Application Support Analyst

About Datacom

With over 6,200 people, and centre’s of technical excellence spread across Australasia, Datacom is committed to developing and growing its capability across Asia. Founded in 1965 in New Zealand, and with over 2 decades of operating in Malaysia and the Philippines, Datacom has experienced expediential growth. Through all this, Datacom has maintained high levels of profitability with a track record of delivering innovative, cost effective digital and technology solutions, all delivered by dynamic teams spread across various locations. Our people are the best in their fields – smart, passionate, and dedicated to providing exceptional IT services to our customers. This makes for a rewarding and fast-paced place to work.

Our purpose

Here at Datacom, we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.

Role Overview

The Application Support Analyst role is responsible for second level support and maintenance of managed Datacom client applications through its lifecycle. This role includes day-to-day incident and problem management across multiple clients in the Application Management team. The Application Support Analyst will communicate with the client, and the internal Application management teams within the specified timeframe that meets specifications and/or SLA’s. This role ensures all work aligns to Datacom's standards and guidelines.

Note: We are now starting to profile candidate but the actual start date is on January 2025

Responsibilities

The Support Analyst is responsible for (but not limited to):

• Self-starter who shows a keen willingness to work on complex tasks on your own.
• Customer focused, timely and effective communicator, facilitating discussion with a troubleshooting mindset.  Engaging personality who exhibits great use of spoken and written language command.
• Innovative thinker, who can take initiatives in customer service improvement tasks, design and automation thinking. 
• Participate in On Call when required and high care checks outside of business hours. 
• Pre and Post implementation checks for various changes that affect our systems, including patching, releases and network changes.
• Proper ITSM process and tools utilization. 
• Upkeep of our knowledge repositories.  

• Respond to Incidents and Service requests in a timely manner within Service level targets or better.   Use the Service manager suite to keep requestors and stakeholders up to date.
• Knowledge and expertise of monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Nagios and Blazemeter to ensure the Customer’s application stack is healthy, build reporting and analysis.
• Knowledge of AMQ, MuleSoft, integration, queues and troubleshooting therein.

• Excellent deductive reasoning and formulation of analysis to support third party teams and be the facilitator and owner of problems.
• Work with 3rd parties and other teams to assist in patching, upgrading and mitigating security risks.
• SQL knowledge and working with SQL Server and Oracle RDBMS.  Write scripts to amend data and transactions.
• Use and upkeep of repositories such as GIT and Bitbucket.

Skills

• Knowledge of Java and Oracle framework.
• Familiarity with Spring and Hibernate frameworks.
• Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git and Bitbucket
• Understanding of integration tools like Mulesoft and AMQ
• Knowledge of Confluence and Jira essential.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and tools (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes).
• knowledge of configuration management frameworks such as Ansible.
• Exposure to performance monitoring tools.
• Familiarity with centralized logging tools (Elasticsearch)
• Good command of SQL and RDMS systems
• Good command of Windows Events and Unix commands.
• Working knowledge of Networks, Firewalls, Rules, AD Groups, Load Balancing, Redundant system architecture
• Experience with Managed File Transfer Tools such as MOVEit
• Experience with DCIM tools such as NLYTE

Service Management Focus

• Triage and provide evidence of troubleshooting IT issues.
• Assist in planning and executing Hotfixes, Releases, Projects, Patches and providing post-implementation support.
• Take initiatives to facilitating discussions on topics in your area of expertise. 
• Upkeep of ITSM journals and statuses of incidents and service requests.
• Manage workload and throughput of tickets, ensuring timely resolution within service level agreements (SLAs).
• Understanding of Customer Order and B2B processes in a Utilities Sector
• Perform pre-business day Health Checks and Tests.
• Provide performance and utilisation trend analysis and report.

Teamwork & Collaboration

• Document any new or amend any existing processes and procedures required as part of the daily, weekly, monthly tasks.
• Build working rapport with vendor and third-party technology team and ensure collaboration.
• Conduct internal training sessions on IT systems and tools, and create helpful training materials

Our office is at BGC Taguig and we have hybrid work setup(Twice a week) and a flexible work schedule and we promote Work-Life balance, and an APAC focus means no graveyard shifts!

We also provide exciting perks such as spotter fees, HMO with Free 4 Dependents, Leave credits, Performance bonuses, and a work-life balance environment.