We are looking for a Senior Production Service Analyst to join our Technology team and play a critical role in maintaining the stability, performance, and availability of our production applications and services. This is…
Skills: Production Support, Application Support, Service Management, IT Operations, Incident Management
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Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom · Hybrid
Mid level
The day-to-day As a Production Support Analyst at Reward, you will be responsible for supporting, managing and documenting all production applications and BAU (Business As Usual) processes, you’ll work with a variety of …
Skills: Production Support, SQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, REST APIs
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Full-time
Annual Leave, Flexible Working Options, Employee Share Scheme, Private Healthcare, Critical Illness Cover, Life Insurance Cover
Posted 4d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Senior Production Service Analyst will provide second-line production support, investigate and resolve production incidents, and manage incidents through to resolution. They will also lead major incident investigations and ensure service commitments are consistently achieved.
Requirements
Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in production support or IT operations, with strong incident management and troubleshooting skills. Experience with cloud environments, databases, and service management tools is essential.
Full job description
We are looking for a Senior Production Service Analyst to join our Technology team and play a critical role in maintaining the stability, performance, and availability of our production applications and services.
This is a customer-focused role responsible for supporting business-critical systems, managing production incidents, driving operational excellence, and ensuring service commitments are consistently achieved. You will act as a senior escalation point for complex technical issues, lead major incident investigations, and work closely with Engineering, Product, Delivery, and Client teams to ensure a high-quality service is delivered to both internal and external stakeholders.
As a senior member of the Production Support function, you will combine strong technical troubleshooting skills with excellent stakeholder management, helping to minimise customer impact, improve service resilience, and drive continuous improvement across our production environment.
Essential
5+ years' experience in Production Support, Application Support, Service Management, or IT Operations.
Strong experience managing incidents, problem investigations, and root cause analysis within production environments.
Proven ability to lead critical incident resolution involving multiple stakeholders and technical teams.
Experience supporting web applications, REST APIs, microservices, and .NET applications.
Strong knowledge of AWS or other cloud-hosted environments.
Experience working with PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, SQL Server, or similar database technologies.
Experience using monitoring and service management tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, Jira, ServiceNow, Splunk, or equivalent.
Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Ability to prioritise effectively and make decisions under pressure.
Experience creating support documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
Desirable
Experience within fintech, payments, loyalty, banking, or other highly regulated industries.
Knowledge of PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and information security best practices.
ITIL Foundation certification or equivalent service management experience.
Exposure to Agile delivery environments.
Understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience identifying automation opportunities and driving operational improvements.
What Success Looks Like
Production incidents are managed effectively with minimal customer impact.
Service levels and operational performance targets are consistently achieved.
Root causes are identified and resolved to improve platform stability.
Strong relationships are built with clients, partners, and internal stakeholders.
Operational processes, tooling, and documentation continuously improve.
New products and services transition smoothly into production support.
The Production Support function is viewed as a trusted, proactive partner to the business.
Production Support & Incident Management
Provide second-line production support across Reward's applications and services.
Investigate, diagnose, and resolve production incidents and service issues.
Manage incidents through to resolution, ensuring timely updates and clear communication to stakeholders.
Lead the investigation and resolution of major incidents, coordinating technical teams and business stakeholders.
Conduct root cause analysis and identify corrective and preventative actions to reduce future incidents.
Troubleshoot complex technical issues escalated by junior team members.
Service Management & Operational Excellence
Monitor the health, availability, and performance of production systems and services.
Manage and track support tickets from initial triage through to resolution.
Ensure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are achieved and service commitments are met.
Produce incident reports, service reviews, and operational performance reporting.
Maintain support documentation, operational procedures, runbooks, and knowledge articles.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service stability and operational effectiveness.
Client & Stakeholder Management
Build strong relationships with clients, scheme partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
Act as a trusted point of contact for operational support and service delivery matters.
Support client governance meetings, service reviews, and operational reporting.
Provide clear and concise communication during incidents, outages, and service-impacting events.
Represent the Production Support function in meetings with senior stakeholders and clients.
Technical Operations
Support applications hosted within AWS environments.
Troubleshoot issues across web applications, APIs, microservices, and .NET-based systems.
Investigate and resolve issues involving PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, SQL Server, and other database technologies.
Analyse application logs, monitoring data, and system metrics to identify and resolve production issues.
Utilise monitoring and service management tools including Datadog, CloudWatch, Jira, ServiceNow, and similar platforms.
Change & Production Readiness
Participate in production planning and release activities.
Contribute to production readiness reviews for new products and services.
Ensure operational support requirements are considered during project delivery and implementation.
Support the transition of new applications and services into live production environments.
Governance & Compliance
Support compliance activities including PCI DSS and ISO 27001 requirements.
Ensure operational processes align with security, risk, and regulatory obligations.
Promote best practice service management and operational governance across the business.
Annual Leave: 25 days + bank holidays
Ability to buy and sell holiday days as well as the ability to bank days (tenure dependant)
Flexible working options: we are operating a hybrid working model with 3 days a week from the office
Employee share scheme
Private healthcare
Critical illness cover
Life insurance cover
Dental cover
Optical cover
SWORKIT app for access to employee fitness & wellbeing
Employee referral scheme
Company events i.e. Christmas party, all-company event and other social/hosted events during the year (we have an active social committee!)
Team socials
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Customer Engagement & Commerce Media for the largest banks and retailers globally.
Industry
Advertising Services
Company size
51-200 employees
Founded
2001
Headquarters
London, England
LinkedIn followers
16,786
Founded in 2001, Reward is an industry leader transforming the world of Customer Engagement and Commerce Media.
Operating in 15 countries across Europe, Middle East and Asia, Reward’s cloud-based API platform integrates content, advertising, and commerce to deliver exceptional experiences for consumers resulting in increased customer engagement, retention, and overall satisfaction.
Reward’s technology platform is behind many award-winning bank loyalty programmes seen today from brands such as Visa, NatWest Group, Barclays, and First Abu Dhabi Bank to name a few.
Reward also works with the world’s largest retailers such as McDonald’s, eBay, Deliveroo and Amazon. Their leading commerce media platform fuses purchase insights with loyalty-tech, offering an unparalleled edge in digital advertising and performance marketing for retailers. Leveraging rich data and insights, the Reward platform provides a comprehensive view of consumer behaviour, empowering retailers to target marketing messages more effectively, resulting in independently verified sales uplift and long-term customer lifetime value.
Beyond bridging the gap between content and commerce, Reward is a purpose driven business. Their mission is to make everyday spending more rewarding. During the last 5 years, Reward has proudly given back more than $1billion in cashback rewards to consumers world-wide.
Most recently, Reward’s rapid growth was recognised in The Independent’s E2ETech100 list of fastest growing tech scale-ups in the UK. Reward, in conjunction with partners NatWest Group, was also awarded the Industry Achievement Award 2023 at the prestigious Card and Payments Awards.
For more information, please visit www.rewardinsight.com.
Customer Engagement & Commerce Media for the largest banks and retailers globally.
Industry
Advertising Services
Company size
51-200 employees
Founded
2001
Headquarters
London, England
LinkedIn followers
16,786
Founded in 2001, Reward is an industry leader transforming the world of Customer Engagement and Commerce Media.
Operating in 15 countries across Europe, Middle East and Asia, Reward’s cloud-based API platform integrates content, advertising, and commerce to deliver exceptional experiences for consumers resulting in increased customer engagement, retention, and overall satisfaction.
Reward’s technology platform is behind many award-winning bank loyalty programmes seen today from brands such as Visa, NatWest Group, Barclays, and First Abu Dhabi Bank to name a few.
Reward also works with the world’s largest retailers such as McDonald’s, eBay, Deliveroo and Amazon. Their leading commerce media platform fuses purchase insights with loyalty-tech, offering an unparalleled edge in digital advertising and performance marketing for retailers. Leveraging rich data and insights, the Reward platform provides a comprehensive view of consumer behaviour, empowering retailers to target marketing messages more effectively, resulting in independently verified sales uplift and long-term customer lifetime value.
Beyond bridging the gap between content and commerce, Reward is a purpose driven business. Their mission is to make everyday spending more rewarding. During the last 5 years, Reward has proudly given back more than $1billion in cashback rewards to consumers world-wide.
Most recently, Reward’s rapid growth was recognised in The Independent’s E2ETech100 list of fastest growing tech scale-ups in the UK. Reward, in conjunction with partners NatWest Group, was also awarded the Industry Achievement Award 2023 at the prestigious Card and Payments Awards.
For more information, please visit www.rewardinsight.com.