Medibank

Application Analyst

Medibank

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: DocklandsAustralia

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About the role

  • Improving system quality by identifying issues and common patterns, and developing standard operating procedures.
  • Enhancing applications by identifying opportunities for improvement, making recommendations and designing and implementing systems.
  • Liaising with colleagues to implement technical designs.
  • Investigating and using new technologies where relevant.
  • Improve and maintain system documentation (Support guides and Architectural design documents).
  • Assess functional solutions against system stability, security and performance of the application suite.
  • Identify opportunities to implement tools and practices that enhance automation and drive long-term operational efficiency.
  • Ensure delivered solutions do not result in incidents and problems, and if they do, own and drive the resolution with a sense of urgency taking customer impacts and organisation reputation into account.
  • Provide expert guidance in the resolution of incidents within your competency domain.
  • Ensure timely responses and ticket resolution in line with Medibank SLAs.
  • Adhere to SLA’s established to monitor application health by developing and using effective tools and metrics.
  • Work collaboratively with business stakeholders and technology teams and external vendors to support service delivery.
  • Ensure service and product quality is always maintained at the highest level and is aligned with business needs.
  • Liaise with IT vendors and suppliers as required.
  • Perform application deployments in both production and non-production environments when required. Ensuring Medibank standards, methodologies and processes are adhered to.
  • Develop and maintain Process and Procedures required for support purposes.
  • Use Agile and DevOps principles and practices to manage the backlog, plan and monitor delivery in accordance with sprints set during Quarterly Planning (QP).
  • Provide On call services as per business requirements (24/7 per roster).
  • Ensure cross-systems dependencies are understood, socialised and managed.
  • Look for opportunities to improve efficiency of processes and solutions shared across multiple streams through refinement and maturity of key processes.
  • Provide ongoing health checks on the Applications to ensure agreed expectations and outcomes are met.
  • Proactively monitor and report on system performance and health.
  • Maintain applications within remit in line with asset lifecycle management plans (e.g. hardware refresh, licensing, application upgrades).
  • Ensure application component currency levels are understood and maintained for applications in your competency domain.
  • Maintain an effective plan to manage application (non-O/S) vulnerabilities.
  • Ensure a current Application Disaster recovery plan is in place for the required applications in your competency domain.

Requirements

  • Experience in working with most elements of the following technology stack: MS Windows core services, VMware, Citrix XenApp, OpenText Content Server, SharePoint, ServiceNOW, Salesforce, Oracle WebLogic server and Web Content Server.
  • Enterprise monitoring tools (Nagios/Solarwinds/Splunk).
  • Scripting, e.g ASP.NET/ apache/ Ruby/ PowerShell/ SQL/ Automation processes.
  • Working knowledge of ServiceNOW, MS/PostgreSQL, Apache Tomcat, Java, HTML5, Python/Perl, Powerscript.
  • Experience working in Linux and Windows Server environments.
  • Experience in an agile environment responding to evolving business needs and adapting quickly and effectively.
  • Experience working in a cross-functional, collaborative team environment.
  • Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills.
  • Experience and ability to work on multiple concurrent projects and tasks.
  • Demonstrated experience in process improvement.
  • Demonstrated understanding and implementation of ITIL processes.
  • Experience working in large project groups.
  • Well-developed knowledge of Service Management practices and processes.
  • Previous experience providing application focused support roles.
  • Some experience in leading process improvement and issue resolution.
  • Ability to work autonomously.
Benefits
  • Flexible working isn’t a buzzword, it’s a reality.
  • Workplace that helps you and your family thrive.
  • Connection, personal development and health and wellbeing are front of mind.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
MS Windows core servicesVMwareCitrix XenAppOpenText Content ServerSharePointServiceNOWSalesforceOracle WebLogic serverWeb Content ServerScripting
Soft skills
analytical skillsoral communicationwritten communicationprocess improvementautonomycollaborationadaptabilitytime managementproblem resolutioncustomer focus
Certifications
ITIL certification