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Position: Senior IV2 Application Production Engineer

Location: Montréal QC H3A 2A6

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Hybrid schedule

The Production Engineer will be part of a multi-disciplined team, providing support to the production elements of the IV2 applications. The role is centred on application support, and requires a wide range of technical skills. The Production Engineer will work closely with development and infrastructure teams to:

• Plan and implement application releases, load tests and configuration changes
• Provide feedback and propose solutions to management on performance, capacity and design issues
• Customize production tools (monitoring, deployment, scheduling etc.)
• Contribute to medium and high scale technical projects as part of the by contributing in architecture review and design, upgrading and migrating application systems to new platforms.
• Pro-actively manage the capacity of production applications
• Pro-actively monitor, manage and improve availability and performance of the production environments (from presentation and application layers to Infrastructure layers)

The Production Engineer will also work with other teams to respond to incidents and resolve issues promptly, often under pressure, to restore normal services to the business.Therefore, ability to be on call and provide support out of hours is essential.

As this is a production support role, focusing across a range of different and mostly cutting edge technologies, candidates must possess the aptitude and desire to learn.

Skills and Qualifications

• He/she must be experienced in providing multi-disciplined technical support as part of a team,and have practical knowledge of performance and capacity management from an application, database and network perspective as well as strong aptitude for automation.
• Candidates must have a minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role.

Role Specific Technical Skills

Production experience across the following:

• System administration – In-depth knowledge in Linux/Unix and good knowledge on Windows systems
• Automation – Experience to release and or server automation tools such as AnsibleTower, Jenkins,
• Knowledge of programming and scripting methodologies and demonstrable proficiency in writing code in one or more of the following languages; Python, Perl, Ruby, Java
• Analytical skills - Ability to analyse data surrounding incidents to a fine level, investigate dependencies and evaluate possible areas for improvement, and actions with a view to automate resolution
• Networks : Good understanding of network principals and practical knowledge of load balancing technologiesis essential
• Good general understanding of global infrastructure, firewalls and networking and considerations in these areas.
• Data – Experience into Log indexing product such as Splunk and Elastic Search
• Monitoring – Experience in managing monitoring tools (Dynatrace)
• Application servers – Strong knowledge in configuring and supporting web technologies such as Tomcat, Apache, nginx, IIS

Desirable IT Skills

• Containers – exposure to Docker and Kubernetes;
• Understanding of application lifecycle and Agile methodology
• Databases – exposure to or skills in noSQL DBs ( mongodb);
• Good incident and problem management skills, with knowledge of ITIL beneficial
• Good tasks management, prioritisation, risk management
• Appreciation of production processes, including change and release management

Personal Attributes

• Good interpersonal skills and team player
• Strong aptitude and interest in technology
• Attention to details
• Able to multi-task
• High energy level coupled with a desire to take on responsibility
• Strong problem solving skills
• Client focused

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (m/f/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.