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Cloud Operations Engineer Manchester (Hybrid - 2 days per week in the office) £50,000 - £60,000 + Progression + Benefits + Flexible Working + Life Insurance An excellent opportunity awaits an engineer with strong cloud and infrastructure experience, offering real technical variety alongside clear progression and development. This company is an innovative digital transformation partner, supporting clients across key and critical infrastructure sectors through technology solutions and consultancy services. In this role, you'll sit between development and operations, helping to bring the two closer together. You'll take ownership of a mix of cloud and hybrid infrastructure, with a strong focus on automation and Infrastructure as Code. You'll play a key role in modernising the platform and embedding DevOps best practices across a multi-cloud environment, while acting as a key technical contact for the business and working with external IT partners. You'll also support alignment with security standards and certifications. The role offers real influence over the long-term direction of the platform and is hybrid, with two days per week in the Manchester office. The ideal candidate will come from a sys admin, infrastructure engineering, or cloud operations background, with a strong focus on automation and cloud. You'll be comfortable with Azure and/or GCP, familiar with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code, and confident running secure, stable, and well-governed systems. You'll be motivated by ownership, keen to implement DevOps and cloud best practices, and looking for the autonomy to improve how the platform is built and operated. This is a great opportunity for a proactive engineer to move beyond traditional infrastructure, drive the shift to IaC, and take a leading role in shaping the future direction of cloud operations as the business grows. The Role: *Lead the hybrid cloud environment, driving automation and efficiency *Drive the move from manual setups to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and best practices *Oversee IT security standards, compliance, and certifications *Shape the long-term infrastructure roadmap and platform development *Hybrid role based 2 days per week in the office in Manchester The Person: *Background in systems administration, infrastructure engineering, or similar cloud operations roles *Strong experience with automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code *Experience working with Azure and/or Google Cloud (GCP) *Looking for ownership, progression, and training and development opportunities *Live within commutable distance of South Manchester (Liverpool, Manchester etc.) 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.

On behalf of HSE, we are looking for an Applications Operations Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 8 week contract based Remotely. At the Health and Safety Executive, we believe everyone has the right to come home safe and well from their job. Our mission is to prevent work-related death, injury, and ill health. Our roots stretch back to 1833. The modern HSE is an independent regulator with a wide reach across many employment sectors. Using world leading science, we have helped protect millions of people from devasting injury and suffering through our diverse regulatory activities. We concentrate effort on the most serious risks, targeting industries with the greatest hazards, and sectors with the worst risk management record. We hold people to account where we have to, and we are firm but fair when using our legal powers. We also provide support to businesses through free guidance and advice tailored to business needs. By giving them the confidence to manage risks sensibly, we boost productivity, support the economy, and contribute to a fairer society. We work hard to help maintain an effective regulatory framework, playing our part in providing proportionate and accountable legal requirements. The world of work is always changing. We use science to understand these changes. And that understanding helps us all prepare for the workplaces of tomorrow... so Great Britain continues to be one of the safest and best places to work and do business. SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance. As an Applications Operations Engineer, your main responsibilities will be: * Proven experience in Microsoft 365 administration and configuration. * Proficiency in PowerShell scripting for automation and configuration tasks. * Solid understanding of M365 security, compliance, and governance. * Experience in change management and delivering user-focused implementations. * Ability to analyze complex technical environments and design effective solutions. * Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Essential: * M365 experience * M365 administration experience * PowerShell experience 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, HSE 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 HSE 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".

DevOps Senior Operations Engineer Our Client is looking to recruit a Senior DevOps Engineer with at least 5 to 7 years expertise. They are a young talented team building the next generation video advertising platform. The key purpose of this role is focused on development in the capacity of improvements to the systems and operational environment by scripting, automation or building of tools. There are several key areas that require constant development: • Automation – Enhancements to the automation build process. Enhancements are continuously added to the base repository as well as additions of new technologies. • Scripting and Tools – There are many processes, tasks that can be made easier using scripts or custom designed tools in a managed services environment. We are looking for someone with knowledge of networking and storage, virtualization and operating systems, as well as good knowledge of the Architecture side of the role. Ideal skills and experience - what are you bringing to the party? • Experience working in operations - making sure the wheels are greased and the ship is humming along • Automation, Packaging, Deployments (Custom Hypervisor, Puppet, Git, scripting, CI services) • Source Code version control systems: Git & SVN • Monitoring: NewRelic, PagerDuty, etc • Programming Languages: Bash, PHP, GoLang • Virtualisation: We have a custom hypervisor (ZPF) but things like VMWare ESXi/KVM/oVirt/RHEV • Classics: Apache, MySQL, Redis, Varnish • Logstash & Elasticsearch • Networking (switching, routing, firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN, load balancing, DNS, Cisco, F5, Akamai) • Multi cloud setup - AWS, Digital Ocean, Rackspace, Linode etc • DNS, NTP, SMTP, Jenkins • A solid background in Linux System Administration Functions and responsibilities This is a dynamic and varied role, which includes things like: • Build, deployment and maintenance of new and existing environments • Designing and maintaining highly available architectures • Security (patch management, vulnerability scanning & monitoring) • Uptime – design and maintain the systems and networking for uptime, resilience, architecting for failure. • Evaluation of new, cutting-edge technologies to help improve business processes and streamline • Develop highly-available, scalable, robust systems and take ownership of problems as they occur • Undertake ad-hoc out of business hours work for occasional technical support The salary for this role will be in the range £60K - £80K. Please send your CV to us in Word format.

Reporting to the Infrastructure Operations Manager you will share responsibility for infrastructure solutions/systems across a range of technologies. You will collaborate with teams across the organisation to design and support new solutions. For more information about the post and information about the team, please access the full job description for this post. Please note that if you don't have Office 365 installed on your device, this can be opened using your browser. Benefits of joining us at Historic Environment Scotland Enrolment onto a Civil Service Pension scheme – 28% employer contribution 25 days annual leave, pro-rata (increasing to 30 days after 3 years) + 11.5 public holidays Reimbursement for relevant professional subscriptions Support for further education and personal development Study leave for work related courses Flexible working hours (where appropriate) Free entry to all of our properties (with up to three guests) Free entry to English Heritage, Manx and Cadw properties Key Responsibilities of this role deployment, configuration, monitoring, and second- and third-line support of a wide range of infrastructure services, including Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Azure AD), on-premises Active Directory, virtualisation platforms (VMware), and backup solutions such as Commvault, Cohesity, and Druva. managing monthly server patching, endpoint protection, and legacy on-premises technologies including SAN and physical servers. managing DNS, certificates, and domains. support basic Linux administration liaise with third-party vendors to ensure service quality lead on implementing cybersecurity standards and email security protocols such as DKIM/DMARC

DBS DIT provides digital capability that supports corporate services across the Ministry of Defence, including Finance, Commercial, Payroll and Human Resources for Military Personnel, Civilian Personnel and Veterans. Our digital solutions comprise enterprise resource planning systems, performance management, analytics, automation, low code applications and public facing services through . As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be at the heart of managing and optimising our development processes. Your responsibilities will include overseeing tools and testing environments, managing central code control, maintaining development standards, and writing software that automates systems. You will design secure solutions and deliver complex projects using modern development standards. Your role will also involve troubleshooting and resolving complex service faults and designing efficient systems with medium levels of risk and complexity. You will actively collaborate with user researchers to champion user-focused design, as well as with technical and solutions architects and software developers. In addition, you will underpin the development of both internal user services and public-facing services. You will deploy and manage applications on OpenShift and third-party PaaS solutions and manage CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, effective communication, decision-making skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement and development. Responsibilities A Senior DevOps Engineer delivers and integrates software to form a complete DevOps toolchain. They are responsible for planning and designing large groups of stories. At this role level, you will: Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available Have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems Manage service components and optimise development processes to ensure they meet business needs and performance indicators. Design secure solutions and services with controls specifically engineered to mitigate security threats. Use modern development standards to design, code, test, and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity. Identify, locate, and fix complex service faults while advising others on different methodologies and types of service support. Design systems with medium levels of risk and complexity, ensuring the selection of appropriate technology and efficient resource use. Collaborate with user researchers to champion user research, prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, and offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use. Deploy, manage, and scale applications on OpenShift and third-party Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, while setting up and managing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines. Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues