Build and Deployment Manager required urgently for a Tier 1 Investment Bank based in London. This is an initial 6 month contract paying market rates. The ideal candidate will have the following:
Responsibilities
- Ensure the development team's software is continually and automatically built, deployed, and tested throughout the development lifecycle
- Facilitate the ownership of the development infrastructure, ensuring the infrastructure is well maintained, issues are quickly resolved, and that its capabilities are continuously improved by the team as a whole
- Liaison with IT infrastructure, QA, Support, and other teams involved with testing, deploying, and maintaining environment infrastructure and applications
- Help the team troubleshoot and resolve issues with deployment, environments, server systems, etc.Skills/experience required
* Previous experience working on green-field applications; confident self-starter
* Good knowledge of Linux-based Java application server environments, including OS, JVM, application server, database servers, web servers, networking, and shell scripting
* Thorough understanding of development and testing infrastructure technology, including CI servers (Hudson, etc.), build tools (Maven, Ant, etc.), automated test tools (JUnit, , etc.) Source Control Systems (Perforce, Subversion, etc.) and scripting languages (Bash, Korn or powershell).
* Excellent understanding of database delta & data management with CI
* Highly desirable: Tomcat, Hudson, dbdeploy or HP DMA, bash, bladelogic
* Must have experience with Agile project methodology and development teams, including Continuous Integration (CI). Experience of using Agile requirements management tools (e.g. JIRA / Greenhopper, Mingle)
* Experience of regularly deploying software to production systems, and the configuration and use of tools for automating this process
Please apply for immediate consideration.