Mgr Production Support Analyst, GIPS

Job description

Company

1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd About UOB United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years.

Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

Job Description

The specialized First Recovery IT Production Support Engineer is responsible to support application wellness in production, investigate production issue raised, and respond to user with feasible workaround. Closely follow-up and monitor issue from investigation, pass relevant details to L2/L3 team. Clarify user queries. Make sure system availability as per SLA across countries for multiple applications / interfaces. Perform scheduled health check tasks across applications and raise alerts in case required.

Able to work in shift-based environment, support implementations during bank’s green zone.

Key Responsibilities

Investigate production issues, respond based on production defect severity SLAs. Manage and respond to user queries in a timely manner. Follow up on defect and incident closure and meet incident closure KPI. Make sure system availability as per respective agreed SLA. Ensure daily start of day (SOD) and end of day (EOD) execution for supported applications complete successfully. Provide support for annual Disaster Recovery (DR) exercise for supported applications.

Provide support to System Engineers on server level patches / upgrade as and when applicable.

• Knowledge with 3rd party monitoring tools like Control-M, Genos, Splunk, SQL Monitor
• Knowledge with Incident management tools like BMC , Service Now
• Ensure application incident & task documentation is properly updated for each production release.

Enthusiastic, hardworking, proactive and goal-oriented, with excellent communication and presentation skills, demonstrated professionalism and attention to detail. Proven ability to work and resolve production incidents under strict time constraints and provide workarounds using AS400/mainframe or Unix shell or DB scripts etc. Strong skills in AS400, Linux/Unix Shell scripting, MS SQL, Oracle, BMC Control-M Scheduler Good to have understanding and experience of ITIL methodology [service operations]

Key Requirements

Prior hand-on production support experience of OPEN Systems/AS4000 Good support knowledge in either one of the retail or wholesale payment or customer information systems Willing to work in onsite shift-support model [24*7] Hands-on experience in writing AS400 and SQL queries and parsing logs for issue investigation Hands-on experience in writing shell scripts (UNIX) and optimize incidents investigation. Strong written, oral communication skills and able to manage user.

Ability to easily adopt to any technology / environment. 2 or more years’ production support experience in bank or financial vendors across multiple technologies / platform Be able to work in fast pace and high-pressure working environment. Willingness to work across platforms – UNIX / open, AS/400 and mainframe

Additional Requirements

Be a Part of the UOB Family UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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