Application Support Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an Application Support Engineer for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Dallas, TX or Tampa, FL.

Responsibilities:

• Verify analysis performed by team members and implement changes required to prevent reoccurrence of incidents
• Resolve Critical application alerts in a timely fashion including production defects, providing business impact and analysis to teams, handling minor improvements as needed
• Review and update knowledge articles and runbooks with application development teams to confirm information is up to date
• Collaborate with internal teams to provide answers to application issues and advance to as needed
• Validate and submit responses to requests for information from ongoing audits
• Review and Implement Disaster Recovery scripts during planned and unplanned outages, providing BCM evidence as needed
• Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort associated with application monitoring
• Partner with development teams to provide feedback into the design and development stages of applications
• Implement the pre-production/production application code deployment plans and end to end vendor application upgrade process (e.g., SNOW, SF, etc)
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk, advances appropriately
• The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of related experience
• Key Technologies requirement: Java/J2EE, Oracle/SQL, IBM MQ, SNOW/ITIL Process, Splunk/Autosys
• Key Platform experience: Linux/Unix, AWS,
• Technologies that would be advantageous to have Containers (Kubernetes/Docker), IIB, Network understanding
• Fosters a culture where honesty and transparency are expected.
• Knows the latest on changes in their own specialist area and seeks out learning opportunities to ensure knowledge is up to date.
• Invests effort to individually coach others.
• Builds collaborative teams across the organization.
• Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization informed.

Preferred Skills:

• Finance and Securities, is preferable

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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