Application IT Engineer.


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Recruiter

Michael Page

Listed on

13th July 2021

Location

City Of London

Salary/Rate

£600 - £650

Type

Contract

Start Date

ASAP

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Maintaining and improving the availability of Trading Platforms by working in conjunction with development teams and global APS teamsClient DetailsMy client is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 73 countries, with more than 196,000 employeeDescriptionMy client is looking for someone who can join the team and asist in maintaining and improving the availability of Trading Platforms by working in conjunction with development teams and global APS teams.Applying rigorous controls for validating release and changes into production, implementing automation, DEVOPS practices and providing toolset for deployment and configuration consistencies globally. Organise and coordination with internal teams for execution plans and business activities to minimise impact participate in platform reviews and setup to meet continuous business capacity demandskey responsibilities of the role are below. Prepare and build high availability hosting platforms for Tier1 applications.Manage production Incidents, Changes and applying good controls into production.Pro-actively monitoring, manage and improve availability and performance of the production environments from presentation, application layers to middleware and databases.Plan and implement application releases, pre-testing and configuration changes.Evaluating new toolset to enhance and manage global production platforms consistently.Participate in technical projects as part of the Application Production team, contributing in architecture reviews and design enhancements, obsolescence and migrating application systems to new internal cloud, physical and virtual infrastructures.Provide feedback and propose solutions to management on performance, risks and capacity and design issues for continuous improvementsCompliance for IT and Cybersecurity and assist in planning and execution of Disaster Recovery exercises.ProfileIdeally you will have at least 6years' experience in similar role, majority of which should have been gained within a Capital Markets context. The ability to provide multi-disciplined technical support on application platforms alongside middleware components, performance and capacity management and good knowledge of SQL and database management, Release & Configuration management and with good analytic troubleshooting skills set. Technical Expertise - primarily trained in Windows, scripting, SQL and development code basic knowledge. Additional key technology you should be familiar with.Software/Application Skills - Good skills knowledge in configuration management and supporting of the following .NET, C#/C++ and Java applications.Analytics - Working with large data sets and SQL procedures, manipulating data structure, configuration troubleshooting and databases, extracting and reporting of data.Server Monitoring and deployment toolsets - SVN, Python, Bladelogic, Altiris and GeneosDevOps - Core knowledge of Ansible, BitBuckets, Artifactory ElasticSearch,JenkinsJob OfferAn initial 6 month contract (Inside IR35) paying between £600 - £650 per day. Cv's are being screened this week with a view for interviews week commencing 19th July 2021.

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