About Sparta Global Embark on a transformative career journey with Sparta Global, where diversity, innovation, and passion for technology converge. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, offering not just jobs, but dynamic careers in the tech industry. You'll work alongside enthusiastic professionals, receiving top-tier training and mentorship to hone your skills for success in both public and private sectors. Our commitment to designing impactful careers and coaching future leaders is evident in our over 10 prestigious awards in Learning & Development and Equality, Diversity & Inclusion. As a Top 20 Employer for Social Mobility and a proud B-Corp certified organisation, we're not just advancing careers; we're fostering a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive tech landscape. Join us in shaping the future of technology - where your growth is our mission, and your success, our pride. Apply now to be part of our award-winning team at Sparta Global. About this role By utilising DevOps, businesses deliver systems faster, cheaper and without sacrificing high quality. It is an environment, a philosophical mindset and a real-world framework and just as the title says it brings together development and operations so that organisations can create stable, repeatable platforms for product deployment. To become a DevOps specialist, you need to have both technical and soft skills to seamlessly integrate with multiple teams. Engineers use tools to deploy infrastructure as code, create automation and test the platform during deployment and hook in monitoring systems for rapid up to date reporting. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be collaborating with the development and operations teams to automate the deployment of applications to multiple environments. You will be responsible for monitoring the health and performance of systems and troubleshooting issues as they arise. You will implement and maintain infrastructure as code to manage and provision resources effectively, while contributing to the development and improvement of DevOps practises and processes. We're not expecting you to be an expert right away - that's where our award-winning Academy comes in. We're experts in building skills and confidence in a fun and supportive environment that will not only challenge but develop you into a confident and capable consultant. What we're looking for. To be successful for this role you will demonstrate a level of ability in Python or similar. You will be passionate about technology and eager to learn programme development to an advanced level. We're seeking candidates who can exemplify our values: Empathy and Diversity: Integrity, respect, and a commitment to inclusivity. Drive: A goal-oriented mindset with pride in exceeding targets. Collaboration: A team-focused approach, fostering positive relationships. Innovation: Curiosity, creativity, and openness to diverse ideas. Flexibility: Adaptability and composure in the face of change. As a national organisation with clients across the UK, we require all candidates to have the flexibility and willingness to relocate post training for deployment to client site. Remote working cannot be guaranteed. You must have eligibility to work in the UK for the duration of your contract with Sparta Global (British or Irish Citizenship, EU Settled Status, or Permanent Visa Holder). We do not offer visa sponsorships or accept Graduate or PSW Visas due to time limitations. Why you should apply: Our environment is designed to nurture your talents and skills, your hard work and progress are not just appreciated - they're tangibly rewarded. We conduct performance-based reviews every six months, offering you the chance to increase your earning potential twice a year. This regular appraisal system is our way of ensuring that your efforts and achievements are consistently recognised and rewarded. We also provide: 20 days annual leave + bank holidays. An extra day off for your birthday. Pension. Eye care. Death in service cover. Cycle to work scheme. Season ticket loan. Employee assistance program. Yearly budget for personal development. Access to alumni and community networks. Opportunities to be brand ambassadors. Being employed by Sparta Global is an investment in your future that pays dividends along the way. We give you breadth of experience and skills, along with increasing opportunities to develop further and earn more. No two career paths look the same at Sparta. Our Recruitment Process: Begin your journey by applying online and our team will review your application. If you pass our initial screening, you'll be invited to complete our online assessments and first stage interview. If successful, the final stage is a competency-based interview, here you'll have the opportunity to impress us with your ability to communicate effectively and exhibit behavioural competencies through relevant examples. We're looking for candidates who can demonstrate a collaborative spirit and a growth mindset. The Talent Team will be there to support and answer any questions you have. You can also visit our YouTube channel to gain valuable insights and expert advice on virtual interviews, strategies to manage nerves, and tips on nonverbal communication. We look forward to receiving your application - good luck! TPBN1\_UKTJ
Job Profile for Combustion Engineer & SEL44834
Position: Combustion Engineer
Location: London (inside M25) - Mobile
Salary: £52-57k
Our client is a major service provider in London with over 50 years of success and continued growth. Due to recent success, they are seeking a Combustion Engineer to join their ever-expanding HVAC & Building Services Division. This division operates across London, managing a range of prestigious blue-chip portfolios.
The Commercial Gas Engineer to join their HVAC Services Team, which is the longest-standing part of the business. The role involves maintaining a wide range of commercial plant room appliances, with responsibilities split between planned maintenance and reactive repair work.
Although the company provides a call-out service, the number of call-outs is currently relatively low.
The Commercial Gas Engineer must hold their ACS Commercial Gas Qualifications, including COCN1 or CODNC01, CIGA1, and CORT1. The Commercial Gas Engineer will ideally have 5+ years’ experience working on commercial heating systems.
Combustion Engineer Job Overview
- Carry out service, maintenance, and breakdown on Commercial plant room equipment
- The engineer will ideally be situated North London/North of the river to work across a varied commercial client base
Combustion Engineer Job Requirements
- Minimum five years’ experience in the field as Commercial/Combustion Gas Engineer.
- Valid Commercial Gas Tickets
- Previous experience on steam, oil, and LPG is beneficial
- A time-served apprenticeship is beneficial
- Uk Driving licence
- Ideally based inside the M25
Combustion Engineer Salary & Benefits
- Salary £52,000 - 57,000
- 45 hour week include travel and site time
- Overtime - 1.5 & 2x - Currently average around £20,000 per annum
- Company Van with optional personal use
- 1 - 8 call out rota
- Monday to Friday - 8:00am - 5:00pm
- 23 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- 4% Pension
Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries.
We are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy, and in accordance with GDPR by applying you are granting us consent to process your data, contact you about the services we offer, and submit your CV for the role you have applied for.
Our client, a growing enterprise seeking to enhance its IT operations, is looking for an experienced Senior Infrastructure & Security Engineer to take ownership of 3rd-line infrastructure and cybersecurity support. This hands-on role requires deep technical competency, project experience, and a proactive attitude, ensuring stability, security, and efficiency in the company s IT environment.
As part of IT Operations, you will collaborate with stakeholders and lead efforts to design, build, and implement solution architecture. The company is shifting toward a more mature enterprise IT framework, leveraging Microsoft 365 and Azure (with AWS experience as a nice-to-have).
Key Responsibilities
- Provide 3rd-line infrastructure and security support, ensuring system reliability and cybersecurity best practices.
- Design and implement cloud-based and on-premise IT solutions, supporting Azure and Microsoft 365 environments.
- Collaborate with 1st and 2nd line engineers, offering mentorship and technical leadership.
- Drive solution design, IT operations, and network security in an enterprise-level setting.
- Oversee Active Directory (AD) conversion, ensuring seamless integration into the IT environment.
- Work within a customer-facing role, ensuring IT systems align with business needs.
- Participate in infrastructure transformation initiatives, aligning with enterprise-level standards.
- Ensure compliance with cybersecurity and regulatory frameworks while implementing risk mitigation strategies.
Key Requirements
- Proven experience in senior infrastructure and security engineering roles.
- Strong technical competency in cloud and cybersecurity, ideally within an enterprise or SME environment.
- Hands-on expertise with Microsoft 365, Azure, and networking (AWS is a plus).
- Experience in solution architecture, IT operations, and infrastructure design.
- Practical experience in cybersecurity, system design, and infrastructure architecture.
- Capable of rolling up sleeves and leading projects from conception to implementation.
- A background working with large-scale IT environments.
If you’re an experienced Infrastructure & Security Engineer with a passion for hands-on technical work and solution architecture, we d love to hear from you!
Epsom, Surrey, KT17
£70,000 - £80,000 plus a bonus, generous pension and lots more
We are working with a highly respected financial services organisation, seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Manager to lead the design, delivery and ongoing management of their cloud and hybrid infrastructure estate.
This is a pivotal leadership role, combining hands-on technical expertise with people management and strategic planning. You will take ownership of the full cloud lifecycle across Azure, ensuring resilience, security, performance and cost-effectiveness, while developing and mentoring a high-performing infrastructure team.
The Cloud Infrastructure Manager Role:
You will be responsible for the planning, build, operation and lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure and related services, with a strong focus on Azure. Key responsibilities include:
- Deployment, configuration and ongoing administration of Azure services
- Ownership of Azure tenancy, security controls, DLP and MFA
- Producing Low Level Design (LLD) documentation for new and evolving solutions
- Migration of legacy on-premise systems to Azure
- SQL infrastructure administration across on-prem and cloud environments
- Capacity planning, disaster recovery and Azure Site Recovery testing
- Storage lifecycle management (Blob, Files, SharePoint, OneDrive)
- Backup strategy ownership (including monitoring, escalation, reporting and optimisation)
- Infrastructure monitoring and integration with security and operational platforms
- Maintaining CMDB accuracy and infrastructure diagrams
- Supporting the Service Desk with complex incidents and escalations
- Working closely with Solution Architects and Change Management to deliver secure, well-governed change
- Managing transitional physical and virtual server and networking platforms
- Producing operational and cost management information for senior stakeholders
- Leading, mentoring and developing the infrastructure team, including performance management and objective setting
- Establishing and maintaining technical standards, policies and procedures
Skills & Experience Required:
Essential:
- Proven experience in a regulated environment
- Strong Azure administration background (certifications highly desirable)
- Cloud networking, firewalls and security architecture
- Microsoft 365 Enterprise (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online)
- Windows Server administration
- Azure Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- VDI platforms (Azure Virtual Desktop, VMware ESX, Horizon)
- Backup technologies (Veeam Backup & Replication, Azure, Microsoft 365, Data Cloud Vault)
- Platform security, DLP and MFA
- Infrastructure monitoring and alerting tools
- Low-level cloud design and solution architecture
- Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and leadership skills
- Demonstrable people management and team development experience
- Proactive, detail-driven and solutions-focused mindset
Desirable:
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, Azure DevOps)
- Cloud security frameworks and policy definition
- SQL Server administration
- Working knowledge of AWS
- Experience with Pluralsight skills and sandbox environments
Why Apply?
This is a rare opportunity to step into a highly influential role where you will shape cloud strategy, modernise infrastructure and build a best-in-class cloud operations function. You ll work with cutting-edge Microsoft technologies, lead a talented technical team and play a key part in the organisation s digital transformation journey.
If you are a technically strong Cloud Infrastructure Manager who enjoys balancing strategy, delivery and people leadership, this role offers genuine scope, challenge and progression.
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The Role You’ll lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping open communication channels. You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently. You’ll be keen to understand our clients’ ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed. Essential experience We want you to have demonstrable experience in DevOps practices and appreciate that Cloud & Platform Engineering are big topics. Ultimately, we’re looking for talented engineers who can learn modern technologies in the digital space. In the interview, please show your experience in: · Designing, building, and testing software release processes that cover the entire SDLC. · Creating, modifying, and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines. · Creating dashboards and visualisations for application performance that proactively identify and address potential problems before they occur. · Using automated testing to detect security issues/vulnerabilities in application and/or infrastructure code, thereby detecting issues before it reaches production (aka Shift-Left). · Strong experience in operating and maintaining services primarily in any of the BIG three public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP). Desirable experience Some other areas of experience that are not essential but still relevant to the role: · Identifying problems using RCA or 5-Whys methods and suggesting solutions to reduce the likelihood of incidents reoccurring. · A strong understanding of cloud networking and security concepts. · Understanding the principles of containerisation, and how to control and orchestrate groups of containers in production environments. · Writing clean, organised, structured and version-controlled code. · Knowledge of at least one scripting language that enables you to perform more complex automation tasks thereby reducing manual toil. · Preference for using CLI tools over relying on web portals. · Understanding SRE (live services) ways of working, that enables you to better increase reliability and availability of the service you support. · Auditing your service for FinOps and SecOps related compliance issues. Must be eligible for UK Security Clearance. If you don’t have all this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.
Ready to automate, innovate and make a real impact?
Do you want to build reliable, scalable systems that make a real difference to millions of people? Do you want to work at a certified B Corp with an inclusive and learning culture as part of a diverse team of great people?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. Working in DevOps, you’ll build and maintain the systems that let teams respond quickly to needs. You’llwork on high-impact projects, helping to build reliable, scalable systems. We align work to industry-recognised roles such as Build & Release Engineer (BRE), Platform Engineer (PLE) or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and, where needed, to more specialised areas such as security, cloud hosting, infrastructure or networking.
What’s life like as a DevOps consultant at Opencast?
At Opencast, we love to keep things simple, and we love automation.
It’s not the same as your standard Devops Consultant job. Depending on your client’s needs, you’ll take on a range of roles. These will include:
- Taking the lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping communication channels open with all parties.
- Developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently.
- Collaborating with our clients to understand their ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed.
- Contributing within Opencast communities.
- Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.
We care about building things right. We believe in good devops practices and keeping things simple. We want to support you as much as we can on interiorising our approach to devops engineering and you supporting others.
- We are proud consultants who combine our own experience and approach with our company values.
- We are comfortable with new tech. We are empowered, cloud native, vendor agnostic devops engineers. We are empathetic, patient and care about quality.
- We know when to pick our battles and how to manage expectations. We are humble, inclusive team players that listen and collaborate, with zero egos!
- We’re always willing to teach and help others (inside or outside of our team). And we’re always willing to learn.
- It’s a varied job that keeps you super technical and excited.
Salary:
- £50,000 - £60,000
Some of the benefits our offer includes:
- A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
- Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday.
- People to support you every step of the way.
Where you’ll work:
- Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you:
- We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview:
- Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.