NP Group

About the Company

At NP Group, we challenge the status quo of the global talent market. We provide bold solutions, creative approaches and, above all, collaboration. We don't believe in transactional recruitment relationships, instead we focus on forging close partnerships with all our clients. Our consultants are highly knowledgeable in the industry sectors and technologies they serve and provide a consultative service tailored to you.

Our specialist brands include

Scala Leadership: Enabling businesses to execute their Go-To-Market strategies.

Zefa: Global Specialists in DevOps & Technology Talent.

NP Talent Solutions: Experts in delivering Bespoke Recruitment Solutions and Professional Services.

Listed Jobs

Company Name

NP Group

Job Title

Data Centre Operations Manager

Job Description

**Job Title** Data Centre Operations Manager **Role Summary** Lead end‑to‑end operational performance, security, and reliability for multiple data centre sites, ensuring compliance with organisational and regulatory standards while driving efficient infrastructure and safety practices. **Expectations** - Deliver safe, efficient, and compliant operations across all sites. - Apply strong leadership to manage multi‑site teams and vendor relationships. - Maintain rigorous security, safety, and environmental controls. - Drive continuous improvement in power, cooling, and facility performance. **Key Responsibilities** - Manage operational oversight for all data centre facilities. - Enforce site access control, physical security systems, and liaise with corporate security and authorities. - Supervise building infrastructure, maintenance contracts, and vendor management. - Monitor and optimise power and cooling performance, meet environmental targets, and coordinate preventive maintenance. - Ensure full compliance with safety, operational, and environmental regulations; implement site safety and emergency response programmes. - Conduct reporting, audits, and documentation for compliance. - Collaborate with Deployment Lead on construction, commissioning, and operational handover of new sites. - Develop and document operational procedures and readiness criteria. **Required Skills** - Extensive knowledge of power, cooling, and building management systems. - Proven operational compliance, safety, and security program experience. - Strong stakeholder management, communication, and cross‑functional team leadership. - Problem‑solving, decision‑making, and prioritisation under pressure. - Detail orientation and adherence to process. - Collaborative approach to deployment and engineering integration. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, or related discipline (or equivalent experience). - 7+ years of data centre or critical facilities operations experience, including multi‑site management.

London, United kingdom

On site

Senior

07-10-2025

Company Name

NP Group

Job Title

Oracle Cloud Project Manager

Job Description

**Job Title:** Oracle Cloud Project Manager **Role Summary:** Lead and execute cutover and business‑as‑usual (BAU) transition activities for a strategic Oracle Cloud implementation, ensuring seamless migration to production, minimal disruption, and successful post‑cutover stabilization across global teams. **Expectations:** - Deliver a detailed cutover plan with clear timelines, dependencies, resources, and risk mitigations. - Coordinate cross‑functional teams (IT, business units, suppliers, partners) to achieve alignment and readiness. - Drive data migration, change management, security, and hypercare activities to meet program schedule. - Provide transparent status updates and maintain comprehensive documentation. **Key Responsibilities:** - Develop and refine cutover task lists with Oracle Cloud Business Process Owners and solution delivery teams. - Optimize cutover schedules and resource allocation; conduct full rehearsals prior to production cutover. - Collaborate with data conversion teams to ensure migration readiness and execution. - Design interim business processes to sustain operations during cutover. - Identify, assess, and mitigate risks (data, security, system downtime, change control). - Create and manage contingency and rollback plans for critical activities. - Lead post‑cutover stabilization, issue resolution, and user support. - Draft and review cutover communications; keep stakeholders informed of timelines and issues. - Maintain detailed procedural documentation and conduct post‑mortem reviews to capture lessons learned. - Act as liaison for 24/7 global cutover team, ensuring smooth handoffs across regions (India, US, UK). **Required Skills:** - Proven project management experience on complex cloud implementations, specifically Oracle Cloud. - Demonstrated expertise in managing large‑scale cutover and migration activities. - Strong background in data migration, change management, security & controls, and hypercare support. - Proficiency with project tools: Jira, Smartsheet, MS Project (Visio and graphics tools a plus). - Excellent written and verbal communication; stakeholder influencing and relationship building. - Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and root‑cause identification abilities. - Highly organized, detail‑oriented, and capable of multitasking under tight deadlines. - Collaborative team player; adaptable and self‑motivated. - Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint). **Required Education & Certifications:** - Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience). - Project Management Professional (PMP) or comparable certification preferred. - Relevant Oracle Cloud or ITIL certifications advantageous but not mandatory.

Manchester, United kingdom

On site

15-10-2025

Company Name

NP Group

Job Title

Telco Principal Architect

Job Description

**Job title:** Telco Principal Architect **Role Summary:** Deliver end‑to‑end architecture for a private cloud deployment in the telecom sector, guiding technical decisions, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring alignment with security, compliance, and operational tooling. **Expectations:** - Lead architecture practice on a 6‑month contract, working remotely and billing £640‑£680/day outside IR35. - Exhibit deep telecom domain knowledge, regulatory compliance, and high‑level stakeholder interaction. - Drive architecture decisions, deliver design artifacts, and ensure readiness for application onboarding. **Key Responsibilities:** - Own and maintain project scope architecture, producing high‑ and low‑level designs. - Lead Architecture Review Boards, steer technical decision‑making, and control scope changes. - Provide technical thought leadership across delivery teams and customers. - Manage risks (RAID), assess change impacts, and govern technical workstreams spanning network, compute, virtualization, and storage. - Ensure platform readiness for application onboarding, align with test strategy, and facilitate OSS/tooling integration. - Represent architecture on programme boards, steering committees, and executive updates. - Deploy infrastructure for target workloads on Red Hat OpenShift and Wind River. **Required Skills:** - Architecture leadership for on‑prem Kubernetes platforms (OpenShift, OpenStack, Wind River). - Telecom industry experience, including regulatory and TSA considerations. - Proven ability to create HLDs and LLDs. - Expertise in RHV, Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud‑native deployments, bare‑metal and Zero‑Touch Provisioning (ZTP) automation. - Familiarity with VMware vSphere/vSAN/NSX‑T migration to Red Hat/Wind River. - Awareness of CI/CD, GitLab, and DevOps principles. - Advantageous knowledge of OpenShift TNC, Calico, MetalLB, Istio, Pure/Portworx storage, OpenStack (Red Hat & Wind River), KubeVirt, Arista/Cisco networking. **Required Education & Certifications:** - Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. - Relevant certifications such as Red Hat Certified Architect – OpenShift or equivalent are preferred. ---

London, United kingdom

On site

Senior

04-12-2025

Company Name

NP Group

Job Title

Data Center Project Manager

Job Description

Job title: Data Center Project Manager Role Summary: Lead and manage the execution of large-scale data center deployments, ensuring project milestones are met on time, within scope, and with identified risks mitigated. Expectations: 6‑month contract, start ASAP, full responsibility for coordinating deployment activities and escalation processes. Key Responsibilities: • Oversee daily data center deployment operations. • Identify and mitigate project risks, escalating as necessary. • Prepare and deliver daily and weekly progress reports to stakeholders. • Lead immediate escalation resolution and incident response. • Prioritize tasks and manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision. Required Skills: • Proven project management experience in large‑scale data center installations. • Strong technical knowledge of DC infrastructure – power systems, racks, servers, networking, cabling. • End‑to‑end DC deployment cycle expertise. • Hands‑on networking skills. • Excellent verbal and written communication in English. • Strong interpersonal and multitasking abilities. Required Education & Certifications: • PMP certification required.

Bruyeres-le-chatel, France

On site

05-12-2025