About UOB
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.
Job Description
The specialized First Recovery IT Production Support Engineer is responsible to support application wellness in production, investigate production issue raised, and respond to user with feasible workaround. Closely follow-up and monitor issue from investigation, pass relevant details to L2/L3 team. Clarify user queries. Make sure system availability as per SLA across countries for multiple applications / interfaces. Perform scheduled health check tasks across applications and raise alerts in case required.
Able to work in shift-based environment, support implementations during bank’s green zone.
Key Responsibilities
- Investigate production issues, respond based on production defect severity SLAs.
- Manage and respond to user queries in a timely manner.
- Follow up on defect and incident closure and meet incident closure KPI.
- Make sure system availability as per respective agreed SLA.
- Ensure daily start of day (SOD) and end of day (EOD) execution for supported applications complete successfully.
- Provide support for annual Disaster Recovery (DR) exercise for supported applications.
- Provide support to System Engineers on server level patches / upgrade as and when applicable.
- Knowledge with 3rd party monitoring tools like Control-M, Genos, Splunk, SQL Monitor
- Knowledge with Incident management tools like BMC , Service Now
- Ensure application incident & task documentation is properly updated for each production release.
- Enthusiastic, hardworking, proactive and goal-oriented, with excellent communication and presentation skills, demonstrated professionalism and attention to detail.
- Proven ability to work and resolve production incidents under strict time constraints and provide workarounds using AS400/mainframe or Unix shell or DB scripts etc.
- Strong skills in AS400, Linux/Unix Shell scripting, MS SQL, Oracle, BMC Control-M Scheduler
- Good to have understanding and experience of ITIL methodology [service operations]
Key Requirements
- Prior hand-on production support experience of OPEN Systems/AS4000
- Good support knowledge in either one of the retail or wholesale payment or customer information systems
- Willing to work in onsite shift-support model [24*7]
- Hands-on experience in writing AS400 and SQL queries and parsing logs for issue investigation
- Hands-on experience in writing shell scripts (UNIX) and optimize incidents investigation.
- Strong written, oral communication skills and able to manage user.
- Ability to easily adopt to any technology / environment.
- 2 or more years’ production support experience in bank or financial vendors across multiple technologies / platform
- Be able to work in fast pace and high-pressure working environment.
- Willingness to work across platforms – UNIX / open, AS/400 and mainframe
Additional Requirements
Be a Part of the UOB Family
UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.
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Skills Required
- Hands-on production support experience with Open Systems or AS400
- Support knowledge of retail or wholesale payment systems or customer information systems
- Willingness to work onsite in a 24/7 shift-support model
- Hands-on experience writing AS400 and SQL queries
- Experience parsing logs for issue investigation
- Hands-on experience writing UNIX shell scripts
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Ability to manage users
- Ability to adapt to different technologies and environments
- At least two years of production support experience in banking or financial vendor environments
- Willingness to work across UNIX, Open Systems, AS400, and mainframe platforms
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
What We Do
We’re here to do Right By You. At UOB, we aspire to build a better future for the people and businesses in the region. Through our extensive network and suite of capabilities, we offer financial solutions to the people and businesses within, and connecting with ASEAN. We create solutions tailored to your unique needs through data and relationship-led insights. Our comprehensive regional network and one-bank approach connects your business to new opportunities in ASEAN. We help businesses to advance responsibly and guide personal wealth to grow sustainably. We foster inclusiveness and environmental well-being for stronger societies. This is how we stay committed to forging a sustainable future for generations to come. Note: For the terms of use of our LinkedIn channel, please visit: https://go.uob.com/socialmedia
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