Database Administrator
$81hr
HYBRID - Montvale NJ
The Technical Application Support Lead will be responsible application management and support of AI related applications, understanding design enhancement changes, responsible to review and create technical assessment and process documents, debug Azure Platform issues, know KQL and App Insights, Azure Monitoring, familiar with CosmosDB and Postgres, troubleshoot front end, middle layer related performance issues and provide strong technical leadership to the support team onshore and offshore. The application is PaaS driven and has AI, Cosmos DB and Postgre components.
The following attributes are also essential to a successful career within Application Support:
Empathy with users
Patience and understanding
Acceptance of ownership
Investigation and diagnostic skills
Excellent customer service skills
Attention to detail
A proactive approach
Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
An Application Support Lead must approach tasks systematically and remain focused on restoring services as soon as possible even when working under pressure, which makes these skills essential. The team consists of onshore and offshore members, the ASL role is to manage this team and drive continuous improvement.
Work closely with the Development Team and particularly the Program/Project Managers to be aware of new development and fixes, and how that will affect the various environments.
Conduct a weekly standup with the team and associated members of the team from other departments.
Attend multiple team calls for support awareness
Program Manager's project-related calls
Drive major incident resolution and follow-up, determining the root cause and taking action to avoid these issues from recurring.
Skills: • Strong knowledge on Azure PaaS infrastructure, Open AI concepts
• CosmosDB and Postgre are advantages.
• Experience with monitoring tools and networking tools
• Experienced in ITIL pillars, i.e., Operational Support, Planning, Release/control/validation, Service Agreements
• Highly experienced with working in team situations, involving critical situations and asking the right questions
• Influencing members of other teams not in a direct reporting line and holding people and vendors accountable
• Capable of managing a high daily workload, provide weekly status on current incident state as well as next steps to resolve.
Keywords:
Education: Bachelor's or Master's in computer science
Preferred -, ITIL, MCSD - Azure Solutions Infrastructure
Skills and Experience:
Required Skills:
APPLICATION SUPPORT
DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
NETWORKING
OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE SKILLS
Additional Skills:
PAAS
TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP
POSTGRES
ITIL
IT INFRASTRUCTURE LIBRARY
DEBUG
Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's Degree
Certifications & Licenses:
MCSD