Technical Specialist Network and Firewall Engineer

£35,451 – £36,612 – plus benefits – Hybrid working pattern

Glenfield, Leicestershire

Your new company

Hays Recruitment have partnered with Leicestershire County Council in the search for a Technical Specialist with knowledge of firewalls. This is an ideal role if you are looking to expand and develop your knowledge of firewalls with plenty of development opportunities.

Working as part of a team of 4, you will be responsible for maintaining and supporting the IT infrastructure to ensure that services are reliable, resilient and provide value for money. You will be primarily responsible for the management, monitoring and upgrading of both on prem and virtual firewalls and perimeter security. You will be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of the concept and principles of firewalls. The team has a strong ethos of knowledge sharing to support in your development.

Your new role will involve:

The role encompasses the following

• Support, configure and administer corporate firewall and perimeter security platforms
• Liaise with customers and appropriate IT staff
• Follow technical and security standards to ensure cost effective, secure and high availability of systems.
• Support, install and implement IT infrastructure solutions
• Configure, test and install operating systems and hardware using supplier recommendations and best practice across a range of platforms.
• Assist in the design and build process of IT infrastructure solutions
• Work in a team of IT technicians with a broad range of technologies including:
  • Hyper-Converged Systems (HCI)
  • Infrastructure Security
  • SQL Database Administration
  • System Backup Management & Administration
  • Server administration (Windows, Solaris, Linux, VMWare)
  • File Structure and Permission Management
  • Facilities Management
  • Security Testing
  • Disaster Recovery

What you need to succeed:

• Strong understanding and interest in firewalls and networks
• Demonstrable experience in perimeter security
• Demonstrable experience with the principles and concepts of firewalls
• Experience upgrading, managing and monitoring firewalls
• Understanding of storage infrastructure
• Understanding of virtual infrastructure
• MS / SQL knowledge

There will be occasional out of hours requirements for planned works or major incidents, therefore you will need to be within an hour of the location and have your own transport.

Sponsorship is not available for this role

You’ll be joining a business that is modernising their internal systems, moving from traditional desktop applications towards modern web-based UIs and cloud-aligned architectures. You’ll be helping to build the next generation of internal tools used across operations, commercial and project delivery teams. Some key duties: \* Support the development of secure, scalable applications using modern frameworks \* Build and maintain services utilising Microsoft Development technologies \* Write clean, well-structured code with version control \* Design and query relational databases (SQL Server) \* Participate in code reviews You will gain exposure to emerging technologies such as AI and automation, and you will work with Azure services for deploying, hosting and securing applications. Your degree should be related to Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science or similar. And you should have some knowledge of at least one of: Python, C#, Javascript, Typescript. And practical SQL Knowledge (joins, grouping, querying data) Some familiarity with APIs, JSON and basic cloud concepts would be ideal. You’ll be learning about UX/UI; M365 platform and tools (Azure, PowerApps etc); and web frameworks (React, Vue or similar) You will have a clear progression path to Junior-Mid Developer roles, and will get certification and training support (Azure, DevOps, AI). You’ll be working closely with and learning from experienced engineers and receiving guidance and mentorship as you develop your technical and professional skills You will be working on meaningful systems that impact the day-to-day operations of the business, and will have the creative freedom to implement meaningful solutions. Ongoing analysis of company processes will identify exciting new projects that will keep the role challenging and rewarding. In your first year you can expect to contribute to live internal applications; gain experience working with databases and APIs; learn development standards and deployment processes; and support the rollout of new tools across the business

Please note this is a training course and fees apply

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Senior Data Scientist, Alternative Pricing

Leicester

You will work on complex pricing and customer selection problems, using modern machine learning and huge, messy datasets to shape how millions of customers are priced and selected.

The Company

They are a well-established UK general insurance provider with a strong focus on car, van, bike and home insurance. Data science and analytics sit at the core of their strategy, supported by significant investment in cloud technology and digital platforms. Their pricing and data science capability is regarded as one of the strongest in the UK insurance market. You will join a profitable, tech enabled organisation with the scale, data and backing to do cutting edge work.

The Team

You will join a specialist Alternative Pricing Product team that sits alongside a core pricing function. It is a small, collaborative team of around six people, where you will provide technical leadership and mentor a graduate data scientist.

The Role

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will:

• Focus on pricing and customer selection for car and van insurance within the Alternative Pricing Product team.
• Build predictive models that identify new ways to set prices and select customers, beyond traditional pricing approaches.
• Work with very large, messy datasets across multiple product lines, leading data exploration, cleaning and feature engineering.
• Deploy models into production using Python, SQL, Azure ML and an internal deployment platform.
• Collaborate with pricing, risk and product stakeholders to test ideas, run experiments and influence pricing strategy.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to setting technical standards within the team.

Your Skills And Experience You will bring:

• Strong commercial experience as a Data Scientist or in a similar analytics role working on predictive modelling.
• Hands on experience building and deploying machine learning models using Python and SQL, ideally in a cloud environment such as Azure.
• Practical experience with tree based methods such as XGBoost or CatBoost, and an interest in geospatial or graph based modelling.
• Confidence working with large scale, messy, multi source datasets, including complex data cleansing and feature engineering.
• Experience solving pricing, risk or customer prediction problems and understanding how models drive profit, loss and customer outcomes.

How To Apply

If you are interested in this Senior Data Scientist opportunity in Alternative Pricing, please apply with your CV to be considered for the next stage of the process.

Job Title: FP&A Data & Power BI Developer - Analytics

Location: Leicester (Hybrid)
Type: Contract, Full-Time

We are looking for a skilled and experienced FP&A Data & Power BI Developer to join a rapidly growing organisation.

You will partner with business stakeholders to design and deliver impactful dashboards, analytical products, and metric frameworks.

You will be working with senior stakeholders to help improve planning and forecasting processes along with driving process improvement

You will be responsible for :

• Design and delivering Power BI dashboards and management reports.
• Develop reporting across business functions including sales.
• Create semantic models and datasets
• Data integration across CRM, ERP and finance processes.

Key Skills and Experience you must have:

• Strong SQL, Power BI and Analytics development experience.
• Hands-on experience with DAX and Power Query.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics
• Excellent experience working with finance teams and supporting FP&A.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders

You must be a team player with the ability to work in a collaborative environment.

If the role is of interest please get across your CV.

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