What are the responsibilities and job description for the Actimize Platform Engineer position at Last Word Consulting?
Job Details
Position: Actimize Platform Engineer
Location: Onsite in Cincinnati, OH
Duration: 12 month
Required Skills & Experience
- 5-7 years' overall experience in application administration and monitoring: experience with application support, maintenance and troubleshooting
- Strong experience supporting the NICE Actimize platform
- Linux administration
- Linux scripting
- IT governance (keeping applications aligned with guidelines-in this case banking guidelines)
- Vendor management experience and end of life patching
- An affinity for change management processes
- Proven ability to look for opportunities for automation, optimization, etc. (some development background could be helpful with this)
- Experience in an Agile environment
Job Description
An employer is looking for a Platform Engineer for a contract opportunity in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. The client is a bank holding company and they are seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to join their Financial Crimes IT Agile Squad. This individual will be supporting the client's NICE Actimize platform, and will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing systems infrastructure, supporting application development, and ensuring the smooth operation of processing jobs. This role requires a strong background in both Windows and Linux server environments, application development and support, as well as experience with scripting, monitoring, and vendor management. The Platform Engineer will also be responsible for maintaining and creating any technical documentation that is needed. The team is made up of 5 individuals, and while L1 support is handled, any escalated L2/L3 issues are handled by this team and all individuals are on a rotating on-call schedule, meaning while it's not regular, it is possible that this person may have to work an occasional weekend, overnight or holiday. Providing outstanding IT solutions to drive the success of the Financial Crimes business Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and processing with others Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features Work with DBA to optimize data handling Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability Closely monitor all platform related production systems Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tool systems Continual improvement and fine-tuning of various alerting and monitoring systems