Infrastructure Analyst, Middleware Application - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Join us as an Infrastructure Analyst, Middleware Application Runtime

Hone your analytical and technical skills as you provide support to ensure the operational health of the platform, covering all aspects of service, risk, cost and people
You'll be supporting the platforms' operational stability and technology performance, including maintaining any system's utilities and tools provided by the platform
This is an opportunity to learn a variety of new skills in a constantly evolving environment, working closely with the feature teams to continuously enhance your development

What you'll do

As an Infrastructure Analyst, you'll be providing input into and supporting the team's activities to make sure that platform integrity is maintained in line with technical roadmaps, while supporting change demands from domains or Centres of Excellence.

You'llbe supporting the delivery of a robust production management service for relevant infrastructure platforms.

In addition, you'll be contributing to the delivery of customer outcomes, innovation and early learning by helping with test products and services to identify early on if they are viable and deliver the desired outcomes.

Your role will involve:

Contributing to the platform risk culture, making sure that risks are discussed and understood at every step, and effectively collaborating to mitigate risk
Helping with the planning and execution of work within the platform and the timely servicing of feature development requests from crossplatform initiatives, and supporting the delivery of regulatory reporting
Participating and seeking out opportunities to simplify the platform infrastructure, architecture, services and customer solutions, guarding against introducing new complexity
Building relationships with platform, domain and relevant crossdomain stakeholders
Making sure that controls are applied and constantly reviewed, primarily against SOX, to ensure full compliance to all our policies and regulatory obligations

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you'll need to be a very capable communicator with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly to colleagues, including management level.

You'll need a solid background of working in an Agile or DevOps environment withcontinuous delivery and continuous integration.

In addition, you'll have experience with at least one of the following, Unix platform RHEL, Wsadmin scripting tool, Shell Scripting, Jython, Python, UrbanCode Deploy, Automation WAS builds, component templates, plugins, API calls, CI/CD tooling, GIT, Bitbucket,Jira, Confluence, TeamCity or Artifactory.

We'll also look to you to demonstrate:

Significant experience in WebSphere administration, building complex WebSphere environments with underlying automation principles
Knowledge of WebSphere Application Server v8.5.5 upwards and WebSphere Liberty, alongside IBM HTTP Server
Exposure to DX APM or other performance monitoring tools and good collaboration or stakeholder management skills
Exposure to working with Agile and Scrum, Containerisation Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes or other products
An understanding of relevant industry standard toolsets and processes to drive up customer service within an IT environment