Sr Specialist-Tier 2 Application Support Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide Tier 2 support for escalations from Tier 1 across incidents, alerts, environment issues, and C2W events.
• Resolve complex issues and lead root cause analysis, trend investigation, and improvement ticket creation.
• Support iTrack work requests, consulting tickets, and platform-aligned project deliverables.
• Provide additional C2W support when engaged by Tier 1.
• Execute compliance-related support tasks including CCRC, ATT Cybersecurity Scorecard, and SOX support activities.
• Manage SSL certificate lifecycle support and remediation execution.
• Execute Golden Image and on-prem OS updates for existing VMs.
• Perform application installations and upgrades (outside monitoring/alerting platform scope handled by SRE).
• Support production/non-production setup and operations in Azure and on-prem environments.
• Support new client onboarding and implementation projects for enterprise integration and messaging services.
• Partner with architects and developers to analyze requirements and recommend technical options.
• Gather and publish monthly application and operational metrics.
• Manage ITAP data requirements and ensure operational governance.
• Review and validate Tier 1 SOPs; create and maintain Tier 2/client SOPs.
• Raise Tier 3 tickets for platform/tooling enhancements and monitoring-gap remediation.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in application production support, integration support, or platform support.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed enterprise applications.
• Working knowledge of the mandated streaming stack, with operational support experience in Confluent Kafka and Azure Event Hub: Confluent Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Azure Event Hub, AWS-MSK, and Apache Flink.
• Practical knowledge of IBM Sterling Integrator.
• Hands-on operational experience with Kubernetes, especially Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), in incident response and platform support.
• Working experience with Splunk and Prometheus/Grafana for diagnostics and observability.
• Python scripting capability for support automation, operational checks, and repetitive task reduction.
• Familiarity with Java, React, and Spring Boot based applications for troubleshooting and production issue triage (not an application development role).
• Solid SQL/Postgres query skills for production support analysis.
• Experience supporting CI/CD release operations.

Nice-to-Have

• Azure/Kubernetes/ITSM certifications.

Experience Level

Mid to Senior (typically 7 to 10 years)

Location / Work Mode

Onsite - Hyderabad, Bangalore

Weekly Hours

Weekly Hours: 40

Time Type

Time Type: Regular

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