Application Support Specialist

Years of Exp - 4 - 8 Years

Location - Bangalore

Position Purpose

BNP Paribas is looking for dynamic and highly motivated individuals for the role of Application Production Support. The person will be responsible to provide level 1 and level 2 functional and technical support. The role will be challenging and will involve high level of commitment and pro-activeness to maintain the 24*7 availability of the applications while being leveraging on other sites in follow the sun model. Job profile at a glance, the role will mainly focus on the functional and technical support of in-scope applications including but not limited to monitoring, troubleshooting, resolving and communicating the production events.

The event can be of various type and nature, ranging from simple application error or the infrastructure issue related to server crash. The main responsibility will be to resolve user queries and provide functional support while being leveraging on the systems technical architecture knowledge. Provide technical support by ensuring the smooth execution of batches, delivering the production change; manage Incidents and problem within the in-scope applications. The role also needs to ensure high availability of the application. Ensure that all relevant events and issues are recorded and resolved in timely manner.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Act as first line of contact for end users to register their queries and concerns and provide Level1 and Level2 functional and technical resolutions.

• Coordinate with Level3, Infra or ADM Teams as applicable for quicker resolution of issues/incidents whilst ensuring the timely communications to end users.

• Monitor batches with the help of provided tools and act proactively on failed batches while being ensuring that the preventive actions were implemented to avoid the future failures.

• Pro-actively monitor, manage and improve availability and performance of the production environments from presentation and application layers to middleware and databases with the help of provided tools.

• Create and maintain documentation about issue resolutions and process guidelines for easy resolution of future issues.

• Ensure logging all issues raised by user or intercepted by monitoring tool in the Bank’s ticket management system Service Now.

• Monitor recurrent incidents and perform problem management to ensure permanent fix with the help of IT partners.

• Coordinate with Infrastructure teams on events of patching & upgradation of servers to ensure the applications are stable & running after the infra work.

• Active participation in Disaster Recovery exercise to validate the resilience of production ecosystem for business.

• Explore opportunities of innovation and automation while in line with all policies

• Ensuring the timely delivery of change in staging and production ecosystem as per the agreed schedule.

• Handle access management for end users.

• Perform capacity management of in-scope applications by proactively monitoring the application behavior. Alerts Application Production and Development teams of any potential risks in the future • Provide feedback and propose solutions to management on performance improvement and capacity.

• Customize production tools (monitoring, batch scheduling, backups, deployment tolls, automation)

• Adopt CIB Standard tools, industrialize monitoring, industrialize Release management whilst seeking reduction of dependency on manual interventions by support staff, e.g leveraging enterprise batch scheduling and enterprise monitoring tools

• Collaborate efficiently with Dev and release management team to automate release delivery respecting the DEVOPS best practices.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Increasing productivity of team and company as a whole by striving for excellence.

• Motivating self and the team to take on new tasks.

• Challenge existing process for continuous improvements.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Technical Skills Must have

• Strong experience with Windows or Linux based infrastructure platforms

• Experience with Windows or Linux Server administration

• Ability to troubleshoot and solve main Linux issues, like identifying process blocking specific port, searching for a specific value in files, ...

• Strong experience with databases such as Oracle DB or Microsoft SQL Server or any other Database

• Ability to create detailed technical documents / videos for sharing knowledge Good to have (at least 3 from the below)

• Experience with IIS Administration / Weblogic /Webshpere administration

• Ability to troubleshoot IIS / .NET main issues

• Ability to create / maintain PowerShell scripts.

• Ability to create / maintain bash script.

• RHEL experience is an asset.

• Ability to troubleshoot performance issues

• Ability to monitor database performances, using monitoring tools or SQL queries

• Experience with Java application servers like IBM WebSphere or Apache Tomcat.

• Ability to configure a Java Application Server, notably:JVM settings,HTTP Connector configuration,Database Connection Pool,MQ Connection Pool

• Experience with Java/ .NET applications

• Ability to troubleshoot memory issues

• Perform Memory and Thread dump with Java monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Geneos)

• Ability to troubleshoot performance issues

• Investigate application slowness with proper monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Autosys, Geneos)

• Experience with a scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, Bash, PowerShell.

• Ability to write a small sample application to validate configuration / connectivity

• Ability to write / maintain deployments scripts written in Ansible (Python) and Jenkins Pipeline (Groovy) • Ability to write / maintain scripts in Bash or PowerShell, to execute directly on Linux / Windows hosts

• Experience with ELK stack

• Ability to collect data and send them to Elastic search

• Ability to create reports and dashboards in Kibana