Application Support Job Posting



Job Title: 2nd Line Application Support
Job ID: 348
Company: Leading Financial Company
Position Type: Contract
Pay Rate: DOE
Skills: Java, .net, Trading, Fixed Income
Date Posted: Aug-21-09

Title: 2nd Line Application Support Contractor
Location: 388 Grreenwich NY
Duration: 6 months

Responsibilities:

Tools - Establish a strategic roadmap for the Support Toolkit to track issues, monitoring, alerting and knowledge share.
Implement or build that toolset

Documentation - Continuously keep the Knowledge Share repository up to date. Publish Monthly Prod Issue Trends

Production Environment & Releases - Coordinate Releases and User Checkouts. Implement a process to communicate production Releases

TroubleShooting - Troubleshoot productions issues via debugging code, reviewing log files, running DB queries, etc. Bounce processes via AutoSys

Monitoring & Alerts - Monitor Production Environment for Alerts (ie Memory Utilization, App Exception Alerts, etc)

Communication/Notifications of Active Production Issues - Alert Users/Mgmt/Larger Tech Population of Production Issues. Play 'Traffic Cop' Role in making sure updates flow seemlessly to Users, Mgmt, etc. Coordinate & Chair Conf Calls during production Issues

Ad-Hoc Requests - Run Ad-Hoc DB Queries

Skills Required:
Java, .net
Prior experience supporting real time trading system
Some working knowledge of Fixed Income products
Ability to write SQL and Shell Scripts
Prior experience with Platform Monitoring Tools

Location: US-NY-New York City
Telecommute: No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name: Krunal Purohit
Contact Phone: 732-357-3775: Ext:1042
Contact Email: krunal.purohit@xoriant.com




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