Application Production Support

We are growing. And we are looking for talented people.

At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent.

We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long-term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives.

As part of the Astek Group, we combine a strong local culture with a global presence, being active in around 23 countries across 4 continents. This allows us to offer an international context, diverse challenges, and long-term career opportunities, while staying close to our teams.

We are looking for an Application Production Support!

Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary point of contact for IT Production-related tasks and enquiries, providing support and guidance to end-users, Developers, and Business Analysts.
• Track, manage, and resolve incidents, support requests, problems, and changes using ITSM tools, ensuring IT services are restored within agreed SLAs.
• Follow Incident Management processes and ITIL best practices.
• Monitor infrastructure and application layers across production environments, ensuring the smooth operation of critical and non-critical applications.
• Apply Group guidelines, IT best practices, and IT Security recommendations.
• Prepare environments for application releases and perform pre-production testing.
• Support the successful implementation of application releases and production changes.
• Provide technical and functional support for the bank's in-house and third-party applications.
• Monitor production environments, identify potential issues, and contribute to incident prevention and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with Development teams on application management activities.
• Support migrations, re-hosting activities, batch configuration, infrastructure changes, and application releases.
• Manage communication with internal clients and stakeholders, providing timely updates on incidents, requests, and production activities.
• Provide on-call support during required time windows, when applicable.
• Contribute to Digital Transformation initiatives, including the adoption of new technologies and working methodologies such as Automation, Monitoring, Agile, DevOps, and ITIL.

Requirements:

• Experience in Application Production Support or a similar IT production support role.
• Experience providing technical and functional support for applications in production environments.
• Strong experience with incident, request, problem, and change management.
• Experience working with ITSM tools and Service Management processes.
• Knowledge of SQL, preferably Microsoft SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or Sybase.
• Experience with operating systems such as Windows, Windows Server, Linux/RHEL, and UNIX/AIX.
• Knowledge of file transfer technologies, including CFT, MQ, FTaaS, FTP, SFTP, and PeSIT.
• Knowledge of automation and monitoring technologies, including Batch, Autosys, DevOps/SecDevOps, Jenkins, Ansible, and Dynatrace.
• Knowledge of the banking sector.
• Knowledge of networking technologies, including LAN, VPN, LDAP, and Active Directory.
• Knowledge of encryption technologies such as PGP and GPG.
• Knowledge of infrastructure technologies, including DMZ/dMZR, virtual machines, Cloud, Load Balancers, Firewalls, and Terraform.
• Knowledge of security technologies and concepts, including TLS/SSL, SSH, PKI, certificates, SAST, and DAST.
• Knowledge of Cloud environments, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Knowledge of ServiceNow, JIRA, ITSM, and Agile methodologies.
• Ability to work closely with Development teams, Business Analysts, end-users, and other stakeholders.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and demanding production environment.
• ITIL certification is a plus.

Languages:

• English – Fluent / Expert.

Are you looking for an environment that values curiosity and commitment? Here, your contribution has real impact and individual growth is taken seriously.

Find with us the right opportunity to grow!

What you can expect from us:

• Long-term projects with national and international context (if applicable)
• Opportunities to grow technically and professionally
• A people-first culture, focused on transparency and trust
• Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability.

If you’re interested in this job, please send your CV to [email protected] with reference “Application Production Support”.

Thank You!

Decskill is committed to equality and non-discrimination with all our talents. We recruit and promote talent, based on diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality or any other form of discrimination incompatible with the dignity of the human being.