Operations Engineer in Chichester, West Sussex

Operations Engineer
8 Month contract
£193.20 per day (Inside IR35)
Hybrid - 3 days per week in Chichester

My client, in the automotive industry are looking for an Operatations Engineer to join their fast-paced team on an initial 8 month contract.

The Operations Engineer is responsible for the implementation and operations of Sales/Aftersales IT solutions. Optimisation of existing processes and practices along with harmonisation where applicable with all relevant company standards.

Technical leadership with respect to Operational management - focus 3 distinct areas' (PIC Processes)
Incident management - focus on resolution of issues in real time.
Problem management - focus on preventing incidents and reducing their impacts.
Change management - focus on long term robust solutions.

More details on the responsibilities on the role-
* Design and support, by the use of automation, End-to End testing, through to implementation and production support for existing and new solutions.
* Provide input on solution design from all aspects including usability, capacity, security and monitoring.
* Provide technical expertise to delivery teams to ensure that the business requirements are successfully implemented.
* Managing communications constructively and confidently, fostering trust and respect; negotiation and influencing skills used to obtain positive outcomes from every relationship.
* On call support as and when required by the team

Key Accountabilities
Collaborating with the Business Operations Lead and Design Operations Lead to ensure operational security, maintenance, and governance.
Project management of the implementation of design changes in IT Solutions in line within Agile Working Model.
IT Build and IT Run of the assigned IT Solutions.
IT Business Relationship Management with customers in the assigned UK locations

Skills & Qualifications required
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent level of technical experience
Demonstrable experience in IT with an in-depth track record in design, deployment and operation of environments.
Ability in the DevOps and Agile toolchains with coding capability.
Ability to self-lead and work in a dynamic agile team environment.
Excellent technical understanding of monitoring and logging techniques and tooling to proactively assess application performance, faults, and capacity planning across all areas.

Experience with the below technologies and tools:
SAP Modules, SD, VMS, VC
Scripting languages
Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of operating systems Linux and/or Windows Server
Web/Application technologies, e.g. ISS and Apache
Windows NTFS permissions and Windows Active Directory
Transactional Datastores (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server).
Transport layers such as KAFKA, MQ and RESTful API
Collaboration toolkits (e.g. Jira and Confluence) in an agile environment.
Security (SSL, OAM authentication and PKI)
Testing Tools like Xray, Selenium and JMeter
Source Control (Preferably Git or BitBucket).
Preferred) Experience with frontend language Angular, and backend language .NET Core.
(Preferred) Platform as a Service (ideally Kubernetes).
(Preferred) Public Cloud technologies (AWS, and/or Azure)

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.