Our client, a leading financial services company, is hiring an Azure Support Specialist.
Job ID# 81927
Work Location: South Jordan, UT
You will:
• Be responsible for stability and resilience of the critical Settlements flow at the firm which includes diverse technologies hosted by on premises and cloud platforms.
• Support the systems, their end users and split your time evenly to also perform project tasks to improve the production environment.
• Apply your technical and domain expertise to solve complex technical and business challenges.
• Act as a buffer between support and development teams to keep problem resolution in production management team.
• Use your concise communication skills to manage critical incidents, ensuring all key management and business stakeholders are kept up to date.
• Focus on improving the performance, observability, scalability, and reliability of our systems by working with the Software developers and Infrastructure engineering teams to develop automated reliability solutions.
• Implement observability and telemetry systems that support our applications and APIs by providing data for SLIs and SLOs and drill down metrics.
• Use automation to evolve our systems increasing our velocity in managing uptime and mitigating risk.
• We are looking for the ideal candidate to improve our codebase in a growing area of the firm that provides significant potential for career growth.
You must have:
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years’ experience in the IT industry of which at least 2 years in Level 3 Production Management in a multiple application environment on java based applications.
• Experience in supporting application deployed on Azure Cloud.
• Expert knowledge of observability and reliability tools and techniques in a cloud-native environment.
• Expertise in analyzing, debugging and troubleshooting large-scale distributed applications across multiple layers, i.e. software, Infrastructure and database. • Experience of working in Python, , Java code bases.
• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.
• Eagerness to share your own ideas, and openness to those of others nice to haves, but not required qualifications.
Technical skills:
• Terraform or GitHub.
• Azure Kubernetes, Azure spring apps, Azure Web apps, AzureSQL, Kafka. Azure ServiceBus
• Experience instrumenting application services end point for logging, metrics and events using Azure monitor/Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana.
• Experience of observability design principles