Application Support Engineer

Description

We are looking for talented and motivated professionals, interested in delivering the latest in Application Operations (SaaS) using AWS, in a culture that encourages autonomous productive teams. You are Someone who loves learning how to configure backend systems, and infrastructure that will help us build our global SaaS platform. You have a comprehensive understanding of Amazon AWS platform and know how to light and put fires out. You are an engineer with confidence in his / her skill set, who is not afraid to look under the hood and break stuff to make stuff. If yes, then come be a part of Nice Customer Services, a team of software engineers re-inventing Application Operations.

This position is for US development center.

What you get to do

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You will get to team up with highly talented and highly motivated engineers and architects, using the latest in AWS, working on cutting edge technology.

As a part of this team, you will be working in a fast-paced environment deploying, monitoring, automating & supporting a highly scalable real-time critical platform(s) impacting, millions of individuals & Billions of dollars.

Responsibilities:

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• Managing Complex Applications hosted on cloud
• Support Application maintenance activities
• Managing Daily data processing & troubleshoot failures
• Building proactive Monitoring & alerting service.
• Automation using ansible, python, Perl scripting
• Setup & securing new Application instances
• Change management, Building deployment and rollback plans and procedures. Deploying patches & Fixes.
• Creating and maintaining knowledge base for various technical resolutions
• Create and setup deployment scripts for different environments (i.e. Test properties vs Prod properties)
• Configure and optimize instances and web servers for optimal performance. (ex: adjusting default connection limits, adjusting request queuing thresholds)
• Support, Architect and Implement alongside Technical & Operations teams to meet our customers' individual needs for their infrastructure & application deployments.
• Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that will span multiple AWS services (dealing daily with high severity incidents).
• Help build and improve customer operations through scripts to automate and deploy AWS resources seamlessly with as little manual intervention as possible.
• Collaborate and help build utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and your fellow Engineers to operate safely at high speed / wide scale.
• Drive customer communication during critical events.
• Provide on-call off hour support and flexible to work in 24*7 shift environment

Qualifications & Skills Sets :

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• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Excellent hands-on experience in managing Application Support (3 tier/2 tier apps)
• Strong problem solving, analytical and communication skills
• Exposure in handling complex application performance issues
• Exposure to APM tools like AppDynamics, Dynatrace
• Excellent skills on managing containerized / cloud-based application with exposure to various cloud services (EC2, S3, IAM, ELB, VPC, VPN).
• Good experience in a DevOps environment / Operations team / Infrastructure Operations team.
• Excellent Troubleshooting skills
• OS level knowledge (Windows or Linux)
• Database skills ( SQL ,Oracle or Postgres / Casandra)
• Application Server ( skills on any of Middleware technologies e.g. – Tomcat , WebLogic , WebSphere)
• Good understanding on Networking , Load balancers
• Exposure to scripting language (Ansible, Perl, Python, Ruby, Shell script, Powershell etc.)
• Experience in working with tools like OpsGenie, Nagios, Rundeck,

Additional Skills Desired:

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• Cloud / Application level Security experience
• experience in Banking & Financial domain
• Has worked in an Agile / Sprint development model.