Endeavour Recruitment is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer for their busy IS Department.  The role is technical in nature and needs specialist application skills supported by expansive technical skills.  This is a permanent opportunity with our client based in East Grinstead.  Salary between £42K to £45K plus excellent benefits package.

About this role:

• Working closely with third parties to ensure Applications meet required Service Levels.
• Technical design work in the general Computing Infrastructure (physical and virtual) to implement high quality support and continuous improvement
• Insurance activities that support pro-active management, monitoring and optimisation of the insurance application infrastructure.
• Extensive working with third parties
• Working knowledge of Linux.
• Developing such skills as are necessary to support new technologies
• Personal workload management in support of ITIL Incident and Problem Management, through use of ticketing systems.
• Adherence to ITIL Change Management processes.
• Good technical authoring and procedure writing skills.
• Flexible working hours, with frequent need to work additional hours at short notice.
• Inclusion on the teams 24x7 service support rota

Required Skills/Attributes:

• Extensive IT industry experience
• Experience of working with 3rd party application providers
• Ability to plan, track and coordinate complex technical activities
• Good verbal and written communication skills and the confidence to interact with technical peers
• Microsoft skills to include Windows server, SharePoint and some SQL server.
• Strong customer facing verbal and written communication skills
• Motivated by efficient use of technology to solve business problems
• Lateral thinking and problem solving ability
• Good personal workload management and ability to work to deadlines
• ‘Completer finisher’ with a high attention to detail
• Positive attitude and enthusiasm for personal improvement

If you believe you have the right experience and previous track record to successfully deliver in this role, then please apply quickly in order to be shortlisted.  

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a talented Database Administrator to join our leading client based in the wonderful city of Vienna. This is a long-term contract with an hourly rate in the region of €54EUR per hour. Candidates must have excellent knowledge of German.  

Key skills and experience required:

• Administration of the databases: Windows, MS SQL, Oracle
• Experience in the structure of high-availability environments in the database environment (SQL Server)
• Results in virtual environments
• Experience in troubleshooting and performance tuning
• T-SQL Scripting
• Desirable multi-year experience SQL Server DBA: replication, log shipping, clustering, availability groups (large databases)
• SAN storage, SQL Server CLR, Error tracking, PowerShell Scripting

Beneficial skills:

• Virtualization (VMware ESXi)
• Monitoring (Nagios / Icinga / Check_MK)
• Windows Server 2012R2/ 2016
• IIS
• ARR

Endeavour Recruitment is looking for an experienced Database Administrator, to join a large client in the financial sector, based in Belgium on an English speaking site, for an exciting 1 year contract.

The successful DBA will be able to work independently and show initiative.

As a Database Administrator, you will be a member of the team in charge of the Oracle DB Server infrastructure.

Your responsibilities will include:

•Providing technical support for the database environment, including support of the production but also supporting the development and enhancement of applications

•Helping to achieve a state-of-the-art environment that meets current and future business objectives, highest reliability and performance possible

•Software installation procedure + configuration of the servers

•Release management

•Upgrade/migrations of databases

•Day-to-day administration of the infrastructure

•Disaster recovery plans

•Defining standards and guidelines

•Security of DB servers

•Replication of data

•Performance tuning

•Research & Development : Assessment and implementation of new technologies and providing IT with a long-term perspective on the relationship of database technology to the business opportunities.

•Providing and designing tools to assist in the management of the databases.

•Participate in the watch duty role (24/24 on call for a total of about 7/10 days/month)

Your skills / experience

•5+ years’ experience with Oracle DB (as from version 11g and above) and MS SQL Server (as from version 2008R2 and above)

•Strong operational focus including security, patch revision control, performance management and tuning, high availability and licensing

•Experience with Oracle Management Server (installation, configuration & usage)

•Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

•Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

•OPERATING SYSTEMS: Red Hat Linux, AIX, Windows

 •Good written and oral communication skills

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

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent long term contract opportunity for a Software Test Analyst with extensive Testing experience including Hands on Testing, Test Analysis, Test Management and client facing. Applicants are required to be eligible for Security Clearance.

Role:

To test and develop software across multiple projects ensuring that all output meets defined functional and non-functional requirements and that all defects are effectively managed and resolved.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all functional and non-functional design requirements are correctly translated into test cases/scenarios.
• Ensure the configuration control of the hardware and software test environment is managed.
• To perform the required testing and accurately record/report test results.
• Perform testing activities within the project budget and on time.
• Ensure that identified defects are properly identified and reviewed.
• To read the requisite design documentation and gain a full understanding of the functional and non-functional project requirements.
• To independently decompose the system design requirements into logical units for testing purposes.
• To create the test strategies, plans and specifications and include detailed test cases to validate positive/negative scenarios for each logical unit.
• Configure environments as needed to complete assigned testing.
• To work within customer environments performing and recording tests.
• To execute the detailed test cases and maintain the test records with associated results/configurations.
• Provide test summary reports to the Project Team.
• To provide necessary support to the software development team by resolving queries relating to identified defects.
• To advise on the selection of any test software or tools required for testing.
• Monitor and update defect reports including defect closeout.
• Deliver released software from development/test to customer sites and complete final User Acceptance Testing at the clients facility.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Knowledge of Airline/Handler baggage operational processes
• Working knowledge of current legislative requirements as applied to software products (eg graphical user interface standards).
• A working knowledge of software release, configuration management systems.
• A working knowledge of installing/configuring applications on Windows/Unix/Linux server environments
• Experience of using SQL to query database table content (preferably Oracle)
• Experience of working in an ISO 9001/Tickit environment.
• Experience of performing similar roles in airports/logistics or materials handling.
• Working in process control, warehouse automation, industrial control logistics or a similar business area.
• At least 3 years' experience in performing Factory and User Acceptance Testing role.
• Testing of mission critical high availability systems.
• Experience of generating test scenarios from client's brief and decomposing into functional tests.
• Degree in an engineering or computer science related discipline.
• Minimum of ISEB foundation certificate for software testing.

Key Competencies:

• Ability to plan and organise multiple workload requirements.
• Ability to work and manage defined deadlines within programme and budget.
• Able to work as part of a team and independently.
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral.

Please get in touch ASAP for consideration for this not to be missed contract opportunity.

Endeavour Recruitment is looking for an experienced, multilingual Windows Support Engineer for an exciting long-term contract.

The successful applicant will be joining our well-established European client, in the financial sector, based in Belgium

As the ideal Windows Support Engineer, you will be  responsible for the deployment and maintenance of applications delivered via Citrix, VDI and Workstations and the underlying infrastructure, as well as delivering second line support to end-users and the onsite support teams across all entities.

Daily duties:

• Deploy applications, debug and solve related problems on Citrix and Workstations.
• Manage patching for applications and operating systems.
• Provide application support for internal clients.
• Maintain and monitor infrastructure components.

Report on application deployment progress and baseline compliancy.

• Incident, request and problem management.
• Apply standard operating procedures and actively contribute to continuously improve operational processes.

Required skills and experience:

• 5 years +  experience in a Windows end-user environment, with specialisation in application delivery.
• Fluent in French/English or Dutch/English.
• Advanced SCCM experience, including baseline management and custom reporting.
• Operational knowledge of App-V, Appsense, Powershell, MSI and other packaging/scripting technologies.
• Proven administrator experience in a Citrix environment.
• Good knowledge of IT Security Principals and overall understanding of IT Service Management.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and in-depth troubleshooting of application issues (MSI technology, read and understand installation logfiles).
• Sufficient knowledge of the common office applications to be able to deliver applications.

If you have a customer oriented attitude with good communication skills , we definitely want to hear from you.

Please get in touch ASAP to find further details about this “not-to-be-missed” contract opportunity.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent long-term contract opportunity for a .NET TFS Developer to join a leading telecommunication client in Belgium.

The role:

You will be part of the process tools team consisting of 14 people managing, engineering, implementing and supporting process tools to help the development teams in their daily work.

The goal is to perform the setup, roll-out and support of an ASBD (Automatic Software Build & Deploy) platform for .NET application

As a successful candidate, you will have the ability to act as a coordinator.

Skills and experience:

•             Good analytical skills

•             Good experience with:

                .NET Application development

                TFS

                Automation & Development Tools

                Windows

                Powershell

Soft skills:

•             Good level of English (speaking and writing) – French and/or Dutch are a plus

•             Team player

•             Good communication skills

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

Duration: 6 months+

Location: Brussels

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!!

Endeavour Recruitment is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Consultant for their client close to Gatwick Airport.  The successful candidate will provide BASIS support as well as technical expertise in a variety of areas.   Candidates should have at least 5 years’ experience in a similar role.  Salary guide is £38K to £40K depending on experience, plus a very generous benefits package.

The ideal candidate should have good technical authoring and procedure writing skills, be a lateral thinker and have problem solving abilities.   Our client is also looking for candidates with a high attention to detail, with a positive attitude and enthusiasm for personal improvement.  

Essential Candidate Experience:

• Exchange 2010
• SAP
• Sharepoint
• VMWare
• Windows
• Linux
• Storage Systems
• Networking
• ITIL
• Project Management
• Troubleshooting

• Ticketing Systems
• SQL Server
• Change Management

If you believe you have the right experience and previous track record to successfully deliver in this role, then please apply quickly in order to be shortlisted.   

Endeavour Recruitment have an outstanding opportunity for an established Product Manager to join a globally renowned software business as their Global Product Manager overseeing a line of high profile IT Security products.

Ultimately, the Global Product Manager is responsible for ensuring that a range of Cyber Security products remain ‘best of breed’ within a highly competitive landscape.  The Global Product Manager also leads the development of new products from conception to successful market delivery.

To excel you will have a blend of technical and commercial skills gained as a Product Manager or Pre-Sales Engineer from within the Cyber Security or high profile internet sectors.

Your career to has given you the capability to be a respected Global Product Manager driving Engineering, Marketing and the wider business to create and deliver industry leading products. Technically, a solid understanding of Windows, Linux, VMware, firewalls, web gateways and scripting (Perl / Python) would all be benefical.

If you ready to meet the challenge of taking on the global responsibility as the Product Manager for a range of Cyber Security products, get the best from highly experienced internal teams, loyal customers and third party partners, then we want to hear from you.

The role is based in near Reading, walking distance from a mainline station and a short distance from the M4, making an easy commute from London and much of the South East. Mainly based out of modern offices, there will be occasional travel to customers, prospects partners and industry events.

In return you can expect a salary in the region of £70,000 + bonus & benefits.

Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.