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IT Systems Administrator – 1st / 2nd line support

Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Permanent
Reference: LISA12022
Posted: 22 July 2022
Contact Anne Roche – careers@datalynx.net

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic data migration consultancy based in Watford, Hertfordshire, operating a hybrid flexible working model. We are looking for a permanent experienced systems administrator who is keen to be involved in a diverse range of tasks in a fast-growing company.

The ideal candidate will be organised, a natural problem solver, have excellent attention to detail and work in an efficient and timely manner. They must be able to work proactively to resolve customer IT issues and have a keen interest in IT and emerging technologies as well as a willingness to learn new skills.

We offer an excellent salary package which includes an auto enrolment employer pension contribution of 8% and are committed to providing investment in training to help you further develop your skills and knowledge.
This is a great opportunity to get involved in IT related projects in a fast-paced, exciting company, with on-premise and cloud technologies in an ISO27001 environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain the IT estate, including replacing and upgrading infrastructure and software
• Monitor system performance ensuring smooth running and security
• Ensure data is stored securely and backed up regularly
• Proactively maintain, support, diagnose and resolve IT systems issues
• Provide technical support, resolving users logged tickets
• Documenting processes to assist employees work with our technology
• Administration of AD and Office 365 (OneDrive, Exchange, Mail Archive, SharePoint)
• Administration of Microsoft Windows Server and Desktop OS, including OS updates, version upgrades/migrations, hardening and security and installed applications
• Administration of Client, Server and User Group Policy Objects
• Administration of printers, Microsoft print Servers and related printing services
• Administration of JIRA ticketing system, checking categorisation, and prioritising responses
• Manage Firewalls
• Cyber-security incident response handling

Essential skills:

• 2+ years working in a systems administration role
• Ability to prioritise workload and adhere to critical deadlines
• Excellent critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Professional demeanour, positive attitude and excellent customer focus
• Experience in administration of Windows Server e.g. 2012, 2016, 2019
• Experience in administration of MS SQL Databases, preferably 2016
• Experience of Windows based products and services e.g. Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, RDS, WSUS
• Experience of virtualisation e.g. Hyper-V, VMware
• Experience using a ticketing system e.g. JIRA
• Understanding of computer networking, Proxy Servers, Firewalls and switch configuration
• Ownership of a Driving Licence

Desirable skills:

• BSc/Ba in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline; professional certification (e.g. Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
• Understanding of the security standards necessary to adhere to ISO27001
• Knowledge of Cloud Administration e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure
• Knowledge of administering MS Sharepoint and Skype
• Experience of Linux

Mandatory Requirement:

Security Clearance is required to SC level; you must be willing to undergo clearance as part of the recruitment process. Five years’ residency in the UK is a mandatory requirement of security clearance, as is ownership of a passport.

Business Analyst  –  (£50-60k package DOE)

Permanent
Ref. – 0.LIBA12022
Posted: March 24th 2022
Contact Anne Roche – careers@datalynx.net

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic data migration consultancy based in Watford, Hertfordshire, operating a hybrid flexible working model. We are looking for a permanent experienced Business Analyst who will be critical to this fast-growing company’s success in delivering large scale data integrations and migrations in the cloud.

The role will involve identifying and assessing changing business needs, capturing, and documenting requirements, analysing the impact of changes, and supporting the business throughout the process. Although not a technical role, many of the requirements will be describing technical processes. You will work directly with stakeholders to support the delivery of business process mapping both as is (source) and to be (target).

For some projects the role would involve defining and agreeing the Data Scope, Business Rules, Data Mappings for example:

• Agree scope for data sharing
• Agree Recursive Addition rules / Implied Delete Rules / Business Rules / Scope Rules / Security Rules:
  • Certain records in the source system may need special consideration when being considered for extracting, such as:
    • Records that have been designated as exempt from extraction
    • Data integrity, ensure source and target remain in sync
    • Records requiring enhanced security attributes

The ideal candidate will have a strong business analysis background, be able to communicate effectively at all levels including managing client focussed workshops and have successfully helped deliver a number of system replacement projects. We offer investment in training and the chance to work in a fast-paced company, with on-premise and cloud environments. We provide an excellent salary package which includes an auto enrolment employer pension contribution of 8%.

Essential Skills:

• Strong, proven business analysis skills with significant experience of working on large scale system replacement projects.
• Experience of structured modelling techniques to capture the business model, user requirements and business architecture design e.g., BPMN, UML etc.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Experience in engaging with stakeholders at all levels and organising and running requirements workshops.
• A track record of being extremely delivery focussed.
• A methodical and analytical approach to problem solving.

Desirable skills:

• Prince 2 and/or Agile.
• Previous experience working within UK police forces or other law enforcement agencies.

Mandatory Requirement:

Security Clearance is required to SC level, you must be willing to undergo clearance as part of the recruitment process. Five years’ residency in the UK is a mandatory requirement of security clearance, as is ownership of a passport.

Data Engineer (£55-70k package)

Permanent
Ref. – TJDE32021
Posted: December 15th, 2021
Contact Anne Roche – careers@datalynx.net

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic data migration consultancy based in Watford, Hertfordshire, operating a hybrid flexible working model. We are looking for permanent experienced Data Engineers who will be critical to this fast-growing company’s success in delivering large scale data integrations and migrations in the cloud.

Initially you will be part of our strong delivery team delivering a critical national infrastructure data service that integrates a legacy on-premise system to a new AWS system working with our team of data engineers, architects and leads.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to expand your skills in both data migration and the build of data streaming/integration systems.  Applicants must therefore have a keen interest in emerging technologies, and a willingness to learn new skills. We offer investment in training and the chance to work in a fast-paced company, with on-premise and cloud environments. In addition, we provide an excellent salary package which includes an auto enrolment employer pension contribution of 8%

This role is a permanent role. Applicants that are currently working as contractors must clearly state that they now seek a permanent position.

On this project you will be expected to:

• Implement data flows to connect operational systems and provide data for analytics systems
• Document source-to-target mappings
• Assist product development teams in consuming the data streams
• Undertake reconciliation of the integrated systems
• Engineer data flows to enable scaling and repeatable use
• Support the build of data streaming systems
• Write ETL scripts and code to make sure the ETL process performs optimally

Essential skills:

• Experience of developing ETL or integration solutions
• Programming and build. You can design, code, test, correct and document programs and scripts.
  • SQL Development background
  • Good SQL skills, able to write queries and stored procedures
• Good communication skills, you will be able to translate technical concepts into non-technical language
• Experience of undertaking data profiling and source system analysis
• An understanding of the concepts and principles of data modelling

 Desirable skills:

• Knowledge of Kafka
• SQL and No SQL Databases
• Experience and knowledge of using JSON
• Experience of Public Sector
• Elastic Search / Kibana
• Current SC Clearance
• Exposure to AWS
• RDS
• DynamoDB
• The ability to produce and maintain data models

Security Clearance is required to SC level so you must be willing to undergo clearance as part of the recruitment process. Five years’ residency in the UK is a mandatory requirement of security clearance, as is ownership of a passport.

AWS DevOps Specialist          (£50-75k package DOE)

Permanent

• Evidence of successfully delivering a DevOps strategy
• Solid knowledge and experience of provisioning and managing AWS environments
• Experience of release and build automation pipelines utilising Jenkins.
• Scripting, particularly Groovy (ideally also to have Python, Bash & Powershell).
• Windows Server (build, security, AD, GPO, …).
• Source control: GIT /AWS Code Commit / SVN.
• Familiar with database server technology such as MS SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of Elastic Search, RabbitMQ, Site to Site VPN Certificate configuration,
• Knowledge of Hashicorp Consul and Vault to manage configuration and secrets
• Experience of using Hashicorp Terraform to deploy/update/destroy AWS infrastructure
• Experience of using packer for AMI creation
• Familiar with provision of VPC’s and AWS networking/VPN’s
• Understanding of the principles of immutable infrastructure and ability to put these into practice.

 Desirable skills:

• Professional Certification from one or more major cloud providers
• Experience of working on Transformation programmes and large client driven projects
• BSc/Ba in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline; professional certification (e.g.AWS Certified DevOps, Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA))
• Experience of working in a secure environment with clearance to SC level.
• Knowledge of migrating on-premise technology to AWS

Security Clearance is required to SC level so you must be willing to undergo clearance as part of the recruitment process. Five years’ residency in the UK is a mandatory requirement of security clearance, as is ownership of a passport.