Application Monitoring Engineer needed at Moniepoint Inc.

About the role

We are looking for an Application Monitoring Officer to provide enterprise-level monitoring to our services and systems.  You will be responsible for the stability, integrity, and operation of our production systems by  monitoring, configuring and driving optimizations. You will diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues in an accurate and timely manner. 

What you’ll get to do

• Researching, diagnosing, troubleshooting and identifying solutions to resolve system issues
• Taking ownership of customer issues reported and seeing problems through to resolution
• Track computer system issues through to resolution, within agreed time limits
• Properly escalate unresolved issues to appropriate internal teams (e.g. PMs & software developers)
• Provide prompt and accurate feedback to customers.
• Refer to internal database or external resources to provide accurate tech solutions.
• Prioritize and manage several open issues at one time
• Document technical knowledge in the form of notes and manuals.

To succeed in this role, we think you should have

• Proven work experience as a Technical Support Engineer, Desktop Support Engineer, IT Help Desk Technician or similar role
• BSc degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or relevant field
• Basic Understanding of OOP concepts
• Good understanding of computer systems, mobile devices and other tech products
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Familiarity with basic network concepts and tools.
• Experience troubleshooting using stack traces and log file.
• Experience interacting with APIs and troubleshooting related requests.
• Experience being on-call and can jump into a complex situation and make sense of and communicate clearly to stakeholders what’s going on.
• In depth knowledge of SQL databases particularly MYSQL
• Hands-on experience with Windows/Linux/Mac OS environments