Jordan Gumbs

Sales Team Leader

I have over 6 years' experience in the IT & Engineering recruitment sector, working with a range of clients across the UK and EMEA.

Outside of work – Very passionate Manchester United fan, live and breathe Crossfit training and spending time with my young Daughter.

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Posted 16 days ago

Senior Design Manager

PermanentCity Of London, Greater London, South East, England

Senior Design Manager - UK, London - Permanent Contract Are you looking for your next Design Manager contract? We might just have the position for you.Established in 2001, our client is one of the UK’s most successful privately owned businesses, with over 600 employees and a turnover in excess of £600 million for 2017. They are an award-winning construction company with an established reputation of outstanding construction and development projects across many crucial markets. This is your chance to be their next Design Manager for a significant Data Centre project located in London.What you'll do: Lead sustainable design delivery for a large-scale, 210 MW data center campus, ensuring alignment with BREEAM ‘Excellent’ standards and innovative energy solutions.Oversee architectural and engineering coordination across three hyperscale data center buildings and a community multi-purpose facility, ensuring readiness for AI workloads and district heating integration.Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance public spaces and infrastructure, including pedestrian and cyclist pathways along the Thames River.Support community engagement initiatives, contributing to the design of facilities for job training and educational programs in digital infrastructure and technology. What you'll need: Data Centre colocation / hyperscale experienceStrong experience in working on a datacentre project. More the better.MEP or CSA expertiseStrong management experience and will have previously experience in heading up large projectsA construction company / GC background is ideal, GC & Consultancy is beneficial. If this role is of interest to you, please apply now!#LI-JG3

Posted 16 days ago

Design Manager

PermanentCity Of London, Greater London, South East, England

Design Manager - UK, London - Permanent Contract Are you looking for your next Design Manager contract? We might just have the position for you. Established in 2001, our client is one of the UK’s most successful privately owned businesses, with over 600 employees and a turnover in excess of £600 million for 2017. They are an award-winning construction company with an established reputation of outstanding construction and development projects across many crucial markets. This is your chance to be their next Design Manager for a significant Data Centre project located in London.What you'll do: Lead sustainable design delivery for a large-scale, 210 MW data center campus, ensuring alignment with BREEAM ‘Excellent’ standards and innovative energy solutions.Oversee architectural and engineering coordination across three hyperscale data center buildings and a community multi-purpose facility, ensuring readiness for AI workloads and district heating integration.Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance public spaces and infrastructure, including pedestrian and cyclist pathways along the Thames River.Support community engagement initiatives, contributing to the design of facilities for job training and educational programs in digital infrastructure and technology. What you'll need: Data Centre colocation / hyperscale experienceStrong experience in working on a datacentre project. More the better.MEP or CSA expertiseStrong management experience and will have previously experience in heading up large projectsA construction company / GC background is ideal, GC & Consultancy is beneficial. If this role is of interest to you, please apply now! #LI-JG3

Posted 19 days ago

Lead Cloud Solutions Architect

ContractAmsterdam, Provincie Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Lead Cloud Solutions Architect - Amsterdam / Remote (EU) - Permanent Contract QCS staffing are partnered with one of the world’s top AI infrastructure companies. As an organisation, our client are leading a new era in cloud computing to serve the global AI economy. They create the tools and resources for their customers requirement to solve real-world challenges and transform industries, without massive infrastructure costs or the need to build large in-house AI/ML teams. To support our client’s continued growth, they are currently looking to hire a Lead Cloud Solutions Architect in Amsterdam, with the option to work remotely within Europe.What you’ll do: Lead and mentor a team of Solutions Architects, fostering a culture of technical excellence, customer empathy, and collaborative execution.Oversee and participate in technical engagements including PoCs, workshops, architecture reviews, and training.Drive consistency and quality across infrastructure design, IaC practices, technical documentation, and customer enablement content.Collaborate closely with Product and Development teams, representing customer needs and helping shape the roadmap.Guide customers in optimising ML/AI/HPC pipelines for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency on cloud infrastructure.Build visibility and ownership culture amongst Solutions Architects. What you’ll need: Requires extensive experience in a technical role (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, ML Engineer, or similar) with a focus on cloud-native systems and distributed computing.Strong experience leading or mentoring customer facing engineering teams.Deep hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), Kubernetes, and cloud automation.Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across both technical and non-technical audiences.Passion for developing scalable, reliable cloud architectures and driving customer success. If this role is of interest to you, please apply now!#LI-JG3

Posted 19 days ago

Critical Facilities Engineer

ContractHertfordshire, South East, England

Critical Facilities Engineer - UK, Hertfordshire - Permanent ContractWe are working with a European data centre operator that is rapidly expanding its footprint across the continent, focusing on edge computing infrastructure that brings digital services closer to end-users. This company is building a network of sustainable, low-latency data centres and currently has projects in Germany, France, the UK, the Netherlands, and Spain.Responsibilities: Work with the Data Centre Manager and the senior management to set strategic objectives for the property and manage the implementation.Work with the technical operations engineering team colleagues to ensure that best practice is being adopted and that a common approach is in place.Ensure that procedures are followed to remain competent to act as the first line response engineer in the event of a fault in the site plant or infrastructure to minimise the potential for outages and reduce the frequency of outages.Implement and manage a rigorous change management system to ensure 100% uptime is achieved across the facility.Identify and recommend operational improvements to be implemented on site.Ensure that all compliance and standards are implemented and observed across the site, including Health and Safety.Understand the engineering design and operational aspect of each building system. Requirements: Hold a relevant technical qualification where necessary and proven experience.Experience in site management, operation and maintenance of critical engineering systems and understands the full range of M & E equipment in a modern critical environment.Professional and strategic approach to management of works and projects.Planning, organising and prioritising skillsPrevious experience of working as a team player in a small teamExperience of dealing with customer problems in difficult circumstancesPrevious experience of technical and operational management of data Centre and preferably within the co-location / wholesale sector If this role is of interest to you, please apply now!#LI-JG3

Posted 19 days ago

Cloud Solutions Architect

ContractAmsterdam, Provincie Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Cloud Solutions Architect - Amsterdam - Permanent ContractQCS staffing are partnered with one of the world’s top AI infrastructure companies. As an organisation, our client are leading a new era in cloud computing to serve the global AI economy. They create the tools and resources for their customers requirement to solve real-world challenges and transform industries, without massive infrastructure costs or the need to build large in-house AI/ML teams. To support our client’s continued growth, they are currently looking to hire a Cloud Solutions Architect with the option to work remotely or in Amsterdam.Responsibilities: Act as a trusted advisor to our clients, providing technical expertise and guidance throughout the engagement. Conduct PoC, workshops, presentations, and training sessions to educate clients on GPU cloud technologies and best practices.Collaborate with clients to understand their business requirements and develop solution architecture that align with their needs: design and document Infrastructure as code solutions, documentation and technical how-tos in collaboration with support engineers and technical writers.Help customers to optimise pipeline performance and scalability to ensure efficient utilisation of cloud resources and services.Assist to Marketing department efforts during events (Hackathons, conferences, workshops, webinars, etc.) Requirements: Requires extensive experience as a cloud solutions architect, system/network engineer, developer or a similar technical role with a focus on cloud computingStrong hands-on experience with IaC and configuration management tools (preferably Terraform/Ansible), Kubernetes, skills of writing code in PythonSolid understanding of GPU computing practices for ML training and inference workloads, GPU software stack components, including drivers, libraries (e.g. CUDA, OpenCL)Excellent communication skillsCustomer-centric mindset If this role is of interest to you, please apply now!#LI-JG3

Posted 19 days ago

Key Customers Solutions Architect

ContractAmsterdam, Provincie Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Key Customers Solutions Architect - Amsterdam / Remote - Permanent ContractQCS staffing are partnered with one of the world’s top AI infrastructure companies. As an organisation, our client are leading a new era in cloud computing to serve the global AI economy. They create the tools and resources for their customers requirement to solve real-world challenges and transform industries, without massive infrastructure costs or the need to build large in-house AI/ML teams. To support our client’s continued growth, they are currently looking to hire a Key Customers Solutions Architect to have the option to work remotely or in Amsterdam.Responsibilities: Serve as the primary technical point of contact, troubleshooting and resolving complex AI/ML.Guide customers in optimising GPU performance for ML training and inference workloads, ensuring seamless integration and scalability.Partner with the sales team to identify new opportunities, promote the latest products and deliver technical presentations.Act as a bridge to product teams, providing customer feedback, relaying feature requests and ensuring alignment with customer requirements.Engage with internal and external stakeholders, negotiate solutions and effectively drive alignment to address customer challenges. Requirements: Requires extensive experience in roles like Cloud Solutions Architect, Technical Account Manager or Customer Engineer, with hands-on experience in cloud services and AI/ML workloads.Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible.Experience with Kubernetes and Python programming.Solid understanding of GPU computing, including ML training, inference workloads and GPU stacks (e.g., CUDA, OpenCL).Customer-centric approach with a proven ability to build trust and foster long-term relationships.Strong ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.Written and spoken proficiency in English. If this role is of interest to you, please apply now!#LI-JG3

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