
Senior Application Support Engineer
- Metro Manila
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide business facing technology application support to business and operations groups across the Asia Pacific region.
- Manage production technology incidents up to resolution, ensuring timely engagement, escalation and effective communication to business, technology and vendor partners
- Perform database troubleshooting of data and report issues. • Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual tasks
- Improve support documentations and procedures
- Perform review and implementation of technology Application & Infrastructure release, Disaster Recovery exercises and Patch management.
- Work within a follow-the-sun support model with global counterparts
- Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for key applications, responsible for maintaining global best practice and hygiene standards
- Perform root cause analysis post incident analysis, identifying, tracking and implementing preventative measures
- Act as a key contributor in the continued development of tools, frameworks & techniques to improve productivity and quality of the production support, adopting SRE principles to manage and support the environment
- Develop and support automation tooling to improve the reliability of the platform and to increase the productivity of the team
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Technology.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience within application support, production management, Site Reliability Engineering.
- Experience in Unix/Linux, Windows Operating system and scripting languages such as Perl, Shell, and Python.
- Strong database background with SQL ,Oracle, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, Casandra.
- Support Management skills: design and use monitoring dashboards for day-to-day support, generate service KPIs, report on service stability & performance and log & message bus monitoring
- A proven track record of running Incident & Problem Management calls for business impacting outages, performing post incident analysis, identifying & implementing preventative measures and lessons learned following outages
- Experience with Control-M, Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Grafana, ITRS Geneos as monitoring tools, and Kubernetes for container orchestration
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud) is a plus.
- Familiarity with Splunk for log analysis and monitoring