IT Production Support Engineer

UOB; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking bank as a specialized IT Production Support Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in ensuring application wellness and system availability across multiple platforms. This position offers a dynamic work environment, requiring you to investigate production issues, manage user queries, and perform scheduled health checks. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and communication, you will work closely with various teams to deliver exceptional service. If you thrive in fast-paced settings and are eager to contribute to innovative financial technology solutions, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 1-5 years of production support experience in banking or financial services.
• Hands-on experience with UNIX and SQL for issue investigations.

Responsibilities

• Investigate production issues and manage user queries effectively.
• Perform proactive checks and monitor special events for applications.

Skills

Production Support

SQL Queries

UNIX Commands

Communication Skills

Issue Investigation

Job description

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices.

Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values — Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

UOB Innovation Hub 2 (InnoHub 2) is a newly set up technology centre located in Kuala Lumpur as part of UOB Group Technology and Operations to deliverinnovative financial technology solutions that enable business growth and technology transformation.

About the Department

On 1 January 2009, Technology and Operations (T&O) comes together as a new family.

The strategic objective of this move is to allow greater synergies between Technology and Operations to align and address the needs of our business users and the bank's customers. The vision is to unify and build an efficient and robust operating platform on a regional level to support the Bank to become a premier regional Bank.

The Group T&O Management team, apart from holding the Group roles, they are also the functional heads for Singapore. In addition, the Business Technology heads will also be the supply managers in providing direct technology services requirements to the non-business related corporate groups such as Finance, HR, Compliance, Risk Management, etc.

Service Recovery provides IT application services for the Bank. We leverage on best practices in business solutions delivery, design and development to meet the Bank’s vision and business objectives.

Our strategy is primarily driven by the long term and short term business strategies and objectives of the Bank. Our strategic focus is to align IT with the Business, create flexibility and capacity in IT infrastructure, and consolidate for scale, time to market, and risk management.

Job Objectives

The specialized Group Applications Support IT Production Support Engineer is responsible to support application wellness in production, investigate production issue raised, and respond to user with known feasible workaround. Closely follow-up and monitor issue from investigation, pass relevant details to L2/L3 team. Clarify user queries. Make sure system availability as per SLA across countries for multiple applications / interfaces. Perform scheduled health check tasks across applications and raise alerts in case required
Able to work in 24X5 shift based environment for support implementations during bank’s green zone

Job Responsibilities

• Investigate production issues, respond based on production incident TRO (target resolution objective) and upkeep FCR (first call resolution)
• Manage and respond to users queries in timely manner and correlate patterns indicative of wider issues or defects
• Timely execute start-of-day, end-of-day and intraday proactive checks for applications
• Perform special events monitoring like ecommerce merchant’s sale and regular updates to stakeholders
• Manage incident, task SOPs and conduct regular recertification for continued sanctity and validity
• Analyze and conduct service reviews across application groups adding critical value to shift-left and demand management

Job Requirements

• Prior hands-on production support experience of OPEN Systems or AS/400 – might be asked to write or show during interview
• Knowledge in either one of the retail or wholesale payment or customer information systems is a plus
• Willing to work in onsite 24X5 shift support model
• Ability to easily adopt to any technology / environment - UNIX / open, AS/400 and mainframe
• Hands-on experience in writing SQL queries for issues investigations
• Hands-on experience using UNIX commands and parsing logs for issue investigations
• Strong written, oral communication skills and able to manage user / vendor / customer
• 1-5 relevant years of production support experience in bank or financial services across multiple technologies / platform
• Able to work in a fast pace and high pressure working environment

Be a part of UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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