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

Production Support Engineer position available in Gauteng, Johannesburg. This job position was posted by Siri Technologies. The job has been posted as a premium ad on 2025-03-09 at 13:34:44 in the Finance Accounting category

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