Endeavour Recruitment are seeking a number of contract Linux Engineers to help support multiple environments. The existing solution comprises of mainly Linux based applications and database servers.

Within the role the successful Linux Engineers will be supporting all deliverables including; Server & Workstation builds, Active Directory, Group Policies, Security control applications and databases.

Your skills and experience will be a solid mix of the following;

•  Linux Red Hat 5.x system admin
  • JBOSS application admin
  • Weblogic application server admin
  • Oracle, SQL, PLSQL
  • SunOne Directory server 7.
  • Open LDAP
  • NTP
  • DNS
  • NFS
  • SSH
  • Sudo
• Firewall understanding
• Deep understanding of Networking protocols
• Exposure in building and supporting large infrastructure projects
• Experience of working within large government projects
• Scripting in either ksh or Perl

This is a rolling 5 month contract and the rate on offer ranges from £200 to £325 per day.

Please apply immediately with your CV to be considered for this contract.

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a talented DevOps Engineer to join our client based in Leeds on a long-term contract. Candidates must be eligible for Security Clearance (SC). There is a daily rate in the region of £450.00 plus expenses.

As a DevOps engineer you will be working as part of an agile team utilising your Linux administrator skills.

Essential Skills:

• Experience designing systems within a DevOps environment
• Linux, GitHub, Continuous Integration, Cloud technologies, Virtualisation Tools, Monitoring utilities, Disaster recovery process/tools
• Experience in troubleshooting and problem resolution
• Experience in System Integration
• Knowledge of the following: Hadoop, Flume, Sqoop, Map Reduce, Hive/Impala, Hbase, Kafka, Spark Streaming
• Experience of ETL tools incorporating Big Data Shell Scripting, Python

Beneficial Skills:

• Understanding of: LAN, WAN, VPN and SD Networks
• Hardware and Cabling set-up experience
• Experience of implementing and supporting Big Data analytics platforms built on top of Hadoop
• Knowledge and appreciation of Information security

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

Endeavour Recruitment have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Solaris Engineer to undertake a 6 month contract in Bristol.

This is a client facing role, working alongside Lead Engineers and Consultants to deliver a number of projects including; deployment, configuration, testing, migrations, refreshes and 3rd line administration.

With at least 5 years Solaris experience, you skills will include a solid mix of the following;

• Web Server (Sun One, iPlanet, Apache)
• RDMBS (Oracle)
• Application Server (Apache, JBoss, TomCat, WebLogic)
• Firewalls
• Routers
• TCP/IP
• Load Balancing (F5, Cisco)
• High Availability and Clustering
• J2EE Architecture
• Linux/UNIX Scripting
• Good understanding and basic (technical) knowledge of Cloud technologies
• Veritas Volume Manager and File System management
• Good understanding and basic (technical) knowledge of virtualization technology including migrations (eg VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM, P2V, P2P, PlateSpin, DoubleTake, Grid, Solaris Zones, AIX LPARS/WPARs, HPUX vPARs)

Please apply today with your CV to be considered for this fantastic contract.

Endeavour Recruitment has a FANTASTIC opportunity for an experienced Software Platform Engineer to join a well-established and fast growing company, covering a wide range of sectors, based in West London.

As the successful Software Platform Engineer, you would be part of a team responsible for developing our client’s state of the art compiler technology and software tools.

Required skills and experience:

Java, C and C++

Object oriented programming

Linux software development

A degree or equivalent professional qualification in Computer Science or a related discipline

Desirable experience in any of the following:

Post-graduate research (e.g. PhD, EngD, EU research projects, papers/journal articles)

Software testing (e.g. JUnit, Jenkins CI)

Compiler development

Digital hardware design (e.g. Verilog/VHDL, FPGAs)

RTOS/Embedded software

Please get in touch ASAP to discuss this exciting opportunity.

Are you an experienced Web architect looking for your next challenge?

Endeavour has an exciting new contract opportunity for a talented Web Architect, to join a large European Organisation for a 2 months contract in the Hague.

Required skills and experience:

• Experienced in web architecture/implementation of open source java technologies:

-          Angular 2, Spring, JBoss EAP, Maven

-          Java J2EE/J2SE (StAX, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, JAXM, Java/Javascript, etc...)

-          Linux/SUSE

-          Apache (Camel, CXF, FOP, POI, Hibernate, PDFBox, etc...)

• Experience in Continuous Integration/ SDLC in a web-based application implementation
• Experience in Functional/Technical Design, Interface Specification documentation
• Knowledge in XML,XSL,DTD,WSDL,SOAP,...
• Knowledge in secure web application implementation is a plus
• Knowledge in API Management integration is a plus
• Knowledge in Archimate is a plus
• Experience in Drools/jBPM or equivalent open-source business engine is a plus
• Cloud experience is a plus

Please apply for further information on this fantastic contract role.

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 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:

Endeavour Recruitment are seeking an experienced Linux Systems Administrator to undertake a 6 month contract with our market leading client in Cork.

Over the next few months our client are implementing & upgrading some key enterprise applications and they are looking for a very capable Linux Systems Administrator to assist the team with project delivery and BAU support.

You will need to demonstrate a strong Systems Administration background across Windows, including VMware, Storage (such as Dell Compellent/EMC) and Cloud (pref. AWS). Previous experience as a Solutions Architect or supporting/deploying JD Edwards would be beneficial.

The city and county of Cork have plenty to offer, including direct flights to major UK and EU cites.

The rate available for this contract is circa EUR300 to 350+.

Please apply with an up to date CV to be shortlisted for this fantastic contract.

• Are you looking for an exciting new contract role?
• Do you have Telecoms experience?
• Do you have strong integration experience?
• Do you have the ability to program in Oracle/Oracle Suit/Java on Unix;Linux?

If so, we definitely want to hear from you.

Endeavour Recruitment has a great, long-term contract opportunity for a Technical integration Manager to join a leading Telecommunications client in the Netherlands.

The successful candidate will have at least 5 years’ experience as a Technical Integration Manager and the following skills/experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other similar disciplines;
• Oracle experience (e.g., Oracle Application Server (Weblogic),
• Oracle SOA Suite (OSB, SOA), Oracle RDBMS);
• experience with Linux/Unix;
• continuous integration experience with Atlassian suite (Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence);
• experience managing matrix organizations delivering IT implementations and involving multiple software application integrators
• Proven ability to review code (SOA, OSB, Java)
• IT solutions ; application management.
• working knowledge of in debugging and analyses of complex issues within large scale integration platforms
• experience working with design teams and contributing to overall service platform design in multiple customer environments
• ability to coordinate and to work in project teams
• ability to technically manage large scale projects including implementation/migration/upgrades
• communication skills
• analytical capabilities
• Supervisory/advisory role
• Highly specific skillset or technical training
• Advanced educational credentials required

Please apply for further details on this not-to-be-missed contract opportunity!

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for a candidate experience in nPVR components, CDA upgrades to develop transcoders / decoders. Telecommunication experience required.

Large Telecommunications client based in Schiphol, possibility  of remote work.

Duties:

Responsible for supporting the strategic delivery of middleware solutions. Deliver integration solutions incorporating architectural/development guidelines, standards/principles which are on time and in budget.

Education/Experience:

•             Bachelor's Degree in IT or other technical studies;

•             Oracle experience (e.g., Oracle Application Server (Weblogic), Oracle SOA Suite (OSB, SOA), Oracle RDBMS);

•             Experience with Linux/Unix;

•             Continuous integration experience with Atlassian suite (Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence);

•             Experience managing / delivering IT implementations and involving multiple software application integrators.

Skills and Competencies:

Proven ability to review code (SOA, OSB, Java); experience in telecoms.

IT solutions; application management.; working knowledge of debugging and analyses of complex issues within large scale integration platforms;

• Experience working with design teams and contributing to overall service platform design in multiple customer environments; ability to coordinate and to work in project teams; ability to technically manage large scale projects.
• Strong communication and analytical skills.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Participate in definition of project scope by assessing impact on timelines, effort, quality, cost and risks based on information from early stages of project life cycle (requirements analysis, solution design).
• Identify program technical dependencies, manage cross-functional teams to drive, track and deliver all necessary IT components and data alignment to complete the delivery and testability of the E2E solution.
• Create middleware project plans with vendors from design to go-live incorporating time and resources needed and assembles these into a delivery roadmap.
• Contribute to functional designs and assure they are clear, consistent, complete and can be translated into viable technical solution conforming to architectural guidelines, standards, blueprints, etc.
• Guide and monitor detailed technical designs from vendors to ensure solutions are provided as defined in high level and functional designs.
• Perform technical vendor management related to project: day-to-day management of vendor activities, review/QA of vendor deliverables.
• Coordinate and monitor software delivery assuring quality of deliverables.

Please apply for further details.