Technology Permanent

Harris Global are currently looking for an Azure Engineer to join our industry leading client in their Manchester office. The successful candidate will join the Public Cloud Platform team (Azure/AWS/Google) providing governance, standards and platform engineering capabilities.

Key skills will include:

• Extensive experience of designing and building cloud architectures within Azure, using Azure Resource Manager, Azure IaaS, PaaS offerings and services in Azure Commercial, and/or Azure for Government
• Azure AD and Single Sign-On experience is a must have
• Hands-on experience migrating services and applications to the cloud and designing DevOps operational processes, deployment checklists, etc.
• Experience deploying web and service-based applications in Windows/Linux environments
• Working knowledge of configuration management tooling, such as Ansible, Chef, and/or Puppet, the surrounding processes and methodologies is highly desirable
• Monitoring experience and understanding with tools such as Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS), Security and Compliance center, certificates and SSL management
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and other container technologies
• Ability to work independently to meet project deadlines with limited supervision, excellent written and verbal communication skills and an ability to deliver executive level presentations

Harris global are currently recruiting for an Application Support Team Lead to work for an industry-leading FS client in central London.

The successful Application Support Team Lead will supervise and provide support alongside a team of 2nd Line Support Analyst on various Trading, Middle and Back Office applications. The successful candidate will be required to have demonstrable experience of this within a Financial Services or heavily regulated environment.

You will possess the following skills and experience.

• Prior experience supporting Windows and Linux environments
• Financial Services experience
• Previous leadership experience
• Support of market data, trading, Front and Back Office applications
• Strong SQL experience
• An interest or understanding of automation technologies.

For more information and a full job description, please apply.

Harris global are currently recruiting for an Application Security Analyst to work on a permanent basis for a leading media organisation.

This role will take responsibility for ensuring cybersecurity defence services, controls and techniques are employed across all application areas of the business, and that security best practice is adhered to in all areas of technology management.

The successful candidates will possess some of the following skills and experience;

• Knowledge of OWASP
• Familiarity with reading and understanding programming languages
• Ability to suggest fixes for security issues in source code
• Experience with application security and vulnerability management
• Experience in the usage of tools such as WAF, SIEM, dynamic and static web application security testing tools
• Demonstrable problem solving, analytical skills and attention to detail
• Basic understanding of Scripting languages
• Experience in working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

For more information and a full job description, please apply.

Harris Global are currently recruiting on behalf of our industry leading client who are looking for a Full Stack Developer to join them in their London office. The successful candidate must possess strong Node.js Back End and React.js Front End experience, any knowledge of other JavaScript technologies such as Typescript will also be hugely advantageous.

Role responsibilities will include:

• Apply the principles of software engineering to the design, development and testing of critical components that are part of our E-commerce estate.
• Work closely with the product owners to advise and turn ideas and requirements into well considered solutions
• Work with Dev ops to manage solutions from development through to deployment
• Provide software designs and implementations that match business requirements
• Build and run systems at web scale .
• Pair with other developers to solve problems.
• Holistic problem solving within a given set of constraints and knowing when those constraints should be challenged.
• Managing designs using collaboration platforms such as JIRA & Confluence.

Key skills will include:

• Experience building high performance workflows and large-scale customer facing web applications both front and Back End
• A polyglot developer who is willing to do what is necessary to get the job done, whether that is, system design, database design, web development, server development, analysis, requirements, data transformation, testing, etc.
• Proven hands-on experience of AWS features both server-less and traditional eg AWS Gateway, Lambda, EC2, IAM, RDS, S3 etc.
• Experience with OpenID Connect/OAuth 2.0 concepts.
• Experience with all or most: Angular, HTML, CSS/SCCS, Typescript, NodeJS, expressJS, NestJS, Java, Scala/Play, MySQL/SQL
• Understanding of OO/FP and SOLID principles and dependency injection.
• Experience with creating usable and internally consistent RESTful APIs
• Familiar with Jenkins, Linux/UNIX, React Native, iOS development, Android development, C# .NET
• Know how to apply agile practices and patterns.

Harris global are currently recruiting for a Front End Developer to work on a permanent basis for a renowned Financial Services client in central London.

You will be responsible for designing and developing Front End UI for software systems and applications as well as being able to implement functionality.

The successful Front End Developer will possess the following skills and experience.

• React.js
• Angular/JS
• HTML 5, CSS
• Bootstrap or other Web component library
• TypeScript or Flow,

For more information, please apply.

Harris Global are currently recruiting on behalf of our industry leading client who are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to join their Infrastructure Operations team. The successful candidate must possess strong Azure experience and be able to write their own PowerShell scripts from scratch. Candidates who do not possess this knowledge will not be considered.

Responsibilities will include:

• Hands-on experience as an engineer in an infrastructure operations support function including very good understanding of ITSM processes and ways of working (eg incident, request, problem and change management)
• 5+ years specialising in Windows server infrastructure operational support, including administration of on-premise and cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS platforms (particularly Microsoft Azure)
• Very strong understanding of creation, modification and maintenance of scripts using popular Scripting languages (eg PowerShell), with a focus on reducing manual effort through creative deployment of these tools

Support and development of core infrastructure services, including:

• Windows Server 2012/16/19
• Virtualisation technologies (VMware)
• SAN and file storage technologies
• Active Directory
• Backup and Recovery tools (eg eVault, Azure Backup, Recovery Manager for AD)
• Configuration Management tools (eg SCCM, Group Policy)
• Automation tools (eg Powershell, Git, Azure DevOps)
• Cloud technologies (eg Azure AD, Azure Site Recovery)
• Monitoring tools (eg SCOM, Nagios, Solarwinds)
• Security tools (McAfee AV/ePO, Microsoft Defender)

Harris global are currently recruiting for an IT Chief of Staff to work for an industry-leading Financial Services client in central London.

The role’s core responsibilities include Strategy, Board Communications, IT Marketing and Communication, Regulatory and Company IT Information, Governance and Mode of Operation, Workforce management and Operating Queries.

The successful IT Chief of Staff will possess the following skills and experience.

• Demonstrable leadership experience
• IT Strategy experience
• In-depth experience of IT Department structures and functions
• Workforce planning and management
• Experience of driving transformation and delivering change.
• Insight to the commercial aspects of running IT as a business.
• Understanding of the financial services regulatory landscape and experience working within regulated entities.
• Degree educated ideally within Business or IT

For more information and a full job description, please apply.

Harris global are currently recruiting for a Product Owner/Business Analyst to join a FTSE media organisation in central London.

You will be working alongside developers, QAs, architects and system admins gathering requirements, documenting implementations and assisting in the delivery of products to the business. Delivering digital capabilities and provide technical support for all the functions across the organisation

You will be:

• Creating, maintaining and communicating roadmaps in collaboration with business stakeholders
• Formally documenting requirements so that they remain understandable for the business to subscribe to, while sufficiently comprehensive, structured and technically oriented to be translated into technical solutions by development team(s)
• Ensuring that requirements documents are delivered to the highest standards
• Highlighting risks as they become evident
• Assisting Product Managers and Technical Leads in meeting project milestones through timely delivery of key artefacts

Skills and experience required

• Experience in taking ownership of a product roadmap and working with one or more development teams
• Agile backlog and sprint management including estimation, backlog management, sprint planning and sprint review
• Able to build strong relationships with key stakeholders in order to truly understand the underlying needs of the business
• Ability to self-motivate, use initiative and take responsibility for the delivery of products and services
• Experience with common BA artefacts including

Customer focused approach ensuring that changes delivered provide value to the business

For more information and a full job description, please apply.

Harris global are currently recruiting for an experienced SQL Server DBA to work on a Fixed Term contract with a leading financial client in central London.

The successful candidate will provide technical MS SQL expertise to support the aims and objectives of the Technology function. Working within the DBA operations team, led by the DBA Team Lead, the role will contribute to the security, availability, integrity and end-to-end support of all MS SQL services.

The successful SQL Server DBA will possess the following skills and experience;

• Experience in all aspects of database management with versions of MS SQL Server up to 2019, including:
• Administering, managing & maintaining very large databases requiring 24/7 availability
• ETL – SSIS (Data Factory preferable)
• Azure DevOps (Nice to have)
• Data warehousing – SSAS (Analysis Services in Azure preferable)
• SSRS & PowerBI
• Database & server health monitoring (DPA preferable)
• SQL Server HA/DR
• SQL Server Availability Groups/Always On

For more information and a full job description, please apply.

Harris Global are currently recruiting on behalf of our industry leading client who are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join their London team. The successful candidate will have in depth experience supporting mission critical public cloud environments and will assist the business in building and supporting secure and resilient infrastructure.

Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Manage and improve AWS environments and infrastructure.
• Serve as a member of the SRE team while managing overall system health, resilience, performance, capacity, and cost or public cloud estate.
• Troubleshoot application and system issues, while communicating status to the rest of the team.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure that new architectures keep development velocity, resilience, cost and operability in mind.
• Build on the clients automation pipeline to increase their reliability and development velocity.
• Continue to codify the infrastructure. All AWS resources should be defined in code and any changes should go through the same review process as their application.
• Develop architecture patterns and code libraries to simplify the management of a large number of AWS environments.

Candidate skills will include:

• Strong technical experience with Platform, Site Reliability Engineering, or DevOps
• 5+ years of experience with enterprise infrastructure architecture
• 3+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services
• Solid experience managing, monitoring, and supporting high traffic environments
• Experience collaborating with Web/Software Development teams
• Experience with software release management (JIRA, GitHub & source code branching strategies) and agile/scrum methodologies
• Experience capacity planning and auto scaling infrastructure
• Experience with configuration orchestration tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience with Docker containers and orchestrators (ECS, Kubernetes)
• Experience with build and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Solid familiarity with building and maintaining continuous deployment environments
• Experience programming in a language like Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Bash
• Experience with test automation tools (Selenium)
• Experience deploying and supporting Linux and Windows Servers