Description
Objective/Background:
My client is an international bank based in Brussels. The Production Integration team at the bank is responsible for the deployment of new and changed applications from development into the permanent test environments and the production environment with minimal disruption to production services. The WINDOWS platform supports highly mission critical, international financial systems running 24/7 and requiring very high levels of availability.
Tasks:
- As an Integration Analyst you will be responsible for the deployment of WINDOWS applications.
- 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, DBA, 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.
- Some out of hours work is required as launches in production are generally carried out outside of normal business hours.
Essential Skills:
A background in development on Windows Server is essential (System Engineering experience is not required for this position). However, this is not a role requiring pure development: 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:
- 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.
- Ideally you will have worked in the Banking sector.
Language: English.