Derivatives Application Support Analyst - (US-NY-New York)

Derivatives Application Support Analyst - (US-NY-New York)

Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Contract
Jobcode: SCNRJA1

The open role is for a Support Specialist based in New York. 

The Environments team is a global team based in three regions, London, Singapore and New York. The team primarily supports the Derivatives IT Trade Flow department although this role will be to primarily support Derivatives Results Database applications. In addition to this primary responsibility the team provides support to the whole of Derivatives IT for several shared services. 

The team consists of 14 members. London 5 (Including Global Manager), New York 2 and Singapore 7. 

This role is varied but principally involves the following activities; 

 Provision of BAU support for the Trade Flow development teams (consists of ~80 components on various platforms) 
 Manage own project book of work. Projects range from adoption of new technologies to managing DR tests and patching cycles. 
 Manage, in conjunction with project managers, the release of code from UAT to Production. 
 Manage the code release of components from Development to UAT 
 Manage the provision of global development and UAT environments for both internal clients (developers, QA team) and external clients (other systems that hook-up to department resources) 
 Liaise with infrastructure teams where required – across NT administration, Sybase and Oracle DBAs. 
 Work closely with Change Management and Quality Assurance functions on production release cycle, ensuring environments are available and correctly configured for testing. 
 Work on process automation to improve the efficiency of both environment management and release management process. 
 Create and maintain documentation on the environment processes. 
 Continually review "the way we do things" identifying areas where we are able to improve and voice these suggestions in a constructive manner. 

Essential Desirable 
 Knowledge/Experience of: 
 Windows Server Platforms (2000 & 2003) 
 Linux Platforms (SUSE & RedHat) 
 Microsoft .NET Framework (Programming) 
 Weblogic Platform (WLS 9.x & 10.x) 
 Oracle Database (9.x, 10.x and 11.x) 
 Regular Expression 
 Basic SQL queries 
 Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) 

 Knowledge/Experience of: 
 Splunk 
 EMS 
 FOBOCA 
 Solaris 
 Sybase 
 ANT & WLST 
 J2EE Applications 
 JRocket 
 Mission Control 
 Sun JDK 
 Understanding/Knowledge of: 
 Release Management 
 Configuration Management 

Please quote your best rate and email a resume in Word that makes it obvious how you match the specification 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

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