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IBM ClearCase / ClearQuest and Atlassian Engineer

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting contract role for an IBM ClearCase / ClearQuest and Atlassian Engineer to join our client, a global leader in Space exploration and Aeronautics.

The role is for a permanent position on a hybrid basis, 2 days a week onsite in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

The salary is £60,000 plus benefits and you will need to be a UK national as you will need to go through Security Clearance.

The engineer will administer, monitor and support a set of tools for a Development Forge. The main tools are IBM ClearCase / ClearQuest and Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence & Crowd).

Integrated into a project aimed at maintaining and improving the functionalities of the tools used for software development and software lifecycle management of one of our clients, a major actor in the space sector, your objectives will be to perform the activities below:

•              Operate platforms linked to the Development Forge.

o             Bug report and project monitoring (ClearQuest, Jira & Redmine)

o             Software configuration management (ClearCase, Bitbucket, Git, Subversion)

o             Collaborative sharing (Confluence)

o             Forge DevOps (Artifactory, Sonarqube, Jenkins, Nexus, ...)

•              Manage the installation and deployment on user workstations of a set of applications related to software development (more than 50 applications to manage)

•              Provide support to users.

•              Monitor environments (linux servers) and ensure their maintenance.

•              Manage data migration as necessary.

You must also have experience in the administration of: IBM ClearQuest and IBM ClearCase or Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence & Crowd).

Experience in managing installations and deployments of applications for users is a big asset.

A good level of knowledge of Linux environment is required to ensure the maintenance and monitoring of environments.

Knowledge of one or more of the following tools is a plus: PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Sonarqube, Jenkins, Nexus, Nginx, Iptables, Git or Subversion.

Autonomy, ability to skill up quickly in administration and deployment of new tools, rigor, ability to take decisions, analytical mind, or the ability to adapt are qualities that will allow you to meet the challenges you will encounter.

British nationality for Confidential Defense or Secret Defense access is required.

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IBM ClearCase / ClearQuest and Atlassian Engineer

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting contract role for a IBM ClearCase / ClearQuest and Atlassian Engineer to join our client, a global leader in Space exploration and Aeronautics.

The role is a contract role, initially 6 months.

The engineer will administer, monitor and support a set of tools for a Development Forge. The main tools are IBM ClearCase / ClearQuest and Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence & Crowd).

Integrated into a project aimed at maintaining and improving the functionalities of the tools used for software development and software lifecycle management of one of our clients, a major actor in the space sector, your objectives will be to perform the activities below:

  • Operate platforms linked to the Development Forge.
    • Bug report and project monitoring (ClearQuest, Jira & Redmine)
    • Software configuration management (ClearCase, Bitbucket, Git, Subversion)
    • Collaborative sharing (Confluence)
    • Forge DevOps (Artifactory, Sonarqube, Jenkins, Nexus, ...)
  • Manage the installation and deployment on user workstations of a set of applications related to software development (more than 50 applications to manage)
  • Provide support to users.
  • Monitor environments (linux servers) and ensure their maintenance.
  • Manage data migration as necessary.

You must also have experience in the administration of: IBM ClearQuest and IBM ClearCase or Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence & Crowd).

Experience in managing installations and deployments of applications for users is a big asset.

A good level of knowledge of Linux environment is required to ensure the maintenance and monitoring of environments.

Knowledge of one or more of the following tools is a plus: PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Sonarqube, Jenkins, Nexus, Nginx, Iptables, Git or Subversion.

Autonomy, ability to skill up quickly in administration and deployment of new tools, rigor, ability to take decisions, analytical mind, or the ability to adapt are qualities that will allow you to meet the challenges you will encounter.

British nationality for Confidential Defense or Secret Defense access is required.

Project location: Portsmouth

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Monday, 16 September 2019 16:29

Business Analyst / Amsterdam

An excellent long term contract opportunity for an experienced Business Analyst from a medical/pharmaceutical background with relevant qualifications in business analysis and/or business process analysis and modelling (eg Object Management Group (OMG) Certified Expert in BPM, Six Sigma Black Belt or higher, BABoK)

Essential skills/experience

  • At least 8 years of demonstrable experience of business and systems analysis in complex IT project (for organisations with more than 500 persons and in a complex architectural landscape);
  • At least 3 years of experience in supporting projects using Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365;
  • Proven experience in business transformation projects;
  • Proven experience in business and systems analysis in the context of agile software delivery, eg. KANBAN.
  • Desirable skills/experience
  • Experience of working on high visibility projects in traditional environments with strong project governance (eg highly regulated environments)
  • Experience in producing defining and documenting Product and Services Roadmaps
  • Experience with JIRA SDLC

Role specific skills, competencies & responsibilities

  • Facilitating and supporting the identification and design by business stakeholders of beneficial changes to business processes, enabled by IT solution design (IT-enabled business transformation)
  • AS-IS and TO-BE Business process modelling
  • Structured Requirements capture and analysis in the form of User Stories
  • Translating business requirements into system requirements with the level of precision and quality required for a development team
  • Management of a Product Backlog (Epics, User Stories, Bugs) in Atlassian JIRA
  • Persuasive communication to business stakeholders to achieve buy-in for IT solution designs that enable business objectives
  • Data and Entity Relationship Modelling (ER)
  • Information flow modelling
  • Excellent skills to design mock-ups and wireframes, navigation models, user journeys
  • Critical thinking and structured, analytical approach to problem solving
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

Please get in touch for further details.

 

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Thursday, 06 June 2019 09:58

Jira/Atlassian Expert

Do you have 10+ years of experience as a Jira/Atlassian expert? If so, this is the role for you! Our client, is looking for a Jira/Atlassian expert to join their team based in Geneva, Switzerland. The duration of this exciting contract role is initially for 1 month with possibility of long term extension thereafter and the all-inclusive daily rate for this role is dependent on experience.

The successful Jira/Atlassian Expert will be responsible for the following -

Our client is looking for someone with technical expertise on a JIRA / Atlassian eco system to support the implementation of the already defined service management strategy. Our clients JIRA system is already in place and is heavily used internally.

They are not looking at reviewing processes and workflows, therefore the selected candidate is expected to be on the technical side.

The successful Jira/Atlassian Expert must be able to complete the following tasks -

  • Perform an initial assessment of the existing use of JIRA application.
  • Gather needs from all teams.
  • Propose directions, improvements and solutions on various challenges currently faced.
  • Propose evolutions to reach ITSM standards and comply with Service Management strategy.

What you would need to deliver:

  • Initial review of JIRA use.
  • Document summarizing the evolutions needed, based on sections input
  • Proposed tools, modules, plugins and configurations to reach ITSM strategy.
  • Implementation roadmap.

If you want to enhance your career and join a client in Geneva, Switzerland, do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

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Friday, 03 May 2019 13:12

Linux Systems Administrator

Endeavour Recruitment has excellent opportunity to join our client a market leading, digital agency based in Central London. They are looking for a Systems Administrator with strong Linux experience, your main responsibility will be monitoring and maintaining core infrastructure systems. This is the perfect opportunity for a Linux Systems Administrator who is looking to expand their knowledge and develop new skills.

The successful Systems Administrator will be responsible for the following –

  • Assisting on global infrastructure projects
  • Recommend changes and improvements
  • Monitor and maintain core infrastructure systems
  • Assisting the development team
  • Automate manual tasks – Python, Ruby, Bash

The successful Systems Administrator must have the following experience –

  • Knowledge of Linux – Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS
  • Knowledge of Nagios
  • Knowledge of distributed monitoring
  • Knowledge of configuration management – Puppet/Forman, Ansible
  • Administration of Atlassian tools – Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket
  • Understanding of TCP/IP and Networking
  • Any experience with VMWare, vSphere, AWS, Azure, or Commvault is beneficial

Please apply ASAP to be considered for this Systems Administrator role

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Thursday, 18 April 2019 15:50

Java Developer

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a Java Developer to work for a specialist client in the Software Development sector in Cork, Ireland. The duration of this contract is for 12 months and the all-inclusive daily rate for this role is €340 euros. If you are looking for a new challenge as a java developer; please get in touch!

Role and Responsibilities:

  • This will be a technically challenging position, working on a major enterprise application.
  • The role will require constant interaction with other developers in the team and project management to develop and maintain a robust, scalable, and performant system.

Technical Profile

  • A minimum of 3 years commercial experience in back-end and front-end Java EE technologies (Java, JPA,  JSP , GWT, Spring Hibernate, Spring Boot).
  • N-Tier application design and development
  • Spring, Hibernate, JPA, REST
  • Excellent knowledge of Java EE
  • Web development (CSS, HTML, JavaScript, AngularJS 6+)
  • Web Service Development
  • Strong application process flow and problem-solving techniques
  • Ability to set and work to fixed deadlines
  • Good level of software engineering literacy and communication skills
  • Knowledge of design patterns
  • Third level IT or related qualification

Desired Skills

  • Spring MVC
  • AngularJS 6+
  • Atlassian suite (JIRA, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Crucible, Confluence)
  • GIT
  • Maven
  • Rules Engines knowledge particularly Drools
  • Docker
  • Groovy

If you are a pro-active and eager person wanting to enhance your career and join an international client in the public sector as a Java Developer do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

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Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:57

Project Manager Officer

Endeavour is looking for a skilled Project Officer to join a leading pharmaceutical organisation based in London.

The ideal candidate will be working with Project Managers, supporting project planning, monitoring and management reporting for a large software development project.

Required skills and experience

•Prince2 foundation or above is desirable

•Experience in controlling and managing a project repository of documents and other deliverable.

•Experience in facilitating project management and requirements change management processes.

•Detailed project scheduling, support, monitoring and reporting, non-financial project administration, management of document repository, management of requirements changes.

•Experience with  Microsoft Project tools for planning and tracking of project work;

•Knowledge of Atlassian, JIRA and Confluence as a delivery platform;

•Familiar with the role of configuration and document management in the context of a software Development project;

•Preparation and maintenance of detailed project schedules in MS Project, including resource planning, under the guidance of project management.

Please apply ASAP and get in touch for further details, on this excellent opportunity!

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Monday, 23 October 2017 08:22

Configuration/Release Manager

Are you a certified Configuration Manager looking for a new contract opportunity working in a fantastic team for a large European client? Please get in touch for further details.

Essential experience required:

  • Proven experience in Test environment management where environments were shared across multiple projects and maintenance activities.
  • Experience using incidents and problem management processes.
  • Working experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Tempo).
  • Experience with Document and Content management systems (Documentum).
  • Experience in multicultural and multilingual IT operations departments
  • Knowledge of ISTQB.

Role-specific skills, competencies & responsibilities :

  • Strong organizational and communication skills.
  • Support the coordination of releases and changes in the test environments by following the processes in place.
  • Improve, streamline and expand existing processes.
  • Schedule, plan and coordinate IT Operations resources to ensure effective and successful completion of releases & changes.
  • Work closely with various IT teams to ensure a timely completion of releases & changes in the test environments.
  • Follow up on incidents and problems management activities related to test environments.
  • Prepare and maintain the calendar of test releases and communicate it to IT operations teams.
  • Participate in Continual Service Improvement (CSI) ITIL lifecycle phase.
  • Produce reports on activities for management.
  • Attend meetings for communications and resolve blocking points.
  • Willingness to explain the change and release processes in place for the test environment and act as a point of contact for questions related to release & change to stakeholders.
  • Raise and follow up on identified risks.

 

We look forward to your application!

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Wednesday, 30 August 2017 09:01

Project Manager - London - 340 euros per day

Endeavour Recruitment has a fantastic contract opportunity for a skilled Project Manager, to join a large European organisation based in London, initially till the end of year, with strong possibility of extension.

The ideal candidate will be ISO or ITIL certified and have industry experience in the pharmaceutical and public sectors.

Professional qualifications        

  • ISO 20000 and/or ITIL V3 certification is desirable.
  • Certification in Project Management is mandatory (i.e. PRINCE2 (practitioner), PMI PMP, PMI CAPM)

Role Specific experience

  • Transition management in a medium sized IT organisation
  • Transitioning bespoke developments
  • Transitioning COTS implementations
  • Working with onshore/offshore teams
  • Experience dealing with multiple stakeholders and senior Project managers.
  • Schedule, plan and organize IT resources to ensure effective and successful completion of releases & changes.
  • Knowledgeable in the ITIL v3 Transition lifecycle.
  • Raise Change requests & releases and validate quality for approval by changes authorities.
  • Experience in use of Jira SDLC and Service desk will be considered an advantage
  • Working experience with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Tempo) is desirable.
  • Experience with Document and Content management systems (Documentum) is desirable.
  • Knowledge of software development methodologies: Agile, SCRUM and Object Oriented programming (Java) software development methodologies is desirable.

Role specific skills, competencies & responsibilities

  • Formal and informal communication skills in a multi-cultural, multi-department environment

Please, get in touch for further details on this exciting new contract.

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Have you had exposure to Linux and are looking for the chance to become an out-and-out Linux Systems Administrator?

If so, we have an outstanding opportunity with a market leading, global Digital Agency based in Central London.

Unsurprisingly, they work out of a really cool office, provide amazing perks, have a benefits package as long as your arm and to top it off, work with World leading brands on high profile, award winning projects.

In short, this is a great place to work!

We are looking for someone who has enough experience with Linux to feel comfortable from day one and eager to learn from and be mentored by some of the best.

The London team provide Sys Admin & DevOps support locally and often teaming up with colleagues remotely throughout EMEA and the US.

Initially assisting with the day-to-day running of the infrastructure, you will soon be recommending changes & improvements, working with Dev-Ops team and ultimately, taking lead on various projects.

You will be familiar with or had exposure to a number of the following;

  • Support - Linux (Ubuntu / Debian)
  • Automation - Puppet and Foreman
  • Monitoring – Nagios (Graylog / Cacti beneficial)
  • Virtualisation – VMware vSphere
  • Qualifications – such as Linux+/RHCSA, CCNA, VMware Certified Associate (VCA) and MCSA
  • Beneficial – Atlassian (Jira, Confluence & Bitbucket), Apache, Syslog, Active Directory (AD), Cisco ASA/Palo Alto and Commvault

This really is an amazing opportunity to take your career to the next level. Alongside the perks and the benefits, the starting salary on offer is around £40,000

If this sounds like the role that you have been waiting for, don’t delay, send us your CV today!

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