Application Packager

DV Cleared Application Packager - 5 days onsite near Reading - 6 months - £500-600 per day inside IR35

The Application Packager will work within the Managed Applications workstream, assessing and selecting appropriate design templates for moving applications onto fixed and deployed platforms, working in collaboration with the team's Customer Design Lead.
As an Application Packager, you will technically analyse a variety of applications to understand the installation, configuration, functionality, interoperability and security aspects of software to produce technical and release management documents to support the deployment and subsequent support of the application. You will be working with Desktop, Web applications, Client/Server applications (2/3 tier) and various database applications. This work is done alongside third-party software vendors and other workstreams to produce solution design documentation. These are submitted to the client for formal review and approval for migration on to approriate customer environments.
Provide input into Solution Design documentation in accordance with the Workstream plans.
Report regularly to the Workstream Lead & Scrum Master on progress, highlighting schedule exceptions, issues, risks, blockers, and identifying recovery/mitigation actions.
Ensure compliance of all Solution Design work with the current baseline of Managed Applications workstream business processes defined by the workstream, together with the standards, processes and procedures defined in the current Quality Plan.
Raise all delivery/performance issues with the Workstream Lead in sufficient time for corrective action to be taken.
Liaise with Authority representatives in deriving the solution for complex cases.
Required Competencies
Advanced application packaging/repackaging knowledge using best of breed toolsets. Ability to Integrate COTS, GOTS and Client/Server based applications within Windows and/or Linux based environments. Including advanced application configuration aspects such as creating Custom Actions, creating and tailoring Transforms and associated troubleshooting.
Good working knowledge of VMware (inc. using the latest application virtualisation products), familiar with using both historic and current Windows (Desktop and Server) and Linux systems (e.g. RHEL). Ability to create and troubleshoot these systems including Group Policy, Registry manipulation and setting and managing permissions and auditing.
Practical knowledge of scripting tools (e.g. PowerShell, VBScript and Python).
Technical ability to analyse application media, and identify installation processes and configuration.
Experience of working in a secure environment, including secure configuration of application software.
Ability to produce high quality technical documentation.
Desired Competencies
Knowledge of Azure DevOps (inc. pipelines).
Comfortable with conveying technical aspects to an audience (e.g. product demos to the customer).
Working knowledge of using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
ArcSight SIEM toolset, or open to cross-train into ArcSight SIEM toolset (ESM, SmartConnectors, Logger and ArcMC).
DV Cleared Application Packager - 5 days onsite near Reading - 6 months - £500-600 per day inside IR35

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