Production Support Engineer

HCLTech; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

HCLTech in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced IT Applications Support Lead to drive 24x7 operational resilience across APAC, EMEA and the USA. You will manage regional L2 and vendor teams, oversee incident management, and ensure service levels through proactive monitoring and automation.

The role requires 7–12 years hands-on experience, ITIL/SRE know-how, and strong collaboration with business, development, and infrastructure stakeholders. Hybrid work and shift coverage are expected.

Qualifications

• 7–12 years of hands-on IT application support experience.
• Experience leading vendor teams delivering 24x7 support.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT-related field.
• ITIL v3 or higher certification preferred.
• Familiar with cloud and DevOps tools incl. GCP, Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of monitoring dashboards and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical BAU support for applications across regions APAC/EMEA/USA.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and problem resolution.
• Mentor junior team members; drive process improvements.
• Define and track KPIs, SLAs, and reliability metrics.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and data providers.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning and business continuity.
• Review production items with development to drive resolutions.
• Implement SRE practices and proactive monitoring.

Skills

ITIL / SRE

DevOps

Cloud: GCP

Kubernetes

Stakeholder mgmt

24x7 support

Education

BSc in CS/IT

Tools

Elastic Stack

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenShift

Splunk

Git

Job description

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to 219,000+ people across 54 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered on digital, engineering and cloud, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of $13+ billion.

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Your key responsibilities

Provide technical support by handling and consulting on BAU, Incidents/emails/alerts for the respective applications.

Perform post‑mortem, root cause analysis using ITIL standards of Incident Management, Service Request fulfilment, Change Management, Knowledge Management, and Problem Management.

Manage regional L2 team and vendor teams supporting the application. Ensure the team is up to speed and picks up the support duties.

Build up technical subject matter expertise on the applications being supported including business flows, application architecture, and hardware configuration.

Define and track KPIs, SLAs and operational metrics to measure and improve application stability and performance.

Conduct real time monitoring to ensure application SLAs are achieved and maximum application availability (up time) using an array of monitoring tools.

Build and maintain effective and productive relationships with the stakeholders in business, development, infrastructure, and third‑party systems / data providers & vendors.

Assist in the process to approve application code releases as well as tasks assigned to support to perform. Keep key stakeholders informed using communication templates.

Approach support with a proactive attitude, desire to seek root cause, in‑depth analysis, and strive to reduce inefficiencies and manual efforts.

Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering technical upskill and knowledge sharing.

Provide strategic input into disaster recovery planning, failover strategies and business continuity procedures

Collaborate and deliver on initiatives and install these initiatives to drive stability in the environment.

Perform reviews of all open production items with the development team and push for updates and resolutions to outstanding tasks and reoccurring issues.

Drive service resilience by implementing SRE(site reliability engineering) principles, ensuring proactive monitoring, automation and operational efficiency.

Ensure regulatory and compliance adherence, managing audits, access reviews, and security controls in line with organizational policies.

The candidate will have to work in shifts as part of a Rota covering APAC and EMEA & USA hours providing 24x7 support. In the event of major outages or issues we may ask for flexibility to help provide appropriate cover.

Your skills and experience

7-12 years of experience in providing hands on IT application support.

Experience in managing vendor team's providing 24x7 support.

Preferred: Team lead role experience, Experience in an investment bank, financial institution.

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer Science or IT-related discipline (or equivalent work experience/diploma/certification).

Preferred: ITIL v3 foundation certification or higher.

Knowledgeable in cloud products like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes and hybrid applications.

Strong understanding of ITIL /SRE/ DEVOPS best practices for supporting a production environment.

Understanding of production KPIs, SLO, SLA and SLI.

Monitoring Tools: Knowledge of Elastic Search, Control M, Grafana, Geneos, OpenShift, Prometheus, Google Cloud Monitoring, Airflow, Splunk.

Working Knowledge of creation of Reporting Dashboards and reports for senior management