Application Manager, Engineer & Security Administrator

Application Manager, Engineer & Security Administrator for Microsoft Solutions

One of my leading banking clients is urgently looking for an Application Manager, Engineer & Security Administrator for Microsoft Solutions.

Job description and responsibilities

•Responsible for availability, performance, security, and lifecycle management of the applications, Windows Server, Citrix, and MS SQL databases with SSAS and SSRS components.
•Take proactive action in investigating Security requirements, define necessary work to be done, and carry out (also documentation)
•Carry out upgrades and clean installs, remove redundant databases, carry out patching, analyse capacity issues, structure processes e.g. using TFS, run (C#) scripts
•Responsible for managing and carrying out all deployments on the Production and Acceptance environments
•Facilitate the monthly business processes of the user groups. To do so, closely cooperate with end users and the Business Analysts in your team. Analyse, coordinate and resolve incidents, implement changes
•Take a lead role in the migration of whole platform with all its components into the client’s Private Cloud (IPC)
•Coordinate user management of the applications
•Coordinate and carry out IT security test procedures, e.g. related to SOX or other regulatory requirements
•Where requested, be a sparring partner in projects which are led by the Developers in your team, e.g. to ease future support and maintenance of new developments.

Your profile
•Relevant experience in application management, operations or infra roles, dealing with MS SQL Server and Windows Server
•Pro-active and hands-on attitude learns quick
•Educated and capable to understand elaborate English security policy documents
•Able to keep oversight of complex processes in a constantly changing environment, and/but deliver results
•Team player
•Strong "business sense": you have strong analytical skills and are willing to learn and understand business requests. Doing so, you develop new insights and drive towards actionable results
•You communicate and align with a wide array of global stakeholders in a natural way. You can peel down technical problems and explain root causes and work-around instructions to the business. You are fluent in Dutch and English
•In exceptional occasions if the team request you to, you are willing to work or be stand-by outside business hours
•Bachelor or master’s degree
•Understanding of, or at least interested in the following:
•Deployment processes in CDaaS and cloud environments
•IT Security
•An Agile/Scrum way of working
•Scripts e.g. to automate (regression) testing
•Financial processes related to market risk or interest rate and liquidity risk.