Application Middleware Infrastructure SME, GIPS

About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices.

Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values — Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

UOB Innovation Hub 2 (InnoHub 2) is a newly set up technology centre located in Kuala Lumpur as part of UOB Group Technology and Operations to deliver innovative financial technology solutions that enable business growth and technology transformation. 

About the Department

The Technology and Operations function is comprised of five teams of specialists with distinct capabilities: business partnership, technology, operations, risk governance and planning support and services. We work closely together to harness the power of technology to support our physical and digital banking services and operations. This includes developing, centralising and standardising technology systems as well as banking operations in Singapore and overseas branches.

Job Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, plan, co-ordinate, create infrastructure required to run the application environments
• Install & deploy the application software and provide BAU support that includes middleware infrastructure build, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, resolution of all environment related incidents to the application development team  
• Co-ordinate with core infrastructure team to ensure readiness of servers / databases, prepare requirement document 
• Drive the low level design for application middleware infrastructure for Tier 1/Tier 0 applications 
• Build application middleware infrastructure 
• Perform software installation and documentation 
• Manage the Development/SIT/UAT/Production environment setup and connectivity with partner applications 
• Troubleshoot server and network related problems 
• Prepare the system and database backup/restore procedures 
• Prepare and simulate disaster recovery for the managed applications 
• Manage the releases from UAT to Production 
• Manage deployment / promotion of changes within different stages of SDLC 
• Automate monitoring / enable alert configuration 
• Troubleshoot Control M job failures and assist in re-run as appropriate 
• Ensure proper documentation of processes & maintain KOP 

Job Requirements

• The candidate must have 6-9 Yrs of working experience in the following areas:- 
  • Technical hands on experience in building application middleware platforms 
  • Working experience in application integration platform (MQ, Connect Direct) 
  • Well versed in working on Unix/Linux OS 
  • Application deployment automation using python, groovy or other scripting languages 
  • Messaging platform expertise to build and support MQ and Connect Direct 
  • Familiar with system and database backup/restore, disaster recovery procedures and Load balancers 
  • Experience in vendor product software installation and documentation of installation steps 
  • Able to document the technical architecture using servers and network diagrams 

• Candidate with the following knowledge will be preferred :- 
  • Unix/Linux administration 
  • Excellent Middleware platform knowledge (Weblogic, JBOS, MQ & CD) 
  • Middleware deployment automation 
  • Working experience in DevOps Tools (Jenkins, Bitbucket) 
  • Excellent knowledge of MS SQL-Server / Oracle 
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills 

Be a part of UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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