Cloud Infrastructure Analyst contract opportunity!

Calling for an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Analyst to join a London based client for a contract opportunity.

The role is hybrid and would be initially till end of March 2023, with possibility of extension.

Our client is looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Analyst who will be BAU support to servers within their Azure infrastructure: they need someone with very good Azure infrastructure and server skills. Experience and skills around Endpoint Manager is also required.

Skills/knowledge required:

• Experience of working as a Cloud Analyst in a complex environment with a hybrid infrastructure based on systems hosted internally and externally, including PaaS and SaaS
• High degree of technical expertise as well as business understanding
• Ability to manage tasks in a matrix environment
• Good working knowledge of a Project Management Framework
• Experience of working within an ITIL Framework
• Developing and managing relationships across IT and within the Business
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure issues
• Manage simultaneously and conflicting priorities
• Must have a good knowledge in the following areas:

             Administering public cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure specifically:

- Azure Backup and Site Recovery

- Azure Monitor

- Azure Arc

- Azure Bastion

- Azure Active Directory

- Azure Sentinel

- Azure Policy

- MS Office 365

- Network protocols including the configuration of network

routers and switches, LAN/WAN, wireless access points

- Network and Systems Security

- Microsoft Active Directory and Windows 2012/2016 Servers

- Microsoft System Centre Suite (SCCM, SCOM, SCSM)

- Web Application Management, Firewall Management and

Security

- Unified communication and VoIP Technology and

preferable knowledge in Telephony solutions (Mitel)

- Windows workstation operating systems, mobile phones,

tablets and other end user computing devices

- Printers

• Good understanding of operations and business priorities

Please get in touch to discuss this opportunity in further details ASAP.

Infrastructure Engineer (3rd line)

Our client, a global leader in their area requires a Third Line Infrastructure Engineer to join the team in the Central London office

The Infrastructure Engineer will design and maintain IT systems and infrastructure. The role will have responsibility for the delivery of secure and highly available computing platforms, servers, and networks. You will be an infrastructure technical advisor and provide technical guidance and delivery for projects and support within the IT Services team.

You will be required to develop, maintain and support the company infrastructure, keeping up with business needs while minimising the impacts of change and the risk of downtime to the business. As a 3rd line Engineer, you will have an active role in the helpdesk function within the IT Services team and be a point of escalation for problems triaged by the team.

A successful Infrastructure Engineer will be capable of working under their own initiative and setting their own workload targets. The day-to-day work will be split between providing 3rd line support on the helpdesk and infrastructure projects.

Requirements:

Competent with Microsoft infrastructure (Active Directory, Azure, Office 365, Hyper-V and SCVMM) – accreditations are a bonus

Advanced knowledge of network and firewall equipment (WatchGuard/HP Aruba is an advantage)

Skills in key scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash)

Experience in working with macOS systems – a bonus

Ability to research, design and implement IT systems based on business requirements

 Enjoy providing high quality services to the business

Ability to communicate and build relationships inside and outside IT

Significant proven experience of working in IT infrastructure and service delivery

Please apply with a copy of your CV for further details.

Excellent contract opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer (Azure)  to join our leading clients growing development team who will contribute to the continued success of products and technical solutions.

You will design, develop and in some cases own the automated deployment, maintenance and monitoring of  SaaS products, using your experience to achieve this within optimal cost.

Working with Development Teams, within a Scrum framework, you will design and implement robust procedures for deployment to internal and external environments to minimise downtime and proactively address information security risks through principles of shared responsibility across the Microsoft Azure platform.

Responsibilities:

• Create, maintain and optimise infrastructure as code across Azure.
• Implement continuous integration, deployment and infrastructure / application monitoring through collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Implement processes to support the availability of appropriate pre and production environments for team members including Developers and QA Professionals.
• Support and improve monitoring tools to provide early visibility to the business of (1) Compliance to performance, availability, incident SLA’s; (2) scaling
• decision making around addition resources; (3) escalation of critical events (from security to performance  and capacity management).

Role relationships:

Internal

Architects, Development/Scrum Teams, Project Managers, Technical and Business Analysts, Product/Process Owners, and Business Users.

External

3rd party solutions and service providers.

Role accountabilities

• Build and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) solutions in an Azure environment with Jenkins at the centre and automate the code delivery pipeline with the goal of one click deployments, rollbacks, and parameterised builds.
• Create, maintain and optimise infrastructure as code across Azure.
• Identify areas for continuous improvement, through automation, documentation, process change, or working methods, in addition to business-generated requirements.
• Implement continuous integration, deployment and infrastructure / application monitoring through collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Implement processes to support the availability of appropriate pre and production environments for team members including Developers and QA Professionals.
• Support and improve monitoring tools to provide early visibility to the business of (1) Compliance to performance, availability, incident SLA’s; (2) scaling decision making around additional resources; (3) escalation of critical events (from security to performance and capacity management).
• Be a DevOps champion, subscribe to the DevOps mentality and the philosophy of automating everything.
• Work with the development team to cross-pollenate DevOps processes and ensure that new architectures are drawn up with “ease of management”, delivery, and operability in mind.
• Collaborate with the Information Security team to review risks as well as implement and maintain appropriate controls.
• Troubleshoot application and service issues or system outages while clearly communicating status updates with management and engineering teams.
• Coach and mentor staff members through training and individual support.
• Manage a junior DevOps Engineer in the creation and maintenance of high[1]quality deliverables within agreed project deadlines.

General

• Ensure you follow the financial regulations, policies and procedures.
• Ensure that you follow relevant Health and Safety policies and related
• procedures, keeping up to date with changes and taking action to maintain personal health and safety and that of others.
• The tasks and responsibilities outlined above are not exhaustive, the post holder may undertake other duties as is reasonably required

Please get in touch for further details on this not to be missed contract opportunity.

Endeavour Recruitment has a not to be missed permanent opportunity for an experience DevOps Engineer.

Excellent career and financial prospects!

Hybrid role

Cape Town or Johannesburg based

As the DevOps Engineer you will be working in an agile environment alongside a dynamic, multi-skilled team of developers and operational staff. 

You will take full responsibility for the uptime, performance, security and deployment of the entire web and development environment.

Fast- paced environment where efficiency is a priority and multi-tasking is a requirement.

You will be instrumental in being part of the transition from a traditional hosted environment to a fully cloud hosted environment with containerisation and serverless on the horizon.

This position is demanding yet very rewarding. If you can visualise the future and drive progress to move towards it, this position is made for you!

• Focus will be on delivering solutions in Azure, AWS and GCP while automating deployment, system maintenance, and keeping the platforms monitored and stable.
• Working in collaboration with the operations team.
• Architect and manage Azure infrastructure.
• Manage AWS and GCP infrastructure.
• Manage security.
• Manage CDN services.
• Implement and oversee secure practices in hosting and the SDLC process.
• Manage backup and disaster recovery.
• Manage infrastructure and licencing budgets.
• Automate deployment, monitoring, response, backup, and recovery procedures.
• Modernize legacy infrastructure to take advantage of Azure capability.
• Collaborate with architects to deliver solutions that are both cost efficient and highly scalable.
• Continuous scalability and cost optimisation.
• Documentation of all infrastructure and procedures.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of IIS, nGinx, ElasticSearch, Redis, MySQL, MS SQL.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues.
• Be available after hours to attend to critical outages and planned changes.

Skills and competence:

• Proven track record of designing, implementing, and supporting high scale services.
• Ability to match business needs with smart solutions to meet scalability and costing needs.
• Ability to constructively lead others and by so doing raise team performance.
• An excellent communicator both verbally and written.
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to absorb pressure in stressful situations.
• Broad cloud knowledge, staying abreast of all tech trends.
• Flexible about working with a wide range of technologies.

Qualifications and experience:

• 5+ years’ experience in managing and building scalable infrastructure.
• 5+ years’ hands-on DevOps experience
• 3+ years’ experience in working in agile teams.
• Software related degree/diploma
• Preferred certifications: Microsoft Azure Architect Design / Technologies, Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions and Security Technologies
• Hands on experience with the following:
• Architectural and strategic input
• Cost calculations and budgeting for forecasts and planning
• Documentation for both knowledge sharing and auditing needs
• Azure
• Virtual Networking
• Secure practices
• Windows
• Linux
• IIS
• MS SQL
• PowerShell
• Bash
• Infrastructure as code

Desirable skills:

• Redis
• ElasticSearch
• AWS
• nGinx
• MySQL
• GCP
• Containerisation
• Serverless architecture

Does the above match your experience and expectations? If so, please get in touch asap. We look forward to receiving your cv!

Excellent long term contract opportunity for an Amazon AWS Cloud solutions engineer to help maintain, troubleshoot the infrastructure and provide support to internal cloud-based tools.
You will be part of a talented and multilingual team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security for a Leading European Organisation.

Service4Developers is the entry point of autonomous Cloud sandbox development environment.
PublicCloud will be a highly automated Cloud Hosting solution based on WildFly/PostgreSQL.
Qualified engineers will have a background in IT, computer systems engineering, or systems engineering and analysis.

Profiles
At least 3 year professional experience within large-scale Data Centre environments
At least 6 months of professional experience on cloud environments

Responsibilities
Create and maintain AWS stacks.
Monitoring tooling performance and production jobs
Troubleshoot end-user incidents on infrastructure level only
On-call interventions
Receiving, logging and managing requests from customers via ticketing
Log analysis
Maintain and amend procedures
Reporting
Participate in meetings and training related to the position
Liaise with other technical teams for problem resolution

Requirements
BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
AWS Cloud experience, certification is appreciated
Proven working experience with UNIX /Linux based environments
A knowledge in the following domain would be considered as an asset (level 1):
Basic to advanced networking principles (e.g: NACL, routing)
ORACLE Database and SQL knowledge
Scripting skills (e.g., powershell, Python)
ITIL knowledge
ITSM Tools knowledge (SMT, BMC Atrium, Patrol, Proactive Net …)
Experience with a monitoring system
Kubernetes and tools around k8s ecosystem
AWS CDK
DevOps, GitOps principles
A knowledge in the following domain would be considered as nice to have
Artefact store knowledge (Nexus)
Sonatype products
Workflow automation
Monitoring Dynatrace, Pandora

Knowledge/experience:
IT degree
English fluent is mandatory (speaking & writing), French is an asset
First IT Service Desk/IT Support experience
You are able to work in shifts (8 AM – 8 PM)

Please get in touch for further details.

Azure Infrastructure Architect

Endeavour Recruitment currently has a need for a skilled Azure Infrastructure Architect to join our Client in Antwerp, Belgium. Our client is a Global Market Leading in the Technology and Energy sector.

We are looking for someone that is passionate about architecture and infrastructure. Someone that investigates new technologies. Communicatee’s and negotiates with people on different levels in the (customer) organization.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Make architectural designs, including infrastructure solution design, business continuity & disaster recovery designs, in close collaboration with the customer and colleagues
• Calculate the necessary size of environments (sandbox, production) and determine and provision the necessary hardware
• Closely collaborate with the project manager in sprint planning, license usage, cost management, setup of Azure devops project & templates, …
• Collaborate, coach and follow-up on colleagues executing installations, updates, impact assessments, releases … on an end-to-end basis
• Analyze performance (issues), create Azure resources and maintain software versions of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Experience

• At least 5 years of experience in architecture, infrastructure and/or Microsoft Azure
• Knowledge of Dynamics 365 & related Microsoft-technologies is a plus
• A non-stop drive to go out of own comfort zone, to investigate new technologies & to guarantee an end-to-end solution

You are

• A strong communicator who can negotiate and build consensus on different levels (developers, business, C-level stakeholders, …)
• A multitasker with good time management skills
• A coach and motivator who can show confidence and easily builds up trust

We offer

• The possibility to work with the latest technologies and stay up to date with the latest changes
• A team culture that is based on trust and where continuous growth is naturally encouraged
• Real career opportunities: do you want to become an expert or rather grow towards a functional role, that’s up to you!
• Training and Support
• A very attractive salary package: company car, insurance, portable pc, iPhone, internet connection, etc. that you can adapt to your needs (you can exchange part of your 13th month for a lease-bike, iPad, extra vacation.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent permanent opportunity for one of our clients based in Hampshire.

Objective:

To provide technical support for server infrastructure and LAN WAN networks for external customers, assisting them through onsite support and consultancy.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Maintain a high degree of customer service for all support queries and adhere to all service management principles

Consult on infrastructure problems and provide suitable networking solutions

Take ownership of user problems and be proactive when dealing with user issues

Log all calls on the call logging system and maintain full documentation. Maintain a log of any software or hardware problems detected

Respond to enquiries from clients and help them resolve hardware or software problems

Resolve all IT issues with a professional manner and allocate more complex service issues to the relevant IT Support member

Skills / Attributes Required:

Strong knowledge of Microsoft based operating systems with emphasis on Windows 2003 / 2008 server and Exchange Server 2003 / 2007 /2010

Excellent telephone manner and client facing experience

A Microsoft certification such as an MCSE or MCITP is desirable

Other industry standard qualifications and advantageous

Please get in touch. Looking forward to receiving your cv!

Are you an experienced Infrastructure Support Engineer looking for a long term contract?

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent, long term contract opportunity to work in Cape Town.

Vibrant, great weather and excellent surroundings!

Daily tasks and responsibilities:

•             Responsible for handling Network/Datacenter related tickets and incidents.

•             Monitor the network/Datacenter environment.

•             Troubleshoot the incidents and find the right solution.

•             Work together with your team members to adapt the environment to the needs of the business.

•             Implement new change requests.

Requirements:

•             2-5 years’ experience as a Support Engineer or a relevant degree/certificate.

•             Broad knowledge of IT infrastructure and especially Networking.

•             Passionate about Networking, team player and willing to learn and develop your skills.

•             Fluent in English, knowledge of a second language would be advantageous.

•             Technology certifications are a plus.

•             Knowledge of Standard IT processes and methodologies are a plus (ITIL).

If you are you flexible, enthusiastic, responsive with a global mindset? If so,  please apply for further details on this not to be missed contract opportunity.

Are you an experienced Infrastructure Support Engineer looking for a long term contract?

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent, long term contract opportunity to work in Cape Town.

Vibrant, great weather and excellent surroundings!

Daily tasks and responsibilities:

• Responsible for handling Network/Datacenter related tickets and incidents.
• Monitor the network/Datacenter environment.
• Troubleshoot the incidents and find the right solution.
• Work together with your team members to adapt the environment to the needs of the business.
• Implement new change requests.

Requirements:

• 2-5 years’ experience as a Support Engineer or a relevant degree/certificate.
• Broad knowledge of IT infrastructure and especially Networking.
• Passionate about Networking, team player and willing to learn and develop your skills.
• Fluent in English, knowledge of a second language would be advantageous.
• Technology certifications are a plus.
• Knowledge of Standard IT processes and methodologies are a plus (ITIL).

If you are you flexible, enthusiastic, responsive with a global mindset? If so,  please apply for further details on this not to be missed contract opportunity.

Are you an experienced Infrastructure Support Engineer looking for a long term contract?

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent, long term contract opportunity to work in Cape Town.

Vibrant, great weather and excellent surroundings!

 ly tasks and responsibilities:

• Responsible for handling Network/Datacenter related tickets and incidents.
• Monitor the network/Datacenter environment.
• Troubleshoot the incidents and find the right solution.
• Work together with your team members to adapt the environment to the needs of the business.
• Implement new change requests.

Requirements:

• 2-5 years’ experience as a Support Engineer or a relevant degree/certificate.
• Broad knowledge of IT infrastructure and especially Networking.
• Passionate about Networking, team player and willing to learn and develop your skills.
• Fluent in English, knowledge of a second language would be advantageous.
• Technology certifications are a plus.
• Knowledge of Standard IT processes and methodologies are a plus (ITIL).

 f you are you flexible, enthusiastic, responsive with a global mindset? If so,  please apply for further details on this not to be missed contract opportunity.