Description
Software Engineer
Location: Telford/Remote
Duration: 6 months
Candidates must be SC Eligible
Our client, a market leading multi-national technology consultancy are looking for a Software Engineer to join them on a customer-based project based Telford/Remote. The assignment is an initial 6-month contract and can offer a competitive daily rate via Umbrella Role.
Technical Skills
Knowledge/experience working with tools/capabilities in Production environments, to include:
Essential
Cloud Knowledge - AWS working knowledge
User Administration - RBAC controls, create/amend/delete
Tooling Administration - CI/CD, Monitoring, Alerting, Logging
Operating System - Unix, Shell Scripting, housekeeping activities
Desirable
Service Management - ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence
Data Analytics Platforms - SAS 9.4, Viya and associated tools/modules
Database Administration - Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL
Operations
. Flexible and swift response to system issues
. Pro-active analysis of service performance to enable predictability of issues and pro-active response
. Delivery of minor enhancements to continually support improvements
. Attends workshops, working with the architecture group and other engineers to highlighting any risks or areas of special concern around the service support
. Able to act as the main point of contact for communicating the status of the services supported and feed back to the SDM/Scrum Team
. Shares knowledge/responsibilities amongst the team members to ensure the team is balanced in knowledge and skills to avoid single points of failure
. Works with the Product Owner to identify release schedules and flags any conflicts/concerns
. To be commercially aware and able to explain any variance from impacts and deviations from scope through change or service improvements
. Continuous improvement approach by identifying opportunities for automation, simplification, shorter cycle times, minimising technical debt
. Manage their core management activities like holiday, on-call rota, calling in sick
. Open to potential for on-call/out of hours support
Capability
. Should actively learn and stay up-to-date with key technologies
. Proactively identify their training needs
Impacting
. Is able to advise on the manday effort for completing known activities on the service they support and provide an estimate for similar activities
. Can review manday impacts and comment on their suitability/flag gaps or risks to the service
Governance/Quality
. Can provide high level review and guidance for live service manuals to the project teams to assure suitability
. Can provide feedback on any system relevant risks, eg performance/capacity of the service
People/Community
. Seek to mentor other engineers and work with peers
. Support and guide colleagues with their team
. Sharing lessons learned
. Participate with the Engineering communities to ensure good governance
Stakeholders - Scrum Team, Service Delivery Manager, Product Owner, Architect, Scrum Master
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