Job Title: Application Production Services Specialist

Location: UK, Chester (Hybrid-3 days a week onsite)

Responsibilities:

• Capacity and Performance Management.
• Working with development teams for take-on and training of new services or significant upgrades.
• Providing support for Audits (internal and external).
• Stakeholder management, working closely with Business and Operations partners to understand KPI metrics to measure service stability to prioritize defect fixes and enhancements.

Requirements/Qualifications and Skills:

• 5+ years of relevant IT experience (Production Support, ITIL, Release Support, Technical Implementations, or equivalent)
• Demonstrate flexibility, navigate ambiguity, and quickly establish credibility among technical peers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English)
• Proven knowledge in some or all of the following: Java/J2EE – Core Java, JDBC, EJB, & Java Web Services & Experience in Server-side technologies - SOAP/Restful services, XML/XSLT, XML, JDBC, AOP, MQ Micro Services & MuleSoft.
• Good knowledge of Middleware components such as Message Broker, IBM Websphere MQ, JBoss application server, MuleSoft
• Strong operating system knowledge in Unix and Windows including strong scripting skills
• Experience with Database technologies (examples Oracle, DB2 and PL/SQL )queries to support incident resolution.
• Knowledge of event driven and schedule driven batch processes
• Experience of handling various production support roles (technical – L1/L2/L3) and hands-on experience in using at least 2-3 widely used monitoring / scheduling tools
• Ability to be part of IT production support team providing front-line technical support to end users responding to issues related to Incident / Problem Management, Release/Deployment, Operational Readiness, Application Monitoring & Production Governance
• Experience troubleshooting, analysis, research, and resolution using advanced query, programming skills, conduct root cause analysis, and identify mitigations/risk
• Experience with real-time restoration, triaging of issues impacting technical services (application/infrastructure) to bank customers and partners in a timely manner while keeping partners advised of significant progress or challenges during the restoration period
• Ability to work closely with Technology Infrastructure Teams, Development & Testing Teams in supporting Integrated / Independent releases, software/hardware upgrades, server upgrades, etc.
• Ability to assess initial severity, gather impacts, engage necessary supporting teams, and escalate as necessary to ensure timely restoration
• Experience with on call support for triaging problems, coordinating with various support teams across the organization and carryout activities related to incident and problem management
• Ability to communicate with all lines of business and management the overall status and health of the application, contribute to automation, causal analysis, develop shared/common solutions, and proactively identify cross-functional or technical issues