PLATFORM ENGINEER


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Nigel Frank International

Listed on

4th November 2020

Location

North East England

Salary/Rate

£39999 - £49999

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Job DescriptionI am working with a public service client who are looking to bring in a number of platform engineers to be a member of a team of IT specialists within the business & be responsible for the development and support of the system tier in a DevOps environment.Note - This role is remote working initially but will have a requirement for some on site working once government guidelines allow so candidates should be able to commute to the NE. All interviewing & on boarding is done remotely and the first start date available for this role is January.

In this role, you are responsible for:

1. Designs, develops, tests, implements and supports the system Infrastructure to meet challenging deadlines, quality standards, business targets and customer requirements.

2. Analyses a wide range of complex business and technical issues in order to gain a thorough understanding of the system environment and proactively identifies and resolves system issues to ensure system availability and capacity for the business.

3. Responsible for the 24/7 system support, of business critical applications in both production and non-production environments.

4. Monitors and reviews the efficient and effective running of hardware, software and system tier services.

5. Evaluates tools including open source products to ensure that the business is running products that are most appropriate and in line with the ICT strategy to deliver against the business needs.

6. Install, configure and test new versions of system tier offerings, ensuring that all products are within the business end of Life strategy and minimise impact to the business.

7. Produces departmental and project documentation - operating instructions, user guides and reference material at an appropriate level; for technical and a non-technical audience.

8. Works within a multi-disciplinary project team supporting the delivery pipeline creating user stories to document and plan tasks.

9. Plans and manages time effectively, frequently working on a number of systems/tasks in parallel, escalating and managing expectations as appropriate. Responds quickly to change and is able to re-prioritising workload as required.

10. Analyses a wide range of data e.g. technical manuals, business process documentation, system specifications and statistical performance data and resolves conflicting requirements, taking responsibility to update processes and documentation where changes are made.

11. Uses initiative to make decisions on complex technical matters and make recommendations which influence key decisions to project and DevOps team Essentail criteriaProgramming skills within a system tier environment. The individual will have strong Unix/Linux administration and language skills:Shell scriptingJython scriptingExperience in the use of the following DevOps concepts and tools:Deploying and configuring servers in a cloud environment (Terraform, Fog).Configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible).Continuous Integration Engine (Jenkins, Travis-CI).Continuous Inspection (SonarQube).Virtualisation (VMWare, Amazon EC2).Networking Concepts, technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, DNS). Monitoring (Sensu, Consul). . Penetration testing (OWASP ZAP)Preferred critriaRecent experience with

* WebSphere Application Server Network

Deployment

* WebSphere MQ

* IBM HTTP Server

Experience and knowledge of installation and management of one or more of the following Open

Source software products

* JBoss Application Server

* Apache Tomcat

* Apache HTTP Server

* Rabbit MQ

Experience and knowledge of one or more of the following* IBM Webseal

* Windows Powershell scripting

* IBM Tivoli Access Manager

* LDAP - Novell e-directory

* Achieve Forms

* IIS

* K2 Blackpearl

* Meridio

* GitLab, GitHub

* JIRA

* DockerQualificationsIT related degree or equivalent

AND

Minimum of 2 years' experience in developing and /or supporting IT systemsIf you are looking for a role where you can make an exponential difference and be innovative, please get in touch at your soonest opportunity. Thank you

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