Description
Objective:
The Production Integration team is responsible for the deployment of new and changed applications from development into the permanent test environment(s) and the production environment with minimal disruption to production services. The team supports high criticality, international financial systems running 24/7 and requiring very high levels of availability.
Tasks:
The successful candidate will fulfil the role of an Integration Analyst responsible for the deployment of multi-tier Unix applications.
- Specification, development and testing of the deployment and configuration procedures for pre-production and production environments;
- Definition and validation of the application configuration;
- Specification, development and testing of the operational scripts controlling these applications;
- Validation of the launch scenarios for the pre-production and production environments;
- Deployment and configuration of the applications into the permanent test, pre-production and production environments.
When the candidate has acquired sufficient practical experience of the above duties, they will be required to participate to the application design phase of forthcoming changes, identifying production environment impacts of new and changed applications. They will validate the application architecture; define the non-functional requirements to facilitate integration of the changes into production; and assess the operation readiness of the change. Aspects to be consider in this scope: Scheduling; Local and Regional Disaster Recovery; Security; Scalability; Configuration; Deployment; Operation procedures in place.
The team is in frequent contact with the Development, Test and System Engineering teams.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Experience in operating system management (Aix & Linux) and application integration;
- Practical experience of one or more of the following technologies/languages:
o Korn Shell
o WebSphere MQ;
o IBM Information Server - DataStage.
- Experience of working in a similar, high availability environment
- Conscious and focussed on the controls required to assure the required service levels;
- Strong negotiation skills to manage the relations with our stakeholders: developers, testers, system engineers, project leaders;
- Practical knowledge of the main MS Office products: Word, Excel, Powerpoint;
Knowledge of the following is desirable:
- ITIL principles;
- Apache HTTP Server;
- Cognos Business Intelligence;
- Oracle - PL/SQL.
- HACMP;
- Perl;
- UniPaaS;
- Magic Software;
Occasionally tasks need to be performed before or after business hours.
Language: English and French.