Friday, 4 August 2017

M-KOPA Job Vacancy : Application Engineer

Overall Purpose

The successful candidate will be responsible for carrying out project work to completion, escalations from Global Service Desk and managing Azure infrastructure.

Application Engineer Job Responsibilities

  • Responsible for ensuring that applications have an effective up-time of 99%
  • Manage and meet all customer internal OLAs and external SLAS
  • Resolve application related support issues
  • Respond to any CRM related user issues
  • Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes

Requirements for the Application Engineer Job

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field
  • At least 3 years’ working experience in a similar role
  • Demonstrated Windows Server skills
  • Experience working with messaging queue systems will be considered a plus
  • Demonstrated SQL Server database querying skills
  • Demonstrated knowledge of C#, PHP, SQL
  • Strong analytical and problem troubleshooting skills
  • Application Programming Experience for Integrating new applications to existing systems
  • Carry out functional and non-functional tests on new software
  • Assist in the design and development of new products, workarounds and tools necessary to deliver operational capabilities
  • Experience running web hosted applications on IIS
  • Training and documentation of all work around/bug fixes
  • Provide technical support working with the Global Service Desk
  • Work closely with the first line support to create Root Cause Analysis of resolved problems
  • Solid experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks(e.g
  • Tomcat,JBoss,Apache,Ruby,NGINX)
  • Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage own time with changing priorities in an agile environment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Remuneration

Competitive covering a monthly salary, performance bonus and medical benefits reflective of the candidate’s experience and skills.

Personal Attributes:

  • Flexible during times of change.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Strong interpersonal and operational skill sets.
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.
  • Tenacious, driven, energetic and a high degree of professional integrity.

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