Application Cloud Architect

Role: Application Cloud Architect

Location: Brussels, Belgium (Near site)

Languages: English

Duration: Long Term

Job Description:

Besides a strong knowledge and proven experience with the usual requirements: Angular 18, PostgreSQL, Agile methodology, BPMN, and back-end suite, some additional details:

Tasks as production support

• Advanced Incident Management.
• Monitor production systems, logs, and alerts.
• Investigate and resolve incidents within SLA.
• Impediments and defects resolution.
• Handle escalations from L1/L2 support for high-priority or unresolved incidents.
• Supporting the integration of different information systems.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting across applications, middleware, databases, and infrastructure layers.
• Develop and deploy hotfixes or workarounds where applicable.
• Problem Management & Root Cause Elimination.
• Lead deep-dive investigations into recurring or high-impact issues.
• Propose and implement code/configuration fixes or improvements.
• Conduct log analysis, memory dumps, and performance profiling.
• Provide technical risk assessments and rollback strategies.
• Monitor production deployments. Hotfixes, minor and major releases.
• Develop scripts, monitoring solutions, and utilities to reduce manual intervention.
• Enhance observability and self-healing mechanisms.
• Conduct system tuning, stress testing, and bottleneck analysis.
• Recommend scaling strategies and infrastructure optimization.
• Document permanent fixes, advanced troubleshooting steps, and technical notes.
• Information transfer to L2/L1. Updates, new functionalities, known issues, and workarounds.
• Monitor Jira Dashboards with impediments and defect resolution.
• Ensures proper update of tickets.
• Mentor L1/L2 teams to increase the first-time resolution rate.
• Contribute to best practices, standards, and operational guidelines.
• Experience with production support in cloud native applications.

Skills

• Very good knowledge of L3 production support.
• Proficiency with Relational DBMS, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.
• Very good knowledge of interoperability technology (web services, message-oriented middleware, service-oriented bus, event architecture).
• Experience in providing 24x7 support for critical servers, Availability, Performance, Monitoring, Incident response, Preparation, Change management, and Capacity management.
• In-depth knowledge of JEE 8 or 7 (at least EJB3, JMS, JPA). In-depth knowledge of Angular +2 (preferably 18).
• In-depth knowledge of automatic testing frameworks (Junit, TestNG, Protractor).
• Experience with SOA webservers.
• Very good experience working in an agile environment.
• Experience with Oracle database.
• Excellent knowledge of PostgreSQL.
• Experience with WebLogic Server.
• Experience with integration tools like Jenkins and Sonar.

• Please pay attention to the specific experience as well.
• At least 5 years of specific expertise in Jira
• At least 6 years of specific expertise in Java
• At least 5 years of specific expertise in Agile
• At least 7 years of specific expertise in Rest, SOAP, Jenkins, and Maven
• At least 5 years of specific expertise in Git
• At least 5 years of specific expertise in Linux
• At least 5 years of proven experience with the tasks mentioned above.