Description
Ops Engineer (Windows)
I am currently hiring an OPS Engineer (Windows) for a globally recognized client of mine. The successful OPS Engineer (Windows) will be offered an initial contract of 12 months with the option for renewal based on performance.
Job description
You are a driven IT specialist with excellent analytical skills. You are ambitious with what you want you and your team to achieve, and you bring positive energy to the team. You have very good communication skills. You feel a personal responsibility for the quality of your application and its reliability, and you work together with your colleagues across your domain and from others, including the infrastructure colleagues, to continuously improve how you work, the applications you support. You have a 24x7 mind-set, and are willing to participate in a standby shift, as the client operates a 24x7 business for its customers.
Your profile
The range of tasks includes the following:
- deploying and running the application,
- providing level 2 support for the application;
- specifying, designing and performing Performance and Acceptance tests (including High Availability and Disaster Recovery Tests) with support from the Dev Engineer;
- specifying, designing, testing and deploying the runtime scripts (eg stop/start/purge/backup);
- specifying, designing, testing and deploying the rollback scripts;
- configuring and implementing Monitoring
- implementing the security policy so that the system is secure at operating system, database and Application Server level;
- understanding and monitoring the entire stack's technology on which the application runs;
- performing Incident, Problem and Change Management, including writing user stories for resolving problems;
- performing Life Cycle Management for the system.
Skills required
The Ops engineer Must be experienced in maintaining the Servers having following technologies:
- Advanced MS Windows operational tasks (DOS Command)
- MicroFocus,
- MS SQL,
- IBM MQ
- Axway XFB
Experience in Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline:
- Automated deployments using tools, Jenkins, Nolio
- Implementing monitoring using GALM/Logstash, Graphite/Kibana for application monitoring
This is for an ASAP start so if you are interested in this role and would like to be considered for it, please send me your CV for immediate consideration.
If you are not interested in the role but know someone that may be interested or a good fit for it, please help me and them out by sending me their details or them the details of this role so they can get in touch with me about it.