Lead Application Support Engineer; Location: Jersey City, NJ; Zip code: 07310, United States; Job type: Direct hire; Industry: Financial Services; Job function: Information Technology
Job Title: Lead Application Support Engineer
- Location: Jersey City, NJ; Zip code: 07310, United States
- Job type: Direct hire
- Industry: Financial Services; Job function: Information Technology
- Experience level: Mid-senior
- Education level: Bachelor’s degree
- Work location: Hybrid; DTCC offers a hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).
- Skills: ITIL Change, ITIL, Incident and Problem management processes, Incident and Problem management, Unix, Linux, Windows, SQL/PLSQL, PLSQL, PL/SQL, SQL, DB2, Oracle, Snowflake, Data Tools, Splunk, DynaTrace, Thousand Eyes, Grafana, Selenium, HiPam IBM Zolda, AWS, S3, EC2, Lambda, SQS, IAM, Azure, OpenShift, RDS Aurora, Postgress, Postgres, Scheduling, CA AutoSys, Control-M, ControlM, Disaster Recovery, Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2 Stored Procedures, CICS, SPUFI, File aid, Fileaid, Job abends, Predecessor, Successor
- Experience required: 6 Years
- Relocation assistance: No
JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Being a member of the Application Support Engineering team you will specialize in maintaining and providing technical support for all applications that are beyond the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the firm.
- Works closely with development teams, infrastructure partners, and internal / external clients to raise and resolve technical support incidents.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Experience with using ITIL Change, Incident and Problem management processes.
- Resolve critical production issues by leading Major Incident calls, engaging proper teams, and driving root cause analysis.
- Solve and debug system component(s) to resolve technical issues in complex and highly regulated environments comprised of ground and cloud applications and services.
- Analyze proposed application design(s) and provide feedback on potential gaps or provide recommendations for optimization.
- Hands-on experience with Monitoring and Alerting processes in Distributed, Cloud and Mainframe environments.
- Knowledge and understanding of cyber security standard methodologies and general security concepts like password rotation, access restriction and malware detection.
- Supply in Monthly Service Reviews (MSR) with Development partners to go over KPI metrics.
- Participate in Disaster Recovery / Loss of Region events (planned and unplanned) completing tasks and collecting evidence.
- Collaborate both within the team and across teams to resolve application issues and advance as needed.
- Support audit requests in a timely fashion providing needed documentation and evidence.
- Plan and implement certificate creation/renewals as needed.
- Create, Modify and Monitor Dashboards to better catch potential issues and aide in observability.
- Solid ability to gather and analyze project requirements and translate them into technical specification(s).
- Deep understanding of all lifecycle components (code, test, deploy).
- Good verbal and written communication and social skills, communicating openly with team members and others.
- Verify analysis performed by team members and implement changes required to prevent reoccurrence of incidents.
- Resolve Critical application alerts in a timely fashion including production defects, providing business impact and analysis to teams, handling minor enhancements as needed
- Review and update knowledge articles and runbooks with application development teams to confirm information is up to date.
- Validate and submit responses to requests for information from ongoing audits.
- Review and Complete Disaster Recovery scripts during planned and unplanned outages, providing BCM evidence as needed.
- Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort associated with application monitoring.
- Partner with development teams to provide feedback into the design and development stages of applications.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum of 6 years of related experience.
- Bachelor\'s degree preferred or equivalent experience.
- Mainframe solve and support skills (COBOL, JCL, DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, CICS, SPUFI, File aid)
- Mainframe scheduling (Job abends, Predecessor/Successor)
- Hands on experience in Unix, Linux, Windows, SQL/PLSQL
- Familiarity working with relational databases (DB2, Oracle, Snowflake)
- Monitoring and Data Tools experience (Splunk, DynaTrace, Thousand Eyes, Grafana, Selenium, HiPam IBM Zolda)
- Cloud Technologies (AWS services (S3, EC2, Lambda, SQS, IAM roles), Azure, OpenShift, RDS Aurora, Postgress)
- Scheduling Tool experience (CA AutoSys, Control-M)
ADDITIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Champions a culture where honesty and visibility are expected.
- Stays ahead of on changes in their own specialist area and seeks out learning opportunities to ensure knowledge is up-to-date.
- Invests effort to individually coach others.
- Builds collaborative teams across the organization.
- Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization informed.
ABOUT DTCC:
With 50 years of
experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global
financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through
its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of
financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing
performance, and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian
banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates
purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset
servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across
asset classes and bringing increased security, enhanced resilience, and
soundness to financial markets. In 2022, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed
securities transactions valued at U.S. $2.5 quadrillion and its depository
subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over
150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $72 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade
Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade
repositories, processes more than 17.5 billion messages annually.
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