Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Support of platforms, providing Level 1 and Level 2 support to the business and stakeholders
- Provide day-to-day technical expertise and operational support to obtain highest degrees of Production Stability for applications
- Collaboration with other members of the Production Management team
- Work with Application Development (AD) teams to implement and identify fixes to improve stability, reduce operational risk, and reduce manual tasks and ‘touches to production’
- Help in defining capacity and resiliency requirement metrics and failover/BCP capabilities in partnership with business to improve reliability, stability and capacity management
- Production systems monitoring, start of day (SOD) and end of day(EOD) checks
- Manage production technology incidents to resolution, ensuring timely engagement, escalation and effective communication to business, technology and vendor partners. Ensure detailed post-mortem / root cause analysis reviews with Service Delivery partners and log follow up actions in Problem Management systems
- Engage with project teams through the SDLC of new applications to ensure successful on boarding into Production Management
- Participate in weekend activities such as Disaster Recovery testing, Exchange upgrades and Application releases
Technical Skills
- 5+ years’ experience in Production Support in Financial services industry
- Very strong Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent incident management skills with an ability to operate under pressure and co-ordinate resources effectively, identifying a path to resolution
- Excellent knowledge of SQL and stored procedures (experience with PostgreSQL and MS SQL databases)
- FIX protocol knowledge
- Strong Shell / Python scripting skills
- Ability to prioritise workload, react quickly and escalate to meet business expectations
- Strong working knowledge of real time monitoring systems
- Financial Product knowledge would be advantageous
- Agile methodology to perform enhancement, automation, performance management, infrastructure upgrades, and add new functionalities
- Performing code fixes and maintenance
- Incident Management
- AIX,DB2,Kubernetes, Rancher containers, MS SQL, PostgreSQL
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