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Stamford

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Seeking a release. deployment build engineer with some ANT/Maven in a UNIX, LINUX environment

Description:

Job Title - Environment Configuration Engineer
The eCommerce QA team is responsible foyesr all testing activities for a new cross-product online trading application within UBS Investment Bank. Team members cover a variety of roles including test management and coordination, business analysis, test design and test execution. The eCommerce IT team utilise agile methodologies with testing occurring throughout the lifecycle, iteration by iteration with a strong emphasis on automated testing and short release cycles.

Your job will involve:

Environment Configuration Management and Support

• Supporting all end to end eCommerce dev, test, performance, uat and demo test environments.
• Ensure test environments access is locked down as appropriate.
• Deploying new build versions to test environments including managing the dependencies of services and builds.
• Automation of deployment process to test environments where possible, in coordination with Dev teams as needed.
• Troubleshoot technical issues with software configuration /set-up in new environments.
• Ensuring that accurate configuration data is maintained for all supported environments.
• Ensuring that development handovers comply with configuration management policy
• Coordination with central infrastructure teams as needed for any test environment matters including any future hardware acquisitions and upgrades
• Contributing to the development of standards and policies for environment maintenance and administration.
• Support complex integration testing with multiple systems and teams around the globe.
• Ensuring that technical and user release notes are maintained and that new builds are signed off and approved as appropriate.
• Support our version control processes in line with Release Management plans
• Coordination with and assistance to the production support team on any matters concerning the production and contingency environments.
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality

Quality

• Must have a good working knowledge of the software quality lifecycle.
• Maintaining standards and ensure that they adhered to, as well as proactively trying to add to these standards whenever possible.
• Taking pride in the quality of software delivered for each iteration and release.

Communication

• Must be able to communicate effectively with other development team members, project members, managers and end users.
• Must be able to participate in the discussions within the team, communicating any issues that have a project-wide scope to the necessary level
• Must be able to build relationships and work closely with our QA colleagues around the globe
• Must be able to participate in a culture of 'knowledge sharing' with the development team.
• Sharing best practices with other QA teams across UBS.

Motivation

• Must be self-motivated, setting a high level of professionalism and excellence.

Job Requirements

You are an Environment Configuration Engineer with:

• Good understanding of the software development life cycle with particular emphasis on the test phases and release management
• Demonstrable track record of providing support of test environments
• Experience of working with development teams to automate and improve deployment processes.
• Previous experience supporting test environments and releases for complex real-time applications.
• Working knowledge of SQL and RMDS databases.
• Ability to navigate around Unix /Linux environments.
• Knowledge of industry standard configuration and release/deployment processes.
• Previous experience working in an agile environment.
• Quick learner
• Ability to prioritise and organise
• Results driven - able to deliver good quality accurate solutions to tight time-scales
• Conscientious - Always give 100% to tasks assigned
• Versatile - Able to multi-task
• Team Player - Must be able to work with and participate within a large professional team
• Professional - Expect to work the hours the job demands
• Good communication skills
• Strong problem solving skills

It would be desirable for the candidate to have:

• Previous experience of ITIL Service Management (Foundation or Practitioner certificate)
• Ability to develop technical scripts to deploy all applications and solutions
• Experience of deployment automation tools (esp, BMC BladeLogic)
• Previous experience of maintaining and using a CMDB
• Previous experience working on a front office trading application
• Knowledge of messaging systems (MQ, Solace, Tibco etc)
• A good understanding of messaging protocols (FIX, Swift, XML, FpML, TOF, proprietary etc)
• Knowledge of scripting (VB, VBScript, Shell, Perl etc)
• Some experience of maintaining build scripts using Ant, Maven

You must be highly motivated with an eye for detail, strong communication skills and a track record of delivering successful projects into production.