Enterprise Infra Solution Performance - Payment Systems - Sydney

The Client
Our client is one of Australia's leading and largest Financial Services Organization that has expanded its operations beyond the Australian shores. The organization has a large range of financial offerings to both public and private clients across the retail, corporate and institutional banking areas. They have a very large technical footprint that combine a dynamic range of technologies in a complex landscape.

The Team
The performance team has a very large remit, to evaluate and improve bank wide systems with a focus on high availability, performance, and reliability. This team has been organically grown over the last 24 months and now, due to their excellent success record of improvements, they have been given a wide remit and larger projects. The role, while technically aligned (Infrastructure/Operations) has a higher level remit almost like that of a Technical/Solution Architect as you'll look at how all areas/layers with the environment (Application, Infra, Network) interrelate and ultimately affect large, high volume payment portals. Essentially you'll be responsible for the analysis these systems and to work with the business to optimize, eliminate bottlenecks and project future usage. From there, you will be required to design robust solutions to future-proof their complex financial systems.

The Role
Currently this team is working on increasing the performance of high volume payment systems and planning for increases in capacity across the various divisions within the organization. To be successful in this role you'll have a background in working with mission critical payment systems as an Infrastructure focused Solution Engineer or Technical Architect but you must also have an appreciation and demonstrated understanding of how the infrastructure layer relates to networking and application layers.

You will have strong experience with infrastructure that forms the platforms for payment/transactional systems (eg BPay, SWIFT, FIX) as there may be some hands-on optimization and configuration work, but the role is more of a higher level/architecture/solutions role with a broader remit, looking at the bigger picture to help identify bottlenecks, recommend solutions, streamline, tweak and advise on longer term capacity needs. You must have experience with complex, high volume payment portals and applications. Ideally, if you have experience in Telco, Gaming, Media, High Frequency Trading, eBanking/eCommerce, and Distributed Systems, this will be at an advantage.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

- Strong background in Infrastructure Solutions/Design (Windows/Linux/Unix) - Ideally exposure to both.
- Excellent knowledge with high volume Payment/Transactional Processing Systems Bpay, SWIFT, FIX).
- An understanding of how the Infra layer relies on the Network/Application layers.
- Experience performance tuning large, complex web portals and/or Back End systems - experience in Telco, Gaming/Betting, Trading Systems would be advantageous.
- Strong experience with Capacity and Performance managing of large scale technology systems.
- Strong Holistic Technical Background spanning a multiple disciplines.
- Strong analytical and communication skills.
- Experience working with Solution designers/Architects.

Keywords:
Payment systems, transactional, Online Banking, Finance, Infrastructure, Web, Portal, Performance, Capacity, Servers, Websites, SQL, Oracle, Biztalk, Middleware, Analysis, eCommerce, Systems, Databases, Tuning, Optimization

If this position interests you, please submit your Resume via the 'Apply Now' button or email. Or for further information please contact DANIEL NICHOLSON quoting reference PAYMENTAL.

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