Banking Application Support Analyst

VAM Systems is currently looking for Banking Application Support Analyst for our Bahrain operations with the following skillsets & terms and conditions:

Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor’s degree.

Experience

Minimum 1-2 years of experience in IT Operations.

Scope of the Job:

• Running all operation tasks on all mission critical Banking applications

• Monitor and ensure service availability for 24x7 hours.

• Take Data Backup of all Business Applications.

• Ensure data replication main sites to DR site (Bahrain and London).

• Escalate user reported and system/application faults.

• Takeover first-levels help desk responsibility after normal working hours.

• Support other IT teams.

Areas of Knowledge / Experience

• Data Center Operations experience in monitoring, incident handling and escalation

• Should have worked on Banking domain / Financial institutions.

• Working Knowledge on DB like Oracle, SQL Server Databases.

• IT Certifications in Windows, Linux, SQL etc. Will be added advantage.

• Non-IT certifications like ITIL is plus.

Principle responsibilities:

• Running IT operations like End of Days, Start of Day, Backups, Restores and replication etc.

• Knowledge of the bank operation procedures to give support to the Bank for round the clock.

• Knowledge of operating systems including Windows, Solaris, Linux.

• Knowledge of Hardware components and their functions.

• Knowledge of the bank data replication procedures.

• Knowledge of how to use Help Desk application.

• Able to manage and maintain Backup / Restore procedures.

• Monitoring the database performance and tune the memory, I/O, SQL etc. escalate when necessary

• Database recovery in case of failure.

• Knowledge of how to activate and operate the disaster recovery centers.

• Monitor & escalate database growth and disk space.

• Monitor & escalate the alert log files for the possible database problems.

• Monitor the offline & online cold backup using Veritas NetBackup and VEEAM software’s.

• Monitor alerts and Job flows on Control-M

The selected candidates shall join VAM Systems – Bahrain and shall be deputed to one of the leading Banks in Bahrain.

Should you be interested in this opportunity, please send your latest resume at the earliest at