Application Production Support Analyst

Duration: 24-month assignment with possibility to extend Full-Time

* Employment Type: W-2 T4

Job Description:

MISSION AND OBJECTIVES

· The APS Analyst (“Analyst”) is responsible and accountable for daily support and health of the production environment for multiple applications in the CEP APS portfolio. Such tasks include change, user request, incident, and problem management for the department. As required, functional support and user setup may be performed. The Analyst shall serve on a team which acts as the first point-of-contact (Level 1 and 2): the role will be to receive, to record, and to understand issues, to fix known issues, suggest improvements, route unknown issues to Level 3 support staff, and to then communicate the resolution to the requestor. Assist the user community to resolve technical issues. Coverage during weekend and off-hours are on an “as needed” basis.

LEVEL 1 AND 2 SUPPORT

· Active monitoring of production activities

· Perform remediation steps when required.

· Interact with external IT/Vendor communities to resolve incidents.

· Work with development community for Level 3 incident escalations

· Log work and effort in support tracking application and work with team and management to reduce recurring issues.

· Available for after-hours support activities (including on call), when necessary

TRAINING AND OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE

· Support role experience required (>5 years’ experience)

· Experience in Banking / Financial sector preferred.

· DevOps knowledge will be an advantage.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

· Strong database skills (Oracle, MS SQL)

· Java web applications support expertise (Angular)

· Unix/Linux hands on experience with knowledge of day-to-day commands

· Windows servers hands on experience

· Scripting experience (Shell, PowerShell, Python)

· Scheduling tools (Autosys)

· Monitoring tools (Sysload, Geneos, Dynatrace etc.)

· Web application skills (Apache Tomcat, IIS)

· Collaboration Frameworks (SharePoint)

· File transfer protocols

· Prior experience with Informatica, PeopleSoft and any Premises application will be an advantage.

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