Senior Support Engineer
Houston, MS - USA
Job Summary
Job Title: Senior Support Engineer
Location: Houston TX
Role Summary
The Senior Support Engineer is responsible for providing advanced application support for Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance business applications. This role focuses on ensuring the availability stability and performance of critical insurance platforms across policy billing claims and integrations. The Senior Support Engineer works closely with business users development teams and operations to resolve complex production issues drive root-cause analysis and support continuous operational improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Application Support & Operations
- Provide L1/L2/L3 application support for P&C insurance systems ensuring adherence to SLAs and operational KPIs
- Participate in major incident (P1/P2) resolution activities including triage investigation and root cause analysis
- Support incident problem change and release processes aligned with ITIL practices
- Participate in on-call rotation and provide production support during business-critical hours
Technical Troubleshooting & Engineering
- Perform advanced troubleshooting across application middleware database and integration layers
- Analyze application logs batch processes APIs message queues and interfaces to identify and resolve issues
- Collaborate with development teams to implement permanent fixes and reduce recurring production incidents
- Support both cloud and on-prem environments including monitoring performance analysis and capacity support
Stakeholder & Business Collaboration
- Work closely with business users to understand production issues and assess functional and technical impact
- Provide clear and timely communication on incident status resolutions and preventive actions
- Collaborate effectively with development infrastructure vendor and QA teams
Continuous Improvement & Automation
- Identify opportunities for proactive monitoring automation and self-service support capabilities
- Contribute to problem management efforts to reduce incident trends and improve system stability
- Support release readiness activities including deployment validation and hypercare support
- Maintain and update runbooks SOPs and knowledge base articles
Knowledge Sharing & Mentoring
- Act as a technical mentor to junior support engineers through guidance and knowledge sharing
- Contribute to team learning by documenting solutions and best practices
- Support onboarding and training of new team members as needed
Required Qualifications
Experience
- 10 years of IT application support experience
- Strong experience supporting P&C insurance applications in production environments
- Experience working within ITIL-based support and operations models
Technical Skills
- Strong understanding of enterprise application architectures
- Hands-on experience with:
- .NET-based applications
- APIs and integrations (REST/SOAP MQ ETL)
- SQL and relational databases
- Monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Datadog)
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
Functional & Domain Skills
- Solid understanding of P&C insurance concepts business processes and terminology
- Ability to translate business issues into effective technical troubleshooting and resolution approaches
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work effectively under pressure in production support environments
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Strong sense of ownership and customer-focused mindset
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with P&C insurance core platforms
- Experience in managed services or client-facing production support environments
- Exposure to DevOps SRE practices or production operations transformation initiatives
Key Performance Metrics
- Incident resolution timelines and SLA adherence
- Reduction in repeat incidents and production defects
- Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR)
- Quality of root cause analysis and documentation
- Stakeholder and business satisfaction
Regards
Manoj
Derex Technologies INC
Contact : Ext 206
Additional Information :
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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About Company
Derex Technologies Inc specializes in providing IT consulting, staffing solutions and software services. Globally headquartered in Harrison New Jersey since 1996 Derex delivers the highest quality technology professionals and an array of customized IT talent solutions designed to impr ... View more