Applications Engineer

YOUR IMPACT :

The role Cloud Application Engineer is to build solutions to enhance availability, performance, and stability of OpenText services as well as automating away repetitive work as part of a cloud ops organization.

This role would be a great fit for someone with creative and innovative problem-solving skills. You will develop and implement solutions that operate at scale. Our teams are empowered and expected to improve our products to truly deliver a reliable experience to customers.

WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS :

Collaborates with Engineering, Professional services teams, sustain and business partners and provides significant contributions to develop specifications to resolve problems, and to address enhancement needs focusing in areas of logging, monitoring and metrics for operational readiness

• Uses technical knowledge, creativity, and company practices to drive down occurrences of incidents through development of proactive monitoring and alerting.
• Provide attention to incidents according to Service Level Agreements.
• Provide continuous feedback to development teams on system stability, defect analysis and system enhancements
• Develop runbooks and patterns to sustain applications in a production environment
• Participate in technical discussions and drive transition to sustain activities with the development teams
• Work with IT business and development partners to gather input to develop new capabilities in displaying/monitoring/alerting on key performance indicators (KPIs) by tracking business transactions (BT) in real-time
• Partner with application owners to develop creative and effective solutions to mitigate risk and successfully remediate any audit issues, providing quality and timely responses
• Take ownership and accountability for the incident resolution process, participating in RCA and SWAT investigations.
• Plan for validation and verification of changes deployed by infrastructure teams, development teams.
• Participate in day-to-day real time advanced level technical support and troubleshooting on issues reported from user/customer base.
• Provides guidance in resolving performance related issues and designing solutions for any technical issues faced by the application
• Establish and maintain a good relationship with team members, Product Development, Product management, Customer Service, Client management and other cross functional teams.
• Participate in training and information sharing activities.
• Act as backup for other team members when necessary.
• Requires rotating shift work as needed.
• On-call rotation is required, as 7x24x365 support is required.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED :

• Hands on experience in Cloud computing (AWS, Google, Azure)
• The ability to understand and maintain Scripting software
• Deep understanding of Linux systems
• Good understanding and operational experience with container technologies.
• Good understanding and working experience with micro services and RESTful architecture.
• Strong working knowledge of PaaS or Application operations best practices.
• Good understanding on Scripting and automation knowledge (Jenkins, Python, Ansible, bash scripting)
• Operational understanding or experience with message brokers such as Apache MQ
• Experience in supporting middle-ware technologies such as Apache, Tomcat, Spring.
• Experience with at least one scripting languages such shell, Perl, python, javascripts, etc
• Experience with installing and configuring Apache and Tomcat.
• Experience in supporting Java applications built using frameworks such as spring, struts, spark, etc.
• Experience and knowledge in Oracle and Postgres.
• Deep expertise in Monitoring distributed systems application architectures and the ability to correlate environment conditions and metrics to application events.
• Experience with Monitoring tools such SiteScope, APM, OpsB, Prometheus
• Knowledge and familiarity of centralized logging systems such as ArcSight, Splunk,etc
• Strong understanding of ITIL principles, certification is a plus.
• Is passionate about getting under the hood of systems and technologies to understand their inner workings, and fix what needs fixing. This requires diagnosing & troubleshooting user facing service incidents & outages
• Diagnosing, resolving problems in high-throughput web applications & network services
• Proven problem solving and analytical ability.
• Excellent organizational/time management skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently.
• Ability to lead, drive and implement highly scalable and complex solutions
• A strong understanding of Security best practices.
• A proven record of being able to work independently and collaboratively.