Production Management Analyst

MetLife is a leading financial services company seeking a Production Management Analyst to join their US Technology Command Center and Resiliency group. The role involves overseeing daily IT support and operational activities, resolving incidents, and collaborating with product owners to improve production application stability.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day oversight of US Technology observability alerts, identify alerts leading to impactful customer incidents and escalated incident management
• Ensure incidents are efficiently managed, communicated, and resolved in a timely manner
• Utilize technical and business knowledge to lead escalated issues to service restoration
• Leverage metrics and monitoring tools to identify trends and prevent production incidents
• Identify production incident trends, patterns, and proactive identification of issues for 24x7 coverage
• Collaborate with ADM teams to prioritize backlog of tasks, problems aimed at improving the stability and efficiency of production applications
• Interact with vendor consultants to identify and implement solutions for optimizing operating efficiency of production systems and processes
• Document internal processes and procedures
• Create PowerPoint presentations for meetings with product owners, leaders to illustrate incident metrics and trends
• Perform related duties as assigned or requested

Skills

• Understanding and hands-on experience with internet and intranet data flows
• Hands-on experience with SQL, MS Excel pivots, lookup, filters, charts
• Understanding of observability principles and tools such as Apica, AppD, Elastic, Splunk, Nest etc
• 1+ years of related IT experience
• Strong knowledge of 24x7 Production Support practices
• Understanding of Incident management functions, with ability to lead incident triage calls
• Ability to integrate and analyze data from multiple sources, draw conclusions and provide recommendations
• Understanding of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and customer-facing metrics
• Ability to collaborate in a matrixed environment to achieve a shared goal
• Relationship management and facilitation skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering or other related field, or equivalent demonstrated work experience and/or certifications
• Understanding on application eco-system, ability to trace end to end dataflow and business applications such as Employee and Employer Benefits, Claims, Single Sign On setup, Annual enrollment processes, Employee profiles, Customer setup
• Hands on experience in ServiceNow ticket management tool and dashboards
• Hands on experience in Core Java, SQL and Spring MVC, Spring BOOT, React frameworks
• Experience working in an Agile environment and has knowledge of Agile ceremonies
• Possesses strong leadership skills and the ability develop and motivate teams with both offshore and onshore members
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with focused attention to details, as well as, demonstrated professionalism and with the ability to present technical details to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Analytical thinking and decisiveness, multi-tasking, organizational prioritization, problem solving, and attention to detail skills will drive success in this role
• Ability to develop value-added relationships across partners is essential with a sense of ownership and accountability for assignments
• Exposure to tools like AppDynamics, Postman, Azure DevOps, SOAP UI, Splunk, Elastic, Power BI Dashboards, Bitbucket, MongoDB compass, IBM Data studio and IBM Maestro (batch jobs)
• Architectural knowledge in Microservice, data hub, REST API, PaaS, AKS (Azure Kubernetes services) and container concepts

Benefits

• Comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision
• Dental insurance
• No-cost short- and long-term disability
• Company-paid life insurance
• Legal services
• Retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife
• 401(k) with employer matching
• Group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home
• Pet
• Critical illness
• Hospital indemnity
• Accident insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Digital mental health programs
• Parental leave
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Volunteer time off
• Tuition assistance

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