Brightside

Senior Application Support Engineer

Brightside United States

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Roberta Costello-Greenberg

Roberta Costello-Greenberg

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About the Company:

Brightside is looking for a Application / Production Support Engineer III with 6+ years of professional experience to join our team! This role is ideal for an experienced professional in Application / Production Support looking to demonstrate their technical ability and professional leadership in building monitoring solutions for the Production Support team. In this role you’ll have a chance to partner closely with key stakeholders from Production Support, Engineering, DevOps, and Product in a fast paced start-up that believes in servant leadership!!

West coast candidate is ideal for rounding out time zones for the team (the ability to work until 5:30 PST).


The meaningful work you will tackle:

  • Define scalable application & infrastructure monitoring frameworks / dashboards for production support to provide a performance view of the production environment
  • Implement a severity exception-based alerting with escalation for unattended alerts
  • Automate routine/repeated help channel queries to assist both Level 1 support and support for our Financial Assistants (FAs) that support the client in a self-service manner
  • Initially be the backup resource to conduct deep dive investigation for Level 1 tickets and payroll deduction processing, and over time, become the primary contact for Level 2 escalations
  • Document and train production support staff in solution implementation & maintenance
  • Be the conduit between our Financial Assistants/Level 1 and the engineering/QA teams to raise defects, explain, and assist in the prioritization of critical issues
  • Assist in providing workarounds for critical issues
  • Participate in root cause analysis for production incidents and be part of the Production Support rotation to serve our clients
  • Assist in production deployments, and participate in go-live discussions and customer implementations


What we’re looking for in your background & what makes you a success:

  • Technical experience working in an environment integrating disparate vendor systems/products to support business-critical functions
  • AWS/Cloudformation/Grafana: 2 years
  • Jenkins/Nexus/Git - 2 years
  • Python/Ruby/Bash - 2 year
  • MySQL, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB or equivalent - 2 year
  • Implementing a Production Support Monitoring Solution
  • Production Support experience is a big plus
  • Databricks, Cognito, Kinesis, Qualys - all a plus
  • A deep understanding of the implementation with significant experience in QA functionality is a plus
  • Background in requirements gathering and delivery in an iterative manner
  • Seniority level

    Associate
  • Employment type

    Full-time
  • Job function

    Information Technology
  • Industries

    Financial Services

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