Senior AWS DevOps Engineer – AWS, Terraform, K8s – Manchester

I’m currently recruiting for a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer for a dynamic Fintech business based in Central Manchester

They are looking for a Subject matter expert who can come on board and work side-by-side with Technical lead to, initially, evaluate, design and implement a large AWS migration.

You will also be heavily involved in ensuring Infrastructure-as-code best practices, containerisation and microservice architecture.

This will be a permanent position offering a salary up to £60,000 with a good benefits package.

Skills required:

• Strong AWS experience including AWS services
• Good commercial experience implementing IaC (Terraform)
• Ideally expeirnece using Kubernetes
• DevSecOps a bonus

Would this be of interest?

If so, please apply and we can discuss things in further detail

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer – AWS, Terraform, K8s – Manchester

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

McGregor Boyall is working hand in hand with an award winning global software technology centres based in Glasgow and Edinbugh to support their ambitious expansion plans.

If you feel that your current career is stalling and you are looking for more technical authority, we should chat. This role will see you working on cyber security and resiliency requirements in a collaborative DevOps environment. Yes - the entry standard here is high but the on the job learning you’ll experience after joining is the best in Scotland.

My client is looking for talented “T-shaped” Java developers (full end to end SDLC) and Engineers that pride themselves in clarity of their code and are looking to put their own stamp on a range of the most business-critical applications. We’d love to hear from technology innovators who like to code and tinker on personal projects in their spare time.

This will also open the opportunities to work on multiple greenfield projects involving the newest technologies in the market such as Java8, Hibernate, Spring Boot, MongoDB and Cloud.

The below experience and technical exposure would be highly advantageous for this position:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience of Java development
• Ability to demonstrate successful end-to-end Java application delivery
• Experience with DevOps practices- TDD, CI/CD
• Good understanding of test automation tools: Selenium, Cucumber
• Knowledge of RDBMS (SQL, Sybase, DB2). NoSQL understanding is a plus
• Expertise in testing tools such as JUnit
• Sound knowledge of Linux

In return, you will receive competitive bonus packages of up to £75k DOE including Income protection, Pension contribution of up to 12% and Flexible working is possible. (2 days working from home)

Sounds tempting? Click “Apply” to hear more!

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

AWS Cloud Architect - DevOps - Roadmaps - Financial Services - London

Permanent, excellent package offered!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a AWS Cloud Architect with Devops exposure to join a prestigious financial services client in the city.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Designing and documenting the cloud target architecture and automating the delivery pipeline for DevOps environments.
• Designing and planning the migration of on-premise business systems into the cloud
• Designing the multi-cloud integration strategy, architecture and design.
• Upkeep of cloud technology roadmaps.

Skills and experience required:

Significant experience in IT with recent experience in a similar role, with specific experience and knowledge of:

- Experience of automating the delivery pipeline for DevOps environments

• Skills across Ansible, Terraform, etc
• Experience of designing, building or working in a devops environment and the automation of software delivery.

- AWS (core tech including EC2, S3, Route 53 / DNS, EBS)

• Experience of designing and delivering a multi-cloud architecture with integrations.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of cloud security issues / challenges and delivery of appropriately architected solutions.
• Demonstrable experience delivering cloud solutions from initiation through to production.

Desirable:

• Experience working in an Agile environment
• TOGAF

If this is of interest and you have the required skills, please submit your CV over for immediate consideration.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Infrastructure Solution Architect
McGregor Boyall has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Infrastructure Solution Architect to join a growing, multi-national private healthcare organization who is passionate about using technology to improve patient care and quality of life around the world. You will be based in their Glasgow office and work on global projects.
You will design and deliver infrastructure architecture designs with a ‘Cloud first’ mentality and will work across various project deployments concurrently. You’ll work closely with Build Engineers, Service Owners and Enterprise Architects to ensure strategic alignment and oversee projects to ensure they meet all functional requirements and service level agreements. You will also work as part of the internal Solution Review Board who ensure all technical designs meet with global standards and are in-line with future strategies.
Experience Required:

• 3+ years of experience in designing and delivering technical infrastructure solutions across large-scale environments such as Cloud adoption and data center migration projects
• In-depth, subject matter expert knowledge across two or three technical disciplines e.g. systems management, networks, security, storage, virtualisation, cloud, SaaS etc.
• Demonstrable experience of knowledge of principles such as project management, relationship management, stakeholder management and vendor management.

For more information or to apply please send your CV to lburrows@mcgregor-boyall.com or contact Lorna Burrows on 0141 212 2393.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Technical Delivery Manager – Executive Director

McGregor Boyall has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Technical Delivery Manager to join a growing financial services organization at the forefront of technology innovation on a permanent basis. This institution is renowned worldwide and known in the market for their extremely high caliber of technical teams.

You will take on the ownership of large chunks of delivery within a global team, with projects spanning between six and 24 months, and will also line manage teams of three to 10 Java developers depending on the project. You will identify risks within the team such as siloes and develop strategies to overcome or mitigate these risks and will oversee the growth and expansion of the team.

You will also be tasked with ensuring the technical architecture for the project is robust and efficient, develop and implement a project plan and work with other teams and Delivery Managers to push the overall business and team strategy forward.

Experience Required:

• Experience of managing the delivery of a large-scale software development team
• Experience in line management of team of three or more software developers
• Technical leadership
• Agile and scrum methodologies
• Project planning
• Stakeholder management
• Candidates with a technical background in Java development are preferred
• Experience within the financial services sector would also be beneficial

For more information or to apply please send your CV to lburrows@mcgregor-boyall.com or contact Lorna Burrows on 0141 212 2393

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

UX Designer - £60,000 - London

Financial company based in The City are now looking for an exceptional UX Designer to join their Vibrant close knit team! Reporting into the Experience manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for the continuous improvement of their user interface, and the quality of all screen design produced.

Office culture is extremely important to my client as the team work very closely together and they offer everyone to get involved and contribute to projects. This role would suit someone who is keen to make a difference on a project and has a clear vision when working on projects. It is a great environment with lots of opportunities to upgrade your skills.

Essential:

• Supporting design and delivery of a large scale online proposition
• Axure
• site maps, user journeys, process diagrams, personas, style guidelines and experience maps
• Provide user experience designs and usability assistance
• Excellent presentation, organisation and planning skills
• Understanding of best practice user experience approaches and how to apply them
• Highly motivated, results orientated, confident and credible

If you think you have the necessary skills and experience please apply now!

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

We are looking to recruit a senior strategy lead who has an indepth knowledge and understanding of big data and analytics that will allow you to develop the medium to long term strategy of to how to provide and shape cloud based data services to meet the needs of a varied and evolving market.
To be a success in this role you will be someone with a clear understanding of the vendor capabilities in the field of Cloud Big Data and Analytics aligned with the ability to assist stakeholders to define and prioritise their requirements. This will allow you to own and lead the development of the strategy and technology roadmap for cloud database distribution and work with stakeholders, architecture, development and vendors to deliver a capability that is second to none.
This is an opportunity to join an organisation who are leaders in their field with a reputation for excellence and investing in the development of their people. You have the opportunity to deliver solutions in Big Data and Analytics making use of Cloud technologies that will put you at the forefront of innovation.

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Visual Designer - £500 per day - London

A leading investment bank is looking for a Visual Designer to join their team on an initial 6-month contract. Paying up to £500 per day you will be working out of their state-of-the-art Canary Wharf based offices. You will be responsible for the visual design user interfaces for web-based, hand-held, and desktop applications. You will be interested with how visual design impacts use and understanding and want to create innovative visualisation of complex information and data.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Excellent communication, presentation, and client management skills
• Understanding of current industry best practices
• Experienced with designing transactional user interfaces
• Ability to manage client expectations and own time efficiently
• Collaboration with product owners and business analysts to design solutions
• Follow an iterative User-Centred Design Processes
• Work collaboratively in cross-disciplinary design teams
• Create Detailed Interaction and User Interface Designs
• Create innovative visual language for User Interfaces
• Define and create graphic systems & style guides

Desirable:

• Strong Interaction Design Skills
• Strong Visual Design
• Experience with Web application or Software design
• AJAX / FLEX technologies
• Good writing skills
• Financial Services industry

If you think you have the necessary skills and experience, then please apply now with a copy of your CV and portfolio.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

I am currently looking for an Integration Architect (Cloud/ Middleware) to join a top financial services based in London. The role will be a permanent role and will be working on a new project within the business.

Responsibilities:

• Develop architectures to enable the decoupling of non-core internal business applications from the core settlement & payment systems.
• Produce the application taxonomy mapping and update the application catalog to enable completion of cost allocation by applications.
• Integrate project solutions with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, design patterns, and best practices
• Design integration “middleware”, such as a messaging, identity management, authentication/authorization frameworks, as well as infrastructural services related to integration
• Provide technical leadership & mentoring to infrastructure engineers, DBAs, and developers on technical integration tasks

Skills/ responsibilities required:

• Significant experience as an Integration Architect or Solutions Architect
• Significant experience architecting integration solutions
• Strong knowledge of integration design patterns, industry best practices with experience of applying them to solve real-life problems.
• Knowledge of middleware technologies (e.g. ESB, API’s, Microservices, BPM, workflow)
• IBM MQ experience
• Demonstrable experience delivering cloud solutions from initiation through to production.
• Experience with AWS/ Azure (Office 365)

Location - London

Role – Permanent

Salary – 100,000 - £120,000

If you feel like you are a strong match for my requirements, please send me over an updated copy of your CV and I will get back in touch.

Many thanks,

Jamie

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

I am looking to speak with skilled Java Engineers with a solid experience developing end to end solutions. There are various CONTRACT opportunities based in Glasgow offering work on exciting projects developing Enterprise Cutting-Edge applications whilst promoting DevOps practices within teams.

The required skills include but are not limited to are:

• Expert knowledge of Core Java
• Demonstrable experience working in Unix/Linux environment
• Expert knowledge with SQL, Oracle and other Relational databases like DB2
• Sound knowledge of Integration tools- XML, SOAP, JSON, Spring
• Experience working on Build tools: Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, GIT
• Demonstrable experience working on message-driven systems is a must

These are contrcat roles for 6 months duration with a potential of further extension.

If you can demonstrate the required skills, please apply with your most up to date CV or send your application zpriekule@mcgregor-boyall.com

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

We are looking to speak with skilled C#/ .NET CONTRACT Developers to support a large Enterprise Application for one of our FinTech clients in central Edinburgh. This is a 6 months contract with a potential of being extended further and it will be suitable for a .Net Developer with previous experience in the FinTech or passion for Financial applications.

To qualify for this role the following skills are required:

• Strong commercial experience working on C#/.NET (ideally in FinTech environment)
• Professional experience with JavaScript and related frameworks such as Angular
• Experience with providing 2^nd and 3^rd line support on .Net/C# platforms
• Demonstrable experience working on full SDLC
• Evidence in working in Agile environment and sound knowledge of Scrum

If you would like to be considered for this role, please click apply or forward your updated CV to zpriekule@mcgregor-boyall.com

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

DevOps / Cloud Architect - AWSFinancial Services - London

Permanent, excellent package offered!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a DevOps/Cloud Architect to join a prestigious financial services client in the city.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Designing and documenting the cloud target architecture and automating the delivery pipeline for DevOps environments.
• Designing and planning the migration of on-premise business systems into the cloud
• Designing the multi-cloud integration strategy, architecture and design.
• Upkeep of cloud technology roadmaps.

Skills and experience required:

Significant experience in IT with recent experience in a similar role, with specific experience and knowledge of:

- Experience of automating the delivery pipeline for DevOps environments

• Skills across Ansible, Terraform, etc
• Experience of designing, building or working in a devops environment and the automation of software delivery.

- AWS (core tech including EC2, S3, Route 53 / DNS, EBS)

• Experience of designing and delivering a multi-cloud architecture with integrations.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of cloud security issues / challenges and delivery of appropriately architected solutions.
• Demonstrable experience delivering cloud solutions from initiation through to production.

Desirable:

• Some previous experience in software development
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• TOGAF

If this is of interest and you have the required skills, please submit your CV over for immediate consideration.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.