L2 Support

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced L2 Production Support Engineer with hands-on experience in event management, incident handling, ServiceNow, and monitoring tools. The ideal candidate should have strong troubleshooting skills and experience in maintaining production system stability and resolving technical issues within defined SLAs.

Primary Skills:

• L2 Production Support
• Event Management and Incident Management
• ServiceNow
• Monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, or ThousandEyes

Secondary Skills:

• Batch Monitoring and Scheduling
• Unix/Linux troubleshooting
• Windows Server troubleshooting

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor production systems and applications to ensure availability and stability.
• Handle L2 incidents, events, alerts, and service requests.
• Use ServiceNow for incident logging, tracking, prioritization, and resolution.
• Analyze monitoring alerts using Splunk, AppDynamics, or ThousandEyes.
• Perform initial troubleshooting, identify root causes, and coordinate with relevant teams for issue resolution.
• Monitor batch jobs and scheduled tasks, and troubleshoot failures.
• Perform basic Unix/Linux and Windows Server troubleshooting.
• Ensure timely incident resolution in accordance with SLA requirements.
• Maintain incident records and provide updates to stakeholders.

Location : Mumbai

Big Picture (The Opportunity) :

Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your Career? & If you are able to maintain a positive attitude even when everything goes wrong, if you are detail oriented and self motivated with a passion to learn and improve your skills and knowledge, we have a perfect job for you !

What do we want from you ? (Our Expectations) :

• Zero to 2 years experience in Linux Operating System.
• Flexible working hours - able to support occasional nights, weekends, and call-ins, able to quickly adapt to a constantly changing faced paced environment. Open to travel to sites.
• An ideal person who is excited and motivated about running and supporting a production - grade critical infrastructure and looks for opportunities to improve processes with automation.

What are you required to do ? (Your Responsibilities) :

• Proactively maintain and develop all linux infrastructure technology to maintain a 24*7*365 uptime service.
• Engineering of systems administration-related various solutions for our various SAAS products and projects as well as operational needs.
• Proactively monitoring system performance and capacity planning.
• Providing technical support to customers for Applications, Operating systems, and networking.
• Will also be the first point of contact for our clients, where installations are placed on a permanent basis, for basic troubleshooting and problem solving.
• Fault finding, analysis and logging information for reporting of performance exceptions.
• Maintain best practices on managing systems and services across all environments.

Skills & Qualification Required (Add Value) :

• Graduate - Preferred to have Bachelor‘s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• He / She should be familiar with the installation and configuration of Linux operating systems and setup and operation of TCP/IP networking on Linux systems also familiar with Internet concepts including SMTP, IMAP, POP, HTTP, DNS, LDAP and related protocols.
• You should possess excellent communication skills .
• Knowledge of Email concepts, Helpdesk Concept , VoIP Concept , Cloud computing will be an added advantage.

1. Job Summary
2. We are looking for an experienced L2 Production Support Engineer to manage production incidents, monitor application and infrastructure health, and ensure high availability of business-critical services. The candidate will be responsible for event management, incident triage, root cause analysis, alert monitoring, and coordination with L1, L3, DevOps, infrastructure, and application teams through a Mission Control environment.
3. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with ServiceNow, Splunk, AppDynamics, ThousandEyes, and production monitoring tools.
4. Key Responsibilities

• Monitor production applications, infrastructure, and business services using monitoring and observability tools.
• Perform L2 production support activities, including incident investigation, troubleshooting, and resolution.
• Manage real-time alerts, events, and incidents through the Event Management / Mission Control function.
• Monitor application logs, system performance, availability, and transaction failures using Splunk, AppDynamics, and ThousandEyes.
• Analyze alerts and correlate events to identify potential service disruptions and reduce alert noise.
• Create, update, assign, and track incidents, problems, and change requests in ServiceNow.
• Perform initial impact assessment, incident prioritization, and escalation based on severity and SLA requirements.
• Troubleshoot application errors, service outages, connectivity issues, performance degradation, and recurring incidents.
• Collaborate with L1 support, L3 engineering, application development, database, network, middleware, and infrastructure teams.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and contribute to problem management and preventive action plans.
• Support major incident management, bridge calls, stakeholder communication, and service restoration activities.
• Maintain incident documentation, troubleshooting procedures, operational runbooks, and knowledge articles.
• Identify recurring alerts and incidents and recommend automation or monitoring improvements.
• Participate in shift rotations, weekend support, and 24/7 operations, as required.
• Ensure compliance with operational procedures, SLAs, OLAs, and ITIL best practices.

1. Required Technical Skills
2. 1. L2 Production Support

• Hands-on experience in application or infrastructure production support.
• Incident triage, troubleshooting, service restoration, and escalation management.
• Knowledge of application logs, system health checks, and performance monitoring.
• Experience supporting business-critical production environments.

1. 2. Event Management / Mission Control

• Experience with real-time event monitoring and alert management.
• Ability to correlate events, identify service-impacting alerts, and prioritize incidents.
• Knowledge of event-to-incident workflows and major incident escalation procedures.
• Experience working in a centralized IT operations or Mission Control environment.

1. 3. ServiceNow

• Experience with ServiceNow Incident Management, Problem Management, and Change Management.
• Ability to create, update, assign, and resolve incidents while maintaining accurate ticket documentation.
• Understanding of incident priority, severity, SLA tracking, and escalation workflows.
• Exposure to ServiceNow ITOM / Event Management is an advantage.

1. 4. Monitoring and Observability Tools

• Splunk: Log analysis, searching, filtering, troubleshooting, and identifying application errors.
• AppDynamics: Application performance monitoring, transaction tracing, response-time analysis, and identifying bottlenecks.
• ThousandEyes: Network and application connectivity monitoring, path visualization, latency analysis, packet loss, and availability troubleshooting.

1. 5. Additional Technical Knowledge

• Basic understanding of Linux/Unix and Windows operating systems.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, latency, and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Basic SQL knowledge for data validation and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of REST APIs, web applications, middleware, and distributed application environments is preferred.

1. Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–7 years of experience in IT production support, application support, or IT operations.
• Hands-on experience with ServiceNow and at least one major monitoring or observability tool.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and incident management skills.
• Familiarity with ITIL processes and SLA-driven support environments.
• Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple production incidents simultaneously.

1. Preferred Qualifications

• ITIL Foundation certification.
• Experience with ServiceNow ITOM / Event Management.
• Exposure to major incident management and root cause analysis.
• Experience in enterprise, banking, telecom, retail, or other high-availability environments.
• Knowledge of automation and scripting using Shell, Python, or PowerShell.

1. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Incident response and resolution time.
• SLA compliance.
• Mean Time to Acknowledge (MTTA) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR).
• Production service availability and monitoring effectiveness.
• Reduction in recurring incidents and false-positive alerts.
• Quality of incident documentation and root cause analysis.

1. Ideal Candidate Profile
2. The ideal candidate is a technically strong L2 Production Support Engineer with hands-on experience in incident and event management, ServiceNow ticketing, production monitoring, and application/network troubleshooting. The candidate should be capable of quickly identifying service-impacting issues, coordinating with resolver teams, and restoring services while maintaining SLA commitments and operational stability.
3. Key skills for the role

• L2 Production Support
• Event Management / Mission Control
• ServiceNow ITSM / ITOM
• Production Monitoring and Alert Management
• Splunk
• AppDynamics
• ThousandEyes
• Incident, Problem and Major Incident Management
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• ITIL and SLA Management