Senior Problem Analyst

4 days ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Phithos Technologies Full time

Phithos is an IT Services and Solutions company building on **data-centric technologies** for **Healthcare,** **Education, Financial Services** and **Social-Media** industries. At Phithos, we believe in Research & Development, Innovation, large-scale meaningful solutions and Quality Service. We are headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and have offshore delivery center in New Delhi, India from where we are servicing the customers in USA, UK, Africa & India.
- Work remotely or on-site in **Johannesburg** or **Cape Town.**:

- Work remotely from **Mumbai** or **Delhi**

Our roles are hybrid and work location can be discussed to find the most suitable conditions.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Conduct trend analysis of data, both systematically and manually to determine common occurrences and recurring issues to feed into the Problem Management processes.
- Perform impact assessments to determine priority of a problem relative to other problems and business activities.
- Determine the absolute cause of the problem by various means, including, but not limited to recreating the issues in a test environment, reviewing system design, asking relevant questions to stakeholders.
- Provide recommendations for improvement to services or processes with the purpose of increased availability, improved service levels, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction by reducing the number of operational problems.
- Identify interim and long-term solutions, considering cost effectiveness and ease of implementation.
- Review a business/technical specification prior to development and identify any potential problems that could be created with the proposed solution.
- Document and present the Problem Reports related to identified problems. Provide assessments of risks, impacts, severity, possible alternative solutions, status of investigation and recommendations.
- Produce project management reports per team (monthly) giving an area-specific analysis of all problems.
- Review records produced by Junior team members and provide recommendations for improvement and enhance processes where applicable.
- Participate in various cross-functional forums and lead work streams to contribute to the improvement and implementation of policies, frameworks and standards.
- Client and Executive reporting.
- Clear, concise and timely communication with emphasis on expressing technical issues in a non-technical manner to clients and executives.
- Conduct research to establish more efficient ways of performing day to day activities using new technologies or frameworks and identify opportunities for automation.
- Produce and present regular reports on availability, capacity and service performance.
- Ensure remedial action are taken to rectify identified issues or escalated incidents are attend to.
- Participate in the ongoing enhancement of Problem Management policies and processes
- Maintenance of the Known Error Database
- Participate in the evolution and maintenance of the CMDB whilst leveraging insights to drive Problem Management objectives
- Participation and facilitation of Incident Post-mortems

**Personal Attributes and Skills**
- Statistical analysis and reporting
- Problem solving
- Root Cause Analysis
- Business writing (reports) and presentation
- Tenacity
- Stress Management
- Persuasion
- Coaching
- Client orientation

**Education**
- Relevant Tertiary qualification (IT or Engineering)
- ITIL
- Knowledge and Experience
- Beneficial: o Kepner & Fourie Root Cause Analysis Framework
- Site Reliability Engineering
- 3 or more years’ experience in problem management
- ITSM Tools (ServiceNow experience preferred)
- APM and Infrastructure Monitoring Tools (DynaTrace experience preferred)
- AWS CloudWatch (beneficial)


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