Platform Engineer

Hirexa Solutions UK

Chester, United Kingdom

3 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Compensation

£ 91K

Job location

Chester, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Tomcat

Server Applications

Application Performance Management

JIRA

Automation of Tests

CA Workload Automation Ae

Bash

Oracle WebLogic Server

Continuous Integration

Software Debugging

Distributed Systems

IBM Websphere Application Server

Issue Tracking Systems

Spring

Job Scheduling

Python

Load Testing

Node.js

Openshift

OpenStack

Systems Development Life Cycle

RabbitMQ

Redis

Cloud Services

Selenium

Shell Script

TCP/IP

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Load Balancing

Firewalls (Computer Science)

Kubernetes

REST

Cucumber

Splunk

Appdynamics

Software Version Control

Dynatrace

Devsecops

Jenkins

Microservices

Requirements

Experience and a strong passion for cloud/container technologies
Should have been part of at least 2 or more large scale cloud/container application rollouts, preferably w/ a vendor core banking solution like Finacle
Strong expertise in onboarding a vendor pre-packaged containerized application product onto Openshift/Kubernates platform
Deep knowledge of OpenShift templates, buildconfigs, deploymentconfigs, services, routes, configmaps, Service Mesh
Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Apache Tomcat, Redis, RabbitMQ, Node.js, and RESTful APIs
Exposure in the areas of Oracle PL/SQL coding/debugging and MQ/NDM/SFTP integration
Active involvement in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native microservices-based containerized applications
Strong Hands-on experience of CI/CD processes/methodologies and DevSecOps toolsets
Extensive Unix/Linux experience w/ a good grasp on Bash or any shell scripting / Python scripting
Good understanding of version control and continuous integration best practices
Experience working in Agile teams.

Also a plus if you have any of the following:

Experience with cloud services (Amazon EC2/S3, OpenStack) elastic capacity administration and cloud deployment and administration tools a plus
Good understanding of TCP/IP, load balancing clusters, server load balancing, firewalls
Good grasp on Job Schedulers in general, AutoSys in particular
Experience using an operational ticketing system to record changes and work history details such as JIRA,
Exposure to Node.js, Spring Framework, Microservices or Weblogic/WebSphere App Server
Knowledge of Application Performance Monitoring / Tuning / Load Testing and exposure to APM tools like AppDynamics / DynaTrace / Splunk
Conversant with SDLC automation tools like Jenkins, Test Automation tools like TOSCA/Selenium/Cucumber and with agile development practices such as TDD/BDD
Experience working with product and service vendors, and with the onshore-offshore delivery model.
Knowledge of the Wholesale Banking domain: e.g. deposits, payments, receivables, liquidity management, trade finance, commercial loans, credit management, FX.