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Tester – WCF, SOAPUI, TFS – Crawley (RL1520)

Mark — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:17:22 +0000

Location: Crawley
Start: ASAP
Duration: 3 months initially

SKILLS
- Experience following test plans from use cases and writing test plans
- Defect logging
- Couple of years testing experience
– WCF services and back end components
– Web pages
– Security/Pen experience would be nice
- SoapUI automated and manual testing
- TFS
- While we don’t need a security ‘expert’ for testing, security exposure/awareness is a mandatory requirement
- Knowledge of Windows Server 2008 R2 administration, IIS 7.0/7.5 administration and VM environments
- Organised, we need accurate creation of test reports and PCI artefacts from the tests
- Ideally a senior tester

IT Operations Manager, Operations Manager – Permanent (RL1528)

Mark — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:57:00 +0000

Our web oriented domain Client has experienced a doubling in growth and look set to do the same again next year. They are seeking an IT Operations Manager to step in and lead/manage their IT functions at this critical time in their development. The location is in Reigate. NOTE: the office location is commutable within an hour from London Bridge.

If previous work experience has been gained working in organisations of size 100 – 300 people, this is the ideal background along with experience of managing Staging to Live environments; any release management experience and familiarity with 24/7/365 hosted environments (data centres). Experience with Prince II and SCRUM would be highly advantageous.

Key Role Requirements:
- Security [Access to environments, security procedures, remote working]
- System monitoring – this includes all services uptime, disk activity, load, logfiles, etc.
- Hardware procurement and set up for all environments
- Ownership of release process to Staging, Pre-Live, Live environments
- Dealing with hosting issues and patch management
- Manage and develop regular monitoring of Servers and systems to ensure levels of service are maintained
- Ability to investigate and deploy new IT systems as requiredExperience in maintaining SQL and Web Server installations (preferably Microsoft SQL and .NET based web sites)
- Experience with Active Directory based domains
- Experience with Exchange Server
- Experience with Networking
- Experience Virtualisation
- Experience Software Licensing

If you are interested in this role then let us know by completing our application form.

Release Manager, Build Manager, Release/Build Manager – Permanent (RL1527)

Mark — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:55:33 +0000

Our web oriented domain Client has experienced a doubling in growth and look set to do the same again next year. They are seeking a Release Build Manager to join the team at this critical time in their development. The location is Reigate. NOTE: the office location is commutable within 1-hour from London Bridge.

If previous work experience has been gained working in organisations of size 100 – 300 people and you have some hands-on development experience, this is the ideal background along with experience as follows:

Must have skills/experience:
- Take responsibility for all Release/Build Management activities, policy
- Evaluate Release and Build management processes
- Document, implement and improve the Release and Build management processes
- Upgrade customers to new versions of Clients Application
- Release application patches
- Involvement in weekly Steering Group and Change Panels
- Risk and Issue Management
- Delivery of Release through Lifecycle Test Environments and Production Implementation
- Strong working knowledge of SVN and migration from SourceSafe to SVN)
- Experience of environments using TDD – Test Driven Development
- Understanding of SCRUM

If you are interested in this role then let us know by completing our application form.

DBA, Database Administrator, SQL, SQL Developer – Permanent (RL1526)

Mark — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:53:23 +0000

Our web oriented domain Client has experienced a doubling in growth and look set to do the same again next year. They are seeking a DBA to join their existing technical team based in Reigate. NOTE: the office location is commutable within an hour from London Bridge. If experience has been gained working in organisations of size 100 – 300 people, this is the ideal background.

Must have proven commercial experience of working with MS SQL Server up to 2008R2 and T-SQL, also SSRS, SSAS and SSIS. Critical to the role is an ability to assess current and emerging SQL Server related technologies and their impact on strategy and a clear ability to recognise and respond to business issues and priorities.

Responsibilities include
- Database maintenance, performance tuning/optimisation and archiving
- Database scaling, capacity and availability planning
- Enhancing database architecture, security
- Designing and planning projects

Other must have skills/experience:
- Performance tuning and query optimisation
- Stored procedures
- Data cleansing/archiving
- Integration services; Reporting Services and Analysis Services
- Ability to lead or take technical responsibility for data projects and enhancements
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills

It would be highly desirable to have development experience in SQL, including ASP.NET and C#.

If you are interested in this role then let us know by completing our application form.

3rd Line Support – System Center (RL1532/33)

Mark — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:50:38 +0000

Our Global Software Vendor is seeking 3rd Level Support Engineer with deep skills in Microsoft’s SCCM and SCOM 2007 and 2012. Your CV will show many projects where supporting one or the other or both of these two products is the core aspect of the role and your capability (not as part of a wider project or programme).

Initial 3 months duration however one part of the project (upgrade) is to run for over a year so there is potential for the role to be long running. Based in Belgium – English speaking, to start ASAP.

Brief details below:
- Carry out 3rd line support on their customer SCOM 2007 and SCCM 2007 production systems
- Work closely with our Client team designing/upgrading the customer to SCOM and SCCM 2012, supporting this upgrade into production
- Requires very deep hands-on skills in SCOM (System Centre Operations Management) and/or very deep hands-on skills in SCCM (System Centre Configuration Manager) [Microsoft level 300-400]
- Must have strong troubleshooting skills/experience
- Must have current NATO or SC Security Clearance or if SC only, must be prepared to go through the NATO Clearance process.

If you are interested in this role then let us know by completing our application form.

Senior Java Developer – Permanent (RL1523)

Mark — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:14:17 +0000

Our client is looking for a Senior Java Developer to join a development team in Manchester ASAP at a salary of between 40k and 60k (depending on candidates experience).

ESSENTIAL SKILLS
Java development on Linux and Windows platforms. Threading, UDP, TCP/IP, OLTP, understanding of optimisation practices. Design Patterns. JVM GC policies.

DESIRABLE SKILLS
AGILE, accurate estimation skills, unit testing(JUnit etc.)

PROJECT CONTEXT
Development team currently consists of ~10 members. We’re light on Java resource and need to mitigate that risk.

CULTURE FIT
To join a team of highly experienced developers in their own field. Must be productive, confident of own ability and able to communicate effectively with other team members.

SECTOR EXPERIENCE
Financial Markets, High performance/low latency communications via TCP.

If you are interested in this role then let us know by completing our application form.

Developer, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, SQL Server – Permanent (RL1515)

Mark — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:03:13 +0000

Our client is a highly professional consultancy and software development business with a culture that is friendly, open and close knit. They are seeking a Software Developer to join their team of existing developers to deliver and support existing and burgeoning projects.

The role is primarily acting as the Developer (and Support contact) for an existing bespoke VB.NET/C#/ASP.NET .NET 4.0/SQL Server 2005 application.

Required Skills
•VB.NET and C# with ASP.NET in Visual Studio version 2010
•Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008: the ability to create tables, views and indexes, to create stored procedures, and to perform general database management
•Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 Reporting Services
•General IT skills including Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/Outlook)

Further details are available on request – this is an excellent opportunity to join a fast growing team that offers future potential and development (training forms a key part of the package).

If you are interested in this role then let us know by completing our application form.

ConfigMgr Subject Matter Expert/Consultant (RL1418)

Curo — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:56:17 +0000

Do you have what it takes to pass the Microsoft technical test and join one of the highest technical level support teams within the UK? The best of the best needed to join a ConfigMgr support team based in Reading. Must be able to demonstrate a significant background and depth of knowledge in ConfigMgr Support, Administration and Troubleshooting.

If you are interested in this role then let us know by completing our application form.

Curo Ten Pin Bowling With A Backward Curve Ball!

Curo — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:05:31 +0000

Curo’s Karen, Di, Treesje, Mark T and Mark S got together with a bunch of Curo contractors in Reading last week for a night of ten pin bowling, beer and burgers.
Congratulations to Mike Pini on his surprise victory in the first game. Nobody looked more surprised than Mike.
And to Steve “Nuke” Playford whose powerful style paid off in the second game.
Highlight of the night was Di’s “reverse action” shot which saw the bowling ball come back into the spectator’s area causing minor mayhem and a small tomato ketchup incident. Not that any stains would have been noticed, as Reading Bowl is somewhat overdue for a facelift we discovered on arrival!
Many thanks to those who made it along. With all good intentions, it isn’t always easy to turn up for a night like this after a day of hard work. A special mention to Martin Shannon who made a long drive from Getronics, mending a puncture on the way to Reading.
We all enjoyed meeting everyone who came along, and look forward to the next social event. Any requests or ideas for something perhaps late summer?

Good News on a Friday afternoon

Curo — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:50:04 +0000

It is always great to have good news on a Friday afternoon, but when it comes in the form of excellent feedback on one of Curo’s project managers working at Microsoft it makes it very special, Congratulations Christian well derserved!

“I’d like to express my sincere gratitude for the professionalism and expertise that CJ has brought to our client engagement. He is a bright, talented, articulate and smart individual who brings people together and manages expectations with a keen sense of responsibility and accountability. It’s an extremely challenging customer environment with complex stakeholder relationships and a remote project team. The pressures are high and each day seems to bring a new challenge which CJ takes in his stride, keeping channels or communication open at all times. I’ve really appreciated his flexibility, his warm and considerate nature. He’s a great ‘fit’ for Microsoft and I’m confident that we will have a successful delivery under his watch”