Application Owner

Staff Reliability Engineer - IE07KEWe’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future. Primary Responsibilities Application owner for Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) and Mobile applicationsProduction Support

Ensure application availability & Quality of Service

Responsibility for application health including impacts from changes introduced by development, maintenance infrastructure & configuration impacts

Business communications for production issues

Accountable for Business SLA adherence

Support OLA adherence

Accountable for Applications Life Cycle Management (Technology Currency and Application sun-setting) and Information Life Cycle Management (Data Purging, Compliance retention)

Ensure applications adhere to technology and business roadmaps

Develop options and alternatives to maximize investments

Accountable to ensure that a proper Disaster recovery solution is in place

Accountable for compliance initiatives such as PII, SOX, PCI, & DATP

Accountable for remediation and removal of all production incidents impacting the application

Drive year over year incident reduction, faster mean time to resolve, improve asset currency, and reduce per unit support costs

Knowledge Base matrices – updating documentation on the app

Archer – Risk & Compliance

Validation of code repositories - DATP

Code scan analysis and remediation of vulnerabilities

Disaster recovery

Patch upgrades

Application upgrades

SOX audits and validation ownership

Release planning/ sign off etc. ownership

Critical incident management

Vendor resource onboard/off-boarding management (ID renewals/Badge renewals etc.)

Reverse demand Events ownership

DEAC’s

Cyber events management

CAB meetings

PlanIT updates

RBAC approvals

SME/Troubleshooting

Business Relationships

Business account manager – treat like their own business

Ensure priority maintenance and enhancement business needs are met, partnering with the business in the demand management, prioritization, and the Maintenance governance process

Ensure communication occurs for all relevant activities, outages, or impacts

Understand business partner’s goals and provide consultative advice to achieve those goals, including the development of options that provide innovative solutions

Support business case development for significant enhancement requests, including projects when required

Partner with the business, the IT Delivery Leads, and architecture to define the business strategy and with the IT Delivery Leads to translate that strategy to the corresponding technology strategy

Continual engagement with Value Streams as a Stakeholder

Continually look for opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen business relationship

Technical application management and Asset Integrity

Oversight of asset integrity

Capacity planning of the environments

Support simplification and rationalization efforts

Accountability for ensuring asset currency needs is met as part of Technology Maintenance Planning

Maintenance Delivery

Delivery of non-discretionary & discretionary maintenance per business priorities and objectives

Manage appropriate staffing/sourcing mix, and within the sourcing mix the right shape for on-shore/off-shore

Ensure coordination with Invest/Project Delivery, including any knowledge transfer activities required.

Release Management

Ensure application readiness for release

Participate in Pre and Post release meetings.

Participate in release implementations.

Ensure quality standards and continue to refine best practices and processes as needed

Vendor Management for production support and maintenance

Responsible for SLA & KPI reporting, monitoring, management, and escalation

Plan, monitor and manage sourcing capacity based on business demand

Maintain sourcing partner relationships, assuring teams work in a cohesive manner

Be knowledgeable of and execute to our multi-year sourcing production support & maintenance contracts and any contract changes

Manage vendor to enterprise improvement, productivity, and quality goals

Ensure vendor adheres to contractual obligations

This role will have a Hybrid work arrangement, with the expectation of working in an office location (Hartford, CT, Chicago, IL, Charlotte, NC, Columbus, OH) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday).Qualifications

7+ years of work experience in IT systems operations and application development. Preferably some experience in an SRE role.

Good Software engineering skills preferably with experience in Identity and Access Management products and Front-End/Mobile technologies like Angular and Ionic framework, Java, etc.

Experience with cloud technologies and any certificates like AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Developer/Security Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer a plus.

Understanding of Linux system internals, are familiar with the TCP or IP stack, network routing and load balancing.

Command of Observability tools such as DynaTrace, Splunk, AWS Canaries, CloudWatch, automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform and CI or CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, UDeploy, SonarQube, AppScan, Nexus.

Approach troubleshooting systematically and have a deep sense of ownership for whatever you work on.

Design and development skills extend to service design patterns, APIs, UI/UX frameworks.

Ability to root cause sources of instability in a high traffic, distributed system.

Understanding of large-scale complex systems from a reliability perspective.

Strong relationship building skills

Exceptional Communication skills - written and verbal

Excellent presentation skills and ability to formulate ideas for presentation to upper management

Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.

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