**Your opportunity** At Schwab, you are empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together. This role is for a production support resource for our order management applications. This is accomplished by using a highly-performant and scalable compute environment. This position is critical for supporting our order management system and our quantitative risk service. Some responsibilities include responding to alerts and escalations, managing incidents and issues, technical documentation, and independently supporting/configuring complex systems. These responsibilities will expose the associate to a greater support role and a larger impact on the direction and success of our systems. In this role, you will: + Troubleshoot, research, and resolve major defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in systems functions, outputs, and content. + Quick response to system monitors, alerts, escalations and all outages. + Provide 24/7 on-call support on rotating schedule including specific designated systems. + Study software documentation to understand our applications business and technical alignment for providing maximum support. + Analyze statistics and Incidents to develop and execute availability improvement plans. + Work with peers and vendors to design technical solutions to complex application issues. + Focus on service restoration and reducing Mean Time To Restoration (MTTR) + Provide support guidance and direction for other production support resources. + Maintain space requirements on servers. + Acquire and master the general skill set required for supporting and restoring services for all management designated applications and system. + Continued comprehension of proprietary systems and subsequent system and procedural updates. + Provide the role of SME for the systems designated by Management. + Communicate to the Management about service disruption and take initial measures for damage control. + Perform routine maintenance on application servers and track system performance. + Recognize opportunities for improved process or procedures & act on them. + Provide outage and service restoration details to Operations Command Center for degradation statistics and root cause analysis. + Provide excellent service to all Production Support clients and business partners. + Prepared to lead and coordinate teams during system/application outages and execute tasks accordingly to minimize impact. + Attend project meetings and provide input to project planning. + Adapt communication skill set to positively impact application teams. + Monitor & optimize the Linux OS / system hardware for best application performance. + Identify areas of enhancement and deploy automated processes to minimize human intervention. **What you have** Required Qualifications: + 4-year college degree in Computer Science or related field + 3+ years of Java development and/or production support + High proficiencey with Java + Ability to analyze Heap and Thread dumps + Knowledge of managing the Linux OS and use appropriate commands to perform tasks + Knowledge of scripting languages (shell, perl, python, ruby) + Knowledge of Salt, Ansible, Puppet + Knowledge of Virtual machines (VMware) + Available on weekends or after hours as required Preferred Qualifications: + Experience with Java 17+ is preferred + Experience with Linux OS RHEL, 6, 7, & 8 is preferred In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities. **What’s in it for you** At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis. We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future: + 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan + Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions + Paid parental leave and family building benefits + Tuition reimbursement + Health, dental, and vision insurance What’s in it for you: At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis. We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future: 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions Paid parental leave and family building benefits Tuition reimbursement Health, dental, and vision insurance Schwab is an affirmative action employer, focused on employing and advancing in employment, qualified women, racial and ethnic minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities in the workplace. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodations in the application process, contact Human Resources at applicantaccessibility@schwab.com or call 800-275-1281.