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Principal Architect - Facilities & Data Centre Design UK-Based- Remote (Flexible International Travel Required - Including Riyadh, KSA) Payrate: 650 - 747 Per Day Inside IR35 Contract Duration - 6 Months IR35 Status: Inside Sector: Telecommunications / National Cyber Security Program NISC 2000 (Mandatory) A leading global telecommunications company is seeking a Principal Architect with deep expertise in Facilities and Data Centre Design to lead a critical strategic programme in collaboration with international cyber security stakeholders. This role plays a pivotal part in shaping national-level infrastructure as part of a 2030 National Cyber Security Capability roadmap. As the technical lead for Data Centre and Operations Room environments, you will work with consortium partners, strategists, and analysts to define the long-term architecture, create implementation roadmaps, and drive the delivery of large-scale, secure infrastructure solutions. Key Responsibilities: Define and deliver a comprehensive Data Centre and Operational Environment Strategy. Develop high-level use cases, architectural requirements, and RFPs for large-scale national infrastructure projects. Lead gap analysis, migration planning, and define operational resilience and business continuity models. Ensure compliance with industry best practices in design, physical security, networking, power, cooling, and cloud integration. Translate strategic vision into functional and non-functional requirements across people, process, and technology. What We're Looking For: 10+ years of experience in Data Centre architecture and facilities design. Proven experience with physical, hybrid, and cloud-based DC solutions, including containerisation and virtualisation. Strong capability in RFP creation, stakeholder engagement, and translating business needs into technical requirements. Deep knowledge of structured cabling, power/cooling systems, space planning, and physical security. Prior experience in national/international-scale infrastructure programs. Ability to lead through ambiguity, work with cross-functional teams, and simplify complex information for stakeholders. Excellent communication and strategic thinking skills. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence the architectural blueprint of critical infrastructure for national cyber defence. If you're a strategic thinker with deep technical knowledge and a passion for designing secure, resilient environments, we'd love to hear from you. This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV or send it khushboo. Co. uk Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Job ID: 2407430 Amazon UK Services Ltd. The Content & App Partner Engagement (CAPE) team is looking for an experienced and motivated leader who possesses a unique balance of technical depth and relationship management skills. Our partners develop apps and games for Amazon devices powered by Fire OS and Alexa, such as Fire tablets, Echo Show, Smart TVs, streaming media players (e.g. Fire TV Stick) . As a Principal Solutions Architect, you will work with top-tier partners to create incredible Alexa-enabled experiences that will wow customers on Fire TV, Echo Show and Tablets. You will act as the primary technical liaison between external partners and Amazon product teams to help shape their product roadmaps. Your role will be to guide partners as they productize and integrate with Amazon Services and enable them to grow their business through monetisation and increase in engagement. You'll evangelize best practices through white-papers, presentations and sample code and help partners adopt a new voice paradigm in their apps and games, using various Alexa services such as Video Skills Kit (VSK). As you build relationships with your partners, you'll understand their business, product roadmap, and challenges. You'll use this information to influence Amazon product teams, helping improve the product offerings and quality of Amazon products and services. Key Responsibilities: - Provide technical consultation to strategic partners and Amazon product teams - Write sample code to accelerate adoption of Amazon technology - Author blog posts, contribute to webinars, create presentations, and run demos to explain technical concepts - Create best practices, knowledge base articles, and processes to increase the effectiveness of the team - Guide partners as they build and migrate their applications, software, and services on Amazon devices - Act as a technical liaison between customers, external partners, Amazon engineering teams, and support - Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of Amazon Services and Alexa, and participate in deep architectural discussions Hiring in any of the locations - London, Berlin, Munich and Luxembourg. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: London, GBR BASIC QUALIFICATIONS Relevant years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience Suitable experience of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience Relevant IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in a professional field or military Experience within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics). Experience in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Suitable years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience Experience working with end user or developer communities Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice () to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT - 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial (tel). If calling from Ireland, please dial (tel). Posted: January 26, 2023 (Updated 6 months ago) Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Job Description: Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Corporate Title: Vice President Location:Bromley Bank of America: Bank of America Merrill Lynch provides comprehensive market, industry, product and advisory expertise to more than 140,000 businesses around the globe. With unrivalled insight and access delivered by dedicated relationship teams, we connect clients with the right opportunities in more than 150 countries throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas. Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) footprint comprises of 32 cities across 23 countries on three continents. The company is a long-established participant in the European markets, with a presence since 1922. Currently over 14,000 associates are based in EMEA. Globally, Bank of America Merrill Lynch serves clients and customers in more than 150 countries and has relationships with 99 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500, nearly 96 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and 33 percent of the FTSE 100. Role Description: The successful candidate will: Contribute to story refinement/defining requirements. Participate and guide team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle. Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas. Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements. Utilize multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements. Assist team with resolving technical complexities involved in completing tasks Design/develop/modify architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained. Design/develop/maintain automated test suites (integration, regression, performance). Automate manual release activities. Mentor other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack. Be a strong technologist who is inquisitive and has a desire to learn. The Team: The successful candidate will join a small Scrum team in Bromley consisting of 5 team members) working on the award-winning Global Liquidity Platform (GLP) application. The team is one of several teams working on the application, the others being India-based, and the teams frequently interact. The team is friendly and very collaborative, and this is achieved using a variety of collaboration tools such as WebEx and Skype. As the team operate in an agile manner there is also regular interaction with other technical teams, product management and end users. Training and development are a core part of the team ethos and is available through a variety of different means - we have a great online learning portal as well as providing more formal external training for niche requirements. Core Skills: Essential Skills: Excellent Java development experience - Good knowledge of core Java, JEE & in particular JMS, Spring - particularly SpringMVC, SpringBoot, REST, Unix scripting (BASH), JUnit, mocking (JMock/Mokito), WMQ, Hibernate, Acceptance Test Driven Development (JBehave, Cucumber). Experience of Oracle DB - PLSQL scripting. Extensive Experience with Agile / SCRUM Programming project methodologies. Experience in using software configuration management systems (e.g. Git/BitBucket). Experience in working with colleagues in other (global) locations. Ability to seek out information with little direction. Nice to have: Domain Driven Design, Scala, Akka, AngularJS, Splunk, Mulesoft Experience in the Banking domain, particularly Treasury and Payments. Bank of America: We are a financial services company offering a wide array of opportunities across many functions. Our focus on the financial success of our clients - individuals, companies and institutional investors - shapes the way that we organize ourselves and run our business. Global Technology delivers technology services globally across the bank's eight lines of business that serve individuals, companies and institutions. The team also focuses on digital banking, payments, infrastructure, data management and technology that enhances cyber security, and risk and capital management. Innovation is at the heart of all Global Technology does. As a member of Global Tech, you will use leading technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence, as well as improved processes, to build our business. The team has replaced core platforms and simplified its infrastructure to improve speed to market. Its private cloud provides an environment that is scalable and secure. Global Tech uses data and analytics to enhance service, provide solutions and deepen relationships. Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well. We are an equal opportunities employer, and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience. We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements. As part of our standard hiring process to manage risk, please note background screening checks will be conducted on all hires before commencing employment. Job Band: H5 Shift: Hours Per Week: 35 Weekly Schedule: Referral Bonus Amount: 0

Ofgem is a non-ministerial government department and an independent National Regulatory Authority. Our principal objective is to protect the interests of existing and future electricity and gas consumers. We do this by promoting value for money, promoting security of supply and sustainability, for present and future generations of consumers, domestic and industrial users, the supervision and development of markets and competition, regulation and the delivery of government schemes. We work effectively with, but are independent of, government, the energy industry and other stakeholders within a legal framework determined by the UK government and the European Union. We are building a Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) driven organisation at Ofgem and will lead industry by showcasing best practice when dealing with data, digital and technology in the energy sector. Our more modern, insight-driven, innovative approach to DDaT will provide outstanding experiences at the right cost, quality and pace for the whole of Ofgem and ensure consumers receive a top-quality and cost-effective supply of energy. Responsibilities The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will play a critical part in supporting (run) and developing (change) Ofgem Azure Landing Zone to support new services and the migration of existing service to the Cloud. Working in a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, the senior infrastructure engineer builds, administers, supports and maintains solutions as directed and according to departmental policy. At this level, you will: ensure services are integrated, delivered and operated as required work with and support third parties in providing infrastructure services work with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations work with our Security Engineers in the design, development and enablement of automated monitoring processes, supporting the implementation of (Security Information and Event Management) and network analysis tools, techniques and procedures to ensure stability, reliability and security Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Infrastructure as Code to automate the deployment of resource stacks and associated configuration for the DevOps community in Ofgem Establishing and implement monitoring and management infrastructure for both availability and performance management The use of active Azure services to meet Ofgems technology and resiliency requirements Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Changing and Improving Making Effective Decisions Delivering at Pace Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Please see Candidate Pack/Role Profile for further details. Benefits Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; up to 30 days annual leave. Excellent training and development opportunities. The opportunity to join the Civil Service pension arrangements which include a valuable range of benefits. Flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Restaurant and subsidise gym (London only). Interest free season ticket loan. Things you need to know Security Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks. Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills. When you press the Apply now button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications. You will then be asked to answer 3 Technical Questions evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within these answers how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Nationality requirements This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals Further information on nationality requirements Working for the Civil Service The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles . The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Are you an OCI expert looking for a new challenge? Role Overview: Are you an Oracle Architect with experience of cloud migrations and OCI? Would you like to expand your experience of cloud technologies with a focus on OCI? Are you the person who understands and "owns" the end-to-end solution during a project? Do you enjoy inspiring and leading a successful cloud transformation team? Do you enjoy developing and growing new business in a dynamic cloud environment? Do you understand how to sell and position business value to senior stakeholders? Would you like to further these skills and take your career to the next level? Then you could be our next OCI Architect. We are looking for an experienced, motivated lead OCI Architect who can (a.) lead and inspire more junior members of a delivery team, (b.) act as the presales lead to develop and win new cloud business. We are looking to grow our team with architects who have big ambitions to succeed in the IT Industry and are keen to build and enhance their careers with one of the leading technology companies of our time. You will be supported by ADS Consulting's extensive network of industry and technical experts along with our innovative, collaborative and fun training and development opportunities both in the UK and across Europe. Key Responsibilities: Provides advice and guidance to development teams on architectures and application designs Identifies and promotes best practice, including standards, frameworks and solution methodologies Proactively identify opportunities for extending existing and new developments into re-usable resources, and maintains a central repository of resources, including code, design documentation, standards, patterns and guidance Tracks market trends and competitor activities in 'expert' area and ensure this data is utilised for the ongoing service development Defines scope and deliverables for assignment with 'client' (may be internal or external) for the design of complex systems architectures to integrate business and IT requirements Delivers effective technical architecture designs in accordance with agreed scope, time, financial and quality measures Ensures effective client engagement and stakeholder management during assignment (may include management of technology partners and subcontractors) Completes assignment review with 'client' at the end of each and every assignment (or six monthly for long term assignments) Actively promotes Sopra Steria consulting, application management, business process and IT-outsourcing services. Seeks and gains recognition outside Sopra Steria within 'expert' area by active involvement in industry / specialist groups that develops recognition of Company's capability that is transferable into sales opportunities Develops and exploits personal network of contacts within Sopra Steria to ensure high levels of chargeable personal utilisation Shares personal knowledge of 'expert' area through coaching and mentoring, running workshops, establishing 'special interest groups' To identify and manage risk in his/her business activities and take responsibility for reporting risks in a timely, open and appropriate manner What you'll bring: Experience of Cloud solutions Proven experience assessing client's Oracle workloads and technology landscape for OCI suitability, Including OCI Network and Security design for complex architectures to support high availability and disaster recovery requirements. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the latest and emerging developments in IT and cloud technologies; Have delivery experience from cloud migrations; Have a good understanding of cloud offerings from the leading cloud vendors; Be able to present a point of view in a compelling way and defend it when needed; Be able to clearly articulate and document cloud transformation strategies and roadmaps; Link business requirement to technology and cloud solutions; Capture and interpret business requirement; Have an understanding of how to build financial TCO and/or ROI models; Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills; Be comfortable interacting with stakeholders including C level when needed. Desirable Skills: SaaS Oracle EBS Apps DBA Implementation and Production Support experience Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud (OCI, Azure, AWS, GCP) and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.) and mentor team to build necessary capability. In depth knowledge of Oracle SaaS and PaaS 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: UK Remote, with some travel Security Clearance Level: SC Internal Recruiter: Josh Huggins-Smith Salary: £95,000 Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, couple medical cover, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, 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.

We're looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer (DevEx Engineering Manager) to join our Which? Technology team on a permanent, full-time basis. What you'll do As a leader in the Engineering department you will be working with other Engineering Managers and Principal Engineers to empower the engineering teams that enable Which? to deliver its mission to reduce consumer harm by making life simpler, fairer and safer. Our Developer Experience team is responsible for building the tools and services that Which? engineers use every day. This includes the infrastructure, security and reliability tooling we use to operate secure, fast fault tolerant systems. Along with the other Engineering Managers you'll help recruit and develop a diverse and talented team of engineers. As part of the broader engineering leadership team you will contribute to our best practices and standards and be a champion for the innovative use of technology. You'll also contribute to the wider technology strategy and help us deliver as a department. What's important to us Experience building tools and infrastructure that is used daily by other engineers Empathy and a willingness to invest in others Transparency and collaboration Pragmatism and a bias for action A willingness to learn and teach others A passion to help us in our mission Diversity and inclusion Our technology You can't know everything but we're looking for deep experience in a range of these areas A wide range of AWS infrastructure and services from Lambda to Cloudfront Terraform or Cloudformation CI/CD best practice and tooling e.g. CircleCI, Travis CI, Jenkins 12 factor app methodology Observability tools e.g. NewRelic, AirBrake, Sentry Operating Node or Java applications Helpful experience Experience understanding the needs to engineers and building tools to meet those needs Working as part of a broader technology leadership team Working with, and debugging, Microservice based architectures Working with message or event based systems Contributing towards a Tech Strategy particularly on Cloud Working with modern design patterns to build cloud native solutions Experience working directly with senior stakeholders Interviewing and hiring Line management or mentoring Linux Sysadmin experience Working to agile development practices like Scrum or Kanban What we'll offer you We believe in getting the best out of people, and our refurbished modern working environment is relaxed and friendly. There are excellent benefits including 28 days annual leave, private healthcare, an excellent pension scheme and the usuals like flexible working, Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loan and Childcare Vouchers etc. We even have a private section of Regent's Park which is handy for hot summers and team building events! It's a great time to join as we have just launched our new values! Click here to find out what we feel reflects what we do and how we work. To find out more about this role click on the link to view the job description. At Which? we value diversity and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves and to reach their full potential. We want to receive applications from all regardless of age, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, social economic background etc. We believe that a diverse workforce helps us to understand and create a positive impact for consumers. We want to ensure that everybody can apply and be part of our recruitment processes, and therefore when required we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. We're committed to making sure our application process is accessible to everyone who would like to apply for any of our vacancies! Please reach out to if you need us to provide an alternative application method to support your accessibility needs.

Ofgem is a non-ministerial government department and an independent National Regulatory Authority. Our principal objective is to protect the interests of existing and future electricity and gas consumers. We do this by promoting value for money, promoting security of supply and sustainability, for present and future generations of consumers, domestic and industrial users, the supervision and development of markets and competition, regulation and the delivery of government schemes. We work effectively with, but are independent of, government, the energy industry and other stakeholders within a legal framework determined by the UK government and the European Union. We are building a Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) driven organisation at Ofgem and will lead industry by showcasing best practice when dealing with data, digital and technology in the energy sector. Our more modern, insight-driven, innovative approach to DDaT will provide outstanding experiences at the right cost, quality and pace for the whole of Ofgem and ensure consumers receive a top-quality and cost-effective supply of energy. Responsibilities The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will play a critical part in supporting (run) and developing (change) Ofgem Azure Landing Zone to support new services and the migration of existing service to the Cloud. Working in a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, the senior infrastructure engineer builds, administers, supports and maintains solutions as directed and according to departmental policy. At this level, you will: ensure services are integrated, delivered and operated as required work with and support third parties in providing infrastructure services work with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations work with our Security Engineers in the design, development and enablement of automated monitoring processes, supporting the implementation of (Security Information and Event Management) and network analysis tools, techniques and procedures to ensure stability, reliability and security Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Infrastructure as Code to automate the deployment of resource stacks and associated configuration for the DevOps community in Ofgem Establishing and implement monitoring and management infrastructure for both availability and performance management The use of active Azure services to meet Ofgems technology and resiliency requirements Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Changing and Improving Making Effective Decisions Delivering at Pace Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Please see Candidate Pack/Role Profile for further details. Benefits Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; up to 30 days annual leave. Excellent training and development opportunities. The opportunity to join the Civil Service pension arrangements which include a valuable range of benefits. Flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Restaurant and subsidise gym (London only). Interest free season ticket loan. Things you need to know Security Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks. Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills. When you press the Apply now button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications. You will then be asked to answer 3 Technical Questions evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within these answers how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Nationality requirements This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals Further information on nationality requirements Working for the Civil Service The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles . The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Ofgem is a non-ministerial government department and an independent National Regulatory Authority. Our principal objective is to protect the interests of existing and future electricity and gas consumers. We do this by promoting value for money, promoting security of supply and sustainability, for present and future generations of consumers, domestic and industrial users, the supervision and development of markets and competition, regulation and the delivery of government schemes. We work effectively with, but are independent of, government, the energy industry and other stakeholders within a legal framework determined by the UK government and the European Union. We are building a Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) driven organisation at Ofgem and will lead industry by showcasing best practice when dealing with data, digital and technology in the energy sector. Our more modern, insight-driven, innovative approach to DDaT will provide outstanding experiences at the right cost, quality and pace for the whole of Ofgem and ensure consumers receive a top-quality and cost-effective supply of energy. Responsibilities The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will play a critical part in supporting (run) and developing (change) Ofgem Azure Landing Zone to support new services and the migration of existing service to the Cloud. Working in a team of infrastructure specialists and engineers, the senior infrastructure engineer builds, administers, supports and maintains solutions as directed and according to departmental policy. At this level, you will: ensure services are integrated, delivered and operated as required work with and support third parties in providing infrastructure services work with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operations work with our Security Engineers in the design, development and enablement of automated monitoring processes, supporting the implementation of (Security Information and Event Management) and network analysis tools, techniques and procedures to ensure stability, reliability and security Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Infrastructure as Code to automate the deployment of resource stacks and associated configuration for the DevOps community in Ofgem Establishing and implement monitoring and management infrastructure for both availability and performance management The use of active Azure services to meet Ofgems technology and resiliency requirements Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Changing and Improving Making Effective Decisions Delivering at Pace Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Please see Candidate Pack/Role Profile for further details. Benefits Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; up to 30 days annual leave. Excellent training and development opportunities. The opportunity to join the Civil Service pension arrangements which include a valuable range of benefits. Flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Restaurant and subsidise gym (London only). Interest free season ticket loan. Things you need to know Security Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks. Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills. When you press the Apply now button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications. You will then be asked to answer 3 Technical Questions evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within these answers how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Nationality requirements This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals Further information on nationality requirements Working for the Civil Service The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles . The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Are you an experienced technical architect looking for a new opportunity? We are looking for a principal technical architect to join our fantastic team in the SSCL sector. In this role, you will be an acknowledged leader in Sopra Steria in your technology area. You main responsibilities within this role will be to maintain ownership, enabling technology and infrastructure architecture throughout the program. You should have end-to-end awareness and visibility of all the physical, virtual and software assets in use by all parts of the business. The daily activities will include providing guidance and support to both fellow EAs, Solution Architects, Designers and run-staff on the best possible selection and use of supporting technology and infrastructure to deliver the business outcomes at the optimised level of TCO and compliance. We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities. What you will be doing: Lead development of the Technology road map and infrastructure reference architectures, working in conjunction with Defence Digital, DBS MP&V representatives, IT Operations and Security Lead on development of strategy, approach and roadmaps for the selection and implementation of Technologies and their supporting infrastructures. Develop Technology strategy and infrastructure operating model supporting implementation of a Cloud First operational stance suitable to deliver the program objectives around improved transparency, disaggregation and lower operating costs Provide coaching, guidance and direction to service design resources aligned to delivery project workstreams within the Technology and Infrastructure space Provide direction and guidance to service transition managers supporting implementation of new technologies and integration into the service operating model Develop organisation design, roles and responsibilities and processes, working with business analysts, process designers, solutions architects and other stakeholders across SSCL Defence for the ongoing support and upkeep of business supporting infrastructures Support and direct the work of the designers to ensure solution design adherence to the Technology Reference Model and roadmap Chair working groups on new capability delivery to ensure appropriate use of Technology and Infrastructure throughout the business Represent the business interests in industry and supplier forums Maintain the business demand position for current and future technologies and services with Defence Digital Consult on all Evergreen decisions to ensure Technology and Infrastructure lifecycle management is being applied in the most cost-effective manner Maintain on-going market survey for new Technologies and infrastructure providers and best-practice models What you'll bring: WAN & LAN services: Carrier networking: MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, network edge services network security: Fortinet FW, Web application firewalls, Vulnerability scanning & vulnerability management network services, Cisco switching and routing Cloud and virtualisation services: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IaaS and PaaS Azure, AWS VMWare, Hyper-V Public and private cloud (cloud at customer, VMWare, Citrix Cloud provisioning & build tools - FlexDeploy, Terraform, Chef/Puppet, Python etc. End-user compute/Collaboration platforms: Windows Server SCOM/SCCM and supporting technologies Collaboration technologies: MS Exchange, O365, SharePoint JIRA / Confluence IP Telephony and Contact centre: Enterprise IPT and Contact Centre solutions (Cisco UCCX/UCCE, Avaya etc.) Omnichannel and portal/contact centre integration OSS / BSS tools: ITSM tools: ServiceNow / SolarWinds SOC/SIEM: Splunk, Nexus, Syslog NG, Capacity Management Application performance management Application integration API Management / API gateway services inc. Software AG webMethods, Oracle Integration Cloud Managed file transfer 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 : Anywhere Security Clearance Level: SC Internal Recruiter: Marion Salary: £80,000 to £100,000 Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical (couple), life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Although this role is advertised as full-time, 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? Shared Services Connected Ltd was established as a joint venture between the Cabinet Office and Sopra Steria, in 2013 as part of the Government's Shared Services Strategy for Smarter Government programme and operates from four regional centres of excellence: Blackpool; Newcastle; Newport; and York. We deliver best in class business transformation programmes to across the Public Sector with a target to release one billion pounds of savings to the public. We have established an enviable track record in the design and delivery of large-scale innovative HR, Payroll, IT, and Finance & Accounting solutions to significantly improve efficiencies and enhance service levels across Government and Public Sector. Our clients include a number of government agencies including the Department for Work and Pensions, Environment Agency Department for Education, Ministry of Justice and Home Office as well as the Metropolitan Police Service and the Construction Industry Training Board. 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.

Principal CI/CD Pipeline Engineer - Manager New innovations and technologies are disrupting the business environment. Organizations that want to remain competitive must embrace innovation or risk being left behind. At EY, we help our clients solve large and complex end-to-end business transformation challenges through a combination of human-centred design thinking, business innovation and digital technology. In Cloud Technology Consulting we shape, conceptualize and build innovative cloud solutions that address the most important issues and opportunities for our clients. We help our clients re-think business processes and operating models, through cloud-enabled platforms, emerging technologies and generation-skipping transformation. Our consultants work in agile, cross-functional teams addressing some of the most significant issues facing society today, such as transition to sustainable energy, digitisation of government, scaling high-growth businesses, exploiting the potential of AI, moving to a post-Covid world and improving wellness with digital healthcare. re-think business processes and operating models, through cloud-enabled platforms, emerging technologies and generation-skipping transformation. The core capabilities of our team include: Cloud Strategy and Governance. Working in combined teams of business, security, risk and technology consulting expertise, we support organizations develop their cloud strategy and roadmap while also providing ongoing governance to ensure their safe adoption of cloud. Assessment & Planning. Whether this is a data centre exit, a merger / divestiture or adoption of new digital capabilities, our assessment frameworks allow us to understand the current IT landscape from a people, process and technology perspective and conduct a maturity assessment.The outputs aid the formulation of focused recommendations and plans to enable our clients along their cloud journey. Cloud Transformation Delivery. Integrated transformation capabilities combining domain, strategy, technical and delivery experience. We provide end-to-end cloud foundation services through migration leveraging near and offshore resources and leading migration tools and methods. Operational Optimisation-Best practices for maximizing the success of cloud operations include centrally managing cloud resources and establishing standards and best practices for cloud environments. We have extensive experience conducting cloud optimization assessments to identify cost-saving opportunities, maximize ROI over the long term and increase operational efficiency. Cloud Data security and Privacy -Securing data, managing risk and remaining compliant with industry regulators are critical to cloud adoption. We help organizations stay up-to-date with leading services in data security and data privacy, as well as complying with regulatory requirements. The opportunity: As a Principal CI/CD Pipeline Engineer, you will drive continuous integration and continuous delivery based application development on public cloud platforms. Working within a cross-functional team, you will be responsible for understanding, learning and applying new automated build, test and deployment capabilities and help develop project teams towards integrating such solutions. You will work alongside the team to help expand awareness, knowledge and experience on automation with in CI/CD pipelines. As part of this growing team, you will get to help shape the innovative culture that makes EY such a great place to work. Your key responsibilities Design, propose, facilitate organizational and process improvements as needed for supporting automation and DevOps. Participate in the design of service automation in cloud towards Infrastructure-as-code and engineering of new cloud technologies Obtain and process requirements in order to transform application delivery for cloud in an agile fashion Maintain adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc. Provide support and documentation to assist in sustaining projects during the transition to production. Input into internal and external organizations towards development of methods, standards and efficiencies Identify potential points of contention for missed activities and notify leadership of situation with possible solutions. Involve and drive firm's evolution towards DevOps and Agile Transformation Execute process engineering and operational improvement initiatives for automation tooling focused on cloud Resolve and act as escalation and coordination point for incidents and problems related to affected automation Execute scheduled or unscheduled automation in support of other technology domains Perform audits and analyse existing products for the purpose of ensuring proper configuration management and consistency. To qualify for the role you must have Bachelors and / or master's degree in design, business or technology subject areas or relevant experience 8 - 10 years of related work experience as full stack engineer with a minimum of 3 years public cloud experience in AWS, Azure or GCP Background in delivering digital products / services with experience of working across the full product/ software lifecycle (design, implementation, testing) Experience working in an agile environment, where agile and/or lean practices and approaches are applied as a way of working to deliver technology products Excellent communication skills and ability to produce high-quality written deliverables in fluent English A willingness to travel and work in client sites, both in the UK and overseas as and when required Strong skillset and experience establishing CI/CD pipelines using CloudBees, TFS and VSTS. Solid experience in Groovy, Yaml, Shell, JSON, Jenkins workflows, and API/pipeline integration scripting Strong skillsets in integrating and operating Static and Dynamic Code Scans for security testing, open source code scan with pipelines Experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes and other types of Microservices and Container technologies highly preferred Experience with application load balancing solutions for scaling and HA is a plus Linux and Windows administration experience is a plus Well versed in internet architectures, including web, application, and database components Understanding of firewalls, NAT and packet filtering (specifically lptables) General Networking skills expected Interest and ability to learn other technologies and tools as needed Hands-On experience with various cloud and open-source based platforms is a plus (such as IIS, MsSQL, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, Redis, Cassandra, etc.) Flexibility in scheduling with a willingness to work extra non-standard hours on occasion Ability to work well within a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural, global team structure, but also independently Ability to meet agreed deadlines, with demonstrable productivity What working at EY offers We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer: Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you. If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. Join us in building a better working world. Apply now.

As a Principal engineer within theNetwork Servicesarea of the?Infrastructure?tribe, you will be responsible for leading improvements and initiatives of Sky Betting & Gaming'sconnectivity.Working within the Core Network team you will help run all aspects of our network including the SB&G customer facing production facilities,WANand campus networks. You will be very experienced delivering projects,designand implementation along with operational awareness. Always keeping an eye on the big picture. You will have excellent problem-solving skills, putting them to use to deliver well thought out solutions which contribute to our overall goals,roadmapand strategy. Excellent communication and collaboration are key to delivering our roadmap, this role is integral to influencing our direction. You will be able to deliver your message to both technical andbusiness people. Changing your approach for the differing audiences.! How you'll do it Reporting into theEngineering Manageryou will be part of a teamshaping the future of the Network services squads. You will work closely with the squad leadership team along with manytalented engineers.Workingcollaboratively and without boundaries on variouswork streamsincluding: Roadmaps, solutiondesign, projectdelivery,incidents,capacity planningand ad-hoc proactive improvements. You will act as a point of escalation, coaching and mentoring to engineers in the squads. Empowered to make decisions to shape the way Network Services are utilised within the business. In a culture where you are free to experiment - make a convincing pitch and no-one will say "no". You will work closely with our architecture teams to ensure any new directives are suitable for our infrastructure, influencing the direction our squad takes Essentialskills Technical expert inswitching and routing across a broad range of devices. Routers, Switches L2/L3, Chassis and Stack systems Technical expertof Firewall concepts and technologies from majormanufacturersand the underlying tech;ACL, NAT, VPN Working atCisco CCNPlevelor equivalent Provenprojectdeliveryexperience Deep understanding ofRouting protocols;BGP, OSPF Excellent Troubleshooting skills, the ability to recognize,diagnoseand remediate any issue across any of ourservices Excellent written and verbal skills with a variety of approaches to be able to modify language to influence technical and business stake holders Collaboratewithother teams and 3rdpartyproviderstoseamlessly delivera stable, reliable,secureandperformant environment Build and maintain strong,positive relationship with key stakeholders across the organisation Desirable FortinetFirewall knowledge CiscoNetworking, switches&routers Cisco ACI fabric or other SDN Knowledge of Cloud Architectures(e.gOn-prem connectivity,AWS, GCP) NX-OS, IOS, IOS-XE/XRtroubleshooting and configuration Scriptingand development tools (e.g.Ansible Framework,Ruby, Python, git) Load Balancer technologyF5, ZXTM

Job Title: Technical/Solution Architect Location: London, EC2 Hire Type: Permanent Position Salary Offered £100,000 to £115,000 per annum + Benefits Starting ASAP Dimensions This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest European investment management businesses. Our client is currently on a digital transformation journey and require a talented individual to take responsibility for a number of end-to-end technology solutions to deliver strategic business outcomes. The candidate will be required to put forward roadmaps and designs for an all-encompassing vision for target state technology solutions for the initiatives, and work with several engineering teams spanning multiple technologies to ensure its implementation. The person filling this position will interact with a number of people in IT, the business and external vendors, so good verbal as well as written communication skills are of paramount importance. The candidate must be able to identify and resolve issues that are creating inefficiencies or hindering progress proactively. Principal Responsibilities Design Ownership o Producing and owning the end-to-end design of the solution spanning multiple software components (evidencing at all points how the design answers the requirements - clear traceability) o Working with engineering teams to ensure detailed component-level design responds to the end-to-end design o Working with the Senior Architects to ensure that data and functional architectures adhere to the high-level architecture principles and support target state vision for the enterprise o Working with the IT Infrastructure implementation team to make sure that planned infrastructure adequately supports the software components of the solution Requirements o Working closely with Business stakeholders, Product Managers/Owners and Business Analysts to help translate desired business outcomes into robust system requirements, both functional and non-functional Development & Testing: o Facilitate and participate in detailed design reviews and ensure that all components of the solution are aligned to the target state vision o Working with the testing team to support the definition and implementation of the testing strategy for the initiative Software Delivery o Working with component developers to elicit, validate and refine estimates for developing the software components o Planning and coordination of deployment activities across multiple technology platforms o Overall accountability for delivering technology change is shared with IT project managers Profile of ideal candidate Academic Qualifications: Educated to degree level Experience: Substantial experience in software/application development with progressively increasing responsibilities and long-term engagements with employers. Track record of designing and delivering solution architecture for data-intensive initiatives spanning multiple technologies, delivered over the course of 2-3 years, and budgeted above £5m. Experience of large transformational projects with multi-year system migration planning. Experience of the Charles River product and interfaces. Experience implementing and integrating 3rd party packages as part of technology solutions. Experience with Agile delivery methodologies; working knowledge of the SAFe framework would be a plus. Practical understanding and experience of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD). Experience working on investment management Front Office systems including portfolio management systems, OMS & trading platforms. Understanding of IBOR & ABOR fundamentals. Specialist knowledge/skills Excellent understanding and practical experience of defining, designing and implementing Microservices in an enterprise environment Excellent understanding and practical experience of cloud technologies, including PaaS, container platforms (Docker and Kubernetes), Serverless, etc. Experience with Red Hat Openshift and AWS of significant benefit Experience of Business Process Management (BPM) tools and techniques; ideally using Pega and Camunda Experience with a range of modern enterprise application integration technologies such as Apache Camel and MuleSoft Knowledge of enterprise messaging technologies with experience of Kafka Knowledge of UX/UI design and technologies In addition, it would be a plus to have exposure to: o Big Data technology stacks, such as Cloudera CDH/CDP o Data management and data quality tools Competence/Characteristics Self-starter Visual thinker able to communicate effectively with diagrams Good facilitation skills, ability to broker an agreement on a contentious issue Proactive, can learn'/can do' attitude Team & customer focused Good attention to detail Intellectual honesty

If you're looking to join an organisation that will give you the right opportunities and experience to develop your career, join Tilney Smith and Williamson. We are seeking a talented individual to join our DTS - Technology team, which are undertaking an ambitious large programme of work, to deliver new refreshed technology and an organisation transformation under Digital and Technology Solutions, to support the integration of the new merged organisation and the strategic business objectives. Key Responsibilities As Cloud Infrastructure Engineer your responsibilities will include: Provides day-to-day technical support of a range of Cloud-based applications and services Supports the Head of Infrastructure Services in developing roadmaps or backlogs for Cloud services and delivering to them Works as part of a delivery team using best practice agile ways of working (agile, squads), moving away from project-based delivery models, delivering against defined release and benefits plans. Implements strategies for individual Cloud services, working with DTS teams and customers to ensure that the right products are selected and that they are capable of high-quality delivery and that they meet current and evolving customer needs Identifies and addresses additional service requirements or service shortfalls, working with the delivery team to address these when required. Works with the Cloud Product Owner to identify Cloud service enhancements to maximise service quality, efficiency and continuity. Generates original ideas and innovative solutions through the provision of specialist know-how and advice as appropriate Works across Shared Services' groups to directly assist in the delivery of new projects. Promotes and works by the ethos "reuse before buy" and "buy before build" to benefit multiple times from single investments. Requirements Broad understanding of all the leading cloud providers with hands-on experience of configuring Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS. Experience with automating server builds on Azure or cloud solutions using infrastructure as code including GitActions Experience implementing software defined Data centre architectures (including storage, network, and compute) and infrastructure as code Experience with public cloud portal administration and resource automation Hands on with Visual Studio, Microsoft SCCM, Power Shell and at least one Scripting language such as Python, Perl, PHP or Bash. Understanding of challenges and considerations to migrate workloads from on premise to Azure Excellent understanding of Active Directory DevOps and/or Application Development exposure Benefits As our colleague here at Tilney, Smith & Williamson you will have access to benefits that include: Competitive salary life assurance Pension contribution Interest free season ticket loan Cycle to work scheme. About Tilney Smith and Williamson Tilney Smith & Williamson is the UK's leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, created by the merger of Tilney and Smith & Williamson on 1 September 2020. With £54.8 billion of assets under management (as of 30 June 2021), it ranks as the third largest UK wealth manager measured by revenues and the eighth largest professional services firm ranked by fee income. The Group currently operates through three principal brands: Tilney, Smith & Williamson, and online investment service Bestinvest. It has a network of 28 offices across the UK, as well as the Republic of Ireland and the Channel Islands. Through its operating companies, the Group offers an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities, and businesses. Value Statement Tilney Smith & Williamson's chosen purpose to "place the power of good advice into more hands" succinctly encapsulates the group's central mission of supporting both individuals and businesses to achieve their goals. In delivering its purpose, Tilney Smith & Williamson have set out three core values that it is committed to embedding in the culture of the business: Personal - we treat you as an individual: We are a people business at heart and strive to deliver a friendly, inclusive, and personalised service to all of our clients, large and small. Partnership - we go further together: We develop relationships that stand the test of time, spanning multiple generations. We partner across the full breadth of our expertise to create value for our clients, our company and society at large. Performance - we strive for more: We are ambitious for our clients and for ourselves, so we aim to be a forward-thinking and innovative business that leads the way in the industry. Diversity Statement The Tilney Smith & Williamson Group recognises the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all colleagues with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief. At Tilney Smith & Williamson we are committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of our work.

Job Profile Summary About BP's Network Services Organization: BP's IT team solves big sophisticated challenges with our data and technology expertise to help BP advance a lower carbon future. We are organized as a collection of Products, Services and Platforms teams that work together to enable our users to accomplish their missions. In Connectivity Services, we deliver one of the largest networks in the world. Our operations span over 600 office and production sites, thousands of retail locations and operate in nearly every continent. We are a diverse team of network technologists, software developers and automation engineers committed to delivering evergreen, elastic and ubiquitous connectivity experience across some of the most diverse and ambitious environments on earth. The Principal Architect crafts the vision, technology strategy and architecture standards for connectivity products and services globally, and plays a pivotal role in modernizing the technology and operating model, enhancing capability and automation practices within the domain while also providing leadership to the wider network technical community across major change activities, incremental enhancement, operational simplifications and optimizations. Why you matter: A technologist at-heart are passionate about planning and building robust networks, at scale, supporting constantly evolving business models and consumer grade services. You empower and inspire teams to deliver value, stay ahead of new technologies and integrate those technologies into a flexible and consumer centric services. The choices you make will define our architectures, standards, and solutions we will use to interconnect our people and digitize our businesses! You believe that delivering an effective service architecture depends on a deep understanding of business need, technology, and long-range planning but with a bias for short-term action. You will operate in a dynamic and delivery focused environment, with the resources of one of the world's most forward-thinking digital departments and leading vendors at your fingertips. You are confident and comfortable working across cultures and fostering effective relationships. Job Advert Your Accountabilities: Team: Our culture is exploring, thinking, and doing, and you will live this every single day, managing and developing a team of domain architects who design, build, and govern connectivity products for our digital businesses! You will define network automation standards and deliver the framework by which teams automate and integrate connectivity services. Architecture: Like most large enterprises, some elements of our platform portfolio contain the most sophisticated technologies readily available, while others are legacy. Whether its retail stores, offshore platforms, backbones point of presence, or trading floors, you will develop the vision and service strategies, reference architectures, and integrated roadmaps that will enable us to evolve and innovate the connectivity portfolio. Relationships: You will understand the business drivers, challenges and emerging use cases that will influence our strategy and trigger change in network products and capabilities. You will continuously scan the external market for relevant technologies, and you will recommend and introduce those technologies at scale and with pace. You do this by forming relationships both inside and outside of BP. Technology: You have a passion for learning and leading by example, and enjoy architecting, designing, and building automated and virtualized communication networks. You possess broad knowledge of network and security products, solutions and vendors and an ability to rapidly assess new technologies with a commercial and operational perspective. Safety and Compliance: Safety of our people and our customers is our highest priority. You will advocate and help ensure our architectures, designs and processes enhance a culture of operational safety and improve our digital security. Crucial Experience: Proven background in delivering multi-vendor, multi-product services that utilize routing, switching, optimization, security, and virtualization on a global scale in the data center, in the cloud and at the edge. In-depth understanding of legacy and modern networking infrastructure, protocols, topologies, transport technologies and are experienced in leading teams that architect solutions for large enterprises. You love envisaging the art of the possible and making that a reality. Functional knowledge of the leading technology providers and their networking products including Cisco, VMware, Aruba Networks, zScaler, and Microsoft with a solid grasp of the security practices and solutions and understand the security considerations and challenges inherent to evolving large scale distributed networks. In depth and current knowledge of cloud service provider networking and security capabilities, specifically Amazon web services and Microsoft Azure and have architected cloud and on-premise services using those products. Working knowledge in IPv6, Cellular networks including LTE/5G, Medium earth orbit satellite, low earth orbit, and LORAWAN. A proven grasp of architecture development and design thinking in an agile environment. You adapt techniques to drive meaningful product experiences and agile governance. Plus: A first degree from a recognized institute of higher learning, ideally computer science, information science, or engineering based. Exposure to adjacent technology domains such as edge computing, and cyber-security. Powerful interpersonal skills including the ability to relate sophisticated topics in simple and accessible language. Equal Opportunity BP strongly believes in the value of bringing your whole-self to our organization. While we cannot offer Visa sponsorship, we commit to equal opportunity regardless of race, religion, creed, disability, or sexual orientation. Every member of the BP family commits to the BP Values and Behaviors and seeks to uphold these standards in all that we do. #bpArchitecture Entity Innovation & Engineering Job Family Group IT&S Group Relocation available No Travel required Negligible travel Time Type Full time Country United Kingdom About BP INNOVATION & ENGINEERING Join us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero ‎world. All without compromising our operational risk management. Working with us, you can do this by: • deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and ‎safety ambitions • driving our digital transformation and pioneering new business models • collaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutions • originating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new ‎businesses from them • protecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks Because together we are: • Originators, builders, guardians and disruptors • Engineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs‎ • Empathetic, curious, creative and inclusive

A cloud native software development firm are seeking a lead .Net developer to lead one of their full stack development teams on a permanent basis (UK based fully remote) to support the expansion of their global user base. The lead .Net developer will be focussed on a mixture of team leadership and technical leadership, leading a full stack (C# .Net Core, NodeJS, JavaScript) team to design and develop new APIs and backend components, contributing to the full software development lifecycle of their cloud based applications. The lead .Net developer will take a leading role in the design and implementation of scalable, resilient and high performing solutions, defining best practices and upskilling team members allowing them to maintain standards across the team. They will also work with product managers and agile coaches to understand and translate customer requirements into effective software solutions, playing a key role in the direction and architecture of backend and API/messaging systems, along with driving CI and automation adoption to improve the speed and efficiency of software delivery. Lead .Net Developer - Required Skills and Experience: Strong enterprise C# .Net development experience to senior, lead or principal level Web/REST API development NodeJS or JavaScript experience Agile development methodology and best practices Lead .Net Developer - Ideal Experience: Cloud (AWS) and Microservices (Kubernetes) platforms Test-driven development practices API tooling, infrastructure and security Terraform IaC and/or Gitlab CI/CD Additional experience with Angular or React If you could be interested in this exciting opportunity as a Lead .Net Developer please apply online. A cloud native software development firm are seeking a lead .Net developer to lead one of their full stack development teams on a permanent basis (UK based fully remote) to support the expansion of their global user base. The lead .Net developer will be focussed on a mixture of team leadership and technical leadership, leading a full stack (C# .Net Core, NodeJS, JavaScript) team to design and develop new APIs and backend components, contributing to the full software development lifecycle of their cloud based applications. The lead .Net developer will take a leading role in the design and implementation of scalable, resilient and high performing solutions, defining best practices and upskilling team members allowing them to maintain standards across the team. They will also work with product managers and agile coaches to understand and translate customer requirements into effective software solutions, playing a key role in the direction and architecture of backend and API/messaging systems, along with driving CI and automation adoption to improve the speed and efficiency of software delivery. Lead .Net Developer - Required Skills and Experience: Strong enterprise C# .Net development experience to senior, lead or principal level Web/REST API development NodeJS or JavaScript experience Agile development methodology and best practices Lead .Net Developer - Ideal Experience: · Cloud (AWS) and Microservices (Kubernetes) platforms · Test-driven development practices · API tooling, infrastructure and security · Terraform IaC and/or Gitlab CI/CD · Additional experience with Angular or React If you could be interested in this exciting opportunity as a Lead .Net Developer please apply online.

I am looking for a Principal Architect to work for a market leading organisation and support design within critical national infrastructure. The Principal Architect is responsible for providing architecture designs and direction to the systems engineering and design teams. They must have the following skills: * Systems of systems architecture experience * Experience of large scale integration programs * Service Oriented architecture and design * Experience of Security including design and assurance activities relating to security * Systems engineering skills including Requirements management, * Model Based Systems Engineering * Project and programme management including the ability to carry out technical planning of cost and schedule and management of risks and opportunities. * Logistic support including reliability and availability analysis and design for sustainability * Performance/capacity analytics and modelling * Knowledge of ITIL and Service operation management * Experience in Enterprise architecture e.g. TOGAF * Safety analysis including Failure mode analysis * Knowledge of systems/service transition * High level concepts of software engineering * High level concepts of Integration and Test * Experience running technical reviews * Design analysis and trade study experience * Ability to provide technical leadership both in the designs and the systems engineering technical processes. Experience in as many of these areas would be beneficial:- * Cloud * Data Analytics * Security * Test Automation * Service Management * Orchestration & Integration * Large Scale Solutions Design Required Skills * 10+ years demonstrated expertise designing, implementing and integrating Enterprise-grade technical solutions meeting complex business requirements * Strong problem-solving and triage skills with the ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced and rapidly changing work environment * Strategic thinker, coupled with a pragmatic hands-on approach to getting the job done * Quick learner with an in-depth understanding of the capability * Excellent communication skills (oral, written and presentation), including the ability to listen effectively * Strong design and engineering experience; e.g. Architect, Senior System Engineer and Design Lead roles * TOGAF or equivalent Architecture certification an advantage * Strategic consulting experience around transition and transformation, Digital transformation programs * Ability to self-manage and work independently, work to tight deadlines, prioritize workloads and work with related internal business functions such as commercial, legal and finance. If you feel that you possess the majority of these requirements and are keen to make your mark by designing some critical national infrastructure then I look forward to receiving your application and I will reach out to you to arrange a time to speak further. Networkers acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers and is part of Gattaca Plc. Gattaca Plc provides support services to Networkers and may assist with processing your application

Solution Architect Perm Hours: 37.5 hours Location: Birmingham Our clients an exciting and progressive company based in Colshill are recruiting a solution architect, working within the Software & Analytics team you will also be principally responsible for defining and implementing system architectures with cloud environments; define data pipelines, storage and management; and guide the productization of machine learning models and algorithms. Principle Responsibilities: * Develop, communicate, implement and document the overall architecture of solutions * Develop robust processing and ETL pipelines for seamless deployment to multiple cloud providers including Google Cloud using where necessary the Python programming language * Collaborating with the software & analytics team and proposing a range of solutions where appropriate * Generate deployment workflows for different projects in the Software and Analytics team using tools such as Docker, Ansible, Airflow, Kubernetes or Vagrant * Create data architecture, management, transformation and publishing frameworks Person Specification: * Expert knowledge of Python * Candidate with at least 3-4 years’ experience in a solution/system/data architect role * Experience working on multiple projects using different methodologies to deliver projects * A strong technical background with proven track record in successful software development, implementation and deployment * Experience of using cloud systems for data analysis, application deployment and user management (particularly Google Cloud, AWS and VWware) * Experience of automatic provisioning of cloud infrastructure (e.g. Ansible, Terraform or equivalent) * Experience of working with and managing server-side workflow management software (e.g. Airflow). * Expert knowledge in Linux systems * Excellent coding standards, including appropriate formatting, commenting and use of linters in a production environment * Experience working with external APIs * Experience as a scrum master would be advantageous * Excellent team worker with good communication skills (fluent English) * Experience of working and collaborating with a technical development team * Ability to work and appropriately express ideas with non-technical colleagues * Excellent report writing skills, enabling the creation of both detailed technical reports and accessible client facing reports Neaves & Neat Employment Services Ltd. are acting as an Employment Agency for this Permanent vacancy

In this role, you will be responsible for the availability, latency and performance of our customer’s platforms.    You will work proactively to identify areas for improvement, implementing automation, DevOps tooling and observability to reduce the impact of failure, provide scale and improved cost efficiency. You will triage monitoring events and service desk requests, following a well defined incident response process and provide guidance and expertise to customers in a clear, calm and concise manner. Finally, you will work under the guidance and mentoring of our Solutions Architects to undertake cloud infrastructure and transformation projects in-line with Well-Architected  principals. Key tasks Continually evaluate customer platforms and identify areas for improvement. Build reliable and sustainable observability into our customer’s environments. Provide expertise and guidance to customers through service desk and phone. Triage problems through an established incident response process. Implement corrective and preventative measures in response to incidents. Act as a mentor to new team members. On-call duties. Technologies AWS, Lambda, Kubernetes, ECS, Terraform, Packer, Helm, Jenkins, Puppet, Grafana, Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Aurora, Kinesis, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, KMS, SSM, IAM. Key skills / experience Solid Linux experience. Excellent communication skills. Ability to work on several work streams with excellent time management. A positive, constructive approach with an emphasis on collaboration. Enthusiastic and eager to learn new skills, technologies and gain industry recognised certifications.