Systems Support Engineer - London

Welcome to ConocoPhillips, where innovation and excellence create a platform for opportunity and growth. We are one of the world’s largest independent exploration and production companies, based on proved reserves and production of liquids and natural gas. With operations and activities in 13 countries, we explore for, develop, and produce crude oil and natural gas globally. Our employees are critical to our success, and with them we power civilization. We’re grounded by our SPIRIT Values – safety, people, integrity, responsibility, innovation, and teamwork.

To deliver superior performance, we create an environment that respects the contributions and differences of every individual. Wherever possible, we use these differences to drive competitive business advantage, personal growth and, ultimately, create business success.

The Systems Support Engineer sustains reliable non-ETRM commercial applications supporting compliance, credit risk, market risk, pricing, custom solutions, data platforms, reporting, and integrations. The role restores service, implements controlled application changes, and supports continuity of global trading operations.

Your responsibilities may include:

• Monitor application health, trade and data flows, batch processing, interfaces, reporting, and downstream dependencies.
• Triage incidents, assess business impact, restore service, coordinate escalations, and communicate recovery status, workarounds, and next steps.
• Operate within a follow-the-sun model through structured handoffs, regional coordination, and end-to-end issue ownership.
• Maintain accurate support procedures and knowledge records.
• Meet service-level commitments and comply with ITIL, security, change management, and operational controls.

Technical Responsibilities:

• Diagnose production issues across applications, Azure-hosted components, APIs, integrations, databases, configuration, logs, messages, scheduled processes, and file transfers.
• Implement minor bug fixes, SQL corrections, configuration updates, and small enhancements using approved development practices.
• Validate data integrity and reconcile application, interface, pricing, risk, and reporting output during recovery.
• Coordinate deployments, environment readiness, release validation, rollback planning, smoke testing, and post-release monitoring.
• Use source control, branching, pull requests, and CI/CD tooling to deliver changes safely.
• Document root-cause evidence and recommend preventive or automated improvements.

To thrive in this role, you’ll demonstrate the following leadership competencies:

• Takes Accountability: Takes ownership of actions and follows through on commitments by courageously dealing with important problems, holding others accountable, and standing up for what is right.
• Drives Performance: Delivers results through realistic planning to accomplish goals.
• Makes Decisions: Generates effective solutions based on available information and makes timely decisions that are safe and ethical.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 or more years of experience supporting enterprise business applications in production.
• Intermediate level of experience providing Level 1 and Level 2 application support in a global or multi-region operating environment.

Technical Skill Set:

• Cloud and integration: 3 or more years of experience with Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, API services, message queues, data feeds, and system interfaces.
• Databases: Advanced level of proficiency SQL Server and Oracle skills, including SQL, stored procedures, query analysis, data validation, and reconciliation.
• Application development: Intermediate level of proficiency in .NET, C#, ASP.NET, REST APIs, debugging, exception handling, and application configuration.
• Production operations: Intermediate level of proficiency in incident triage, service restoration, impact assessment, root-cause analysis, escalation, SLA management, and stakeholder communication.
• DevOps: Intermediate level of knowledge of GitHub, Azure DevOps, source control, pull requests, CI/CD, and production release practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to create clear runbooks, troubleshooting guides, known-error records, and handover notes.
• Experience supporting energy or commodities trading processes and applications.
• Experience improving support operations through automation, reusable playbooks, and continuous improvement.
• Experience using GitHub Copilot or similar tools responsibly for code analysis, test creation, and support automation.
• ITIL Foundation, Microsoft Azure, GitHub, or related production support, cloud, or DevOps certification.

We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and creating a workplace culture in which diversity and inclusion are valued and everyone is treated with dignity and respect. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Successful candidates will be made a conditional offer of employment. The conditions include, but are not limited to: a satisfactory criminal records disclosure; satisfactory employment references over five years (where applicable); verification of qualifications, including any professional accreditation stated in the application; completion of a pre-employment medical, including a test for illicit or unprescribed drugs in accordance with the Company's safety policies; and the legal right to work on the agreed commencement date.

Location: London, UK

Type: Full time