
Principal Product Support Specialist
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
REPORTING TO: IT Operations Manager
WORKING LOCATION: Bangalore, IndiaJOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide advanced application support, troubleshooting, and resolution for business-critical systems.
- Collaborate with solutioning, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to ensure system stability, scalability, and reliability.
- Able to perform periodic activities and ensure compliance with operational processes.
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand business needs, prioritize issues, and drive resolution.
- Perform deep analysis of ticket/alert trends and prepare insightful reports to improve operational efficiency.
- Demonstrate systems thinking and take extreme ownership of assigned tasks and issues.
- Drive incident/problem management processes and coordinate with cross-functional teams for resolution.
- Contribute to automation and infrastructure-as-code initiatives using Terraform or Ansible.
- Support both Windows and Linux environments, including patching, upgrades, and performance troubleshooting.
- Demonstrate understanding of AWS infrastructure, including EC2, RDS, and other services.
- Understand and manage AWS infrastructure components such as IAM, EC2, VPCs, Subnets, Route Tables, ALBs, NLBs, DNS amongst other cloud objects.
- Work closely with development teams to ensure smooth application deployment.
- Provide training and mentoring to junior engineers.
- Able to drive and create process documents (SOPs).
- Be flexible to work in shifts and provide on-call support for P1 or P2 incidents during off-hours, weekends, and holidays, as required.
Experience:
- 9-10 years of experience in Application Support and Service Desk operations.
- 5+ years of experience in managing Major Incidents.
- 2+ years of experience in problem management.
- Exposure to working with solutioning teams, particularly in collaboration with DevOps teams.
- Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform and Ansible. (2+ Years)
- Scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, Shell Scripting.
- Experience in using infra monitoring tools.
- Good Windows Administration and Linux Administration skills. (4+ Years)
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel with ability to prepare detailed reports, pivot tables, and data analysis related to tickets/alerts.
- ITSM: Service Now & BMC Remedy Helix
- MS Office: MS Excel, MS Word
- Cloud Infrastructure & Administration: AWS, Azure, and other cloud platforms.
- Scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Shell scripting
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansilble
- Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, Rocky), Windows Servers.
- Strong logical thinking and system design abilities.
- Excellent communication skills to effectively convey ideas.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to plan and execute long-term roadmaps.
- Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively within teams.
- Self-motivated, with the ability to work efficiently under pressure.
- Passion for process improvement and documentation.
- Quick learner, adaptable to new technologies and systems..
- Proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- Able to handle urgent production issues and troubleshooting effectively.
- Take ownership of tasks and responsibilities with a proactive mindset.
- Accountable for deadlines and time management.
- Eager to take on challenges and grow within the organization.
- Willing to invest time on continuous learning and certifications.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to articulate and present different points-of-views on various topics related to project and otherwise.
- Eager to learn and continuously develop personal and technical capabilities.
- MCA or Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.