Hereford, Herefordshire
I'm looking for an MOD DV cleared Transition Project Manager with government experience for an initial 5 month contract in West Midlands. The role On a daily basis: * Manage all aspects of Operational Readiness evaluations for IT systems. * Manage Project Delivery team contractors. * Develop and manage implementation of Service Management and Transition strategy and processes. Report progress to CIWG. * Consult with stakeholders to ensure the developed service management processes are included in all training packages. * Effectively and accurately communicate relevant project information to project team. * Manage contemplated change notices and change orders to the project which will affect Service Transition activities. * Communicate process improvement suggestion with a constructive attitude. * Communicate project status and issues. * Prepare organisation and communication charts. Essential skills and experience * MOD DV clearance required on day one of the appointment due to the sensitivity of the role. * Demonstrable experience of working on a programme that has delivered or is delivering a classified strategic Command and Control system in a Military context. * Experience of Transition/Upgrade/Refresh Projects as a Transition Manager leading the migration of Users between systems. * Strong multi-tasking and organizational skill. * ITIL v 3 Transition qualifications / experience. * Knowledge of ITIL v3 Service Transition. * Proficient in MS Project and the MS Office Suite of products. * Effective communication skills including verbal, written and presentation skills. * Demonstrated willingness to be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities. * Qualifications in Project Management i.e. PRINCE2/APMP and/or equivalent experience. * Minimum 3 years' experience of Project Management. There is an application to write for this role - please send your CV for details. Start date is 11th November and the role falls outside IR35.
Croydon, Surrey
I'm looking for an SC cleared Communications Manager with government experience for a 6-month contract in Croydon. The role A Communications Manager is required to work as part of the Law Enforcement Community Network (LECN) Programme team, managing communications to a wide range of stakeholders. You will be working on: * Adapt the LECN Communication Plan and create programme communication templates. * Produce content aligned with the Communications Plan. This will include updates to communities of interest, formal communications to stakeholders, preparation for events, updating existing materials and managing webinars/teleconferences. * Manage the responses to queries, ensuring key lines to take are developed and maintained. * Establish and exploit the best channels to maximise the reach of the programme's communications * Put in place feedback processes including the reviewing and implementation of relevant changes to the communications approach. * Support ad-hoc communications work within the team as necessary. Essential skills and experience * Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. * Experience in identifying and articulating key messages to stakeholder audiences, ideally against a background of UK government programmes. * A track-record of successfully writing effectively for external audiences, including formal letters, conference materials, FAQs and programme newsletters. * Proven ability to work effectively with senior level stakeholders internally and externally. * Experience of utilising key evaluation techniques and approaches, both qualitative and quantitative, to capture outputs and outcomes. * Experience of developing and managing webinars and teleconferences. * Experience of developing video storyboard design. Due to the nature of this role you must already have SC clearance in place. Start date is no later 4th November. This role falls outside IR35. There is an application to write for this role - please send your CV for details.
City of London, London
Ruby on Rails Developer - Remote (Office is London based) We're currently assisting a London based business in taking their applications to the next level. As a relatively small business, they're beginning to scale up aggressively, and predominantly in the technology team. We're seeking a mid-level Ruby Developer to come in and help them re-develop their entire application. This role can/will be fully remote, with travel to the office (expensed) only required once every 3-4 weeks. The application is currently entirely in Ruby, but they want to re-develop it in C#. Your role will be essential in ensuring this is a seamless transition and will add the Ruby experience they need to see the project through. The business is keen to bringing in someone that is technology agnostic, and willing/able to retrain in C# .Net and stay with the business. This is a great opportunity to work for a forward thinking business as they grow their unique offering. You'll no doubt end up being part of something much bigger in a fairly short period of time. Skills: Ruby on Rails - all development will be in Ruby on Rails thus strong skills in the Ruby language and the Rails environment are essential. C# - any existing experience in C# will be advantageous. Unit Testing - engineers are responsible for developing working code. Unit testing is an aspect of this and all engineers must show an ability to develop good unit tests Agile Development - the engineering team uses a Scrum based agile development approach. API development - A working knowledge of API development is desirable. Software architecture - Depending on seniority, a good knowledge of software design and architecture is required. SQL - A working knowledge of SQL is needed. Active Record - string knowledge of ActiveRecord and how to use it. Database modelling and design - Depending on seniority, a strong understanding of database modelling and design is desirable. Solid communication a team working skills. Please send your most up to date CV for immediate consideration.
South East London, London
I'm looking for an SC cleared Cyber Security Consultant with government experience to provide technical security and assurance support to the Law Enforcement Community Network. This is an initial 6 month contract extending a further 6 months and the work will take place in Croydon. The role - Develop/manage a new Security Risk Assessment strategy, policy and process. - Perform hands-on gap and risk assessments associated with: - Applications (Home Office Open Systems and Police-to-Police); - Data Centres (WAN-NNI); - Cloud and physical IT infrastructure; - Vendors, suppliers and other third parties. - Map controls to policies, standards, procedures and process. - Review and monitor IT Security controls to identify operational effectiveness. - Interface with CSOC and IAM teams. - Interface with security architects, National Information Risk Management, NCSC and other security stakeholders. - Provide and contribute to risk assessments. - Maintain broad knowledge of standard methodologies and trends in the field of Information Security. Essential skill and experience - Experience implementing or assessing security in a PSN network and cloud-as a service environment. - Experience of Cyber Assurance assessments. - Experience of working in a Policing environment. - Extensive knowledge of security technologies and risk assessment methodologies, policies and processes. - 4+ years' experience working within the technical arena with 2 plus years of information security work experience. - Solid technical background in IT systems and networking in both on-premise and cloud environments. - Knowledge &experience of: AWS (or similar) cloud security &infrastructure Web-infrastructure security (Applications &APIs) Network-security tools (IDS/IPS, firewalls etc.) Network-visualization (SD-WAN-Networks, network function virtualisation etc.) Encryption technology & implementation You must have SC clearance already in place and be able to start on Monday 11h November. This role falls outside IR35. There is an application to complete for this role - please send your CV for details.
Taunton, Somerset
I am recruiting for an SC CLEARED QA Engineer to be based in Taunton. ACTIVE SC CLEARANCE IS ESSENTIAL. This role does fall inside IR35 so you MUST work through an umbrella company for the duration of the contract. You will undertake responsibilities of a QA engineer/software developer with a focus on test automation. Involvement with all aspects of test automation: functional and performance. You will also have experience with more than one of the leading test automation tools and frameworks, closed-tools such as QTP and open-source tools such as Sahi, Selenium, Watir/N or Fitness. Experience with testing products with the following technology stacks (or equivalent): Ruby, Java, .NET, SQL, XML & web services. You must have a wide range of experience in writing automated tests using C# and testing experience including manual testing, test analysis and design. The deadline for candidate submission is Thursday 17/10/19 at 3pm.
Manchester, Greater Manchester
I am recruiting for a Data centre Infrastructure Architect to be based in Manchester. This role does fall inside IR35 so you MUST work through an umbrella company for the duration of the contract. You will have experience of overseeing technical aspects, providing direction and decisions in support of the Data Centre Network services migration. You will also be responsible for the technical architecture oversight of all server & application migrations from current Data Centre to, two new, active:active configured Data Centres, including advice on placement and risk profiles and business impacts associated with any moves. You will be responsible for Secure Health and Cabinet Office links migration solution design and migration oversight - PSN, HSCN. Experience of oversight and ratification of designs put forward by BT in relation to the migration of WAN services. You will be able to address key stakeholder concerns and ensure the integrity of the chosen architecture (including business systems) reconciling the trade offs between the various architectural principles (for example, levels of security vs. performance). If this sounds of interest please apply ASAP to discuss further.
City of London, London
I am recruiting for an SC Cleared Business Analyst to be based in London. ACTIVE SC CLEARANCE IS ESSENTIAL. You must have experience of the OJEU procurement process. Excellent knowledge of requirements gathering processes and proven analysis and problem-solving techniques is essential. Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills, covering As-Is and To-Be processes, and business requirements documents. Experience in managing relationships between external partners and business stakeholders. Public sector experience would be preferable. The deadline for candidate submission is Wednesday 16/10/19 at 4pm.
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Network Engineer - Basingstoke Access Consulting are working in partnership to support the current recruitment drive of one of the world's largest ISP's. We are looking for Tier 3 NOC engineers to work out of Basingstoke. Like with many ISP's they support devices from multiple vendors covering Cisco, Juniper and Alcatel with the vast majority being Cisco. This would suit someone who has an advanced Cisco background with a solid understanding of routing protocols and configuration. The role You will be providing dedicated operational support to specific Managed Service customers' networks. You will be responsible for assuring proactive alarm management, network analysis, routine maintenance, health checks, and crisis management, as well as being an escalation point for the Service Desk, Customer, and Service Managers. The position includes some queue, workload and team supervision responsibilities, and the role is expected to be a technical focal point and SME within the team for the customer's network; validating escalations into 3rd level Technical Support, 3rd Party Vendor, and Local Exchange Carriers. Duties also include training other members of the NOC group and associated assurance teams. Essential skills and experience You will need an understanding of IP networking specifically Cisco, Juniper and Alcatel hardware to an advanced level. Experience working on Data/IP networks completing 1st/2nd level diagnostics across multiple technologies and vendors. Proficient with BGP, MPLS, VPN. Excellent communication skills with ability to converse technical information to all audiences. If you have what I am looking for please send your CV for immediate consideration.
Crewe, Cheshire
Network Engineer - Crewe Access Consulting are working in partnership to support the current recruitment drive of one of the world's largest ISP's. We are looking for Tier 3 NOC engineers to work out of Crewe. Like with many ISP's they support devices from multiple vendors covering Cisco, Juniper and Alcatel with the vast majority being Cisco. This would suit someone who has an advanced Cisco background with a solid understanding of routing protocols and configuration. The role You will be providing dedicated operational support to specific Managed Service customers' networks. You will be responsible for assuring proactive alarm management, network analysis, routine maintenance, health checks, and crisis management, as well as being an escalation point for the Service Desk, Customer, and Service Managers. The position includes some queue, workload and team supervision responsibilities, and the role is expected to be a technical focal point and SME within the team for the customer's network; validating escalations into 3rd level Technical Support, 3rd Party Vendor, and Local Exchange Carriers. Duties also include training other members of the NOC group and associated assurance teams. Essential skills and experience You will need an understanding of IP networking specifically Cisco, Juniper and Alcatel hardware to an advanced level. Experience working on Data/IP networks completing 1st/2nd level diagnostics across multiple technologies and vendors. Proficient with BGP, MPLS, VPN. Excellent communication skills with ability to converse technical information to all audiences. If you have what I am looking for please send your CV for immediate consideration.
Rotherham, South Yorkshire
I am recruiting for a Lead Developer to be based in South Yorkshire. You must have worked in a Lead role previously. You must have a proven record in designing and delivering solutions for Office 365 / Microsoft Azure and also in delivering solutions using Agile methodologies. Excellent knowledge of delivering code in .NET / .NET Core and also delivering UI/UX using React and front-end libraries. You will have a proven record of delivering applications using Azure DevOps including sprint planning, daily stand ups / stand downs, work item management, code reviews. You will be responsible for coding standard definition, documentation, unit testing and code merge and deployment and also be responsible for designing continuous integration and continuous deployment of code to product and customer infrastructure. Knowledge of Microservices architecture, NoSQL databases, Kubernetes, Docker is also desirable. Excellent communication skills with the ability to attend, run and manage follow-up of client / on-site meetings is also required. If this sounds of any interest please apply ASAP.
Rotherham, South Yorkshire
I am recruiting for two Developers to be based in South Yorkshire. You must have a proven record in designing and delivering solutions for Office 365 / Microsoft Azure and also in delivering solutions using Agile methodologies. Excellent knowledge of delivering code in .NET / .NET Core and also delivering UI/UX using React and front-end libraries. Knowledge of delivering application front-ends using Office UI Fabric is desirable. A good knowledge of Azure fundamentals and well-known Azure services. Azure certifications is desirable. Knowledge of Microservices architecture, NoSQL databases, Kubernetes, Docker is also desirable. Excellent communication skills with the ability to attend, run and manage follow-up of client / on-site meetings is also required. If this sounds of any interest please apply ASAP.
Rotherham, South Yorkshire
I am recruiting for a Product & Quality Manager to be based in South Yorkshire. You will be responsible for assessing development requirements from custom projects and application development roadmap requirements to produce development schedules. Your other responsibilities will include building development roadmaps for applications and creating Software Assurance (SA) update schedules for applications. A degree in business management would be particularly useful for this role but is not essential. You must have experience of working in quality control role or relevant qualifications and have previously worked in a product design role or have relevant qualifications. Knowledge of people-based systems, specifically HRMS, LMS, ATS and QHSE is essential. An understanding of testing standards and certifications, namely ISTQB Agile Tester / Foundation Level Extension (CTFL) or equivalent certification level is required. You must have excellent presentation and communication skills (to both technical and non-technical audiences). Please apply ASAP if you would like to discuss further.