Senior Production Support Lead‹, VP

12 - 17 years

35 - 40 Lacs

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Job Title - Senior Production Support Lead, VP
Location - Pune, India
Role Description
  • We are seeking a
    Senior Production Support Leadto take full ownership of L1 and L2 support operations across three strategic enterprise platforms:
    API Management Platform, Kafka-as-a-Service (KaaS) and Data Platform.
  • This is a
    senior leadership roletaking ownership of existing global support support team, ensuring
    24X7 operational excellence, efficient incident resolution, and strong collaboration with engineering and business stakeholders. The role emphasises
    leadership, process optimisation, and operational reliability,rather than team creation.
  • The successful candidate will have the depth to lead day-to-day production support and foresight to shape the future support model, embedding best-in-class practices such as automation, shift-left, and service reliability engineering.

  • Your key responsibilities
    Leadership & Operational Oversight
  • Take ownership of
    existing L1 and L2 support teams, ensuring consistent coverage and adherence to SLAs
  • Server as the
    senior escalation pointfor high-priority incident and ensure timely resolution and stakeholder communication
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure
    operational readiness for new features and releases
  • Drive
    continuous improvement in support processes, knowledge base usage, and incident response efficiency
  • Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) across supported platforms, ensuring alignment with business expectations and operational goals

  • Incident & Problem Management
  • Oversee
    24X7 monitoring, alert triage, and incident resolutionfor all platforms
  • Ensure
    L1 team handle alerts, health checks and service requestsefficiently, while
    L2 team manages deeper investigations and diagnostics
  • Lead p
    ost-incident reviews, ensuring actionable improvements and lessons learned are applied
  • Proactively identify
    recurring issues and reliability gaps, coordinating with L2/Platform engineering for resolution.

  • Team & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Mentor and guide support analysts to improve technical skills, troubleshooting capabilities, and operational discipline
  • Represent production support in cross-functional forms, ensuring alignment with business an engineering priorities
  • Foster a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and proactive problem-solving

  • Your skills and experience
    Required Skills & Experience

  • 12+ years of IT experience, with 5+ years in
    senior support or operations leadership
  • Experience managing
    existing global L1/L2 support teams, ideally in multi-platform environments
  • Strong expertise in
    incident, problem, and change management frameworks
  • Proven ability to lead during
    major incidents/outages, with clear executive communication
  • Strong cross-cultural leadership experience across distributed teams

  • Technical Skills

  • Cloud & ContainersGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes/Anthos

  • API ManagementApigee, REST, OAuth2/OpenID Connect

  • Messaging & StreamingKafka, Zookeeper, Schema Registry

  • Data Platforms Tools:Spark, Big Query, Airflow, SQL

  • ObservabilityLogging (Splunk, Cloud Logging), Monitoring (NewRelic, GCO, Prometheus, Grafana), Alerting

  • ITSM & AutomationServiceNow/JIRA, Ansible/Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD

  • Scripting & TroubleshootingBash, Python, SQL for operational tasks

  • Resilience & RecoveryHigh-availability setups, DR Planning, cluster scaling and tuning

  • Preferred Qualifications:
  • ITIL Expert, SRE Practitioner, or equivalent certifications
  • Experience
    optimising and scaling existing support teams
  • Knowledge of
    shift-left strategies, automation, and reliability engineering practices

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