Production Support Analyst - Part-Time

Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality production support for cross-functional applications serving Wholesale Banking stakeholders.
• Oversee application availability, incident management, problem management, and capacity for systems within scope.
• Analyse, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents, problems, and user issues effectively.
• Coordinate incident communications, including SLA breaches, major incidents, and upstream or downstream issues, while keeping the team, manager, and department updated.
• Lead technical remediation in line with agreed non-functional requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement of services, processes, and tasks through automation.
• Ensure critical processes and procedures are followed and help define operational standards.
• Translate complex technical issues into clear language for business users.
• Promote strong knowledge management practices across the team and organization.
• Collaborate with Level 1, Level 3, and development teams to resolve incidents, problems, and user issues within SLA and in line with the bank’s severity framework.
• Support event management activities, including patching and annual RDR exercises.
• Provide on-call support according to the team roster.

Requirements:

• At least 7 years of L2/L3 production support experience in Banking IT within a high-availability, mission-critical environment.
• Experience supporting Cash & Trade Management platforms in Wholesale Banking is an advantage.
• Hands-on experience performing Pre-DR and RDR activities is required.
• Previous experience in development or system administration (Linux, Unix, Oracle) is preferred, but candidates must currently be working in an L2 or L3 support role.

Key Domain/Technical Skills:

• Distributed technologies, including Unix/Linux, MQ, WebLogic, Java, Oracle, and Connect: Direct.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Geneos, and BMC Helix, TrueSight.
• Experience using batch schedulers such as Control-M, AutoSys, or Cron.
• Experience with host-to-host file transfer protocols such as SFTP.
• Strong automation skills, particularly in Unix shell scripting or Python.
• Hands-on experience writing and debugging scripts, code, and database queries.
• Knowledge of interfaces and messaging platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for Java application performance issues.
• Strong understanding of web and mobile banking application architecture.
• Solid understanding of ITIL methodology.