Are you looking for an exciting new challenge?

Are you looking for an opportunity to work with recent technologies that will require you to continuously develop your experience and skills?

Endeavour has an excellent contract opportunity for a seasoned Windows Engineer to join a reputable client, based in Brussels. This is initially for 6 months, with possibility of longer-term extension.

The ideal candidate will be have excellent communication skills, and the ability to speak English fluently, as well as at least one of the national languages: French or Dutch.

The successful Windows Engineer will be involved in a project that combines product lifecycle management activities ( +- 40 Products ) , project support by designing and integrating applications over the windows and virtualization platform, and production 3th level support on resolving complex incidents and problems.

Skills and experience required:

• Several years relevant experience in managing large windows server environments.
• Very good knowledge on windows operating systems and related management component  (Antivirus , Backup , monitoring etc ) .
• Very good Knowledge of Active directory , AD LDS and Federation services technologies .
• Very good Knowledge of overall security principles and techniques with a proven experience in the windows domain.
• Relevant experience in an engineering position ( design )
• Experience in producing complex authentication designs ( ADDS, ADFS, ADLDS but also RSA, SSO, hybrid authentication )
• Good Knowledge of the Virtualization environments (Vmware ) .
• Knowledge of clustering solutions and server hardware technologies (HP , Vblock ).
• Knowledge on one or more areas: SAN, NAS, Networking , RSA , Liberman , file & print services .

For this role, you will be expected to contribute to weekend work ( average 1 weekend per 6 weeks )
and overnight watch duty ( average 1week every 6 weeks )

Please apply ASAP to be considered for this fantastic contract opportunity!

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent opportunity for a Junior IT Support Engineer. Previous experience in a similar role would be advantageous.  This is a permanent opportunity based in Bicester with a salary of between £22K and £28K DOE plus an enviable benefits package.

Our client is looking for a candidate who takes pride in ensuring users have reliable computing services.  You should be used to working to high standards to maintain quality and be able to adhere to strict deadlines.  In return you will be part of a happy workforce and will receive an amazing benefits package.

Advantageous Skillset

• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Active Directory
• Office 365 and One Drive
• IP Telephony
• Firewalls/WAP/VPN
• SQL Server
• Troubleshooting
• Back Up Tools

If you think this role is for you and you have the right experience then please send your application as soon as possible to be shortlisted.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent opportunity for an experienced IT Support Engineer. Previous experience of working as a Support Engineer is essential.  This is a permanent opportunity based in Bicester with a salary of up to £45K DOE plus an amazing benefits package.

Our client is looking for a candidate who takes pride in ensuring users have reliable computing services.  Experience with both desktop and mobile essential.  You should be used to working to high standards to maintain quality and able to adhere to strict deadlines.  In return you will be part of a happy workforce and will receive an enviable benefits package.

Essential Skillset

• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Active Directory
• Office 365 and One Drive
• IP Telephony
• Firewalls/WAP/VPN
• SQL Server
• Troubleshooting
• Back Up Tools

If you think this role is for you and you have the right experience then please send your application as soon as possible to be shortlisted.

Endeavour has an exciting career opportunity for an IS Support Administrator to join our client team, specialised in financial services, based in Wembley.

The ideal Support Administrator will have excellent communication and analytical skills, be a good team player as well as able to work independently and demonstrate initiative.

The successful applicant will have the following responsibilities:

• System Administration: Workstation/server OS server builds, ADS administration, Maintain successful backups, WSUS for servers/workstation
• Incident, Problem, Change Management: Log & take ownership of Incidents, Problems and Changes onto the Service Desk for commercial and Production related issues
• Technical Support 1^st/2^nd Support
• Asset Management
• Implement local and global project in a timely manner
• Write, update and maintain network schematics, work instructions and procedures for the Production and Commercial network infrastructure
• Manage and Maintain the order management process & keep all related documents filed and organised
• Perform other reasonable duties with the needs of the department
• EHS

Skills and experience required:

• Over 1 year commercial experience
• Strong Windows Operating Systems (XP\Windows 7\Windows 8), 2010/2012, Anti-Virus Software, MS Office 2003 – 2010,  Remote Access Tools, VPN
• Sharepoint, Windows OS 2003\2008 R2\2012, SAP, Citrix, XEN Server, VMWare, Symactec Backup Exec
• Active Directory (DNS, DHCP, Groups)
• Excellent Time Management skills
• Write, update and maintain network schematics, work instructions and procedures for the Production and Commercial network infrastructure
• Manage and Maintain the order management process & keep all related documents filed and organised
• Perform other reasonable duties with the needs of the department
• EHS

Please get in touch for further details about this excellent career opportunity!

Technical Test Analyst / The Hague

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for a Technical Test Analyst with 5 years + experience to join a European client in the Hague on an initial 3-month contract .

Essential skills required for the role:

• Implementing independent test analysis, design and execution of functional and technical tests using available testing tools.
• Undertaking acceptance testing (UAT/OAT) of in-house / outsourced developed applications.
• Designing, executing and maintaining automated and manual test scripts and related test data.
• Designing and executing non-functional testing to establish efficiency, reliability, monitoring or maintainability of applications.
• Supporting data migration testing by assessing suitability of underlying data migration scripts and creating representative test data.

The successful candidate will have:

2 + years’ experience organizing/executing Non-Functional Systems or Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) of developed applications and/or tests on ICT infrastructure changes covering aspects such as efficiency, backup & restore, disaster recovery, ICT security, monitoring, installations.

1 year + experience in testing of (Windows/Linux) servers and network infrastructure, including aspects like VLANs, firewalls, load balancing, certificates, server hardening and patching.

6 months + experience in testing/scripting infrastructure packages in relation to servers in a virtualized environment (e.g. VMware) using DevOps approaches.

A minimum of 6 months experiences testing of supporting services, such as Active Directory, LDAP, MS Exchange, PKI, Queueing systems.

Knowledge of continuous testing of ICT infrastructure packages deployed using a DevOps approach.

Knowledge of scripting with PowerShell

Knowledge on structured test approaches & techniques on higher test levels (e.g. System-testing, Operational Acceptance Testing)

Testing the following Software Quality Characteristics: Functionality, Technical Security, Usability, Efficiency, Reliability, Maintainability, Portability.

Knowledge of security vulnerability scanning tools (e.g. NESSUS, OWASP ZAP).

Knowledge of using performance test tools (e.g. Visual Studio Load tests, HP Loadrunner, jMeter).

Knowledge of centralised monitoring tools (e.g. SCOM, Nagios) and/or, virtualization consoles (e.g. vSphere).

ISTQB and/or ITIL certified

Please get in touch for further details regarding this role.

Endeavour Recruitment has an first-class opportunity for a Solution Architect to join our multinational client in based in the Hague. Initially this contract will run until the end of 2017, thereafter there will be long term contract renewals during 2018. 

The client is paying a daily rate of €625 based on a 40-hour week.

The SA will act as the overall architecture lead for the project, owning the end-to-end definition of the solution for the project across all architecture layers: business, information, application, and infrastructure.

The SA will structure and complete business demand from an architecture perspective, and translate the demand into a viable, feasible, durable, and compliant solution architecture that can be delivered to budget, on time and focusing on a high quality solution.

The SA will be responsible for the production of the Solution Architecture Document for the project, integrating all architecture layers.

Strong analytical and interpersonal skills are essential for this role, as is a fluency in English (both orally and written) A knowledge and understanding of the German and French language will be a great asset.

 Essential requirements for the role of Solution Architect:-

 A University degree with minimum 8 years hands on experience in defining the architecture of large IT systems.

• Working knowledge of TOGAF and Archimate.
• Previous system development life cycle and development experience (SDLC);
• In depth expertise in the area of systems integration;
• Experience in working in large organisations;
• Knowledge in Business Process Management and Rules engines (for instance JBPM, Drools);
• Experience with UML;
• Experience with similar projects;
• Knowledge in front-end technologies (Javascript, Angular2);
• Deep understanding of authorization mechanisms supporting fine-and coarse-grained authorisation and externalisation of authorisation from business applications (Kerberos and SPNEGO).
• Expert knowledge of J2EE technologies.
• Expert knowledge of REST architectural constraints and development of Restful web services.
• Knowledge of SOAP web services.
• Knowledge in Middle-tier (web-services, web clients, backend of web clients, Java, JBoss).
• Experience with externalising authorisation from Java applications through authorisation engines and/or business rules engines and authentication single sign on with Active Directory.
• Basic knowledge in the following Mainframe software (Z/OS, MVS, OMVS, batch, CICS, MQ Series, DB2, COBOL).
• Experience in the area of data bases, relational and non-sql;
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation.

   Applicants are invited to apply as soon as possible to be included in the shortlist.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for a skilled Technical Test Analyst to join a European client in the Hague on an initial 3-month contract with strong possibility of extension.

Required skills and experience :

• 5 years + Software testing experience
• 3 + years experience organizing/executing Non-Functional Systems or Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) of developed applications and/or tests on ICT infrastructure changes covering aspects such as efficiency, backup & restore, disaster recovery, ICT security, monitoring, installations.
• 1 year + experience in testing of (Windows/Linux) servers and network infrastructure, including aspects like VLANs, firewalls, load balancing, certificates, server hardening and patching.
• A years experience testing client infrastructure, ie PC/laptop/mobile/tablet/printer including operating system upgrades, hardening, GPOs, Client apps, Client virtualization.
• 6 months + experience in testing/scripting infrastructure packages in relation to servers in a virtualized environment (eg VMware) using DevOps approaches.
• A minimum of 6 months experiences testing of supporting services, such as Active Directory, LDAP, MS Exchange, PKI, Queueing systems.
• Knowledge of continuous testing of ICT infrastructure packages deployed using a DevOps approach.
• Knowledge of scripting with PowerShell
• Knowledge on structured test approaches & techniques on higher test levels (eg System-testing, Operational Acceptance Testing)
• Knowledge of testing the following Software Quality Characteristics: Functionality, Technical Security, Usability, Efficiency, Reliability, Maintainability, Portability.
• Knowledge of security vulnerability scanning tools (eg NESSUS, OWASP ZAP).
• Knowledge of using performance test tools (eg Visual Studio Load tests, HP Loadrunner, jMeter).
• Knowledge of centralised monitoring tools (eg SCOM, Nagios) and/or, virtualization consoles (eg vSphere).
• ISTQB and/or ITIL certified

Please get in touch for further details regarding this role.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Be responsible for development of product upgrades and changes to a live system
• Provide technical support to issues raised by the Service Ops Centre
• Be responsible for the investigation and delivery of defect resolutions through Engineering in to the Production Environment without impacting the Live service.
• Be responsible for delivering engineering changes to time and quality
• Be responsible for following the engineering lifecycle

Essential Skills

Good understanding and proven track record of the following Technologies

• VMware ESXi
• VMware vSphere
• HP Server Hardware
• HP Desktop Hardware
• Windows Server 2008 / 2012R2
• Active Directory and Group Policy
• Experience of working in a secure infrastructure environment
• Be capable of producing concise install documentation.

Desired Skills

• Windows Installer
• IP / Firewall technologies
• Databases (SQL, Oracle)
• Windows Vista/7
• Powershell
• McAfee Products
• Lumension Products

Endeavour Recruitment have a fantastic opportunity for a Contract Messaging and Collaboration Specialist in Newcastle. Due to the nature of our client’s business, SC Clearance is a necessity. This is an initial 9 month contract and the rate available is up to £322 depending on experience.

Within this role the Messaging & Collaboration Specialist will bea key member of growing, hands-on IT design teams utilising tools and techniques for Cloud, Open-stack and other technologies that deliver to multiple clients of national interest.

Core Skills and Experience

• 5 years + experience working on Enterprise deployments of core messaging and support technologies
• Windows Server 2012
• Active Directory
• Exchange 2007/2010/2013
• SharePoint 2007/2010/2013
• Lync 2010/2013/Skype for Business 2015
• Unified Messaging
• Migration experience of Exchange 2010/2013/O365
• Migration experience of SharePoint 2007/2010/2013
• Migration experience of Lync 2010/2013, Skype for Business 2015
• PowerShell
• Office 365
• Experience of designing Exchange solutions from conception to delivery
• Experience of designing SharePoint solutions (Basic Architecture: Farm topologies, Server Roles, Service Applications)
• Experience of designing Lync/Skype for Business solutions from conception to delivery
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of troubleshooting and working with Microsoft Outlook and Lync/Skype for Business client.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Brightmail
• Ironport
• Load Balancing Technologies
• Virtualization Technologies
• SharePoint Development (Visual Studio, TFS, C#/.Net, JavaScript, XML, Workflows)
• Storage
• Secure Email
• MCSE Certification

Please APPLY TODAY to be considered for this contract