Location: Hampshire
Clearance: Valid SC and NPPV3 required
Hours: Monday–Friday, varied shifts between 06:00 and 23:00 + participation in the on-call rota

We’re seeking a dependable Data Centre Support Engineer to support a broad client base across secure environments. You’ll work hands-on with hardware, cabling and monitoring tools to maintain resilient, well-managed data centre operations while ensuring all activity is accurately recorded and progressed within agreed service levels.

The role

You’ll be involved in day-to-day installation, maintenance and remote-hands tasks, ensuring equipment is deployed correctly, faults are addressed promptly and environments remain safe, clean and compliant. You will work closely with internal teams, third-party providers and visiting clients, often acting as their on-site presence in the data centre. The role also includes participation in a 24/7/365 on-call rota for out-of-hours activities.

Key responsibilities

• Install, patch and decommission server, network and storage hardware, ensuring accurate documentation and ticket updates.
• Carry out copper and fibre cabling tasks and support fault diagnosis and resolution.
• Complete routine operational checks across network, firewall and system alerts.
• Perform remote-hands duties, including component swaps, testing and power cycling.
• Host and escort client visitors, providing a professional and controlled access experience.
• Maintain adherence to ISO and ITIL standards and uphold data centre housekeeping.

Skills and experience

You’ll bring technical competence suited to a busy data centre environment, with the professionalism and reliability needed to represent clients on site. Specifically, we’re looking for:

• Current and valid SC and NPPV3 clearance
• Experience in a similar data centre or hands-on infrastructure support role, including hardware installation, cabling and basic fault resolution.
• Ability to follow procedures accurately, maintain detailed records and work confidently within ISO-aligned and ITIL-based processes.
• Strong communication skills for liaising with clients, third-party providers and internal teams.
• A calm, methodical approach under pressure, particularly when responding to incidents or out-of-hours activity.
• Well-organised, self-motivated and capable of working independently within secure, high-integrity environments.
• Full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle.

Please apply at your earliest convenience.

This is essentially an internal data modernization and analytics role, focused on improving the company’s own systems, reporting, and decision-making.

This is a hands-on Data Scientist / Data Analyst role focused on modernising the company’s data systems. You’ll be bridging the gap between legacy on-premises systems — such as Redbook 10, Sage 200, and Sage CRM — and a modern cloud-based architecture. You’ll develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and work with platforms like Microsoft Fabric to provide real-time analytics, helping leadership make informed, data-driven decisions. This role is hybrid between technical coding, data analysis, and visualization, and you’ll report directly to the CTO, so you’ll have direct influence and visibility at a senior level.

Technology and business services company - with a background in managed print services. They've moved away from that in recent times and focus on business process automation and unified comms

BPA - replacing routine admin/manual workflows with automated, reliable software workflows

Vision Plc -Hertford HQ, also new shiny office in London.

origins in Managed print - also acquired software business to offer Filehound

now not a managed print business - pitched as a workplace service business - offering IT managed services MPS, UCs and software vendor

Turnover £34m. will rise to nearer £50m if acquisition goes through.

120 employees, will grow to 160 post acquisition

contact Rory Galllagher - Head of Technology

16 people in Rory's team, mot in 2 das a week but they are people he has worked with for a while and new person would need to

Role:

Data Scientist/data Analyst (JD attached) report into Rory, will interact with their dev ops team, CIO, FD and OD internally

The role sits across all disciplines of Vision PLC

Focus - moving data from old legacy systems to cloud based

current DA is due to retire after 30 years and they need someone to join to allow that handover and modernise how they manage and analyse their data as a business.

Not a dev opps role - this wil be a building on systems, unlock data initially then move into analytics phase.

desired 100% time in the office in Hertford, they are open to looing at compensating for travel to office for the right person

start asap

50-60k, bonus not confirmed but could offer this. Potentially travel allowance depending on location.

Person:

at least 2 years exp,  not a PHD, boffin. Need the comms skills and ability to interact at C level internally onky

not customer facing

MUST HAVE good working knowledge of Power BI and MS Fabric

prob bst having worked for a smaller business and got struck in at both building systems and analysis phases not just one or the other

personality and confidence as working with SLT

Interview process

Cvs to Rory then 15 mins Teams call to qualify.

then

1st Rory and another

2nd 2 directors (ops and Finance ppossibly)

Start asap

Candidate we sent was finance heavy

Looking for a generalist and has implemented multiple BC modules – manufacturing, supply chain

BCN – old off and gone to Kick ICT

Building the practice

On Microsoft recruit program – accelatte to start from scratch – accelerator program

Not going after a sector

Looking for an initial implementation consultant

Wider infra – Steven is the dinosaur – not 20 years experience – wants a Gen Z

Need to be buzzing to get hands on agents and power platform – maybe 2015 / 2018 Nav

Or truly embracing future cloud, AI – eg AI ERP

2^nd higher to be a more seasoned person

1^st is Gen Z – think a little bit older as they need to lead the project – enthusiastic – AI, copilot, power platform

Implement from scratch – not just Finance

Not manufacturing / supply chain experts – needs to understand but they have the B1 team

Anywhere as long as willing to travel – and time in the office. Doing in person training and initial presales

Ideal for an enthusiastic, seasoned mature person – mid 30’s / early 40’s who is fresh thinking

£75,000 - £85,000 - £85k expecting a rockstar – they can just own it – bugging the sales, they’ll do the presales

Need consultancy – can’t be an end user – Steven doesn’t think they have the breadth

3 came through LinkedIn – 1 he knows from Kick / BCN

Came via Ambis

Not an existing partner – chance to put stamp

Product Owner – Role Notes (Uniware)

Salary & Location

• £40,000 – £45,000 + small bonus

• Home-based with quarterly in-person meetings

• Travel expenses covered

• Looking for a January start

Experience & Profile

• Ideally 3–5 years’ experience, though they know the salary is on the lower side

• Not a technical role – more about championing the product, understanding requirements, and supporting the business

• Experience with EPoS or understanding VAT is desirable but not essential

• Strong organisational skills and ability to work across multiple teams

Key Responsibilities

• Support the sales team and help organise user group meetings

• Run workshops, gather requirements, and help shape new product functionality

• Take ownership of new products/modules (not legacy systems) – two new projects already in the pipeline

• Work across products that span point of sale, mobile, and operational management

Tools & Skills

• Atlassian Jira experience is a priority – used heavily for planning, structuring work, and development requests

• Azure DevOps experience also considered if not Jira

• Need someone who can maintain and organise Jira effectively

Culture & Company

• Small, stable company – 33 employees

• Very low turnover; many people have been with the business 20+ years

Interview Process

• First stage: Teams interview

• Second stage: In-person in Rochester (may be remote if necessary)

• Preferred interview slots:

  • Wednesday 3rd December, 11am–2pm

  • Monday at 2pm

• They would like to see 2–3 suitable CVs

3. Ask them to explain a Jira Reporting Dashboard they’ve built

Product Owners should know:

• Burndown charts

• Velocity charts

• Created vs resolved

• Epic progress

• Sprint report

• Control charts (if experienced)

• Release reports

“As a Product Owner, you’ll need to use Jira data to understand how the team is performing over time, how sprints are tracking, and whether releases are on track. So when you walk me through your dashboard, I’m looking for evidence that you understand how to extract those insights using Jira’s reporting tools.”

This encourages them to think in terms of:

• Sprint tracking

• Velocity

• Burndown

• Epic reporting

• Release tracking

• Created vs resolved trends

• Cycle/lead time

• SFIA level 3 – SC Cleared essential
• Strong on Azure
• Need to know Terraform
• Need the on prem

• Base salary: £45k - £55k (ideally £50k)
• Permanent hire
• Start Date: ASAP
• Clearance: SC Cleared - granted within 3 years is preferable but not confirmed
• RTW: Sole UK National
• Travel: Remote role - but as a consultancy, maybe some travel once a month to London max

• Most of England & Wales

Candidate screening questions:

1. How do you check the health of a domain controller from the command line?

Answer: run dcdiag

2. What command would you use to connect to your Azure tenant via powershell?

Answer: Connect-AzureAD, Connect-MsolService or Connect-AzAccount. There are other options, I more want to see their thought process and exposure to CLI commands in Azure

3. What is a NSG and why is it used in Azure?

Answer: It is used as a Access Control List (ACL) to define network rules

4. Why is SPF used in email?

Answer: It is used as a record to confirm authority of a domain sending email

5. Name a framework/process used to harden server operating systems

Answer: CIS Benchmarks

2 weeks on, 2 weeks off rota - will join after 3 month probation

get paid for being available, if get a call get overtime rate.

there is a 24/7 service desk who handle most things

As discussed after successful completion of your probation period you will join the on call rota that is 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off.

You are expected to be available for calls from 5:30pm – 8am.

The on call is limited and on average the team take 3 calls a year. You just need to be available in case of an issue.

The on call payment is worked out as follows:

Weekday: £45 per day

Weekend: £75 per day

Bank Holiday: £100 per day

Christmas Day: £200

This works out to an additional £9,750 (approx.)

NB: 2nd interview consists of three tests as follows:

One is a technical test – how would you approach a technical problem

One is a screen share

One is a load of code and you have to spot the errors.

Central Gov

Ongoing upgrades on existing systems - support development work.

Good .Net / MVC / C#, asp.net. azure.

**SC cleared **  SC lapsed if left in the last year, but if expired no good.

Tony has team of 5/6 Developers.  About 70 altogether in the UK accross Civica.

(You will be on-call one weeknight per week and one weekend per month, which will be compensated.)

(Chris Barrett was offered but declined as found job elsewhere). 

Location - preference for Bristol / South West.  Look accross whole of UK - perhaps within 1.5 of a Civica office, but preference would be South West. 

Interview 1: MS Teams interview with Tony (Tony will try and put them off)

Interview 2: MS Teams again but with technical test in .Net.

- up to £50k + on call for being available, (worth £3 - 4K), and an overtime rate if they have to do anything - but this is rare. 

- works in Central Gov (consultancy not products)

- this team are responsible for ongoing updates to existing solutions. Example i give is DORS project (speeding ticket booking) - https://offer.ndors.org.uk/#/home 

- Home based but there will be team meetings. Contractually they will be linked to an office but won't be expected to go in any set days

- Preference is Bristol / South West

- must have valid SC. so need names, DOB, NI number and SC reference.

- on call (it's paid) - You will be on-call one weeknight per week and one weekend per month, which will be compensated (worth approx £3.5k / £4k a year - i think)

Need to double check these:

Weekday: £45 per day

Weekend: £75 per day

* High profile customers

* Fully remote role

* Great team!

Need to check their SC before we submit. 

- just need a good C#.Net dev with MVC and ASP.Net

Test Automation Manager
Permanent
Location: UK – Remote
Salary: Dependant on experience (+ Employee Benefits)

Skills: Team Management, ETRM (ie. Openlink Endur) Energy / Financial Trading experience, QA Team management, BDD, CI/CD, Python, Java etc.

We’re recruiting a talented Test Automation Manager for a leading software company that develops advanced solutions for trading and risk management across global financial and energy markets.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Test Automation Manager with proven team management experience to take ownership of automation practices and guide small, skilled teams. You’ll play a key role in driving an automation-first culture, ensuring quality and scalability across complex, high-volume systems.

This is a UK based fully remote role.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for 5+ years in Automation Test Team Management / Lead roles with strong experience in test automation as well as Testing of ETRM platforms such as OpenLink Endur.  Also, as many of the following as possible:

• Programming & Scripting: Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, Scriban
• Web Technologies: RESTful APIs, HTTP, JSON, HTML, CSS, Node.js
• Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Tools & Frameworks: Git, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Agile (Scrum & Kanban), JIRA, Pytest, Powershell
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows

Additional skills that will set you apart:

• CI/CD pipelines and debugging expertise
• BDD frameworks such as Cucumber
• Strong problem-solving mindset and collaborative approach

Industry background

Experience in the following sectors is highly desirable (in order of preference):

• Energy/Financial Trading (knowledge of Endur, Allegro or Findur platforms beneficial but not essential)
• Regulated software industries
• High volume, high complexity data systems

Lead Automation Tester
Permanent
Location: UK – Remote
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 (+ benefits)

Skills: Team Management, Python, Java, CI/CD, BDD (Cucumber), Energy / Financial Trading experience (desirable)

We’re recruiting a Lead Automation Tester for a leading software company that develops advanced solutions for trading and risk management across global financial and energy markets.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Automation Engineer with proven team leadership or management experience to take ownership of automation practices and guide a small, skilled team. You’ll play a key role in driving an automation-first culture, ensuring quality and scalability across complex, high-volume systems.

This is a UK based fully remote role.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for strong experience in test automation with as many of the following as possible:

• Programming & Scripting: Python, Java, JavaScript, C++, Scriban
• Web Technologies: RESTful APIs, HTTP, JSON, HTML, CSS, Node.js
• Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Tools & Frameworks: Git, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Agile (Scrum & Kanban), JIRA, Pytest, Powershell
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows

Additional skills that will set you apart:

• CI/CD pipelines and debugging expertise
• BDD frameworks such as Cucumber
• Strong problem-solving mindset and collaborative approach

Industry background

Experience in the following sectors is highly desirable (in order of preference):

• Energy/Financial Trading (knowledge of Endur, Allegro or Findur platforms beneficial but not essential)
• Regulated software industries
• High volume, high complexity data systems

Key Account Manager - EPOS/SaaS/Contract Catering

Home Based with UK Travel

£50k Basic, Car Allowance & realistic 90=95k OTE

My Client a leading provider of Payment/EPOS Solutions within the Public & Private Sector require a Key Account Manager to be is responsible for managing a key Client in the Contract Caterting Sector, cross and Up selling Software/SaaS, Hardware and IT Services to this Client. You will be responsible for fostering and developing strong relationships with numrous contacts within the account. The aim is to drive back to base sales growth within this account through a sales-through-service approach, maximising revenue from the client and  minimising attrition.

Responsibilites:

• Use a consultative sales approach to understand client needs and provide tailored Payment/EPOS solutions.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the Company’s product portfolio and awareness of competitor products
• Maintaining an awareness of industry trends and reporting back to Product Management and Marketing
• Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key accounts at both operational and strategic levels.
• Lead contract negotiations and renewals, ensuring mutually beneficial terms and long-term account satisfaction.
• Develop and execute account-specific strategies and business plans to achieve revenue and profitability goals.
• Respond to and follow up all sales enquiries using appropriate methods and in a timely manner
• Develop and maintain a qualified sales pipeline of sufficient size and appropriate stage of the buying cycle to enable achievement of agreed sales targets
• Ensure all monthly sales targets (KPIs) set by management and agreed on in advance are met or exceeded
• Fulfil reporting requirements according to the deadlines set for the Department
• Identify the needs and wants of a potential customer and map a solution to meet these needs
• Demonstrate software solutions and associated products in person or over the Internet
• Handle objections and alleviate risks from potential sales opportunities
• Prepare and present quotations/proposals to sales opportunities
• Negotiate and close sales
• Maximise profit on all potential sales opportunities
• Establish and maintain strategic relationships, alliances and networks within industry (or any other vertical market) as well as with other key stakeholders to generate sales leads)

Skills Required:

• Proven 5 years+ experience selling software solutions/SaaS ideally EPOS solutions within the Contract catering Sector
• Proven record of over achievement of sales targets
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to close sales
• Experience using CRM tools like Salesforce
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communications skills
• A moderate to high degree of computer literacy and technical competency is a must
• Demonstrable evidence of organizing customer accounts and projection implementation
• A desire to solve customer problems
• An innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. Perseveres to be successful with the ability to overcome objections to achieve sales targets
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to build relationships with senior management and C-suite stakeholders over the phone through value-added conversations
• Self-motivated and driven with the ability to work independently and autonomously
• Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to clearly understand and address client requirements
• Technical proficiency and aptitude with the ability to quickly pick up and understand software product features
• Excellent listening, interpersonal and communication skills