Job Posting

American National is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Application Performance Specialist. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the stability and performance of specific applications, providing technical support, and collaborating with other teams as necessary resolve issues.

 

Your Impact:

Monitor, maintain and enhance application performance. Collaborate with Programmers and System Analysts to troubleshoot problems through a complex and diverse system to their source.  Assist with root cause analysis and issue resolution.  Conduct load testing to verify that applications can manage expected growth. Continuously monitor the results to proactively identify when adjustments to the application environment are necessary to support this growth. Identify and communicate networking, file and system issues to other team members and management. Work with other IT professionals, such as system architects, system administrators and cybersecurity experts, to ensure the overall health and security of the IT infrastructure. Track network configurations, changes, and maintenance activities to ensure continuity and compliance with organizational policies.

 

What You Will Need to be Successful in this Role:

Strong Microsoft web-based application troubleshooting skills (5+ years’ experience) Experience monitoring, optimizing, and managing the performance of applications, infrastructure, and digital experiences (knowledge of Dynatrace or similar technology) Proficient with load testing (experience with Neoload or similar technology) Knowledge of Windows Server operating systems

 

Our Preferences:

Experience with Duck Creek Server, Express, and User Admin for their Policy Admin system, including product and software configuration is strongly preferred. ADO pipelines for build and release SQL Server and Transact-SQL Citrix

 

 

 

American National offers eligible employees and their families medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees also receive annually a bank of paid time off and paid holidays.   We aspire to see people for what they bring to our corporate culture by supporting an inclusive work environment, including an emphasis on a healthy work-life balance, development opportunities, and a casual dress code.

 

American National is an established, stable, and successful multi-line insurance corporation that has provided financial strength and a sense of security to employees, customers and business partners since 1905.  With focus on our organization’s values and cultural richness: Financial Strength, Integrity, Respect, Service and Teamwork (FIRST) and Agility, Collaboration, and Engagement (ACE) we continue to pursue our vision to be a leading provider of financial products and services for current and future generations.

 

Hiring Practices

The preceding job posting was designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this position. It is not intended to be interpreted as a comprehensive list of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications.  We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job qualifications, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this position or other opportunities at American National.

 

American National’s recruitment policies help us place individuals in a timely and efficient manner. Only the most qualified candidates will be contacted by our recruiting team. Candidates may check the status of their application(s) by logging into our Career Portal.  Learn more about our company, by following us on social media: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram

 

American National is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, genetic information or any other legally protected categories. American National is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.