Application Support Engineer Jobs in Gurgaon - Vishal Information Technologies Ltd.

Details Description ThoughtFocus, is seeking an Application Support Engineer for Technology Team at the Centre of Excellence in Gurgaon. 

Responsibilities Manage and provide support for clustered MSSQL databases Write functions to contribute to our SQL health check (Powershell/SQL) Manage our SQL monitoring solution Migrations, disaster recovery, log shipping, replication, mirroring, SSAS/SSRS/SSIS Monitor and respond in a timely fashion to incoming tickets/requests Responsible for triage, short-term and long-term solutions Ensure requests are in-line with team best practices Tickets include Configuration, permissioning, break/fix, and deployments MSSQL, Windows/Linux, MS Failover Clustering, ActiveBatch, Active Directory Responsible for proactive monitoring of systems and infrastructure Monitor health checks and implement fixes Respond to SQL server alerts Ensure best practices are followed as set forth by the team.

Deploy change requests after being reviewed by the Change Advisory Board and provide technical feedback on implementation. Provide mission-critical support by troubleshooting, managing, and solving incidents around 3rd party and in-house .

NET applications. Responsible for following up on ActiveBatch task failures and ensuring its owners fix the issue permanently. Ensure proper disaster recovery practices

Qualification Candidate must be a B.Tech/BCA/MCA/BSc (any discipline)/BE (any discipline)/Graduate, with experience in technology Strong analytical, critical thinking, multi-tasking, and decision-making skills required Experience supporting a large (500 node), 24x7 Production environment 2 or more years administering, developing, and tuning Production SQL Server 2008/2012 instances 2 or more years troubleshooting Production applications Strong knowledge of SQL 2012/Windows 2008 R2 in a clustered environment Familiar with scripting or development (Powershell, Python, Perl, C#, or other object-oriented languages) Attention to detail and strong documentation skills is a must via creating and maintaining run books, documentations and/or wiki pages for all projects Deep troubleshooting skills to resolve various types of outages/performance issues within different applications and work towards a permanent resolution Ability to review application SQL code and provide application developers with performance recommendations

 Strong knowledge of different replication models, clustering, log shipping, and database mirroring Be able to dig deep into outages and define root cause of the issue. Major Pluses Experience in Banking or Finance Domain Working experience in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) & SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 

Experience in working on JIRA and Confluence ThoughtFocus ThoughtFocus is a privately held IT services, software engineering and business process management firm with offices in the US, India and the Philippines. It helps clients in the financial services, manufacturing, education, aerospace and technology industries with their key business and technology challenges. ThoughtFocus brings critical program acceleration to client initiatives while minimizing costs and risks with intellectual capital, technical and process frameworks, operating models and software infrastructure