Production Support Engineer
Indexed description
Job title: Java L1 Support Lead/ Lead Java production support
Client address: 151 Farmington Ave Hartford, CT 06156
Mandatory skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with microservices architecture (Spring Boot, REST APIs, API Gateway).
- Working knowledge of HealthCare, Clinical & Care Management - Preferred
- Familiarity with ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change Management, Production Checkout Support, BreakFix / Hot Fix)
Key Responsibilities
- Lead L2/L3 production support for microservices applications, ensuring adherence to SLAs/OLAs.
- Act as primary technical escalation point for critical incidents; drive triage, diagnosis, and resolution.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for major incidents and drive permanent fixes/preventive actions.
- Monitor application health, logs, and performance metrics using Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, Prometheus.
- Manage deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting of microservices on Kubernetes/ OpenShift/ container platforms.
- Coordinate with development, DevOps, infrastructure, and database teams for issue resolution and change management.
- Review and approve incident, problem, and change tickets (ITIL process) in tools like ServiceNow/JIRA.
- Guide and mentor a team of support engineers; assign tasks, review work, and ensure quality of resolutions.
- Drive automation initiatives using Python/PowerShell scripting and AI tools (Copilot/Claude/GPT) to reduce manual effort — self-healing scripts, alert automation, runbook automation, code review assistance.
- Ensure documentation of knowledge base articles, runbooks, and support playbooks is current.
- Participate in on-call rotation and manage major incident bridge calls when required.
- Provide regular status reports, dashboards, and metrics to stakeholders (MTTR, ticket volume, aging, trends).
- Support release management activities including deployment validation, smoke testing, and rollback planning.
Required Technical Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with microservices architecture (Spring Boot, REST APIs, API Gateway).
- Working knowledge of HealthCare, Clinical & Care Management - Preferred
- Familiarity with ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change Management, Production Checkout Support, BreakFix / Hot Fix).
- Experience with containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift.
- Cloud exposure: Azure (Preferred) / GCP. · CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Git EMU / Git Actions, Azure DevOps.
- Database: MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
- Programming Language: Java, Spring Boot Microservices, REST APIs.
- AI Tools / LLMs: GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, GPT, Gemini, OpenAI — for code assistance, automation, and productivity gains in support workflows.
- Monitoring/Observability Tools: Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, Prometheus.
- Middleware/Messaging: Kafka.
- Scripting: Python, PowerShell, or similar for automation.
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills under time pressure.
- Excellent verbal and written communication for stakeholder and client interaction.
- Leadership and mentoring capability.
- Ability to work in rotational shifts/on-call support model.
Must Have Skills-
Spring Boot
Rest API
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