Systems Engineer

Toronto, Canada

Job number: 19008774

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. Following the acquisition of Merrill Lynch on January 1, 2009, Bank of America is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. In Canada, Bank of America has a strong market position on which to continue to build, as well as a clear commitment to the market.

Do you enjoy working in a fast paced technology team? Have you worked on a team that led Scrum processes and are ready to do more? Do you enjoy being a key member of a team, working with others to deliver new and exciting enhancements for clients? If so, this is the job for you! The ideal candidate will be very detail oriented and a team player, willing to dig in and help the team to deliver high quality, and on-time. The successful candidate must be comfortable in a fast paced, Agile environment and ensure that all projects deliver the desirable outcomes.

The Systems Team within the Digital Channels Technology group supports automated sanity and regression testing (both automated and manual) for a variety of Payments applications.

The Systems Team is also focused on:

• Automating regression test cases
• Evaluating tools used for automated testing
• Assisting with the test adoption of automation strategies
• Guiding, mentoring and training testers
• Documenting release test plans
• Assisting with defect management and triaging application issues
• Regression testing status reporting

Responsibilities

• Work with the Development and Production Support Teams whenever there is a connection related problem
• Use the command shell to inspect file permissions and running processes to analyze future changes or troubleshoot problems
• Analyze system and application performance with Performance Test teams
• Evaluate and plan changes to the infrastructure/middleware for upcoming projects or operational changes
• Assist developers in fixing their system access

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant discipline or comparable work experience is required
• Independent worker with strong troubleshooting skills
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) to document/communicate issues
• Ability to organize and manage multiple competing tasks and priorities with rapidly changing environment
• Understanding of standards such as LDAP, DNS, SSH/SFTP, SSL, HTTP, XML, JSON, and other protocols
• Technical competence with Red Hat Linux OS and its command shell
• Technical competence configuring java to run within Web Application Servers
• Technical competence interacting with Oracle databases using SQL
• Good understanding of Networking, Load Balancers, Storage Area Networks, Multipath solutions, Virtualization and Cloud technologies
• Trouble-shoot experience and skilled with incident management and conducting post mortems
• Understanding of Access Management, Power Broker, BladeLogic tools
• Prior experience analyzing system performance using monitoring and application log files.
• Ability to contribute as a technical resource for others
• Evaluate and plan changes to the infrastructure/middleware resulting from projects or operational changes

Desired Skills

• Payments business acumen
• Knowledge of client facing applications
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Strong presentation skills
• Client focused and able to build working relationships across teams
• Experience with Rally or Jira tool
• Experience in version control using Git

What Bank of America Merrill Lynch Offers

Bank of America Merrill Lynch embodies a culture that extends from how we think, to how we behave, and to how we measure performance. By achieving excellence - in everything we do, every time we do it - we deliver the full value of Merrill Lynch for our clients, our shareholders and our employees.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch places a high value on talent and on maintaining a culture defined by meritocracy. For these reasons, it is deeply committed to professional development, opportunity and accountability at all levels of the organization.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch encourages applications from all qualified individuals. Applicants with disabilities may notify us of any accommodations needed to support your participation in the recruitment process. We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying. Please be aware that only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted for this position.

Posting Date: 07/02/2019