Sr Operations Engineer

Scope of the Role:

• Direct Reports: This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide escalated technical support for complex technical issues which may include leading problem management cases and providing management status.

• Analyze requirements and prioritize requests. Communicate with users and requestors to clarify requirements. Create programs and/or processes to satisfy requests.

• Participate in design and review of changes to database design to ensure changes meet required functional and performance requirements

• Install, monitor, maintain, support, and optimize all production server hardware and software.

• Create, track and report metrics for capacity planning. Analyze current capacity and provide recommendations. Participate with database capacity planning, benchmarks.

• Participate in the ticket review process and provide severity and scope analysis of issues, inquiries and requests; maintaining ownership until resolution.

• Analyze metrics and identify the possible reasons for any achievements or deviations.

• Action plan and execute for the feedback received from customers.

• Continuous monitoring of production servers that includes system health, resource utilization, file transfer rate, database insert rate and logs.

• Application health monitoring that includes file processing, data loading, completion of scheduled tasks, report generation, application related processes, dashboards and application logs.

• Use alarm monitoring tools, interpret the condition being alarmed, resolve and/or escalate to the next level support.

• Monitor, execute and support production performance by performing benchmarking and research while initiating actions to improve results and/or problem correction.

• Error research based on the warnings, errors available in the production logs.

• Prioritize the production issues by analyzing the logs, database entries and processes.

• Perform User Acceptance Test in the production environment and perform relevant error research.

Experience, Education and Certification:

• Bachelor degree in computer science, electronics or telecommunication or equivalent work experience.

• 5+ years relevant professional experience in the areas of application support, technical customer support, problem management, relational databases, programming languages, software development.

• Certification on operating systems and databases (Preferred)

Additional Requirements:

• Exceptional customer service skills and demeanor, along with the innovative ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical clients

• Excellent analytical, multitasking, and communication skills (both verbal and written), detail orientation and familiarity with testing and troubleshooting techniques.

• Proficient working knowledge of Linux, networking tools and protocols (including DNS and tcpdump), programming/scripting languages such as Python, Java, and Bash, and databases including Oracle and MySQL. Experience with application design and architecture principles is also preferred.