IT_Application Engineer (Taleo)

Job Summary

Job Title: IT Application Engineer

Position: Application Engineer

Experience: 3+ yr

Category: IT Infrastructure

Main location: Bangalore / Chennai

Employment Type: Full Time

Qualification: Bachelors degree in computer science or related field or higher with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.

Job Description: We are seeking an experienced IT Application Engineer to manage, support, and maintain business-critical applications throughout their lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in application administration, production support, middleware technologies, databases, container platforms, and CI/CD tools. This role involves ensuring application availability, performance, security, and continuous improvement in a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Installation, troubleshooting, configuration, administration, and monitoring of business-linespecific applications, whether custom-built or global solutions, within the relevant domains.
• Experience with financial-banking software applications is considered an advantage.
• Experience in administering infrastructure applicationssuch as virtual machine management tools, databases, storage systems, Active Directory, antivirus solutions, network equipment, etc.is not considered relevant for this role.
• Managing the full production life cycle of business applications (e.g. retail applications, online banking applications): from initial deployment, versioning, technology vulnerability assessment, to building monitoring capabilities and eventually decommissioning.
• Troubleshooting and providing Level 2 support for all related IT systems on which these applications depend (e.g., APIs, message queues, synchronization mechanisms, etc.)
• Minimum 3 years of experience in (hands-on experience).
• Working with Unix-based operating systems (Linux, IBM AIX) and Microsoft Windows.
• Working with relational databases, primarily Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
• Working with middleware platforms like IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic, Tomcat, JBoss, Informatica PowerCenter, IBM BPM/BAW, IBM MQ. This includes the ability to install and troubleshoot applications that rely on these frameworks.
• Experience with container management platforms (OpenShift/Kubernetes) is a mandatory requirement.
• Experience with CI/CD Pipeline Orchestration tools is a mandatory requirement (knowledge of GitLab, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory is necessary)
• General programming knowledge (e.g., Python, PowerShell) or general scripting knowledge (e.g., Bash, KSH, Batch).
• General understanding of software architecture and hardware infrastructure components.
• Good knowledge of containerization and orchestration solutions, such as Docker, OpenShift, and Kubernetes.
• General networking knowledge.
• General experience with server and application monitoring tools, such as Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, Prometheus, Elastic Search
• General understanding of ITIL methodology, with a focus on Change Management, Incident Management, and Problem Management processes.

Nice to Have

• Adaptability and availability in emergency situations
• Initiative and proactivity
• Strong self-learning ability (high autodidactic skills)
• Good communication skills, decisiveness, and perseverance in completing tasks
• Team spirit and strong collaboration mindset
• Fast learner with the ability to quickly assimilate new knowledge
• Calm nonconflictual person
• English B2 or higher as of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
• Higher education is required; Looking for graduates in fields like: Computer Science, Polytechnic Institute Automation and Computers, Electronics, Economic Studies, Faculty of Statistics, Cybernetic and Economic Informatics; Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics or equivalent.

Skills

• Application Deployment
• Application Management
• Docker
• GitLab
• IBM Websphere
• Informatica
• Jenkins
• Linux
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle Database Cloud Service
• Python
• Splunk