Hitachi Vantara Corporation
About Us A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multicultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there's something for everyone to get stuck into. And that's where you come in. London, Greater London, United Kingdom (On Site) Our Opportunity We currently have an opening in our Systems Engineering job family for a Senior Design Engineer. This role will be primarily working on our ongoing projects to maintain and renew London Underground's operational network. As a Senior Design Engineer, you will be an integral member of the design team, assuring compliance to a defined design process and ensuring that solutions conform to client requirements including quoted standards and specifications. You will be responsible for architecting solutions, design production, design estimates and design work packages for bids, projects and services to contract requirements, standards, budget, and on time delivery. You will undertake the role of Designer as identified in the CDM regulations, with particular attention to design risks, ensuring that safety risks are designed out or deemed as low as reasonably practicable. This is a hybrid role working a minimum of two days per week from our site in Waterloo, London. Key Responsibilities Architect, design and develop design solutions using industry best practice, focusing largely on operational networks and connectivity Collaborate with project managers, designers, design authorities and other stakeholders to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications and ensure successful delivery of the project Engage with supply chain to develop understanding of product offerings that can be applied to our solutions Produce designs that are buildable and maintainable that meet customer requirements and relevant standards and legislation Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and other hardware issues Carry out technical investigations and produce associated reports Produce Installation Test Plans in accordance with associated documented processes Understand and follow the project delivery processes, methodologies, and use the defined tools as set out in the Hitachi Rail Business Management System and the project specific Engineering Management Plans Support Work Package Managers with timely provision of status, accurate measurement of progress and forecasting of remaining work and by identifying change, variation, risk and opportunity to the work package manager wherever the scope of works is impacted Meet customer representatives to discuss and resolve technical issues Prepare cost/time estimates for contract variations When appropriate provide technical support to other teams/departments Share knowledge and experience with junior members of the team and provide mentorship where applicable Produce cable infrastructure designs and 50V power supply designs Assist with the production of material approval documentation and EMC/EMF technical documentation Ensure designs and materials comply with London Underground fire and safety/engineering regulations and standards Technical Skills and Experience Ability to architect network solutions at a concept and detailed level Ability to manage a design through a defined design process Sound ability to use design tools to produce complex designs Ability to produce metrics as part of Quality assurance & control Working knowledge of project plans Working knowledge of Engineering Safety Management Full understanding of the engineering lifecycle and its processes Working knowledge of the CDM regulations Demonstrated design capabilities to at least a supervisor level for one skill set and practitioner level for one or more key skill as captured and managed via the competency and capability management system Can manage configuration control Proven capabilities in some or all of the following network related areas: Network fundamentals & protocols (OSI, IP suite, addressing, LAN/WAN, routing, MPLS/BGP, VPNs, tunnelling, legacy protocols) Transmission & physical layer technologies (optical/IP transport, serial comms, modems, video standards) Network infrastructure, security appliances & management systems Network security, authentication & encryption (certificates, crypto, identity schemes) Internet standards & governance (IANA, registries, RFCs) Network synchronization & performance monitoring Human Skills Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on systems design principles, engineering techniques, and best practices Stay updated on emerging technologies, trends, and industry best practices, and apply them to enhance our solutions Excellent communication skills in all forms and at all levels Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team Excellent stakeholder management Good problem solving skills What to Expect We aim to complete a single stage interview process in person at our Waterloo office. The interview will focus on both technical and behavioural competencies. Reasonable adjustments are available with prior notice so please let the TA partner know if this would be necessary. To find out what reasonable adjustments are, and what might be available, your TA partner will be happy to discuss this with you. We may close this role early if we quickly identify suitably strong applicants. What We Can Offer We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation. Flexibility Your health and well being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. Thank you for your interest in Hitachi Rail. If your application is of interest, we will be in contact. Please do not hesitate to discover more about us and our latest jobs at . At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone. We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and worldview. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the UK Government website .
About Us A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multicultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there's something for everyone to get stuck into. And that's where you come in. London, Greater London, United Kingdom (On Site) Our Opportunity We currently have an opening in our Systems Engineering job family for a Senior Design Engineer. This role will be primarily working on our ongoing projects to maintain and renew London Underground's operational network. As a Senior Design Engineer, you will be an integral member of the design team, assuring compliance to a defined design process and ensuring that solutions conform to client requirements including quoted standards and specifications. You will be responsible for architecting solutions, design production, design estimates and design work packages for bids, projects and services to contract requirements, standards, budget, and on time delivery. You will undertake the role of Designer as identified in the CDM regulations, with particular attention to design risks, ensuring that safety risks are designed out or deemed as low as reasonably practicable. This is a hybrid role working a minimum of two days per week from our site in Waterloo, London. Key Responsibilities Architect, design and develop design solutions using industry best practice, focusing largely on operational networks and connectivity Collaborate with project managers, designers, design authorities and other stakeholders to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications and ensure successful delivery of the project Engage with supply chain to develop understanding of product offerings that can be applied to our solutions Produce designs that are buildable and maintainable that meet customer requirements and relevant standards and legislation Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and other hardware issues Carry out technical investigations and produce associated reports Produce Installation Test Plans in accordance with associated documented processes Understand and follow the project delivery processes, methodologies, and use the defined tools as set out in the Hitachi Rail Business Management System and the project specific Engineering Management Plans Support Work Package Managers with timely provision of status, accurate measurement of progress and forecasting of remaining work and by identifying change, variation, risk and opportunity to the work package manager wherever the scope of works is impacted Meet customer representatives to discuss and resolve technical issues Prepare cost/time estimates for contract variations When appropriate provide technical support to other teams/departments Share knowledge and experience with junior members of the team and provide mentorship where applicable Produce cable infrastructure designs and 50V power supply designs Assist with the production of material approval documentation and EMC/EMF technical documentation Ensure designs and materials comply with London Underground fire and safety/engineering regulations and standards Technical Skills and Experience Ability to architect network solutions at a concept and detailed level Ability to manage a design through a defined design process Sound ability to use design tools to produce complex designs Ability to produce metrics as part of Quality assurance & control Working knowledge of project plans Working knowledge of Engineering Safety Management Full understanding of the engineering lifecycle and its processes Working knowledge of the CDM regulations Demonstrated design capabilities to at least a supervisor level for one skill set and practitioner level for one or more key skill as captured and managed via the competency and capability management system Can manage configuration control Proven capabilities in some or all of the following network related areas: Network fundamentals & protocols (OSI, IP suite, addressing, LAN/WAN, routing, MPLS/BGP, VPNs, tunnelling, legacy protocols) Transmission & physical layer technologies (optical/IP transport, serial comms, modems, video standards) Network infrastructure, security appliances & management systems Network security, authentication & encryption (certificates, crypto, identity schemes) Internet standards & governance (IANA, registries, RFCs) Network synchronization & performance monitoring Human Skills Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on systems design principles, engineering techniques, and best practices Stay updated on emerging technologies, trends, and industry best practices, and apply them to enhance our solutions Excellent communication skills in all forms and at all levels Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team Excellent stakeholder management Good problem solving skills What to Expect We aim to complete a single stage interview process in person at our Waterloo office. The interview will focus on both technical and behavioural competencies. Reasonable adjustments are available with prior notice so please let the TA partner know if this would be necessary. To find out what reasonable adjustments are, and what might be available, your TA partner will be happy to discuss this with you. We may close this role early if we quickly identify suitably strong applicants. What We Can Offer We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation. Flexibility Your health and well being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. Thank you for your interest in Hitachi Rail. If your application is of interest, we will be in contact. Please do not hesitate to discover more about us and our latest jobs at . At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone. We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and worldview. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the UK Government website .
Affinity
Truro, Cornwall
Job Title: DevOps Engineer Location: Remote, UK Salary: Circa £47,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience Job Type: Full Time, Permanent Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week to cover core business hours (9-5, Mon-Fri) Working for Affinity: We understand the importance of flexibility, wellness, performance and satisfaction - indeed it is part of our culture We offer opportunities to take unpaid leave and will give you one extra day's holiday for every year you've worked with us, for up to 8 years We know working from home introduces opportunities for you to do more domestic chores during the day, e.g. picking up the children from school, taking pets to the vet, etc. We don't mind this at all, as long as we are aware of what you are doing and the work gets done! About the Role: We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology and who is always looking for opportunities to improve the services we provide for clients, in areas such as efficiency, cost effectiveness, security and reliability. You'll be pivotal in knowledge sharing internally within the business, assisting others in their assigned projects and, where necessary, supporting more junior members of Affinity to help them learn and improve. The right DevOps engineer will have the opportunity to help grow and shape this emerging function within the team, creating a long-term career path for themselves within Affinity, with an opportunity to progress upwards. What will your typical day look like? You will be working on projects, such as the Cabinet Office WordPress support contract, to keep our clients' systems up-to-date, available, resilient, secure, performing well and cost effective. Working to improve the efficiency of our infrastructure related processes At times you'll need to work together with clients' own internal teams and with any external infrastructure teams that Affinity may partner with. Putting together infrastructure design documents at the start of projects, with a view to getting these signed off by the client and then acting as the basis for infrastructure build. Building infrastructure on new projects through the use of Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, etc. This will also include continuous integration processes, server provisioning, etc. Imparting knowledge and experience to other Affinity team members, both verbally and also captured in tools such as Jira Confluence, where we would like to build up a repository of DevOps how-tos, best practices, etc. Opportunity to work as a team lead where other Affinity team members are involved in DevOps. Providing AWS and Azure thought leadership and mentoring in both advisory and delivery contexts. Supporting out-of-hours rotas to provide support coverage for contracts in place with Affinity. About you: General requirements: - Willingness to provide on-call rota coverage of emergency support (24/7/365) - Ability to work flexible hours from time to time, for specific projects or tasks - UK based and resident in UK for last 3 years (given some client-driven security clearance requirements) - The role is fully remote, though visits to clients and to our office in Cornwall will occasionally be required Technical must-haves: - Commercial experience of AWS, including services such as Amazon VPC, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS/EKS, Amazon EFS, AWS IAM, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, AWS Cost Explorer, etc. - Commercial experience of Azure, including services such as Azure Networking, Azure Cache (Redis and Memcached), App Services (running WordPress and .NET applications), Front Doors (CDN), API Services, storage services (blob storage, file storage, etc.), Azure Database services, Azure Cost Management, etc. - Terraform and/or CloudFormation scripting - Linux, Apache/Nginx - Continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) experience including GitHub Actions - Familiarity with the AWS/Azure Well-Architected Framework and NCSC Cloud Security Principles - Security experience, including the resolution of issues found during penetration testing - Docker experience Technical nice-to-haves: - System/server admin experience - Drupal, WordPress or Magento experience - PHP and Composer - Microsoft technologies, including .NET, Windows Server, IIS, Active Directory, MSSQL, etc. - AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, DevOps Engineer - Professional, speciality certifications, e.g., Database, Security, etc.) - Microsoft certifications, including Azure Fundamentals, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Security Engineer Associate, etc. - Load testing experience, including jMeter, Gatling, K6, etc. - Other HashiCorp tools, e.g., Packer, Vault, Vagrant, Consul, etc. - Provisioning tools, e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc. - AWS Control Tower and/or Landing Zone - Experience with Google Cloud Platform - Experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates Please click the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role. Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Software Developer, Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, AWS, Infrastructure Engineer, AWS Systems Developer, Azure Software Development may also be considered for this role.
Job Title: DevOps Engineer Location: Remote, UK Salary: Circa £47,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience Job Type: Full Time, Permanent Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week to cover core business hours (9-5, Mon-Fri) Working for Affinity: We understand the importance of flexibility, wellness, performance and satisfaction - indeed it is part of our culture We offer opportunities to take unpaid leave and will give you one extra day's holiday for every year you've worked with us, for up to 8 years We know working from home introduces opportunities for you to do more domestic chores during the day, e.g. picking up the children from school, taking pets to the vet, etc. We don't mind this at all, as long as we are aware of what you are doing and the work gets done! About the Role: We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology and who is always looking for opportunities to improve the services we provide for clients, in areas such as efficiency, cost effectiveness, security and reliability. You'll be pivotal in knowledge sharing internally within the business, assisting others in their assigned projects and, where necessary, supporting more junior members of Affinity to help them learn and improve. The right DevOps engineer will have the opportunity to help grow and shape this emerging function within the team, creating a long-term career path for themselves within Affinity, with an opportunity to progress upwards. What will your typical day look like? You will be working on projects, such as the Cabinet Office WordPress support contract, to keep our clients' systems up-to-date, available, resilient, secure, performing well and cost effective. Working to improve the efficiency of our infrastructure related processes At times you'll need to work together with clients' own internal teams and with any external infrastructure teams that Affinity may partner with. Putting together infrastructure design documents at the start of projects, with a view to getting these signed off by the client and then acting as the basis for infrastructure build. Building infrastructure on new projects through the use of Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, etc. This will also include continuous integration processes, server provisioning, etc. Imparting knowledge and experience to other Affinity team members, both verbally and also captured in tools such as Jira Confluence, where we would like to build up a repository of DevOps how-tos, best practices, etc. Opportunity to work as a team lead where other Affinity team members are involved in DevOps. Providing AWS and Azure thought leadership and mentoring in both advisory and delivery contexts. Supporting out-of-hours rotas to provide support coverage for contracts in place with Affinity. About you: General requirements: - Willingness to provide on-call rota coverage of emergency support (24/7/365) - Ability to work flexible hours from time to time, for specific projects or tasks - UK based and resident in UK for last 3 years (given some client-driven security clearance requirements) - The role is fully remote, though visits to clients and to our office in Cornwall will occasionally be required Technical must-haves: - Commercial experience of AWS, including services such as Amazon VPC, Amazon RDS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS/EKS, Amazon EFS, AWS IAM, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, AWS Cost Explorer, etc. - Commercial experience of Azure, including services such as Azure Networking, Azure Cache (Redis and Memcached), App Services (running WordPress and .NET applications), Front Doors (CDN), API Services, storage services (blob storage, file storage, etc.), Azure Database services, Azure Cost Management, etc. - Terraform and/or CloudFormation scripting - Linux, Apache/Nginx - Continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) experience including GitHub Actions - Familiarity with the AWS/Azure Well-Architected Framework and NCSC Cloud Security Principles - Security experience, including the resolution of issues found during penetration testing - Docker experience Technical nice-to-haves: - System/server admin experience - Drupal, WordPress or Magento experience - PHP and Composer - Microsoft technologies, including .NET, Windows Server, IIS, Active Directory, MSSQL, etc. - AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, DevOps Engineer - Professional, speciality certifications, e.g., Database, Security, etc.) - Microsoft certifications, including Azure Fundamentals, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Security Engineer Associate, etc. - Load testing experience, including jMeter, Gatling, K6, etc. - Other HashiCorp tools, e.g., Packer, Vault, Vagrant, Consul, etc. - Provisioning tools, e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc. - AWS Control Tower and/or Landing Zone - Experience with Google Cloud Platform - Experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates Please click the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role. Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Software Developer, Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, AWS, Infrastructure Engineer, AWS Systems Developer, Azure Software Development may also be considered for this role.
