SDPE/FAME Consultant

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  • Job Location: Germany
  • Type: Contract
  • Posted: 12/09/2019

Our client based in Frankfurt, Germany are looking for a SDPE/FAME Consultant. This position is an initial AUG contract until the end of 2019 with the potential to be extended until the end of 2020.

You are an expert with 5+ years’ experience for the execution of maintenance and support of operations related to the SDPE/FAME Services technical service, to maintain stability of operations. Additional to a solid technical background, you are required to work directly on the service delivery – good communication, problem solving skills and service orientation is expected.

Technical Skills and Duties:

Specifically, the following services are required:

• Provision of support for SDPE/FAME-related matters during the lifecycle of the mentioned service and for the technical services in specifications, integration, test, acceptance and deployment stages, including:
o Performing the deployment of SDPE/FAME-related services in the development, test and production environments, including assessment, engineering (prototyping and procedure build), change management, implementation and handover assisting Data Centre Operations in the roll-out and post implementation;
o requesting required firewall rules and load balancers, including providing network firewall matrix for the SDPE/FAME Services components and environments;
o documenting installation, operational procedures for further deployments by the Data Centre Operations, including documenting SDPE/FAME Services Releases deliverables (such as operational acceptance);
o providing information regarding SDPE/FAME Services requested by other Client services;
o Guide business users on how to make use of the provided services.
• Maintain SDPE/FAME Services on Solaris 11 with its administration and troubleshooting; including central management, definition of standard and custom monitoring and performing preventive or remedial maintenance.
• Configure Solaris cluster on Solaris 11 including administration and troubleshooting, definition of standard and custom monitoring and performing preventive or remedial maintenance.
• Provide support for preparation and execution of recovery and contingency exercises.

The scope of these services includes the following components:

• UNIX Servers (Solaris OS)
• FAME software (Market Map Analytical Platform: Server, Time IQ, Web Factory)
• SPD – Oracle database (Hosted on Exadata)
• FAME Populator
• Open Text Exceed Emulation
• Perl
• JAVA (Oracle JDK and Open JDK)
• R software (Oracle R Distribution for Solaris SPARC)
• Tomcat Servers (SDPE Portal, EXDI Uploader)

Solid knowledge and experience in most of the following fields is deemed important:

• Engineering, supporting and maintaining mission-critical Solaris based systems, including problem solving, performance tuning and capacity planning;
• Supporting the lifecycle of a technical service, both in terms of running and improving it: defining system specifications, supporting its installation, integration, test, acceptance and deployment to production; providing third level support of the service, while maintaining agreed service level agreements and deadlines;
• Solaris 10 / 11 and high availability / cluster solutions;
• Solaris 10 / 11 partitioning and virtualization ;
• ardening of Solaris 10 / 11;
• ZFS File System Administration;
• Experience interfacing Solaris with volumes hosted within Storage Area Networks;
• Scripting: shell, korn, bash, PERL;
• Networking (TCP/IP, Firewall technology…) and system security;
• Client/Server architecture and virtualization technology (zones, ldoms, containers…);
• Relational and/or time series databases;
• Good understanding and relevant experience working with ITIL processes, particularly change, incident and problem management;
• Writing design documentation and technical procedures.

The following behavioural competencies are expected:

• Sense of initiative and ownership;
• good analytic problem-solving skills;
• commitment to the achievement of team and organisational goals;
• ability to manage multiple assignments and track progress on numerous processes simultaneously;
• diplomacy and tact when dealing with colleagues and customers;
• aptitude to communicate ideas with simple/clear words or images;
• service-orientation

If this position is of interest, please apply, or alternatively please contact Matt at Capital International Staffing for more information:

matkins@capital-staff.com
+44 (0) 1444 238 919

SDPE | FAME | Service | Engineering | Germany | IT Services

Capital International Staffing Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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