Insight Global is seeking an Application Support Engineer to join one of our largest financial clients in Jersey City, NJ supporting the Global Counterparty Credit Risk Suite of Applications. This person will work closely with development partners and other technology/business partners to provide the production support of counterparty credit risk business applications. Day to day responsibilities include the following:
1. Application monitoring and health check to assure system availability and stability business applications
2. Monitoring multiple batch processes (autosys) to completion (Respond to and resolve feed and batch support items, Manage alerts and monitoring)
3. Production incident handling-investigating, trouble-shooting and resolving any performance issues
4. Respond to and resolve business queries for Market Risk space.
5. Manage user query mailbox effectively, understand the scope of team's work and ensure timely and appropriate response is provided for all user queries
6. Utilize important framework tools such as ITSM, JIRA, ITRS, etc. for both making updates and producing reports.
7. Incident management - provide timely and accurate user notifications as well as managing escalations when needed.
8. Documentation and knowledge management. Assist with metrics reporting and regulatory reporting.
9. Triage-Follow up and coordinate resolutions with various development teams.
10. Coordinate and perform Business Continuity testing and related paperwork.
11. Identify scope for automation to reduce manual, repeating tasks.
- 5+ years of Production and Application support experience
- Previous working experience in a Linux/Unix environment
- Working Knowledge of Batch Releases-preferably using Autosys
- Python Scripting experience
- Strong SQL Knowledge
- Working knowledge of ITIL
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.