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Application Support / DevOps Engineer
Perth, Glasgow or Aberdeen - Hybrid working
6 Month Contract
£500 - £600/day inside IR35
Lorien's Utilities client are currently recruiting for an Application Support / DevOps Engineer to join on a 6 month initial contract, inside IR35.
Skills / Experience
- Sufficient functional and business awareness to become an effective technical support to functional analysts and developers
- A proactive approach with the ability to prioritise own workload within demanding schedules
- Strong written and verbal skills
- Able to take ownership of problems and requests as well as the ability to work in a pressurised environment
- Excellent technical computing, analysis, design and development skills to a proven professional level
- A systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving
Key Accountabilities
- With minimal support, diagnose and resolve incidents and problems.
- Working to defined standards, provide support, estimation, design and development input into new developments to our core applications.
- Provide support to the monitoring and reporting of the supported systems performance.
- With guidance, provide configuration changes to our core applications as deemed necessary.
- Provide support of the release and change management processes required to implement technical changes to our core applications.
- Provide support in ensuring the quality of the technical application elements of internal projects throughout the development lifecycle.
- Undertake the validation and verification of technical deliverables through QA and test processes.
- Using experience, provide guidance and technical input of own area through, knowledge transfer, one to one workshop, mentoring to other teams as required.
- With general guidance, provide input into tasks required for the effective management of red alert, incident and problem management processes.
- Provide out of hours support as required and agreed with the Delivery Lead.
- With guidance, provide impact assessment, deployment and regression support of infrastructure support packs and patches
- Provide input into the definition and documentation of the technical delivery policy, process, standards and documentation templates.
- Provide vendor liaison support and maintain the relationship with third parties.
- Create and maintain good working relationships with key contacts.
- Undertake tasks to ensure the access and security development and test assets as required.
- Collaborating with product owners and team members to define, develop, test and deliver system improvements.
Experience
- Experience from a similar support or development role in supporting business critical systems in a medium/large organisation
- Three year or more experience working within application system support environment
- Familiarity with change management process for critical business systems
- Previous experience working on a standby rota is desirable but not essential
Should this position be of interest please submit your CV and I will be in contact as required.
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
