IT Operations Specialist - Banking

Job description

VAM Systems is currently looking for IT Operations Specialist 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