PERFORMANCE ENGINEER (DIGITAL CHANNELS - HIGH AVAILABILITY)

Sydney  ‐ Onsite
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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 combines a dynamic range of technologies in an ultimately complex landscape. Due to an expanding remit of this teams service offering to the bank they require an engineer with expertise in the world of Digital Channels (Mobile/iOS/Android) with a focus on Operations (DevOps) System Performance, High Availability/Resilience.

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 resiliency. 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 be aligned to the firms Digital Channels stream which includes numerous high volume, transactional web portals, Mobile (iOS & Android) applications largely based on Microsoft stack (Windows Server, Wintel, IIS, .Net) with some Linux also.

The Role

This is role is aligned to Digital Channels. The ideal candidate will have a profile that has been Operations/Support focused within the Digital space and thus be a veteran problem solver but will also be able to bridge the gap between Operations and the Application layer from a solution design perspective. When making large changes to a complex environment there are considerations to be made that transcend any one technology vertical or business unit (ie Developers may not have the visibility to understand the broader impact their directions/choices may have in other area's - Ops/Infra) so it will be your role to guide and correct to the extent of your expertise. There is a heavier emphasis on the Microsoft product stack from a technical perspective and as stated, a focus on Operations (not pure Infra or Development).

Skills required:

  • Expertise in Digital Channels System Performance, High Availability across Operations (DevOps)/Support.
  • Experience in MS dominant (Windows Server, Wintel) complex heterogeneous environments.
  • Expertise across High Volume Web Portals and Mobile (iOS/Android) Applications.
  • A talent for troubleshooting/Problem Solving and the ability to lead in times of crisis.
  • A strong holistic understanding of multiple disciplines eg Development, Networks, Infrastructure (Servers, Databases) and how they all relate.
  • High level knowledge across the Microsoft Stack, Windows Server, .Net, IIS, Active Directory, Exchange etc.
  • Experience contributing to the design of robust solutions to future-proof complex technology systems.
  • Identify non-functional risks commensurate with project design and manage to or hand over for closure.
  • 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: Digital Channels, Mobile, iOS, Android, Operations, DevOps, Performance, Resilience, High Availability, Capacity, eCommerce, Tuning, Optimization, Solution, Architecture, Microsoft, Windows, IIS, .Net, Active Directory, Exchange, VMware, Hyper-V.

If this position interests you, please submit your resume via the 'Apply Now' button or email. Or for further information please contact DANIEL quoting reference quoting reference DIGITAL_RACE

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
n.a
From
iKas International
Published at
17.01.2015
Project ID:
836369
Contract type
Freelance
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