Roles and Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced Arena Application Support Engineer to maintain and support Arena and related enterprise applications across production and non-production environments. The ideal candidate should have a strong technical foundation in Unix/Linux, shell scripting, Python, cloud fundamentals and Hadoop support, along with experience in application monitoring, incident management and production operations.
- The candidate will be responsible for monitoring application health, resolving incidents, automating operational activities, coordinating with cross-functional teams and ensuring application availability within agreed service levels.
Additional Responsibilities
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting ability.
- Ownership of incidents from assignment through resolution.
- Ability to prioritize tasks in a production-support environment.
- Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Customer-focused approach and clear stakeholder communication.
- Ability to work independently and within a shift-based support team.
- Willingness to learn new applications, tools and technologies.
- Education
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline.
Technical Requirements
- Strong working knowledge of Unix/Linux commands and operating-system fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience in shell scripting for task automation and operational support.
- Working knowledge of Python scripting.
- Understanding of cloud-computing fundamentals, preferably AWS.
- Experience or working knowledge of the Hadoop ecosystem.
- Knowledge of HDFS and Hive.
- Experience supporting applications or tools in production environments.
- Ability to analyze application, server and system logs.
- Understanding of incident, problem and change-management processes.
- Hands-on experience with ServiceNow or a similar ITSM platform.
- Experience working with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace or Splunk.
- Basic understanding of Git or another version-control system.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills.Good written and verbal communication skills.
- The internal Arena requirements include Hadoop ecosystem knowledge, particularly HDFS and Hive, monitoring through Dynatrace and Splunk, Python-based automation, scripting, Git, Linux/Unix and cloud fundamentals.
- Apache Hadoop documentation also confirms that Hadoop functionality is managed extensively through shell commands, scripts and runtime environment variables.
Preferred Skills
- Experience supporting Arena, Alation, Manta or similar enterprise tools.
- Exposure to AWS services and cloud-based application environments.
- Knowledge of Rally for user-story and feature tracking.
- Experience with application monitoring and log-analysis tools.
- Basic understanding of SQL and relational databases.
- Knowledge of scheduling and batch-processing tools.
- Experience with access, user-role and permission management.
- Familiarity with release, deployment and server-patching activities.
- Exposure to automation and continuous service-improvement initiatives.
- Experience working in a 24/7 or globally distributed support environment.
Skills
Technology->OpenSystem->Python - OpenSystem->Python,Technology->Hadoop->Hadoop Ecosystem