Production Integrator

For one of our major clients in the financial sector, we are looking for an Operational Analyst Production Integration Windows Legacy.

Your role:

Production Integration ensures the transition of Windows applications into the production environment:
*We deploy applications within test, pre-production and production environments
*We implement operation scripts, procedures, and tools.
*We analyze the impacts of a new/modified applications on the production environment.
*We ensure applications can be operated into the production environment in a simple and efficient way.
*We organize the scheduling of jobs, processes and tasks into the most efficient sequence, maximizing throughput and utilization to meet business requirements.

The main part of the job involves:
*Deployment and Configuration of Windows applications for the test, pre-production and production environments (automated & manual), liaising with the developers, testers and infrastructure experts (system engineers, security engineers, DBA, etc.).
*Validation of the operational documentation (including scenario of launch in Production) for the deployment and configuration of Windows application.
*Creation and validation of procedure and operational scripts to automate the deployment and configuration of Windows application ensuring the traceability of launch activities.
*Review of the architecture of the applications and ensure they can be released into the production environment in a simple and efficient way according to internal guidelines.
*Provide second level support to Production Operations - available for on call duties during certain weekends.
*Work outside of business hours is sometimes required as launches in production are generally carried out after 5PM or on Saturday
*The team is based in our office of Walloon Brabant.

Your Profile:

A background in development on Windows Server is essential (System Engineering experience is not required for this position). However, it's not a mission of pure development, the candidate should be interested in the various aspects of integration of applications running on a Windows infrastructure (Security, network, Middleware).

Essential skills:
*Windows Server (2000 and/or 2003)
*Visual Basic (VB6 and/or VB.NET)
*SQL Server (2000 and/or 2005)
*Scripting (VBS and/or Perl)
*Problem solving and lateral thinking mindset

Desirable skills:
*MS Internet Information Server (IIS)
*MS COM+
*ASP.NET
*Notions of security & architecture (clustering, load balancing, DMZ)
*Experience of working in a similar, high availability environment (Conscious and focused on the controls required to assure the required service levels) is a plus.

We offer:

*A challenging position in a fast growing company with an international presence.
*A stimulating working environment with a really good team spirit maintained by lots of internal events (teambuilding).
*A dynamic culture focused on personal development.
*A wide range of training and career development opportunities.