Application Support Engineer

Job Description

Global Relay is the leading provider of cloud-based archiving,information governance,surveillance, andeDiscoverysolutions tothe global financesector.We help financial services firms preserve and supervise their communications data for regulatorycompliance, risk mitigation, and litigation readiness.We deliverourservices toover 20,000customers in 90 countries, including 22 of the top 25 global banks. Our market-leading archiving service supportsemail, instant messaging, text, market data chat,social media, enterprise social networking, voice, trade data, websites, and more.Recently, we also launched a compliant messaging platform specifically for the finance industry.Weve won major awards for our growth, management, and cultureincluding theDeloitte Fast 50 Leadership Award, Canadas 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures, and the Deloitte-sponsored Canadas Best Managed Companies awards. Our Global Operations & Development Center is located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In addition, we have officesin six other cities across the world, including major financial centers like New York, Chicago, and London.Having established our dominance in the North American finance industry, we have been expanding our London operations to better serve our UK and EU customers.Our four-story EMEA headquarters on Cannon Street (near St. Pauls Cathedral) features state-of-the-art amenities, a spectacular view of the city, and an Executive Briefing Center for customer forums and other events.*About the role:*As an Application SupportEngineer you will be responsible for the availability and reliability of Global Relays services that are used by 23,000 customers in 90 countries, including 22 of the top 25 banks. The role involves ensuring all services exceed availability targets, havein-depth monitoring and are proactively managed. The Application support team will be responsible for triage, troubleshooting and restoration of service when incidents do occur.As an Application Support Engineer, who has experience of running business criticalservices, you will exhibit technical competence, be data driven and able to utilize your knowledge and experience to troubleshoot complex services. You will be responsible for ensuring Production incidents are managed to full recovery while mitigating customerimpact at the earliest opportunity. Collaborating with other teams including Customer Support, Engineering, DevOps and Operations teams to ensure that all services are continually maintained and operated to the highest standards.Core to success in the rolewill be proactive identification for improvements to stability, service recovery, observability and delivery of new components. Developing in-depth product knowledge, you will be able to apply this to all aspects of being an Application Support Engineer tomake informed decisions, provide in-depth analysis and drive all aspects of service improvement.*Responsibilities:** *Service Reliability:* Proactively identifying risks to service and remediate them. Reduce risk from deployments by improved use of resilienceand ensuring appropriate testing of releases pre and post deployment. Provide support and troubleshooting when service incidents occur. Improve time to recover from service impacting incidents. Identifying trends and root causes to reduce volume of incidents.**Automation:* Identify and deliver on opportunities to use automation to increase efficiency, reduce toil and drive service availability. Use automation and orchestration techniques to provide repeatable solutions and reduce risk of mis-operations.* *Observability:*Monitor and ensure smooth operation of all production services. Identifying gaps in coverage and improving observability of Production services. Ensuring appropriate events are generated for service failure or degradation scenarios. Responding to events andalerts in timely manner managing through to resolution.* *Knowledge management**:* Continuously improving the knowledge of the Application Support team to become subject matter experts on the Product and the technology that runs it. Collaborating with otherteams to understand how underpinning services support the Products. Identifying opportunities to share knowledge and decrease the time it takes to resolve customer related incidents.***Tech Stack:*Depending on your team, some of the technologies you will interactwith:* Platform and Database tech: Linux, Cassandra, Kafka, Arangodb* Containerization/Virtualization: Kubernetes/OpenShift, VMware* Instrumentation & Monitoring: Splunk, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana* Scripting: Powershell, PythonThis role will include futureon-call aspect once at appropriate knowledge level.***About you:** Service focused* Experience running highly available, critical services, ideally SaaS* A problem solver who takes initiative* Effortlessly self-motivates while working on team-based projectsor individual tasks* A well organized, thorough and detail oriented person* Able to keep the "bigger picture" in mind while prioritizing conflicting demands and tasks* Ability to take ownership in pressurised situations to provide direction during serviceincidents, tenacious enough to ensure issues do not get dropped* Ability to negotiate and liaise with other teams to influence across teams as required to ensure appropriate outcome* Confident enough to voice your opinion, ask questions and not afraid to suggesta better solution, without being abrasive* Collaborative and willing to share knowledge, able to engage and meet needs of demanding stakeholders***Required skills:** 1-3+ years experience as a SRE or Application Support Engineer or similar role* Bachelordegree in Computer Science or related field* Scripting ability in Powershell, Python, etc.* Understanding of software systems concepts such as networking, firewalls, protocols, databases and more* Java debugging exposureability to complete thread dumps* Experiencewith monitoring solutions* Splunk experiencecreating dashboards, reports, events & analysis* Awareness of software delivery practices (CI/CD)* Experience troubleshooting connectivity issues: TCP/IP, DNS, Telnet, Trace Route, TCP dump* Awareness of load balancingtechnologies such as HA Proxy, Nginx, F5* Experience of collaboration technologies: email, archiving, instant messaging* Exposure to supporting voice / SMS technologies (nice to have)-* Private pension* Bonus* Full medical cover* Dental care * flexi working*Free fruit* Snacks coffee etc.* 25 days holiday* Life insurance* Telephone interview* Technical assignment* Technical interview* Cultural interviewSupport, Networks, Troubleshooting, LinuxPowerShell, Python, Linux, Cassandra, Kafka, Kubernetes, OpenShift,VMware, Splunk, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana