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Tuesday, 22 August 2023 15:38

Lead DevOps Engineer

Are you looking for your next career opportunity?

A Lead DevOps Engineer is required to join our reputable client’s growing Software Engineering Team, based in central London. Working in partnership with the business, you’ll be critical in contributing to the whole software development lifecycle, using your technical skills in microservices, ‘DevOps’ and reusable Web Components. 

As an ideal Lead Devops Engineer, you will have a strong understanding of DevOps principals as well as an in-depth knowledge of security best practice with the cloud platform. You will have thorough experience of cloud technologies (preferably Azure Platform) and experience of release and deployment tools.

The successful Lead Devops Engineer will also have substantial experience of scripting languages (PowerShell, Python) and experience of Azure automation using arm templates.

Your role:

  • Implement secure and scalable cloud platforms to support software development.
  • Maintain and automate CI/CD pipelines for applications and systems.
  • Keep the cloud platform secure and optimised.
  • Assist the Head of Software Engineering in planning, guidance and direction to the team. 
  • Assume a high level of ownership of all work developed by members of the team. 
  • Guide, coach, and mentor other members of the team.

Skills and experience required:

  • Experience of cloud technologies preferably Azure Platform
  • Experience of release and deployment tools ideally using Azure DevOps
  • Experience of micro services and containerisation architecture
  • Substantial experience of scripting languages such as PowerShell scripts, YAML, Python
  • Experience of azure automation using arm templates
  • Strong networking knowledge (VNet, CDN, DNS, LB, gateways)
  • Experience of Linux, Windows Server, Azure SQL Server, Azure Storage, CosmosDB
  • Experience in cloud security management (IAM, Security Groups, certificates & key management)
  • Experience with logging, monitoring and alerting platforms such as app Insights
  • Distributed source control i.e. GIT
  • Experience of working within an Agile and Scrum team

Please send us a copy of your CV or get in touch for more info ASAP!

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Friday, 14 April 2023 12:13

Cloud Systems Administrator

Endeavour has an exciting opportunity for a Cloud Systems Administrator to join an Energy industry sector client based in Leicestershire, initially for a 3 months contract, with renewals after that period.

The role is 100% remote outside IR35  – working in UK

Our client is looking for a Cloud Systems Administrator to plan for, deploy, and administer their cloud-based infrastructure. Together with their IT department, renewable energy engineers, and other stakeholders, you will be responsible for the deployment, monitoring, and optimisation of their cloud-based systems, as well as the protection and adherence of those systems.

Your role:

  • Create and deploy cloud-based solutions to sustain solar, wind, and hydroelectric power plants, making sure they run smoothly and effectively.
  • Conceive, develop, and implement cloud-based data collecting and analysis systems for monitoring and optimising the performance of renewable energy assets, such as energy output, weather, and equipment health, in real time.
  • Integrate cloud-based tools and services, such as remote monitoring and control of renewable energy assets, predictive maintenance, and energy forecasting, into renewable energy systems in collaboration with renewable energy engineers.
  • Implementing best practices for data protection, access control, and regulatory compliance, such GDPR, NERC CIP, will help us keep our renewable energy systems running smoothly and securely in the cloud.
  • Using diagnostic tools and monitoring data, locate and fix problems with cloud-based renewable energy systems including slowdowns in performance or corrupted data.
  • Incorporate regular backups, replication, and testing of disaster recovery strategies into our cloud-based renewable energy systems.
  • Increase the efficiency and efficacy of our renewable energy systems by implementing the newest trends and technology in cloud computing, renewable energy, and related disciplines and provide recommendations for adopting new technologies and best practices.

Required skills and experience:

  • Proficiency in cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including cloud infrastructure management, virtualization, networking, and storage.
  • Experience with cloud-based data collection and analysis tools, such as IoT platforms, data lakes, and big data analytics frameworks, for monitoring and optimizing renewable energy systems.
  • Strong scripting and automation skills using languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash, for automating cloud operations, system configuration, and deployment processes.
  • Knowledge of cloud security best practices, such as identity and access management (IAM), encryption, auditing, and compliance, and experience in implementing security measures for cloud-based systems.
  • Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools, such as CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (e.g., Git), and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible), for managing cloud-based infrastructure and applications.
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in a timely and efficient manner.
  • Strong understanding of cloud computing concepts, technologies, and best practices
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Apply and send us your CV ASAP to be considered for this excellent opportunity!

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Tuesday, 25 January 2022 13:41

Desktop Support representative

Contract opportunity for a Desktop Support profile to start ASAP.

You will be joining a growing financial sector business IT team.

This will be a hybrid remote role.

For the right Desktop Support candidate, there will be the opportunity to become a permanent member of our client’s IT team.

As a Desktop Support representative, you will be responsible for providing IT application

and infrastructure support, as well as developing business solutions that help bring about

operational efficiencies and improvements to our client’s technology capabilities. You will report

to the Head of IT within a team of four other members. Day-to-day the role will largely involve

working with internal users as well as working closely with our third-party IT suppliers.

The successful Desktop Support profile will be:

  • Customer focused – able to put themselves into the end users’ shoes to understand their
  • Able to build and maintain strong relationships.
  • A self-starter with a can-do attitude – able to use initiative to bring about positive change,

especially in ambiguous situations.

  • Well organised and able to manage a competing work volume.
  • Logically thinking – able to plan out the sequence of steps to understand and resolve a
  • Driven to progress in their career and takes responsibility for their development.
  • Is not afraid to ask questions and challenge the status quo.
  • Willing to travel between offices when required (Solent, Bournemouth, and London) on
  • ccasions (20% travel)

Required skills/knowledge:

  • Excellent communication skills and comfortable working with the end users of technology
  • A strong demonstrable desire to build a career in IT
  • At least a 2:1 university degree in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics
  • (STEM) subject that contained modules with programming exposure.

Desirable experience:

  • Experience of working in a financial services operational department (ideally within a
  • wealth management context)
  • Evidence of improving a process using technology solutions
  • Evidence of providing customer support, either in a technical or non-technical capacity
  • Knowledge and experience of using the Microsoft Azure, PowerApps, and Power Automate
  • Technical background with evidence of programming experience in an object orientated or
  • scripting programming language (C#, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, Python, R)
  • Advanced Excel skills
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Monday, 17 January 2022 11:13

Infrastructure and System specialist

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!

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Thursday, 17 June 2021 09:36

Documentum Architect

Excellent long term contract opportunity for a Documentum Architect to join a European Institution working in Luxembourg City on a large-scale IT environment.

The role is part of a team of  technical architects and 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.

Improve the Documentum hosting service according to our internal customer evolving needs

Produce designs, automation and user guides to allow a scalable usage of our hosting services

Coordinate the technical integration with the IT tooling (Customer portal, CMDB, automation, chargeback, etc.)

Work to improve operational efficiency by providing automation and contribute to updating procedures for the operational teams

Required skills and experience:

  • Good experience with Documentum installation, upgrades, security patching
  • Good knowledge of Content Servers and xPlore
  • Good knowledge of authentication integration with Documentum
  • At ease with the Linux command-line
  • Experience with scripting and automation
  • Experience with WebLogic or other applications servers
  • Knowledge of IP networks fundamental, load-balancing, prowying
  • Ability 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
  • Working experience in a medium to large IT environment is a plus
  • 3 years of experience with Documentum administration
  • 5 years of experience in IT in the role of an architect or other design position

Please don’t hesitate to apply for the excellent long term contract opportunity.

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Thursday, 30 November 2017 15:09

Senior Specialist – Modem Algorithm Design

This is an opportunity for a specialist in Modem Algorithm Design to join the Research and Development team of our client, a large telecommunications company, in Sweden. You will be responsible for development of physical layer algorithms related to 5G. 10 years’ experience in wireless baseband algorithm development, and a PhD in Wireless Communications is required. This is a 12-month contract and our client will pay extremely competitive rates.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Physical layer algorithms development related to 5G
  • Implementation of new LTE-A features
  • Troubleshooting
  • Perform extensive computer simulations

Requirements:

  • PhD in Wireless Communication or relevant subject
  • 10 years’ experience in wireless baseband algorithm development
  • Background in wireless communications and signal processing
  • Knowledge and understanding of PHY and MAC layers
  • Familiar with LTE and its evolutions
  • Matlab
  • C++
  • Familiar with scripting

 

 

Applicants are invited to apply as soon as possible to be included in the shortlist.  Please confirm your availability and rate required in Euros for this Contract position.

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Thursday, 16 November 2017 16:02

Analyst/Developer - Data integration

Endeavour is looking for an experienced Analyst/developer to join one of our large Telecoms client, based in Belgium, initially for a 6 months contract.

The ideal Analyst/Developer will have Data integration experience and be Dutch or French speaking, as well as an excellent English communicator. The analyst/developer is a key contact person for internal clients and takes care of optimal communication and collaboration with them and all other teams needed, in and outside our client’s domain.

The successful candidate will work closely with squad colleagues and be responsible for the analysis, development, testing and follow up of the implementation of project deliverables with a focus on quality:

  • Load and integrate data from multitude of applications, service platforms and networks in the Enterprise Data Warehouse/Data Lake via ETL solutions
  • Creating datamarts and/or reports/dashboards
  • Contribute to the organization and optimization of team processes.
  • Ensure that your (and your colleagues’) solutions are matching the requirements regarding security (retail/wholesale, legal, …) and confidentiality, defined by Legal- and Security- teams and by our Datawarehouse Data Security Officer (DSO).
  • Make sure that solutions make optimal use of available computer capacity (CPU, I/O, storage, memory), available on platforms (Teradata, Hadoop, Oracle) and guarantee optimal performance.

Required skills and experience:

As we are looking for analyst/developers in 3 technological areas you possess several of the technical skills of 1 or more of the following skillsets:

  • Data Integration
  • Profound knowledge of key concepts of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and entity-relationship (E-R)-, Third Normal Form (3NF)- and dimensional modeling (knowledge on RDA helps)
  • Good knowledge on Hadoop and related technologies (Hortonworks Hadoop stack, HBase, MapReduce, Storm, Hive, Kafka, Scala, Spark ...)
  • Knowledge and experience in:
  • Scripting (Perl, Java, Python, R, ...)
  • NoSQL principles and systems: document stores, graph databases, KVP stores
  • Parallel data processing (MPP) and tuning
  • Statistical Modeling
  • BI tools (Informatica, MicroStrategy), databases (Teradata, Oracle)

Modeling tools (RDA)

  • Advanced to expert knowledge of SQL (Teradata)
  • Familiar with shell scripting in Unix/Linux environments
  • Basic knowledge of Hadoop and related technologies (Hortonworks Hadoop stack, HBase, MapReduce, Storm, Hive, Kafka, Scala, Spark )
  • Basic knowledge of software deployment/versioning tools (GIT, Jenkins) and of collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence)

Please apply for further details on the excellent contract opportunity!

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Thursday, 02 November 2017 09:27

Software Tester

Endeavour Recruitment has a new permanent opportunity for a commercially aware Software tester.

The successful candidate should come from a testing background and have at least five years software testing experience. 

The self-motivated Software Tester should possess a good work ethic with proven analytical skills and have strong oral and written communications skills.

You should be confident, organised, with good analytical and excellent attention to detail.

This role is based in North London and the salary will be in £25k p/a.

 

Key requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science
  • Ability to plan, design and conduct presentations to small or large audiences
  • Knowledge of working in financial services or the printing industry would be advantageous.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Testing in a multi-platform environment – using both Windows and Web based applications
  • Testing of software in a QA/QC environment as well as pre-production and production environments

 

Technical Skills:

  • Working in an Agile environment
  • Hands on experience of SCRUM
  • Capability of simple C# development
  • Knowledge and experience with structured test methodologies
  • Test analysis, design, plans, scenarios and scripting
  • Knowledge of automated test tools.

 

Applicants are invited to apply as soon as possible to be included in the shortlist.

 

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Our client is currently recruiting for a SQL Administrator to join a large European Organisation on a short term contract to start asap.

Duties and required skills :

•             6 years of professional experience within large-scale Data Centre environments.

•             Extensive experience relating to the technical aspects and concepts in relation to SQL Server and its environment.

•             Solid understanding of the operational organisation of industrialised service delivery.

•             Ability to write scripts in administrative language to automate operations.

•             Day-to-day infrastructure operations.

•             Incidents resolution and problems identification.

•             Infrastructure monitoring, availability testing and reporting.

•             Implement standard changes and service requests.

•             Good communication and presentation skills.

•             Able to work autonomously and be flexible with regards to working hours.

•             Service and customer oriented.

•             Documentation management.

•             On-call service.

Technical Knowledge:

•             Microsoft SQL 2005, 2008, 2012 and 2016 on Windows platform.

•             Scripting skills (PowerShell for Microsoft SQL).

•             Experience with SQL/T-SQL, procedures, functions.

•             Experience with MS-SQL Failover Clustering.

•             SQL Server performance tuning.

•             Experience in Windows Server 2008/2012 installations and performance tuning.

•             Experience in Active Directory.

•             Familiar with Storage backend technologies.

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

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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
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