Build and Deployment Engineer

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Build and Deployment Engineer

London (home for now)

6 months TBC

£500-£550 per day TBC

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Please note: This role has not been signed-off client side or formally released. We are anticipating this will happen in the coming days, but cannot be certain. We are seeking to create a short-list of interested parties at this time. Should you wish to register your interest please apply with your CV.

Our client is a global banking group, with their EMEA HQ in London. We have in a very small way, assisted just over 100 IT professionals secure roles here over the past decade. Feedback from past placements has genuinely consistently been very good and we absolutely view this organisation to be one of the better global financial services environments when it comes to an IT career.

This contract will run initially until the end of the year; however, it is very common to receive renewals with this bank, and we would expect you to be on site for longer than this initial period. This role will be working from home from day one, however in normal circumstances would be based in Central London close to Aldgate East Tube Station.

In this role, you will be responsible for Build and Deployment management across our clients banking arm and securities business under a dual-hat arrangement.

*Work with development teams to transition their current build and deployment processes to the automated platform we are rolling out across the Bank / Securities

oThis will entail the creation of build processes in TeamCity, linking these to binary repository storage (Artifactory) and deployment automation (Jenkins / MicroFocus DA)

oLiaise with distributed development teams to manage their transition from manual processes, supporting users as we progress

*Support the direction of automation of processes by redeveloping existing manual / air gapped build and deployment processes

*Follow direction of the Build and Deployment Manager

*Suggest / implement improvements to processes with an aim of continual improvement

*Suggest / develop further automation possibilities

*Understand the wider function of the team, especially the relationship with Release and Environment Management

*Assist with testing of new processes developments when required

*Support and maintain all elements of the Build and Deployment platform]

Functional / Technical:

*Excellent understanding of Build, Deployment and Software Configuration management tooling and processes.

*Good understanding of Environment Management

*Good understanding of SQLServer / Oracle and associated deploy / release technologies ( e.g. RedGate, RoundHouse, Liquibase, dbUp)

*Understanding of Web application structure and deployments (IIS / WebDeploy)

*Good ability with scripting methods. (including Perl, Powershell, shell, groovy)

*Subversion (VisualSVN) / GitHub Enterprise

*Artifactory - configuration / management / integration with Build tools (including REST methods)

*TeamCity / Jenkins

*MicroFocus Deployment Automation / UrbanCode Deploy

*Jira / Confluence

*ServiceNow

Work Experience:

*Has experience as a Build Manager in a complex multi system environment

*Has implemented and maintained automation systems for efficient and effective build and deployment

*Has experience in liaising with cross functional teams

This position would be suitable for those who have held the following titles; Build Manager, Deployment Manager, Deployment Engineer, Build Team Lead, Deployment Team Lead, Senior Build Engineer, Software Configuration Manager, Deployment Lead and Senior Build Manager

Please note this role has not been formally signed off by our client, however it's extremely likely to be signed off next week and formally released hence the salary / contract duration not been confirmed.

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is one of the UK's leading IT Recruitment Agencies. Established in 1997, we have over twenty years of experience as IT Recruitment Specialists and practice a meticulous recruitment service for our clients. We are stable contracting partner and will never send your CV anywhere without your full email authorisation and only after you have seen the full and complete details on this opportunity. Deerfoot is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.

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