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United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for planning, designing, monitoring, resolving blockers, managing dependencies, and managing risks for medium-sized projects and Large Programs improving release processes and ensuring the successful delivery of software solutions. Responsible for communication with senior client stakeholders across three regions (UK and US), external partners and internal engineering and support teams across the UK, Australia, and US and India Oversee Testing Quality, manage resource allocation and delegate tasks to product, project owners, legal and finance teams where required and responsible for overall quality and on-time delivery within the set budget.Clients: OTTRA, Plutora, Ministry of Justice, Agile DNA

London Area, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for Product implementation across BFSI, Retail, Telecom, Retail, Energy and IT Organisations.Responsible for developing a positive customer experience and fostering healthy working relationships and ensure existing customers are retained and provide strategic roadmap and ensure Plutora is part of the DevSecOps toolchain and processes.Contribute towards for enhancing the product by working with internal Product and Infrastructure teams.

United Kingdom

• Lead the DevOps technical Delivery and Perform Solution Architecture and Design for all DevOps, Smart Environments client requirements across multiple Business Units• Provide consultation and Implement Transformation initiatives across Cloud, DevOps & Smart Environments along with owning Communication for the overall Transformation journey• Perform DevOps Assessments and define Target DevOps state, Build the DevOps platform and work with individual business owners to on-board applications to the built platform / pipeline• Identify and document reusable components during on boarding and make effective use to reduce workload from development teams.• Provide customer feedback and internal assessment report to Core Engineering teams to strengthen the IPs / products• Architect DevOps solutions end to end (Infra provisioning on Cloud, application CI/CD, Testing integration, Feedback amplification)• Hands on with Jenkins, SonarQube, Cloud Formation, Containerization ( Docker, ECR,ECS), Ansible• Good understand of Cloud - AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and working experience on AWS and GCP

Bangalore

• Perform DevOps technical Delivery and Perform Solution Architecture and Design for all DevOps, Smart Environments client requirements across multiple Business Units• Provide consultation and Implement Transformation initiatives across Cloud, DevOps & Smart Environments along with owning Communication for the overall Transformation journey• Perform DevOps Assessments and define Target DevOps state, Build the DevOps platform and work with individual business owners to on-board applications to the built platform / pipeline• Identify and document reusable components during on boarding and make effective use to reduce workload from development teams.• Provide customer feedback and internal assessment report to Core Engineering teams to strengthen the IPs / products• Architect DevOps solutions end to end (Infra provisioning on Cloud, application CI/CD, Testing integration, Feedback amplification)• Hands on with Jenkins, SonarQube, Cloud Formation, Containerization ( Docker, ECR,ECS), Ansible• Good understand of Cloud - AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and working experience on AWS and GCP

Kingswood, Uk

• Architecting Test Environment Solutions• Managing relationship with System Integrator (IBM), Managed Service provider (TCS) and network partners (Vodafone) and ensuring each vendor is delivering services in accordance with SLAs• Services from vendors include Infrastructure support including OS, Databases, eComm, Mainframes, batch management, application deployments and support, network support, email systems.• Key activities include effective usage, rationalization of environments by commissioning and decommissioning environments as required by projects and demand• Own and run Cost reduction across Infrastructure and Operations mainly from Test Environments and where required, perform program management role for medium to small projects for cost reduction and automation initiatives • Liaison with Command Centre to ensure service up time Infrastructure projects portfolio budget forecasting and management• Infrastructure portfolio included currency obligation projects in core Infra upgrades (DB2, SQL, Windows, Linux, WAS) and also security Infra upgrades (Cloud Email security, Websense, Checkpoint, Antivirus, Tripwire)• Facilitate discussion with key stakeholders including business teams and architecture to Represent overall Infrastructure portfolio at steering committee meeting

Bristol, United Kingdom

•Accountable for uptime of end to end environments and tracking Infrastructure and application teams SLA for break-fixes and setting up of environments.• Test Infrastructure and Test Applications involving 600+ servers (HPUX, Linux, Solaris, Data power and Windows), Applications with FE (Tills / Web Self-Serve / Store FE) Middleware (Web methods, WebLogic) and back-ends (Oracle, Informix)• Working closely with Release co-coordinators to implement releases from PIT, RRT, Pre-prod and into LIVE and co-ordinate with testing teams and isolate Infrastructure or project related defect / incidents• When required perform deployments of all SOA related components and key CRM systems into test environments• Lead Role in managing the Clearcase setup which includes managing of VOB and View servers on HP-UX, Solaris and Windows and Linux systems.• Designing of Configuration Strategies for Various Projects in Base Clearcase / UCM and Sub version and managed the migration of Clearcase estate to GIT and Subversion• Writing new tools and wrappers on top of Clearcase to better manage Clearcase and make it easier for development community to perform their tasks.• Training users on Clearcase and all administrative duties for onshore and offshore like maintenance, upgrades, licensing , answering user queries

• HPUX administration activities including installation of HP-UX OS, applications, patching, fine tuning, setting up and managing of NIS Environment, Ignite-UX, storage allocation for centralized user home directory through NFS, automation to ease system admin routine tasks• Configuration management responsibilities including setting up of new projects to use Rational ClearCase, training users and all administrative duties for onshore and offshore like maintenance, upgrades, licensing, answering user queries

• HPUX administration activities including installation of HP-UX OS, applications, patching, fine tuning, setting up and managing of NIS Environment, Ignite-UX, storage allocation for centralized user home directory through NFS, automation to ease system admin routine tasks• Configuration management responsibilities including setting up of new projects to use Rational ClearCase, training users and all administrative duties for onshore and offshore like maintenance, upgrades, licensing, answering user queries

• Technical support for Desktops, Laptops, Servers covering Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of OS: Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP and Windows 9X and AIX 4.3, Applications: Microsoft outlook, Citrix, Lotus Notes Domino server and Client Systems.• Provide Service desk support as required for all user issues including network issues, lotus notes, Operating system, telephony, hardware, data recovery Data centre setup including Active directory, DNS, DHCP, File server’s setup and operations

Mba, Management Pathway

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

Diploma In Computer Science And Engg, Computer Science And Engineering