Application Support Engineer

Job Description

The Job Responsibilities: Your duties will include providing technical L2 support to both internal and external customers across our full suite of OTC Derivative products and FX for post-trade confirmation processing. Liaising with other team members, Product, Development and particularly the infrastructure teams as required for 3rd line escalation. Technical advisory will be required at times by Product and business or clients for solution delivery. Working directly with clients, to understand and resolve issues and liaising with delivery teams to ensure readiness for new platform releases. Based in our Gurgaon office, you will be responsible for handling escalations, identify and communicate technical resolutions in English. Your Profile What Were Looking For: University graduate or equivalent with background of bachelors in computer science. Ability to read and trace Java, C++ and/or scripting languages. Possess the understanding of PAAS and implementation with OpenShift. Experience or having high motivation to pick up cloud implementation on AWS. Experience in handling client issues and expectation management. Experience in Application Support, software development and deployment (SDLC). Good Unix skills, including scripting experience. Experience of XML and XSLT. Experience of databases including SQL scripting, preferably but not limited to Oracle. Good understanding of messaging platforms and protocols like FIX and IBM MQ. Understanding of networking principles, its practical uses and basic troubleshooting. Experience in encrypted connectivity channels utilizing SSL and TLS. Have experience of working in the Finance Industry. Knowledge of the Financial OTC Derivative and FX products. Good understanding of Application Support processes. Awareness of Derivatives products and post trade processing (desirable). Be flexible regarding hours including weekends and public holidays. Knowledge of financial protocols like FIX, FPmL, TOF etc Ability to understand Application architecture, and able to effectively navigate to the problem area. Ability to apply analytic methodology, such as trending, distribution etc., to get insight from application data to help troubleshooting.