Smartstream IDLM Support Analyst

Project description

Luxoft have been engaged by a leading financial institution to provide a technical BAU support analyst : to provide support of the(1) Smartstream (CMS) cash management and liquidity and BAU activities(2) Linux administration(3) JBoss middleware management. This support analyst will be responsible for providing technical support of the underlying application, releases and infrastructure.

• In this role, you will be responsible for technical support and configuration across the bank's banking arm and securities business under a dual-hat arrangement. Under this arrangement, you will act and make decisions on behalf of both the bank and the securities business, subject to the same remit and level of authority, and irrespective of the entity which employs you.
  
  - Provide L1/L2/L3 support for Smart Stream CMS, ensuring timely resolution of incidents and service requests.
  
  - Manage and administer Linux-based environments, including troubleshooting OS-level issues, patching, and performance tuning.
  
  - Install, configure, and support JBoss application servers; manage deployments, tuning, clustering, and troubleshooting middleware issues.
  
  - Perform batch job monitoring, system checks, and proactive health monitoring of CMS and related environments.
  
  - Coordinate with Smart Stream vendor and internal development teams to resolve application issues and apply patches/upgrades.
  
  - Maintain and monitor interfaces, feeds, and integration points with upstream/downstream systems (e.g., trading, risk, settlement).
  
  - Participate in release management, ensuring smooth deployments in UAT and production.
  
  - Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for recurring incidents and contribute to long-term stability improvements.
  
  - Develop and maintain support documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base articles.
  
  - Ensure compliance with IT security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Support UK hours from (7am to 4pm) or (9am to 6pm) or (10am to 7pm), as required.
• Participate in overnight support rota (on call), and weekend work (releases /support etc).
• You will be a self‑motivator, who is able to take a task and progress it independently, or as part of a team.
• Document technical requirements or processes to capture the configuration being performed.
• Support and test technical systems/servers (shown below).
• Work with third‑party software provider and work within pre‑defined application standards and raise queries or tickets if software defects are identified with the software vendor.
• Apply industry experience and ensure the solution incorporates "best practice".
• Work with neighbouring technology and project teams to ensure changes and roll‑out in a coordinated manner which is non‑disruptive to the business.
• Work in a coordinated manner around go‑live activities, ensuring services are transitioned into the live production environment in a manner which is compliant with technology policy and non‑disruptive to the business.
• Provide a level of post‑live support and assist with remediation where necessary.
• Work on key technical areas identified below.
• Ensure defects are tracked and managed, with the appropriate team assigned any defects identified during the test phases.
• Highlight risks or concerns ensuring items are followed up or escalated appropriately.

• Have experience of vendor application 'Smartstream Cash management (CMS) ver 4 , Control process Designer, Smart Schema (and some 'Smartstream Recs' )
• Hands‑on expertise in Linux system administration (Red Hat / CentOS preferred).
• Solid knowledge of JBoss EAP/Wild Fly setup, tuning, deployment, and support.
• Have excellent communication skills, being able to converse with a wide variety of teams (unix/database/application)
• Familiar with Change Requests, attending and representing on CAB and weekend rollout of code changes.
• 'Control M' application knowledge, jobs creation, administration, alerting, file move, file watchers ,json, etc.
• Oracle 19 Sql scripting and oracle database concepts
• Linux shell scripting and support.
• Ability to package up and manage configuration/code changes into releases, and apply to production.
• Jboss 8 server knowledge, configuration and support, error…