Description
Ops Engineer
For my client an internationally renowned bank, I am urgently looking for a Dutch speaking Ops Engineer for a 12+ month contract in Amsterdam paying excellent rates!
The successful Ops Engineers will have the following core skills and experience:
* You have worked with and understand multi-tier applications, and typically will have strong knowledge of databases, operating systems and application Servers.
* You can programme in at least one Scripting language, and are familiar with current software development practises and with automation of test and deployment.
* You have good experience working within an Agile environment.
* You have a good command of Dutch & English, spoken and written.
Job Description:
As an Ops Engineer you will actively monitor, manage, study, test, and run the application, noting the detailed technical behaviour and performance across all aspects of the Application to proactively identify and prevent operational problems. The Operations Engineer is expected to understand the detailed workflow of the Application, expected transactional volumes and the detailed technical behaviour of Application Servers and Databases. The Operations Engineer will participate in the team's Scrum processes as necessary.
The Operations Engineer's primary responsibility is to ensure the operational stability, integrity, and availability of the Application at all times. You will typically proactively identify Application and system related problems. You will assume leadership of your DevOps team when an Incident occurs and your Application has an outage or is part of a Major Incident that affects the operation of your Application. When your Application is in maintenance mode (where there are no changes happening), your role is the only role required to keep the Application running.
You will be responsible for (but not limited to):
Deploying and running a Production system, and provide Level 2 support for your Application.
Specifying, creating, and executing the Performance and Operational Acceptance Tests including High Availability and Disaster Recovery Tests, with the support of the Dev Engineer.
Specifying, creating, testing and deploying the runtime scripts (eg stop/start/purge/backup).
Specifying, testing and executing deployment and roll-back scripts.
Configuring and implementing Monitoring Tooling to enable 24x7 monitoring by the Master Control Room (MCR) using appropriate Event Alerts, agreed with the MCR.
You are responsible for Level 2 support of your system, responsible for resolving Incidents as they arise, in line with our client's Incident Management processes.
If this project interests you, please do not delay in getting in touch to discuss in more detail.
Location: Amsterdam
Rates: Excellent
Contract: 12months +