Description
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) - Newcastle - Government
Pay Rate: £522 per day
Contract Length: 20 months initially (until )
Location: North East. Newcastle
Clearance: BPSS with Disclosure Scotland
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Essential Experience:
Microsoft Certified Solution Associate (MCSA) in Windows Server 2012 Technology
Experience and application of VMWare.
Knowledge of ESXi (up to latest version).
Knowledge of vSphere (up to latest version).
Experienced in the application of Windows Server OS ).
Experience of Active Directory.
Understanding of Microsoft Technologies - DNS, DHCP, IIS, Clustering.
Demonstrable experience of WINTEL environments development and Linux based projects and day to day support in a cloud environment (Dev/Ops role).
Excellent communication skills at a technical and business level.
Demonstrable experience managing teams
Demonstrable experience of working in a high pressure, fast changing environment.
ITIL certification to Foundation
Build and configuration, administration and support of infrastructure technologies and solutions - hardware, software, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source packages/solutions, virtual and cloud including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
ITIL Service Operation (particularly Request Fulfilment, Incident/Problem/Change Management) and with experience of Service Transition
Monitoring and event management
Desirable
Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE) in Windows Server 2012 Technology
Experience of MS Dynamics 2011.
Appropriate architecture qualification - eg TOGAF.
Prince 2 or MSP certification.
Experience of the HPE Helion cloud service.
Other areas of technology and solutions - exposure to/or technical capability across projects and service life cycle eg application development, DevOps, solutions architecture
Service reporting - production of management information and reports, dashboards etc.
Supporting services that are aligned to the business strategy and operational requirements
Exposure to structured problem management and troubleshooting
Experience of ITIL Service Transition
Awareness of project methodologies such as Agile
Key tasks and deliverables
A Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Dev Ops) is required to work on the Work Sevices Platform (WSP), a Microsoft Dynamics CRM muli-tier IT system, in my client and will be based in Longbenton, Newcastle upon Tyne The WSP development platform and development and maintenance service will be brought inhouse from a third party supplier at the end of October 2016. This role will be key in transitioning the existing environment to a new cloud based one. WSP comprises MS Dynamics 2011, MS SQL server database and significant bespoke customisations. The postholder will be expected to work across other MS SQL platforms within my client. To manage the following activities, thereby ensuring the service, contractual and regulatory requirements of the organisation are met: Design and build the WINTEL environments required to host the WSP Development and Dev Test environments in the cloud service we will be using Implement the appropriate tooling and software to run the environments and deliver a development service Work on other client WINTEL or Linux based projects in a Senior Dev/Ops capacity
Description
Leading, supervising or line-managing the Dev Ops Team. Operational management of Linux Servers, delivering a complex web application stack. Building and configuring new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so. Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems. Supporting development teams with configuring applications for deployment. Have demonstrable experience configuring web and application Servers and possess a fundamental understanding of Linux. Have a strong technical foundation in build, release and environments. Have advanced Programming skills. Building and supporting a large production platform.
Please Quote Ref - JSCP0069