Endeavour has an excellent contract opportunity for a Sharepoint Administrator to join a reputable client, based in Brussels, on an English speaking site, initially for 6 months.

The successful candidate will join the team in charge of the administration of Sharepoint on site.

Your tasks deliverables will include the following:

• Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure
• Install, configure, integrate, test and maintain
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Monitor and test these systems and infrastructure performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions and work with other engineers/developers to implement fixes
• Maintain security, backup and redundancy strategies
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
• Liaise with other engineers for problem resolution
• Provide guidance and insurance of the policies defined by the SP Architect
• Ensure that best practices are followed for the designed solutions
• Provide 2nd and 3rd level support
• Watch duty and weekend work
• support of SharePoint functional designers, developers and end-users:
• Guide in Site structure, Content modelling and Content Types, Metadata and taxonomy development, Search integration
• Define, design and review technical architecture/designs to support new business requirements.
• Vision, evolution and strategy tasks

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Very good knowledge (not only technical, but as well functional aspects) of SharePoint 2013 (on premise) SharePoint-office 365 & SharePoint 2016 will be an asset
• Ability to configure and maintain a SharePoint server or a Farm
• Ability to promote user adaption, new features, new functionalities
• Can take part in implementing a good governance plan
• Monitoring, backup, failover, compliance, discovery, security, performance
• Ability to meet deadlines depending on business requirements
• Good knowledge of PowerShell
• Experience with ShareGate, SPDocKit tool
• Experience with building workflows with Nintex

Desirable skills:

Dutch and/or French would be an asset

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

Migration Specialist Netcool Bluecare – Contract - Luxembourg

Endeavour Recruitment has a new opportunity for experts in ITM/Netcool/Bluecare for a contract in Luxembourg.  At least 5 years experience ins required for this role.  Excellent hourly rate on offer!

The successful candidates will be implementing new functionality or components within an established architecture for the monitoring of the production environment with ITM/Netcool/Bluecare, as well as replacing the existing functions from BMC.

Essential Skillset/Experience:

• Expert in IBM Netcool
• Expert in IBM Bluecare
• Fluent English and French
• Knowledgeable on IBM ITM
• Good understanding of OS and Networking and Firewalls
• Windows PowerShell
• Unix Shell Scripting
• SQL
• XML
• SSL
• Data Encryption
• GS Kit
• HTTP
• LDAP
• SOAP
• Previous experience with IBM Service Management products
• Infrastructure Performance Management Tools

Advantageous Experience: 

• Java
• C#
• Eclipse
• BMC Monitoring
• Event Management Tools (Patrol or BEM)
• Dutch Speaking

When applying please confirm the hourly rate required in Euros and your availability to start a new role in Luxembourg?  Please apply quickly to be shortlisted for this role. 

Endeavour Recruitment has a brilliant opportunity for a Junior (DevOps) Developer Operations Engineer based in Southampton. There is a salary on offer of up to £30K plus benefits.

Working in an Agile environment you will be troubleshooting, liaising with testers, developers as well as product managers to provide creative solutions within product development.  You would also be liaising direct with customers in the support of roll outs or pilots.

Technical Skillset Required

• C#
• JavaScript
• Ruby
• PowerShell
• GitHub or other source code management tool
• OPTS
• POS/BOS/HOS
• PFS

Advantageous Knowledge

• General Retail
• Fuel Retail
• Lifecycles

If you are looking to progress your career, this could be the right role for you!  Please apply quickly to be shortlisted.

This is an opportunity for a SQL Server Database Administrator  to join a technology firm based in Southampton, Hampshire.  You will be responsible The maintenance, support and administration of Microsoft SQL database environments. 

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES REQUIRED:-

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a SQL centric role (SQL Server 2005 onwards).
• Using SQL Server Availability Groups or Log Shipping or Database Mirroring.
• Experience of working on live production systems.
• In depth SQL Server skills including:

o performance tuning

o high availability

o database configuration and management

o backups

o applying database security practices

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:-

• Competent with Windows operating system and high-level server / storage infrastructure.
• Experience using SSAS / SSRS / SSIS.
• Writing PowerShell scripts.
• Administering a Data Warehouse.
• DR / Business Continuity.

Please get in  touch to be considered for this fantastic permanent role

Endeavour has a fantastic contract opportunity for a SharePoint/.Net Tester to join a multinational client in Sweden, on an English-speaking site. This is a full-time onsite role, initially for 6 months, with possibility of extension.

The succesful candidate will be involved in the following duties:

• Deploy and test (mainly Sharepoint and .Net) applications and patches in a testing environment using Powershell.
• Prepare test plans and conduct testing and debugging to proactively identify bugs in application code during the construction phase as well as the validation and integration phase of the software development life cycle including the use of automated testing tools
• Independently troubleshoot issues into integration test environment, related to the applications under test
• Work with Active Directory, MS Exchange and MSSQL
• Create test cases based on use cases provided
• Create test scripts using Visual Studio
• Register and track issues using Team Foundation Server
• Provide reports about the tests conducted
• Contribute to the maintenance and expansion of a test environment for integrated testing of the various applications
• Support the integration of new systems into the existing environment

Required skills and experience: 

• University degree with minimum 3 years of experience in IT;
• Strong experience in creating test plans and cases and their execution
• Strong experience with Sharepoint 2010/2013 and powershell
• Knowledge of .Net and C# programming
• Experience in troubleshooting in a Microsoft environment
• Experience of working in a test team, co-operating and communicating with developers and administrators
• Experience with Team Foundation Server 2012/2015, Visual Studio and other automation tools
• Test methodologies, especially SCRUM
• Experience in different testing types
• Strong communication skills in English

Please get in touch for further details ASAP and apply for this not-to-be-missed contract role!

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 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.

Endeavour Recruitment has a new opportunity for a Security Cleared Application Packaging Analyst for a role based in Portsmouth.  This is a 3-month initial contract with extension opportunities paying between £350-£375 per day.

Candidates must have demonstrable packaging and scripting experience in a corporate environment.  Excellent organisation and communication skills are crucial.  It is essential candidates are fully conversant with all aspects of applications packaging including rationalisation, discovery, packaging, QA, UAT, remediation and deployment.

Essential Experience:

• Applications Packaging MSI / App-V 5.0
• Flexera AdminStudio – 2014-2016
• SCCM Experience – 2012 / Current Branch
• Migration Project Experience – Windows 7 x65 / Windows 10 x64 OS
• Application Compatibility Testing
• Custom Actions and ICE Validation
• PowerShell / VBS / Batch File Scripting
• Packaging Tools (sysinternals suite)

Additional Competencies:

• 3 Years’ Experience with Packaging as a Primary Role
• Experience of Migration Projects (preferably Windows 10)
• End to End Applications Packaging Lifecycle Process Experience
• Experience of Packing for and Supporting Large Client Base

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

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. 

German Speaking - Storage Developer – Vienna – 4 Year Contract

Endeavour Recruitment has a New opportunity for an experienced Storage Developer to work in the Beautiful City of Vienna. Advanced knowledge of IBM Products such as V5000 / 7000 Storwize and Spectrum Virtualize Controller.  Project runs to 2021.   EUR€54 Per Hour.

Key skills and experience required:

• V5000 / 7000 Storwize
• Spectrum Virtualize Controller
• SVC SAN Volume Controller
• Cisco MDS SAN Directors
• Fibre Channel Storage
• Storage Virtualization
• FC SAN Switch Infrastructure
• Monitoring/Optimizing/Turning Storage (preferably IBM Spectrum Control
• Good knowledge of data storage for virtual environments & databases
• VMWare
• Windows Server / Linux
• Nagios / Icinga / Check MK
• PowerShell
• Perl

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