Cumbria

Evergreen Deployment Engineer – Circa £32k DOE
Global Consultancy
Barrow-in-Furness
Security Clearance Requirement: SC Cleared or Willing to undergo clearance

We are currently assisting this prestigious IT organisation in the recruitment of an Evergreen Deployment Engineer to join the Evergreen team and help in the creation of Windows 10 images and service packs and assist with planning and ongoing support. Experience with any ITSM tool would be useful, ideally ServiceNow.

Due to the security clearance requirement, this role would require you to be on-site full time at the office in Barrow-in-Furness

Role overview:
• Development of the Standard Operating Environment (SOE) for desktop
• Identifying the impact of technical changes affecting the SOE to an operational level
• Provide 3rd line support to client support teams for the SOE


Key skills / Experience:
• Desktop/Server Deployment Experience or SCCM experience
• Using imaging tools such as SYSPREP
• Troubleshooting knowledge of Desktop OS (Windows 10)
• Scripting (VB, WMI, Command Line)
• Understanding of ServiceNow or any ITSM tool
• Active Directory and Group Policy
• Client focused

This role may suit candidates who have held the following job titles: SOE Engineer, Evergreen Engineer, Deployment Engineer, Workplace Engineer, SOE Specialist


Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906).

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Onsite Services Engineer – Circa £28k DOE
Global Consultancy
Barrow-in-Furness
Security Clearance Requirement: SC Cleared or Willing to undergo clearance

We are currently assisting this prestigious IT organisation in the recruitment of an Onsite Services Engineer to provide 2nd line support in investigating and resolving incidents assigned to the Desktop Support Team.

Due to the security clearance requirement, this role would require you to be on-site full time at the office in Barrow-in-Furness. Flexible working hours are supported for this role.

Role overview:
• 2nd Line responsibility for resolving Incidents
• Pro-active communication with the Service Desk and Level 3 Teams, leading to efficient resolutions and completions
• Undertaking project tasks in support of both internal and external project managers
• Keeping the End User Services Lead Group informed of any IT concerns escalating as necessary

Key skills / Experience:
• Microsoft Windows OS (Win 10 and Win 7) – working knowledge of build, configuration and registry settings
• Messaging and collaboration tools – MS Exchange environment, email client configuration, MS Outlook, Skype for Business
• IT Service Management (ITSM) software, ideally ServiceNow
• Desktop hardware architecture – predominantly HP desktop and laptops
• SCCM experience including OS deployment, application deployment, fault finding, monitoring and reporting
• MS Office Suite (config, macros, add-ins)
• Active Directory – basic administration


This role may suit candidates who have held the following job titles: 2nd Line Support,
IT Support Engineer, Desktop Engineer, End User IT Support


Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906).

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Microsoft Technology Architect
£55k-£65k DOE
Global Consultancy
WFH / 2-3 days on-site in Barrow-in-Furness every two weeks
Security Clearance Requirement: SC Cleared or Willing to undergo clearance

We are currently assisting in the hire of a Microsoft Technology Architect / SME to work with operational and project teams to provide detailed designs, build and guidance on various aspects of Microsoft solutions. These would include Cloud solutions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), high-level and low-level designs, builds, configuration and testing.

Most of the work can be done remotely, however, due to the SC clearance requirement you would be expected to come in on-site occasionally as needed. Current project requires 2-3 days on-site in Barrow every two weeks, future projects may differ in contact time and location (expenses covered). Our client offers excellent potential for career growth, professional development, and a great personalized benefits package.

Duties:
•     Design, supervise and build Microsoft Technologies (Active Directory, DNS, GPOs, File and Print, etc.)
•     Greenfield Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud
•     Large transformation projects
•     Bid work providing solutions and costs
•     Service Design- High-level architecture design for core Microsoft Technology solutions
•     Plan and prepare design review presentation with Architects and Service Managers to validate or decide on major architecture evolutions

Requirements:
•     Eligibility for SC security clearance
•     Proven track record of working with clients
•     Ability to converse with various stakeholders at different levels
•     Capability of delivering presentations to internal and external stakeholders
•     Understanding of commercial models and costing development

This role may suit candidate who hold the following job titles: Microsoft Architect, Microsoft Technology SME, Cloud Architect, Solutions Architect

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906).

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. 

Technical / Infrastructure Architect
Any UK base / remote / with 2-3 days a week in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria
Salary – Circa £75-95k depending on experience / grade (plus bonus)
SC Clearance will be required

We are seeking a number of experienced Technical Architects to join a leading and innovative team within a global, award winning consultancy, to work with operational and project teams to provide detailed designs and guidance on various aspects of infrastructure solutions. The successful Architect will be responsible and accountable for the design of an integrated technical solution across all streams of a project or small programme. Our client offers excellence in career growth, professional development and a coveted personalised benefits package.

Responsibilities include:
• Producing high-level and low-level designs
• Providing guidance and support for transitions
• Transformation and delivery on a variety of initiatives such as: -
o SAN migrations,
o Datacentre moves,
o Server based computing and desktop transformation technologies such as VDI and application virtualisation.
• The Technical Architect also applies functional knowledge and technical expertise to design systems that support customer needs.

Key skills :
• Demonstrable experience reviewing and creating design documents as a subject matter expert for infrastructure solutions.
• Technical design, configuration, and implementation expertise within large-scale Transformations and Migrations.
• Strong knowledge and demonstrable experience with infrastructure architecture, implementation, and support expertise.
• Expert technical and technical leadership skills.
• Technical risk identification and management.
• Planning and management of technical infrastructure tasks.
• Excellent communication skills, including presentation experience.
• Exceptional writing skills, including documenting solution architectures and support information.
• Strong customer service focus and attention to detail.
• Ability to travel.
• Have or be able to obtain SC clearance – ie. UK National for 5+ years


Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born

Network SME / Architect – c. £55k - £70k + bens
Barrow-in-Furness (Flexible working, but some onsite work required)
Security Clearance Requirement: SC Cleared or Willing to undergo clearance

We are currently on the lookout for an experienced Network SME / Architect to act as a single point of contract for IT user related issues and provide network maintenance within a prestigious organization.

We are seeking a candidate who has considerable experience including network design, implementation, operations, support and project/change management within a service oriented and controlled infrastructure. A good working knowledge of IP, Ethernet, routing and switching within LAN/WAN/Data Centre/ Public Cloud environments is essential.

Skills / Environment
• Software Defined Networks such as Cisco ACI, APIC ACI, MSO (Multi Site Orchestrator), NAE (Network Assurance Engine), ACI Anywhere; SD WAN e.g. Cisco vManage; SD Access e.g. DNAC, APIC EM, Cisco ISE.
• Automation/Orchestration: Network stack integration, Terraform, Ansible, Python, JSON, APIs.
• Security products e.g. Firewalls: Cisco (+Firepower Threat Defense), FortiGate, Fortinet SD-WAN solution.
• VMware NSX and other NFV products.
• Tooling e.g. Cisco Tetration, Solarwinds, CA

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906).

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Service Request Analyst
£18k - 24k+ Benefits Package
Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria

We are seeking a Service Request Analyst, to join our client based in Barrow in Furness . This position can operate remotely, but there is a strong preference for the candidate to be based near to Barrow in Furness in order to accommodate onsite work as and when required. Our client offers excellence in career growth, professional development and a coveted personalised benefits package.

This position will be the primary contact for all management reporting activities; including scheduled and adhoc reports, related to BAU processes, updating current productions or development projects.

Operational delivery of the ITIL Reporting Management process. Contributing to the development, deployment and maintenance of ITIL aligned processes and documentation.
The role is client facing, working alongside the Service Delivery Managers and Team Leaders reporting into the Service Level Manager.

Responsibilities
You will contribute towards all necessary solution configuration required as a result of new account or service transition, including but not limited to:

• Understand and interpret reporting requirements in the context of the available technical solutions;
• Understand complex business requirements with the ability to articulate an appropriate technical solution;
• Contribute towards the production of high-level and detailed design documents;
• Provide L2 and L3 support for reporting solutions.
• Ensure continuous service improvement is a pivotal element of the service
• Monitor performance of the service and manage improvement implementation

Key Skills
As someone with experience and expertise in Service Management you will have excellent influential and organizational skills, be an excellent communicator and have the ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines. You will have the ability to build successful working relationships with business and service managers and will be able to evidence the below requirements:
• Expertise in cross systems interrelations in context of the global business process
• Experience in IT, with emphasis on operational management
• Clear commitment to Service Management Framework
• Excellent documentation and report writing ability.
• Experience in Technical Service Centre or Customer Service Environment.
• The ability to use initiative, whilst working on their own with minimum supervision.
• Experience in th

Database Administrator
Barrow-in-Furness / some WFH
£45k – £55k base + on-call allowance
Security Clearance Requirement: SC Cleared or Willing to undergo clearance

We are currently on the lookout for an experienced Database Administrator to join this prestigious organization, and support both SQL Server and Oracle database environments.

Experience with both SQL Server and Oracle is desirable, however, if you are proficient in only one technology, training will be provided in the other.

Key skills / environment:
- SQL Server (all versions)
- Oracle Database
- Hands-on database support
- Database administration
- Clustering Technologies
- Virtualisation / VMware
- Monitoring and Management tools


Key Duties:
In this role you will support the database design and specification process to ensure best practice and standardisation of database builds. You will work with application support teams and vendors, and health check database environments to propose recommendations for performance tuning and optimisation.

You will be on call for 1 week in 4, with allowance provided.

Experience in large scale environments and infrastructure projects is very desirable.

Appropriate candidates may have held the following roles: Senior DBA, Database Engineer, Database Administrator, Oracle DBA, Database Specialist, Database Support Analyst, SQL Server SME, SQL Server Analyst, Database Analyst

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906).

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Desktop Support Engineer
Circa £25k + Benefits Package
Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria

We are seeking an experienced Desktop Support Engineer. Our client offers excellence in career growth, professional development and a coveted personalised benefits package.

You will be working on a client site, delivering great customer support and providing deskside support to end users, through break fix and IMAC’s resolutions.

Skills / Environment
Undertake Incident Resolution and IMAC activities in line with SLAs
Undertake Project, Demand Package activities and Problem Management Tasks
Communicate with Service Desk and EUC Tower Lead to ensure appropriate Incident assignment to other support Towers
Troubleshoot hardware (desktop, laptops, workstations, tablets and associated peripherals)
Troubleshoot Software (operating systems and desktop applications)
Rebuild and configure of PCs, applications and peripheral installations
Produce documentation in support of incident Resolution and hardware and software installation and configurations

Salary: Circa £25k

This role may suit candidates, who hold the following job titles: Desktop Support Engineer, Desktop Support Technician, IT Support Engineer, IT Support Analyst, IT Helpdesk Support

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906).

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Quality Manager - £55k – £65k DOE
Global Technology Consulting
Barrow-in-Furness

We have been asked to assist in the recruitment of a Quality Manager to lead the implementation and maintenance of quality systems within the client’s business.

Skills / Environment
Strong experience of IS Quality Management System (QMS)
Risk management
Technical process expertise
Business and people leadership
Auditing

Role Overview
You will define effective quality-related policies, standards and key performance indicators. In addition, you will lead the day to day management of the team, providing mentoring and coaching.

Salary: £55k - £65k DOE

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906).

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Unix Engineer
Circa £40k + Benefits Package
Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria

We are seeking an experienced Unix Engineer. Our client offers excellence in career growth, professional development and a coveted personalised benefits package.

Due to significant growth created by an ever-increasing client demand, we are looking to further bolster the team by recruiting a Unix Systems engineer.

Skills / Environment
• Be responsible for overall Incident Management\Change Management\Problem Management
• Work within a dedicated on-site support team
• Support an extensive Sun/Oracle server environment.
• Support Solaris 10 & 11 and Suse Linux 11 OS environments
• Monitor services using Uptime environment management toolset
• Implement changes to the existing environment and implement new services
• Work within a defined SLA and proactively manage the team ticket queue
• Work with other 3rd parties to collectively support the same customer
• Document existing and new service environments

Candidates would ideally have skills and experience in some or all of the following areas:
• Sun/Oracle server
• Solaris OS 10, 11 and Suse Linux OS 11,12
• Oracle VM server (zones & LDOM) and Oracle clustering
• Experience of Uptime management software useful
• Oracle Operations Centre toolset useful

Salary: Circa £40k

This role may suit candidates, who hold the following job titles: UNIX Engineer, Systems Engineer, UNIX Systems Engineer

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906).

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.