IT Environment Management & Deployment Engineer (Contract)

Key Responsibilities

• Provision and configure project environments required for System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, System Availability Testing, and Performance Testing.
• Manage and monitor test environments throughout the testing lifecycle, ensuring environments are available and fit for purpose.
• Provide regular updates to project stakeholders on environment readiness, status, dependencies, risks, and issues.
• Manage key environment related dates and deliverables, proactively highlighting potential risks, conflicts, and delays.
• Provide hands on environment support during test execution and troubleshoot environment related issues.
• Deploy application development builds, configuration changes, patches, and other technical changes across test and production environments.
• Review deployment instructions and execute application deployments in accordance with established procedures and controls.
• Work closely with Change Managers and relevant technology teams to coordinate releases and ensure appropriate change management processes are followed.
• Collaborate with global technology teams to coordinate and support environment related changes across different locations and time zones.
• Support configuration management and maintain consistency across application environments.
• Analyse technical requirements and translate them into environment configuration and deployment activities.
• Work closely with development, QA, infrastructure, application support, and project teams to resolve deployment and environment issues.
• Support defect investigation and resolution using tools such as JIRA and other project or incident management platforms.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in IT
• Bachelor degree in computer science or similar relevant education background.
• Strong hands on experience with Linux / UNIX operating systems.
• Mandatory experience with J2EE application environments and JBoss application servers.
• Good understanding of application environment management, configuration management, deployment, and release processes.
• Experience with Temenos T24 and its underlying architecture is highly desirable.
• Experience with deployment and release tools such as ARA and Octopus is an advantage.
• Experience with JIRA or similar Agile project and defect management tools.
• Working knowledge of Oracle and/or MySQL databases across different platforms.
• Understanding of different operating systems and basic Microsoft Office tools.
• Understanding of automated change management tools and processes is an advantage.
• Good understanding of testing procedures, environment readiness, and test execution support.
• Previous experience in banking or financial services environments is strongly preferred.
• Experience in Environment Management, Release Management, Deployment Management, or Application Support.
• Exposure to Agile and DevOps methodologies.
• Understanding of ITIL processes and best practices.
• ITIL certification is desirable.

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