Live Operations Engineer

ASA Recruitment's client, a Public Sector organisation in Glasgow, are currently looking to recruit a Live Operations Engineer on a hybrid basis, on an initial 6 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of £585/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

The Role

As a Live Operations Engineer you will be responsible for designing and implementing tests, debugging, and defining corrective actions, and making our stack regression proof. You will work closely with engineers to make sure releases and product launches run smoothly and meet the requirements of the Product. Ultimately, you should monitor all stages of software development to identify and resolve system malfunctions to meet quality standards, and also work close with the management/exec teams in implementing Quality Assurance strategies. Furthermore, you will lead on working with both business and technical colleagues to diagnose live issues, identify appropriate fixes and align with Product Owners and Delivery Managers to prioritise any urgent fixes.

You will be expected to guide and mentor junior colleagues.

Due to the nature of the business, there may be a need to support releases/fixes out of hours on occasion.

This role is mainly remote working, however there is an expectation that you will work from the Glasgow office as and when required.

Essential Experience

• Advanced knowledge of software support/development methodologies, tools, and processes


• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive operational runbooks and support strategies


• Demonstrable experience of taking live issues through the Software Development Lifecycle from diagnosis to delivering to the end user


• Hands on experience with BAT and UAT in advance of release to live.


• Hands on experience with co ordinating with technical and non technical stakeholders assuring readiness for releases to live.


• Experience in debugging and working with engineers to diagnose and fix production defects.


• Experience in acting as a first technical port of call for investigation into production issues.


• At least 2 years experience within the last 5 years of AWS cloud infrastructure, relational databases (ideally MySQL) and working within projects who build and maintain Java applications based on a microservice architecture.

Desirable Experience

• Awareness of tech stack non core to role: React, Typescript.


• Experience of engaging business users to perform root cause analysis of production issues via screen sharing, understanding user behaviour etc.


• Able to clearly describe the underlying cause of production issues to technical and non technical stakeholders at all levels from business end user to senior management.

ASA Recruitment is one of Scotland's largest independent multi-sector recruitment agencies. We specialise in providing effective tailored solutions for permanent, contract and temporary employment requirements for our Clients and Candidates. We are members of the REC and are ISO certified.

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