Systems Support Engineer

Job responsibilities

• You will work with incident management process and tools.
• You will use complex application systems and find your way through them to debug a business impacting issue.
• You will follow standards and best practices to bring operational efficiencies, stability and availability of the system.
• You will use continuous delivery practices to evolve, support and deliver high-quality software, as well as value to end customers, as early as possible while working in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients.
• You will leverage your knowledge regarding different logging techniques (various levels) and use them for alerting, monitoring and identifying the root cause of incidents.
• You will derive meaningful reports/key performance indicators and set up alerting and monitoring mechanisms for quicker identification of incidents and response.
• You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems.

Job qualifications

Technical Skills

• You have experience working programming languages such as Java and Typescript an understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP and scripting languages such as Python and Powershell.
• You understand how to use debugging tools and how to troubleshoot issues with the code.
• You have experience working with relational or non-relational databases.
• You have experience working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or Azure pipelines.
• You have an exposure to application monitoring tools such as DataDog, Prometheus or Grafana .
• You are comfortable with Agile methods such Scrum and/or Kanban.
• You have the ability to ensure that the deliverables, namely bug fixes and enhancements to the existing codebase, are of high quality and well-tested.

Professional Skills

• You have strong communication and articulation skills, are proficient in English and able to confidently hold a Q&A discussion with senior stakeholders.
• You have good communication and articulation skills.
• You have a presence in the external tech community and willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more.
• You are resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives.
• You are willing to be part of a rotation- and need-based 24x7 team and are able to handle multiple engagements.

Other things to know

Learning & Development

There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

Responsible Use of AI in Recruitment

At Thoughtworks, we use AI tools to support our recruitment team with administrative tasks such as drafting communications, scheduling interviews and writing job descriptions.

Crucially, our AI tools do not screen, assess, rank or make hiring decisions. Every application is reviewed by our team and all selection decisions are made exclusively by our interviewers and hiring managers.

We are committed to fairness and responsible AI. We actively manage our AI systems by testing, monitoring for biased outcomes and implementing mitigation measures. We hold our third-party vendors to these same high standards through a rigorous governance process. For additional information, please see our full Thoughtworks AI Policy for Recruitment.