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Lead Application Support Engineer / Sr. Application Support Engineer

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Production/application support role in Chennai: leading a team that resolves customer support issues within SLA, monitors logs for root cause, automates manual tasks, and coordinates software releases with the dev team. Core stack is Linux, SQL/Oracle/MySQL, shell scripting, Java, and web-layer tools like Nginx, Tomcat, and JBoss, with functional knowledge of Loan Origination Systems.

Roles and Responsibilities: -

  • As a production support engineer, you would be responsible for your team - for resolving the production support issues within a given SLA.
  • Build functional knowledge of the system under support and ensure effective troubleshooting of support tickets raised by the customer.
  • Build a knowledge base of issues and effective fixes for the same.
  • Responsible for identifying issues that require permanent code fixes and ensure tracking of the same till delivery from the implementation team.
  • Responding to incidents and coordinating with the infrastructure, network and other teams to resolve issues.
  • Responsible for monitoring and responding to open tickets submitted through an incident management system.
  • Keeping a record of configuration changes and scheduling application updates.
  • Coordinate with Application Development Team to successfully deploy software releases in both User Acceptance Testing and Production environments.
  • Develop scripts and work with a team to automate repeatable manual tasks.
  • Responsible for troubleshooting and resolving application or infrastructure issues.
  • Proactively monitor logs to identify RCA of issues.

Skills Required: -

  • Knowledge of OS Linux (RHEL 6+ ) and Windows .
  • Deep Knowledge of SQL Queries
  • Deep Knowledge of Shell Scripting (LINUX), parsing, scheduling, port forwarding etc.
  • Knowledge of log monitoring and correlation to what is wrong with the deployment.
  • Have functional knowledge of Loan Origination Systems.
  • Hands on Experience on Java, Oracle, SQL, MySQL and performance tuning.
  • Knowledge on Patch deployments and App/web layer configurations (Nginx,Apache tomcat , Jboss ) .
  • Knowledge on SDLC
  • Excellent written & verbal communication
  • Good analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Good team player with the ability to deliver


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