Production Support Analyst - Part-Time

Responsibilities:

• Provide 24x7 production support onsite / offsite.
• Investigate production issues, determine production defect severity and provide workaround to user if feasible to move business forward.
• Manage and respond to users on timely manner.
• Log incident ticket for production issues and user queries.
• Provide necessary information needed for further investigation to next level support (L3) to proceed with fix.
• Prioritize defects and plan for production release based on defect criticality or align with quarterly release.
• Follow up on defect and incident closure and meet incident closure KPI.
• Share production defect support learning with QA team and development team to improve application .quality and minimize future defects.
• Make sure system availability as per respective agreed SLA.
• Support EOD batch run.
• Perform annual Disaster Recovery (DR) exercise for supported applications.
• Provide support to System Engineers on server level patches / upgrade as and when applicable.
• Ensure proper knowledge transfer (KT) from project / development team before enhancement release.
• Ensure application documentation is properly updated for each production release.

Requirements:

Must have:

• Bachelor’s degree of Computer Science/IT or Engineering.
• 10 years working experience in IT industry as Development or Production Support role of which minimum 5 years relevant experience in the banking/financial industry.
• Good and assertive communicator in speaking & writing.
• Good analytic and problem-solving skills
• Able to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment and weekend / wee hours.
• Experience in L2 or L3 production support.

Good to have:

• Understanding of ITIL, SDLC, FI/Banking domain knowledge.
• Knowledge on enterprise tools, i.e., MQ, Connect Direct, Control M, Helix, Aldon, etc..
• Knowledge on monitoring, log analytics, automation tools, i.e. Geneos, Splunk, Ansible, Grafana, Elastic Search etc..

Essential technical skill:

• Strong proficiency of OS/400 system, RPG, COBOL language.
• Plus point – good experience in Silverlake banking system.
• Added advantage - Open System knowledge - Unix, Linux, Solaris, Shell Script, Oracle DB.