Application Support System Senior Analyst job at Etisalat

Job Purpose

To provide on time technical application support and problem solving during all operational hours to ensure healthy environment to the company's systems and uninterrupted smooth business operations.

Report To Position Name

Maintain and support the production applications 24*7 to ensure healthy system status.
Solve log and report production problems in timely manner to ensure users and management updates with production problems.
Handle and prioritize trouble tickets (TT) and requests of system users to ensure TTs are solved within their
relevant service level agreements (SLAs).
Manage all application administrative functions.
Implement system updates as per the change management process to ensure proper implementation for fixed and new deployment are timely and accurately deployed to production
Postproduction testing and successful implementation of the applied changes to ensure healthy change implementations.
Develop workarounds and propose long term Solutions for production problems where applicable to ensure minimum impact on the business for known system problems.
Follow up with Application Development and vendors on open issues in the production applications to ensure timely fix implementations.
Manage applications users' privileges & Access (through Access Management process) to ensure systems security.
Develop/implement health checks for production problems to ensure proper operation and on-time alerting.
Provide consulting to system users to work out business complex scenarios to maximize user awareness and proper system usage.
Analyze repetitive problems, try to find temporary solutions and escalate to the development team or vendor for permanent fix to minimize business impact for chronic problems.
Log users' suggestions and complains.
Study well systems documentations.
Direct users to official channels for reporting issues.
Escalate production environment global issues to direct managers.
Ensure applications changes are followed by the Change Management Process.
Full compliance with IT Security Policy.
Assure of customer data and production information confidentiality. Provide H/O and support to Back office teams Responsibilities in IT Application
service support Team job specific such as below:
Maintaining and support all Etisalat provisioning cycle E2E from IT node to the technical nodes "GMD/VMD/EMA"
Maintaining and support Etisalat
service catalogue "Subscription system " along with KPIs report , health checks and automation jobs
Maintaining and support Etisalat prepaid activation system along with contacting the governmental party "CSO"
Maintaining and support Etisalat points Management system "Loyalty" along with their bill cycle activities
Maintaining and support billing on line modules "CMS/BillServ/Fedfact, …" that all etisalat application use it to perform actions on billing Investigation in all fraud and revenue assurance escalated cases regarding the supported application

QUALIFICATIONS_ESSENTIAL

University degree in computer science or engineering
Very Good in Arabic & English (Reading, Writing & Oral).
Very Good Communications Skills.
Very Good problem solving and analytical skills
Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines
Proactive in problem solving and prevention.
Strong trouble shooting and analytical skills
Excellent Computer skills, Advanced MS office and scripting are required.
Experience with large scale systems.
ORACLE environment (RDBMS, Tools and Applications).
Good knowledge of UNIX and Windows Operating systems.
Good knowledge of UNIX shell scripting.
Knowledge for at least 1 applications development tools (Java Development or Object Oriented programming).

QUALIFICATIONS_DESIRABLE

Ability to communicate with multiple levels of internal and external contacts.
Vendor Managment.
Change Managment Awarness.
Service provider orianted.

EXPERIENCE_ESSENTIAL

around 7 years experince in Applications Support or applications Development.

EXPERIENCE_DESIRABLE

ITIL Awarness.
Attended Leadership training.
Presentation skills training.

CERTIFICATIONS_ESSENTIAL

ITIL foundation Awarness.
Change managment awarness.
Oracle/Unix or microsoft certifited trackes.
Vendor certifited trackes.