Working at Transurban is different; it’s a place where you can see the benefits of your work play out in real life, every day. We create city-sized solutions—building and operating safer, smarter, and more sustainable roads—to solve pressing transport challenges that are slowing cities down.About the roleWe’re seeking a Senior Application Support Specialist to provide mission critical production support of assigned Transurban applications, including Service Availability, Delivery, Incident Resolution and Root Cause Analysis, after-hours support and proactive problem managementYou’ll join an innovative team who work collaboratively and foster a culture of knowledge sharing, work-life balance and enjoy social team activities together.As our Senior Application Support Specialist, you’ll contribute to lasting and positive changes that shape the future of our cities and communities. It’s meaningful, challenging and exciting work.Day-to-day, you will:
- Provide support to the domain lead in Major incident management to co-ordinate activities across internal and external support partners to perform service restoration as required.
- Accountability for development of technical remediation plans and implementation of required actions to prevent reoccurrence of Technology incidents across internal and external support teams
- Construct and implement a service improvement plan to meet requirements or deficiencies identified as a result of incidents.
- Maintain, monitor and update batch workflows
- Run, chair and co-ordinate regular technical workshops
- With the domain lead, perform critical analysis of system monitoring requirements to inform service improvement plans and provisioning of monitoring solutions for new applications capabilities
- Identify, plan and execute improvements in Application management to increase systems stability and improve application performance.
- Create Procedures and Work Instructions are updated to reflect approved improvements
- Contribute in the continuing development of IT Operations processes, procedures, standards and methodologies.
- Perform 24x7 on-call duties on a rostered basis.
- Proven experience as a senior level IT professional including work on large scale application integration projects.
- Must have an extensive experience supporting applications written in the following.
- o AWS Infrastructure (AMI, EC2, Cloudwatch, S3, Drives, Redhat/Amazon Linux, AWS APIs)
- o Expert in Java applications (Java, Spring Boot, Easy Batch, Log4J and other library dependencies.)
- o Deep understanding of Web application, including Webservers e.g. Apache Tomcat, Microsoft IIS
- o Hands-on experiences in My SQL RDS and MS MS-SQL
- o Secure File transfer (Axway, WS_FTP)
- o Scheduling tools such as Jenkins, CA Workload Automation
- o Hands-on experience in Splunk and CloudWatch
- Demonstrated ability to show thought leadership and drive solutions to complex technical problems
- Experience in applications support of mission critical systems
- Ability to define processes and document procedures (essential)
- Ability to lead small technical squads of internal and external staff to deliver technical solutions
- Ability to communicate to senior business and Technology stakeholders
- Experience with tools such as Jenkins, Artifactory, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Imperva
- Experience in multiple operating systems including Microsoft, Unix (AIX), Linux and scripting
- Experience in programming (Java, Python, Bash, Groovy, ASP.NET)
- Experience with problem management in an Operational production environment.
- A range of flexible working and leave options, including the option to purchase an additional six weeks of leave each year
- 16 weeks paid parental leave (regardless of gender or carer status), with no waiting period, with Superannuation paid during unpaid leave as well
- Learning and development opportunities to support your career interests
- Health and wellbeing support—access to Headspace and our EAP program, wellness facilities, and more
- Share offers and insurance benefits
- Social activities, community give-back programs and paid volunteer days