Junior Application Support L2 – Markets & Wealth

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Mexico.

📋 Description

• Provide second-level support for Markets & Wealth applications, ensuring compliance with SLAs.

• Continuously monitor applications using Splunk and AppDynamics to identify alerts, errors, and potential service impacts.

• Analyze logs, metrics, and application behavior to identify and resolve incidents.

• Investigate recurring incidents and determine the root causes of issues.

• Diagnose failures in applications and technological components within production environments.

• Coordinate incident resolution with Development, Infrastructure, Database, and other technical teams.

• Address critical incidents and participate in service recovery and restoration activities.

• Manage incidents, problems, and changes according to ITIL practices.

• Evaluate changes and implementations to identify risks and minimize production impacts.

• Execute technical and functional validations post-changes to ensure proper service operation.

• Document incidents, operational procedures, root cause analyses, and lessons learned.

• Identify repetitive manual tasks and processes with potential for automation.

• Analyze alerts, incidents, and metrics to uncover opportunities for improvement and reduce operational load.

• Document automation opportunities, considering benefits, impacts, and risk mitigation.

• Collaborate with the SRE team on automation, observability, self-remediation, and resilience initiatives.

• Identify trends and recurring issues to propose continuous improvement actions.

• Strengthen the stability and availability of applications through optimization and incident prevention initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of experience in Application Support L2, Production Support, or Application Operations.

• Experience providing application support in high-availability production environments.

• Knowledge and experience in Linux/Unix and Wintel.

• Proficiency with monitoring tools such as Splunk and AppDynamics.

• Log analysis, troubleshooting, and incident diagnosis skills.

• Understanding of ITIL, particularly Incident Management, Problem Management, and Change Management.

• Experience with ticket management tools like ServiceNow, Remedy, Jira, or equivalents.

• Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and resolve recurring problems; manage and resolve incidents within SLA.

• Knowledge of Markets & Wealth, including Fixed Income, Equities, Foreign Exchange (FX), derivatives, and Trade Lifecycle.

• Familiarity with Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office operations.

• Understanding of investment funds.

• Knowledge of microservices in financial environments.

• Preferred: knowledge of Oracle and SQL Server.

• Preferred: experience in Shell Scripting.

• Preferred: knowledge of PowerShell.

• Preferred: experience in automating operational tasks related to SRE, observability, self-remediation, and resilience.

• Advanced English, equivalent to Cambridge English B2 or EF SET C1 (Advanced).

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

• Comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work environment.