Application Support Senior Software Engineer

Ness Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ness Group is seeking an Application Support Senior Software Engineer to provide L2/L3 support across multiple applications. You will drive automation, participate in knowledge transfer, and contribute to modernization, containerization, and cloud optimization while maintaining a lean, high-performing team.

You will own incident resolution, troubleshooting, deployments, and change management, with a focus on fast diagnosis and clear documentation for engineers and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• AWS experience incl. compute, containers, serverless, databases, CloudWatch.
• Strong SQL skills (SQL Server, MySQL); MongoDB a plus.
• Experience with REST APIs, integrations and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Familiar with CI/CD, Git, Docker/Kubernetes and scripting (Python, PowerShell or Bash).
• ITIL-aligned support using ServiceNow or similar.

Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 support for multiple applications within SLA.
• Participate in knowledge transfer; create and update runbooks and docs.
• Resolve incidents, defects and tasks; perform regression testing and releases.
• Monitor application health, deployments, and on-call incident resolution.
• Contribute to modernization, containerization, cloud optimization and migrations.
• Build automations to reduce manual support tasks.
• Anchor a sub-team; mentor new engineers and share knowledge.
• Communicate clearly with business and technical stakeholders.

Skills

AWS

SQL

REST APIs

CI/CD

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Scripting

ITIL

ServiceNow

Tools

ServiceNow

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Application Support Senior Software Engineer

Provide hands-on L2/L3 support for multiple applications, absorb knowledge quickly during transition, and contribute to automation, modernization and consolidation work that keeps the portfolio stable with a lean team.

Key responsibilities

Transition

Participate actively in knowledge transfer, shadow and reverse-shadow; take ownership of assigned applications.

Create and update runbooks, SOPs, architecture diagrams and knowledge articles.

Incident, defect & task management

Resolve L2/L3 incidents within SLA across several applications.

Analyze, fix and test defects, including regression testing and release coordination.

Deliver tasks raised by the client ( configuration changes, data fixes, small enhancements, reports, access requests), with estimates and status updates.

Keep tickets accurately updated in ServiceNow/Jira, with clear resolution notes and knowledge articles.

Application support

Act as primary owner for a group of applications.

Perform root cause analysis, bug fixes, minor enhancements, patches and configuration changes.

Execute deployments, releases and change requests following change management.

Monitor application health, performance, batch jobs and integrations; act proactively on alerts.

Participate in on-call and major incident resolution for Critical/High applications.

Modernization, merging & innovation

Contribute to upgrades, re-platforming, containerization and cloud optimization.

Support data and functional migration when applications are merged or decommissioned.

Build scripts and automations that eliminate manual and repetitive support tasks.

Propose improvements and use GenAI/AI tools to speed up diagnosis and documentation.

Team building

Act as anchor for a sub-team (pod): help interview, onboard and mentor new engineers joining your application group.

Pass on knowledge so new engineers become productive quickly.

Required qualifications & skills

AWS experience (compute, containers, serverless, databases, CloudWatch); GCP/Azure a plus .

Strong SQL skills (SQL Server, MySQL); MongoDB is a plus.

Experience with REST APIs, integrations and troubleshooting distributed systems.

Familiarity with CI/CD, Git, Docker/ Kubernetes and scripting (Python, PowerShell or Bash).

ITIL-aligned support experience using ServiceNow or similar.

Nice to have

AWS Developer/ SysOps or Kubernetes certifications.

Experience supporting SaaS/COTS products and web platforms (WordPress, Shopify).

Media, music or entertainment domain knowledge.

Core competencies

Ownership mindset and calm under pressure in high-impact incidents.

Fast learner able to support many applications with varied technologies.

Clear written and verbal communication in English with business and technical stakeholders.

Continuous-improvement and automation-first thinking.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.