Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting new contract opportunity for an experienced Infosphere CDC Specialist with experience in the banking sector to join a leading client in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The Infosphere CDC Specialist must have extensive functional experience with Infosphere CDC to meet the requirements for the role as an Infosphere CDC Specialist.

It is desirable that the Infosphere CDC Specialist is fluent in Dutch but fluency in the English language is essential. The duration of this role is initially 3 months and the all-inclusive daily rate is market related.

Required Skills and Knowledge for the Infosphere CDC Specialist:

• Configuration of data from mainframe to Hadoop via Infosphere and by Kafka Connect.
• Must be able to work in a cloud environment with AWS/Azure.
• Must have Banking sector experience
• It is essential to have extensive functional experience with Infosphere CDC and you must have a technical background
• Ability to configure CDC to address Non Functional Requirements like completeness checks, performance, guaranteed deliveries and monitoring.
• Similar work experience
• Good communication skills (client contact)
• English speaking is mandatory, Dutch is a preference.

If you believe you are the right candidate for this role as a Infosphere CDC Specialist, then please do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

Endeavour Recruitment has a fantastic new contract opportunity for an experienced Kafka Connect Developer with experience in the banking sector to join a leading client in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The Kafka Connect Developer must have Java development experience to meet the requirements for the role as an Kafka Connect Developer.

It is desirable that the Kafka Connect Developer is fluent in Dutch but fluency in the English language is essential. The duration of this role is initially 3 months and the all-inclusive daily rate is market related.

Required Skills and Knowledge for the Kafka Connect Developer:

• Configuration of data from mainframe to Hadoop via Infosphere and by Kafka Connect.
• Must be able to work in a cloud environment with AWS/Azure.
• Must have Banking sector experience
• Must be a Kafka developer.
• Create KAFKA topics, define streams, define schema registries to cope with schema evolution.
• It is essential to have Java development experience.
• Must have knowledge of Kafka in combination with Hadoop
• Similar work experience
• Good communication skills (client contact)
• English Speaking is mandatory, Dutch is a preference

If you believe you are the right candidate for this role as a Kafka Connect Developer, then please do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting new contract opportunity for an experienced Infrastructure Project Manager to work for an internationally renowned client in The Hague, Netherlands.

The selected Infrastructure Project Manager is expected to have experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure.

The Infrastructure Project Manager chosen for this role must have relevant experience working in the Oil and Gas industry to fulfil their duties as an Infrastructure Project Manager.

The duration of this role is initially for 3 months and the all-inclusive daily rate is €620 euros.

Role and Responsibilities:

• The client requires the selected Project Manager to manage Infrastructure projects.
• Infrastructure Projects often are migrations from Cloud and Infrastructure rationalisation projects.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• Experience with Cloud technologies such as Azure or AWS
• Extensive migration skills are essential
• English speaking with Agile experience
• Must have experience working with Global (e.g. India) teams
• PMI certified
• Relevant experience in Multinational companies
• Experience in the Oil & Gas sector

If you believe you are the right candidate for this role as an Infrastructure Project Manager, then please do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

Are you a looking for an excellent career opportunity? Our client, based in Southampton, specialising in delivering IT Technology solutions, is recruiting for a Zabbix Development Engineer to join their team. This is a permanent position and the salary is up to £45,000, depending on experience.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Implement and evolve a resilient monitoring capability based on Zabbix.
• Identify and guide the development teams on the most effective ways to instrument and monitor products.
• Identify, develop and deploy innovative and effective monitoring solutions to meet monitoring requirements.
• Identify and evaluate additional capabilities and solutions that will augment and enhance current capabilities.
• Ensure that monitoring systems are relevant by ensuring alerts and actions are maintained to be appropriate and processes are in place for all events and alerts generated by the systems.
• Communicate and evangelise within the organisation to ensure that the monitoring solutions are used effectively and to gather new requirements and identify new opportunities for their use.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• Excellent knowledge of the Zabbix platform including deployment, performance tuning and management
• Experience of developing Zabbix templates, including bespoke items, triggers, actions, discovery processes and automation.
• Strong scripting skills especially on the Windows platforms such as PowerShell and WMI.
• Excellent operational awareness and an understanding of how to deliver value through monitoring and automation.

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Dashboard tools and development such as Grafana.
• Experience of automated deployment and management techniques such as Chocolatey.
• Log aggregation and visualisation tools such as Elastic Stack or the cloud hosted equivalents.
• Use of Cloud platforms (AWS & Azure)

Please get in touch for further details on this exciting career opportunity!

A successful cyber-security company is looking for a Researcher to join their growing research team.  This is the perfect opportunity for somebody who has an analytical mind and possesses a broad understanding of the digital world.

What are the clients expectations of you? :

• Undertake desktop research on topical cyber security issues
• Follow up on announcements of the latest cyber-attacks
• Liaise with other professionals in order to obtain further information and insight
• Prepare written summaries of the research work
• Create demonstrations
• Contribute to research publications and presentations

Essential Skills:

• Must be eligible for SC clearance.
• Experience of scripting in languages such as Python and Powershell
• Installing and configuring basic operating systems such as Windows and CentOS
• Working in virtualised environments, in the cloud and on premise
• Diagnosing network problems using tools i.e. Wireshark
• Using hex editors to probe the structure of files
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office applications
• Develop prototype software, integrate basic system components and present results in reports and presentations.
• You will have a computing based degree.

If you wish to be considered or you want to know more about the role then please contact us as soon as possible. These opportunities do not present themselves often.

An international organisation is looking for a Monitoring Expert to join their team.  This is the perfect opportunity for somebody who enjoys working in a multi-cultural environment and is looking to take the next step in their career. This is a 1 year contract role and the all-inclusive daily rate for this role is €445.

You will be expected:

• Implement monitoring requests required by the Service Level Manager and the Developer’s Team
• Provide support to Incident Management to diagnose and fix issues in the production environment
• Design, build, configure and test monitoring probes for a wide range of systems and applications.
• Carry out research to define systems according to needs
• Pinpoint malfunction causes and suggest remedial action and alternative solutions
• Act as an acknowledged go-between for experts from other areas
• Investigate alerts
• Add probing to new Linux nodes
• Maintain monitoring CMDB
• Monitor technologies
• Put forward solutions to improve systems performance
• Establish rules for the proper management of systems
• Define systems from a functional and technical standpoint
• Check that standards are implemented

Technical Skills Required:

• University degree with at least 5 years’ experience
• Experience in writing secure and resilient code in Perl and Java
• Experience in using Monitoring tools: CA-Nimsoft is desirable and knowledge of AXWAY/Systar product is required
• Event management based on the interface between the monitoring tool and the ITSM tool
• Event correlation rules design and optimisation experience
• Experience in a vast range of enterprise technologies such as databases, Unix, Linux, Windows, Cloud-based applications, storage and virtualisation technologies, switches and firewalls
• Good knowledge of MS/SQL
• Basic knowledge of ITIL V3 is desirable.
• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Attention to detail
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation
• Consistently meeting deadlines with high quality documentation
• Coordination of multiple procedures simultaneously
• Working with and communicating to, stakeholders at all levels of the organisation

If you wish to be considered or you want to know more about the role then please contact us as soon as possible. These opportunities do not present themselves often.

A successful cyber-security company is looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer to join their growing cloud focused team.  This is the perfect opportunity for somebody who has a passion for the cloud and solving problems.

2 years serverless AWS experience required.  

About the Role:

The role of Cloud Engineer is to develop and support cloud operations. As a member of the Cloud Solutions team, you will be responsible for all aspects of the cloud operations. This entails contributing to early product/solution concepts that include translating business uses cases for new cloud services, to working designs, build and ultimately operational support once deployed.

The Cloud Engineer function resides within the Solution Centre of Excellence, this allocates some of your time interfacing with customers or partners during project on-boarding. The role will involve extensive use of the latest serverless and DevOps approaches to develop solutions for both small internal projects, and very highly available external services. 

You will be expected:

• Work closely with the development / test teams
• Combine your creative aptitude whilst working with the company’s pioneering Content Threat Removal Platform.
• Interact with the Solution Architect team and assist in training them to become subject matter experts in cloud platform.
• Design, prototype and build various cloud-based solutions for Content Threat Removal using the latest appropriate techniques.
• Help support and improve cloud services in production.
• Work with customers to enable use of products and services.
• Promote and encourage use of the cloud within the business.
• Keep up to date with new cloud features and identify opportunities they present.
• A willingness to learn new technologies.
• Requirement for some remunerated out of hours operational support.
• Attend relevant cloud-based seminars / training events.

Technical Skills Required:

• A strong history of working with AWS products.
• Experience of software development with multiple languages.
• Ability to communicate technical solutions.
• A strong understanding of the various technologies and protocols involved in API and web development.
• Experience of running services in production.

If you wish to be considered or you want to know more about the role then please contact us as soon as possible. These opportunities do not present themselves often.

NEW ROLE APRIL 2019

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting new opportunity for a DevOps Engineer for a contract in Vienna.  Deep knowledge of DevOps and related tools essential.  Good knowledge of Java and SQL and working in an Agile environment.  This is initially a 12 month contract with a further 12 month renewal anticipated, offering a rate of €60EUR per hour.

The beautiful city of Vienna has recently been ranked as the most liveable city in the world.  This role will provide the opportunity for somebody to live and work in Vienna. Fluent English is essential and German is advantageous. 

 The Role:

• Providing an efficient delivery pipeline, covering build, deployment and test automation as well as provisioning of infrastructure components on premise and in cloud infrastructures
• Devise concepts, evaluate tools & technologies to set up a delivery pipeline infrastructure
• Support developers, testers and operations to automate every aspect of the delivery pipeline
• Ensure efficient management in development, test and production environments
• Devise and enforce policies for developers, testers and operations that guarantee a stable delivery pipeline
• Establish solutions for logging and effective monitoring
• Work as part of an agile delivery team (Scrum)

The Skills:

• Degree in Computer Science/related subject or significant work experience
• Deep Knowledge of DevOps methods and related tools
• Unix / Linux
• Cloud / Virtualization / Containers
• Shell Scripting
• Java
• SQL
• Agile – Scrum and Kanban
• Confluence and Jira
• Fluent English – Excellent Communication Skills
• German is advantageous

If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer with a passion for technology looking for a new and exciting opportunity, then please do not hesitate to apply!

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a DevOps Engineer to start a contract in the Financial sector. This will run until March 2019, and is based in the Hague. Our client is looking to strengthen their engineer culture and carry out more in-house development, with continuous integration and delivery on the AWS and Azure Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Will be a member of the DevOps, using SCRUM as a way of working;
• Will be responsible for Developing and Operating a system called ‘iRisk’, developed in Java, running on Windows Server, Oracle DB, IBM WebSphere utilizing IBM Cognos and IBM Open Pages modules; 
• Will be responsible for the security and reliability of the application.

Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science, or equivalent industry experience; (HBO or university);
• JAVA;
• Cloud expertise, preferably AWS certified or willing to certify;
• Windows Server;
• Oracle Server;
• IBM WebSphere;
• Tooling for Continuous Delivery and continuous Integration: GitLab, Artifactory.

Furthermore, you:

• Like to improve our applications and take initiatives;
• Are a proactive, collaborating DevOps team member in an agile / scrum environment;
• Have excellent communication skills, both in written and spoken form (English and/or Dutch);
• Have a thorough understanding of the necessity of security management as a part of your work.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent opportunity for an expert in Kubernetes and Cloud Technologies to join the Research and Development team of our client, a large telecommunications company, based in Dublin. This is a 12-month contract and our client will pay extremely competitive rates.

Your main responsibilities will be developing and applying advanced software technologies, designing and implementing Kubernetes based Cluster Environments, integrating platform services to Kubernetes Clusters, and managing the full SDLC.

If you have strong experience with Kubernetes and Cloud Technologies we would be interested in speaking to you, we are also looking for the following –

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Software Engineer
• Previous experience designing and deploying Kubernetes
• Previous experience working on large scale, complex projects
• Knowledge of Serverless FaaS Frameworks and Platforms
• Previous experience with Machine Learning, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is beneficial

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