Associate - Production Support Engineer

Role Description

You will be operating within Corporate Bank Production as an Associate, Production Support Engineer in the Corporate Banking subdivisions. You will be accountable to drive a culture of proactive continual improvement into the Production environment through application, user request support, troubleshooting and resolving the errors in production environment. Automation of manual work, monitoring improvements and platform hygiene. Supporting the resolution of issues and conflicts and preparing reports and meetings. Candidate should have experience in all relevant tools used in the Service Operations environment and has specialist expertise in one or more technical domains and ensures that all associated Service Operations stakeholders are provided with an optimum level of service in line with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Operating Level Agreements (OLAs).

• Ensure all the BAU support queries from business are handled on priority and within agreed SLA and also to ensure all application stability issues are well taken care off.
• Support the resolution of incidents and problems within the team. Assist with the resolution of complex incidents. Ensure that the right problem-solving techniques and processes are applied
• Embrace a Continuous Service Improvement approach to resolve IT failings, drive efficiencies and remove repetition to streamline support activities, reduce risk, and improve system availability.
• Be responsible for your own engineering delivery plus, using data and analytics, drive a reduction in technical debt across the production environment with development and infrastructure teams.
• Act as a Production Engineering role model to enhance the technical capability of the Production Support teams to create a future operating model embedded with engineering culture.

Deutsche Banks Corporate Bank division is a leading provider of cash management, trade finance and securities finance. We complete green-field projects that deliver the best Corporate Bank - Securities Services products in the world. Our team is diverse, international, and driven by shared focus on clean code and valued delivery. At every level, agile minds are rewarded with competitive pay, support, and opportunities to excel.
You will work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team. You will bring an innovative approach to software development, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees engineering as team activity, with a predisposition to open code, open discussion and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of software delivery, from initial analysis right through to production support."

Your key responsibilities

• Lead by example to drive a culture of proactive continual improvement into the Production environment through automation of manual work, monitoring improvements and platform hygiene.
• Carry out technical analysis of the Production platform to identify and remediate performance and resiliency issues.
• Engage in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to enhance Production Standards and controls.
• Update the RUN Book and KEDB as & when required
• Participate in all BCP and component failure tests based on the run books
• Understand flow of data through the application infrastructure. It is critical to understand the dataflow to best provide operational support
• Event monitoring and management via a 24x7 workbench that is both monitoring and regularly probing the service environment and acting on instruction of the run book.
• Drive knowledge management across the supported applications and ensure full compliance
• Works with team members to identify areas of focus, where training may improve team performance, and improve incident resolution.

Your skills and experience

• Recent experience of applying technical solutions to improve the stability of production environments
• Working experience of some of the following technology skills:

Technologies/Frameworks:

• Unix, Shell Scripting and/or Python
• SQL Stack
• Oracle 12c/19c - for pl/sql, familiarity with OEM tooling to review AWR reports and parameters
• ITIL v3 Certified (must)
• Control-M, CRON scheduling
• MQ- DBUS, IBM
• JAVA 8/OpenJDK 11 (at least) - for debugging
• Familiarity with Spring Boot framework
• Data Streaming Kafka (Experience with Confluent flavor a plus) and ZooKeeper
• Hadoop framework

Configuration Mgmt Tooling:

• Ansible

Operating System/Platform:

• RHEL 7.x (preferred), RHEL6.x
• OpenShift (as we move towards Cloud computing and the fact that Fabric is dependent on OpenShift)

CI/CD:

• Jenkins (preferred)

APM Tooling: either or one of

• Splunk
• AppDynamics
• Geneos
• NewRelic

Other platforms:

• Scheduling Ctrl-M is a plus, Autosys, etc
• Search Elastic Search and/or Solr+ is a plus

Methodology:

• Micro-services architecture
• SDLC
• Agile
• Fundamental Network topology TCP, LAN, VPN, GSLB, GTM, etc
• Familiarity with TDD and/or BDD
• Distributed systems
• Experience on cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP is a plus
• Familiarity with containerization/Kubernetes

Tools:

• ServiceNow
• Jira
• Confluence
• BitBucket and/or GIT
• IntelliJ
• SQL Plus
• Familiarity with simple Unix Tooling putty, mPutty, exceed
• (PL/)SQL Developer
• Good understanding of ITIL Service Management framework such as Incident, Problem, and Change processes.
• Ability to self-manage a book of work and ensure clear transparency on progress with clear, timely, communication of issues.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with attention to detail.
• Ability to work in Follow the Sun model, virtual teams and in matrix structure
• Service Operations experience within a global operations context
• 6-9 yrs experience in IT in large corporate environments, specifically in the area of controlled production environments or in Financial Services Technology in a client-facing function
• Global Transaction Banking Experience is a plus.
• Experience of end-to-end Level 2,3,4 management and good overview of Production/Operations Management overall
• Experience of run-book execution
• Experience of supporting complex application and infrastructure domains
• Good analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of incident tracking tools (i.e., Remedy, Heat etc.)