Sr Support Engineer 1

Blue Yonder Title: Sr Support Engineer 1  (Cloud Applications/ Transportation Manager/SaaS)  Overview:Leading AI-driven Global Supply Chain Solutions Software Product Company and one of Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work”Blue Yonder’s Sr Support Engineer will be responsible to work with global functional & technical teams under various customer engagements to gather and understand the technical / functional reported issues/problems and drive towards solutions and fixes. Individual will work with regional customers/stakeholders to rollout, support our designed products / solutions to efficiently satisfy business requirements, while balancing complexity to ensure processes are supportable and meet customer satisfaction. After an individual attains expertise with the domain, solution and technology, the associate will have an option to work on customer projects in consulting roles (Deploy) as well Scope:Core responsibilities to include Architecting and designing (along with counterparts and distinguished Architects) a ground up cloud native (we use Azure) SaaS product in Order management and micro-fulfillmentThe team currently comprises of 60+ global associates across US, India (COE) and UK and is expected to grow rapidly. The incumbent will need to have leadership qualities to also mentor junior and mid-level software associates in our team What you´ll do/Knowledge Required:Provide excellent customer experience and solution support to BY customers with ownership, proactive and innovative approachDeliver high quality of service/operations and continuous improvement through outflow and recurrence prevention of incidentsOwn Tier 1/2 solution as required, enhance solution stability and service quality eventually enabling increase in customer consumption and adoption of the serviceConsistently demonstrate customer centricity and relentless attitude to innovate through positive teamwork beyond his/her teamBuilds and demonstrates high competency in product and domain, Azure & relevant tools and technologies, solution architecture etc.Champion KCS and process improvements through lean methodology / automationTrain/mentor team members to improve techno-functional capability of the teama) Excellent customer experience and solution support to BY Customers with innovative/proactive approach and customer value creationDelivers excellent customer experience by resolving customer issues mostly of high complexity.Owns customer solution for Tier 1/2 customers.Early engagement in implementation projects to ensure seamless delivery continuum into Operate through phased go-lives.Positively collaborates with TAM and supports consumption/adoption improvement plansConsistently achieves high customer satisfaction and makes positive impact on NPS scores by displaying end-to-end ownership, engagement and pro-activenessEarly engagement in Tier 1/2 customer implementation projects to ensure seamless delivery continuum into Operate through phased go-lives.Ensures adherence to SLA/SLO, quality standards and practicesChampions high quality of service/operations and continuous improvement within the teamImplements monitoring and diagnostics practices and proceduresContinuously improves solution stability by early detection and resolution as well as outflow and recurrence prevention of incidentsExpected to work in shifts and provide OOH support to facilitate 24x7 customer support b) Communication and CollaborationCommunicates (verbal and written) effectively with customers and BY stakeholders, pro-actively guides team members to communicate and influence customer positivelyCollaborates relentlessly, passionately and respectfully with various BY teams and partners, provides guidance on collaboration challengesLeads by example demonstrating professionalism, empathy and assertiveness in internal and external conversations. Understands cultural differences and diversity and help others live BY valuesBalances between Soft skills (process, people, values, teamwork, roles) and hard skills (technologies, frameworks, solutions, products)c) Competency development and demonstrationTechnical:i. Demonstrates high technical expertise as required to support concerned solution, for e.g.,DBMS (ex: SQL, Oracle) for application support; writing, reviewing and improving queries, procedures etc.Code debuggingPlatform support engineering (ex: API and/or Mulesoft integration troubleshooting)Troubleshooting Mobile application issuesDemonstrates high expertise in contemporary SaaS technical toolsets like AppDynamics, Splunk etc.:to monitor solution health and investigate application issues.to analyze trends and draw conclusions to reduce/eliminate recurring/high impacting issuesProduct and Domain:Develops good knowledge of product features and functionalitiesPossesses moderate knowledge of relevant industry domain and business processes of the customersDemonstrates moderate capability to have interactions related to business process impact and work-arounds with customers during issue resolutionUnderstands SAAS consumption, adoption and business value KPIs related to respective solutionSolution Architecture:Possesses appropriate combination of one or more following skills, as required for concerned solution.Good understanding of solution architecture relevant for concerned solution, for e.g.,Multiple layers of solution architecture including Client-Server and database, Load Balancers, MiddlewareIntegration with external devices/systems, data flowsIdentity and Access Management (ex: Native, OAUTH, SSO etc.)Good skills on architecture framework, tools and technologies relevant for concerned solution, for e.g.,Webservers (ex: IIS, Tomcat)Operating System framework and relevant scripting languages (ex: PowerShell, Batch scripting, vb scripting etc.)Architecture framework (ex: ASP.Net, Java)Tools to analyze server and application logs and dumps (ex: Wireshark, PERFMON, PerfView, Event viewer etc.) Good understanding of Azure technologies, relevant for concerned solution  like:Native SAAS or containerized applications, KubernetesAzure deployment models (ex: serverless / PAAS, scaleset, ASR)Azure automations and CI CD pipeline - GitHub, JenkinsStrong capability in cloud operational activities as per the requirements of concerned solution, for e.g.,Deployment and troubleshooting issues related to deploymentTroubleshooting, fixing and preventing application availability issuesBuilding and implementing monitoringAutomations (Python, Cycle, RPA etc.)Strong capability in Application Performance Engineering skills as required for concerned solution, for e.g.,DB health analysis (statistics, fragmentation, query execution plan, indexes)Executes prescribed KPI-based proactive performance review-Behavioral:Exhibits service mindset by consistently displaying customer centricity and ownershipSeeks regular performance feedback and works on self-development opportunities to achieve a holistic personal and professional developmentPro-actively identifies learning opportunities and career pathDisplays growth mindset by taking initiatives,  positively collaborating with stakeholders, continuously challenging the status-quo, helping team and department making progress towards strategic priorities.d) Value Addition and Continuous Improvement Consistent Top Contributor to Knowledge Centered Support (KCS) by:Familiar/Licensed with KCS methodology. Create high quality articles independently and mentor others increase usage/creationleveraging existing articles to provide faster resolution to solution issuesCoaching other team membersExecutes on operational improvements (ex: automation, process changes etc.)Improves process to enable continuous improvement.Leverage lean methodology or automation to improve operational efficiencyImplementing new methodologies to increase process efficiencies and ROIEncourages and collaborates with the team to ideate and implement continuous improvement opportunitiesDemonstrable experience, thorough knowledge and interests in Cloud native architecture, Distributed micro-services, Multi-tenant SaaS solution and Cloud Scalability, performance and High availabilityExperience with API management platforms & providing / consuming RESTful APIsExperience with varied tools such as Spring Boot, OAuth, REST, GraphQL, Hibernate, NoSQL, RDBMS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React.Experience with DevOps, Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation.Good Understanding of secure architectures, secure configuration, identity management, role-based access control, authentication & authorization, and data encryption.Our ValuesIf you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core ValuesDiversity, Inclusion, Value & Equality (DIVE) is our strategy for fostering an inclusive environment we can be proud of. Check out Blue Yonder's inaugural Diversity Report which outlines our commitment to change, and our video celebrating the differences in all of us in the words of some of our associates from around the world.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.