Environment Management Analyst

Role Description

The candidate will be a member of the Environment Management Team. The Environment Management Analyst provides support for the different testing and production environments that are supported out of the Asia.

Key Features of the Position

• Environments Management is an essential support function for the software development lifecycle process. It encompasses the management and control of the application’s software and its deployment through systematically planned release schedules from development to staging to testing and production.
  
• This role manages and maintains multiple test environments on the Bank’s core platform as well as its connected satellite applications’ configurations and connectivity.
  
• Provide support and coordination in the execution of a number of IT projects, executing tests and regressions in the environments.
  
• Ensure health checks, system connectivity, consistency and data integrity for test environments.
  
• Deployment management for production and test environments.
  

Environment Management Responsibilities

• Provisioning of environments at a project level required for all testing phase – system integration, user acceptance and system availability and performance tests.
  
• Provides regular communication to stakeholders on the environment status.
  
• Managing key dates and other expectations concerning test environments, highlighting risks and issues.
  
• Providing environment support during test execution phases.
  
• Deploying application development builds and other technical changes to environments.
  
• Work with global teams to support and co-ordinate global environment related changes
  
• Review deployment instructions and execute production and test environment deployments
  
• Work closely with change manager for all releases.
  

Regulatory Responsibilities &
/OR Risk Management

• Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations
  

Skills and Requirement

Personal and Social

• Ability to work independently or as part of a team.
  
• Ability to interact and coordinate with other departments within a financial institution.
  
• Good communication and organization skills.
  
• Ability to analyse problems, provide short term, and long term solutions.
  

Professional and Technical

• Candidates must have exposure to technical requirements analysis, planning, configuration management, and hands-on technical skills.
  
• Previous experience on environments management is a plus.
  
• Adhere to culture and values of the organization
  
• Understanding of Agile and Dev-Ops process is an advantage
  
• Technical knowledge with LINUX/UNIX systems, J2EE and jBoss servers is mandatory
  
• Knowledge of T24 and its underlying architecture
  
• Knowledge on deployment tools like ARA and Octopus and is an advantage.
  
• Bug tracking and agile project management tool like JIRA.
  
• Understanding of MySQL or Oracle on different database platforms is preferred.
  
• Knowledge of basic MS office tools and various operating systems.
  
• An understanding of change management and use of automated change management tools and applications will be an advantage.
  
• An understanding of test procedures and techniques is desirable.
  
• ITIL certification is desirable