Production Support Analyst
Job Code: ART/PS/004
Experiance: 5+ years
About The Position
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- Production Support Analyst profile being recruited is making sure that the existing software architecture within the business is working well and being used efficiently. You will be involved with a blend of programming and administration tasks; working with various stakeholders to resolve technical problems through analysis, diagnosis and solution definition. The role will require a balance of technical skills, business knowledge, troubleshooting expertise, and excellent soft skills.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- Provide technical and application support to the 24x7 operation (on a rota basis) of the production environment ensuring that Service Delivery meets the required standard.
- Deliver professional 2nd-3rd line application support for middleware and integration systems, performing in-depth root cause analysis or request fulfilment
- Drive excellence in application monitoring, log mining and performance tuning.
- Identify opportunities for more effective use of resource across the operations, 2nd Line and 3rd line support teams through co-operation, knowledge sharing, optimum allocation of tasks
- Produce high quality support documentation and diagrams on collaborative platforms e.g. Wiki
- Investigate and prioritise requests for support raised by business users.
- Investigate root cause and impact of incidents and escalate to 3rd line support and management where appropriate.
- Ensure all investigations and work undertaken is logged in a timely and comprehensive manner.
- Monitor progress of requests for support and ensure users and other interested parties are kept informed.
- Document and implement work rounds and revised procedures for both Application Support and Operations teams.
- Complete regular tasks to ensure system availability and follow up exceptions accordingly.
- Ensure correct procedures are followed and SLAs achieved when progressing tasks and that procedures and checklists are kept up to date.
- Focus on completing work within agreed timescales and reducing any downtime and operational impact
- Adhere to appropriate departmental and company procedures and policies: change control, security, auditing, release promotion, configuration management, incident management
- Change Implementation
- Participate in the planning and implementation of software and configuration changes to the live environment in accordance with release instructions, agreed service impacts and timescales.
- Work alongside project teams (analysts, developers, testers and implementation managers) during software release.
- Work with the operations team to ensure changes are implemented and handed over appropriately and ensure updates are made to operational procedures.
Qualifications and Experience Essential:
- 5+ years of experience as an Application/Production Support Analyst or similar role.
- Experience in a Windows based 24/7 environment including 1st/2nd line support
- Experience in writing and using transact-SQL queries
- Experience in an low latency, high volume application support role, administering, configuring & maintaining some of the following multi-tier environment:
- OpsView (Nagios)
- MS SQL/Windows
- XML
- Splunk
- Scripting/coding experience in Python or Powershell.XC
- A logical approach and ability to think outside the box when problem solving and the flexibility to work in a fast changing 24/7 operational support environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent technical discipline.
- Ability to deal with both technical and non-technical staff and all levels of management
- Excellent organisational, interpersonal skills
- A great communicator
Desirable:
- Proven experience with several of the following
- Oracle
- .NET
- Firewalls
- Internet security
- SOAP
- HTML
- Java Frameworks
- IIS Server knowledge
- Experience in the financial sector, ideally involving payment processing
- Experience of working in a high pressure environment where system functionality has a direct effect on the bottom line.
- Understanding of transaction processing systems, preferably with some exposure to electronic point of sale and ATMs
- Knowledge of ITIL (the IT Infrastructure Library) for service management