Intermediate Application Support

Global Relay; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Vancouver is seeking an experienced Application Support Engineer to maintain service reliability and ensure the availability of critical services for 23,000 customers worldwide. The ideal candidate will possess 3-5 years of experience in a similar role, rich scripting skills, and a strong understanding of software systems. The company promotes a culture of diversity and innovation, offering mentorship and career growth opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Mentorship and career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years’ experience as a SRE or Application Support Engineer or similar role.
• Scripting ability in Powershell, Python.
• Understanding of software systems concepts such as networking, firewalls, protocols, databases.

Responsibilities

• Ensure availability and reliability of services.
• Troubleshoot and restore service when incidents occur.
• Monitor production services to ensure smooth operation.

Skills

Service focused

Problem solving

Self-motivated

Detail oriented

Collaborative

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Powershell

Python

Splunk

Linux

Job description

Who we are:

For over 20 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world’s most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.

Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It’s a place where you can genuinely make an impact – and be recognized for it.

We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers.

Your Role:

As an Application Support Engineer you will be responsible for the availability and reliability of Global Relay’s services that are used by 23,000 customers in 90 countries, including 22 of the top 25 banks. The role involves ensuring all services exceed availability targets, have in-depth monitoring and are proactively managed. The Application support team will be responsible for triage, troubleshooting and restoration of service when incidents do occur.

As an Application Support Engineer, who has experience of running business critical services, you will exhibit technical competence, be data driven and able to utilize your knowledge and experience to troubleshoot complex services. You will be responsible for ensuring Production incidents are managed to full recovery while mitigating customer impact at the earliest opportunity. Collaborating with other teams including Customer Support, Engineering, DevOps and Operations teams to ensure that all services are continually maintained and operated to the highest standards.

Core to success in the role will be proactive identification for improvements to stability, service recovery, observability and delivery of new components. Developing in-depth product knowledge, you will be able to apply this to all aspects of being an Application Support Engineer to make informed decisions, provide in-depth analysis and drive all aspects of service improvement.

Your Job:

• Service Reliability: Proactively identifying risks to service and remediate them. Reduce risk from deployments by improved use of resilience and ensuring appropriate testing of releases pre and post deployment. Provide support and troubleshooting when service incidents occur. Improve time to recover from service impacting incidents. Identifying trends and root causes to reduce volume of incidents.
• Automation: Identify and deliver on opportunities to use automation to increase efficiency, reduce toil and drive service availability. Use automation and orchestration techniques to provide repeatable solutions and reduce risk of mis-operations.
• Observability: Monitor and ensure smooth operation of all production services. Identifying gaps in coverage and improving observability of Production services. Ensuring appropriate events are generated for service failure or degradation scenarios. Responding to events and alerts in timely manner managing through to resolution.
• Knowledge management: Continuously improving the knowledge of the Application Support team to become subject matter experts on the Product and the technology that runs it. Collaborating with other teams to understand how underpinning services support the Products. Identifying opportunities to share knowledge and decrease the time it takes to resolve customer related incidents.

Tech Stack:

Depending on your team, some of the technologies you will interact with:

• Platform and Database tech: Linux, Cassandra, Kafka, Arangodb
• Containerization/Virtualization: Kubernetes/OpenShift, VMware
• Instrumentation & Monitoring: Splunk, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana
• Scripting:Powershell, Python

This role will include future on-call aspect once at appropriate knowledge level.

About You:

• Service focused
• Experience running highly available, critical services, ideally SaaS
• A problem solver who takes initiative
• Effortlessly self-motivates while working on team-based projects or individual tasks
• A well organized, thorough and detail oriented person
• Able to keep the "bigger picture" in mind while prioritizing conflicting demands and tasks
• Ability to take ownership in pressurised situations to provide direction during service incidents, tenacious enough to ensure issues do not get dropped
• Ability to negotiate and liaise with other teams to influence across teams as required to ensure appropriate outcome
• Confident enough to voice your opinion, ask questions and not afraid to suggest a better solution, without being abrasive
• Collaborative and willing to share knowledge, able to engage and meet needs of demanding stakeholders

Required Skills:

• 3-5+ years’ experience as a SRE or Application Support Engineer or similar role
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field
• Scripting ability in Powershell, Python, etc.
• Understanding of software systems concepts such as networking, firewalls, protocols, databases and more
• Java debugging exposure – ability to complete thread dumps
• Experience with monitoring solutions
• Splunk experience – creating dashboards, reports, events & analysis
• Awareness of software delivery practices (CI/CD)
• Experience troubleshooting connectivity issues: TCP/IP, DNS, Telnet, Trace Route, TCP dump
• Awareness of load balancing technologies such as HA Proxy, Nginx, F5
• Experience of collaboration technologies: email, archiving, instant messaging
• Exposure to supporting voice / SMS technologies (nice to have)

What you can expect:

At Global Relay, there’s no ceiling to what you can achieve. It’s the land of opportunity for the energetic, the intelligent, the driven. You’ll receive the mentoring, coaching, and support you need to reach your career goals. You’ll be part of a culture that breeds creativity and rewards perseverance and hard work. And you’ll be working alongside smart, talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with complementary knowledge and skills.

Global Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are tailored to meet the unique needs of every individual.

To learn more about our business, culture, and community involvement, visit www.globalrelay.com.