Application Support SME

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Application Support SME

The purpose of this role is to provide subject matter expertise to the team supporting the MVNE (Mobile Virtual Network Enabler) platform applications hosted on-prem and on AWS.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide oversight and guidance to the Application support team that delivers below functions
  • Carry out daily Application Health Check proactively to catch any symptoms that might lead to incidents and take measures proactively to avoid incident occurrence.
  • Provide L1/L2/L3 support for IT applications. Support coverage is 24×7 with full support provided during Irish business hours and on on-call rota basis outside of Irish business hours, including weekends
  • Monitor application alerts raised by the application monitoring platform and resolve issues as and when identified by the monitoring platform
  • Maintain up to date operational documentation, such as SOPs and application Runbooks
  • Conduct end-to-end testing of new functionality developed prior to rolling out to production.
  • Responsible for deployment of application code or configuration changes in the production environment.
• Participate in resolution of major incidents in accordance with established Service Level Agreements
• Co-ordinate resolution of major incidents with third parties that are responsible for applications in their scope
• Contribute to the impact and root cause analysis of the incident and publish findings in incident report.
• Perform analysis on frequently occurring issues and make service improvement recommendations to resolve such issues from occurring.
• Oversee business operations functions such as voucher management, SIM ordering, etc
• Review and refresh SOPs
• Create new SOPs for instances where documentation doesn’t exist
• Responding to business user queries
• Investigate and propose service improvement ideas

Skills:

• Strong Telecom knowledge.
• Hands-on experience with supporting IT applications
• Knowledge of ITIL framework, with required experience in incident management, change management
• Experience in Application Monitoring tools such as Nagios, Xymon
• Experience in handling high priority incidents (crisis calls)
• Experience in managing voice, data, and SMS services
• Strong skills on Java technologies vis-à-vis Springboot, React, SOAP-UI web services,
• Excellent skills in Linux OS and shell scripting
• Strong PostgreSQL and Oracle database knowledge
• Good English verbal communication skills with the ability to explain things in a clear and non-technical way.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to deliver high quality work.
• Should have the ability to identify right prioritization of incidents, which requires in-depth domain knowledge.
• Should be able to switch between various tasks seamlessly.

Nice to have:

• ITSM v3/v4 foundation certification.
• Capable of analysing new requirements and provide solution delivery estimates.
• Strong knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle.

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