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Job Title: Senior Grid Engineer
Location: Remote (UK based)
Salary/Rate: Up to 726 per day INSIDE IR35
Start Date: 24/02/2025
Job Type: Contract
Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Senior Grid Engineer to join their team for a six-month contract.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
- Design and build the Grid platform in line with strategic IT architecture
- Manage and maintain the Grid platform
- Optimize cloud engine performance on Azure and AWS for efficient workload execution
- Monitor and optimize the deployment of workloads in cloud environments
- Develop and maintain automation tools using Python and Powershell
- Manage infrastructure expansions and compliance
- Make cost efficiency recommendations
- Collaborate with business, quant and other IT teams to deliver on projects
- Provide third-line technical support for the technology platform
- Act as an escalation point for troubleshooting and resolve production issues.
- Collaborate with developers to investigate and fix grid-related issues impacting grid applications
- Create and maintain detailed documentation for processes, tools and troubleshooting procedures.
Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- Ability to work in a fast paced high pressure environment, where stability and reliability is critical
- Experience with large scale Grid computing environments 100,000+ cores (DataSyanpse|Tibco GridServer / IBM Platform Symphony or similar)
- Experience developing and supporting grid applications, using Grid APIs, Java/C#/C++
- Experience with Azure and/or AWS and coding in Python and Powershell
- Strong expertise in Tibco GridServer 7.X on Windows Server
- Log Analytics (Elasticsearch/SQL/Kibana/Grafana)
- Proficiency in cloud platforms, specifically AWS and Azure
- Advanced Scripting skill using Python and Powershell for automation
- Developer knowledge of Java/C#/C++ with experience in client driver API integration
- Windows Server 2019/2022
- Enterprise monitoring tools, Geneos
Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:
- Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Jenkins
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools for distributed systems
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.
Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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