checkpoint NGX R70/R75/R77 and Management Suite (SmartCenter, SmartUpdate, SmartView Tracker)
Nokia firewall platforms - experience implementing/installing/troubleshooting on
Linux
Will ideally be comfortable on a Linux platform and be able to install and maintain Linux based applications eg Cacti, Rancid etc
Scripting/coding
Will ideally have experience with scripting. Python preferred.
WAN Technologies:
IPSEC, GRE, E1/T1, ATM, PPP, HDLC, SONET, xDSL, WES/LES, SDSH, Dark fibre
LAN Technologies:
Gigabit Ethernet (GigE etc), TenGig Ethernet, Multicast (PIM/IGMP), Spanning-Tree (+extensions), switching, Vlan trunking EtherChannel (PAgP, LACP), SVI’s and inter-vlan routing, VOIP, QoS and DiffServ
Routing Protocols:
OSPF, BGP,RIP (v2), static routes, route re-distribution, policy-based routing
Multicast:
PIM-SM, MSDP
NMS and Troubleshooting Tools:
tcpdump, fwmonitor, Wireshark
WLAN Technologies:
Cisco Aironet deployment in either root or repeater mode
Familiarity with wireless security (WEP/WPA/WPA2)
Hardware:
Experience with our common platforms would be useful:
Fortinet – 30d, 60d, 200d, 1000d, 1500d
Cisco Catalyst switches – 65xx, 45xx, 3750, 3560 – 6500 platform particularly desirable
Cisco routers – 39xx, 38xx, 28xx, 88x, 87x
Arista switches – 7124, 7150
Juniper EX4200 series switches
Cisco 10Gb line modules
SolarFlare 10Gb network cards
Nokia Checkpoint firewalls – IP3xx, IP5xx, 46xx, 48xx
Fortinet FIrewalls
F5 BigIP DNS Load Balancers (GTM)
Wireless access points - 3560, 2950, Aironet 1242ag
Accreditation:
Fortinet Firewall accreditation (desirable)
Checkpoint accredited CCSA and above (desirable)
Cisco accreditation (desirable)
03/05/2017
Description
Job Title: Senior Network & Security Engineer
Purpose of Role:
To design, implement, maintain, troubleshoot and support all aspects of network and security on the Options PIPE network infrastructure.
As a member of the UK Networks team, the senior network engineer will work closely with the global network team (US and Asiapac). They will be responsible for the timely delivery of changes to the network environment to facilitate the onboarding of new clients, to deliver new features or service to the PIPE platform or to correct production issues.
Key Tasks:
The role requires a flexible, highly skilled engineer who is capable of managing multiple work streams in a fast-paced service provider environment. Teamwork and ability to work on own initiative is imperative for the role which includes (but is not restricted to the following key areas):
New Client Solutions/Designs:
Involves design and implementation of new client network architecture ready for client on-boarding in to our private cloud, the Options PIPE®. These designs range from (but are not limited to) redundant Gig-E connections to multiple OTL datacentres, site to site VPNs, data centre x-connects, secure web hosting services and layered firewall security, through to software VPN access, and home/office network connectivity using site-to-site Internet VPNs.
Ideally the candidate will have performed firewall migrations in the past.
Evolution of PIPE services:
Example projects include data centre Greenfield builds, data centre relocation projects, and global deployments of new network/application services. In doing so, you will use a wide range of enterprise-level network and security technologies including Catalyst switches, Cisco routers (39xx/29xx) and Nokia Checkpoint firewalls.
3rd Party Network Connections:
Options provides broker/venue connectivity as part of its PIPE Core® offering, typically to Tier 1 Investment Banks, brokers or pools of liquidity. We deliver these either via direct fibre circuits, via x-connects, or through the use of global MSP networks (e.g. BT Radianz, TNS).
Direct Exchange Connectivity:
Options provides connectivity to and market data services from the global catalogue of stock exchanges and venues/MTFs. We deliver ultra-low latency market data and on-exchange trading services. Currently connected exchanges include Nasdaq, NYSE, CME/CBOT, LSE, Deutsche Börse (Xetra/Eurex) as well as MTFs such as BATS Chi-X Europe and Direct Edge.
Technical Skills should include most of the following:
Security Platforms:
Fortinet Fortigates – in depth experience.
Checkpoint NGX R70/R75/R77 and Management Suite (SmartCenter, SmartUpdate, SmartView Tracker)
Nokia firewall platforms - experience implementing/installing/troubleshooting on
Linux
Will ideally be comfortable on a Linux platform and be able to install and maintain Linux based applications eg Cacti, Rancid etc
Scripting/coding
Will ideally have experience with scripting. Python preferred.
WAN Technologies:
IPSEC, GRE, E1/T1, ATM, PPP, HDLC, SONET, xDSL, WES/LES, SDSH, Dark fibre
LAN Technologies:
Gigabit Ethernet (GigE etc), TenGig Ethernet, Multicast (PIM/IGMP), Spanning-Tree (+extensions), switching, Vlan trunking EtherChannel (PAgP, LACP), SVI’s and inter-vlan routing, VOIP, QoS and DiffServ
Routing Protocols:
OSPF, BGP,RIP (v2), static routes, route re-distribution, policy-based routing
Multicast:
PIM-SM, MSDP
NMS and Troubleshooting Tools:
tcpdump, fwmonitor, Wireshark
WLAN Technologies:
Cisco Aironet deployment in either root or repeater mode
Familiarity with wireless security (WEP/WPA/WPA2)
Hardware:
Experience with our common platforms would be useful:
Fortinet – 30d, 60d, 200d, 1000d, 1500d
Cisco Catalyst switches – 65xx, 45xx, 3750, 3560 – 6500 platform particularly desirable
Cisco routers – 39xx, 38xx, 28xx, 88x, 87x
Arista switches – 7124, 7150
Juniper EX4200 series switches
Cisco 10Gb line modules
SolarFlare 10Gb network cards
Nokia Checkpoint firewalls – IP3xx, IP5xx, 46xx, 48xx
Fortinet FIrewalls
F5 BigIP DNS Load Balancers (GTM)
Wireless access points - 3560, 2950, Aironet 1242ag
Accreditation:
Fortinet Firewall accreditation (desirable)
Checkpoint accredited CCSA and above (desirable)
Cisco accreditation (desirable)
