Application Support Analyst & Payments and Orchestration Services

Transaction Network Services; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment technology provider in Manchester seeks a proactive Application Support Analyst to provide technical support and solutions for their new Payment Orchestration gateway. Ideal candidates have several years of experience with Linux systems and AWS, along with strong problem-solving skills. This role involves managing application support tasks, resolving incidents, and ensuring compliance. Join a dedicated team focused on personal growth and technological excellence, contributing to an innovative payment processing environment.

Qualifications

• Several years’ experience of Linux based systems.
• Working within an AWS environment.
• General SQL administration and support.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day support for the new Orchestration payment gateway.
• Manage and resolve incident tickets assigned to the 3rd line support team.
• Provide support for Major Incidents.
• Plan and support Change Management activities.
• Support the Problem Management process.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Adaptability

Tools

Linux

AWS

SQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives.Come join the excellence!

Overview

TNS are currently looking to recruit an Application Support Analyst to join a small, dedicated team of individuals who are responsible for providing technical application support and engineering, technical solutions across our new Payment Orchestration gateway platform. This is a great opportunity for somebody with great technical knowledge or detailed payments support who wants to apply, learn and be challenged and be involved in our expanding Payments Processing business.

Responsibilities

• This position will provide day to day support for the new Orchestration payment gateway running within an impressive tech stack within the AWS environment.
• To be involved with the support and managing the production payments application gateway across multiple regions.
• Manage and resolve incident tickets assigned to the 3rd line support team.
• Provide support for Major Incidents providing root cause analysis.
• Plan and support of and Change Management activities within the production environments.
• Support the Problem Management process.
• Responsible for application housekeeping and maintenance tasks that include a whole host of database technologies including Maria DB, Aurora, DynamoDB and MySQL.
• Become an expert on supported systems, applications, and services.
• Support security and crypto service within the production environment.
• Creation of WI's and update service documentation
• Support and help maintain PCI DSS Compliance
• Provide Support for Disaster Recovery activities
• Partake in 24/7 on‑call rota
• Collaboration between the different teams, sharing knowledge and help support other member of the team.
• Provide training, knowledge transfer and ongoing support to 1st and 2nd line support teams

Qualifications

Essential

• Several years’ experience of Linux based systems
• Working within an AWS environment
• General SQL administration and support
• Able to setup maintenance task
• Carry out queries against tables
• Excellent problem‑solving skills

Desirable

• Docker or Kubernetes Istio experience within an AWS environment
• Supporting Java based applications.
• General Payments experience and supporting payments switches
• Knowledge of ITIL framework

Candidate Requirements:

• Team player who will collaborate with other teams
• Fast learner and adaptable
• Strong problem‑solving, logical skills and technical prowess.
• A hunger and willingness to learn in a demanding environment
• Customer focused with proven customer service skills
• Attention to detail

If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!

TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.