Production Support Analyst (Linux, Unix, Windows)

A-IT Software Services Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software services firm in Singapore is looking for a Technical Specialist. The role requires at least 7 years of experience in software development and production system support, specifically in the financial industry. Key responsibilities include ensuring system uptime, troubleshooting issues, and providing support during emergencies. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a proactive team environment are essential.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of software development and production system support experience in the financial industry.
• Strong team player, able to coordinate effectively both in and outside of office hours.
• Good understanding of wholesale and transaction banking operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage application system availability and reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues.
• Provide support during emergency recoveries.

Skills

Software development

Production system support

Incident management

Problem management

Capacity management

Communication

Team collaboration

Tools

Linux

Unix

Windows

MySQL

MSSQL

Oracle

VBA

Control-M

IBM Websphere MQ

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Specialist responsible for the business application portfolio availability and reliability to serve the business per agreed service level targets.

• Ensure system service uptime & day-to-day smooth running, support users’ enquiries and perform due diligence to ensure ease of maintenance, operation efficiency, system monitoring and availability.

• Lead by example in high pressure situations and timely resolution of any day-to-day Tier-1 application system issues/incidents.

• Provide timely escalation/report to system support team lead concerning BAU matters, tracks and manage the production issue from opening to closure, including follow-up fixes wherever is applicable.

• Work with cross functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues.

• Performance analysis and fine tuning of industry cut off time-sensitive systems.

• Assess operational readiness of new products / applications / flows and execute continuous service improvement plan, process improvement.

• Develop and maintain professional relationships with all relevant business users/operation support center as well as providing effective and timely support for production issues as well as queries.

• Contribute in effective knowledge management best practices within team and organization. Support the upkeep of the supporting documentation related to the application system in-charged.

• Support system resiliency activities such as DR exercise, BCP and system improvement planning.

• Liaise with various support units such as Data Security, Infrastructure, Technical Service, and Quality Assurance on system/application setup, environment and deployment.

• Work with level 1 support in application knowledge transfer in establishing standard first level recovery process/system health check monitoring/scheduled activities as well as common application user queries.

• Work with project/development/Level 3 team in permanent resolution/change request management – all types including enhancements, bug fixes, etc.

• Provide after office hours standby support (on rotation basis) and for emergency recoveries.

Key Requirements

• At least 7 years of software development and production system support experience in the financial industry

• Ability to foster a proactive team environment focused on technical remediation of Production Environments.

• Ability to learn new skills quickly with little supervision and ensuring the detail is of high priority

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and able to work well with cross-organizational teams; to communicate and develop long lasting relationships with all levels in a clear, concise manner.

• Capable in prompt incident and problem management, provides short term workaround and long term solutions wherever is applicable, in order to maintain system maximum uptime and availability.

• Strong in change management control, good documentation skills and high problem solving skills.

• Strong team player. Flexible and able to coordinate team effectively both in and outside of office hours; willing to take on challenges and provide prompt and effective day and night support

• Good Understanding of wholesale and transaction banking operation function domain covering Payment and account receivables operation.

• Understanding of ITIL methodology would be highly advantageous.

Technical Skills

• Technically sound in distributed system (Linux, Unix, Windows), Relational Database Management System (MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle) concepts, SQL queries for data retrieval and analysis.

• Experience writing scripts on automation (VBA, excel and/or other languages), database queries, generating capacity and performance reports, MS SharePoint administration

• Incident Management / Problem Management / Capacity and performance management

• Experience in scheduling tools and Interfaces and Messaging systems/file transfer protocol such as Control-M, sFTP, Connect Direct, IBM Websphere MQ and etc.

• Knowledge of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud solutions in Red Hat OpenShift is a plus.