Application Support Lead (Java)

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Job Description

Role Designation : Technology Lead

Job Location : Bangalore

Key Responsibilities

To work as a techno-functional SME to provide technical troubleshooting and product support for customers using our products.

Take ownership of user problems and be proactive when dealing with user issues.

Lead day-to-day production support for applications running in GCP (or any other cloud service) & Kubernetes environments.

Monitor application health, respond to incidents, and ensure timely resolution within SLAs.

Act as the primary escalation point for high-severity incidents and coordinate with engineering and cloud teams.

Drive root cause analysis (RCA), post-incident reviews, and long-term problem resolution.

Oversee implementation and maintenance of monitoring, alerting, and logging tools.

Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base for support teams.

Implementing automation tools to streamline operations and reduce the frequency of errors.

Mentor and guide L1/L2 support teams and ensure effective knowledge transfer.


Technical Skills

1. Java & Application Layer

Strong knowledge of Java/J2EE applications and microservices architecture

Familiarity with REST APIs

Experience with application performance troubleshooting and profiling


2. Kubernetes (K8s)

Understanding of Kubernetes objects: Deployments, Pods, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, etc.

Hands-on with kubectl, Kubernetes troubleshooting, and log analysis


3. GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

Experience with key GCP services: GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine), Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud SQL


5. Monitoring & Observability

Tools: Datadog or any other similar tool

Proficient in setting up alerts, dashboards, and log aggregation

Root cause analysis from logs and metrics


6. Incident & Problem Management

Strong skills in triaging production incidents and leading RCA efforts

Familiar with ITIL practices (especially Incident, Change, Problem Management)

Tools: Jira or any other similar tool


Soft Skills & Leadership

1. Team Leadership

Leading L1/L2/L3 support teams

Incident bridge management, escalations handling

Mentoring and upskilling junior team members


2. Stakeholder Communication

Effective communication with developers, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders

Post-incident reporting and communication


3. Operational Excellence

SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, service reliability

Defining support processes, runbooks, and knowledge bases


4. Change Management

Coordinating deployments, patches, hotfixes

Managing go-live and rollback plans


Nice to Have:

Knowledge of SRE practices

Familiarity with security & compliance in cloud environments (e.g., vulnerability scanning, IAM best practices)

Automation using Python, Bash, or other scripting languages

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