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IT Infrastructure & Security Manager Poole, Dorset £45,000 - £50,000 + Bonus + Extensive Benefits This is an excellent opportunity for a Technical Lead/Infrastructure Manager to further develop their skills, or a senior engineer with exposure to leading a team, ready to step into a management role. You will bridge the gap between high-level security strategy and hands-on infrastructure maintenance. This company is a leading provider of essential products for businesses across various sectors. They specialise in delivering a comprehensive range of high-quality janitorial, catering, and packaging supplies, helping organisations maintain efficiency and hygiene in their operations. In this varied role, you will manage the full lifecycle of IT operations, from configuring Cisco firewalls, VMware clusters, managing the network servers, and leading audits for ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials. You will also provide guidance to the wider team and mentor junior engineers. The ideal candidate will have previous experience within a similar role and possess deep expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem, specifically Azure, Intune, and Entra ID, alongside strong networking skills involving Cisco WAN/LAN and VPNs. You should be proficient in managing VMware/vSphere, Datto backups, Nimble SAN storage, and security tools like Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, and Qualys. This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of a diverse tech stack and drive the strategic direction of a company's security and network infrastructure. The Role: Resolve complex Tier 3 issues and major outages. Maintain ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus. Manage Windows Server, VMware, and Azure Virtual Desktop. Manage, train, and conduct appraisals for direct reports. The Person: Skilled in M365, SharePoint, and PowerShell. Expert in Cisco Firewalls, VLANs, and Umbrella. Experienced in vulnerability patching and SSO. Proficient in Nimble SAN and NAS maintenance. Reference Number: BBBH268911 Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client. We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Infrastructure Engineer - Investment Management About the Firm An established and highly regarded investment management firm based in London's West End is seeking a versatile Infrastructure Engineer to play a key role across cloud platforms, on‑prem systems, and internal tooling. This is a hands-on technical position supporting a sophisticated technology stack that underpins trading, analytics, data operations, and enterprise systems. You'll work within a tight‑knit engineering team, collaborating closely with front, middle, and back office stakeholders to ensure reliability, performance, and continual evolution of the firm's technology estate. The Role This is a hybrid role blending Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud (AWS), DevOps. You will be responsible for maintaining the core infrastructure, supporting production systems, and contributing to the development of internal tools and services. Infrastructure Responsibilities Manage, optimise, and secure the AWS estate (ECS, ECR, EC2, VPC networking, IAM). Oversee and maintain Office 365 environment and related identity/security policies. Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines using TeamCity. Administer and support Linux servers (Ubuntu preferred) and Windows workstations. 1st - 3rd line+ support to a small office Design and implement Docker containerisation strategies, including multi-stage builds. Monitor system performance and maintain logging, metrics, and alerting solutions. Automate server provisioning and configuration using infrastructure-as-code tools. Manage system upgrades, patches, and overall platform reliability. Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across networking, storage, and compute. Maintain and enhance C#/.NET services used for internal data processing and workflows. Develop internal Python tools, scripts, and automation solutions. Diagnose and resolve production issues in existing C# or Python services. Contribute to improving service resilience, observability, and performance. Key Skills & Experience Essential Strong background in AWS (ECS, ECR, EC2, IAM, VPC). Solid experience with Linux (Ubuntu) systems administration. Familiarity with Windows workstation management. Hands-on CI/CD experience - ideally TeamCity. Professional experience with Docker. Proficiency in C#/.NET and Python. Experience troubleshooting production systems end-to-end. Strong automation mindset and scripting capability. Comfortable working in a hybrid working environment. Desirable Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible). Experience with monitoring/alerting stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK). Knowledge of financial markets or investment management environments. Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, VPNs, routing, firewalls). What's on Offer Work in a high-quality engineering culture with strong autonomy. Exposure to a broad and modern tech stack across cloud, infra, and backend. Hybrid working model with a collaborative West End office environment. APPLY NOW to avoid disappointment. To find out more about Huxley, please visit Huxley, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales

Infrastructure Solutions Architect The primary role of the IT Infrastructure Solutions Architect, is to ensure all IT Infrastructure applications architecture and design, systems and software Integration, functional requirements gathering, whether from inception or enhancements, are delivered on-time, aligned to industry standards, redundant and simplified by design, as well as being delivered cost effectively, whilst ensuring project delivery meets architectural objectives. Responsible for providing hands-on design and technical leadership to the global IT and business related teams, with a solid technology background, experience in capability and data models, domain driven design for application strategy, across all phases of the software development lifecycle. Additional responsibilities include ensuring IT Infrastructure and application design are secure, reliable, and regularly reviewed. This role will also develop and enhance relationship management with key service partners, independent contractors, vendors, and suppliers. Key Responsibilities/Tasks: Lead the architecture design, and delivery towards consolidation of O365 amongst operating companies globally. Lead the architecture and design towards implementation of a robust, cost-effective disaster recovery solution for all key business applications globally. Ownership of the workflow design between core system applications and functions. Ownership of end architecture target designs with viable interim states. Ownership of data integration complexity, with an aim of simplification. Ownership of architectural and operational design and roadmap. Ensure solutions are secure by design, with minimum customisation (as needed). Support and train technical / business leads across functions, using agile decision making. Responsible for ensuring the correct technical solutions and products are chosen. Responsible for documenting the technology landscape, interfaces, and data flows. Responsible for ensuring new and modified services, occur in a planned, controlled, and timely manner, with emphasis on design and implementation concepts. Provide monthly reporting dashboard, on network security, IoT consumption, endpoint and server security, application security, including SLA and key KPI counters to the director of IT and associated stakeholders. Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of IT transformation related projects and programs, to ensure application of appropriate governance processes are aligned. Maintain and up to date solution architecture diagrams / workflows and documentation for all key IT programmes, projects and ongoing BAU activities. Provide timely reports to management and key stakeholders on projects progress, and risks to delivery including non-compliance issues. Collaborate with the director of IT, ensuring IT security policies & practices are adhered to within all regions and groups. Skills/Competencies Required: Microsoft / AWS architecture (recent experience) Agile methodology / delivery Experience with interacting with business and technology leaders. Experience designing physical data models (relational SQL desirable) Experience rolling our mid-large platforms from inception to production. SQL, Java, Oracle, Kubernetes exposure. Hardware and software virtualisation techniques Excellent written and verbal communication skills Prior experience in a complex IT infrastructure environment Excellent analytical abilities and innovative problem-solving skills. Excellent interpersonal skills and strong abilities to develop and enhance relationships with clients and peers. The Client is based in Central London. This is a hybrid role – 3 days per week in the office. The salary for this position circa £55K - £65K. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and notice period.

We are currently seeking a Senior IT Support Manager. In this role, you will perform support for our employee population, analyze our current systems and assets, recommend and implement solutions and upgrades, and provide training. Our ideal candidate has extensive knowledge of network maintenance, experience managing staff, and advanced industry knowledge to keep us on the cutting edge. From day one, you’ll have an immediate impact on the day-to-day efficiency of our IT operations, and an ongoing impact on our overall growth. Objectives of this Role ●Lead large IT projects, including the design and deployment of new IT systems and services ●Maintain essential IT operations, including operating systems, security tools, applications, servers, email systems, laptops, desktops, software, and hardware ●Own projects, solutions, and key responsibilities within a larger business initiative ●Handle business-critical IT tasks and systems administration ●Research and evaluate emerging technologies, hardware, and software ●Track and maintain hardware and software inventory Responsibilities for IT Manager ●Monitor performance of information technology systems to determine cost and productivity levels, and to make recommendations for improving the IT infrastructure ●Help define IT infrastructure strategy, architecture, and processes ●Analyze business requirements by partnering with key stakeholders across the organization to develop solutions for IT needs ●Assess vendors and develop test strategies for new hardware and software ●Troubleshoot hardware and software issues related to internal IT ●Supervising daily operations of network and server infrastructure ●Aligning IT infrastructure with current and future business requirements and goals ●Evaluating risk, developing network recovery and backup processes ●Assessing and purchasing new and replacement hardware ●Testing, troubleshooting and adjusting information systems to operate effectively ●Implementing security of the network, data and its storage and communication systems ●Ensure network components meet business needs and work together seamlessly, using the full range of capabilities, and stay informed about new features and competitive solutions ●Train employees on both software and hardware, troubleshoot, and provide technical support when needed ●Develop and execute disaster procedures, and maintain data backups ●Manage information technology and computer systems ●Identify problematic areas and implement strategic solutions in time ●Preserve assets, information security and control structures ●Proven working experience as an IT Manager or relevant experience ●Excellent knowledge of technical management, information analysis and of computer hardware/software systems ●Expertise in data center management and data governance ●Hands-on experience with computer networks, network administration and network installation Qualifications for IT Manager ●Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience ●5-7 years experience in IT management ●Experience leading and managing large IT projects and rolling out IT infrastructures across various technologies ●Excellent working knowledge of computer systems, security, network and systems administration, databases and data storage systems, and phone systems ●Strong critical thinking and decision-making skills ●Excellent project management skills and strong ability to prioritize ●Firm grasp on IT infrastructure and operations best practices ●Experience across different software solutions, including: desktop operating systems (MS Windows, MacOS), server operating systems (MS Windows, Linux), cloud-based technologies (Google Workspaces, AWS, SD-WAN), SaaS solutions (Okta, Dynamics365, Microsoft365), mobile (iOS, Android), backup and recovery procedures, and system performance monitoring. ●Experience across different hardware solutions, including: Cisco Switches/Routers, Meraki/Palo Alto Firewalls, Meraki Wireless Access Points; Cisco Unified Communications. ●Expertise with implementing, configuring, and testing solutions ●Proven leadership skills ●Strong creative and analytical thinking ●Professional certifications preferred (i.e. A+, Network+, CCNA, MCP)

Infrastructure Designer 12 Month contract initially Based: Manchester/Hybrid. (2-3 days p/w onsite in Manchester) Rate: £400 - £450 p/d - (via Umbrella company) We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We have a great opportunity for a Infrastructure Designer to join the team. Your Responsibilities: * Produce infrastructure design documentation based on a solution architecture to be implemented by a 3rd party supplier. * To coordinate accurate estimates for inclusion in end to end project costs and business cases and to assist with the estimates for the end-to-end IT costs of the Co-operative Bank. * Leadership within projects of technical resources and SMEs. * Input to infrastructure solution frameworks and patterns displaying awareness of external markets and suppliers, so that the best value for money and service is delivered. * Ensure that clear root cause is established for incidents impacting the deliverables of the Infrastructure CoE and that these issues are addressed. * Work with 3rd party supplier build teams, development and test environment leads to ensure that solutions implemented across the Bank project portfolio are compliant to design. * Involvement with 3rd parties to design product integration to existing / new solutions. * Act as a technical escalation point and convene troubleshooting teams to ensure rapid identification and resolution of infrastructure issues. * Provide design inputs to areas of expertise such as Mainframe, Networks, Wintel, Database or Connect:Direct. * Responsibility for producing and assuring design patterns. * Responsibility for producing and assuring Infrastructure Roadmaps. * Provide technical escalation point for production services. * Provide technical escalation point during build phase of new production services. Key Skills/knowledge/experience: * Extensive experience in VM Ware Platforms and Infrastructure Solutions, Networking Environments & Firewall Knowledge * Extensive expertise in leading infrastructure solution, design and process improvement activities within an IT operational environment which resulted in improved efficiency, performance and financial benefit. * Excellent communication and influencing skills for dealing with internal management and teams, liaison with business partners and customers and external IT service providers. * Excellent technical authoring skills Additional desirable technical skills: * Mainframe (CICS, COBOL, Objecstar, CA Datacom, VSAM etc.) * UNIX Environments (AIX, LINUX, Solaris etc.) * Wintel / Storage / Desktop Environments * Data Centre Hosting * Cloud Services and integration * Mobile and BYOD * Middleware and Integration (IBM Message Broker, DataStage etc.)" This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work, If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, apply now for your CV to reach me directly, we will respond as soon as possible. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.

Role Title: Infrastructure Designer Location: Manchester Duration: 6 months Rate to inside IR35 £469.88 MUST BE THROUGH UMBRELLA Role Description: * Produce infrastructure design documentation based on a solution architecture to be implemented by a 3rd party supplier. * To coordinate accurate estimates for inclusion in end to end project costs and business cases and to assist with the estimates for the end to end IT costs. * Leadership within projects of technical resources and SMEs. * Input to infrastructure solution frameworks and patterns displaying awareness of external markets and suppliers, so that the best value for money and service is delivered. * Ensure that clear root cause is established for incidents impacting the deliverables of the Infrastructure CoE and that these issues are addressed. * Work with 3rd party supplier build teams, development and test environment leads to ensure that solutions implemented across the Bank project portfolio are compliant to design. * Involvement with 3rd parties to design product integration to existing / new solutions. * Act as a technical escalation point and convene troubleshooting teams to ensure rapid identification and resolution of infrastructure issues. * Provide design inputs to areas of expertise such as Mainframe, Networks, Wintel, Database or Connect:Direct. * Responsibility for producing and assuring design patterns. * Responsibility for producing and assuring Infrastructure Roadmaps. * Provide technical escalation point for production services. * Provide technical escalation point during build phase of new production services. Knowledge, skills and experience required * Extensive experience in VM Ware Platforms and Infrastructure Solutions, Networking Environments & Firewall Knowledge * Extensive expertise in leading infrastructure solution, design and process improvement activities within an IT operational environment which resulted in improved efficiency, performance and financial benefit. * Excellent communication and influencing skills for dealing with internal management and teams, liaison with business partners and customers and external IT service providers. * Excellent technical authoring skills Additional desirable technical skills * Mainframe (CICS, COBOL, Objecstar, CA Datacom, VSAM etc.) * UNIX Environments (AIX, LINUX, Solaris etc.) * Wintel / Storage / Desktop Environments * Data Centre Hosting * Cloud Services and integration * Mobile and BYOD * Middleware and Integration (IBM Message Broker, DataStage etc.) Please send latest CV LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.

On behalf of National Savings & Investments, we are looking for a M365 Product Manager (Inside IR35) for a 18 Month contract based Hybrid in London, Glasgow or Durham. NS&I is one of the largest savings organisations in the UK with more than 24 million customers and over £218 billion invested. We are both a government department and an Executive Agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Our origins can be traced back more than 150 years to 1861. A small company with a big reach. We care for colleagues, respect one another, invest in our people and manage talent effectively. This role is subject to Baseline Personnel Security Standard and financial credit checks. As a M365 Product Manager, your main responsibilities will be: * Lead the M365 product road map, driving its adoption and delivery. Ensuring it aligns with business goals. * Manage product lifecycle, help build the current roadmap into an actionable plan collaborating with stakeholders to deliver value. * Translating technical roadmaps into user-centric experiences and ensuring continued improvement. * Engage with internal & external stakeholders to identify needs, negotiate priorities and ensure alignment with business objectives. * Guide the entire product lifecycle from discovery and design through development, release, and end of life. * Develop business cases, User stories, align priorities and work with infrastructure and security teams to ensure user needs are met. Always measuring success to improve outcomes. Essential: * Deep Knowledge of Microsoft 365, * Experienced in managing the full M365 product lifecycle, * Proven ability to prioritise and manage product backlog and roadmaps based on Business & User needs, value, effort and changing priorities. * Clear and effective communication and stakeholder management skills. * Ability to align product strategy with business goals in a fast paced environment Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas. Disability Confident As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, NS&I guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance. Armed Forces Covenant National Savings & Investments guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance. In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".

Website Production Manager We are looking for a Website Production Manager for a Client in West London Job Description: • Being the EMEA production lead: - First point of contact for stakeholders with website production briefs, updates and issues. • Funneling these requests to the correct team and determine which ones will be taken on by us (consulting with Channel Manager where needed). • Responsible for driving down overall LTS times whilst promoting creative innovation and developing the efficiency of website as a channel. • Management production (development) agency: - Capacity and resource planning, including leading weekly sprint meetings - “Dispatcher” role, getting projects into the right people - Bridging marketing and development, “translating” communication in both directions - Liaising with marketing throughout the production cycle - Review and QA of briefs and asset handovers from marketing - Review and QA of all production work from development • First point of contact for planning and workflow process, ensuring we are operating within standards and working to optimize and develop those processes. • Accountable for delivery of BAU website projects. This includes tracking against the project plan (where relevant) and ensuring on time delivery. • Daily enforcement of guidelines, best practices and standards of website processes and web asset production. • Collaborate with internal and external partners on optimizing performance & ROI of website as a core acquisition & retention channel across EMEA by delivering against KPI’s (registrations, active users, activation & adoption rates, etc.) Experience required: • Experience within an EMEA-wide website team as a technical producer or project/production manager • Proven experience managing and collaborating with web developers. • Technical knowledge about website technologies / infrastructures • Experience with project management principles and practices (Agile, Kanban) • Some knowledge of website design principles and UX frameworks • Experience of working with in house product and engineering teams • Experience managing multiple stakeholders with competing priorities. • Marketing POC for BAU website changes and project requests • Scheduling and resource management in collaboration with Lead Developer • Two-way communication with development and marketing teams for any issues, feedback or queries related to ongoing work The ideal profile we are looking for is: • Has worked with multi-regional, multi-language web properties at an enterprise level. • Has project management experience, working within Agile/Kanban principles. • Clear and confident communicator, able to distil “development speak” into non-technical terms and vice-versa. • Broadly aware of the specific legal and risk sensitivities involved with financial institutions. This is a 6 month contract assignment. Will based in West London – close to Hammersmith. Please send your CV to us in Word format along with daily rate and availability.

We are hiring Platform Product Leads across two Directorates: GDS’s central Technology & Security team: enabling developers across GDS One Login’s platform teams: enabling teams within a flagship programme Products you’ll be managing will span Infrastructure and Data, including: cloud Platform, CI/CD, Observability, FinOps, Governance and Access Management data analytics, event streaming, shared signals, audit, data quality and back-ups As a Lead Product Manager you’ll: be responsible for a product portfolio and will oversee multiple Platform Product Managers and their teams reporting to a Head of Product or a Deputy Director, you will guide prioritisation across products and ensure alignment with the organisation’s goals and strategy own and develop a product vision, strategy and roadmap for your Platform products and product teams own your teams’ “front door”, shaping incoming requests from stakeholders, and ensuring effective prioritisation decisions lead your teams to set clear, measurable, outcome-oriented goals (OKRs), balancing user-facing benefits with reliability, security and other service level considerations guide your teams to identify risky assumptions and carry out continuous internal discovery (quantitative and qualitative) to de-risk product decisions efficiently and ensure that teams release value to users early and often champion your products with internal teams, developing trusted relationships and securing adoption, to drive measurable benefits to productivity, reliability, security and costs help your products move through the product lifecycle (Discovery, Alpha, Beta), setting appropriate goals for user experience, reliability and security (e.g. via SLOs), managing stakeholder expectations, and maturing your products over time partner with Directors and Heads-of to evolve the overall platform strategy, bringing expert insights from users, thoughtful application of technology (including AI) and industry best practices in order to solve users’ problems coach, line manage and mentor your Product Managers, as well as others in the wider organisation champion our work across government and in the wider industry, providing thought leadership in both Platform product management and the best practices of your users about what Lead Product Managers do in government.

Senior Sales Lead with Energy and Energy Infrastructure ESG Our Client is looking to recruit a Senior Sales Lead ideally with experience of working within the Energy sector to include ESG. You will have at least 7 to 10 years experience in Sales. We are seeking a dynamic and proactive professional to drive global growth in the sector, capturing major logo new clients, build and significantly expand existing key accounts, and use their network to leverage relationships with both new and existing clients and partners. With a focus on Energy and Energy Infrastructure, your primary objective is to leverage your knowledge in environmental impact assessments and “license to operate” clients, to drive growth and expand the adoption of our nature and biodiversity solutions. This is an outbound role that will require travel to industry events and conferences. While specific experience in biodiversity is not essential, success in this role will be supported by a solid understanding of environmental impact assessments, corporate sustainability, ESG practices, and the unique challenges and opportunities within this key sector. Your ability to deliver measurable client value and achieve positive business outcomes is essential. Key Outcomes Grow Revenue, capturing major logo new clients, building and significantly expanding existing key accounts. Increase adoption of our digital solutions with enterprise clients. Optimise overall Gross Margin on eDNA business while reflecting client needs and scale of opportunities Improve Customer Retention on key cohorts and improve the quality of earnings with larger orders and multi-year projects Upgrade and enhance the Go to Market strategy for this sector Deliver monthly Forecast Reports that are reasonably accurate Key Responsibilities Revenue Growth: Maximize Revenue and Growth: Drive significant increases in account revenue and expand our client base. Identify and Capture Opportunities: Leverage your knowledge of sustainability within the sector to proactively discover and capitalize on new business opportunities within existing accounts, transforming them into long-term revenue streams. Deliver Tangible Value: Ensure clients experience significant ROI from our biodiversity solutions, empowering them to lead in sustainable practices. Customer Relationship Management: Cultivate Strong Client Relationships: Establish and maintain deep, trust-based relationships with key clients, promoting the adoption of innovative biodiversity technologies. Drive Client Success: Regularly engage with clients to ensure their sustainability objectives are met, fostering long-term retention and account growth. Sentiment and Value Enhancement: Enhance Client Satisfaction: Continuously monitor and improve client satisfaction and loyalty, providing insights to inform product development and operational enhancements. Upsell and Cross-Sell: Use your understanding of sector needs to identify and execute opportunities to expand the value of each account through upselling and cross-selling relevant services and solutions. Account Coordination: Ensure Seamless Project Delivery: Oversee the successful delivery of all projects with your key accounts, ensuring timely completion, budget adherence, and client satisfaction. Maximize Account Potential: Understand client structures and decision-making processes to unlock additional business opportunities, such as different business units or additional regions. Sector Expertise: Expand Market Presence: Utilize your expertise in the sector to broaden our market presence and drive conversations around biodiversity solutions. Utilize Industry Knowledge: Apply your deep understanding of the regulatory landscape (e.g., CSRD/ISSB/ IPIECA Sustainability Framework/ EDP Renewables Framework) to enhance client outcomes and position our biodiversity solutions as essential to their operations. Key Qualifications: Experience: Senior experience in sales management, working in impact assessments, corporate sustainability or ESG within the sectors, with a proven track record of delivering business results. Sales Excellence: Demonstrated success in driving revenue growth and expanding client bases at enterprise scale. Experience in selling environmental or business data services to sector leading brands, supply chain managers, and c-suite would be exceptionally valuable. Strategic Insight: Strong understanding of the challenges and opportunities within the sectors, including the impact of sustainability practices. Industry Engagement: Maintain active involvement with key industry stakeholders and bodies, enhancing our market presence and credibility within the sectors. Attend relevant events, conferences, and webinars. Presentation Skills: Confidently present our tools and products to mixed audiences both online and in person, effectively communicating the value of our solutions. This is an exciting new position with a fast growing company in the Energy ESG sector. The role will be based in Central London and is hybrid with 3 days a week in the office. The salary for this position will be in the range £60K - £80K plus OTE commission up to 50% of the base salary. 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Site Operations Manager Wolverhampton (on-site, Monday to Friday, 8:00-16:00) £55,000-£60,000 per annum + car allowance + comprehensive benefits package This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Operations Manager to take full ownership of a busy, high performing site, leading a large team and owning service delivery, H&S and P&L for a key operation. If you enjoy being visible on the floor, solving problems in real time and driving continuous improvement, this role will suit you. This organisation is a well-established specialist in information management and digital services, supporting a wide range of public and private sector customers with secure, compliant and environmentally responsible solutions. They operate across a national network of sites and bring together physical storage, digital transformation and technology led services to help organisations manage, protect and make better use of their critical data. In this role, you will be the Site Operations Manager for their Wolverhampton digital site, accountable for end-to-end service delivery across operations, facilities, health and safety, people, reporting and compliance. You will lead and develop your on-site teams, ensure customer SLAs are consistently achieved, manage the site P&L, and look for ways to improve processes, costs and revenue opportunities. The operation runs Monday to Friday on a day shift, giving you clear structure while still being fast paced and varied. The ideal candidate will be an experienced operations leader from a production, logistics, digital services or similar environment, who enjoys coaching teams, working to KPIs and making data driven decisions. You will be confident around health and safety, comfortable owning budgets, and used to working within accredited, regulated environments. Above all, you will bring a calm, people focused leadership style and a desire to drive change and continuous improvement. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a market leader in a pivotal site leadership role, with national backing, strong values and genuine progression potential. If you want a role where you can put your stamp on an operation and build a high performing team, we would like to hear from you. The Role Take full accountability for service delivery across the Wolverhampton digital site, covering operations, facilities, H&S, people and compliance Lead, coach and develop site teams, setting clear targets, holding regular 1 1s and driving a high performance culture Own the site P&L, managing budgets, costs and resource planning in line with operational forecasts and business targets Ensure all activity meets customer SLAs, quality standards and internal SOPs, while continually improving process efficiency and revenue opportunities Lead on site health & safety, infrastructure security and compliance, ensuring audits, inspections, mandatory training and incident reporting are completed to required standards The Person Proven experience in a Site / Operations Manager role in a production, logistics, digital services or similar operational environment Coaching style of leadership, with a track record of leading and developing teams and creating a positive, performance focused culture Commercially aware and data driven, confident managing budgets, KPIs and operational management systems Strong understanding of health & safety and compliance, ideally within accredited environments such as ISO or similar (IOSH or similar H&S training beneficial) Excellent communicator, organised and resilient, with a continuous improvement mindset and the ability to work with stakeholders at all levels Candidates must be eligible for BPSS clearance for this position (Baseline Personal Security Standard) Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client. We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Role Title: Delivery Project Manager Location: Fleet Duration: 31/12/2026 Days on site: 2-3 Rate £358 Inside IR35 MUST BE THROUGH UMBRELLA Role Description: Delivery Project Manager - Cloud Based Cards Infrastructure Gateway Role Overview We are seeking a delivery-driven Project Manager to lead end-to-end implementation and modernization of a cloud-native Cards Infrastructure Gateway-the core switching, routing, and security layer that processes real-time card transactions across issuing and acquiring ecosystems. The role spans delivery governance, cloud infrastructure orchestration, platform engineering, scheme integrations, and partner/vendor coordination. You will drive multi-region deployments, zero downtime releases, PCI compliant architectures, and modern, scalable payment processing built on cloud-native services. ________________________________________ Key Responsibilities 1. Delivery Leadership (Cloud Transformation & BAU Change) * Own delivery of cloud-native gateway initiatives: migration from on-prem to cloud, infra re-platforming, API gateway modernization, resilience uplift, and regional expansion. * Shape delivery strategy across Agile/Hybrid models; manage scope, budget, timelines, and resource plans. * Lead proactive RAID management for distributed cloud infra and multi-system dependencies. 2. Cloud-Native Platform & Technical Coordination * Drive workstreams across key components of a cloud-native gateway: o Microservices, API Gateway (Kong/Apigee/AWS API Gateway/Azure APIM) o Event streams (Kafka/Pulsar) o Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) o Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE) and containerized workloads o Cloud load balancers (ALB/NLB), WAF, NAT, VPC/Virtual Networks o Cloud HSM / KMS for cryptographic operations and PIN/token security * Govern multi-region active-active deployments and ensure traffic distribution, failover, and DR patterns. * Oversee implementation of NFRs: performance/latency, scalability, 99.99% availability, auto-scaling, observability, and compliance. 3. Cloud Security & Compliance * Ensure compliance with PCI DSS, data encryption standards, tokenization, and cloud security guardrails. * Coordinate HSM/KMS integration, cryptographic key ceremonies, and secure API authentication (OAuth2, mTLS). * Govern cloud access, IAM roles, network isolation, and regulatory audit readiness. 4. Stakeholder, Vendor & Scheme Coordination * Lead delivery interactions with Visa, Mastercard, Amex, payment processors, and cloud service providers (AWS). * Manage SoWs, SLAs, and multi-vendor dependencies across platform engineering, networks, SRE, and security. * Navigate scheme certification cycles, cloud service limits, change windows, and release gates. 5. Governance, Reporting & Financials * Drive steering committees, architecture forums, and platform governance meetings. * Provide transparent reporting: milestones, burn-up charts, risk heatmaps, dependency matrices. * Manage CapEx/OpEx budget for cloud infrastructure, consumption-based costs, and resource optimization. 6. Cloud Testing, Observability & Operational Readiness * Govern performance testing using cloud-native tools and distributed load strategies. * Ensure robust observability: logs, metrics, tracing (CloudWatch/Prometheus/Grafana/Splunk/OpenTelemetry). * Deliver runbooks, operational dashboards, SRE onboarding, and production readiness gates. 7. Cutover, Multi-Region Deployment & Transition * Own migration and cutover strategy for moving gateway workloads to cloud with minimal user impact. * Coordinate DR, region failover tests, and resilience validation. * Ensure smooth handover to SRE/BAU teams with SLAs, OLA documentation, and monitoring frameworks. ________________________________________ Required Skills & Experience Domain Expertise o Authorization flows o ISO 8583, EMV, Tokenization o Scheme mandates & certifications * Expertise in cloud-hosted payment routing, scheme connectivity, and secure transaction processing. Cloud & Infrastructure Skills * Strong delivery experience in AWS cloud environments. * Coordination across: o Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE) o API Gateway / Service Mesh o Event streaming (Kafka/Pulsar) o Cloud HSM (AWS CloudHSM, Azure HSM, GCP Cloud HSM) o KMS, IAM, security groups, VPC, firewall rules o IAC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Bicep - exposure preferred) * Understanding of cloud scalability models, distributed systems, caching layers, and CI/CD pipelines. Delivery & Governance * Proven track record managing high-availability, low-latency cloud platforms. * Large-scale migration experience (on-prem ? cloud) is highly desirable. * Strong vendor and partner management across schemes, cloud providers, processors, and SI partners. Soft Skills * Excellent communication with senior stakeholders, engineering leads, and business heads. * Strong risk framing, decision-making, and negotiation capability. * Ability to drive delivery across large matrix enterprises and multi-disciplinary teams. ________________________________________ LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.

IT Infrastructure Team Lead Our Client has a great opportunity to play a key role as an IT Infrastructure Team Leader. You will be leading a team of highly skilled infrastructure professionals, third party management and will have responsibility for all infrastructure services. This covers network, hosting, and server infrastructure (on-premises and cloud). As IT Infrastructure Team Leader, you will have highly developed leadership skills, strong technical IT infrastructure skills and have proven experience effectively delivering infrastructure projects. We are looking for an Infrastructure Team Leader with at least 5 to 7 years proven hands-on expertise who has knowledge managing & improving technologies, security, and compliance for internal led standards. Main Accountabilities Responsible for managing, mentoring, and developing a team of highly skilled 3rd line infrastructure engineers, ensuring a high performing team Work closely with the IT management team, 3rd parties, and business and product owners to deliver efficient infrastructure services, ensuring excellent working relationships exist and the department benefits from collaborative working and the sharing of knowledge Management, administration, and operational support of the infrastructure Contribute to the effective governance of project deliverables to ensure solutions are fit for purpose and adhere to the IT Infrastructure roadmaps and architectural strategy Managing Incidents and Requests in line with agreed SLA's/OLA's Providing a first point of escalation for the team in respect of service/delivery issues Proactive incident, problem, change and configuration management Management of resources ensuring adequate cover is maintained to deliver the existing support requirements Ensuring effective DR/BCP plans exist to deliver the required RPOs and RTOs for all infrastructure services, including regular testing Managing effective and value adding third party relationships. Key Requirements Proven experience of supporting a large 24x7 operations, and experience of leading a multi-skilled team through change and transition Technically delivered a Cloud migration project Exceptional people management skills to inspire and motivate a team of highly technical specialists Managing internal and third-party resources as required to plan, design, build and run the enterprise IT infrastructure Experience of delivering infrastructure changes within a fast paced, high frequency change environment An excellent understanding of enterprise best practice infrastructure management, including use of automation/orchestration, monitoring, and logging Previous experience working in mixed on-premises/cloud environments e.g., Azure/AWS Working knowledge of information security threats and the best way to prevent them Minimum ITIL V3 Foundation certified and significant experience in ITIL aligned environments Excellent stakeholder management experience Have a broad understanding of relevant technologies and the opportunities they provide to enhance our service offerings – examples are: Microsoft based server infrastructures and back-office technologies Linux/open-source technologies Experience of delivering solutions using a mix of on premise, hybrid and SaaS, PaaS and IaaS models Virtualisation technologies Data Centre and Edge Networking Infrastructure and Endpoint security technologies Office 365 and Microsoft Azure Scripting, PowerShell, Ansible The Client is based in Paddington London. The salary for this position is in the range £65K - £75K plus benefits. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.

Business Development Manager - Telecoms & Critical Infrastructure Remote UK with occasional travel to the Liverpool office and client sites £55,000 to £70,000 basic plus uncapped commission (10 percent of margin), OTE around £40,000, plus £400 per month car allowance Excellent opportunity for a Business Development Manager with a strong telecoms background to step into a role where you'll be selling high-value network solutions into major ISPs, Government bodies, Utilities providers and Oil & Gas markets. If you enjoy technical sales, opening new accounts and building long-term commercial relationships, this is a role with real momentum and strong earning potential. This company delivers specialist microwave radio and wide-area network communication solutions and has built a solid reputation for quality, reliability and technical expertise. They work with large infrastructure customers across the UK and are now focused on expanding their presence across a range of sectors that depend on robust communication systems. You'd be joining a small but experienced team that values autonomy, backs its people and invests in long-term customer partnerships. In this role you'll focus on developing new business across critical communications markets. You'll identify opportunities, speak with senior stakeholders, understand their network needs and position high-quality microwave radio and WAN solutions that solve complex operational challenges. You'll be the face of the business in front of ISPs, Utilities, Government buyers and enterprise telecoms teams, while working closely with internal technical specialists to shape solutions and support customer proposals. The ideal candidate has proven telecoms sales experience, particularly selling WAN, backhaul, microwave radio or network infrastructure solutions. Experience selling into Oil & Gas, Utilities, Local or Central Government, or large ISPs would be highly beneficial. What matters most is someone who is commercially driven, confident opening new accounts, and comfortable selling technically credible communication solutions to senior decision-makers. This is a fantastic opportunity for a telecoms-focused BDM looking to step into a role with autonomy, strong earning potential, and a product set that has long-term demand across multiple high-value sectors. The Role: * Drive new business across Oil & Gas, Utilities, Government, large ISPs and critical communications markets * Sell WAN, microwave radio and network infrastructure solutions * Build relationships with senior technical and commercial stakeholders * Identify, qualify and progress new opportunities through the full sales cycle * Work closely with technical teams on proposals, capability alignment and customer delivery * Remote role with travel to customer sites and the Liverpool Head Office when needed The Person: * Proven telecoms sales experience (WAN, microwave radio, backhaul or network infrastructure) * Experience selling into Oil & Gas, Utilities, Government or major ISPs * Strong new business capability and confidence opening new accounts * Able to understand and sell technically credible communication solutions * Commercially driven, proactive and comfortable engaging senior stakeholders Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client. We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Technical Project Manager – Bank – City of London As the Technical Project Manager, you play an integral role in a high performing team to deliver technical projects on time, to budget and that achieve both the project objectives and increase internal customer satisfaction. This is a hybrid role where you apply your technical expertise in either software development or IT infrastructure projects. At times, you might need to chip in on business requirement scoping and technical delivery to get the project across the line. You leverage your project management expertise and adept communication skills to lead the end-to-end project lifecycle and by doing so, you directly shape the success of IT projects, and therefore our business. Key Responsibilities: Maintaining high performance levels for service-related processes, and implementing improvement activities wherever necessary Taking ownership of critical risks and issues, coordinating resolution with all appropriate constituents, and establishing effective communication between stakeholders Developing a deep understanding of projects to gain insights into the scope of service delivery Manage metrics reporting and analysis of business demand against capacity constraints Manage the development and delivery of IT products utilizing Scrum and Kanban methodologies Focus on the constant improvement of quality, speed and ensuring the team learns and gets better each sprint. Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, and security teams to comply with established policies and procedures and verifies that deliverables meet requirements Provide communication and escalation to IT and business area management on critical issues Foster and maintain good working relationships with business area representatives to remain in sync on direction and future delivery requests Key Requirements: Comfortable capturing and challenging briefs to ensure we are delivering the most worthwhile solutions Experience of leading, energising and mentoring project members Experience in IT project delivery including managing all project phases from analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and hand over to BAU teams. Ability to work to tight deadlines and work calmly under pressure A high level of organisation and demonstrated skills to manage a team’s capacity Comfortable multitasking and prioritising several tasks at once Hard-working with an outgoing and positive nature Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Technical skillsets within IT Infrastructure and Development will be mandatory Technologies: Microsoft based environment including – MS SQL, Exchange, Active Directory, IIS, Symantec, Citrix Network – Cisco, Palo Alto, ForcePoint, Symantec Email Security Programming Language – T-SQL, VB.net, C#, PowerShell, ASP The Client is a bank based in the City of London. The salary for this position will be circa £60K - £70K. This is a 12 month FTC position. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.

Technical Project Manager – Bank – Central of London As the Technical Project Manager, you play an integral role in a high performing team to deliver technical projects on time, to budget and that achieve both the project objectives and increase internal customer satisfaction. This is a hybrid role where you apply your technical expertise in either software development or IT infrastructure projects. At times, you might need to chip in on business requirement scoping and technical delivery to get the project across the line. You leverage your project management expertise and adept communication skills to lead the end-to-end project lifecycle and by doing so, you directly shape the success of IT projects, and therefore our business. Key Responsibilities: Maintaining high performance levels for service-related processes, and implementing improvement activities wherever necessary Taking ownership of critical risks and issues, coordinating resolution with all appropriate constituents, and establishing effective communication between stakeholders Developing a deep understanding of projects to gain insights into the scope of service delivery Manage metrics reporting and analysis of business demand against capacity constraints Manage the development and delivery of IT products utilizing Scrum and Kanban methodologies Focus on the constant improvement of quality, speed and ensuring the team learns and gets better each sprint. Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, and security teams to comply with established policies and procedures and verifies that deliverables meet requirements Provide communication and escalation to IT and business area management on critical issues Foster and maintain good working relationships with business area representatives to remain in sync on direction and future delivery requests Key Requirements: Comfortable capturing and challenging briefs to ensure we are delivering the most worthwhile solutions Experience of leading, energising and mentoring project members Experience in IT project delivery including managing all project phases from analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and hand over to BAU teams. Ability to work to tight deadlines and work calmly under pressure A high level of organisation and demonstrated skills to manage a team’s capacity Comfortable multitasking and prioritising several tasks at once Hard-working with an outgoing and positive nature Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Technical skillsets within IT Infrastructure and Development will be mandatory Technologies: Microsoft based environment including – MS SQL, Exchange, Active Directory, IIS, Symantec, Citrix Network – Cisco, Palo Alto, ForcePoint, Symantec Email Security Programming Language – T-SQL, VB.net, C#, PowerShell, ASP The Client is a bank based in Mayfair London. The salary for this position will be circa £60K - £75K. This is a 12 month FTC position. Do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.