Our Rackspace Application Services team is looking for an Applications Support Engineer to work the 2nd Shift. An Application Support Engineer is a specialist in large-scale, complex, and distributed web infrastructure that engages in direct customer communications regarding the availability, scalability, reliability, and performance of their applications.Responsibilities:
Provide support in tuning applicationsand infrastructure
Design, develop, test,and implement new configurations, architectures,and standards
Provide guidance, to customers, 3rdparty integration specialists, and/or internal teams,on solutionstoincrease application availability, redundancy, scalability,and performance
Assistcustomers and internal teamstoautomateprocessesand incorporatedevopsmethodologies
Provide leadership and guidance when customer application-leveldowntime issuesariseand provide RCA support as requested.
Show ownership of issuesthrough resolution andmaintain customer loyalty by serving customersvia phone, tickets, and email
Must Have:
Strong expertise on .NET application support
Strongconfiguration and troubleshooting expertiseofIIS
Knowledge on AppDynamics or Newrelic
Strong knowledge of scripting languages (Powershell, Ansible)
Strongknowledge of administration,troubleshooting,andtestingWindows OS and applicationplatforms
Strongknowledgeoftechnology troubleshooting, design, and implementation
Strong knowledge of high-availability application design
Proficientcommunicatorwith the ability to convey complex concepts to both technical and non-technical individuals
Working knowledge of at least one platform-specific programming language used for enterprise or large-scale web development (.Net)
ProficientusingApplicationPerformance Management (APM) toolstointerpret data, build dashboards, and engage in performance discussions.
Ability to identify, address, and resolve complex customer application-level issues without supervision.
Requirements:
Minimum 7-9 years relative technical experience/application-level support experience.
Minimum 3 years of experience administering highly available systems
Ability to perform on-call functions
Bachelor’s degree in CS or IS preferred or equivalent experience
Certifications:
MCSE certifications preferred
This position is to work 2nd Shift Monday-Thursday from 2pm-12am
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