Database Administrator (Cloud, Terraform) CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent track record in the high-volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved What you'll do As an Database Administrator, you'll work in a hybrid database environment and be responsible for definition, development, implementation, and operational support for all CDL's databases associated services and technologies. This includes everything from software installations, performance tuning, automating repetitive tasks through to automation and scripting. You'll also be involved in migrating existing development and production services to new infrastructure and Software releases. We're on a drive to migrate database infrastructure into AWS RDS, utilising EC2, and Terraform for automation and you'll play a key part in driving us forward, as well as participating in research & development projects. The dynamic nature of the work will give you the opportunity to acquire new skills whilst collaborating with your peers and wider partners of the business. We operate in an agile environment, and the team takes part in regular sprints making recommendations on operational matters, capacity management and performance issues. You'll be a great teammate and will look to work multi-functionally across development and operations, sharing your knowledge, participating in technical forums within CDL, and supporting yourself to take part in learning and diversifying your skills. Technology Stack: Oracle, PL/SQL, Data Guard, Netapp, AWS RDS, Shell Scripting, EC2, Terraform

Junior IT Support Engineer CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. There's also a subsidised restaurant and a games room. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. What you'll do Do you have a passion for technology? Do you enjoy tinkering and want to learn more? You will be providing support to the more senior members of the Strata Admin team and assist them with routine tasks. This includes building and deploying software, creating and maintaining environments (both internal to CDL and on the ASP), diagnosing and resolving problems. You'll work on Microsoft and Linux Operating Systems, gaining end-to-end experience in Application Support. There's plenty of time for learning new skills and technologies, as you find your feet. You'll have the opportunity learn everything Devops. From WebLogic/JBoss/Wildfly, AWS, Scripting in Python, Ruby, to build and configurations tools such as Puppet and Jenkins. We are looking for people who want to learn, and develop themselves, if you're a motivated graduated with programming experience and have a "can do" attitude, then we would love to hear from you.

Service Delivery Leader CDL has established its position as a market leader in the highly competitive retail insurance sector by consistently creating powerful software solutions that deliver competitive and innovative advantage to our customers. We've custom-built our own modern, open offices set in our own landscaped campus in Stockport, employing over 600 staff, providing for over 100 internet brands (Asda, Tesco, Money Supermarket, Swinton, AA, and Sainsbury's) to name a few. There's also a subsidised restaurant and a games room. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. What you'll do As Service Delivery Leader you will be expected to manage and support delivery of service to CDL clients. You will work with support teams to meet agreed service levels for Live and UAT by championing and prioritising client support incidents, through to resolution and restoration of service. You will maintain effective and regular communication with clients to provide a high level of professional customer service, via regular conference calls and scheduled site visits. You will be expected to effectively handle client escalations of high impacting incidents. To do this successfully, you will need to gain a good understanding of CDL applications, CDL clients and their business needs. You will be in direct contact with senior internal and external clients, representing CDL on scheduled conference calls, face-to-face meetings and Client Service Reviews. Your responsibilities will include maintaining effective communication with clients at operational and senior management levels. Champion and prioritise client support issues within CDL. Align client service activities with corresponding roles in Commercial departments and Project Management. Schedule regular visits to clients to build and maintain relationships and understand client issues. The service delivery leader will also be responsible for Client Service Improvements working with the teams within Service Management to achieve SLA's. If you have experience in Client Service Management, have successfully delivered client service improvements and have excellent communication skills, we would like to hear from you.

Linux Engineer CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. There is also a subsidised restaurant and a games room. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. What you will do The Web Services Team are responsible for hosting, service management, building live services on the Amazon Cloud, providing services to insurance, financial services, aggregators such as MoneysuperMarket, Confuse.com, uSwitch, Co-Op, Tesco Bank, supporting 600+ servers, and over 100 websites. We are always looking for new ways of working, using innovative technologies, to build solutions. There is an emphasis on automation (Terraform) to help us in building, changing, and versioning infrastructure, Containerisation (Docker) ensuring consistency across multiple development and release cycles, standardising our environments, so this role gives a chance to build on, or learn fresh, modern software deployment techniques. As a Systems Engineer, you will help build out, maintain, and troubleshoot our rapidly expanding infrastructure. You will be part of a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission critical services and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security. You will Install, configure (Puppet), test, deploy (AWS), monitor (Grafana, ELK Stack), and maintain Linux operating systems, application software and system management tools. We are looking for enthusiastic individuals, who have a thirst for learning new technologies. We will aid your development through relevant industry certifications, keeping you challenged and motivated. This is an autonomous role with a real chance to make your voice heard, so if you are ready to work cohesively with a team of like minded individuals, get on board. Technology Stack : Linux, Redhat, Centos, AWS, DevOps, ElasticSearch, Docker, LAMP, Bash, Amazon Web Services, Terraform, Grafana, Dynatrace, Puppet