Richard Olver

Richard Olver

Senior Delivery Consultant
01212 694660
Richard Olver

Specialised in:
Sourcing and delivering top-tier talent across the technology sector, with expertise in recruitment for DevOps, Software, and Data roles. Richard has a strong focus on supporting clients in biotech, pharmaceutical, aerospace & defence, and research institutes.

Experience and background:
With nine years of recruitment experience, Richard has built a reputation for excellence in delivering bespoke solutions to meet clients’ needs. He has successfully worked with high-profile organisations such as Genomics England, AstraZeneca, Leonardo, and the Wellcome Sanger Group. Joining the Birmingham team as a Senior Delivery Consultant, Richard is committed to connecting exceptional talent with innovative companies while ensuring a seamless recruitment process for both candidates and clients.

You might be surprised to learn:
Outside of work, Richard is an avid Pokémon fan and has competed professionally. He’s also a keen traveller with an ambitious goal of visiting all 50 state capitals in the United States by the time he turns 50!

Jobs posted by Richard Olver

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Infrastructure Enineer (DevOps)
Software Engineering
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
Market related
Permanent
We're seeking talented and passionate engineers at all levels to join our dynamic team with a particular emphasis on Infrastructure Engineering expertise. Our client provides you with meaningful work and education opportunities that will allow you to develop your skills and enhance your career with us, but equally important, you can also enjoy a strong work-life balance. To ensure this, we offer a flexible work schedule and a comprehensive benefits package to enable you to live a healthy, fulfilling life in and outside of work. You'll play a pivotal role in integrating, testing, and securing a range of systems and applications, with a strong focus on designing, building, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure. As an Infrastructure Engineer within our Integration & Test team, you'll be at the forefront of driving innovation and safeguarding digital infrastructures by ensuring robust, high-performance systems that support our mission-critical solutions. You'll need to have an understanding of Windows and Linux systems and DevSecOps principles and experience of working within a multi-disciplined team. Knowledge and understanding of core software tools, methods, and frameworks to reliably integrate and deploy, integrate, and test features into environments to ensure optimum outcomes for our customers. Additionally, we're looking for candidates with hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, including expertise in areas such as cloud architecture, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and system performance optimization to support seamless integration and testing processes.Key Responsibilities:Plan, develop, and execute software test and integration plans, ensuring compliance with specifications, while leveraging infrastructure engineering best practices to maintain system reliability and scalability.Develop scripts and integrate automated testing frameworks within CI/CD pipelines and a wider ecosystem of tools, incorporating infrastructure automation to streamline deployments.Debug and identify defects in the whole stack, from front-end to back-end databases and middleware, with a focus on resolving infrastructure-related bottlenecks and issues.Integration and delivery of large and complex solutions into a wider system-of-systems, ensuring infrastructure components are robust and interoperable.Deployment in Private, and Hybrid Cloud environments, addressing potential constraints while optimizing infrastructure performance and security.If you're passionate about Integration & Test, with a strong background in Infrastructure Engineering, and eager to take your career to the next level, we want to hear from you! Apply now to join our team and embark on an exciting journey of innovation and growth. Omega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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System Design Engineer
Aerospace & Defence
Bristol, England
£55k per year
Permanent
Hybrid working: 4 days on-site (due to project classification)Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.Job/Project Details:As a Systems Design Engineer you'll support product development of Command & Control (C2) systems for a range of domestic and export customers in maritime and land application air defence. Our clients projects include upgrading the functionality and performance of existing systems already in service, as well as for new customers, where C2 integration with their platforms and wider battlespace is key to delivering their programmes.Working in C2 with our client provides an excellent opportunity to interact with all areas of the company and to see the full product development lifecycle.Command and Control is at the heart of many weapon systems and provides the operator with the means to understand the complex battlespace, manage the weapon system and perform engagements. The C2 software identifies what threats exist, and in response to the Operator's request for engagements, creates an optimal engagement solution, taking into consideration a number complex and ever-changing constraints. The C2 then initiates the missile firings, and supports the engagement through to its conclusion by maintaining communication with the missile in flight. C2 delivers processing units, consoles with user interfaces, safety control equipment and supporting tools for system maintenance, logging, data analysis and training.Day to day responsibilities are supporting the functional design of the C2 software, working closely with the system architects and software architects. You will be involved in analysing C2 requirements and interfaces, proposing design changes, understanding the behaviour and performance of complex algorithms, generating requirements for software and hardware as well as investigating customer queries.Who are you?: A Systems Design/Systems EngineerA passion for creating innovative functional design to meet challenging requirements, solving complex problems, and providing solutions that help the user perform their role to the best of their ability.A degree level qualification (or equivalent industry experience) Omega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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Integration & Test Engineer
Software Engineering
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
£60k - 65k per year + bonuses and benefits
Permanent
Title: Integration & Test EngineerVacancy Type: Permanent, 37.5 hoursLocation: GloucesterOur client provides systems engineering, software development, training solutions and complex program management for global security, civil and commercial markets.The mission is to be the world's leading global security and aerospace company. To achieve this mission, they draw on their core capabilities in advanced platforms and weapons, C4ISR, global sustainment, training and sensors.Are you passionate about integrating cutting-edge technologies while ensuring robust security measures? Omega are seeking talented individuals at all levels to join our dynamic team as an Integration & Test Engineer. You will be provided with meaningful work and education opportunities that will allow you to develop your skills and enhance your career, but equally important you can also enjoy a strong work life balance. To ensure this we offer a flexible work schedule and an incredible comprehensive benefits package to enable you to live a healthy fulfilling life in and outside of work.You'll play a pivotal role in integrating, testing and securing a range of systems and applications. You'll be at the forefront of driving innovation and safeguarding digital infrastructures. You'll need to have an understanding of DevSecOps principles and experience of working within a multi-disciplined team. Knowledge and understanding of core software tools, methods and frameworks to reliably integrate and deploy, integrate and test features into environments to ensure optimum outcomes to our customers.Key Responsibilities:- Plan, Develop and Execute software test and integration plans ensuring compliance with specification- Develop scripts and integrate automated testing frameworks within CI/CD pipelines and a wider ecosystem of tools- Debug and identify defects in the whole stack, from front-end to back-end databased and middleware- Integration and delivery of large and complex solutions into a wider system-of-systems- Deployment in Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud environments and potential constraintsRequired skills, qualifications and experience:- Demonstrable experience in the field of Test and Integration. The ability to work within an agile environment and delivering using Scrum and Sprints utilising tools such as Jira and Confluence to help planning and collaboration- Experience working with Agile and DevSecOps software delivery- Experience of Agile Development using SCRUM- Experience planning, developing and executing test plans- Experience in developing strategies supporting formal product sell off- Experience in automated testing in the software domain- Experience in developing GitLab CI/CD Pipelines- Experience with Commercial and Open Source automated testing frameworks- Experience working with Git, Atlassian suite, Jira, Confluence- Knowledge and automation of both functional and non-functional aspects of a system- Automated analysis and reporting of test results, identifying trends or anomalies overtime- Knowledge and experience in setup and development of testing environments and Blue Green deployment approach- Experience in integration and debugging complex software systems at scale- Qualifications or Certifications in one or more of the following: ISTQB Foundation, ISTQB Testing Specialism (Agile, Performance, Security, Manager or Analyst), ISTQI - Certified Agile Tester DesiredSkills:- Can support maturation of automated CI/CD software pipelines for Cloud deployments- Understanding of IaC and using this to deploy and integrate services on cloud- Hands on experience in using and integrating with AWS Services such as EC2, EKS, Fargate, IAM, S3, Lambda- Experience using the AWS SDK (Boto3) to automate integration tasks- Experience or understanding integrating hybrid-cloud application deployments- Understanding of CloudTrail to debug and diagnose integration issuesClearance to Start: eDV (non-MOD)Omega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.