Overview

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As a Mainframe Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation, and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets, and architecture outcomes. You’ll also develop products using modern engineering practices and tools. You’ll collaborate with product owners to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team\'s products, respond to customer feedback and new feature requests, resolve production issues, and help customers consume our products.

Responsibilities

• People manage a team, developing skillsets and capabilities to support strategic outcomes
• Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
• Support strategic observability, maintaining awareness of service, creating operational views of data, and supporting targets for the team
• Provide operational support for product and service issues, acting as technical escalation for the technologies supported by your team
• Liaise with SysOps leadership, product owners, and other stakeholders to maintain and deliver the workload backlog, focusing on automation and removing inefficiencies
• Lead a team of Mainframe Analysts in a critical on-site 24/7 fast-paced environment, role-model engineering practices to deliver high-quality service and strategic outcomes
• Leverage SRE and DevOps principles to develop and maintain automation, reducing manual tasks and human errors
• Collaborate with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, and develop, configure, and manage products and tooling to meet current and future requirements

Skills you'll need

• Experience managing a technical operations team and understanding of the capabilities and technologies the team delivers
• Experience in an Agile environment using Scrum and Kanban (Jira or similar tools) and a good understanding of Agile practices
• DevOps/CI\CD experience would be advantageous; experience with Python, Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell
• Experience with observability tools and using data to improve solutions
• Extensive experience with mainframe technologies (IBM Z Series hardware) and related products (CA7, CICS, DB2, Connect:Direct, RACF, MQ, WebSphere)
• Experience with tooling such as Grafana, Splunk, and ServiceNow
• Strong collaborative communication skills for articulating technical concepts to stakeholders
• Understanding of the management and execution of controls

Package & Working Arrangements

This role will require shift patterns. The client requires the successful candidate to work 4 days on and 4 days off, split between 2 days shifts back to back followed by 2 night shifts back to back.

• Salary £54,000 - £68,000 Base
• Guaranteed Bonus - £13,500 per year for committing to the night shifts
• Guaranteed Bonus - 10% Cash Benefits Bonus
• Performance Bonus (Discretionary)
• 10% Pension contributions

If you are happy to commit to the working arrangements and this role is of interest, please apply and, if your profile meets our client\'s requirements, we will reach out within 48 hours.

Location

Edinburgh, UK

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