Application Maintenance Engineer

SAKSOFT LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SAKSOFT LIMITED in Singapore seeks an experienced Application Maintenance Engineer with 6+ years to support and stabilize critical applications, perform root-cause analysis on incidents, prioritize defects, and coordinate production releases. You will develop and test in SIT/UAT environments and prepare for production deployment.

You will maintain production stability, handle troubleshooting across Java/Spring Boot, Oracle, and Linux platforms, work with MQs, and utilize CI/CD tools; strong

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• 6+ years of experience in the role.
• 8+ years of relevant experience as per requirement.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and incident management.
• Experience with payment domain and SWIFT is a plus.
• Excellent written and spoken communication with stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and environments.
• Familiarity with Open Payment Framework (OPF) is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Perform root cause analysis on incidents and provide remediation.
• Prioritize defects and plan production releases.
• Develop programs and support SIT testing, UAT, and deployment.
• Maintain Production stability with risk/impact Assessments.
• Follow up on defect closures and meet KPIs.
• Share defect learnings with QA and development teams.
• Verify and deploy programs and systems.
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software.
• Recommend and execute improvements.

Skills

Java

ReactJS

Python

Oracle

Linux

JBoss

OpenShift

Spring Boot

API / Microservices

SQL

Kafka MQ

IBM MQ

Control-M

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Remedy/JIRA

Bitbucket

Jenkins

SonarQube

Aldon

Job description

Experience: 6+ Years
Role: Application Maintenance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform root cause analysis on incidents (application, batch and connectivity) and provide a solution for remediation.
• Prioritize defects and plan for production release based on defect criticality or align with the quarterly release
• Develop programs, support end-to-end testing in SIT, support UAT and prepare for deployment to production environments.
• Maintain Production stability by ensuring deployments have completed the necessary risk and impact assessments.
• Follow up on defect closure and meet defect closure KPI
• Share production defect support learning with QA team and development team to improve application quality and minimize future defects
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Recommend and execute improvements

Requirements:

Education:

• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• At least 8 years of relevant experience.

Essential:

• Programming / OS / Technology Skills: At least few years of experience in maintaining / managing applications in at least some of the technologies such as Java, ReactJS, Python, Oracle, Solaris, RedHat Linux, JBOSS, Openshift Container Platform, Apache, Cloud based development, IBM MQ, Kafka MQ, Connect Direct, Control-M, Tivoli, Geneos, Splunk, etc.
• Knowledge of FIS OPF (Open Payment Framework) product is a must at least in the capacity of troubleshooting, deployment, etc.
• Strong working experience with Java, Spring Boot and API (Microservices)
• Experience with databases (SQL) and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks, such as Hibernate
• 7 or more years’ in troubleshooting and fixing issues across different technologies/platform
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Experience with payment domain and SWIFT message will be a big plus
• Strong written, oral communication skills and ability to manage user/vendor/customer/stakeholders
• Ability to easily adapt to any technology/environment and lean new languages / technologies / tools
• Experience tuning Kafka components for varying traffic and performance requirements
• Experience with Incidents & Problem management & associated tools (Remedy/JIRA)
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as BitBucket / Jenkins / Sonarqube / Aldon
• Attention to details.

Key Domain/ Technical Skills:

• Java, ReactJS, Python,
• Oracle, SQL
• Solaris, RedHat Linux, JBOSS
• Openshift Container Platform, Apache,
• IBM MQ, Kafka MQ, Connect Direct, Control-M
• Cloud based development