Murex Application Engineer

The candidate will be part of the Murex Engineering team responsible for environment management, configuration management and tooling. The ideal candidate should be a senior developer with a solid experience on devops and exposure to Murex.

Responsibilities:

• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience, preferably in a financial institution.
• Familiar with Murex service architecture, application configuration, service start/stop, housekeeping etc.
• Provision new Murex test environments as requested by project teams by following the official bank’s
• Support and maintain the test environments, e.g. application files change, database operation, housekeeping etc.
• Execute ad-hoc jobs and EOD jobs manually, by scripting or by tools like control-M.
• Troubleshoot service and job execution issues for the test environment.
• Inject Murex configuration into test environments by following runbooks
• Support projects Go Lives and Mock Runs during weekends.
• Include, but are not limited to:
• Setup and Build SIT/UAT Application
• Setup interface connectivity - MQ, SFTP, Connect Direct, Omgeo, Bpipe, BSMT TOF, RTNS etc
• Refresh Test Environment (data refresh, data masking)
• Perform Thorough Sanity Checks post Environment preparation, including connectivity (if any)
• Prepare and submit relevant regular/adhoc automation jobs related to Test Environment
• Monitor and track the utilization of the test servers (App and DB), including storage space
• Setup key alerts on resource capacity and perform regular review and housekeeping to manage server stability and performance.
• Participate and perform application upgrade (Murex version/binaries) • Participate actively and coordinate in other upgrades covering Hardware upgrade patches
• Assess and recommend additional Hardware/software to support the requests, should the need surface
• Track and maintain up-to-date Hardware/Software Inventory and Connectivity
• Guide and support PROD/DR Env setup
• Coordinate and participate in production deployment.
• The role is about being responsible for automating manual processes and building new tools to improve the efficiency and quality of the Murex environments.
• Examples of assignments include writing scripts to automate the refresh of environments, building tools to version control Murex configuration files or creating a dashboard to monitor the health of environments.

Essential:

• Proficient in Murex configurations and Configuration Template Tool from GUI and Linux console
• Able to identify the dependencies for Murex configurations, merge configurations and optimize the configuration templates
• Able to trouble shoot issues arisen in configuration import and export
• Able to optimize the runbook procedure and reduce the time and effort
• Proficient in scripting and tools to enhance DevOps procedure
• Familiar with CICD concept and able to coordinate the test team for the regression and sanity test involved
• Support projects Go Lives and Mock Runs.