Lead Full Stack Developer / London    

Endeavour Recruitment has a fantastic opportunity for a Lead Full Stack Developer to join our client based in Kings Cross, London. The role is Hybrid, two days a week onsite. Our client is going through a major digitalization program and upgrade.

You will have a strong track record in .NET, React, JavaScript, DevOps, Azure, Api, Agile, C# and experience as a technical lead that can lead and mentor a strong team of developers. You will be comfortable working across front-end and back-end technology stacks.

We are looking for a Lead Full Stack Developer that has proven experience leading a team of Developers as well as strong Technical experience with DevOps, C#.Net, Agile, React, SQL Server and Azure / Cloud.

We are also looking for you to have strong interpersonal skills to be able to deal with internal customers, understand their requirements, create solutions and to influence business stakeholders.

The Role:

Manage a team of Software Developers in the creation and maintenance of high-quality software within agreed project deadlines.

Work in an Agile team taking ownership of the technical delivery of changes.

Ensure that stories and tasks are appropriately sized, scoped and defined.

Drive the DevOps maturity roadmap within the team.

Ensure the smooth running and support of live systems; providing the appropriate monitoring information to stakeholders for awareness and decision making.

Contribute to the wider enterprise technology strategy and roadmap.

Ensure the team continue to produce high levels of services, expertise, development and test processes that are scalable and maintainable within expectations of the stakeholders (including adherence to SDLC)

Ensure the appropriate levels of system and support document are created and maintained.

Contribute to vendor solution due diligence.

Coach and mentor staff members through training and individual support.

Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including agile scrum ceremonies.

Participate as a member of information technology teams, contributing to software development discussions, investigating the use of new development tools, and facilitating change.

Skills and Technologies Used:

Experienced in CI/CD and enthusiastic using Azure DevOps.

Web applications development in C#, ASP .NET, MVC, Web API/RESTful API

Distributed source control i.e. GIT

JS frameworks such as ReactJS or similar and an understanding of HTML and CSS

SQL Server, NoSQL (CosmosDB) • Excellent organisational and analytical abilities.

Outstanding problem solver.

Good written and verbal communication skills.

This is an excellent opportunity with an organisation that makes a real difference in the world. For further details, please forward us a copy of your CV.

Dynamics CRM Developer

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a Dynamics CRM Developer to join our London based client. 

This is a permanent opportunity and sponsorship can be provided.

Our client uses some of the most advanced technologies to create great experiences for their customers.  We are looking for someone who is passionate in developing new software projects using the latest technologies.  Working in partnership with the business, you’ll be critical in contributing to the whole software development lifecycle, using your technical skills in the Dynamics CRM platform and Microsoft Power Platform.

Essential skills and requirements:

•              Dynamics CRM development experience as a senior.

•              Experience with Dynamics 365 online and Microsoft Power Platform

•              Experience with CRM customisation, Plugins, Custom workflow activity, REST APIs, JavaScript, C#

•              Experience with power automate and power apps

•              Knowledge with Azure Integration services (Service bus, logic App, Function App), Azure SQL Server

•              Experience with DevOps technology (GIT, Azure DevOps, CI/CD)

•              Agile working, excellent communication skills, mentoring/overseeing junior developers

•              Degree/certification in Computer Science/IT or equivalent

If you would like to join an organisation where you can bring real value and creativity, please apply within.

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.

Azure Infrastructure Analyst

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Analyst with DevOps and IaaC to join our client on an initial 4-month contract.

The Role is Outside IR35

Hybrid working, 2 days a week in Kings Cross, London

Experience of Azure DevOps and IaaC. Also experience of managing and leading project work.

Outside IR35

Standard: £370 /day

 

Job Introduction

Want to work with leading edge technologies? Keen to work with Microsoft Azure? Want to be in at the start?

The project is to improve the IT infrastructure across the business, and they are starting an exciting journey of moving from on-premise server workloads to Microsoft Azure.

You’ll have strong technical skills, helping to support the business with innovative solutions to problems, as well as support the delivery of technical solutions for the cloud and infrastructure environments. On a day to day basis, you will deliver change and support the operation of a large cloud environment along with supporting network and security infrastructure.

Main Responsibility

You will be required to maintain Cloud and infrastructure technologies and services ensuring its security, availability, and reliability on a day-to-day basis. Microsoft Azure DevOps and IaaC

You will be expected to provide day to day incident and problem management of cloud and infrastructure services, managing changes to Cloud and network infrastructure to make sure they are kept up to date.

Ensure the delivery and implementation of agreed technical solutions and support the IT disaster recovery and business continuity process including backup and recovery within agreed RTO and RPO’s.

You will be part of a new team responsible for day-to-day change management of the Cloud and Infrastructure environment.

The Ideal Candidate

We expect candidates for this role to be able to demonstrate sound cloud and infrastructure technical skills and experience and have a logical approach to problem-solving.

Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps and IaaC

You should have experience of working in complex technical environments and the ability to work methodically through any issues that arise.

You must have an ITIL Foundation as a minimum, as well as a good working knowledge of project management methodologies and how to deliver technical change within these frameworks.

In this role you may be expected to manage small pieces of project change work therefore it is desirable that you are able to demonstrate good personal management and the ability inform and engage business stakeholders.

You will be expected on occasion to engage with the wider business, suppliers, or other technical teams within the IT department, so we expect you to be a good communicator with a positive attitude towards the support you provide and the mission of our organisation.

For Further details, please don’t hesitate to apply.

Azure DevOps Engineer – Outside IR35

Endeavor Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a skilled Azure DevOps Engineer to join our client based in North London, walking distance from Kings Cross. The role is Hybrid, and you will need to be onsite 2-3 days a week.

You will need a proven track record with Azure DevOps. We are also looking for someone with excellent soft skills and a strong Communicator.

Our client works in an Agile environment and Agile experience is a plus.

You will need to be a strong team worker and have demonstrable commercial experience on provisioning and automating deployment pipelines in the following areas:

• Azure DevOps (build and release pipelines using arm templates, GIT, access control)
• Azure Infrastructure and Networking (vNet, Azure VMs, Azure Gateway)
• Azure Integration services (LogicApp, Azure Function, Service Bus)
• Azure Analytics (ADF, Synapse Workspace, PowerBI workspace, Event Hubs)
• Azure Data Lake, Azure storage, CosmosDB and Azure SQL database
• Azure security (key vault, storage APIs, RBAC role management, Azure cloud defender)
• Azure monitoring and alerts (AppInsights, Azure Monitor, Azure workbooks)

If this role is of interest, please don’t hesitate to apply.

Open Source Software Engineer required!

A global Telecomms leader is looking for an experienced Software Engineer with cloud native application development experience for a long-term project to join their team.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden or other EU countries considered depending on profile

The project is responsible for our client cloud core network contribution to open source software in cloud native area.

The selected Software engineer will have the following responsibilities:

• Cloud native related open source contribution according to stakeholders' requirement
• Develop and test high quality code, document in open source projects
• CI/CD pipeline contribution
• Design, code and document accepted in open source community
• Participate in, or lead design and code reviews with peers and stakeholders
• Collaborate with other open source teams to achieve company level target

Experience required:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Contribution in cloud native related open source software like kubernetes, containerd, ovs, dpdk, cilium etc. experience is preferred.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Linux kernel
• Telecom industry background is a bonus
• Experience with one or more programming languages including but not limited to: Go, C, Python
• Experience with cloud native application development and in production use cases
• Hands-on experience on DevOps, or GitOps related tools
• Effective communication skills like regularly achieve consensus with peers/stakeholders, and clear status updates
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
• Ability to thrive in an open source community
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
• Fluency in English

Get in touch for further details or send us your CV ASAP!

SQL Developer / Data Engineer Our financial client based on the outskirts of Southampton and Portsmouth on the south coast have an opportunity for a SQL Developer / Data Engineer to join the team. You will sit within the Data Team and work with technical and non-technical people across the whole company. What will you be doing? • Development and maintenance of data warehouse (Azure Data Factory, SQL Server) • Writing SQL views and stored procedures • Assisting with Power BI development and maintenance • Database modelling, development and optimisation • Azure DevOps • Requirements gathering from senior stakeholders We are looking for someone who: • Has a can-do attitude – able to use initiative to bring about positive change and take initiative in spotting opportunities and finding ways to solve challenges with data • Has experience in using PowerBI • Has a strong command of SQL • Thrives on problem solving and able to suggest solutions • Can communicate effectively and be comfortable communicating ideas to people at all levels across the firm • Can distil a complex problem into a workable solution and implement it • Has gumption and strives to continuously learn and implement new skills and technologies on the fly. Can take an assignment and “run with it”. • Has advanced Excel usage Bonus Points for: • Working in the financial industry • Experience with Azure, especially Azure Data Factory and Azure DevOps • Previous coding experience • API experience For further details regarding this exciting role, please don’t hesitate to apply.

Excellent contract opportunity for an experienced DevOps Engineer (Azure)  to join our leading clients growing development team who will contribute to the continued success of products and technical solutions.

You will design, develop and in some cases own the automated deployment, maintenance and monitoring of  SaaS products, using your experience to achieve this within optimal cost.

Working with Development Teams, within a Scrum framework, you will design and implement robust procedures for deployment to internal and external environments to minimise downtime and proactively address information security risks through principles of shared responsibility across the Microsoft Azure platform.

Responsibilities:

• Create, maintain and optimise infrastructure as code across Azure.
• Implement continuous integration, deployment and infrastructure / application monitoring through collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Implement processes to support the availability of appropriate pre and production environments for team members including Developers and QA Professionals.
• Support and improve monitoring tools to provide early visibility to the business of (1) Compliance to performance, availability, incident SLA’s; (2) scaling
• decision making around addition resources; (3) escalation of critical events (from security to performance  and capacity management).

Role relationships:

Internal

Architects, Development/Scrum Teams, Project Managers, Technical and Business Analysts, Product/Process Owners, and Business Users.

External

3rd party solutions and service providers.

Role accountabilities

• Build and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) solutions in an Azure environment with Jenkins at the centre and automate the code delivery pipeline with the goal of one click deployments, rollbacks, and parameterised builds.
• Create, maintain and optimise infrastructure as code across Azure.
• Identify areas for continuous improvement, through automation, documentation, process change, or working methods, in addition to business-generated requirements.
• Implement continuous integration, deployment and infrastructure / application monitoring through collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Implement processes to support the availability of appropriate pre and production environments for team members including Developers and QA Professionals.
• Support and improve monitoring tools to provide early visibility to the business of (1) Compliance to performance, availability, incident SLA’s; (2) scaling decision making around additional resources; (3) escalation of critical events (from security to performance and capacity management).
• Be a DevOps champion, subscribe to the DevOps mentality and the philosophy of automating everything.
• Work with the development team to cross-pollenate DevOps processes and ensure that new architectures are drawn up with “ease of management”, delivery, and operability in mind.
• Collaborate with the Information Security team to review risks as well as implement and maintain appropriate controls.
• Troubleshoot application and service issues or system outages while clearly communicating status updates with management and engineering teams.
• Coach and mentor staff members through training and individual support.
• Manage a junior DevOps Engineer in the creation and maintenance of high[1]quality deliverables within agreed project deadlines.

General

• Ensure you follow the financial regulations, policies and procedures.
• Ensure that you follow relevant Health and Safety policies and related
• procedures, keeping up to date with changes and taking action to maintain personal health and safety and that of others.
• The tasks and responsibilities outlined above are not exhaustive, the post holder may undertake other duties as is reasonably required

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

DevOps Co-Ordinator required for a contract position with a leading technology client based in Cork.

You will act as a Release Co-Ordinator, you will manage the process of planning, scheduling and controlling a software build through different stages and environments; including coordinating with the deployment teams to ensure successful implementation.

Our client is looking for a DevOps Co-Ordinator with excellent organisation and communication skills at all levels.

The successful DevOps Co-Ordinator will be responsible for:

 

• Preparing release builds in Java and Angular and build new projects before a release.
• Supporting multiple project teams and codebases to enable the deployment of application releases to controlled test and production environments.
• Verifying that releases are deployed correctly and monitor code migration between environments.
• Monitoring JIRA to track and maintain the status of all scheduled releases.
• Creating planned and emergency release builds and implementation plans.
• Providing team with issues and resolution steps taken during Monthly Enterprise release weekends.
• Working with Change Management to ensure Change Tickets (ServiceNow) are correct and have the required paperwork in place.
• Submitting release builds for monthly security scanning (Snyk and Checkmarx).
• Improving the process of building and deploying artefacts to test and production environments (automate builds and scans).

• Adhering to and promoting internal information security policies and procedures.
• Supporting software configuration management policies and procedures.
• Supporting intake of production support MBP JIRAs and incidents
• Working with BAs and development to provide LOEs for monthly release packages
• Working with BAs and development to improve the production support process
• Attending meetings with business to discuss the availability of resources for monthly packages

Required skills/experience:

• Experience working with the following are essential:
• Git and Git branches  
• Bamboo/Artifactory
• Unix and/or Linux platforms
• Experience working with the following are desired but not essential:
• Maven
• DevOps
• Experience in SDLC methodologies/software development/release/process and configuration management
• Experience in Java, Python and Angular programming desired but not essential

Send us your CV or get in touch for more info on this great contract opportunity!

Endeavour Recruitment has a not to be missed permanent opportunity for an experience DevOps Engineer.

Excellent career and financial prospects!

Hybrid role

Cape Town or Johannesburg based

As the DevOps Engineer you will be working in an agile environment alongside a dynamic, multi-skilled team of developers and operational staff. 

You will take full responsibility for the uptime, performance, security and deployment of the entire web and development environment.

Fast- paced environment where efficiency is a priority and multi-tasking is a requirement.

You will be instrumental in being part of the transition from a traditional hosted environment to a fully cloud hosted environment with containerisation and serverless on the horizon.

This position is demanding yet very rewarding. If you can visualise the future and drive progress to move towards it, this position is made for you!

• Focus will be on delivering solutions in Azure, AWS and GCP while automating deployment, system maintenance, and keeping the platforms monitored and stable.
• Working in collaboration with the operations team.
• Architect and manage Azure infrastructure.
• Manage AWS and GCP infrastructure.
• Manage security.
• Manage CDN services.
• Implement and oversee secure practices in hosting and the SDLC process.
• Manage backup and disaster recovery.
• Manage infrastructure and licencing budgets.
• Automate deployment, monitoring, response, backup, and recovery procedures.
• Modernize legacy infrastructure to take advantage of Azure capability.
• Collaborate with architects to deliver solutions that are both cost efficient and highly scalable.
• Continuous scalability and cost optimisation.
• Documentation of all infrastructure and procedures.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of IIS, nGinx, ElasticSearch, Redis, MySQL, MS SQL.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues.
• Be available after hours to attend to critical outages and planned changes.

Skills and competence:

 

• Proven track record of designing, implementing, and supporting high scale services.
• Ability to match business needs with smart solutions to meet scalability and costing needs.
• Ability to constructively lead others and by so doing raise team performance.
• An excellent communicator both verbally and written.
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to absorb pressure in stressful situations.
• Broad cloud knowledge, staying abreast of all tech trends.
• Flexible about working with a wide range of technologies.

 

Qualifications and experience:

• 5+ years’ experience in managing and building scalable infrastructure.
• 5+ years’ hands-on DevOps experience
• 3+ years’ experience in working in agile teams.
• Software related degree/diploma
• Preferred certifications: Microsoft Azure Architect Design / Technologies, Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions and Security Technologies
• Hands on experience with the following:
• Architectural and strategic input
• Cost calculations and budgeting for forecasts and planning
• Documentation for both knowledge sharing and auditing needs
• Azure
• Virtual Networking
• Secure practices
• Windows
• Linux
• IIS
• MS SQL
• PowerShell
• Bash
• Infrastructure as code

Desirable skills:

 

• Redis
• ElasticSearch
• AWS
• nGinx
• MySQL
• GCP
• Containerisation
• Serverless architecture

Does the above match your experience and expectations? If so, please get in touch asap. We look forward to receiving your cv!