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I am working with a public service client who are looking to bring in a number of platform engineers to be a member of a team of IT specialists within the business & be responsible for the development and support of the system tier in a DevOps environment.

Note - This role is remote working initially but will have a requirement for some on site working once government guidelines allow so candidates should be able to commute to the NE. All interviewing & on boarding is done remotely and the first start date available for this role is January.

In this role, you are responsible for:

1. Designs, develops, tests, implements and supports the system Infrastructure to meet challenging deadlines, quality standards, business targets and customer requirements.
2. Analyses a wide range of complex business and technical issues in order to gain a thorough understanding of the system environment and proactively identifies and resolves system issues to ensure system availability and capacity for the business.
3. Responsible for the 24/7 system support, of business critical applications in both production and non-production environments.
4. Monitors and reviews the efficient and effective running of hardware, software and system tier services.
5. Evaluates tools including open source products to ensure that the business is running products that are most appropriate and in line with the ICT strategy to deliver against the business needs.
6. Install, configure and test new versions of system tier offerings, ensuring that all products are within the business end of Life strategy and minimise impact to the business.
7. Produces departmental and project documentation - operating instructions, user guides and reference material at an appropriate level; for technical and a non-technical audience.
8. Works within a multi-disciplinary project team supporting the delivery pipeline creating user stories to document and plan tasks.
9. Plans and manages time effectively, frequently working on a number of systems/tasks in parallel, escalating and managing expectations as appropriate. Responds quickly to change and is able to re-prioritising workload as required.
10. Analyses a wide range of data e.g. technical manuals, business process documentation, system specifications and statistical performance data and resolves conflicting requirements, taking responsibility to update processes and documentation where changes are made.
11. Uses initiative to make decisions on complex technical matters and make recommendations which influence key decisions to project and DevOps team

12. Communicates effectively at all levels, verbally and in writing to establish and maintain communication with individuals and groups, internally and externally. Explains complex concepts and technical issues in a manner that is appropriate for the target audience.
13. Conducts and participates in meetings, workshops and quality reviews with customers and colleagues in relation to all responsibilities and duties.
14. Contributes towards the development of future work plans and requirements. Assists the planning process by producing time and resource estimates.
15. Operates in a quality-oriented environment and continually seeks to improve customer service by examining, recommending and implementing changes to procedures, policies and services.
16. Carries out research and development work to support future business needs e.g. pilots, evaluation and trials of new technologies, hardware and software.
17. Creates automated processes for the building and configuring of server platforms and the releasing and deploying of the software
18. Analyses the existing processes to identify opportunities for improvement using automation and new technologies
19. Creates dashboards and other tools for day-to-day monitoring and troubleshooting
20. Uses monitoring tools to find problems, and work with the relevant area to resolve them quickly.
21. Delivery of incidents, service requests, project work and associated work within SLA's and KPI's

Essentail criteria

* Programming skills within a system tier environment. The individual will have strong Unix/Linux administration and language skills:
* Shell scripting
* Jython scripting
* Experience in the use of the following DevOps concepts and tools:
* * Deploying and configuring servers in a cloud environment (Terraform, Fog).
* * Configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible).
* * Continuous Integration Engine (Jenkins, Travis-CI).
* * Continuous Inspection (SonarQube).
* * Virtualisation (VMWare, Amazon EC2).
* * Networking Concepts, technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, DNS). Monitoring (Sensu, Consul). . Penetration testing (OWASP ZAP)

Preferred critria

Recent experience with
* WebSphere Application Server Network
Deployment
* WebSphere MQ
* IBM HTTP Server
Experience and knowledge of installation and management of one or more of the following Open
Source software products
* JBoss Application Server
* Apache Tomcat
* Apache HTTP Server
* Rabbit MQ

Experience and knowledge of one or more of the following

* IBM Webseal
* Windows Powershell scripting
* IBM Tivoli Access Manager
* LDAP - Novell e-directory
* Achieve Forms
* IIS
* K2 Blackpearl
* Meridio
* GitLab, GitHub
* JIRA
* Docker

Qualifications

IT related degree or equivalent
AND
Minimum of 2 years' experience in developing and /or supporting IT systems

Send in your CV ASAP for immediate consideration.

As part of the Product Management team, you will work closely with designers, data scientists and engineers to guide products from conception to launch. You understand user journeys, connect technical and business needs, and align teams across all functional areas.

If you're passionate about education and creating meaningful products, then look no further. This job isn't just about releasing as many features as possible. It's about building a service with a global reach, touching millions of users/



As our Product Manager your responsibilities will be to:

* Ensure the customer voice is present throughout the product development lifecycle
* Prioritise building what matters to balance long-term and short term customer needs
* Understand and analyse user needs and synthesise product requirements from customers
* Build and manage a product roadmap to support our goals and strategies
* Work with the UX team to define user problems, journeys and designs
* Plan what the team will deliver, the timeline for implementation and organise and lead the sprint work through sprint events (standup, demo, retrospective).
* Perform strategic analysis and prioritise the problems to solve



Your profile:

* 2+ years experience in digital product management
* Ability to grasp complex concepts and systems quickly, and express them in simple ways
* Experience in developing requirement documents and user stories
* Excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills including the ability to provide guidance to highly technical professionals and executive management
* Experience in project management and agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban etc.
* Experience with Atlassian JIRA/Confluence a plus
* Interest in data driven product solutions
* Strong analytical skills
* Scandinavian language is a plus



What we offer:

* Working for one of the fastest growing tech product companies in Norway
* Engaged and dedicated colleagues from all over the world
* Room for personal growth and high degree of freedom and responsibility
* Brand new office in downtown Oslo (from summer 2020)

DevOps Manager - Edinburgh

My client is looking for a passionate and energetic DevOps Manager to add to their ever growing team. The role will require you to manage and work with a growing team of Engineers that are creating high-quality, powerful systems. The role is expected to be 50-50 hands-on and off.

As the team works on, and maintains a high availability cloud system, your role will be to ensure that they are kept on time and within budget. The team works in an agile environment as the company experiences its sizeable technological expansion.

The main objectives of the team are focused around designing, and developing the automated deployment, maintenance and monitoring of the system.

* Proven experience working in an AWS environment
* Certifications will be favoured
* Practical experience building and deploying to cloud solutions (AWS)
* Ability with Scripting (BASH, Shell, Python, etc)
* Ability with Terraform ideally or Cloudformation
* Proven experience with Jenkins and Kubernetes
* Proven ability managing teams of DevOps Engineers
* Ability to remain organised as deadlines loom
* Communication skills and experience working in an agile environment

The client is looking to hire someone ASAP, with interviews planned forn next week.

To find out more contact o.king@jeffersonfrank.com or call 0191 814 7785

Cloud Platforms | Remote Interview | Progression Opportunities | Relaxed Working Environment | UK Consultancy

My client are a London based financial media group in the process of a digital transformation and restructuring of business to support continued successful growth. This has created the need for a Senior BI Analyst, to help deliver information management and advanced analytics.

This senior analytical position will support the analysis and report delivery of information in support of marketing, sales, editorial and product development teams across the company.

Role & Responsibilities

* Drive innovation using BI to generate incremental business benefit.
* Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that BI solutions are fully comprehended and adopted.
* Collaborate with business/IT teams to continuously improve data quality.
* Deliver tailored insight that exceeds expectations.
* Support the department head in the management and delivery of business solutions.

Skills & Qualifications

* Extensive Data industry experience (ideally financial/ commercial services focused organisations)
* Naturally inquisitive analytical, focused on delivering tailored insight and analysis within fast moving environments.
* SQL and Tableau.
* Digital analytics.
* Good communication and leadership skills.

Benefits

* Performance related bonus.
* 25 days holiday per annum.
* Co-contributory pension scheme.

If you think this is the next exciting opportunity for you- apply today!

Contact d.mcpake@jeffersonfrank.com/ 01912613257

Job Description

My client are in the process of a digital transformation and restructuring of its business to support continued successful growth. This has created the need for a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst, to help deliver information management and advanced analytics.

This senior analytical position will support the analysis and report delivery of information in support of marketing, sales, editorial and product development teams across the company.

Role & Responsibilities

* Drive innovation using BI to generate incremental business benefit.
* Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that BI solutions are fully comprehended and adopted.
* Collaborate with business/IT teams to continuously improve data quality.
* Deliver tailored insight that exceeds expectations.
* Support the department head in the management and delivery of business solutions.

Skills & Qualifications

* Extensive Data industry experience (ideally financial/ commercial services focused organisations)
* Naturally inquisitive analytical, focused on delivering tailored insight and analysis within fast moving environments.
* SQL and Tableau.
* Digital analytics.
* Good communication and leadership skills.

Benefits

* Performance related bonus.
* 25 days holiday per annum.
* Co-contributory pension scheme.

Job Description

The API Business is setting up a new channel for external engagement using modern, restful API services for products and services. The team will own API product management and delivery roles for new services that the our client looks to develop and be responsible for shaping up the new standard of banking that will really create valuable API's that sit at the heart of successful ventures to come. The API Business aims to be the first choice for powering new ideas and ventures in a connected world.

Role & Responsibilities

* Techno-functional with deep knowledge of API engineering (60%) and strong acumen of Product lenses (API as a Product).
* Interaction Domain model incremental maturity
* Non-DS Stakeholder management
* Business architecture alignments across WPB and group
* Discover-ability - Bringing the model to life
* Product packaging analysis
* Private Bank alignment
* Regular assessment of domains with product owners
* BOSS, Staff channels, RBB
* Value Stream alignment, Connected Enterprise, Core banking capability alignment and efficiency's
* Cross domain packaging for common use cases / externalization

Skills & Qualifications

Technical API knowledge & coding expertise to at least a foundations level

Demonstrable knowledge of latest trends and best practices in API development and developer experience

Understanding of customer centric design techniques

Strong level of communication skills, often at a senior level, internally and externally

The ability to execute in-depth analysis to define and shape a proposition and that may come from personally led or external research.

Benefits

* Competitive Day rate.
* Incredible working environment
* Flexible working
* Part of a global brand working on some of the most current and forward thinking projects in the UK.

Want to join an exciting company with AI at the forefront of the customer focus?

We are looking for a Machine Learning Manager to join an exciting company with big plans for 2020. The company focuses on real world problems being solved using AI and Machine Learning and is looking for a candidate who shares this desire.

You will have to show demonstrative ability in competencies in Machine Learning/Data Science and have skills to demonstrate/share this knowledge to peers and colleagues, as well as technical strategy focus.

Benefits:

* Great open culture.
* Collaborative work environment.
* Competitive Salary

Must have skills:

* 5+ years' experience in a similar role.
* Practical experience and conjectural understanding of modern ML techniques.
* Proven experience with ML & Data Wrangling using R, Python, MATLAB or similar.
* Confident communication and presentation skills.
* University Degree (Masters preferred).
* Ability to work autonomously whilst also mentoring other members of the team.



Please contact me on the details below for a confidential conversation regarding your future.

Michael Wigham | E: m.wigham@jeffersonfrank.com | T: +46 77 588 86 10

DevOps Manager - Edinburgh

My client is looking for a passionate and energetic DevOps Manager to add to their ever growing team. The role will require you to manage and work with a growing team of Engineers that are creating high-quality, powerful systems. The role is expected to be 50-50 hands-on and off.

As the team works on, and maintains a high availability cloud system, your role will be to ensure that they are kept on time and within budget. The team works in an agile environment as the company experiences its sizeable technological expansion.

The main objectives of the team are focused around designing, and developing the automated deployment, maintenance and monitoring of the system.

* Proven experience working in an AWS environment
* Certifications will be favoured
* Practical experience building and deploying to cloud solutions (AWS)
* Ability with Scripting (BASH, Shell, Python, etc)
* Ability with Terraform ideally or Cloudformation
* Proven experience with Jenkins and Kubernetes
* Proven ability managing teams of DevOps Engineers
* Ability to remain organised as deadlines loom
* Communication skills and experience working in an agile environment

The client is looking to hire someone ASAP, with interviews planned forn next week.

To find out more contact o.king@jeffersonfrank.com or call 0191 814 7785

One of my top client is seeking a Technical Program Manager with Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering experience. This organization is one of my best clients, and is dedicated to supporting and improving clinical oncology research. We build software to solve problems at each stage of the clinical trial process, from feasibility to post-trial pharmacovigilance.

This position is a full-time role in NorCal, can offer up to $150k on the base, and is available for Green Card holders or US Citizens.

Required Skills:

* 5+ years Program Management experience
* 5+ years Software Engineering experience

* Will they need to code? Yes, but not all the time- Java, Python OR Unix

* Artificial Intelligence experience
* *No more than 10 years' overall exp - DON'T want someone super senior and set in their ways*

Preferred Skills:

* AWS
* Healthcare background / HIPAA exp
* Bash scripting

Ideal profile:

* A successful candidate will be a figurehead who can get buy-in across various departments for projects
* This person will own the process internally and handle lifecycle management
* Ideally looking for candidates coming from high-tech companies like KODA, Tempus, Flatiron

Minimum Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
* Minimum 5 years Experience in program management, release management and/or engineering
management working on software engineering projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Resourceful and comfortable with ambiguity-able to quickly formulate and test hypotheses with limited
information.
* Master's, degree, or equivalent experience in Engineering, Computer Science, or other technical field.
* Experience with life cycle management in a fast-paced software environment.
* Ability to exercise technical judgement in solving software engineering challenges involving bug triage,
source control, continuous integration, etc.
* Ability to be an influential member of a highly integrated team composed of both technical and
non-technical members.
* Entrepreneurial spirit/ "get it done" mentality and willingness to wear different hats.

My client is looking for a passionate and energetic DevOps Manager to add to their ever growing team. The role will require you to manage and work with a growing team of Engineers that are creating high-quality, powerful systems. The roe is expected to be 50-50 hands-on and off.

As the team works on, and maintains a high availability cloud system, your role will be to ensure that they are kept on time and within budget. The team works in an agile environment as the company experiences its sizeable technological expansion.

The main objectives of the team are focused around designing, and developing the automated deployment, maintenance and monitoring of the system.

* Proven experience working in an AWS environment
* Certifications will be favoured
* Practical experience building and deploying to cloud solutions (AWS)
* Ability with Scripting (BASH, Shell, Python, etc)
* Ability with Terraform ideally or Cloudformation
* Proven experience with Jenkins and Kubernetes
* Proven ability managing teams of DevOps Engineers
* Ability to remain organised as deadlines loom
* Communication skills and experience working in an agile environment

The initial contract is for 6 months with potential for extension. The client is looking to hire someone ASAP, with interviews planned for the next year.