Prime production support

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.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Application Support Engineer (L2) with expertise in supporting banking applications, monitoring production systems, troubleshooting incidents, and ensuring application availability and stability. The candidate should have strong SQL skills, knowledge of ITIL processes, experience with shell scripting, Grafana dashboards, Control-M job scheduling, and automation of routine support activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide L2 production support for critical banking applications and ensure high availability and performance.
• Monitor application health, system performance, logs, and alerts using Grafana and observability tools.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement permanent fixes.
• Write and execute SQL queries to investigate application issues, validate transactions, and perform data analysis.
• Monitor, manage, and troubleshoot batch jobs and workflows using Control-M.
• Perform log analysis and execute shell scripts for system checks, troubleshooting, and routine operational activities.
• Follow ITIL processes, including Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, and Service Request Management.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using shell scripting and other automation techniques.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, database, and business teams to resolve production issues within agreed SLAs.
• Participate in incident bridges, provide timely updates to stakeholders, and prepare incident reports.
• Support application deployments, release activities, and post-deployment validation.
• Maintain support documentation, knowledge articles, SOPs, and operational runbooks.
• Ensure compliance with banking security policies, audit requirements, and operational procedures.

Required Technical Skills

• Application Support: Hands-on experience in L2 production support, incident troubleshooting, and application monitoring.
• SQL: Strong SQL query-writing skills, joins, subqueries, data validation, and troubleshooting database-related issues.
• Observability: Knowledge of application monitoring, log analysis, metrics, alerts, and performance troubleshooting.
• Grafana: Experience monitoring dashboards, analyzing metrics, identifying anomalies, and troubleshooting alerts.
• Control-M: Experience monitoring batch jobs, handling job failures, managing dependencies, and rerunning failed jobs.
• Shell Scripting: Basic to intermediate scripting for log analysis, health checks, file processing, and task automation.
• ITIL: Understanding of Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Request Management processes.
• Automation: Ability to automate repetitive support tasks and improve operational efficiency.
• Banking Domain: Understanding of banking applications, transaction processing, batch processing, and business-critical production operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience supporting business-critical applications in a banking or financial services environment.
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems and application/server logs.
• Familiarity with SLA management, production support rotations, and on-call support.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Key Competencies

• Incident prioritization and effective problem-solving.
• Root cause analysis and preventive action implementation.
• Production stability and service improvement.
• Coordination with cross-functional technical teams.
• Ability to work in a 24/7 support environment when required.

Overall Objective: Ensure stable and reliable banking application operations by proactively monitoring systems, resolving production incidents, automating routine activities, and meeting defined service-level agreements (SLAs).