Platform Engineer

  • Experience and a strong passion for cloud/container technologies
  • Should have been part of at least 2 or more large scale cloud/container application rollouts, preferably w/ a vendor core banking solution like Finacle
  • Strong expertise in onboarding a vendor pre-packaged containerized application product onto Openshift/Kubernates platform
  • Deep knowledge of OpenShift templates, buildconfigs, deploymentconfigs, services, routes, configmaps, Service Mesh
  • Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Apache Tomcat, Redis, RabbitMQ, Node.js, and RESTful APIs
  • Exposure in the areas of Oracle PL/SQL coding/debugging and MQ/NDM/SFTP integration
  • Active involvement in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native microservices-based containerized applications
  • Strong Hands-on experience of CI/CD processes/methodologies and DevSecOps toolsets
  • Extensive Unix/Linux experience w/ a good grasp on Bash or any shell scripting / Python scripting
  • Good understanding of version control and continuous integration best practices
  • Experience working in Agile teams.

Also a plus if you have any of the following:

  • Experience with cloud services (Amazon EC2/S3, OpenStack) elastic capacity administration and cloud deployment and administration tools a plus
  • Good understanding of TCP/IP, load balancing clusters, server load balancing, firewalls
  • Good grasp on Job Schedulers in general, AutoSys in particular
  • Experience using an operational ticketing system to record changes and work history details such as JIRA,
  • Exposure to Node.js, Spring Framework, Microservices or Weblogic/WebSphere App Server
  • Knowledge of Application Performance Monitoring / Tuning / Load Testing and exposure to APM tools like AppDynamics / DynaTrace / Splunk
  • Conversant with SDLC automation tools like Jenkins, Test Automation tools like TOSCA/Selenium/Cucumber and with agile development practices such as TDD/BDD
  • Experience working with product and service vendors, and with the onshore-offshore delivery model.
  • Knowledge of the Wholesale Banking domain: e.g. deposits, payments, receivables, liquidity management, trade finance, commercial loans, credit management, FX.

Job Details

Company
Hirexa Solutions UK
Location
Chester, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Salary
£300 - £350 per day
Posted