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Multi-Shift Application Support Engineer

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Multi-Shift Application Support Engineer

Sinara Consultants are actively seeking proficient, versatile, and curious application or systems engineers to join our technical operations team. A key purpose of the role is to provide technical support for our Sinara-built applications 24 hours a day, as such the position involves working beyond standard business hours, on a shift pattern rotating between late evenings, overnight and daytime shifts. Your responsibilities will include maintaining our mission-critical applications, delivering both primary and secondary application management support within our cloud-based and on-premise environments, as well as providing third-line technical support for Sinara software applications to a variety of customers. The role is remote although you must be based in the UK.

About the role

The role entails active monitoring, maintenance and incident support of Sinara software applications for our clients operationally beyond standard business hours.

Additionally, the role involves analysing, prioritising, and resolving customer support incidents, which may be for cloud-hosted or on-premise client applications. These incidents could relate to applications, data, or systems.

Another facet of the role will be involvement in some of the department’s large-scope projects, for example building internal environments with Kubernetes or implementing AWS security configurations.

Primary duties include:

Systems and Application Management:

  • Ensuring operational performance of our applications and environments
  • Monitoring dashboards
  • Overnight monitoring checks of the internal infrastructure
  • Maintaining our Linux server estate and services
  • Performing routine data or system configuration tasks
  • Deploying, managing and updating AWS services and other cloud platforms
  • Administering containerisation tools and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes

Incident Management:

  • Resolving issues related to applications and environments
  • Analysing, prioritising and triaging incidents reported by customers
  • Conducting investigations to provide solutions or temporary workarounds
  • Collaborating with developers upon identification of potential software defects
  • Communicating with customers until incident resolution
  • Transitioning issues to the standard-hours application support team

 

Additional responsibilities encompass:

  • Proactively updating support materials
  • Contributing to customer service performance reports
  • Documenting routine change requests
  • Participating in application testing throughout the full test lifecycle.

 

The work is often technically demanding and requires an imaginative thought process. You will collaborate with Sinara’s own software development teams.

About you

A key purpose of the role is to fulfil our duty to provide technical support services for our applications 24 hours a day. As such the position involves working beyond standard business hours. The role makes up the 3rd member of a team of fellow multi-shift engineers who together seamlessly cover the 24 hours split across 3 shifts: late evenings (5:30pm to 01:30am), overnight (12:30am to 8:30am) and flexible daytime shifts. The shifts rotate on approximately monthly basis and all multi-shift engineers are required to be available to fulfil any shifts with notice. Currently we support clients 24/5 but we expect this to develop into 24/7 support.

Your essential skills

Demonstrating a solid general knowledge of IT concepts (Windows, Linux, networking, VMs, databases) along with a good understanding of AWS deployments, and administration of containerisation tools and orchestration platforms is essential.

  • Linux
  • AWS (Managing AWS resources in an existing architecture, using monitoring tools and deploying applications on existing architecture)

Your desirable skills

Experience in working during out-of-business hours shifts, focusing on maintaining cloud-hosted environments and software applications.

It would be beneficial to have knowledge in:

  • Kubernetes, K9s, kubectl
  • Terraform
  • PostgreSQL (SQLserver, MySql)
  • Interpreting and troubleshooting log files
  • Networking

Your attributes

To excel in this role, we seek engineers who possess a passion for tackling diverse and complex IT challenges. They should have the aptitude and dedication to rapidly acquire new technical abilities and assimilate fresh domain knowledge as necessary. Our operations are within the financial sector but prior experience in this field is not mandatory.

Ideal candidates are naturally curious, collaborative team players, and problem solvers. They are self-driven, capable of independent initiative, and consistently consider the broader context and potential ramifications of the issues at hand. They take pride in their work, exhibiting exceptional attention to detail, coupled with proficient time management and organisational skills.

Working hours

Full-time, requiring 35 to 45 hours of work per week (depending on the shift). The hours will average out at 37.5 over the course of all shift rotations. It is a remote based role (within UK).

About Sinara

Sinara is a well-established London-based software house providing software development services and software products to exchanges, financial institutions and market data vendors. We combine strong technical expertise with a pragmatic, flexible approach to deliver and support business-critical IT systems. We are based just south of Tower Bridge and are well located in the thriving Bermondsey district with excellent transport links including quick and easy access to London Bridge.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or relationship status.

To Apply

Please send your CV, along with a covering letter and your salary expectations to recruitment@sinara.co.uk and our recruitment team will be in touch.

Please use the following subject line for your email:

Multi-Shift Application Support Engineer

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