Test Environments Manager – Senior Technical Engineer

Job title:

Test Environments Manager – Senior Technical Engineer

Company

Expleo

Job description

OverviewYou will act as a Senior Technical Manager of environments, applications and data for large programmes. You will manage available frameworks and tools to drive the activity of environments and data management across IT to focus on the needs of the client and manage test environment planning and bookings. You must have a wide range of experience across many technical platforms with a high-level understanding of IT architecture, design, networking, application operational service and support.#expleoIJResponsibilities

• Responsible for co-ordination of all test environment delivery activities including provision, configuration, application deployment and validation
• Coordinate planning and scheduling of environment for multiple phases within a project and/or multiple small projects
• Forecast environment and data requirements based on anticipated future demand from multiple application teams
• Responsible for implementing and managing the environment process and strategy
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling the performance of test environments
• Communicate test environment availability to stakeholders
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure environments are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations
• Provide technical guidance to enable others in solving technical queries
• Perform system deployment and upgrade activities of CRM and middleware systems (manual and automated)
• Recommend test system architecture configuration to meet project requirements
• Configure systems and data to meet project requirements
• Generate environment systems descriptions and architectural documentation of test systems to meet project requirements
• Manage data catalogue, data creation and cleanup activities, and test data compliance
• Troubleshoot, triage and resolve system and application issues across a wide range of systems, applications and infrastructure
• Track the environment progress and proactively find issues, and work to improve the process by defining RCA and other assets.
• Ensure that appropriate communication and reporting is performed, keeping all the relevant stakeholders informed
• Lead and manage a team, offering the appropriate balance of supervision and empowerment, ensuring all members are adhering to engineering best practices
• Manage hardware installation, migration and decommissioning activities
• Prepare physical infrastructure in support of project test requirements, including hardware installation, configuration, cabling and equipment requirements for project activities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience

• Desirable:

• ISTQB Foundation Certification
• Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering
• Certification IT Service Management Certification (ITIL) and Cloud computing fundamentals

Essential skills

• Ability to communicate and work closely with the project managers, application development and testing teams on environments planning
• Identifies environment priorities by assessing project objectives, such as efficiency, estimating relevance, time and costs
• Good understanding of infrastructure, network, applications and middleware
• Good understanding on the application deployment process
• Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve the way business is done
• Ability to consistently deliver to deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to lead/influence technical teams
• Strong business analysis and organizational skills
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex systems issues
• Coding and scripting ability to perform system deployments
• Ability to generate graphical system architectures (Visio, Draw.io, etc)
• Ability to carry out hands on tasks such as hardware installation, system configuration, physical troubleshooting
• Ability to perform physical complex cabling (copper, fibre), and make cable connection terminations (CAT 5/6, PSTN)

Desired Skills

• Knowledge of relevant Test Environment & software management tools: Atlassian products, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, GitHub, Subversion
• Data Centre management knowledge
• Cloud concepts and virtualisation knowledge

Experience

• 3+ years of previous Environment management or relevant experience
• Telecoms expertise, proficient in Fixed and Mobile network technologies and terminology
• Good applications/technology knowledge with practical experience of engineering tools and platforms required to deliver working environments
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion
• Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills
• Technical expertise in one of the scripting languages (Shell, Python, etc.)
• Strong Linux OS expertise
• Knowledge on SQL database and handling queries
• Proficient in Oracle Service Bus
• Software installation and deployment experience
• Coding & automation abilities (Java, Selenium)

BenefitsAt Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and a substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help our you achieve a healthy work life balance.By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy – enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.At Expleo, we understand that many people experience impostor syndrome throughout their lifetime, please do not let this discourage you from applying for this role. Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes all CV’s and will consider your application in line with the values, requirements and role competencies.

Expected salary

Location

Dublin

Job date

Sun, 23 Jun 2024 05:41:33 GMT

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