Production Services Specialist II

nd Wires portfolio technology platform. The Production Services Specialist identifies possible production failure scenarios, creates incident tickets, enhancements and/or problem tickets in ticket tracking system, and communicates effectively with development and internal business operations teams.

This job is responsible for providing front-line support to end users, responding to issues related to incidents and problem management governance for multiple applications, and leading triage activities on all business impacting incidents. Key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with incident management and problem management policies and procedures, serving as a focal point for the customer, client, and associate experience, restoring complex production incidents under tight Service Level Agreements, and pursuing root cause and problem resolution follow ups.

Work activities specific to Production Services roles include:

• Problem/Incident Management

• Release/Deployment

• Operational Readiness

• Capacity/Availability Management

• Application Monitoring

• Service Analytics and Reporting

• Production Governance

• Triage

• Associate Support

• Change/Configuration Management

Responsibilities:

• Identifies vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement, as well as maintain metrics to help develop analysis that will drive improvement in all areas of Production Services

• Creates and enhances administrative, operational and technical policies and procedures, adopting best practice guidelines, standards and procedures

• Takes ownership of escalations and perform trouble shooting, analysis, research and resolution using advanced query and programming skills

• Performs analytical, technical, and administrative work in planning, installing, designing and supporting new and existing equipment and software under moderate supervision

• Resolves complex issues

• Consults with end users to determine optimal configuration of equipment and applications

• Works on problems of minimal-moderate scope where analysis of situation or data requires a review of identifiable factors

• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action

• Should have increased awareness and exposure to basic technical principles, concepts and techniques

• May provide coaching and mentoring for other employees but does not directly manage others

• Initiates and provides leadership, strategic/tactical direction and planning input on all information technology and client/business area issues and in the development of an technology environment which meets current and anticipated business requirements and objectives

• Participates with management in the development of technology products, service standards and development efforts that impact the client/business area

• Serves as an escalation point between the client/business area and internal management for the resolution of moderately complex unresolved problems, complaints and service requests

• Provides the client areas with technology products and service alternatives that improve the production services environment

• Leads production support triage efforts, manages bridge line troubleshooting, engages in technical research, and escalates issues to leadership as needed

• Ensures all impacts are accurately recorded and documented in the system of record, oversees that documents and wikis are updated and available for use during triage, and supports the documentation of application flows, upstream/downstream impacts during outages, the customer experience, and contacts for support needs

• Identifies and/or validates business impacts through interpretation of monitors, dashboards, and logs to communicate with leadership and vendors

• Manages activities to identify incident root cause, resolution, preventative actions, and change requests, and reports on incident data quality

• Promotes and enforces production governance during triage/testing and identifies production failure scenarios, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvement

• Serves as a subject matter expert for applications within a portfolio, leveraging extensive knowledge of application functionalities and application flows

• Assesses and prioritizes research requests, ad hoc reports, and offline incidents at the direction of senior team members and delegates work as needed to team members and peers

• This job requires on-call rotational weekend work

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years in Production Support, Production Monitoring, and/or related technical environment

• 2+ years working in a Linux environment

• 2+ years analyzing log data in Splunk

• 3+ years performing root cause analyze of complex technical issues

• 2+ years of application development using Java and RESTful services

Desired Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience in developing or supporting Distributed/backend/web applications.

• 3+ years Java and Web and middleware technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, Spring, Restful services)

• Linux / Unix OS knowledge and commands

• Oracle, PLSQL

• Tools - Splunk, Dynatrace, Glassbox, Remedy

• Experience with Dynatrace

Skills:

• Adaptability

• Analytical Thinking

• Influence

• Production Support

• Collaboration

• Innovative Thinking

• Result Orientation

• Solution Design

• Business Acumen

• DevOps Practices

• Solution Delivery Process

• Stakeholder Management

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

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