DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

One of my globally leading financial clients in the Netherlands is urgently looking for an Ops Engineer. The ideal candidate will have the following:

•Strong communicator with an Agile mindset
•Assertive and not afraid to challenge
•Armed with excellent analytical and problem solving skills, with a critical mindset
•High focus on quality and able to convince people to contribute to this
•Methodological and structured, pays attention to details
•Result oriented, able to set the right priorities and respect deadlines
•A team player, able to work autonomously

Responsibilities
Monitors the availability and performance of the services
Configures and implements Monitoring Tooling to enable 24x7 monitoring of the entire technology stack. Monitoring (24*7) will be executed
Monitor databases (MS SQL Server), middleware, (virtual) operating system (Windows Server) and hardware (Virtual Machines). This primarily applies to Production environments but in a less formal way is relevant for Acceptance environments as well
Provides 2nd-line support, i.e. resolves incidents
This support will be 24*7.
The Ops Engineer will be part of the stand by team.
Escalates timely to the Service Manager when applicable
Identifies and resolves problems both as a result of incidents and pro-actively
Specifies, creates, tests and deploys runtime scripts (e.g. stop/start/purge/backup)
Specifies, tests and executes rollback scripts
Deploys (new versions of) an application in the Acceptance and Production environments
Takes appropriate action after deployments if the application is not working in line with what was expected
Collaborates with the Dev Engineers to ensure that the non functional requirements are met
Specifies acceptance criteria based on the application’s Statement of Service
Performs acceptance, based on these acceptance criteria
Performs Production Acceptance Tests
Ensures that the system capacity meets current and future business requirements in a cost-effective manner, proactively modelling trends and comparing with planned capacity changes for the future
Ensures that capacity changes are implemented, tested, and deployed prior to capacity needs becoming an issue
Ensures that all hardware and software within the system is suitably up-to-date, patched, supportable, secure and current
Collects and registers OCD related evidence material and ensures that OCD remains up-to-date
Ensures that the necessary risk related activities are timely performed
Follows-up Services Requests

In depth knowledge of
Windows 2012 OS
Database Administrator skills MS SQL 2014 for database server inc Always On and Stretching.
Experience and knowledge

Job scheduling & monitoring fe TWS
Agile Scrum
Role of Scrum Master (pre)
Working in the cloud
Loadbalancer for High Availbility to switch between instances and DC
ITIL processes
ARIS (Connect) is a pre.
IT (Master/Bachelor) technical degree
Proven track record in this type of role
Work experience in an Agile organization
Excellent written and spoken knowledge of English and Dutch