OPERATIONS STRATEGY & PERFORMANCE MANAGER - FINANCE - SYD

Sydney  ‐ Onsite
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The Company

Our client is one of Australia's leading and largest Financial Services Organizations that has expanded its operations beyond the Australian shores. The organization has a large range of financial offerings to both public and private clients across the retail, corporate and institutional banking areas. They have a very large technical footprint that combines a dynamic range of technologies in an ultimately complex landscape. Due to an expanding remit of this team's service offering to the bank they require a leader in Operations who understands Application Development and Deployment (DevOps/Continuous Delivery/Integration) and an appreciation for System Performance, Resiliency, High Availability and Capacity.

The Team

The performance team has a very large remit, to evaluate and improve bank wide systems with a focus on system high availability, performance, capacity and reliability. This team has been organically grown over the last 3 years and now, due to their excellent success record of improvements, they have been given a wider remit and larger projects. This lead role will run a sub-team of Performance Engineers responsible for creating tools to provide System Performance, Availability and Capacity (Demand Management) metrics/information (Data flows, Big Data) to technology teams within the bank.

The Role

This lead role, while Operations aligned, needs bridge the gap between "Development" and "Operations" (DevOps) and give direction, focus and strategy to Performance Tools experts who tap into data flows in an extremely complex and ever changing environment, filter, channel and present it to technology teams to ensure the banks systems remain highly available, using a myriad of technologies. You'll also consult to project teams to provide visibility on the impacts on the operations environment once implemented.

Skills required:

  • Expertise across Operations and Application Development/Deployment (DevOps).
  • Experience with Functional Tools Strategy (Create Frameworks, Reference libraries).
  • Data Strategy for Operations - Identify Existing, how it's used/should be captured (Big Data).
  • Operational Consulting for changing IT landscapes and methodologies (Agile).
  • Consulting on Continuous Delivery frameworks/models and resulting impact.
  • Experience providing "Proof of concept" for Ops strategies, prototyping and modelling.
  • A deep understanding of OPS Strategy, frameworks and models in enterprise organizations.
  • Be a very structured thinker and have the ability to ask the right questions and chair Performance Engineering/Ops meetings to ensure the right outcomes.
  • An appreciation for System Performance, Resilience, High Availability and Capacity (Demand Management).
  • A Strong Holistic Technical Background spanning a multiple disciplines eg Development, Networks, Infrastructure (Servers, Databases) and an understanding of how they all relate.
    • Experience in Banking/Finance, Telco, Gaming, Media, High Frequency Trading, eBanking/eCommerce, and Distributed Systems an advantage.
    • Strong analytical and communication skills; a passion and drive for technical excellence.

Keywords: Tools Applications, Development, Operations, DevOps, Networks, Infrastructure, Servers, Databases, Performance, Resilience, High Availability, Capacity, Demand Management, Enterprise Wide, Projects, eCommerce, Tuning, Optimization, Solution, Architecture.

If this position interests you, please submit your Resume via the 'Apply Now' button or email. Or for further information please contact Daniel Nicholson quoting reference GODOFOPS.

Unfortunately this opportunity does not offer visa sponsorship so please only apply if you already have full working rights for Australia.

All communications will be treated as confidential and the more we know about you the better we can help you ...

iKas International Finance Technology Specialists

Start date
ASAP
Duration
12 months
From
iKas International
Published at
30.07.2013
Project ID:
574461
Contract type
Freelance
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