Applications Support Specialist

Key Responsibilities

Incident & Problem Management

• Lead major incident (MI) bridges and restore service with minimum business impact.
• Handle all L3 escalations, perform deep diagnostics across Java, JVM, middleware, OS, and infra.
• Own technical RCAs, drive long‑term and systemic remediation.
• Identify recurring failure patterns and risks.

Reliability Engineering

• Apply SRE principles: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, resilience patterns.
• Tune JVM parameters, analyze thread/heap dumps, and improve performance.
• Influence application architecture for fault tolerance, scalability, and recoverability.
• Validate DR readiness, failover behavior, and resilience testing outcomes.

Change, Release & Risk

• Provide technical approval and risk assessment for high-risk changes.
• Enforce operational readiness for new apps and major releases.
• Ensure changes meet audit, compliance, and regulatory expectations.

Automation, Monitoring & Observability

• Build advanced automation using Shell/Python/PowerShell.
• Develop frameworks for health validation, automated recovery, and compliance checks.
• Define observability standards; optimize alerts and improve MTTR.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor L1/L2 teams; review and approve runbooks, SOPs, and KB articles.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to stakeholders and leadership.

Skills & Qualifications

Technical (Mandatory)

• Strong knowledge of application architecture, distributed systems, and middleware.
• Java expertise: JVM internals, GC, memory management, thread/heap dump analysis, performance tuning.
• .Net -- CLR internals, garbage collection, memory management, thread/dump analysis, and application performance tuning.