I am recruiting for a Windows Site Reliability Engineer for our client within the financial services industry.
All potential candidates should read through the following details of this job with care before making an application.
This is a great opportunity to work for a global bank, the initial 6 months contract is likely to have further extensions.
You must have exceptional MS Windows Server experience for this role, which is based on-site in London Monday - Friday
Windows Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Length: 6 Months +
Location: London - City - on-site Monday - Friday
Day Rate: Negotiable upon experience
Key Skills:
Essential:
* Exceptional skills in Microsoft Windows Server internals and related technologies
* Excellent skills in managing and maintaining Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, LDAP and Kerberos
* Extensive experience in hardware performance monitoring and tuning complex low latency systems.
* Agile, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps Principles and practices
* Exceptional knowledge of scripting and programming languages such as PowerShell, Python and C#
* Fluent in Backup and Recovery processes and procedures
* Advanced knowledge of Clustering, High-Availability, Replication and Disaster Recovery techniques
* Ability to tune Network, Storage, Server and Virtualisation layers for optimal performance and reliability
* Excellent Performance Tuning skills, in-depth knowledge of system internals, performance counters and performance measurement and analysis tools.
* Ability to interpret and implement CIS security hardening recommendations in a controlled manner
* Acute awareness of Security and Auditing requirements in a regulated environment
“Infrastructure as Code” Principles and practices.
* “Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development (CD)” Principles and practices
* Git, Ansible, Terraform and TeamCity
* Serena Deployment Automation (SDA) and Jenkins
Highly Desirable:
* Experience on writing, managing plays/playbooks on AWX / Ansible Tower
* Advance working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker container orchestration
* Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase ASE, MongoDB and Snowflake
* IBM Tivoli / Netcool
* Nutanix HCI and VMWare ESX
* Networking Protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN’s)
* RHEL, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris and related technologies
* Cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle
* Knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX
Desirable:
* Dell EMC PowerStore (SAN) and Isilon (NAS)
* Rubrik, EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
* CyberArk
* Splunk
* Qualys
* Cisco Tetration
* ServiceNow
* JIRA and Confluence