Platform Operations Analyst - Second Shift

The Freedom Pay Commerce Platform is the technology of choice for many of the largest companies across the globe in retail, hospitality, lodging, gaming, sports and entertainment, food service, education, healthcare and financial services. Freedom Pay's technology has been purposely built to deliver rock solid performance in the highly complex environment of global commerce. The company maintains a world-class security environment and was first to earn the coveted validation by the PCI Security Standards Council against Point-to-Point Encryption with EMV standard in North America.

Freedom Pay's robust solutions across payments, security, identity and data analytics are available in-store, online and on-mobile and are supported by rapid API adoption. The award winning Freedom Pay Commerce Platform operates on a single, unified technology stack across multiple continents allowing enterprises to deliver a consistent, repeatable experience on a global scale. Freedom Pay is a fast paced, high growth company with a great culture with competitive benefits and compensation with a business casual atmosphere.

The Platform Operations Team serves to ensure that Freedom Pay's production platforms and processes are healthy and performing to expected key indicators. As a Platform Operations Analyst you will be a member of a team that works together to ensure Freedom Pay's Platform stability and availability. This position will need to be performed out of your home office in Arizona or Nevada, and be available to work Monday-Friday shift from 5:00 PM to 1:00 AM ET, while also participating in a rotating schedule that provides weekend coverage.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Work a standard Monday-Friday shift from 5:00 PM to 1:00 AM ET, while also participating in a rotating schedule that provides weekend coverage.
• Maintain live services through measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
• Collaborate with other team members to quickly determine root cause of any type of service degradation and look for key indicators of potential issues.
• Effectively communicate with third parties, partners, and internal teams regarding technical issues.
• Use acquired knowledge to suggest, edit, and write knowledge base articles.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and development teams to improve system reliability emphasizing reliability as a core value.
• Identify anomalies and escalate appropriately issues identified in application and system log files.
• Obtain a deep understanding of Freedom Pay platform and custom application stack to help resolve issues.
• Create new alerts to support the operations of Freedom Pay production systems.
• Troubleshoot and remediate failed scheduled jobs.
• Document and refine internal policies and procedures.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Educational Background: A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance, or a related field is typically required.
• Experience:
  
  Previous experience (preferably 4+ years) in a similar role within the financial services technology industry, transaction processing, or related area is preferred. Technical experience in web-based platform environments with related dependencies between network, database, and application layers.
• Knowledge of Transaction Processing:
  Strong understanding of transaction processing concepts, payment gateways, and related technologies is highly desirable. Experience in supporting real time transaction processing applications is and advantage.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Proficiency in using and troubleshooting various Application Performance Monitoring platforms, infrastructure monitoring and log ingestion tools, such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Solar Winds and others. Experience in Microsoft SQL Server product stack is desired. Knowledge of API integration, data analysis, and reporting tools is an advantage.
• Problem-Solving Abilities:
  Ability to analyze complex issues, identify root causes, and propose effective solutions in a fast-paced transaction processing environment. Experience with problem management processes, including post-incident reviews, to prevent recurrence of issues.
• Risk Management:
  
  Familiarity with risk…