2015-10-05

Sopra Steria Recruitment Limited/Livingston, West Lothian, United Kingdom

Job title: Senior Tools Administrator

Location: Livingston

Salary: up to £60k + excellent benefits

Sopra Steria Recruitment are working in partnership with well-known organisation to recruit for a Senior Tool Administrator

Job Overview:

To provide development, support and administration for Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) tools.

Contribute to the strategic direction of SDLC tools in the organisation, by integrating, extending and customising vendor products and contributing to the creation of internal tools used to deliver improved efficiency and controls to development teams.

Continuously identify methods to increase the value delivered by the SDLC toolset, keeping ahead of the technology roadmap and in step with latest market innovations.

Contribute to providing coordinated day to day support for the SDLC toolset to company user groups.

Key Responsibilities:

Work under the NFT Manager delivering tool solutions that meet defined objectives, schedules, standards, cost targets and help deliver the departmental strategy.

Own and take responsibility for the delivery and future strategic direction of SDLC tools and services.

Provide technical expertise, guidance and support for 20 plus commercial and open-source tools and applications.

Demonstrate through results, an aptitude for supporting and delivering multiple activities in parallel while maintaining schedule and responding effectively to changes in priority.

Provide professional development planning, estimation, issue & risk reporting and stakeholder management in keeping with department standards.

Monitor and evaluate new development practices and technologies.

Work as part of the SDLC tools team:

Contributing to the service delivery, planning and direction

Providing end-user support where required

Developing new integrations and applications for internal use

Contribute to user group forums

Proactively support other team members when necessary, sharing knowledge and workload as agreed with the NFT Manager

Demonstrate strong communication skills, both written and verbal within all appropriate forums

Skills:

Essential:

Educated to degree level or equivalent in a software development related discipline or relevant associated professional experience

Commercial experience of multiple software development services.

Good working knowledge source code control.

Good working knowledge of defect tracking systems

Excellent problem management and investigation skills.

Experience developing utilities or tools.

Familiarity with software delivery life cycle

Experience in building and deploying software using a variety of tools

Excellent customer management skills.

Able to demonstrate ownership of tasks and project delivery

Able to reliably work to plan with minimal supervision

Ability to prioritise workload and response accordingly

Excellent communications skills

Proactive approach to work and extended teamworking

Consistently able to multi-task and change priorities at short notice

Champion of best practice

Results oriented

Strong decision making skills

Desirable:

Vendor or industry accreditation for supported applications/tools and or quality practices.

In-depth experience providing any of the following services:

HP Quality Centre

Atlassian JIRA

Atlassian Confluence

Subversion

Git

Sonatype Nexus

HP Performance Center

Diagnostics

Continuous Integration with Hudson or Jenkins

Employment Type: Permanent

Work Hours: Full Time

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