IT Database and Web Platform Engineer 6 Months Fixed Term Contract

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Job Title

IT Database and Web Platform Engineer - 6 Months Fixed Term Contract

Department

Information Technology

Office Location

Birmingham or London

Reports To

Senior Manager Messaging Data and Collaboration Services

Working Hours

35 hours per week 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the officeplease contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice on deep industry knowledge and on our one team global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas Asia-Pacific Europe the Middle East and Africa.

With a presence in the worlds major financial and commercial markets we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are the key to our success which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

In the UK Hogan Lovells has offices in Birmingham and London. The Birmingham office opened in 2015 and has a number of practice areas including Corporate/Commercial Construction Finance Litigation Arbitration and Employment (LAE) and Real Estate as well as ourLegal Delivery Centre and Business Team.

Department Description

The Information Infrastructure team is responsible globally for the design development management architecture operation and full lifecycle of all of the firms information infrastructure.

This includes but not limited to DevOps SQL Server configuration and performance web application infrastructure and support SharePoint architecture and infrastructure reporting infrastructure Single sign-on (SSO) and Azure Cloud Services. The team works very closely with IT Application groups and across all Business Services functions to deliver changes to key platforms and systems.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Provide third-line support to a rich array of high profile legal and information systems which are fundamental to the firm.

• Proactive management and analysis of the global server estate which encompasses web SSO SharePoint and SQL server infrastructure and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Ensure the design and architecture of web SharePoint Azure Cloud Services and SSO infrastructure meets the underlying service level targets.

• Daily monitoring and optimisation adhering to Microsoft best practice guidelines to ensure all servers and environment are performing to their optimal ability.

• Deep dive technical troubleshooting when issues are escalated by support functions.

• Technology and system innovation to ensure current systems are kept up-to-date and within software and hardware supported guidelines and recommendations.

• Work collaboratively with other Business Services and vendor teams with a focus on prompt delivery of deployments support and continually improvement to service offerings in a rapidly changing environment.

• Provide support and direction on the firms SQL estate SharePoint estate Azure Cloud Services SSO and identity management working with Business Service teams and vendors in supporting and improving the service offerings.

• Manage Azure Cloud Services SSO and SQL estate globally ensuring availability load balancing and disaster recovery solutions are operational.

• Manage web and SharePoint farm estate globally ensuring operational uptime and deliver improvement to services through code releases and deployments.

• Deliver code releases platform upgrades and deployments to the firms infrastructure ensuring work meets change process and delivery standards.

• Seek to improve performance levels by taking advantage of new technology and anticipating changes in market practices industry trends process trends etc.

• Review and improve processes regularly; identify inefficiencies and improve operational processes through system documentation and knowledge articles in the firms CMDB.

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Extensive administration and understanding of SharePoint Web SQL and SSO.

• Applied knowledge of native SQL high-availability and disaster recovery options including Always-On Mirroring Replication Log Shipping and Clustering.

• Experience in migrations to Azure SQL Paas services desirable.

• Deep knowledge and strong experience of managing web farm infrastructure including load balancing best practices. F5 BigIP knowledge is desirable.

• Experience in managing and migrating applications to Azure PaaS services like App Service Plan Function Service and Kubernetes desirable.

• Experience working in a law firm environment or in a similar professional services culture desirable.

General Attributes

• Ability to perform SQL Server migrations database migrations and web application migrations.

• Ability to build environmentssupport services and create custom PowerShell scripts.

• Be a role model in terms of style teamwork and pace.

• Ability to make sound decisions based on a combination of analysis experience and judgement.

• Strong attention to detail and methodical at all times.

• Skilled communicator with the ability to listen influence and collaborate with others in order to achieve team goals.

• Highly skilled at analytical and problem solving with the ability to provide practical and creative solutions using automation.

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin religion sex gender and gender identity age sexual orientation marital and civil partnership status pregnancy or disability.