LA International Computer Consultants Ltd
City, London
Required: Wintel engineer - Active DV Clearance Required Location: Full time on site in Basingstoke or London Duration: 6 months + Clearance required: DV Level IR35 status: Inside IR35 Required Experience with: * Microsoft Windows Server 2012/2016 or later/Linux knowledge (Nice to have) * Thin Client Solutions * Microsoft HyperV virtualization/VMware Vsphere 6+/Horizon View * Active Directory & Group Policy management, design and troubleshooting * Knowledge of PKI, Certificates * Good understanding of networking technologies that support the infrastructure including Vmware NSX * Storage systems technology experience (SAN/NAS) * Strong PowerShell and other Scripting experience * Microsoft SCCM/MECM management, troubleshooting * Documentation creation * Knowledge of VEEM & DPM backup solution * Knowledge of Office 365 products * SQL Mirroring (Skype and SharePoint backends) * Windows Failover Clustering * Microsoft KMS (Key Management Services) Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 18 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.
23/04/2024
Project-based
Required: Wintel engineer - Active DV Clearance Required Location: Full time on site in Basingstoke or London Duration: 6 months + Clearance required: DV Level IR35 status: Inside IR35 Required Experience with: * Microsoft Windows Server 2012/2016 or later/Linux knowledge (Nice to have) * Thin Client Solutions * Microsoft HyperV virtualization/VMware Vsphere 6+/Horizon View * Active Directory & Group Policy management, design and troubleshooting * Knowledge of PKI, Certificates * Good understanding of networking technologies that support the infrastructure including Vmware NSX * Storage systems technology experience (SAN/NAS) * Strong PowerShell and other Scripting experience * Microsoft SCCM/MECM management, troubleshooting * Documentation creation * Knowledge of VEEM & DPM backup solution * Knowledge of Office 365 products * SQL Mirroring (Skype and SharePoint backends) * Windows Failover Clustering * Microsoft KMS (Key Management Services) Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 18 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.
Field Engineer - 2nd/3rd Line - Milton Keynes Onsite 5 days per week - £35,000 + £2,600 car allowance 2nd/3rd Line Field Engineer require for a leading client based in Milton Keynes. My client is currently seeking a Network Field Engineer to come on board to provide support for Microsoft environments across various industries, including legal, real estate, logistics, manufacturing, and more. The role involves regular fieldwork to assist ongoing client projects, with the office-to-field-based ratio varying depending on client needs. Responsibilities include managing installations, maintenance, and troubleshooting of Windows 10/11 OS on laptops and desktops. Key skills: * Previous 2nd Line experience * Experience working with Routers, Switches and wireless access points * Manage responsibilities associated with installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Windows 10/11 OS on laptops and desktops. * Conduct administration tasks for server operating systems. * Collaborate with RDS, Citrix, and Hyper-V technologies. * Offer assistance for smartphones (Android & iOS), tablets (Android & iOS), printers, scanners, copiers, and other hardware devices. * Administer Office 365, including tasks like user account creations, Azure AD, Exchange, etc. * Oversee various Microsoft products such as Office, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and MFA. Field service deliverables, * Deploying POS (Point of Sales) infrastructures in catering environments for large-scale corporate clients, offering support to the POS provider as needed. * Setting up DSL & 4G-LTE Routers, Switches, WiFi Access Points, PoE injectors, and patching communication cabinets. * Tackling issues with existing POS (Point of Sales) infrastructures. * Troubleshooting DSL & 4G-LTE Routers, Switches, WiFi Access Points, and patching communication cabinets. Conducting pre-installation site audits to collect data on demarcation points, cellular data coverage testing, communication room inspections, IT hardware installation locations, and cabling needs. * Generating detailed client reports. * Participating in project meetings via Teams. Interested? Please submit your updated CV to Lewis Rushton at Crimson for immediate consideration. Not interested? Do you know someone who might be a perfect fit for this role? Refer a friend and earn £250 worth of vouchers! Crimson is acting as an employment agency regarding this vacancy
23/04/2024
Full time
Field Engineer - 2nd/3rd Line - Milton Keynes Onsite 5 days per week - £35,000 + £2,600 car allowance 2nd/3rd Line Field Engineer require for a leading client based in Milton Keynes. My client is currently seeking a Network Field Engineer to come on board to provide support for Microsoft environments across various industries, including legal, real estate, logistics, manufacturing, and more. The role involves regular fieldwork to assist ongoing client projects, with the office-to-field-based ratio varying depending on client needs. Responsibilities include managing installations, maintenance, and troubleshooting of Windows 10/11 OS on laptops and desktops. Key skills: * Previous 2nd Line experience * Experience working with Routers, Switches and wireless access points * Manage responsibilities associated with installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Windows 10/11 OS on laptops and desktops. * Conduct administration tasks for server operating systems. * Collaborate with RDS, Citrix, and Hyper-V technologies. * Offer assistance for smartphones (Android & iOS), tablets (Android & iOS), printers, scanners, copiers, and other hardware devices. * Administer Office 365, including tasks like user account creations, Azure AD, Exchange, etc. * Oversee various Microsoft products such as Office, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and MFA. Field service deliverables, * Deploying POS (Point of Sales) infrastructures in catering environments for large-scale corporate clients, offering support to the POS provider as needed. * Setting up DSL & 4G-LTE Routers, Switches, WiFi Access Points, PoE injectors, and patching communication cabinets. * Tackling issues with existing POS (Point of Sales) infrastructures. * Troubleshooting DSL & 4G-LTE Routers, Switches, WiFi Access Points, and patching communication cabinets. Conducting pre-installation site audits to collect data on demarcation points, cellular data coverage testing, communication room inspections, IT hardware installation locations, and cabling needs. * Generating detailed client reports. * Participating in project meetings via Teams. Interested? Please submit your updated CV to Lewis Rushton at Crimson for immediate consideration. Not interested? Do you know someone who might be a perfect fit for this role? Refer a friend and earn £250 worth of vouchers! Crimson is acting as an employment agency regarding this vacancy
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Southampton, Hampshire
We are looking for an experienced IT Support Engineer who will help support internal systems around telephony, Microsoft 360, and predominantly Windows Desktops. The company deliver software services to a number of retailers with the top level expectations from the service desk team to help keep faults and problems to a minimal level. Responsibilities Provide an IT help desk service for the company to obtain assistance with their IT issues. Be able to identify areas for improvement. Supporting performance and other IT related issues when they are called into the support desk team. Answer telephone, web and email inquiries to faults and problems relating to the customers IT needs. Knowledge, SKILLS and Experience required To be considered for the role, you'll need: To have a broad understanding of Infrastructure, specifically covering: an understanding of systems management tools and platforms, remote access solutions, operational reporting tools and log management systems. An understanding of corporate systems including: email systems, preferably Office365, collaboration solutions such as SharePoint, Jira and Confluence, telephony systems and their network implications. To be proactive and pragmatic and extremely detail orientated. preferred SKILLS BUT NOT ESSENTIAL Understanding of ITIL processes and the provision of IT support services Microsoft Virtual Desktop Understanding of SQL Databases YOU SHOULD APPLY IF: You care deeply about applying technology and processes to deliver smarter solutions. You are a reliable and structured professional and excel in a flat team structure where trust and integrity is the key foundation for everything we do. You are comfortable using a direct language and speaking in a straightforward yet respectful manner to save people's time and simplify everyone's workday. You love rolling up your sleeves to get it done. What we're doing excites you. WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? The chance to make a real impact on a business intent on changing the face of the retail sector (and thus the end customer experience). A flat and collaborative team structure fuelled by an exciting mix of people welcoming both experienced people from the industry with both feet on the ground and tech-savvy dreamers who pave way for the new stuff. Come as you are and be yourself. A unique opportunity to carve out your own dream job by simply making things happen at a pivotal time when the company's future is being shaped. We look for the brightest and smartest who tell us what to do. Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
22/04/2024
Full time
We are looking for an experienced IT Support Engineer who will help support internal systems around telephony, Microsoft 360, and predominantly Windows Desktops. The company deliver software services to a number of retailers with the top level expectations from the service desk team to help keep faults and problems to a minimal level. Responsibilities Provide an IT help desk service for the company to obtain assistance with their IT issues. Be able to identify areas for improvement. Supporting performance and other IT related issues when they are called into the support desk team. Answer telephone, web and email inquiries to faults and problems relating to the customers IT needs. Knowledge, SKILLS and Experience required To be considered for the role, you'll need: To have a broad understanding of Infrastructure, specifically covering: an understanding of systems management tools and platforms, remote access solutions, operational reporting tools and log management systems. An understanding of corporate systems including: email systems, preferably Office365, collaboration solutions such as SharePoint, Jira and Confluence, telephony systems and their network implications. To be proactive and pragmatic and extremely detail orientated. preferred SKILLS BUT NOT ESSENTIAL Understanding of ITIL processes and the provision of IT support services Microsoft Virtual Desktop Understanding of SQL Databases YOU SHOULD APPLY IF: You care deeply about applying technology and processes to deliver smarter solutions. You are a reliable and structured professional and excel in a flat team structure where trust and integrity is the key foundation for everything we do. You are comfortable using a direct language and speaking in a straightforward yet respectful manner to save people's time and simplify everyone's workday. You love rolling up your sleeves to get it done. What we're doing excites you. WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? The chance to make a real impact on a business intent on changing the face of the retail sector (and thus the end customer experience). A flat and collaborative team structure fuelled by an exciting mix of people welcoming both experienced people from the industry with both feet on the ground and tech-savvy dreamers who pave way for the new stuff. Come as you are and be yourself. A unique opportunity to carve out your own dream job by simply making things happen at a pivotal time when the company's future is being shaped. We look for the brightest and smartest who tell us what to do. Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
NO SPONSORSHIP QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER SALARY: $140K - $175K FLEX PLUS Bonus LOCATION: Chicago, IL This is a manager position. You will be a people manager managing vendors, outsourced resources, onshore, offshore, MSAS Back End technology. Applications desktop mobility strategies implementations products cloud global experience reducing defects that impact end users productivity will support QA development metrics agile tools processes Microsoft applications Jira ServiceNow This role will lead the Quality Assurance (QA) function for the Information Technology Team. This leader will own quality strategies, implementation and institutionalization of specific tailored solutions for each production deliverable, ongoing development of the team and metrics development, reporting and improvement. The production deliverables include external and internal facing products running on or in laptops, desktops, mobile devices, data centers, cloud and hybrid environments around the world. An important goal of this role is to improve speed to business value and reducing defects that impact end-user productivity. Develop and implement specific QA tailored solutions for each production deliverable. Establish relationship and governance with internal and third-party team members to conduct Quality Assurance responsibilities. Oversee and manage a global QA team with diverse backgrounds supporting QA development, which may include one or more third-party organizations. Ensure that management and allocation of QA resources based on project needs is performed. Develop, implement, or enhance and institutionalize QA processes, including metrics/measurements, reporting, and continuous improvement, that balance risk and delivery timelines. Integrate required and suggested testing framework in the IT Technology Services organization. Staying up to date with current state-of-the-art testing practices, testing practices and testing tools Ensure that QA feedback is being used to improve deliverable life cycle processes. Works with project team members to design, develop, and execute test plans. May consult to project teams, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and Business Units to design and develop test plans, test cases, and execution procedures. Recommends appropriate test execution approach in consideration of cost, scope, and timeline of product/solution delivery. Identifies test execution metrics to project team members. Prepares and communicates test results and reports accurate testing status to project team members. Provides estimates of text execution to support project-level resource planning efforts. May be required to facilitate onboarding and off boarding of in-sourced and/or outsourced testing resources. Review others (team or cross team) executed test results and help determine issues and priorities. Create and maintain quality control artifacts and make available to teams within and outside of IT. Adheres to industry and Firmwide IT specific quality engineering standards and processes. May be required to step in as a product manager for products that do not have an assigned Product Manager. Qualifications & Requirements Bachelors degree 10 years of experience in software development and software quality assurance. 3 years of experience working in Agile development process. 3 years of experience with performance and load testing. 3 years of experience in management of QA organization including management of third parties that are also delivering QA services. Proficiency with software QA methodologies, tools, and processes. Proficiency in project management. Strong listening skills and highly collaborative. Microsoft Office applications iDevice (Iphone/IPad) Communications: Avaya Telephone/Equinox, Zoom, TEAMS, SKYPE Test Management System: JIRA, ServiceNow, ADO Project Management: Eclipse/Microsoft Project SQL (Writing simple queries) Enterprise Management Systems, Finance, Human Resource, Time Tracking, Billing, Risk SharePoint
17/04/2024
Full time
NO SPONSORSHIP QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER SALARY: $140K - $175K FLEX PLUS Bonus LOCATION: Chicago, IL This is a manager position. You will be a people manager managing vendors, outsourced resources, onshore, offshore, MSAS Back End technology. Applications desktop mobility strategies implementations products cloud global experience reducing defects that impact end users productivity will support QA development metrics agile tools processes Microsoft applications Jira ServiceNow This role will lead the Quality Assurance (QA) function for the Information Technology Team. This leader will own quality strategies, implementation and institutionalization of specific tailored solutions for each production deliverable, ongoing development of the team and metrics development, reporting and improvement. The production deliverables include external and internal facing products running on or in laptops, desktops, mobile devices, data centers, cloud and hybrid environments around the world. An important goal of this role is to improve speed to business value and reducing defects that impact end-user productivity. Develop and implement specific QA tailored solutions for each production deliverable. Establish relationship and governance with internal and third-party team members to conduct Quality Assurance responsibilities. Oversee and manage a global QA team with diverse backgrounds supporting QA development, which may include one or more third-party organizations. Ensure that management and allocation of QA resources based on project needs is performed. Develop, implement, or enhance and institutionalize QA processes, including metrics/measurements, reporting, and continuous improvement, that balance risk and delivery timelines. Integrate required and suggested testing framework in the IT Technology Services organization. Staying up to date with current state-of-the-art testing practices, testing practices and testing tools Ensure that QA feedback is being used to improve deliverable life cycle processes. Works with project team members to design, develop, and execute test plans. May consult to project teams, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and Business Units to design and develop test plans, test cases, and execution procedures. Recommends appropriate test execution approach in consideration of cost, scope, and timeline of product/solution delivery. Identifies test execution metrics to project team members. Prepares and communicates test results and reports accurate testing status to project team members. Provides estimates of text execution to support project-level resource planning efforts. May be required to facilitate onboarding and off boarding of in-sourced and/or outsourced testing resources. Review others (team or cross team) executed test results and help determine issues and priorities. Create and maintain quality control artifacts and make available to teams within and outside of IT. Adheres to industry and Firmwide IT specific quality engineering standards and processes. May be required to step in as a product manager for products that do not have an assigned Product Manager. Qualifications & Requirements Bachelors degree 10 years of experience in software development and software quality assurance. 3 years of experience working in Agile development process. 3 years of experience with performance and load testing. 3 years of experience in management of QA organization including management of third parties that are also delivering QA services. Proficiency with software QA methodologies, tools, and processes. Proficiency in project management. Strong listening skills and highly collaborative. Microsoft Office applications iDevice (Iphone/IPad) Communications: Avaya Telephone/Equinox, Zoom, TEAMS, SKYPE Test Management System: JIRA, ServiceNow, ADO Project Management: Eclipse/Microsoft Project SQL (Writing simple queries) Enterprise Management Systems, Finance, Human Resource, Time Tracking, Billing, Risk SharePoint