Sr. Application Support Engineer
Company Overview
For over 29 years, we have been a leader in the stock brokerage industry because of our commitment to innovation, value and service. We are unique because we offer self-directed investors low fees, as well as, the largest nationwide network of local branch offices among online brokerage firms.
In 2008, we earned the J.D. Power and Associates award for "Highest in Investor Satisfaction with Self-Directed Services.
In 2008 and 2009, Fortune Magazine ranked us as one of the "Best Companies to Work for in America.
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Job Description
Scottrade, Inc. has a Sr. Application Support Engineer position available in St. Louis, MO. The Engineer will be responsible for providing Level 1 and 2 support (24x7) of Scottrade’s in-house and 3rd party distributed production applications, as well as deployment of new software, upgrades, and application code to remediate known defects. This position is responsible for effectively escalating to Level 3 in-house and 3rd party support teams. In addition, this position provides support, maintenance, and configuration services for various middleware and platform components, such as application servers, web servers, and message buses. The Senior Application Support Engineer ensures that application documentation needed for code release and support is accurate, tested, and complete, and provides services to automate installations where possible.
Responsibilites:
- Provide advanced technical skills in monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance, and enhancements of distributed applications and middleware.
- Provide technical expertise and perform tasks for all related projects where application releases across QA and Production environments are necessary (including Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity).
- Provide 24x7 support of the distributed applications and middleware.
- Work closely with business and I.T. associates, and outside vendors to effectively plan, deploy, document, and maintain the distributed application/middleware environments’ additions and changes.
- Maintain relationships with I.T. and outside Level 3 escalation points.
- Initiate and participate in timely communication to all stakeholders as necessary during release and incident processes.
- Provide mentoring and guidance to coworkers.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Solid understanding of Incident, Problem, Release, Change, and Project management policy and processes, as well as an established SDLC framework
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks
- Intermediate level proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in MIS or Computer Science is required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Current MCSE certifications or other relevant technical certifications/training highly desirable.
- 3+ years of technical experience in current Intel/Windows and Linux-based server operating systems
- Solid knowledge of TCP/IP networking fundamentals
- 3+ years of technical experience supporting and configuring application and web servers
- 3+ years of technical experience in software packaging and distributing, using packaging/distribution tools and scripting, including configuration and monitoring of related server components via WMI interface
- Solid knowledge of application code repositories and functions
- 3+ years experience in technical writing and documentation techniques, using tools such as MS-Office, Visio, and various screen capture utilities components and administration.
- 3+ years experience supporting multi-tier applications, including database connection configurations
Scottrade, Inc., an equal opportunity employer, is committed to inclusion and a diverse workforce.
Job Level: 2-5 Years
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