Description
Senior Release Engineer sought by leading investment bank based in Glasgow.
*Inside IR35 - PAYE only*
Role description:
- A hands-on release engineer is required for a tier 1 investment bank, working in a global Front Office team that supports the Equity Swaps trading business.
- You will be responsible for the execution of the release process for several core systems within the Equity Swaps space. This includes the execution of the test cycle and the deployment to the production environment.
- The role requires someone who is flexible, able to respond to a dynamic business environment and able to take ownership and responsibility for the delivery deadlines as part of the release management team.
- The production deployment activities will require occasional weekend work (mainly Saturday morning).
- You will be the face-off to the development team.
- You will need to manage the release candidate which is likely to include new features, bug fixes, patches and similar requests.
- Where you and your team detect problems within a release candidate, it will be your responsibility to help identify the causing JIRA and work with the relevant development team to resolve.
- You will also need to work closely with developers on how a feature needs to be rolled out and of course, how it might be rolled-back if an issue is seen.
- You will be expected to make trivial improvement to the release and the deployment process as necessary. You and your team will also work closely with the Test Automation squad to define the improvement ideas and to deploy their solutions into the process.
- To succeed, you will need not only to possess strong Linux command line skills, but also understand its fundamentals.
- You might have to write small ad-hoc scripts occasionally.
To succeed you must understand relevant aspects of our complex proprietary platform, too. You are likely to come from a production support, DevOps, automation or testing background of a distributed Back End application in a Linux environment, or you might a generic Linux administrator.
Skills Required:
- Minimum 2:1 Bachelor's degree in a core STEM subject
- A thorough understanding of the software development life cycle
- Experience with process automation
- Prior demonstrated experience on defining and then executing a system test suite
- Strong Unix/Linux knowledge, with Shell Scripting (Perl or Python useful)
- RDBMS Sybase and/or DB2, with ability to write simple SQL queries
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Good problem solving and analytical skills
- An awareness of when to escalate
Skills Desired:
- Experience leading and managing a small team
- Knowledge of Ansible, Jenkins and CI/CD, or similar tools and methods
- Knowledge of DevOps
- Foundations in Server Side Java running on Linux
- Knowledge of the Equity Derivative business
- An interest to learn the business supported by the applications
Please apply within for further details or call
Alex Reeder
Harvey Nash Finance & Banking