Specialist Software Engineer - Java Developer

Responsibilities

Skill-Basic Java, REST-API,UNIX , Analytical & Problem solving skills

Tenure - 12 months

 Level-SE

Category-Ordinary

• Performing daily monitoring, reporting and being part of shift roaster in accordance with SLA/OLA and procedures
• Perform and define monitoring tasks as per production need.
• Perform detailed investigation and escalate to relevant team with analysis.
• Ensure timely and accurate status reporting as per procedures and production needs.
• Good understanding of SLA/OLA to identify task priorities. Incident, Request, Problem management as per defined guidelines
• Ensure all ITIL principles are followed for incident, request and Problem management.
• Good knowledge of Impulse usage to track.
• Ensure Problem management is done where ever required.
• Track the Problem Management anomalies to closure.
• Own the data quality of all tracking. Ensure business continuity/ Crisis Management/ Reseliency in line with business criticality
• Drive Major incident management process to handle any crisis on production.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management.
• Good understanding of business criticality.
• Impact analysis, task prioritization and assignments based on SLA/OLA. Follow up and define Post Mortems and Remediation actions to improve production
• Drive PM calls with all stakeholders.
• Ensure post actions are defined for every improvement area identified.
• Track the post actions to closure with regular follow up and communication.
• Review the chronology and complete the PM document with right root causes identified.
• Ensure the PM is published and communicated to all stake holders. Ensure support coverage in accordance with service coverage agreed with periodic review
• Define and secure the service coverage.
• Manage the setup as per the budget/scope agreed with business.
• Ensure service continuity with respect to change management. Maintain good collaboration with internal and external partners
• Manage all stake holders for the feature/application.
• Drive governance meetings/ interactions with stakeholders to understand the concerns and share updates.
• Contribute towards knowledge sharing sessions with our partners.
• Focus on client centric approach towards user community. Define and conduct user satisfaction survey and improvement action plan
• Define and help implement, Plan-Do-Check-Act improvement action plans based on VoC (Voice of Customer)
• Identify levers to improve quality, reduce cost and reduce MTTR Change management and smooth transition of services
• Able to define & put in place steps to mitigate production impacts due to PROD changes
• Collaborate with partners to understand the Market/Technical/Business events
• Communicate stakeholders about potential impacts to production
• Be part of GO/NO-GO decision and raise alerts appropriately
• Augment/Extend production coverage setup based on assessment Ensure Knowledge base and training material are up to date (Jive, known error database etc.) and contribute towards knowledge sharing
• Define the strategy for the knowledge Management process for the project/team needs
• Make sure there is no risks involved while onboarding new activities related to knowledge gap or documentation.
• Make sure the documents have been maintained in structured manner in centralized place which is accessible for every one
• Contribute towards knowledge sharing initiatives - design and drive. Anticipate and propose action plans for continuous improvement on production to gain efficiency, stability, etc.
• Implement improvements on processes.
• Implement automations to gain efficiency.
• Contribute towards innovation ideas to improve production quality and customer satisfaction. People management (Career Path/ Mentoring/ Performance management etc)
• Understand well the skill set of each individual.
• Manage the load in accordance with the team capex.
• Provide leadership on operational activities and guide the team. Contribute to sustain and improve production support practices
• Take measures to improve production practices
• Be an active contributor towards Production League backlogs
• Ensure defined process are cascaded across Teams and followed through with KPI Preparedness to be part of autonomous feature teams
• Demonstrate proficiency of agile model & CD practices.
• Focus on upskilling to learn new technologies/ processes.
• Contribute towards feature team backlogs. ITIL process knowledge
• Knowledge on ITIL processes on Request fulfilment, Incident management, Problem Management & Change/Release Management.
• Good exposure on Monitoring tools & implementation
• Good knowledge & Exposure on any of CD/CI technologies such as Jenkins, XLDeploy etc
• Good knowledge & Exposure on Monitoring Tools Understanding of functional domain and business processes
• Build expertise on business process chain.
• Contribute towards knowledge repository.
• Ability to train/coach the team. Analytical skills, Influential skills & out of box thinking
• Strong analytical ability to investigate complex issues.
• Influential skills to take quick decisions in agreement with all stakeholders. Knowledge on Agile model and CD practices
• Proficiency on Agile practices.
• Good problem solving and ownership on actions performed.

Profile required

Require 2-4 years relevant experience on application support (L2 Support).

• Good knowledge in Incident ,request ,problem , change management and experience supporting production applications.
• Basic knowledge in  Unix, Java.
• Good knowledge in testing tools such as Postman.
• Good knowledge in Monitoring tools such as PUTTY , ELK stack etc.,
• Good knowledge in problem management and experience supporting production applications
• Basic knowledge of RDBMS . 
• Good to have experience in writing Sqls, stored procedures and functions.