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Application Support Engineer

Place of work
Mlynské nivy, Bratislava, Slovakia (Job with occasional home office)
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
From 2 000 EUR/monthOur final offer to you will be set up fairly, considering the skills and experience that you bring to the Swiss Re Group.

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Our team is responsible for managing the day-to-day application support and IT operations for the domain landscape. We ensure successful & timely implementation of operational processes, ad-hoc production problem resolution, management of business systems and providing support to other regional application management staff.


About the Role
Application Support Engineer is responsible for high availability and performance of the supported applications. In this role you will be involved in day-to-day service operations across Incident and Problem Management, Application monitoring & maintenance, Runbook documentations and timely System status communication to the Business.

Your responsibilities include:
- Provide Level 2 and Level 3 Production and Non-Production Support for application issues.
- Analyze logs, traffic flow and configuration data on periodic basis to detect and address any anomalies
- Identify, categorize, and respond to system and applications events
- Liaise with developers to implement best practices / standards
- Develop scripts for automation and monitoring
- Participate in on-call rotation and provide hands-on support during emergencies or outages

Employee perks, benefits

- Attractive performance-based bonus
- Ultra flexible working time with occasional home office
- 5 additional days of holiday
- Lunch allowance fully paid by Swiss Re
- Referral bonus
- Pension & risk insurance contribution
- Sick days and sick leave support
- Public transport benefit
- Multisport card

Information about the selection process

Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.


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Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

Secondary with school-leaving examination
Follow-up/Higher Professional Education
University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)
Postgraduate (Doctorate)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

About You
Are you tech-savvy with strong understanding of complex application landscape and possess blend of expertise across application, database and infrastructure technologies? Are you strong team player & collaborator with proficiency in mapping business needs to technical solutions? Then you might be exatly the one we are looking for!

Requirements to be successful as our new teammate
Nobody is perfect and meets 100% of requirements. If you however meet some of the criteria below, we will be happy to meet you.


Technical Skills
- Proven years of Experience in software engineering with solid application development and support understanding.
- Proficient in either Java or .Net core with strong database programming SQL and PLSQL skills on Oracle and MSSQL
- Experience on databases, data warehousing and data analytics ecosystem & tools (Data factory / data lake / ETL tools, Synapse etc.)
- Proficient in monitoring, alerting and logging tools.
- Job scheduling and management on any batch management platform.
- A good understanding on SDLC process, Agile methodology
- Expertise in System integration in a complex enterprise setting
- Log analysis techniques. Solid grasp on Elastic stack is a plus.
- Experience in using public cloud offerings, preferable on Microsoft Azure (compute / containerization / storage / databases). Any other Public cloud expertise is also considered.


Soft Skills
- Experience in working with a diverse team of both internal and external professionals with good interpersonal skills.
- Dedication to provide support timely, efficiently and professionally
- Innovation with quick work around solutions, while also working on developing optimized permanent solutions
- An understanding of insurance/reinsurance business is always a plus

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Brief description of the company

As the world's leading and most diversified global reinsurer, we offer as our core business financial services products that enable risk taking essential to enterprise and progress. Our company was founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1863, and operates in more than 25 countries and provides its expertise and services to clients throughout the world. We combine financial strengths with experience, knowledge and creative thought to explore new opportunities in the interests of our clients, staff and shareholders.

Number of employees

1700 and more employees

Company address

Contact

Contact person: Lucia Vargova

ID: 4405721  Dátum zverejnenia: 9.3.2023  Základná zložka mzdy (brutto): 2 000 EUR/month