Senior Production Support Engineer - Parametric

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This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

Our Production Support team acts as the front line for issues involving all business critical applications, including Parametric proprietary software, open source commodity middleware, cloud deployed sites and network intersections with hosted solutions. Qualified senior level candidates will have a passion for IT, with excellent communication and organization skills, and be capable of working in a highly collaborative and fast paced environment. Financial services background is strongly encouraged. High energy, a can do attitude, and intense curiosity is required.

• This role fulfills issue triage for production IT operations/sysops/devops,
• Expedites repetitive tasks for end users while working with development to deploy automation
• Explores data stores and derives ad hoc reports and KPI's
• Deploy software as part of the change and release management process.
• Educate end users regarding new or misunderstood features.
• Participate in the continuous improvement process by highlighting new issues to development.
• Investigate logs and correlate failures between applications and databases
• Understand and demonstrate mastery of internal applications used for the daily business cycles (research, analysis, trading, accounting)

As a senior member of the team you'll have an opportunity to craft new processes and revise existing documented workflows and aligning daily tasks to your personal efficiencies

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Triage and resolve tickets for supported systems and applications.
• Provide troubleshooting expertise for all aspects of an application including vendor and custom built apps.
• Develop and maintain knowledge base articles
• Follow established procedures for managing business risk when updating production systems.
• Create and update process automation.
• Participate in projects that enhance or upgrade Parametric systems or employee experience.
• Working as part of a team provide complete 24/7 support to the production environment including being a member of an on-call rotation
• Enhance the monitoring and oversite of applications to ensure proactive alerting where possible.

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JOB REQUIREMENTS

• 6 years of relevant professional experience.
• 4 years experience with SQL including writing and understanding queries.
• Experience supporting a 24/7 environment.
• Experience with DevOps practices including Octopus, JIRA, Confluence or equivalent platforms.
• Scripting/automation and continuous improvement experience is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills targeted to a variety of audiences including technical and non-technical users.
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced, social environment, yet be able to work independently as necessary.
• Previous experience supporting line of business applications is a plus.
• Experience supporting a Windows based environment including basic server administration.
• Experience with Linux/UNIX based platforms is a plus.
• Experience with Powershell or other scripting languages is a plus.
• Patience and attention to detail is essential.
• Financial industry experience is a plus.

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.

Salary range for the position: [$70,000 - $150,000] Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit's incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees. It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).

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