Description
Senior Technical Manager required. Your main role will be delivering modern digital services using Agile techniques and the latest open source products including the WSO2 product set.
This will include management of the hardware and application infrastructure for all development, test and production environments on a day-to-day basis.
You will work with the Operations and Development and Delivery Lead to ensure processes and tools are in place for the provision and management of all delivery centre hardware assets and environments, including configuration management, release and deploy.
Essential;
- Experience in Linux system administration/Management, preferably RHEL
- Experience configuring and managing/System administration of Linux Servers for serving web/integration development, testing and production services
- Outstanding communication skills. The ability to tailor communication both to business and technical audiences as well as to various roles and levels in the organization is essential. The successful candidate will demonstrate visual and written communication as well as verbal and white-board skills
- Experience with continuous integration, automated deployment, testing and the relevant tooling ie Puppet, Chef, Jenkins.
- Strong knowledge of factors influencing performance and ability to tune systems to achieve best possible performance and capacity
- Experience with Release and Configuration Management processes
- Installation and management of open source monitoring tools
- Experience managing and deploying on Cloud based platforms
- Experience debugging a complex multi-server service
- Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc.
- Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques
- Excellent environment management, automation and Scripting skills
- Experience in leading a technical team and defining/improving service processes and procedures
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience debugging a complex multi-server service
- Experience sharing knowledge and excellent mentoring and coaching skills
Desirable;
- Experience with WSO2 product set would be very beneficial but by no means mandatory.
- Experience with Agile methodologies (TDD, SCRUM, Kanban, etc) and developing product roadmaps, backlogs and measurable success criteria and of writing user stories, ie can establish a path to delivery for breaking down stories
- Experience working within an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment, and ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to development team;
- Experience with the use of version control systems such as subversion or git
- Working within a product-centric environment
- Familiarity with integration Middleware, messaging, ESB, API management common web application/integration architectures (SOA)
- Breadth of experience with strengths in application programming, security, operations, networking and APIs and API design.
- Fundamentals of software engineering and application architecture
- Experience with open source solutions and community.
Please send me your CV for a fast turnaround.