Packaging Engineer

Job overview

The Packaging Engineer will be responsible for supporting the delivery of technical excellence in their field of specialism and assisting the DevOps Specialist in ensuring that all systems are optimally configured to provide a high-quality service to all RBH end users. The postholder will mainly be responsible for undertaking the configuration, management and maintenance of all hardware and software components of RBH’s network and infrastructure.

You will work within the infrastructure team collaborating with Server Engineers, Devops Engineer and Device Engineer.

You will work specifically with the Devops Engineer, to lead on the software packaging capability for the organisation.

Together you will provide technical specialties and provide technical expertise in application packaging and supporting technologies

Main duties of the job

• Provide software application packaging services to end users and deliver applications to end users that meet RBH deployment strategy and security policies. • Work in a collaborative manner with other DDaT colleagues to deliver tasks successfully. • Plan, configure, manage and maintain all hardware and software components of specialist area to deliver optimum system availability to users, and ensuring all supplier provided patches and upgrades to the operating system, database, tools and utilities are applied in a timely manner. • Maintain the security and integrity of all systems related to specialist area including managing all user access rights and implementation of any necessary backup regimes and other disaster recovery procedures. • Providing technical and administrative support for specialist systems, including the production of system specification documentation and the production of relevant procedures and protocols. • Monitoring and managing system performance, capacity and growth, providing advice on necessary upgrades and replacement of hardware and software to maintain the reliability of the systems. Implement hardware changes and upgrades and database upgrades and migrations to maintain system performance and growth capacity.
• To maintain awareness of technical developments and research new technologies with a view to providing advice to DevOps Specialist on suitable deployment strategies for RBH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Packaging Engineer will be responsible for supporting the delivery of technical excellence in their field of specialism and assisting the DevOps Specialist in ensuring that all systems are optimally configured to provide a high-quality service to all RBH end users. The postholder will mainly be responsible for undertaking the configuration, management and maintenance of all hardware and software components of RBH’s network and infrastructure.

You will work within the infrastructure team collaborating with Server Engineers, Devops Engineer and Device Engineer. You will work specifically with the Devops Engineer, to lead on the software packaging capability for the organisation.

Together you will provide technical specialties and provide technical expertise in application packaging and supporting technologies.