Senior Software Configuration Analyst - 4-Day Week Contract

Optamor; England; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Optamor is seeking a Software Configuration Analyst on a 6-month contract to maintain IT configurations across a large mixed-OS estate. You will automate deployments, validate parameters, and support both test and production environments.

Working 37.5 hours/week (Mon-Thu, 4-day week) with on-call support and extension potential. Strong Unix/Linux and Windows experience, plus tooling like Ansible, Jira, and ServiceNow, are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience configuring and deploying software across large mixed-OS estates.
• Proven track record in IT configuration management and automation.
• Familiarity with service management processes and agile releases.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain system configuration files across 2,000+ targets, including validation of configuration sets containing up to 1,500 parameters using scripting, reporting, and deployment tools.
• Process and deploy 30+ types of customer-supplied operational data files (ODFs) to between 30 and 500 targets on a regular basis.
• Maintain Integration & Test (I&T) and production environments, ensuring accurate, timely, and fault-free configuration and software deployments.
• Monitor mission-critical applications and services, analyse performance trends, investigate service degradation, and troubleshoot application and configuration issues.
• Support development and integration activities, including defect management, performance trials, system validation, and agile sprint release deployments.
• Work closely with customer, integration, development, and external technical teams to validate configurations, resolve issues, and coordinate future software releases.
• Maintain and support server infrastructure to meet SLA requirements and coordinate hardware and software builds with onsite technicians.
• Create and manage customer address directories and provide ad hoc reports, tools, and utilities to customers, management, and support teams.
• Assist in managing incident, service request, and change queues across multiple toolsets, while maintaining and updating processes and procedures.
• Act as a key technical contact for deployment activities, advising first-line support on system changes and providing out-of-hours and 3rd-line on-call support when required.

Skills

Unix/Linux

Windows systems

Software deployments

Automation scripting

IT service management

Tools

IBM Big Fix

Ansible

Jenkins

Confluence

Jira

Mercury Quality Centre

ServiceNow

Hornbill

PostgreSQL

Bash scripting

Perl

Job description

Optamor is seeking a Software Configuration Analyst on a 6-month contract to maintain IT configurations across a large mixed-OS estate. You will automate deployments, validate parameters, and support both test and production environments.

Working 37.5 hours/week (Mon-Thu, 4-day week) with on-call support and extension potential. Strong Unix/Linux and Windows experience, plus tooling like Ansible, Jira, and ServiceNow, are essential.