Application Support Engineer II

An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives.  Come join the excellence!

Overview

Responsibilities

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
· Design, Plan, Install, Administer and Troubleshoot applications, systems, and
  services in production and lab/test environments

· Analyze and resolve complex problems including interoperability issues caused
  by hardware, software, or network components

· Participate in architecture/design review, requirements analysis, capacity
  planning and provide guidance to development and product management teams

· Assist in Integration of applications and services with network management
  tools and other enterprise tools

· Develop KPIs and other system metrics for capacity planning, performance
  management, and monitoring

· Oversee daily operations of large-scale carrier grade systems; schedule,
  document and implement maintenance and troubleshooting procedures as
  necessary

· Pro-actively communicate status to project managers, upper management, and
  customers

· Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain 24x7 service support

Qualifications

Qualifications:
· 4+ years’ experience administering applications and services hosted on Linux
  (RHEL and derivate) operating systems

· 2+ years’ experience planning, integrating, and operating carrier or enterprise
  grade high-availability telecom solutions

· Understanding of Systems and Network Architecture of large-scale distributed
  networks

· Understanding and working knowledge of IP networks and security devices
  including routers, switches, load balancers, firewalls, and VPNs

· Experience integrating with monitoring, analytics, and network management
  tools and products such as Splunk

· Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills

· Demonstrated problem solving and incident management skills

Optional Desired Qualifications:

· Experience with an automation framework such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet

· Experience with Foreman helpful

· Experience with Virtualization software, such as VMware, helpful

· Scripting or coding experience is helpful

· Knowledge of and/or experience operating within a compliance framework,
  such as PCI, helpful
 

Education and Certifications:

· Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required

· ITIL certification preferred

If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!

TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.