What does a successful Application Specialist do?
As an experienced member of our ESF/Communicator Open AppOps team, you will be responsible for effective management and maintenance of the ESF/Communicator Open application and ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of our systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement automation and continuous improvement processes to enhance efficiency and reduce downtime. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in scripting, Dynatrace, Splunk, Azure, Kubernetes and be capable of analyzing and solving complex production issues and performing the root cause analysis.
What you will do:
- Responsible for resolving production incidents by analyzing the issues and coordinating with necessary parties, consistently taking ownership and leading the situation.
- Alerts and monitoring (Splunk and Dynatrace)
- Discuss technical issues with business analysts and developers.
- Build and optimize SQL queries to run on large databases efficiently
- Analyze Network issues, understand the flows and dependencies and discuss it with the Network engineers.
- Install, configure and maintain PKS – Kubernetes Web Services environments.
- Perform Root Cause Analysis.
- Participate in application performance testing and troubleshooting across whole software and hardware stack.
- Recreate problems locally and able to debug the code to identify underlying defects.
- Perform technical evaluation of the defects.
- Understand the impact of changes across the application.
- Operate effectively, and with a sense of urgency to meet deadlines and escalate issues effectively
- Identify possible points of failure in the infrastructure/applications and improve/resolve the identified vulnerability.
- Confluence Knowledge articles/documentations
- Automate the repetitive task to minimize manual efforts
What you will need to have:
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field
- Overall, 6-10 years of experience.
- Experience working with Web Services based architectures (REST APIs, Springboot, J2EE architecture, Springboot), PKS – Kubernetes or Cloud based environments
- Experience working on monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Moogsoft.
- Experience working on Kubernetes
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Experience with Modern scripting language like Python
- Knowledge of CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) process, Agile methodologies, Jenkins, Git and Middleware Technology
- Automation and scripting proficiency (SQL Optimization, scheduled jobs, Splunk, Python, Selenium)
- Fintech market experience.
- Familiar with Network architecture (Apigee, Firewalls, Network diagrams)
- Ability to multi-task demonstrating flexibility to easily adapt to changing business priorities.
- Good report generation skills.
- Awareness/experience of ITIL standard methodologies, ITIL Foundations certification or higher, a plus
- Flexible to work in shift or weekend on business demand
What would be great to have
- Exposure to Banking and Financial Services industry with a good understanding of Banking Products, Services & Procedures.
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