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REMOTE - Bogota, Colombia, Colombia
Remote only
What is Equisoft? Equisoft is a global provider of digital solutions for the insurance and investment sectors, trusted by more than 300 of the world’s leading financial institutions. We offer a comprehensive ecosystem of scalable solutions that help our clients meet the challenges of digital transformation—driven by a business-centric approach, deep industry knowledge, cutting-edge technologies, and a multicultural team of experts located across North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Why Choose Equisoft? With 950+ employees, we are a stable organization that offers career advancement and fosters a stimulant environment. If that’s not enough, then check out these other perks below:
Hiring Location: Colombia, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago or Mexico
You are welcome to work 100% remote (employees based in Trinidad and Tobago follow a hybrid work model)
Internal job title: Production Support Specialist
Full-time Permanent Role
Benefits available day 1 (details vary by country)
Number of hours per week: 40
Educational Support (LinkedIn Learning, LOMA Courses and Equisoft University)
Role: The Application Support Specialist (L1) reports to the Manager, Production Support and works closely with a team of 20 specialists between Production Support Level 1, 2 & 3, Release Coordinators and Service Delivery Managers. The incumbent is responsible for all client facing application production support and incident resolution. Will also be responsible for ensuring optimal performance and stability of our insurance applications across multiple product lines. The incumbent performs a wide variety of technical troubleshooting and engineering work, including software deployment, software configuration and system monitoring.
Your Day with Equisoft:
Work with customer (insurance & financial compagnies) requests and tickets (usually as an escalation point) multitasking multiple daily operations. This includes high severity tickets that require a quick/professional response and an analytical approach to problem solving.
Maintain application integrations between product suites and customer integrations.
Monitor and respond to user-reported issues as well as infrastructure alerts promptly and professionally; ensure issues are tracked through to resolution.
Manage proactive ready-for-business checks, identify and fix gaps, and respond promptly to failures.
Perform root cause investigations and the implementation of corrective measures.
Partner with DevOps, IT and product teams to drive stability, operational excellence, and a culture of efficiency.
Improve application stability with the design, development and implementation of application monitors and alerts and automations.
Assist with the development of both internal and external (Client facing) technical / user documentation.
Work with our Release Coordinator to perform our production releases for various products/services on behalf of our clients.
Maintain consistent communication with business stakeholders through the incident and problem resolution processes.
Follow procedures, and continually improve internal processes for maintenance of solutions that are in production.
Work on-call every other weekend (twice a month)
Requirements:
Technical
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or Information Technology, or College Diploma combined to 3 years of relevant experience.
Around 2 years of experience in Java software design, application development, systems integration and SQL programming is required.
Experience in a Production Support helpdesk or similar Client facing role
Object-Oriented Programming (Java or equivalent)
Strong experience with Linux Operating system
SQL scripting & Databases experience (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database)
Experience and skills in Cloud Architecture environments such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud
Excellent knowledge of English & Spanish (spoken and written)
Soft skills
A client-focused, service-minded approach and a strong sense of urgency.
Sense of organization and prioritizing
Analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to communicate, write and synthesize information.
Ability to multi-task in a rapid-paced environment
Team spirit, tact, diplomacy, autonomy, rigor, and discipline
Nice to Haves:
Experience working with XML/JSON structures
Knowledge of the insurance industry
Experience or Knowledge in OIPA (Oracle Insurance Policy Administrator)
Experience working with XML/JSON structures
Familiarity with any of our internal tools such as Git, JIRA, Confluence, PagerDuty, Zendesk, MS Teams & Slack
Previous experience with Python
Experience with ESOA (WSDL, SOAP, WS-*)
Equisoft is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status