Excellent 6 month contract opportunity to join a leading telecommunications company based in Belgium. English speaking role.

You will be responsible for collecting, analysing and storing large data sets through state-of-the-art big data capabilities and technologies.

As a Big Data Engineer you’ll be in a driving seat to guide strategic decision-making within our company, make a difference to the customer’s entertainment, communication and future digital experiences, and drive new business development.

In your role you will be working closely together with Big Data architecture to set strategic direction for client big data.

Big Data Technology: You constantly maintain an overview of the Big Data landscape, allowing yourself to advise on new technologies where needed. We need someone that is has in depth expertise with regards to Scala, Spark, Structured Streaming and Kafka Streams.

• Clear Communication: You can effectively and diplomatically communicate ideas to your target audience, i.e. from architect to C-level executive.
• Pragmatic: You are pragmatic in your approach. You use the right techniques to provide the needed quality and detail while avoiding complex solutions.
• Project management: You are able to manage large projects autonomously and monitor scope, time, quality and budget at all times. You can take decisions and solve problems independently within budget of a project and take end to end ownership.
• Team player: You should put the team’s objectives above yours and take the initiative to get things done without waiting to be asked.
• Agile: You have experience with agile ways of working and can take the lead in a project based on Kanban principles.
• Coaching: You can easily share your knowledge with other team members and can take up a coaching role when necessary.

Please get in touch for further details.

Endeavour Recruitment has a unique opportunity for two 3GPP Standardisation Delegates to join the R&D Team of a multinational telecoms company.  You will be researching and standardising innovative concepts, researching next generation packet core network architecture, and identifying new trends and requirements related to 5G.   This is a contract position based in Stockholm, located close to the Airport, and our client will pay extremely competitive rates.

Desired Experience –

• PhD in Telecommunications or Computer Science
• Experience working in R&D
• Experience working in the Wireless Communication or Telecoms industry
• Extensive knowledge of packet core networks
• Knowledge in emerging telecoms technologies such as V2X or 5G Network Slicing
• Knowledge in Machine Learning or AI is beneficial

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

This is an opportunity for an expert in 5G Core Network Architecture to join the Research and Development team of our client, a large telecommunications company, in Sweden. You will be responsible for researching next generation packet core network architecture. This is initially a 6-month contract and our client will pay extremely competitive rates.

Responsibilities:

• Researching next generation packet core network architecture
• Identifying key requirements for 5G industry core networks
• Participating in technical planning work
• Identifying new trends and requirements related to the 5G industry

Requirements:

• PhD in Telecommunications, Computer Science, or similar
• 5 years’ experience in the wireless communication industry doing R&D
• Extensive knowledge of packet core networks
• Knowledge of V2X, 5G Network Slicing, Machine Learning
• Knowledge of 3GPP, ETSI, NGMN, or 5G PPP, would be beneficial

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.

Endeavour is looking for an Architect/Analyst for Customer communications and Document management. You will be joining a large, reputable client, based in Brussels, initially for a 3 months contract.

 Your role:

The goal of customer communication and document management is to provide the capability of centrally manage the design and the processing of any communication to be sent externally through any channel (mail, SMS, letter, mobile, social media,…).

The successful Architect/Analyst will work in close collaboration with our domain experts, technical teams and internal business to review our current capability, define a future-oriented end to end solution architecture and elaborate the technical roadmap.

Your main responsibilities will include the following tasks:

• Understand, analyse and challenge the business needs

• Understand, analyse and challenge the technical challenges linked to a large organisation

• Elaborate the end to end Solution Architecture

• Prospect the market for a solution fitting our needs (e.g. through an RFi)

• Elaborate the roadmap for implementation, including budget and timing

• Provide analysis for projects/initiatives on current solution

• Support the improvement plan on current solution

 Required skills and experience:

• Engineer in Telecommunications / IT or equivalent by experience

• Knowledge of Customer communication and Document management area

• Be acquainted with the application architecture in the BSS/OSS

• Strong analytical skills

• Acquainted to operational constraints in a large environment

• Experience in RFx is an asset

• Open minded and creative

• Result oriented

• Excellent communication skills

• Able to negotiate in order to resolve conflicts and drive to decisions

• Very good written and verbal knowledge of French, Dutch and English is needed

Please apply for further details on this excellent contract opportunity!

Endeavour Recruitment has a new opportunity for an experienced Business Development Manager.  Responsible for all partner relationships and commercial discussions you would represent the business across the globe so the availability to travel is essential. This role is based in Dublin with our client in the technology / telecoms arena.  Our client provides a generous salary and benefits package.  Please apply for more information.

As Business Development Manager, you would be expected to identify, develop and manage all new strategic partnerships as well as driving profit growth and becoming a market expert taking our clients business to the next level.

Experience & Skills:

• MBA or Masters’ Degree in a Business related subject
• 5+ years of successful B2B sales
• Account management experience
• Evidence of meeting annual revenue targets
• Working knowledge in Mobile Software Content/Technology/Business
• Working experience in Consulting or Professional Services
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Additional language skills extremely advantageous
• Naturally skilled at relationship building and negotiating
• Availability for international travel without restriction

Please note our client cannot offer sponsorship for this role.

Applicants from eligible candidates are invited to apply as soon as possible in order to be included in the shortlist.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for a Senior Cyber Security System Engineer to join a large telecommunications company based in Brussels.

The ideal candidate will be part of the IT/Cyber Security team accountable for the engineering and operational support of the related applications and services to secure the telecom system and IT networks.

Responsibilities:

• The engineering activities related to automation, application/system monitoring and integration to the client’s SIEM for security monitoring.
• The engineering activities of a subset of the client’s IT/Cyber Security applications used to prevent and detect cyber security breaches related to the IT and telecom networks.

Role:

Automation & application / system monitoring engineering:

• Assessment and implementation of the possible automation solutions to ease system integration and self-repair processes.
• Assessing and performing the required monitoring configuration to ensure efficient application and system monitoring.
• Provide support to the application engineers for application integrations and automation.
• Produce and keep up to date with  technical and operational documentation.

Security monitoring engineering:

• Participating in the assessment and implementation of the solutions to enable data integration into our client’s SIEM (Hp ArcSight).

Security engineering:

• Performing the integration of security solutions in the different environments with the support of the vendor, engineer and operational team.
• Attending to the testing/validation of the solution (resolution of technical issues discovered during testing, participation/support the ‘non-functional requirements’ validation).

Providing support to the operational team in case of major incident or planned intervention when required, this may include outside business hours.

Roadmap / life cycle:

• Involved with the  technical roadmap/capacity planning/patching strategy of solutions with the collaboration of the vendor, domain architect, application engineers and operational team.

Required skills / experience :

• Bachelor/Master in computer sciences or equivalent by experience.
• 5 - 10 years of experience with IT application support (engineering or operations).
• Strong interest in IT/Cyber security threads and risks.

Technical knowledge/experience:

Essential:

• Knowledge and experience to setup and configure OS, application, network component monitoring (logs, SMNP traps,…) based on network element/fault element manager such like Nagios, groundwork (preference) including graphical representations for service monitoring (Grafana as example).
• Knowledge and experience to create ‘complex’ regular expressions and data manipulation based on :

1. Scripting language (Bash, Perl, Pytho).
2. SQL queries

• Knowledge and experience with implementation/configuration of solutions to ease massive deployment (with specific configuration per server) and to ensure automated heath repair process based on products such like SaltStack, Puppet, Chef.
• General knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems and databases administration.
• Good all round knowledge of the networking, routing protocols, firewalls in order to understand, align with the dedicated network teams.

Desirable:

• Knowledge and experience with setup/configuration of intrusion prevention/detection solutions ie: Snort, Suricata, Sourcefire.
• Knowledge and experience of integration with security information and event management (preference for HP Arcsight).

Knowledge on security applications (setup/configuration/integration within network and with SIEM):

• Endpoint monitoring/forensics.
• Security netflow analysis solution (Lancope StealthWatch as example).
• Security big data analytics (SOLR, Kafka, Hadoop platform, Syslog-ng).
• Sandboxing (integration bro-suricata, api to third party).
• Vulnerability Management, Behavioural Monitoring.

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

Endeavour Recruitment is seeking a Chief NFV SDN Operation Solution Planner for a Technology Giant based in Dublin.  This is a great opportunity to join a fast growing business and be instrumental in influencing the way forward within the industry.

The candidate we are seeking should have excellent judgment, persistently high standards, have their finger on the pulse at all times, have passion and conviction and can inspire the same in others, think big and get results.  Comfortable engaging with C Level Execs, you must be an excellent communicator in English, both written and spoken, and be prepared for international business trips.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in a leadership role/designing solutions using Agile development models, preferably for service provider operations
• A Masters or First Degree in Computer Science
• MBA
• Minimum of 2 years Cloud experience, specifically with the main carriers
• Have good understanding of Customer Requirements, the competitive landscape
• Good knowledge in the Internet Options DevOps field.

Desired Experience:

• Familiarity with new business models and cloud.
• Prior experience of main carrier telecom operations.
• In-depth understanding of new services in Cloud, Data Centre and SME.
• Working experience in Operations, Cloud or Internet vendors.
• Experience engaging customers on these solution areas.

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

Virtualization Reliability Expert – Scandinavia

We are currently looking for a Virtualization Reliability Expert who will play an important role in research and developing new RAS (Reliability，Availability，Serviceability） technologies, solutions and prototype for the NFV (Network Function Virtualization) and SDN (Software Defined Networking) networks, and the possible next generation networks.

Responsibilities:

• Research new RAS technologies and solutions for meeting the requirements and challenges in NFV and SDN field. Design competitive RAS architecture and RAS features for NFV/SDN systems;
• Responsible for idea initiation, prototype design and verification of RAS architecture and features for VNF/SDN systems
• Involve in advance technologies research, industry benchmarking and customer analysis;

 Requirements:

• Master or higher degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications or Mathematics
• More than 10 years IT or CT industry R&D experience;
• Rich knowledge and extensive hands-on experience of virtualization systems developing;
• Experience in route protocol, such as BGP, OSPF, IS-IS and TCP/IP, will be preferred.
• Rich experience on Linux/C/Java will be preferred;
• Hands-on experience on HA (High availability) / FT (Fault Tolerance) of distributed  system is preferred
• Hands-on SDN development and OpenFlow protocol are preferred
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and work skills within a multi-cultural team;

Please apply for further details on this long term contract based in Stockholm, Sweden.

RAS Software Expert urgently required for an exciting project in the aerospace industry. The appointed contractor will play an important role in the research and design software architecture with very high RAS (Reliability，Availability，Serviceability）level, RAS technologies, features and solutions for the NFV (Network Function Virtualization), SDN (Software Defined Networking) and 5G networks.

Responsibilities:

• Research in applying architecture and design technologies and lifecycle process management from aerospace industry as best practice for telecom industry to guide the delivery of telecom products with aviation-grade RAS.
• Research and design software architecture with very high RAS level, RAS technologies, features and solutions for meeting the RAS requirements and challenges in systems and networks.
• Propose dependability strategy and roadmap planning for software platform and products.
• Participate in the related international standards organizations and forums.

Requirements:

• Master or higher degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering related, Mathematics or Telecommunications;
• 10 years + R&D experience in aerospace industry;
• 10 years + software architecture or software sub-system R&D experience in the aerospace industry;
• RAS  knowledge in aerospace industry is preferred;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work in a multi-culture team environment;

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