Description
Background:
My client, a large bank in Brussels, is seeking an Operations Analyst to join their Windows Production Integration team which ensures the transition of Windows applications into the production environment. The team takes care of deployment of applications within test, pre-production and production environments/implementation of operational scripts, procedures and tools/analysis of the impacts of a new/modified applications on the production environment.
In addition the team ensures applications can be operated into the production environment in a simple and efficient way and organises the scheduling of jobs into the most efficient sequence.
Although the role is for a January 2014 start, we invite CVs already as interviews will be held before Christmas.
Tasks:
- Deployment and Configuration of Windows applications for the test, pre-production and production environments (automated & manual), liaising with the developers, testers and infrastructure experts (system engineers, security engineers, DBAs, etc).
- Validation of the operational documentation (including scenario of launch in Production) for the deployment and configuration of Windows application.
- Creation and validation of procedure and operational scripts to automate the deployment and configuration of Windows application ensuring the traceability of launch activities.
- Review of the architecture of the applications and ensure they can be released into the production environment in a simple and efficient way according to internal guidelines.
- Provide second level support to Production Operations - available for on call duties during certain weekends. ie. work outside of business hours is sometimes required as launches in production are generally performed during out-of-office hours.
Essential Skills:
A background in development on Windows Server is essential (System Engineering experience is not required for this position). However, it's not a pure development role, the candidate should be interested in the various aspects of integration of applications running on a Windows infrastructure (Security, network, Middleware).
- Windows Server (2000 and/or 2003 and/or 2008);
- Visual Basic (VB6 and/or VB.NET);
- SQL Server (2000 and/or 2005 and/or 2008);
- Scripting (VBS and/or Perl);
- Problem solving and lateral thinking mindset;
Nice to have skills (but not essential):
- MS Internet Information Server (IIS), MS COM+, ASP.NET;
- Notions of security & architecture (clustering, load balancing, DMZ);
Experience of working in a similar, high availability environment (Conscious and focussed on the controls required to assure the required service levels) is a plus.
Language: English.