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Amber Labs is a partnership of highly-skilled consultants and technologists.

We specialise in the evolution of Data Engineering, Cloud and Analytics. 

We focus on delivering value from our client’s data using innovative approaches that reduce risk and delivery time, and that we are constantly improving through R&D. 

Amber Labs was founded on three key principles: 

An employee first internal culture, through diverse investment and exciting opportunities for our team, and a partnership structure ensuring everyone has an opportunity to share in the success of Amber Labs.

Persistent analysis to identify opportunities to develop artefacts, accelerators and automation that allow rapid deployment of highly-technical solutions to the cloud or on-premise for our clients. 

Consistent investment into our ADM (Amber Labs Delivery Methodology -underpinned by Agile Methodology) to ensure we maximise velocity, quality and value.

Consulting

Amber Labs

A data and technology obsessed specialist consultancy.

Technology

You need 15+ years in datacenter design, strong technical knowledge, leadership skills, expertise in compliance/security, relevant certifications, and a degree in Engineering or related field.

You will lead datacenter design and strategy, manage projects, ensure compliance, innovate for efficiency, and coordinate with stakeholders and vendors for successful execution.

Engineering

IT & Cybersecurity

London

<div>
 Senior Datacentre Design Director
 <h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Responsibilities:</h3>
 <ul>
 <li>Datacentre Design and Strategy:
 <ul>
 <li>Lead the architectural design and planning of datacenter facilities to meet AWE's specific security, redundancy, and scalability needs.</li>
 <li>Develop long-term strategies for infrastructure and datacenter expansions, upgrades, and lifecycle management, ensuring alignment with AWE's mission-critical needs.</li>
 <li>Ensure designs incorporate advanced data security, regulatory compliance, and energy-efficient practices.</li>
 </ul></li>
 <li> Project Leadership and Delivery:
 <ul>
 <li>Oversee the entire project lifecycle, from feasibility studies, budgeting, and resource allocation to project execution, commissioning, and handover.</li>
 <li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, engineering, and security, to deliver projects on time and within budget.</li>
 <li>Establish project milestones and deliverables, ensuring that all datacenter projects align with AWE's strategic and technical requirements.</li>
 </ul></li>
 <li> Risk and Compliance Management:
 <ul>
 <li>Conduct risk assessments for all phases of datacenter design, ensuring compliance with AWE's stringent security and operational standards.</li>
 <li>Ensure data centers meet regulatory, safety, and environmental standards, including redundancy and resilience to natural and man-made risks.</li>
 <li>Develop disaster recovery, business continuity, and backup strategies tailored to high-security environments.</li>
 </ul></li>
 <li> Innovation and Continuous Improvement:
 <ul>
 <li>Stay updated on datacenter technologies, design methodologies, and industry best practices, incorporating innovation into AWE's datacenter projects.</li>
 <li>Develop and implement best practices for operational efficiency, including energy consumption, cooling systems, and load management.</li>
 <li>Identify and address improvement areas to enhance facility reliability and efficiency over time.</li>
 </ul></li>
 <li> Stakeholder and Vendor Management:
 <ul>
 <li>Serve as the primary point of contact for all datacenter design-related matters, liaising with internal stakeholders, government bodies, and external vendors.</li>
 <li>Manage relationships with contractors and vendors, ensuring they meet AWE's quality and security standards.</li>
 <li>Facilitate communication across teams and departments, promoting collaborative planning and operational effectiveness.</li>
 </ul></li>
 </ul>
 <h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Qualifications:</h3>
 <ul>
 <li>Experience: Extensive experience in datacenter design, construction, and management, ideally with 15+ years in high-security or mission-critical environments. Proven track record in directing large-scale, secure datacenter projects.</li>
 <li> Technical Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of datacenter architecture, power and cooling systems, network infrastructure, high-availability designs, and redundancy planning.</li>
 <li> Leadership Skills: Strong leadership skills with experience managing multidisciplinary teams, complex projects, and cross-departmental collaboration.</li>
 <li> Compliance and Security: Expert knowledge of regulatory and security requirements for high-security datacenters, including data protection, cybersecurity, and resilience standards.</li>
 <li> Certifications: Relevant certifications (e.g., Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designer, Certified Data Centre Management Professional) are advantageous.</li>
 <li> Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.</li>
 </ul>
</div>


 Senior Datacentre Design Director
 Responsibilities:
 
  Datacentre Design and Strategy:
   
    Lead the architectural design and planning of datacenter facilities to meet AWE's specific security, redundancy, and scalability needs.
    Develop long-term strategies for infrastructure and datacenter expansions, upgrades, and lifecycle management, ensuring alignment with AWE's mission-critical needs.
    Ensure designs incorporate advanced data security, regulatory compliance, and energy-efficient practices.
   
   Project Leadership and Delivery:
   
    Oversee the entire project lifecycle, from feasibility studies, budgeting, and resource allocation to project execution, commissioning, and handover.
    Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, engineering, and security, to deliver projects on time and within budget.
    Establish project milestones and deliverables, ensuring that all datacenter projects align with AWE's strategic and technical requirements.
   
   Risk and Compliance Management:
   
    Conduct risk assessments for all phases of datacenter design, ensuring compliance with AWE's stringent security and operational standards.
    Ensure data centers meet regulatory, safety, and environmental standards, including redundancy and resilience to natural and man-made risks.
    Develop disaster recovery, business continuity, and backup strategies tailored to high-security environments.
   
   Innovation and Continuous Improvement:
   
    Stay updated on datacenter technologies, design methodologies, and industry best practices, incorporating innovation into AWE's datacenter projects.
    Develop and implement best practices for operational efficiency, including energy consumption, cooling systems, and load management.
    Identify and address improvement areas to enhance facility reliability and efficiency over time.
   
   Stakeholder and Vendor Management:
   
    Serve as the primary point of contact for all datacenter design-related matters, liaising with internal stakeholders, government bodies, and external vendors.
    Manage relationships with contractors and vendors, ensuring they meet AWE's quality and security standards.
    Facilitate communication across teams and departments, promoting collaborative planning and operational effectiveness.
   
 
 Qualifications:
 
  Experience: Extensive experience in datacenter design, construction, and management, ideally with 15+ years in high-security or mission-critical environments. Proven track record in directing large-scale, secure datacenter projects.
   Technical Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of datacenter architecture, power and cooling systems, network infrastructure, high-availability designs, and redundancy planning.
   Leadership Skills: Strong leadership skills with experience managing multidisciplinary teams, complex projects, and cross-departmental collaboration.
   Compliance and Security: Expert knowledge of regulatory and security requirements for high-security datacenters, including data protection, cybersecurity, and resilience standards.
   Certifications: Relevant certifications (e.g., Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designer, Certified Data Centre Management Professional) are advantageous.
   Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
 



Senior Datacenter Design Director - Amber Labs

Senior Datacenter Design Director

You must have content governance experience, public sector familiarity, strong collaboration skills, and current SC Clearance. Be hands-on to deliver outcomes without a strategic focus.

You will manage HR and Finance content systems, oversee strategic project outcomes, engage in squad and BAU work for content governance and maintenance.

Design

<div>
 Content Designer (Must hold current active SC Clearance) 
 The Company: 
 At Amber Labs, we are a cutting-edge UK and European technology consultancy that prioritises empowering autonomy, promoting experimentation, and facilitating rapid learning to provide exceptional value to our clients. Our company culture is centred around collaboration, where all colleagues, regardless of their role, work together to minimise risk and shorten delivery times. Our team consists of highly-skilled cross-functional consultants, analysts, and support staff.
 Job Summary:
 The Content Designer team works closely with user researchers, interaction designers, service designers, developers and data analysts to identify pain points experienced by the custormer users and make the relevant improvements to the current systems. This work takes place in squads. The senior content designer joining the team will work on the following workstreams as part of the team, as and when required:
 <ul>
 <li>HR and Finance policy and transactional system.</li>
 <li>Delivery of outcomes related to strategic projects, e.g. content governance transformation, G&amp;R content review, audit, content modelling.</li>
 <li>Squad work.</li>
 <li>BAU workstream (content maintenance).</li>
 </ul>
 In addition to the expected skillset of a content designer (https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/content-designer#senior-content-designer), including stakeholder management, UCD experience, and publishing/CMS experience, we are looking specifically for someone with the following:
 <ul>
 <li>Content governance experience (especially content governance transformation).</li>
 <li>Excellent collaboration with team.</li>
 <li>Hands-on from day one – whilst you won't be required to have your strategic hat on, you'll need to work with the seniors and the team to deliver the desired outcomes.</li>
 <li>Public sector experience – a true understanding of the constraints, eg CMS, that we are working within when driving innovation.</li>
 </ul> 
 
 Diversity &amp; Inclusion:
 Here at Amber Labs, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace for all. Our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion includes:
 Valuing the unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds of all employees and creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed, respected, and valued.
 Prohibiting all forms of harassment, bullying, discrimination, and victimisation and promoting a culture of dignity and respect for all.
 Educating all new hires on our Diversity and Inclusion policies and ensuring they are aware of their rights and responsibilities to create a safe and inclusive workplace.
 By taking these steps, we are dedicated to building a workplace that reflects and celebrates the diversity of our employees and communities.
 This role at Amber Labs is a Contract position, and all employees (Must hold current active SC Clearance). Please be advised that, at this time, we are unable to consider candidates who require sponsorship or hold a visa of any type.
 What Happens Next?
 Our Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch to advise you on the next steps. We have a two-stage interview process for most of our consultants. In certain cases, we may include a third and final stage, which is a conversation with the company Partners. This will only be considered if deemed necessary.
</div>


 Content Designer (Must hold current active SC Clearance) 
 The Company: 
 At Amber Labs, we are a cutting-edge UK and European technology consultancy that prioritises empowering autonomy, promoting experimentation, and facilitating rapid learning to provide exceptional value to our clients. Our company culture is centred around collaboration, where all colleagues, regardless of their role, work together to minimise risk and shorten delivery times. Our team consists of highly-skilled cross-functional consultants, analysts, and support staff.
 Job Summary:
 The Content Designer team works closely with user researchers, interaction designers, service designers, developers and data analysts to identify pain points experienced by the custormer users and make the relevant improvements to the current systems. This work takes place in squads. The senior content designer joining the team will work on the following workstreams as part of the team, as and when required:
 
  HR and Finance policy and transactional system.
  Delivery of outcomes related to strategic projects, e.g. content governance transformation, G&R content review, audit, content modelling.
  Squad work.
  BAU workstream (content maintenance).
 
 In addition to the expected skillset of a content designer (https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/content-designer#senior-content-designer), including stakeholder management, UCD experience, and publishing/CMS experience, we are looking specifically for someone with the following:
 
  Content governance experience (especially content governance transformation).
  Excellent collaboration with team.
  Hands-on from day one – whilst you won't be required to have your strategic hat on, you'll need to work with the seniors and the team to deliver the desired outcomes.
  Public sector experience – a true understanding of the constraints, eg CMS, that we are working within when driving innovation.
 
 
 Diversity & Inclusion:
 Here at Amber Labs, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace for all. Our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion includes:
 Valuing the unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds of all employees and creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed, respected, and valued.
 Prohibiting all forms of harassment, bullying, discrimination, and victimisation and promoting a culture of dignity and respect for all.
 Educating all new hires on our Diversity and Inclusion policies and ensuring they are aware of their rights and responsibilities to create a safe and inclusive workplace.
 By taking these steps, we are dedicated to building a workplace that reflects and celebrates the diversity of our employees and communities.
 This role at Amber Labs is a Contract position, and all employees (Must hold current active SC Clearance). Please be advised that, at this time, we are unable to consider candidates who require sponsorship or hold a visa of any type.
 What Happens Next?
 Our Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch to advise you on the next steps. We have a two-stage interview process for most of our consultants. In certain cases, we may include a third and final stage, which is a conversation with the company Partners. This will only be considered if deemed necessary.


Content Designer (Must hold current active SC Clearance) - Amber Labs

Content Designer (Must hold current active SC Clearance)

You need AWS experience, DevOps knowledge, familiarity with CI/CD and IaC, expertise in containerization, strong scripting, and security awareness. Collaboration and communication skills are essential.

You will lead design processes, conduct workshops, mentor colleagues, collaborate across teams, create user flows, and utilize data to improve customer journeys while ensuring design quality and standards.

Software Engineering

Product

AWS DevOps Engineer Location: Remote – must be UK based Work Pattern: Full-time/12 Month FTC Security Clearance: SC Clearable The Company: At Amber Labs, we are a cutting-edge UK and European technology consultancy that prioritises empowering autonomy, promoting experimentation, and facilitating rapid learning to provide exceptional value to our clients. Our company culture is centred around collaboration, where all colleagues, regardless of their role, work together to minimise risk and shorten delivery times. Our team consists of highly-skilled cross-functional consultants, analysts, and support staff. The Role: Leading collaborative design processes for multiple complex projects. Planning and leading workshops, reviews, critiques and handovers. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape and communicate the vision and outcomes for omni-channel financial guidance journeys. Working with colleagues inside and outside to understand and reimagine the full customer journey, including how it intersects with other public–, charity– and private-sector services. Building UCD capacity across the organisation by sharing insights, principles and best practices with non-designers. Mentoring junior colleagues and communicating with designers and researchers on other programmes to avoid duplication, maximise learning and ensure the coherence and consistency of MaPS services. Identifying, understanding and mitigating ways design decisions and processes may negatively impact users. Working with Interaction Designers, Business Analysts, User Researchers, Policy and Proposition Managers, Product Owners, and Service Owners to understand business requirements and ensure they are addressed in your designs. Collaborating with relevant internal teams to ensure our services meet GDS standards for suitability, efficacy, usability, accessibility, quality, security and data protection. Creating user flows and prototypes for testing and review and Identifying and prioritising design assumptions. Working with user researchers and performance analysts to use analytics, customer feedback and other internal and external data to identify areas for improvement and inform designs. Benefits: Join a rapidly expanding start-up where personal growth is a part of our DNA. Benefit from a flexible work environment focused on deliverable outcomes. Receive private medical insurance through Aviva. Enjoy the benefits of a company pension plan through Nest. 25 days of annual leave plus UK bank holidays. Access Perkbox, a global employee rewards platform offering discounts, perks, and wellness resources. Participate in a generous employee referral program. A highly collaborative and collegial environment with opportunities for career advancement. Be encouraged to take bold steps and embrace a mindset of experimentation. Choose your preferred device, PC or Mac. Diversity &amp; Inclusion: Here at Amber Labs, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace for all. Our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion includes: Valuing the unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds of all employees and creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed, respected, and valued. Prohibiting all forms of harassment, bullying, discrimination, and victimisation and promoting a culture of dignity and respect for all. Educating all new hires on our Diversity and Inclusion policies and ensuring they are aware of their rights and responsibilities to create a safe and inclusive workplace. By taking these steps, we are dedicated to building a workplace that reflects and celebrates the diversity of our employees and communities. This role at Amber Labs is a permanent position, and all employees are required to meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Please be advised that, at this time, we are unable to consider candidates who require sponsorship or hold a visa of any type. What Happens Next? Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch to advise you on the next steps. We have a two-stage interview process for most of our consultants. In certain cases, we may include a third and final stage, which is a conversation with the company Partners. This will only be considered if deemed necessary.

AWS DevOps Engineer  Location: Remote – must be UK based  Work Pattern: Full-time/12 Month FTC  Security Clearance: SC Clearable  The Company: At Amber Labs, we are a cutting-edge UK and European technology consultancy that prioritises empowering autonomy, promoting experimentation, and facilitating rapid learning to provide exceptional value to our clients. Our company culture is centred around collaboration, where all colleagues, regardless of their role, work together to minimise risk and shorten delivery times. Our team consists of highly-skilled cross-functional consultants, analysts, and support staff.  The Role: Leading collaborative design processes for multiple complex projects. Planning and leading workshops, reviews, critiques and handovers. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape and communicate the vision and outcomes for omni-channel financial guidance journeys. Working with colleagues inside and outside to understand and reimagine the full customer journey, including how it intersects with other public–, charity– and private-sector services. Building UCD capacity across the organisation by sharing insights, principles and best practices with non-designers. Mentoring junior colleagues and communicating with designers and researchers on other programmes to avoid duplication, maximise learning and ensure the coherence and consistency of MaPS services. Identifying, understanding and mitigating ways design decisions and processes may negatively impact users. Working with Interaction Designers, Business Analysts, User Researchers, Policy and Proposition Managers, Product Owners, and Service Owners to understand business requirements and ensure they are addressed in your designs. Collaborating with relevant internal teams to ensure our services meet GDS standards for suitability, efficacy, usability, accessibility, quality, security and data protection. Creating user flows and prototypes for testing and review and Identifying and prioritising design assumptions. Working with user researchers and performance analysts to use analytics, customer feedback and other internal and external data to identify areas for improvement and inform designs.  Benefits: Join a rapidly expanding start-up where personal growth is a part of our DNA.  Benefit from a flexible work environment focused on deliverable outcomes.  Receive private medical insurance through Aviva.  Enjoy the benefits of a company pension plan through Nest.  25 days of annual leave plus UK bank holidays.  Access Perkbox, a global employee rewards platform offering discounts, perks, and wellness resources.  Participate in a generous employee referral program.  A highly collaborative and collegial environment with opportunities for career advancement.  Be encouraged to take bold steps and embrace a mindset of experimentation.  Choose your preferred device, PC or Mac.  Diversity & Inclusion: Here at Amber Labs, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace for all. Our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion includes:  Valuing the unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds of all employees and creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed, respected, and valued.  Prohibiting all forms of harassment, bullying, discrimination, and victimisation and promoting a culture of dignity and respect for all.  Educating all new hires on our Diversity and Inclusion policies and ensuring they are aware of their rights and responsibilities to create a safe and inclusive workplace.  By taking these steps, we are dedicated to building a workplace that reflects and celebrates the diversity of our employees and communities.  This role at Amber Labs is a permanent position, and all employees are required to meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Please be advised that, at this time, we are unable to consider candidates who require sponsorship or hold a visa of any type.  What Happens Next?  Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch to advise you on the next steps. We have a two-stage interview process for most of our consultants. In certain cases, we may include a third and final stage, which is a conversation with the company Partners. This will only be considered if deemed necessary.

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