Application Support / DevOps Engineer

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.