Application Support Engineer

Job Title: Trading Application Support Engineer
Duration: 18 months
Location: Chandler, AZ (Hybrid 3 days onsite)
Pay Scale: $60-65/hr W2 (Cannot subcontract or C2C)

Job Description:
Matlen Silver is actively recruiting an Application Support Engineer consultant that will support our Chandler, AZ based client's front office market risk production environment and provide real time financial application support across U.S. markets. This role requires someone who can work in a high pressure banking production environment and assimilate information from multiple sources quickly. The role requires a good problem solver, and someone who can adhere to strict procedures and guidelines which include incident, service request and change management.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the support of global markets risk and batch systems with specific focus on in-house developed Java applications built on UNIX.
• First point of contact for all front office personnel to resolve issues with risk analysis and reporting tools.
• Work closely with users, answering their queries and raising development requests as they are presented.
• Escalation and timely resolution of production issues, using fundamental problem management disciplines.
• Liaise between applications users and technology teams to address user queries and issues.
• Perform analysis around new requirements or improvements to the current systems based on analysis and feedback from users.
• Develop and maintain documentation for reference as a knowledge base for training and incident management.

Desired Experience:

• Enterprise production support experience working in a Level 2 and/or 3 Incident, Problem, Release management support capacity.
• Ability to deal with a high pressure and manage oneself in an environment of high frequency business and technology changes adhering to release and change management principles.
• Hands-on troubleshooting experience of UNIX/Linux OS, Relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server), and applications developed in Java or Python.
• Scripting knowledge within UNIX/Linux OS as well as for automating tasks including shell, bash, Perl, or Python.
• Experience with application monitoring tools such as Geneos ITRS is nice to have.
• Batch job scheduling tool experience such as Autosys is nice to have.

About Matlen Silver
Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works.

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