Infrastructure & Systems Specialist

Endeavour has an exciting opportunity for an Infrastructure Specialist to join a consultancy firm, based in London, providing a comprehensive array of professional services to fintech companies, online businesses and payment solution providers.

The role offers remote flexibility with presence onsite required when needed.

The successful Infrastructure Specialist will be joining our client’s IT team and be responsible for ensuring that our client’s server and hosted application needs are met and that the health of their global infrastructure is monitored and maintained. You will configure and manage dozens of platforms powering websites, mailboxes, databases, and in-house software. In addition, it’ll be your job to drive improvements, which will include the implementation of automation whether it relates to boosting the effectiveness of processes or the efficiency of internal teams.

The selected Infrastructure Specialist will have the following demonstrable skills/experience required:

• Five or more years of experience in system administration or related IT role.
• Experience administering a wide variety of *nix platforms.
• Proven experience configuring and managing systems running Debian and CentOS (or derivatives), and software such as OpenSSH, Nginx, Apache, MySQL, Postfix, and Dovecot.
• Experience with tools and products like Chef/Ansible and Vagrant/Docker.
• Automate everything mindset with a ridiculous amount of experience in automating tasks through scripting.
• Knowledge of one or more languages such as Python, Go, Perl, Java, Bash, and PHP.
• Strong familiarity with supporting high-volume eCommerce websites.
• Understanding of hardware, information security, networking concepts, and enterprise applications.
• Basic abilities in network administration: experience working with Cisco/F5 products and a solid understanding of network protocols.
• Ability to quickly analyse complex issues, come up with innovative solutions, and determine possible causes. A high aptitude for problem solving is required.
• Ability to balance conflicting concerns such as security, maintainability, and usability.
• Experience supporting remotely located end users and systems, and an understanding of the impact of technology on the business.
• Ability to work to a very high standard and tight deadlines with colleagues from across the globe.
• Autonomous, detail-oriented, highly organized, and quick to adapt to changes.
• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Willingness and ability to learn and master new tools and latest trends.
• Ability to work outside of typical business hours on occasion.
• Certifications (e.g. CompTIA Linux+, LPIC-*, RHCSA, ITIL® etc.) a huge asset.

If this sounds like you, send your CV or get in touch for further details!

Are you a European citizen looking for an exciting, long term contract opportunity in Luxemburg?

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Business Intelligence Architect to join the internal IT hosting services provider of a large European Institution.

The role is part of a team of 40 technical architects and 5 service architects under the responsibility of the Lead Architect; this team designs services for Database, Middleware, BI, web servers, that are consumed by application owners in  various policy domains.

Objectives

• Handle the design of hosting services and their update (new versions and functionalities) based on business intelligence products. This includes technical architecture and design of the service delivery pipeline, including inventory, monitoring, etc.
• Advise on design and other improvements to services
• Ensure that service documentation is kept up to date
• Qualify new version and patches through functional testing, performance testing, and security assessments
• Work to improve operational efficiency by providing automation and clear procedures to operational colleagues
• Essential Technical skills
• Installation and administration of Qlik Sense
• Automation and monitoring of IT services
• Report development in SAP BO or Qlik Sense
• Python, Perl or Shell scripting
• Desirable Technical skills
• Installation and administration of SAP BO and SAP DS
• SAS administration
• SAP HANA administration
• Web services development

Experience

• Working experience in a medium to large IT environment
• At least 5 years of experience in IT architecture in any domain

Soft skills 

• Ablity to work and communicate in a multi-cultural environment
• Service-oriented mind-set
• Ability to communicate in writing and verbally in a clear and concise manner
• Initiative, accuracy and attention to detail
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential. Any other European language is a plus

Upcoming projects         

• Improvements to Qlik services including Nprinting, Geoanalytics
• Automation of the Qlik Sense hosting service
• Possibly, introduction of new services based on R or HANA

Please get in touch for further details.

Excellent, long term contract opportunity for an experienced, French speaking Linux Administrator to join a client based in Sint- Gillis, Belgium.

Role:

• As part of a migration project from mainframes to Linux technology, you will be responsible for managing Linux servers (OS and Software) and daily operations.
• Attend to correcting existing scripts and writing again (Perl).
• You will be responsible to accompany and upgrade the current operators on the new OS.
• The knowledge of Nagios is a plus.

Skills required:

• 3  + years in Linux system management and Perl programming.
• You demonstrate adaptability, openness and a sense of service.
• You are autonomous and a team player.
• The knowledge of Nagios is a plus.
• Knowledge of French and English is required. Knowledge of Dutch is a plus

Please get in touch for further details. We look forward to hearing from you.

A growing cyber-security company is looking for a C++ Developer to join their existing highly skilled development team writing complex cyber security solution software. This is the perfect opportunity for somebody who has a passion for cyber security and for high quality coding.

2 years of C++ programming experience required.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Writing high quality code following the in-house full life cycle development methodologies and our clients chosen toolset.
• Unit, module and application testing.
• Production of documentation using industry-standard tools.
• Working within a closely-knit team.
• Mentoring of junior staff.

Required Skills and Knowledge:

• Suitability to hold UK security clearance.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Computing, scientific or mathematical degree is preferred (2^nd Class honours or over).
• Domain knowledge of, or an interest in, cyber security is preferred.
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience of programming in C++.
• The ability to work collaboratively across functions within the business and to be adaptable and flexible.
• Good communications skills are essential in both written and verbal form.

Desirable Skills and Knowledge:

• Development experience on multiple platforms such as Windows, Linux or Solaris.
• Full product life cycle development.
• Agile development methods.
• Internet standards and protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, SNMP etc.
• Virtualisation technologies such as VMWare, Docker, AWS, or Azure.
• Scripting languages such as PowerShell, shell scripts, Perl, Python, JavaScript or PHP.
• Object orientated programming languages such as C# or Java.
• Framework technologies such as React, Angular JS, NodeJS, jQuery, .NET

If you wish to be considered or you want to know more about the role then please contact us as soon as possible. These opportunities do not present themselves often.

An international organisation is looking for a Monitoring Expert to join their team.  This is the perfect opportunity for somebody who enjoys working in a multi-cultural environment and is looking to take the next step in their career. This is a 1 year contract role and the all-inclusive daily rate for this role is €445.

You will be expected:

• Implement monitoring requests required by the Service Level Manager and the Developer’s Team
• Provide support to Incident Management to diagnose and fix issues in the production environment
• Design, build, configure and test monitoring probes for a wide range of systems and applications.
• Carry out research to define systems according to needs
• Pinpoint malfunction causes and suggest remedial action and alternative solutions
• Act as an acknowledged go-between for experts from other areas
• Investigate alerts
• Add probing to new Linux nodes
• Maintain monitoring CMDB
• Monitor technologies
• Put forward solutions to improve systems performance
• Establish rules for the proper management of systems
• Define systems from a functional and technical standpoint
• Check that standards are implemented

Technical Skills Required:

• University degree with at least 5 years’ experience
• Experience in writing secure and resilient code in Perl and Java
• Experience in using Monitoring tools: CA-Nimsoft is desirable and knowledge of AXWAY/Systar product is required
• Event management based on the interface between the monitoring tool and the ITSM tool
• Event correlation rules design and optimisation experience
• Experience in a vast range of enterprise technologies such as databases, Unix, Linux, Windows, Cloud-based applications, storage and virtualisation technologies, switches and firewalls
• Good knowledge of MS/SQL
• Basic knowledge of ITIL V3 is desirable.
• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Attention to detail
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation
• Consistently meeting deadlines with high quality documentation
• Coordination of multiple procedures simultaneously
• Working with and communicating to, stakeholders at all levels of the organisation

If you wish to be considered or you want to know more about the role then please contact us as soon as possible. These opportunities do not present themselves often.

Successful E-Commerce business in the Retail & Wholesale Market is looking for a competent C# Developer.  As part of a small team you would be a key member in the success and progression of our clients’ E-commerce business.  Experience with C# and .Net necessary, as is Excel, SQL or Oracle.  Salary £35K to £40K DOE.

The benefits:

Situated in a rural location, that has appeal to many.  Enjoy the boutiques, restaurants and ‘chocolate box’ scenery while still being only 90 minutes from London and a stones throw from the M4, M5 and M40. 

• Work in a small company culture
• Be key member of the development team
• Holiday rising to 25 days
• Company Pension Scheme
• Option to work remotely
• Flexible working hours

Career Progression:

• Training in New Technologies
• Progress to Management
• Increase Technical Knowledge

About the Role:

Primary responsibilities will be to work on new projects, some of which will be ‘mission critical’.  On a day to day basis there will be maintenance of existing systems. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to learn new skills.  If solving complex problems is of interest to you then this could be the role for you.

 You will be expected:

• To produce structured code
• To take ownership of a task/project
• To Test work thoroughly and produce test plans when required
• To work with the team collaboratively
• To be creative, inspirational and proactive

Technical Skills Required:

• C#
• .Net
• SQL (SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL)
• Excel Advanced User – Pivots & Lookups

Beneficial Skills:

• WinForms
• WPF
• WebForms
• Perl
• VB6 or VBA
• AWS &/or Azure
• Sage Integration

If you are looking for the next step on the career ladder, then please do not hesitate to apply, or contact us for more information.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a Hadoop Project Manager to work in Mechelen, Belgium. The rate for this role is market related.

Required Skills and Knowledge

• Linux (Red Hat 6/7)
• Scripting (Python, Perl, bash)
• Apache Hadoop
• Apache Hive, Ranger, Atlas, Ambari, HBase, Spark, ZooKeeper, R
• IT Security Concepts (SE Linux)
• Disaster Recovery / Business continuity concepts
• Virtualization concepts
• ITIL / IT governance / Agile
• Scheduling and filetransfer products
• GIT or subversion
• Hortonworks distribution
• Kerberos / LDAP
• Public Cloud (Azure / AWS)
• Databases (Oracle, SQL Server)
• Windows Server 2012
• Webservers (Tomcat, Websphere, IIS)

Soft Skills:

• Positive mindset
• Self-motivation and team-player attitude
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to prioritize and perform research on technical problems with minimal guidance
• Ability to research and analyze server/application issues
• Ability to rapidly learn new technologies

If you believe you are the right candidate for this role then please do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

Permanent opportunity for a Junior Software Developer with some C# and .Net skills to join our client, a market leading e-commerce company. Ideally you would have at least 1 years’ experience working in a commercial environment.  The Junior Developer will be working as part of a small team, learning new skills and technologies.  At the same time, you will be involved in all aspects of full stack development.  You will be a key member in the success and progression of the companies Development department and e-commerce site.  The role is based just north of Swindon, this role is commutable from Gloucester, Cheltenham, Oxford, Cirencester.   Salary £35K to £42K DOE.

Primary responsibilities will be working on new projects, some of which will be ‘mission critical’. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to learn new skills.  If solving complex problems is of interest to you then this could be the role for you.

Do you have some experience in the following technologies?

• C#
• .Net
• WinForms
• WPF
• WebForms
• MS SQL Server
• T-SQL
• Excel Advanced User

Beneficial Skills:

• Perl
• VB6/VB.Net
• AWS
• Azure
• Accounting System Integration

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

Permanent opportunity for a C# Developer in the e-commerce industry.  As part of a small team you would be a key member in the success and progression of our clients’ e-commerce site.  Commutable from Gloucester, Cheltenham, Oxford, Cirencester or Swindon.   Salary £35K to £40K DOE.

Primary responsibilities will be working on new projects, some of which will be ‘mission critical’.  On a day to day basis there will be maintenance of existing systems. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to learn new skills.  If solving complex problems is of interest to you then this could be the role for you.

Technical Skills Required:

• C#
• .Net
• WinForms
• WPF
• WebForms
• MS SQL Server
• T-SQL
• Excel Advanced User

Beneficial Skills:

• Perl
• VB6/VB.Net
• AWS
• Azure
• Accounting System Integration

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

Role and Responsibilities

• The Software Engineer will be part of an existing highly skilled development team, reporting directly to the Lead Developer, writing complex security solution software. The following are key responsibilities:
• Writing high quality code following in-house full life cycle development methodologies and using our chosen toolset
• Being able to time manage across multiple concurrent tasks with different priorities and different deadlines
• To work within a closely knit team
• Be proactive in looking for ways to improve all aspects of the products we produce whether that’s the code, tests or documentation

Skills/Qualifications

• Suitability to hold UK security clearance is essential
• Computing, scientific or mathematical degree is preferred
• Recent experience of full life-cycle software development is essential
• Domain knowledge of application security is preferred
• The ability to work collaboratively across functions within the business and to have sufficient flexibility to adapt to changing business priorities is essential
• Good communications skills are essential in both written and verbal form

Requirements

• Strong programming skills
• Good understanding of UNIX
• Network programming
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Full product life cycle development knowledge
• Desirable Experience
• Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server
• Deep understanding of Internet standards and protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, SNMP, syslog, NTP
• Virtualisation technologies such as VMWare, Docker, AWS, Azure
• Scripting languages such as PowerShell, shell scripts, Perl, Python, JavaScript, PHP
• Object orientated programming languages such as C++, C#, JAVA
• Development experience on different operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Solaris