Liscensing Manager - Northamptonshire

This is the opportunity to work with a construction and development brand based in their Tempsford branch.

Within this role, you will be responsible for compliance with best practice license management and in life contract management of key software vendors.

Key tasks include:

• Owner of software licensing compliance and proof of software entitlement
• Work with colleagues both internal and or external to ensure that licensing models are understood, and we are compliant
• Responsibility for responding to any external requests for licensing audit requests
• Consult with stakeholders on new licensing requirements and assist in the development of solutions to meet those requirements
• Work with Service Owners and Heads of IT to understand future business demand and requirements relating to licensing PMO24b JD Template v1 31/07/13 2
• Manage team workload, ensuring that business objectives are understood and met
• Create professional documentation explaining our software licensing strategy
• Define Licence Management policy and standards
• Operational supplier management of key software vendors including service review attendance and assisting in service improvement activities for vendors in scope
• Continuously look for ways to automate and improve the service

?ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• License management in a multi-vendor and complex business environment
• Team management experience
• Extensive management of a large Microsoft license base within a Microsoft 365 environment Experience of dealing with software audits from major vendors and consultancies
• Extensive working knowledge of software licensing programs including vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, Autodesk and Adobe
• Excellent process definition and implementation skills
• Working knowledge and/or general understanding of technology methodologies such as ITILv3
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• An understanding of current business trends and potential technical ramifications of changing business environments on current and future licensing solutions
• The ability to facilitate, analyze and document requirements
• Negotiation skills
• Financial and budgetary skills, including the contribution to business case creation

Liscensing Manager - Northamptonshire

This is the opportunity to work with a construction and development brand based in their Tempsford branch.

Within this role, you will be responsible for compliance with best practice license management and in life contract management of key software vendors.

Key tasks include:

• Owner of software licensing compliance and proof of software entitlement
• Work with colleagues both internal and or external to ensure that licensing models are understood, and we are compliant
• Responsibility for responding to any external requests for licensing audit requests
• Consult with stakeholders on new licensing requirements and assist in the development of solutions to meet those requirements
• Work with Service Owners and Heads of IT to understand future business demand and requirements relating to licensing PMO24b JD Template v1 31/07/13 2
• Manage team workload, ensuring that business objectives are understood and met
• Create professional documentation explaining our software licensing strategy
• Define Licence Management policy and standards
• Operational supplier management of key software vendors including service review attendance and assisting in service improvement activities for vendors in scope
• Continuously look for ways to automate and improve the service

?ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• License management in a multi-vendor and complex business environment
• Team management experience
• Extensive management of a large Microsoft license base within a Microsoft 365 environment Experience of dealing with software audits from major vendors and consultancies
• Extensive working knowledge of software licensing programs including vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, Autodesk and Adobe
• Excellent process definition and implementation skills
• Working knowledge and/or general understanding of technology methodologies such as ITILv3
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• An understanding of current business trends and potential technical ramifications of changing business environments on current and future licensing solutions
• The ability to facilitate, analyze and document requirements
• Negotiation skills
• Financial and budgetary skills, including the contribution to business case creation

• Fancy joining a market dominator who provides specialist solutions to a variety of industries?

• Like the idea of upgrading a platform that supports every police station in the UK to microservices & the cloud?

• Want increased work/life flexibility?

THE COMPANY: My client are the market leaders in providing specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. Their platform supports 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

Their platform consists of 3 main areas:

• A web application (Management Interface) built in Angular 7 and Javascript.  This allows end-user to manage training needs and provides a central database for asset management.   

• A desktop (Armoury Interface) based on the Electron framework, Node.js and Javascript which is used for access to the armoury for asset usage.

• A back-end RESTful API platform written in Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate at the core providing endpoints for the consuming applications. Utilises the spring cloud suite to provide resiliency, scalability, service discovery and distributed config.

THE ROLE: I’m looking for solid Java developers to join a growing product and engineering team to work on the next evolution of their versatile platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the platform services, but also to learn and work on the frontend Angular side of things when required.  

Essential Skills -  

• Excellent knowledge of the Core Java language - data structures, concurrency, multithreading
• Good understanding of the Spring framework (Spring Boot essential, spring cloud a bonus)
• Experience using Hibernate ORM
• Practical experience of TDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance), techniques and tools
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, postgreSQL)
• Experience building RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications

Bonus points for –

• Experience in service based, event driven and event sourced architectures
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication using messaging/stream processors like RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with web-application technology (we use Angular)
• Experience with containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes
• Good understanding of servlet containers (we use Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Linux and operating systems.

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A competitive salary of up to £65,000
• Remote working on a weekly basis & flexi-hours
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidised private healthchoice
• An impressive 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (Option to flex this by five days)

• Fancy joining a market dominator who provides specialist solutions to a variety of industries?

• Like the idea of upgrading a platform that supports every police station in the UK to microservices & the cloud?

• Want increased work/life flexibility?

THE COMPANY: My client are the market leaders in providing specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. Their platform supports 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

Their platform consists of 3 main areas:

• A web application (Management Interface) built in Angular 7 and Javascript.  This allows end-user to manage training needs and provides a central database for asset management.   

• A desktop (Armoury Interface) based on the Electron framework, Node.js and Javascript which is used for access to the armoury for asset usage.

• A back-end RESTful API platform written in Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate at the core providing endpoints for the consuming applications. Utilises the spring cloud suite to provide resiliency, scalability, service discovery and distributed config.

THE ROLE: I’m looking for solid Java developers to join a growing product and engineering team to work on the next evolution of their versatile platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the platform services, but also to learn and work on the frontend Angular side of things when required.  

Essential Skills -  

• Excellent knowledge of the Core Java language - data structures, concurrency, multithreading
• Good understanding of the Spring framework (Spring Boot essential, spring cloud a bonus)
• Experience using Hibernate ORM
• Practical experience of TDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance), techniques and tools
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, postgreSQL)
• Experience building RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications

Bonus points for –

• Experience in service based, event driven and event sourced architectures
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication using messaging/stream processors like RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with web-application technology (we use Angular)
• Experience with containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes
• Good understanding of servlet containers (we use Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Linux and operating systems.

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A competitive salary of up to £65,000
• Remote working on a weekly basis & flexi-hours
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidised private healthchoice
• An impressive 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (Option to flex this by five days)

The Role: Automation Test Engineer

Location: Milton Keynes

Salary: £50,000 DOE

Important: You do have to go through security clearance.

Automation Test Engineer needed for a market leader that provides specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. They support 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

What you will be doing:

As part of the role you will develop and maintain the automated test framework of my client’s RESTful platform and associated web interfaces and systems. You will apply, design and develop automated testing strategies as well as analyze and verify the best automated and manual test approaches. You will also execute acceptance, integration, installation and system testing and be involved in product design to guarantee adherence of test coverage for meeting end user requirements.

Ideally, your skills will include:

• Excellent knowledge and experience in testing Java based applications and web services
• Excellence in the construction and maintenance of automated test frameworks
• Good understanding of automated UI testing tools and techniques e.g. Selenium
• Practical knowledge of TDD & BDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance) with Jenkins and Git
• Good understanding of black and while box testing
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, postgreSQL)

It would be great if you also had:

• Experience in testing RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications
• Experience in performance testing approaches e.g. JMeter
• Experience in security and penetration testing
• Experience in UI testing with Selenium
• Experience in BDD test automation using Gherkin & Cucumber
• Experience in testing service based, event driven and event sourced architectures

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Remote working
• Flexible working time
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidized private health choice
• 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays. Option to flex this by five days.

The Role: Automation Test Engineer

Location: Milton Keynes

Salary: £50,000 DOE

Important: You do have to go through security clearance.

Automation Test Engineer needed for a market leader that provides specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. They support 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

What you will be doing:

As part of the role you will develop and maintain the automated test framework of my client’s RESTful platform and associated web interfaces and systems. You will apply, design and develop automated testing strategies as well as analyze and verify the best automated and manual test approaches. You will also execute acceptance, integration, installation and system testing and be involved in product design to guarantee adherence of test coverage for meeting end user requirements.

Ideally, your skills will include:

• Excellent knowledge and experience in testing Java based applications and web services
• Excellence in the construction and maintenance of automated test frameworks
• Good understanding of automated UI testing tools and techniques e.g. Selenium
• Practical knowledge of TDD & BDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance) with Jenkins and Git
• Good understanding of black and while box testing
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, postgreSQL)

It would be great if you also had:

• Experience in testing RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications
• Experience in performance testing approaches e.g. JMeter
• Experience in security and penetration testing
• Experience in UI testing with Selenium
• Experience in BDD test automation using Gherkin & Cucumber
• Experience in testing service based, event driven and event sourced architectures

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Remote working
• Flexible working time
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidized private health choice
• 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays. Option to flex this by five days.

Position: Security Analyst

Location: Dunstable

Salary: £45,000 DOE + Bonus/Benefits

Security analysts will be responsible for leading and improving day-to-day IT security operations, including Incident Response activities, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, and driving operational process improvements. You will have autonomy and ownership and my clients will offer you training and the opportunity to gain certifications.

Ideally, your skills will include:

• Experience working within a Security Operations Centre.
• Solid hands on Information Security experience.
• SME knowledge of several (not necessarily all) of the following areas: SIEM, Behavioural Analytics, ML/AI, SOAR tooling, vulnerability management, threat intelligence feeds and process, security incident response processes and activities, firewalls/email/proxy/ERP, Office 365, AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud.
• Ideally have experience of working in a large, global organisation, in environments involving multiple partners and multiple streams of project improvement activity.
• CISSP or GCIA/GCIH certified would be desirable but not essential.

Position: Security Analyst

Location: Dunstable

Salary: £45,000 DOE + Bonus/Benefits

Security analysts will be responsible for leading and improving day-to-day IT security operations, including Incident Response activities, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, and driving operational process improvements. You will have autonomy and ownership and my clients will offer you training and the opportunity to gain certifications.

Ideally, your skills will include:

• Experience working within a Security Operations Centre.
• Solid hands on Information Security experience.
• SME knowledge of several (not necessarily all) of the following areas: SIEM, Behavioural Analytics, ML/AI, SOAR tooling, vulnerability management, threat intelligence feeds and process, security incident response processes and activities, firewalls/email/proxy/ERP, Office 365, AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud.
• Ideally have experience of working in a large, global organisation, in environments involving multiple partners and multiple streams of project improvement activity.
• CISSP or GCIA/GCIH certified would be desirable but not essential.