Senior Support engineer

Embrace the role of a Senior Support Specialist on our team where youll play a vital part in ensuring the smooth operation of our enterprise software solutions. Candidates will be part of Global Command Center and will be responsible to lead a team of L1 & L2 Support specialists providing application production support for various applications. Your duties encompass monitoring applications active triaging collaborating with developers and conducting thorough troubleshooting to identify and resolve application issues.

RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• 8 years of relevant experience in Business Application Support with expertise in ITIL and ITSM. 
• Ensure team is achieving 99.95% system availability across all customer facing systems.
• Need to be on top of identified potential severity incidents and closely work with Global incident management development and other infrastructure teams to resolve the production issues. 
• Effectively audit the threshold of the monitors pinpoint affected application components identify significant events and patterns based on realtime analysis.
• Follow the standard operating procedures to minimize the downtime optimizing the system performance to maintain uninterrupted service delivery.
• Monitor servicelevel dashboards ensure team is performing daily health checks and review system capacity. 
• Ensure team is meeting the SLA of various critical alerts and maintain consistent updates on tickets in ServiceNow and JIRA.
• Provide meaningful analysis of issues timely updates on ongoing incidents to stakeholders and internal teams.
• Coordinate endtoend issue resolution with users support teams operations technical delivery teams and vendors if required. 
• Ensure teams active participation in the sev1 calls need to do triaging for infra related issue and effectively communicate in calls to take it to the closure with appropriate Root Cause Analysis (RCA). 
• Take active participation in Release and deployment calls.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of the overall application infrastructure.
• Ensure team has clear understanding of risk associated with alerts identify and mitigate new risks. 
• Prioritize internal work based on incident priority and deadlines.  
• Drive longterm solutions for highimpact production issues across technical operations and product teams. 
• Assist team in identifying the loopholes in existing processes share best practices conduct weekly team meetings and fasttrack feedback.
• Share and collect process improvement ideas to identify trends in issues and propose automation ideas to higherlevel management. 
• Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• Ensure SLAs are met with BusinessAsUsual (BAU) tasks and work collaboratively in a crossfunctional environment. 
• Prepare presentations for leadership visits.
• Drive team meetings effectively and ensure the latest data is available for presentations for monthly workshops with leaders.
• Ensure shift roster is up to date and prepared well in advance and shared with the team.  
• Create and maintain a Knowledge Base (KEDB) with bug information and workarounds.
• Facilitate collaboration and communication among internal teams stakeholders and external partners. This includes maintaining open channels of communication facilitating crossfunctional collaboration and fostering a culture of transparency and teamwork.
• Handling application releases and provide full support for the signoff 

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in engineering computer science or a related field. 
• Automation experience is great to have. 
• Proficient in monitoring and observability. 
• Exposure to native monitoring skills and troubleshooting tools including but not limited to Datadog LogicMonitor PagerDuty OpsGenie. 
• Ability to create a dashboard and perform log analysis in monitoring tools like DataDog LogicMonitor AppDynamics. 
• Good to have hands on experience on data visualization tools like PowerBI.
• Cloud and ITIL certifications will be a plus.
• Advanced knowledge in infrastructure components including cloud services containerization compute storage and networking systems is good to have. 

MustHave: 

• Exceptional communication skills. 
• Flexibility to work in 24x7 shift rotations including weekends. 
• Ability to work flexible and extended hours as needed. 
• Positive attitude team player selfstarter; takes initiative and can work independently. 
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment. 
• Application support experience in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platforms. 
• Hands on experience on UNIX SQL Microsoft Office Tools and application monitoring tools but not limited to Datadog LogicMonitor PagerDuty and OpsGenie. 
• Docker knowledge will be an added advantage
• Experience working in Global Command Center and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.

Additional Information :

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• EmployeeAssistanceProgram (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ is the worlds leading consumer intelligence company delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023 NIQ combined with GfK bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insightsdelivered with advanced analytics through stateoftheart platformsNIQ delivers the Full View. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100 markets covering more than 90% of the worlds population.

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