Application Support Engineer

  • Full Time
  • Toronto, ON
  • This position has been filled

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Job Description

Live Assets | IT Staffing Solutions is hiring an Application Support Engineer for our Financial services client.  The Application Support Engineer will effectively deploy and manage applications to promote the reliability and integrity of functional processes which support and comply with business objectives of a 24/7 application.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Identifies, implements, and supports robust & effective applications that continuously provide value to business units and their processes.
  • Designs, develops, and documents data pipelines and integrations between applications and data sources.
  • Responsible to monitor and maintain the automated processing on internal systems to ensure we are processing 24/7.
  • Collaborates and communicates with project stakeholders to identify project requirements.
  • Maintains and analyzes data from numerous enterprise IT applications and platforms and provide KPIs and actionable recommendations as required.
  • Uphold application security best practices including version control.
  • Adhere to SDLC procedures and maintain DEV, SIT, UAT, and Production environments.
  • Actively conducts knowledge transfers of application systems and procedures to team members and business stakeholders.
  • Supports building and maintains tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations.

Necessary Skills

  • Completion of a related technical post-secondary diploma/degree.
  • Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively on technical and business issues with the team and department leaders.
  • Strong understanding of DevOps concepts, deployment, and troubleshooting techniques.
  • 3+ years of SQL scripting experience with relational DBs.
  • 2+ years of systems integration experience (SQL queries, APIs, etc.).
  • 2+ years of working with SDLC environments with source control (TFS and Azure DevOps preferred).
  • 2+ years of application host support experience with strong Windows batch and Power Shell experience.
  • 2+ years of scheduling software experience (Task Manager, SQL Agent, Vinsant GECS)
  • Cloud development or administration experience preferred (specifically using Azure).