Production Support Engineer
Contract W2
12 Months
On-site
Depends on Experience
VBEST Software Inc
Fitment
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Job Details
Skills
- Production Support
- Autosys
- Unix
- Shell scripting
- SQL
- Oracle
- Hadoop
- DBMS
Summary
Job Summary
Team and role context
- This is a live incident production support seat, not a pure runbook follow role. Team monitors batch, feeds, and application health across Unix, SQL, Dynatrace, Splunk, and ServiceNow, and owns incidents end to end including root cause.
- Candidates need to be comfortable being handed a vague scenario, for example an application down two hours after a change went in, and walking an interviewer through live triage, not reciting a memorized process.
Required
- 3 to 5 years hands on application production support
- Strong Autosys
- Strong Unix and Shell scripting
- Working SQL, Oracle, Hadoop or similar DBMS
- Ability to juggle and prioritize multiple concurrent issues
- Fast independent learner
Required, confirmed from team member
- Command level Unix fluency, not tool familiarity. Interviewers ask for the actual syntax: du and df for disk space, top and uptime for system load, find with -type and -mtime flags for locating files by age. A candidate who can describe what a command does but can't produce the flags will get caught here.
- Ability to distinguish failure types precisely. Interviewers specifically probe whether a candidate conflates a data issue with a Unix file system issue with a database connection pool issue. These are three different diagnostic paths and the interviewer will correct and re-ask if a candidate blurs them.
- SQL depth beyond basic querying: index behavior and why a query runs slow, truncate versus delete, join types used in production troubleshooting, not just writing selects.
- Autosys job state knowledge beyond scheduling, specifically the difference between a job marked inactive versus on hold versus on ice, and why a team would use each.
- Splunk and Dynatrace used together, and candidates should be able to explain why a team runs both rather than just one. Splunk gets tested as a log search and correlation tool, not described as monitoring.
- Noisy alert management. Interviewers ask how a candidate would handle an alert threshold that's firing too often, for example tuning a CPU alert from 70 percent to 85 percent to cut false positives.
- Incident severity fluency: candidates should be able to define P1 through P4 without hesitation and describe how communication changes at each level, including whether they'd post to a status page versus direct email during an outage.
- Basic API and auth troubleshooting exposure, specifically JWT or token related login failures, came up as a possible scenario topic.
- Shell scripting for automation of repetitive work, for example disk cleanup or log rotation scripts, should be a real example the candidate has done, not something on the resume without a story behind it.
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- Dice Id: 91120480
- Position Id: 9070629
- Posted 9 hours ago
Company Info
About VBEST Software Inc
Our expertise spanning over a decade has dealt with diversified Information Technology projects that have not only met with high in demand talented positions, but also managed to fill some of the critical and key technology positions.
Vbest software Inc. Team outsources the best talent and skill in the industry who provide the best support, save business time and deliver solutions, specifically in respect of highly in demand technical talent at a minimal cost.
With over $250 Billion opportunity for the IT-BPM sector in India, the sector is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.70% from 2024 to 2032. This growth is achieved with the integration of advanced technologies and methodologies to meet the growing demands of the business segment.
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