Prime production support

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Application Support Engineer (L2) with expertise in supporting banking applications, monitoring production systems, troubleshooting incidents, and ensuring application availability and stability. The candidate should have strong SQL skills, knowledge of ITIL processes, experience with shell scripting, Grafana dashboards, Control-M job scheduling, and automation of routine support activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide L2 production support for critical banking applications and ensure high availability and performance.
• Monitor application health, system performance, logs, and alerts using Grafana and observability tools.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement permanent fixes.
• Write and execute SQL queries to investigate application issues, validate transactions, and perform data analysis.
• Monitor, manage, and troubleshoot batch jobs and workflows using Control-M.
• Perform log analysis and execute shell scripts for system checks, troubleshooting, and routine operational activities.
• Follow ITIL processes, including Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, and Service Request Management.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using shell scripting and other automation techniques.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, database, and business teams to resolve production issues within agreed SLAs.
• Participate in incident bridges, provide timely updates to stakeholders, and prepare incident reports.
• Support application deployments, release activities, and post-deployment validation.
• Maintain support documentation, knowledge articles, SOPs, and operational runbooks.
• Ensure compliance with banking security policies, audit requirements, and operational procedures.

Required Technical Skills

• Application Support: Hands-on experience in L2 production support, incident troubleshooting, and application monitoring.
• SQL: Strong SQL query-writing skills, joins, subqueries, data validation, and troubleshooting database-related issues.
• Observability: Knowledge of application monitoring, log analysis, metrics, alerts, and performance troubleshooting.
• Grafana: Experience monitoring dashboards, analyzing metrics, identifying anomalies, and troubleshooting alerts.
• Control-M: Experience monitoring batch jobs, handling job failures, managing dependencies, and rerunning failed jobs.
• Shell Scripting: Basic to intermediate scripting for log analysis, health checks, file processing, and task automation.
• ITIL: Understanding of Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Request Management processes.
• Automation: Ability to automate repetitive support tasks and improve operational efficiency.
• Banking Domain: Understanding of banking applications, transaction processing, batch processing, and business-critical production operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience supporting business-critical applications in a banking or financial services environment.
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems and application/server logs.
• Familiarity with SLA management, production support rotations, and on-call support.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Key Competencies

• Incident prioritization and effective problem-solving.
• Root cause analysis and preventive action implementation.
• Production stability and service improvement.
• Coordination with cross-functional technical teams.
• Ability to work in a 24/7 support environment when required.

Overall Objective: Ensure stable and reliable banking application operations by proactively monitoring systems, resolving production incidents, automating routine activities, and meeting defined service-level agreements (SLAs).

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Application Production Support Engineer with hands-on experience in Internet Banking application support, Middleware technologies, and OpenShift (OCP) operations. The candidate should be skilled in production incident management, application troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and ensuring the availability and stability of critical banking applications.

Mandatory Skills:

• Internet Banking Application Production Support
• Middleware Administration and Troubleshooting
• OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)
• Incident Management and Production Troubleshooting
• Application Monitoring and Log Analysis
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide production support for Internet Banking applications and ensure smooth day-to-day operations.
• Troubleshoot application issues and resolve production incidents within defined SLAs.
• Monitor application health, logs, and system performance to identify and resolve issues.
• Support middleware components and troubleshoot application connectivity and deployment issues.
• Manage and troubleshoot applications running on OpenShift (OCP).
• Perform root cause analysis for recurring incidents and implement corrective actions.
• Coordinate with application development, infrastructure, and middleware teams to resolve critical issues.
• Participate in incident management, change management, and release activities.
• Maintain technical documentation, incident reports, and support procedures.

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Production Support Engineer to support our Internet Banking Application. The candidate will be responsible for application production support, release deployments, middleware operations, monitoring, and incident management to ensure high availability, stability, and performance of banking applications.

Responsibilities:

• Provide production support for Internet Banking Applications and ensure high availability.
• Manage release deployments and middleware operations in coordination with development and operations teams.
• Monitor application performance using Splunk, AppDynamics, and Grafana.
• Handle incident management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and timely issue resolution.
• Support OS patching and routine system maintenance activities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve application stability and performance.
• Maintain technical documentation, troubleshooting procedures, and support processes.
• Participate in on-call support rotations as required.

Mandatory Skills:

• Application Production Support experience in banking or financial services.
• Strong knowledge of middleware technologies and operations.
• Hands-on experience with Splunk, AppDynamics, and Grafana.
• Good understanding of incident management and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of OS patching and system maintenance.

Preferred Skills:

• Cloud infrastructure and operations experience.
• Scripting knowledge in Python or Bash.
• Understanding of ITIL processes and best practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.