Job Description

I am recruiting for a Windows Site Reliability Engineer for our client within the financial services industry.

This is a great opportunity to work for a global bank, the initial 6 months contract is likely to have further extensions.

You must have exceptional MS Windows Server experience for this role, which is based on-site in London Monday - Friday

Windows Site Reliability Engineer

Contract Length: 6 Months +

Location: London - City - on-site Monday - Friday

Day Rate: £400.00 - Outside IR35

Key Skills:

Essential:

* Exceptional skills in Microsoft Windows Server internals and related technologies

* Excellent skills in managing and maintaining Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, LDAP and Kerberos

* Extensive experience in hardware performance monitoring and tuning complex low latency systems.

* Agile, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps Principles and practices

* Exceptional knowledge of scripting and programming languages such as PowerShell, Python and C#

* Fluent in Backup and Recovery processes and procedures

* Advanced knowledge of Clustering, High-Availability, Replication and Disaster Recovery techniques

* Ability to tune Network, Storage, Server and Virtualisation layers for optimal performance and reliability

* Excellent Performance Tuning skills, in-depth knowledge of system internals, performance counters and performance measurement and analysis tools.

* Ability to interpret and implement CIS security hardening recommendations in a controlled manner

* Acute awareness of Security and Auditing requirements in a regulated environment

“Infrastructure as Code” Principles and practices.

* “Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development (CD)” Principles and practices

* Git, Ansible, Terraform and TeamCity

* Serena Deployment Automation (SDA) and Jenkins

Highly Desirable:

* Experience on writing, managing plays/playbooks on AWX / Ansible Tower

* Advance working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker container orchestration

* Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase ASE, MongoDB and Snowflake

* IBM Tivoli / Netcool

* Nutanix HCI and VMWare ESX

* Networking Protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN’s)

* RHEL, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris and related technologies

* Cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle

* Knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX