Support Specialist / Sr Support Specialist (App support)

Job Description

NIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company providing the most complete and trusted view of consumers and markets in 90 countries covering 90% of the world’s population. Focusing on consumer-packaged goods manufacturers and FMCG and retailers, we enable customers to defy what’s possible. How? We combine unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology, and the industry’s top talent to create insights that unlock innovation. Join us and change the landscape.

Embrace the role of a Support Specialist on our team, where you'll play a vital part in ensuring the smooth operation of our enterprise software solutions. Candidates will be part of Global Command Center and will be responsible to lead a team of L1 & L2 Support specialists providing application production support for various applications. Your duties encompass monitoring applications, active triaging, collaborating with developers, and conducting thorough troubleshooting to identify and resolve application issues.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Ensure team is achieving 99.95% system availability across all customer facing systems.
• Experience in observability on production application support
• Effectively audit the threshold of the monitors, pinpoint affected application components, identify significant events and patterns based on real-time analysis.
• Follow the standard operating procedures to minimize the downtime, optimizing the system performance to maintain uninterrupted service delivery.
• Monitor service-level dashboards, ensure team is performing daily health checks, and review system capacity.
• Ensure team is meeting the SLA of various critical alerts and maintain consistent updates on tickets in ServiceNow and JIRA.
• Provide meaningful analysis of issues, timely updates on ongoing incidents to stakeholders and internal teams.
• Coordinate end-to-end issue resolution with users, support teams, operations, technical delivery teams, and vendors if required.
• Knowledge on azure cloud for monitoring the resources and take necessary actions if needed.
• Building AI monitoring on azure or any other inhouse tool
• Kubernetes knowledge to provide application support
• Ensure team has clear understanding of risk associated with alerts, identify and mitigate new risks.
• Drive long-term solutions for high-impact production issues across technical, operations, and product teams.
• Assist team in identifying the loopholes in existing processes, share best practices, conduct weekly team meetings and fast-track feedback.
• Share and collect process improvement ideas to identify trends in issues and propose automation ideas to higher-level management.
• Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ensure SLAs are met with Business-As-Usual (BAU) tasks and work collaboratively in a cross-functional environment. .
• Drive team meetings effectively and ensure the latest data is available for presentations for monthly workshops with leaders.
• Create and maintain a Knowledge Base (KEDB) with bug information and workarounds.
• Facilitate collaboration and communication among internal teams, stakeholders, and external partners. This includes maintaining open channels of communication, facilitating cross-functional collaboration, and fostering a culture of transparency and teamwork.
• Handling application releases and provide full support for the signoff

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About NIQ

NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

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At NIQ, we are steadfast in our commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace that mirrors the rich diversity of the communities and markets we serve. We believe that embracing a wide range of perspectives drives innovation and excellence.  All employment decisions at NIQ are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We invite individuals who share our dedication to inclusivity and equity to join us in making a meaningful impact. To learn more about our ongoing efforts in diversity and inclusion, please visit the