Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by RDH » Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:09 pm

Hi, we've got a number of roles on the go at the moment:
Head of IT, a couple of accountants, HR, CAD technicians, engineers, etc, etc,

See here:
http://www.peakscientific.com/page/27-careers/


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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by Sanjøy » Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:08 am

Looking for Citrix and DB (lots of flavours) staff.

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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by H8OAG » Sat May 02, 2015 9:07 am

Currently recruiting to fulfil another significant contract.

We are a bespoke software house based in "The Den of The Bears"

Head of Development
Java Developer (2)
Project Manager

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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by H8OAG » Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:31 am

Another contract win!

Capita SMS is the recognised standard for secure mobile solutions serving Police, Home Office Criminal Justice organisations and Local and Central Government in the UK. Based in Scotland the company was established over a decade ago to deliver innovative and highly secure mobile solutions using the latest mobile and wireless technology and has been doing so ever since.
The product currently supports Android, iOS and Windows Phone on both phone and tablet form factors as well as an extensive supporting server application including web modules for desktop use.


Urgently looking for the following staff to deliver in a timely basis.
I know some of you are currently in this arena and may be looking for a move/new challenge.
The roles will be based in our new office in Glasgow Skypark - Near the centre and good transport links
The boss is a bit of an acquired taste..........

:cheers


Head of Development

Responsibilities
• Management (through team leaders) of a development team comprising ~30 developers, testers and sysadmins (a combination of contract and permanent)
• Working with the Head of Delivery, Project Manager and Product Manager to carry out release planning, associated resource planning and forecasting
• Day to day management of all on-going development (new releases covering both new features and fixes and patches covering critical fixes)
• Customer support management and prioritisation (including 24 x 7 support)
• Owning the agile development process and its on-going management and improvement
• Working with the Product Manager to define and agree functional requirements, technical solutions and estimates
• Working with the developers and technical architect to define technical solutions and overall technical direction
• Sales support including contributing towards bid responses and estimating and costing
• Recruitment (contract and perm staff)
• Administration and ensuring general alignment to corporate policies

Essential Knowledge and Experience:
• Hands-on background in software development or testing (not current but at some point)
• Significant experience managing a team using an agile methodology
• Experience managing multiple work streams (including both development and support) in a commercially focused organisation
• Experience managing multiple teams/team leaders (that is being one stage removed from the actual developers)
• Experience managing a team of at least 15-20 developers (we currently have 30 and it may grow)

Desirable Knowledge and Experience:
• Experience of Kanban
• Experience working with the Police (or other emergency service)
• Experience working with mobile (Android, Windows Phone, iOS)
• Numerate degree


Java Developers (5)

Main Responsibilities
• Write unit tests in line with the agreed requirements
• Develop and enhance our code base in line with the agreed solution and the existing product and software design principals
• Support the test team during the test cycle including issue analysis and defect correction
• Provide support to customers including implementation services, analysis of issues and development of fixes as required
• Work with rest of the development team to identify and implement improvements to our processes and toolset
• Attend and contribute to daily stand-ups, retrospectives and other meetings
• Work with the system administrator / dev-ops to support the development, test and demonstration environments

Person Specification
• Knowledge or experience of mobile development (especially Android, iOS and / or Windows Phone)
• Any knowledge of testing would be an advantage
• Understanding of Agile methodologies
• Experience as a software developer on development projects utilising one or more of the following technologies:
o Java
o Spring
o Tomcat
o Web services (e.g. REST)
o SQL


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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by H8OAG » Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:31 am

Another contract win!

Capita SMS is the recognised standard for secure mobile solutions serving Police, Home Office Criminal Justice organisations and Local and Central Government in the UK. Based in Scotland the company was established over a decade ago to deliver innovative and highly secure mobile solutions using the latest mobile and wireless technology and has been doing so ever since.
The product currently supports Android, iOS and Windows Phone on both phone and tablet form factors as well as an extensive supporting server application including web modules for desktop use.


Urgently looking for the following staff to deliver in a timely basis.
I know some of you are currently in this arena and may be looking for a move/new challenge.
The roles will be based in our new office in Glasgow Skypark - Near the centre and good transport links
The boss is a bit of an acquired taste..........

:cheers


Head of Development

Responsibilities
• Management (through team leaders) of a development team comprising ~30 developers, testers and sysadmins (a combination of contract and permanent)
• Working with the Head of Delivery, Project Manager and Product Manager to carry out release planning, associated resource planning and forecasting
• Day to day management of all on-going development (new releases covering both new features and fixes and patches covering critical fixes)
• Customer support management and prioritisation (including 24 x 7 support)
• Owning the agile development process and its on-going management and improvement
• Working with the Product Manager to define and agree functional requirements, technical solutions and estimates
• Working with the developers and technical architect to define technical solutions and overall technical direction
• Sales support including contributing towards bid responses and estimating and costing
• Recruitment (contract and perm staff)
• Administration and ensuring general alignment to corporate policies

Essential Knowledge and Experience:
• Hands-on background in software development or testing (not current but at some point)
• Significant experience managing a team using an agile methodology
• Experience managing multiple work streams (including both development and support) in a commercially focused organisation
• Experience managing multiple teams/team leaders (that is being one stage removed from the actual developers)
• Experience managing a team of at least 15-20 developers (we currently have 30 and it may grow)

Desirable Knowledge and Experience:
• Experience of Kanban
• Experience working with the Police (or other emergency service)
• Experience working with mobile (Android, Windows Phone, iOS)
• Numerate degree


Java Developers (5)

Main Responsibilities
• Write unit tests in line with the agreed requirements
• Develop and enhance our code base in line with the agreed solution and the existing product and software design principals
• Support the test team during the test cycle including issue analysis and defect correction
• Provide support to customers including implementation services, analysis of issues and development of fixes as required
• Work with rest of the development team to identify and implement improvements to our processes and toolset
• Attend and contribute to daily stand-ups, retrospectives and other meetings
• Work with the system administrator / dev-ops to support the development, test and demonstration environments

Person Specification
• Knowledge or experience of mobile development (especially Android, iOS and / or Windows Phone)
• Any knowledge of testing would be an advantage
• Understanding of Agile methodologies
• Experience as a software developer on development projects utilising one or more of the following technologies:
o Java
o Spring
o Tomcat
o Web services (e.g. REST)
o SQL


PM me phone if you require more information
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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by ironside » Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:22 pm

We're looking for a few network engineers. The more senior role is detailed below but we're also looking for people that fit a more junior version of the same thing.
If you're interested or know somebody who might be and would like to know more, drop me a PM.

Cheers,
Simon.

Senior Network Engineer
Location Edinburgh


The successful candidate will be responsible for the management of customer L2 and L3 connectivity solutions including Enterprise Wide Area Networks and High-bandwidth, high-availability Internet access services.  

Main responsibilities include:
  • Deploy and manage customer networks using Cisco and Juniper CPE
  • Competently provision new customer connections to the core ISP infrastructure
  • Self disciplined to update management systems and databases for customer and network record keeping
  • React to customer network enquiries, change requests, faults within agreed SLAs
  • Provide internal 2nd line support to the Support Team and managed Networks Team
  • Giving guidance and advice to large enterprise clients in the design, installation, and maintenance of their LAN and WAN infrastructure
  • Working independently to provide written and verbal reports
  • Presenting your solutions using Visio and Omnigraffle, and working closely with Sales and Project Mangers
  • Working with all aspects of TCP/IP packet switched networks, and all of the hardware and software involved in the design, implementation, monitoring, administration and troubleshooting of all seven layers of the OSI model for TCP/IP communications
  • Diagnosing network issues related to routing or performance and identify and see through the successful solution
  • Improvising workarounds to disruptive network issues and implement fast recovery of business critical networks
Candidates who apply will have the following:
  • A full UK driving licence
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Flexibility to travel
  • Comprehensive experience working with Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols
  • Good knowledge of network security
  • 3+ years experience with BGP, OSPF and other IGP routing protocols
  • Cisco or HP certification would be beneficial
  • Juniper or Cisco firewall product experience is desirable
  • Self Management capabilities
  • Ability to work within a multi-disciplined team
Bonus skills:
  • Any Juniper Networks qualifications
  • Proficient with the use of wireshark and other debug/analysis tools
  • Experience working in multi-vendor network environments

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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by fd » Wed Sep 30, 2015 5:38 pm

I'm looking for some unashamed techies . . . we're a software services company that only does high value software, often medical and military related - challenging stuff : military - canny say but very challenging, medical - full spectrum from personal handheld diagnostics devices up to state of the art imaging systems, radiation oncology systems control and imaging, next generation 'brain scanners' . . . plus all sorts of other stuff, gps/dgps navigation systems, high availability control systems . . .

1 x Senior role (lots of the following required) :
Wide breadth of software/systems engineering knowledge.
Happy to be Customer Facing when required (frequently).
Requirements, Architecture, Design, Estimation, Costing all the way through to Delivery and Maintenance knowledge expected.
Have a good understanding of the financial side of software development.
PM (light) skills - for smaller projects.
Strong OO including strong C++ (for mil and med specifically) plus the usual development langauges.
Strong understanding of embedded, safety critical, medical (to SIL-3) and military software (to SIL-4) systems (specific domains not critical but must have worked in domains with similar problems - safety, very high performance, multi-processor, low power - an understanding of the underlying hardware an advantage but not critical - what have you ?)
IP Networking and Comms Protocol design experience.
Modern non embedded systems architecture knowledge, SOA/Web Services/Mobile.
Strong understanding of development processes and tools.
Hands on team leader when required (often)
Travel (all over) required from time to time as required (we try to minimise it).
Agile and Waterfall capable.
Must be prepared to work on active battlefield products and cleared to SC level - previous clearance useful to know about.

n x Less Senior role :
Mini-me of above . . . (less experience and less boxes ticked)

1 x Graduate role :
Know somebody who is technically very smart but no experience ?

Based in Dunfermline, right next to the motorway exit for Sky.

PM me with a CV in the first instance.

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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by Sanjøy » Mon Mar 21, 2016 1:24 pm

Looking for Windows and Citrix SysAdmins based in Edi.

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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by Rag_It » Tue Mar 22, 2016 4:25 pm

Looking for Magento devs but also Android and iOS developers. Don't have to be based in Dundee, can work remotely. d.hay AT waracle.com

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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by RDH » Wed Mar 23, 2016 3:48 pm

Looking for a Credit Controller based in Milngavie if anybody knows someone looking?


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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by DDtB » Fri Jul 22, 2016 4:38 pm

If anyone is looking for a new PR / Comms person at Associate Director level... would appreciate a heads up.

Cheers!

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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by 111Robin » Fri Jul 22, 2016 4:44 pm

Out of work for a year now, if anyone hears of any engineering roles in Aberdeen please bear me in mind.
I have a B.Eng degree in offshore/mechanical engineering and have been working on the design and project engineering of surface/subsea wellheads and trees for 26 years,
Thanks,
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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by Sanjøy » Tue Sep 20, 2016 1:08 pm

Looking for Oracle and SAS sysadms in Edi.

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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by Ferg » Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:19 pm

Looking to have initial conversations with companies who can provide either of the following:

UI Design

Mobile Device Application development

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Re: Can SE help you through the Credit Crunch?

Post by RDH » Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:02 pm

Looking for an electrical engineer for a back up diesel generator company, also service engineers for the same. PM for details, based in Milngavie


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