We are seeking a contract Infrastructure/Solutions Architect to undertake a short-term contract in Central London. Within this role you will be responsible for producing Solution Architecture Document subsequent to the completion of an ongoing audit. Initially this engagement will be for 1 month (extensions likely) and the rate on offer is £500+ per day.

The Solutions Architect will need to be familiar with the following technologies;

• VMWare
• HP/Dell Servers
• HPE 3Par/Hitachi Unified Storage
• Cisco/Fortinet/Juniper
• Microsoft Active Directory / Office365 / SharePoint / Azure

Responsibilities;

• Conduct technical workshops with Subject Matter Experts
• Review documentation and audit results
• Create Solution Architecture Document
• Present findings

Please APPLY TODAY with an up to date CV

Our client is currently recruiting for a SQL Administrator to join a large European Organisation on a short term contract to start asap.

Duties and required skills :

•             6 years of professional experience within large-scale Data Centre environments.

•             Extensive experience relating to the technical aspects and concepts in relation to SQL Server and its environment.

•             Solid understanding of the operational organisation of industrialised service delivery.

•             Ability to write scripts in administrative language to automate operations.

•             Day-to-day infrastructure operations.

•             Incidents resolution and problems identification.

•             Infrastructure monitoring, availability testing and reporting.

•             Implement standard changes and service requests.

•             Good communication and presentation skills.

•             Able to work autonomously and be flexible with regards to working hours.

•             Service and customer oriented.

•             Documentation management.

•             On-call service.

Technical Knowledge:

•             Microsoft SQL 2005, 2008, 2012 and 2016 on Windows platform.

•             Scripting skills (PowerShell for Microsoft SQL).

•             Experience with SQL/T-SQL, procedures, functions.

•             Experience with MS-SQL Failover Clustering.

•             SQL Server performance tuning.

•             Experience in Windows Server 2008/2012 installations and performance tuning.

•             Experience in Active Directory.

•             Familiar with Storage backend technologies.

Please get in touch for further details on this excellent contract opportunity. 

Endeavour Recruitment is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer for their client based close to Gatwick Airport.  The successful candidate must have prior experience with SAP Basis as well as technical expertise in a variety of areas.   Candidates should have at least 10 years’ prior experience working in IT support..  12 Month Contract at £454.00 per day.

Our client is seeking an experience Infrastructure Engineer to assist with the upgrade and re-platform of their IT Department Infrastructure.   The successful candidate will be involved in the planning, transitioning and migration.  Excellent communication skills are essential.

Expected Knowledge Base:

This is a fantastic long-term contract for a 3^rd Line Support Engineer / Systems Administrator in the wonderful city of Vienna. You will need to have a solid mix skills as per below, including IBM Spectrum (Tivoli). Initially a 12month contract, with very likely extensions and an excellent day rate for the right person;

Key Skills & Experience

Essential

• Fluent in English & German
• Microsoft Server 2012
• Microsoft SQL (Installation & Support)
• Basic monitoring experience using Nagios
• Basic knowledge of VMware vSphere
• IBM Spectrum/Tivoli Storage

 Beneficial

• Microsoft SCCM / SCOM
• Microsoft Cluster Services
• Hyper-V (Installation & Support)

 Hardware

• IBM Flex
• IBM Storage SVC, V7000, V5000

If you are fluent in English & German, seeking a long-term contract in Vienna, then please do not hesitate to send your CV across today

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for a French or Dutch speaking Technical Project Manager to join a global company in the utilities sector.

You will be responsible for a large-scale PC migration in 2017 in order to leverage new operation system & application technologies provided by Microsoft. 

Current environment: Windows 7, office 2010, exchange on premises

Target environment: Windows 10, office 2016, exchange online

Our client is  looking for a technical project manager, who – together with a global team - can take on this challenging project. 

The team will consist of a project manager who will handle the internal communications & follow-up, HCL technical teams (active directory & exchange, SCCM, application packaging team), regional IT managers and local IT people who will help with the deployment part. 

The technical project manager will have end-to-end responsibility for the windows 10 – office 2016 and exchange migration including:

• Prerequisite checks including hardware check
• Overall planning of the migration 
• Quality assurance of the overall migration
• Design & build process of the windows 10 image together with the outsourcer
• Pilot tests
• Pilot deployments
• Developing the training and communication plan together with the project manager
• Migration progress follow-up
• Organize the hyper care support during the migration
• Proven system engineering skills in (a large) Microsoft environment (+5000 users)
• Having sufficient knowledge of different technologies like: Active directory, system centre configuration manager, hybrid exchange, windows operating systems and office environments.
• Being familiar and having field experience in larger (international) migrations.

Essential :

• Proven senior experience with large scale operating system migration projects (e.g. from windows XP to windows 7 and/or from windows 7 to windows 10)
• Expert knowledge on windows 10 including the different upgrade methods
• Good knowledge on office 2016
• Good knowledge on Office 365
• Knowledge on how to design/build a “gold” operating system image including applications , security & configuration settings , policies & profile settings
• Familiar with typical challenges during operating system migrations (hardware compatibility, software compatibility ) and how to mitigate them.

Desirable:

• Experience managing a large, globally dispersed deployment team spread across a high number of sites
• Good communication skills
• Proven previous experience with large-scale exchange migrations or O365 migrations is a plus
• Proven previous experience with working with Indian outsourcers is a plus.

Please apply for further details on this excellent contract opportunity. 

Endeavour Recruitment has a rare opportunity to join an innovative global digital company as part of their Systems Administration Department.  The team support overall development and live server infrastructures, both Windows and Linux.  Although initially the successful candidate would be supporting the central London office, the opportunity to work with European counterparts often arises.   The salary guideline is £30K to £40K depending on experience.  Range of benefits and unique perks are on offer, as is the chance to work in a fun, professional and exceptional working environment.

The ideal candidate will be quality and deadline driven, whilst seeking to achieve high levels of satisfaction. The role would suit a Windows System Administrator who is focused on providing efficient and stable systems environments. Experience should include; ensuring back-ups are in place and tested, troubleshooting for both development and staging service, providing solutions that are both effective and efficient. Finally you will need to be constantly striving to improve systems and processes.

Responsibilities will include:

• Administering Windows Server 2012 R2, Active Directory (AD), Office 365 and Exchange
• Basic network troubleshooting skills and a full understanding of each network layer
• Solid experience of Virtualisation, preferably VMware
• Experience of CommVault would be highly advantageous
• Administering Cloud technologies such as; AWS / Azure / Google would be beneficial as would experience of Linux command line.

If you are looking for a challenging role in an exciting environment, then please do not hesitate to apply!!

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Windows Systems Administrator, to join the London offices of an innovative and award winning global digital company.

With a long held reputation for delivering innovative solutions to some of the biggest global brands, our client really is one of the market leaders. This fantastic opportunity for an experienced Windows Systems Administrator to enjoy the infrastructure, culture, benefit package and truly unique perks that this level of success delivers!

Become part of the Systems Administration supporting development and live server infrastructures – both Windows & Linux. The Windows System Administration Team mainly support the Central London office, occasionally working with teams from European offices.

Being at the forefront of the Digital Sector, new technologies are frequently deployed and supported. With plenty of planned growth, you can be certain interesting project work, making this an amazing opportunity to take your career to the next level.

To excel in this role, we are looking for someone with plenty of experience, ideally backed up by industry accreditation (MCSA, VCA, ITIL), a can-do personality and deep technical skills, all of which, ideally proven in a dynamic, fast-paced business.

As you would expect from one of the definitive companies in this sector, this is a fun, professional and vibrant culture. 

Technically your skills will include;

• Administering Windows Server 2012 R2, Active Directory (AD), Office 365 and Exchange 
• Basic network troubleshooting skills and a full understanding of each network layer
• Solid experience of Virtualisation, preferably VMware
• Experience of Commvault would be highly advantageous
  Administering Cloud technologies such as; AWS / Azure / Google would be beneficial as would experience of Linux command line.

If you are looking for a challenging role, in a dynamic environment, working daily with some of the World’s highest profile brands and being based in modern offices in Central London, offering a salary in the region of £35,000 to £40,000, with an extensive range of benefits and unique perks, then please APPLY TODAY

Endeavour Recruitment require a Service Desk Analyst for their busy client close to Gatwick Airport in the West Sussex area.   You would be trouble shooting and resolving hardware, software and networking issues either over the telephone or desk-side.

The successful candidate will be flexible by nature, enthusiastic and self-motivated.   You should have excellent problem solving skills, be a good team player, able to cope under pressure and have previous experience of working to strict SLA’s and both team/individual targets.

The salary range for this role is £24,000 to £38,000 very much dependent upon experience.   In addition to the competitive salary our client provides an excellent benefits package including bonus schemes, healthcare plus many more.   Our client welcomes all applications and will provide training for the right candidate if necessary.

Preferred Candidate Experience:

•        ITIL Accreditation or working towards
•        Windows 7
•        MS Office 2010 / 2013
•        1^st or 2^nd Line Support Experience
•        Avaya/IPT
•        Citrix
•        Exchange 2010
•        Desktop Rollouts
•        Wireless Networking

If you don’t have all of the required experience, then please still apply as our client is keen to find the “right person” for the role regardless of experience.

A large International client is currently recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to reinforce project teams working within the Public sector. Based in the Hague, the Netherlands

Duties:

Deal with existing infrastructure (development and testing environment, BCP/DRP environment) working with VMWARE/Windows, Redhat, Linux and AIX technologies.

• Move infrastructure from one data centre to another with consolidation and neutralisation of hardware

• Ensure the day to day of this infrastructure in run-off mode

• Consolidate a target solution of the new tool under Solaris 11 and Oracle 12

• Attend to installation, configuration and administration

Your Profile :

- Being involved in this international project, willingness to travel is required.

- You have a degree in Computer Science. Master degree is a plus.

- You are a self-starter and a customer oriented problem-solver.

- You are flexible, pro-active, structured and quality oriented.

- Team spirit is a strong requirement as well as clear and concise communication.

- You have minimum 5 years of experience in the IT Sector

- You have 3 years of experience in infrastructure Engineering

- You have a good level in written and spoken English. Mastering of French or German is a plus.

Required skills:

- You have multiple skills centred on Unix/linux platforms

- You have good experience in Unix AIX , Unix Solaris 11, Linux RedHat

- You have basic notions of EMC storage (VNX) and ESX servers / VMWare virtualization

- You have experience working with SQL

- You have experience in deployment and management of virtual environments as VMWare, Citrix, Terminal Services.

- Supporting Microsoft Windows, MS SQL Server, Sharepoint, Microsoft Exchange, ISA-servers, backup solutions.

- An MCSE certification is an asset.

- You have experience with management software such as SCCM, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, WINS.