Description
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 combine a dynamic range of technologies in an ultimate complex landscape.
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. The role is a highly technical Solution Performance position with a focus predominantly on MS/Wintel stack and related peripheral technologies but also covers some UNIX/Linux as well. You'll be responsible for analysis of extremely large application systems and working with the business to project future usage. From there, you will be required to design robust solutions to future-proof their complex financial systems and contribute to incident resolution focusing MS Technical stack: Windows Server, AD, VMware/Hyper-V etc.
The Role
Currently this team is working on increasing the performance, high availability and capacity of various internal and external banking applications and portals across the various divisions within the organization. To be successful in this role you'll ideally have a background working with mission critical systems as a MS/Wintel Systems Engineer. You must also have an appreciation and demonstrated understanding of how the application layer relates to networking and infrastructure layers.
You will have strong experience with Back End, Server Side administration and applications. There will be some hands-on configuration and issue resolution work, but the role is more of a higher level/architecture/solutions role with a broader remit, looking at the bigger picture to help identify bottlenecks, recommend solutions, streamline, tweak and advise on longer term performance and capacity needs. You must have experience with complex, high volume web portals and applications.
Responsibilities include:
- Evaluating bank wide systems across multiple technologies. Design robust solutions to future-proof their complex financial systems.
- High level performance incident resolution focusing on IIS, .NET, Active Directory, Windows Server, MS MQ, SQL Server, UNIX and Linux systems.
- Scope solution design and ensure fit for purpose on the metrics of traceability/availability.
- Perform complex technical capacity planning that evaluates for project changes, demand fluctuations and growth.
- Identify non-functional risks commensurate with design and manage to closure.
- Provide technical requirements documents/guidelines for operational monitoring.
- Create non-functional test cases (performance, load etc ) to mitigate risks.
- Provide recommendations to business for further investment in capacity.
Skills required:
- Strong background in Systems Administration (Windows/Wintel/IIS/Active Directory/Hyper-V) to support Applications ideally based on .Net.
- Experience performance tuning large, complex web portals and/or Back End systems - experience in Finance, Telco, Gaming/Betting, Trading Systems would be advantageous.
- An understanding of how the application layer relates to the Network/Infra layers.
- Strong experience with Capacity and Performance managing of large scale technology systems.
- Strong analytical and communication skills; a passion and drive for technical excellence.
- Experience working with Solution designers/Architects.
Keywords: .NET, Bank, Windows, Hyper-V, IIS, Active Directory, IIS, Finance, Web, Portal, Performance, Capacity, Servers, Websites, Analysis, eCommerce, Databases, Tuning, Optimization.
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 WIN_FASTER.
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iKas International Finance Technology Specialists