Responsibilities
1. Responsible for co-ordination of all test environment delivery activities including provision, configuration, application deployment and validation
2. Coordinate planning and scheduling of environment for multiple phases within a project and/or multiple small projects
3. Forecast environment and data requirements based on anticipated future demand from multiple application teams
4. Responsible for implementing and managing the environment process and strategy
5. Responsible for monitoring and controlling the performance of test environments
6. Communicate test environment availability to stakeholders
7. Measure and monitor progress to ensure environments are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations
8. Provide technical guidance to enable others in solving technical queries
9. Perform system deployment and upgrade activities of CRM and middleware systems (manual and automated)
10. Recommend test system architecture configuration to meet project requirements
11. Configure systems and data to meet project requirements
12. Generate environment systems descriptions and architectural documentation of test systems to meet project requirements
13. Manage data catalogue, data creation and cleanup activities, and test data compliance
14. Troubleshoot, triage and resolve system and application issues across a wide range of systems, applications and infrastructure
15. Track the environment progress and proactively find issues, and work to improve the process by defining RCA and other assets.
16. Ensure that appropriate communication and reporting is performed, keeping all the relevant stakeholders informed
17. Lead and manage a team, offering the appropriate balance of supervision and empowerment, ensuring all members are adhering to engineering best practices
18. Manage hardware installation, migration and decommissioning activities
19. Prepare physical infrastructure in support of project test requirements, including hardware installation, configuration, cabling and equipment requirements for project activities
Qualifications
20. Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
21. Desirable:ISTQB Foundation CertificationAdditional course or certification in Quality EngineeringCertification IT Service Management Certification (ITIL) and Cloud computing fundamentals
Essential skills
22. Ability to communicate and work closely with the project managers, application development and testing teams on environments planning
23. Identifies environment priorities by assessing project objectives, such as efficiency, estimating relevance, time and costs
24. Good understanding of infrastructure, network, applications and middleware
25. Good understanding on the application deployment process
26. Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve the way business is done
27. Ability to consistently deliver to deadlines
28. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
29. Ability to lead/influence technical teams
30. Strong business analysis and organizational skills
31. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
32. Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex systems issues
33. Coding and scripting ability to perform system deployments
34. Ability to generate graphical system architectures (Visio,, etc)
35. Ability to carry out hands on tasks such as hardware installation, system configuration, physical troubleshooting
36. Ability to perform physical complex cabling (copper, fibre), and make cable connection terminations (CAT 5/6, PSTN)
Desired skills
37. Knowledge of relevant Test Environment & software management tools: Atlassian products, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, GitHub, Subversion
38. Data Centre management knowledge
39. Cloud concepts and virtualisation knowledge
Experience
40. 3+ years of previous Environment management or relevant experience
41. Telecoms expertise, proficient in Fixed and Mobile network technologies and terminology
42. Good applications/technology knowledge with practical experience of engineering tools and platforms required to deliver working environments
43. Knowledge of software development lifecycle
44. Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion
45. Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills
46. Technical expertise in one of the scripting languages (Shell, Python,
47. Strong Linux OS expertise
48. Knowledge on SQL database and handling queries
49. Proficient in Oracle Service Bus
50. Software installation and deployment experience
51. Coding & automation abilities (Java, Selenium)
Benefits
At 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.
52. Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges
53. We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
54. Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
55. Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
56. 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.