Applications Support Analyst – Central London

Nexus Jobs Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexus Jobs Limited is seeking an Application Support Analyst to manage deployments in test/non-production environments, ensuring builds are delivered efficiently across multi-stream applications. The role collaborates with Development, Release Management, and Infra teams to resolve deployment challenges.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years in test deployments, strong Unix/Linux skills, and hands-on experience with Jenkins, Maven and SVN.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying in test/non-production environments.
• 3–5 years proven deployments in test environments.
• Strong collaboration with Dev, Release Management, and DBA teams.
• Ability to script and automate deployment processes.
• Good written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Deploy builds into non-production environments.
• Coordinate with development, release management, and infra teams.
• Create and maintain deployment scripts.
• Troubleshoot deployment issues and ensure maintenance windows.

Skills

Distributed technologies

Multi-stream deployments

Java/J2EE deployment

Middleware deployment

ITIL awareness

Oracle and MS-SQL scripting

Unix/Linux

Tools

Jenkins

Maven

SVN

ServiceNow

Jira

Puppet

Ant

IBM HTTP Server (IHS)

WebSphere

Job description

We are looking an Application Support Analyst with 3 to 5 years proven track of working in Test environment ensuring all applications are being fully supported in Test/ Non production mode.

5+ years of experience in Test/ Non production deployment management experience. This role is to support and execute deployments in non-prod environments

• Worked in complex , multi stream application environment
• To deploy builds into non production environments
• To Work closely with Development and Release Management to solve complex Build/Deployment process throughout all phases of the software
• To ensure all changes fall within application maintenance windows
• Ability to create builds (Hotfix and/or full EAR) using the information provided by development teams to then use for deployment across environments.
• To identify processes in need of automation or scripting
• To Build and maintain automatic deployment scripts
• To be able to coordinate with different teams - Configuration Management team, DBA’s, Customer Infra teams and Application Development teams as part of deployment execution
• Ability to understand various deployment release notes and also in creating handover release notes to production deployment teams.
• Manage configuration versions for different streams of development in versioning and revision control system
• Ability to troubleshoot deployment related issues and work with development, application and infrastructure teams to resolve any issues.
• Understanding of open /distributed systems and Agile framework
• Awareness of ITIL frame work
• Ability to deliver results under pressure
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Main Skills require are as follows:

• Good working knowledge of distributed technologies
• Experience of Application deployments in complex , multi stream application environments
• Experience in deploying to Java/J2EE based applications
• Experience in deploying into Middleware components such as IHS, IIS, webmethods and WAS
• Deployments of core applications and also middleware layer
• ITIL frame work (Good awareness or certification)
• Understanding of Oracle and MS-SQL DBs and experience of having created and run scripts for deployment, data extraction, data insertion.
• Strong Unix/linux OS knowledge.
• Proficient in deployment of applications in .net and java using Jenkins, Maven and SVN
• Good experience of middleware deployments like WAS, IBM HTTP Server (IHS),MQ and Web methods
• Good experience of running DB scripts (Oracle and MSSql)
• Tools: Jenkins, SVN, SNOW, Jira , Maven, Puppet, Ant
• Appreciation of Application Test life cycle

This a 6 to 12 month contract assignment - and may go on beyond this time frame.