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Configuration Manager - 12 Month FTC

£50,000 - £60,000
Surrey
NW17998

Our client, based in Redhill, are an exceptional financial services organisation who operate globally – they are looking for an experienced IT Configuration Manager to join them on a 12 month FTC.

 

This is a new and exciting opportunity where you will be responsible for ensuring  the businesses new loans platform is technically ready for the migration by designing, implementing and running appropriate processes and controls for the environments, defect process and releases.

 

Salary: £50,000 to £60,000 + £6K car allowance

Location: Redhill/hybrid working (1 – 2 days in the office)

Start: ASAP, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

 

Benefits that include:

 

  • 30 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays.
  • Pension with generous contributions
  • Generous car allowance
  • Private medical cover
  • Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for family, dental insurance, health care cash plan and health assessments
  • Eligible for a voluntary benefits allowance of £500 per annum payable as cash or otherwise
  • Benefits supporting you and the family, such as death in service benefit, income protection and critical illness cover

 

What will your working week involve?

 

You will be the interface between the programme, the business and IT support teams to support testing and environment readiness activities. This includes:

 

  • Identifying the current environment gaps, documenting and provide a strategic plan for resolution within the Project Phoenix critical path.
  • Responsible for configuration lifecycle management.
  • Managing the configuration of each environment, including implementation, documenting and tracking environmental configurations.
  • Updating config and managing the alignment of environments where possible and documenting where differences exist
  • Working with business Technology to schedule, plan, implement and test infrastructure changes across all environments
  • Maintaining consistency of environments and creation of gates to control use.
  • Planning and communicating configuration changes with the programme team, business and broader programme stakeholders
  • Creating, documenting and running the governance for all environment changes.
  • Creating the MI to monitor and communicate the status of each environment.
  • Consistently evolving and documenting the approach with rigour and attention to detail.
  • Supporting the business teams in the transition for process and controls of the configuration management in their teams

 

Do you have the relevant skills & experience?

 

  • Extensive experience in configuration management or similar role
  • Extensive experience in IT infrastructure – networks, storage or above
  • Microsoft tools - Word, PowerPoint, Excel
  • Microfocus tools - Application Lifecycle Management
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, strong stakeholder engagement skills
  • Strong business process mapping and analysis experience
  • Exposure to or knowledge of .Net technologies
  • Knowledge of any of the scripting language would be highly desirable. (Eg. Python, SQL etc)
  • Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Stakeholder management and conflict resolution skills
  • Proactive and able to work under own initiative
  • Ability to work across multiple activities adjusting to shifting priorities
  • Ability to take a detailed approach to complex problems by breaking it down into smaller chunks for communicating and solving
  • Be meticulous at creating and maintaining documentation

 

 

For your information:

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