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Talent Acquisition Consultant

<p><strong>Hi, I'm Alan and I'm a Talent Acquisition specialist within IT recruitment at Harvey Nash. </strong></p>
<p>I have a wealth of experience in recruiting for IT roles within the public sector. This ranges from IT project managers, to DevOps/Software Engineers to Solution Architects.</p>
<p>Outside of work, I've always been really active going to the gym, boxing a few times a week, and watching football - an Arsenal fan. However, I've recently become a it's been more gentle strolls and night feeds than squats and deadlifts.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The best piece of advice I've received is, <em>"Don't worry about what you don't have, make the most of what you do have."</em></p>

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<p><strong>Cloud Engineer | 6 Month Contract | (Inside IR35) | Hybrid, Havant, 50% | Starting ASAP </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Day Rate: £550-650</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>About the Role:</strong></p><p>This role focuses on the core cloud platform and associated infrastructure and will give you the opportunity to contribute to infrastructure projects across a variety of services and cloud platforms, supporting the clients strategic themes.</p><p>This position involves supporting the team in ensuring we continue to deliver operational excellence alongside wider major organisational transformation project, involving a change of IT Operations Partner and transformation of our ways of working within the IT Service area</p><p>As a team player, you will work closely with a team of strategists, architects, and engineers to craft technical solutions that in turn accelerate our business, and this role focuses on working to</p><p> </p><p><strong>Main Duties</strong></p><ul><li>Identify and progress opportunities to contribute to continuous improvement across the team, delivery, and operational practices.</li><li>Collaborate to reduce operational risk within the core cloud platform.</li><li>Partner with Product owners and management to manage and clearly articulate demand planning and delivery against the projected backlog and book of work.</li><li>Provide support and best practice guidance for application teams on adopting our platforms. </li><li>Contribute to ensuring operational commitments continue to be met, including helping manage and resolve tickets in the team's support queues</li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Essential Skills &amp; Experience:</strong></p><p>Understanding of either Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure and Cloud Native Architectures is essential. A Cloud Certification in either Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure is desirable, but not essential.  Experience of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is required, and experience of Terraform is desirable.</p><ul><li>Knowledge of Operating Systems (Windows and/or Linux).</li><li>Strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of operational support procedures.</li><li>Ability to write software scripts in at least one general-purpose programming language (Bash, PowerShell, Python) or develop automation in one configuration tool (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).</li><li>Strong communication skills to be able to collaborate with teams across the organisation to help support the clients cloud adoption.</li></ul><p> </p><p>This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.</p><p> </p><div class="devyce"><div id="overridesModal" class="modal-overlay remove-all-styles hidden"><div class="modal-container remove-all-styles"><div class="modal-header remove-all-styles"><div class="devyce-logo-modal remove-all-styles"><img class="devyce-icon-modal remove-all-styles" src="chrome-extension://inpjhnjfkjaibkkpcdhibhiccnndljnf/assets/imgs/logo.svg" alt="" /></div></div><div class="modal-body remove-all-styles"><form id="settingsForm"><div class="form-group remove-all-styles"><label for="toNumber">To</label> <input id="toNumber" name="toNumber" type="text" /></div><div class="form-group remove-all-styles"><label for="fromNumber">From</label><select id="fromNumber" name="fromNumber"></select></div><div class="form-group remove-all-styles"><label for="recordToggle">Record</label><div class="toggle-switch"><input id="recordToggle" class="hidden" name="recordToggle" type="checkbox" /><div id="toggleSliderOuter" class="toggle-slider-outer remove-all-styles"><span id="toggle-yes" class="toggle-slider-value"> Yes </span>  <span id="toggle-no" class="toggle-slider-value remove-all-styles"> No </span></div></div></div></form></div><div class="devyce-modal-footer remove-all-styles"><div class="footer-checkbox remove-all-styles"><input id="alwaysUse" class="remove-all-styles" name="alwaysUse" type="checkbox" /> <label class="remove-all-styles" for="alwaysUse">Always use these settings</label></div><button id="saveBtn" class="btn-primary remove-all-styles" type="submit">      </button></div></div></div></div>

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