Solutions Architect
Remote - could be requirements to attend customer sites.
£488.86/day PAYE - £650/day Umbrella (inside IR35)
6 Months contract
Must come from a Defence background

In partnership with Endeavour recruitment we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Solutions Architect
to join an international aerospace defence company.

Job Purpose:
To develop and document business requirement, apply technology standards to meet the needs of the business and ensure compatibility and governance for all supported solutions. Deliver the service to agreed standards and KPI’s with regards to advice, design and implementation support to the Solution Delivery function.

Specialisation:
Commercial and presales, Bid Support, Infrastructure, Application. Microsoft & Cisco technologies. Oracle, Azure/AWS Cloud, Cloud computing and Mobile device management.

Major Tasks and Activities:
• Delivery of bid and project solutions to ITIL governance standards.
• Work within project delivery framework with assigned project managers
• Develop and document business requirements, architecture and design.
• Assessment of existing software/hardware interfaces and augmentation to support future needs
• Providing facilitation, assistance, planning and technical support to ensure correct understanding of system requirements/design
• Defining, documenting and analyzing performance measures to ensure solutions are fit for purpose
• Identify and collate subject matter expertise in order to identify and document solutions
• Provide bid support to new business venture/acquisition
• Working with Enterprise Architect to identify need and create new standards as appropriate
• Working with solutions delivery to manage resourcing requirements
• Create and monitor processes to ensure smooth delivery

Qualification and Experience:
• Azure Certified Solution Architect
• Experienced IT professional
• Wide experience of project based technology and solution delivery
• Customer facing consultancy
• Senior Stakeholder management
• Technical qualifications e.g. MCSE, CCNA
• Wide exposure to technology

Technical & Specialist Knowledge

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of developing technical solutions for large scale complex projects
• Desired:
o Delivering secure SaaS and PaaS solutions
o Experience delivering integrations with 3rd Party services e.g. Azure or AWS
o Working with platforms on Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, and Oracle Software
o Working with environments complying with government JSP 604 Standards
o Use of Architectural Toolset for design, process & lifecycle management
o TOGAF qualification
o Prince II or other Management experience

Key Behavioural Competencies

• High capability of working on own initiative with self management of work loads
• Able to work under pressure
• Ownership skills
• Excellent Time Management Skills
• The ability to share knowledge with team members
• Comfortable working across a multi disciplined environment
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Flexible, can do attitude

Security Criteria to be achieved:
MOD SC Security clearance
Other security clearances as contracts demand
e.g. Met Policy Security clearance, CRB

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent remote,  contract opportunity for a Fluent French and English speaking Citrix System Engineer.

The Role:

• Strong experience in a production environment in Citrix and Microsoft technology (physical and/or virtual)
• Infrastructure project management experience
• Good understanding of IT security, patching, update and upgrade.
• Collaboration with provider to solve incident and problem for the customer and improve system performance.
• Industrialization and automatization is preferable
• The main required qualities are autonomy, rigor and a personal desire to move towards automation solutions and the ability to work in a team.

Essential skills:

• French and English knowledge are mandatory (speaking & writing)
• Excellent communication skills and organisational skills
• Team player
• Minimum 5-year experience is considered as an asset
• Strong knowledge in Citrix environment
• Good knowledge in Active Directory administration
• Good experience with troubleshooting Exchange issues.
• You will be a self-motivated achiever who gains satisfaction from providing excellent
• customer service
• You are potentially able to assume on call duty service with the team.

Desirable skills:

• An ITIL qualification is preferable but not essential
• Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, NetScaler, XenMobile, ShareFile Scripting PowerShell
• Windows Environment (Active Directory, SQL, Roles Windows Server)
• SCCM
• Microsoft Azure & Office 365 is preferable.
• Security (Trend Micro, ESET, Sophos) basic knowledge
• VMware, basic understanding
• Veeam or other backup tools, basic understanding
• Network understanding.

Please get in touch for further details.

Endeavour Recruitment is seeking an IS Support Administrator for their client in the Financial Sector at Wembley.  1-2 Years’ working in a similar role is essential.  If you can show Initiative, Communicate effectively, have the Ability to Learn and can demonstrate good Planning and Organisational skills, then this could be the role for you.    Salary £22K.

Key Responsibilities of the Role:

• Workstation/server OS server builds, ADS administration, Maintain successful backups, WSUS for servers/workstations
• Log & take ownership of Incidents, Problems and Changes onto the Service Desk for commercial and Production related issues.
• 1^st & 2^nd Line Support of Workstations, laptops, applications, printers and mobile devices
• Inventory control management of local and global it assets and data points
• Implement local and global projects in a timely manner
• Write, update and maintain network schematics, work instructions and procedures for the Production and Commercial network infrastructure
• Manage and Maintain the order management process & keep all related documents filed and organised

Required Skillset:

• Windows Operating Systems (XP\Windows 7\Windows 8), 2010/2012, Anti-Virus Software, MS Office 2003 – 2010, Remote Access Tools, VPN
• SharePoint, Windows OS 2003\2008 R2\2012, SAP, Citrix, XEN Server, VMWare, Symantec Backup Exec
• Active Directory (DNS, DHCP, Groups)

Applicants are invited to apply as soon as possible to be included in the shortlist.  Applicants should be aware that should an offer be made then background checks will be carried out.

ALL CVs MUST BE RESTRICTED TO 2 PAGES ONLY.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for an experienced French and or Dutch-speaking Project Manager with a technical infrastructure background to join a great team in Brussels, Belgium.

IT infrastructure projects are executed in a matrix organisation in which the technical delivery is responsible for various specialized teams across the Delivery organisation.

The Project Management will be required to coordinate and support delivery activities within the different domain.

Required skills and experience : 

• Technical skills focused on Windows Operating systems and Microsoft ecosystems (AD, Exchange, Sharepoint,) as well as virtual environments based on Citrix.
• 5 to 7 years of experience with management of IT infrastructure projects or initiatives as a Project Manager, a Technical Team Leader, Line Manager or equivalent function.
• 2 to 3 years of experience with delivery of mid to large size IT infrastructure projects of medium to high complexity.
• Excellent documentation and presentation skills.
• Strong client- and service-oriented mindset.
• Excellent knowledge of Project Management practices and methodologies (e.g. PMBOK or Prince2), planning tools, with relevant certificates and accreditations (or equivalent knowledge and experience).
• Understands the objectives related to the project from a cost, schedule, technical and quality perspective. Individual is able to make project trade-offs in complex and/or sensitive situations.
• Flexible to travel, if and as required.
• Experience in the banking industry would be advantageous.
• Websphere
• English + Dutch and/or French

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

Endeavour has an exciting career opportunity for an IS Support Administrator to join our client team, specialised in financial services, based in Wembley.

The ideal Support Administrator will have excellent communication and analytical skills, be a good team player as well as able to work independently and demonstrate initiative.

The successful applicant will have the following responsibilities:

• System Administration: Workstation/server OS server builds, ADS administration, Maintain successful backups, WSUS for servers/workstation
• Incident, Problem, Change Management: Log & take ownership of Incidents, Problems and Changes onto the Service Desk for commercial and Production related issues
• Technical Support 1^st/2^nd Support
• Asset Management
• Implement local and global project in a timely manner
• Write, update and maintain network schematics, work instructions and procedures for the Production and Commercial network infrastructure
• Manage and Maintain the order management process & keep all related documents filed and organised
• Perform other reasonable duties with the needs of the department
• EHS

Skills and experience required:

• Over 1 year commercial experience
• Strong Windows Operating Systems (XP\Windows 7\Windows 8), 2010/2012, Anti-Virus Software, MS Office 2003 – 2010,  Remote Access Tools, VPN
• Sharepoint, Windows OS 2003\2008 R2\2012, SAP, Citrix, XEN Server, VMWare, Symactec Backup Exec
• Active Directory (DNS, DHCP, Groups)
• Excellent Time Management skills
• Write, update and maintain network schematics, work instructions and procedures for the Production and Commercial network infrastructure
• Manage and Maintain the order management process & keep all related documents filed and organised
• Perform other reasonable duties with the needs of the department
• EHS

Please get in touch for further details about this excellent career 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.

Technical Consultant / Network / Systems Specialist

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a skilled Technical Consultant / Network / Systems Specialist with strong Citrix ZenApp experience to join our West Midlands based client close to Birmingham.

Our client is a market leader and Microsoft, Citrix and VMware partner.

The role requires:

• Strong networking skills
• Microsoft Stack
• Server experience
• Citrix ZenApp

Our client is based just on the outskirts of Birmingham; work will be from site as well as occasional client visits. The ideal candidate will be involved in the Managed Service Business, Assisting with their Data Centres, System Integrations and external work for clients.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for a  Service Desk Engineer for their busy client close to Gatwick Airport in the West Sussex area.   You would be trouble shooting and resolving hardware, software and networking issues either over the telephone or desk-side.

The successful candidate will be flexible by nature, enthusiastic and self-motivated.   You should have excellent problem solving skills, be a good team player, able to cope under pressure and have previous experience of working to strict SLA’s and both team/individual targets.

Preferred Candidate Experience:

•                ITIL Accreditation or working towards
•                Windows 7
•                MS Office 2010 / 2013
•                1st or 2nd Line Support Experience
•                Avaya/IPT
•                Citrix
•                Exchange 2010
•                Desktop Rollouts
•                Wireless Networking

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

Endeavour Recruitment require a Service Desk Analyst for their busy client close to Gatwick Airport in the West Sussex area.   You would be trouble shooting and resolving hardware, software and networking issues either over the telephone or desk-side.

The successful candidate will be flexible by nature, enthusiastic and self-motivated.   You should have excellent problem solving skills, be a good team player, able to cope under pressure and have previous experience of working to strict SLA’s and both team/individual targets.

The salary range for this role is £24,000 to £38,000 very much dependent upon experience.   In addition to the competitive salary our client provides an excellent benefits package including bonus schemes, healthcare plus many more.   Our client welcomes all applications and will provide training for the right candidate if necessary.

Preferred Candidate Experience:

•        ITIL Accreditation or working towards
•        Windows 7
•        MS Office 2010 / 2013
•        1^st or 2^nd Line Support Experience
•        Avaya/IPT
•        Citrix
•        Exchange 2010
•        Desktop Rollouts
•        Wireless Networking

If you don’t have all of the required experience, then please still apply as our client is keen to find the “right person” for the role regardless of experience.

Endeavour Recruitment has an opportunity for an experienced Technical Infrastructure Project Manager.  Applicants must have at least 5-10 years’ experience as a Technical Project Manager and have a recognised qualification in PRINCE2 or Agile. 

This project is initially for three months and the successful candidate will be responsible for delivering an Upgrade Project.   The ability to use MS Project is essential as is Planning, Reporting and Management skills. 

Essential Technical  Skills:

•                 Candidates must be from a Technical background
•                 Strong stakeholder management skills
•                 Experience of Data centre builds, moves & consolidations
•                 Experience in support handovers and service transition
•                 Experience on all major platforms; Networks, Distributed, Server, SQL, Voice & Data Telecoms
•                 Experience in virtualization technologies including VMWare & Citrix
•                 Experience in storage Hardware installation and implementation, EMC, VNX, Netapp.
•                 Experience with all major operating systems; MS Windows and Linux
•                 Experience in Infrastructure implementations & desktop refresh
•                 Experience in Process design & re-engineering
•                 Experience in Change & Problem tool/process implementation
•                 Experience in ITIL disciplines

If you believe this is you, then please apply for the position as soon as possible.