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Application Support Specialist

Kaizen Technologies, Inc

 

Atlanta, GA, USA

Posted On: 7 days ago
Experience: 4+ years
Availability: Hybrid
Openings: 1
Category: Application Support Specialist
Tenure: Contract - Corp-to-Corp
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Description

  • Strong experience in Telecom Assisted sales Production Support, Application Support, L2/L3 Support, and enterprise application operations.
  • Hands-on knowledge of incident management, problem management, change management, RCA, defect triage, SLA tracking, and production issue resolution.
  • Good understanding of REST APIs, SOAP Web Services, API integration, JSON, XML, and service-to-service communication.
  • Working knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, microservices architecture, application servers, and backend service troubleshooting.
  • Strong Kubernetes (EKS) skill to troubleshoot the issue.
  • Strong database validation skills using SQL with Oracle, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server.
  • Experience with log analysis, monitoring, and alerting tools such as Splunk, ELK, Kibana, Grafana, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, OpenSearch, Prometheus, or CloudWatch.
  • Good Understanding on DNS, GSLB, CDN, WAF, NLB & ALB, Identity Gateway, Api Gateway, Nginx Proxy, and related components
  • Knowledge of Unix/Linux commands, shell scripting, batch job monitoring, file processing, and server-level troubleshooting.
  • Familiarity with messaging and integration technologies such as Kafka (MSK), JMS, RabbitMQ, or Apache Camel.
  • Experience with deployment support, release validation, rollback coordination, post-release monitoring, and hypercare support.
  • Hands-on exposure to ITSM and collaboration tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Remedy, or similar platforms.
  • Basic understanding of CI/CD tools and DevOps ecosystem including Jenkins, Git, Maven, Docker, or OpenShift.
  • Knowledge of ITIL processes, operational governance, production readiness, audit compliance, and runbook management.
  • Good Understanding of AWS Cloud.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day production support for AURA and Total Access applications, services, interfaces, batch jobs, APIs, and business workflows.
  • Monitor application availability, performance, alerts, logs, dashboards, integrations, and scheduled jobs to ensure smooth business operations.
  • Handle L2/L3 incidents, perform technical analysis, troubleshoot failures, and restore services within agreed SLA timelines.
  • Perform root cause analysis, impact assessment, defect analysis, and permanent fix coordination for production issues.
  • Analyze application logs, API failures, database errors, timeout issues, job failures, integration breakdowns, and performance bottlenecks.
  • Coordinate with development, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, database, network, security, and business teams for issue resolution and service restoration.
  • Support release activities including deployment validation, smoke testing, production verification, rollback coordination, and post-deployment hypercare.
  • Manage incidents, service requests, problem tickets, change requests, and production defects using ITSM tools such as ServiceNow or Jira.
  • Prepare incident updates, RCA reports, status reports, known error documentation, SOPs, runbooks, and knowledge articles.
  • Track recurring issues, identify automation opportunities, recommend process improvements, and support continuous service improvement initiatives.
  • Ensure compliance with ITIL processes, change governance, audit requirements, access controls, production readiness, and operational standards.
  • Participate in daily operations calls, bridge calls, release meetings, change review discussions, and stakeholder status updates.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • 4+ years of production support, application support, or technical support experience in enterprise environments.
  • Experience supporting telecom, billing, CRM, order management, digital platforms, or large-scale business applications is preferred.
  • ITIL Foundation certification, AWS cloud certification, or relevant application support certification is an added advantage.
  • Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder coordination, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Technical Skills

  • Application Support: Telecom Assisted sales Production Support, L2/L3 Support, Application Monitoring, Production Issue Resolution, SLA Monitoring, Defect Triage, RCA.
  • Backend & Integration: Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs,  JSON, XML, API Integration, Service-to-Service Communication.
  • Database: Oracle, PostgreSQL, Database Validation, Query Analysis, Data Verification.
  • Monitoring & Logging: ELK Stack, Kibana, Grafana, New Relic, OpenSearch,  CloudWatch, Log Analysis.
  • DevOps & Deployment: Jenkins, Git, Maven, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes,  Deployment Validation, Release Support, Rollback Coordination.
  • Messaging & Middleware: MSK, RabbitMQ, Redis, Batch Job Monitoring, File Processing.
  • ITSM & Tools: ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Remedy, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Runbook Management, ITIL.
  • Operating Systems & Scripting: Unix, Linux, Shell Scripting, Server Troubleshooting, Command-Line Operations

Education

Bachelor's degree

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