Associate Support Engineer

Wolters Kluwer International; Chennai; On-site; INR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shift allowance

Job summary

Wolters Kluwer International invites applications for an Associate IT Support Engineer to join a 24x7 monitoring and production-support team in Chennai. You will monitor applications, infrastructure, cloud resources, and containerized services, investigate alerts, and support incident response to ensure availability and performance.

The ideal candidate has up to 2 years of relevant experience, strong troubleshooting and communication skills, and familiarity with AI-assisted troubleshooting

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent degree is required.
• Up to 2 years of relevant IT support/monitoring experience.
• Willingness to work 24x7 rotational shifts, nights and weekends as scheduled.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted troubleshooting is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Monitor applications, infrastructure, cloud resources, and containers using observability tools.
• Review alerts, logs, metrics, and traces with OpenSearch, Grafana and APMonitors.
• Identify errors, outages, performance issues and unusual behavior.
• Perform initial investigation using monitoring data and SOPs.
• Monitor Kubernetes clusters, nodes, pods, deployments, and services.
• Create and update incident tickets with technical details in ServiceNow.
• Escalate unresolved incidents and coordinate follow-ups.
• Maintain shift handovers documenting active incidents and actions.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Troubleshooting

Communication

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Grafana

OpenSearch

Dynatrace

New Relic

Datadog

Azure Application Insights

SolarWinds

Job description

Job Title: Associate IT Support Engineer Experience required: Up to 2 years of relevant experience Work schedule: 24×7 rotational shifts with monthly shift rotation

Role Overview

We are looking for an Associate IT Support Engineer to join our 24×7 monitoring and production-support team. The role involves monitoring applications, infrastructure, cloud resources, and containerized services; investigating alerts using metrics, logs, and traces; and supporting incident response to maintain service availability and performance. The ideal candidate will demonstrate practical troubleshooting skills, apply knowledge gained through product and application knowledge-transfer (KT) sessions, and communicate technical findings clearly. The role also requires familiarity with AI-assisted troubleshooting and a willingness to use approved AI tools to improve investigation, documentation, and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Continuously monitor applications, infrastructure, cloud resources, and services using available observability tools and existing dashboards.
• Review alerts, events, logs, metrics, and traces using OpenSearch, Grafana, and applicable APM and infrastructure-monitoring platforms.
• Identify application errors, service unavailability, performance degradation, infrastructure failures, and unusual system behaviour.
• Perform initial investigation and troubleshooting using monitoring data, logs, dashboards, and standard operating procedures.
• Monitor Kubernetes clusters, nodes, pods, containers, deployments, and services.
• Use basic SQL queries to retrieve and validate data during application or database-related incident investigations.
• Acknowledge, prioritize, and respond to alerts according to severity, business impact, and established response procedures.
• Create and update ServiceNow incident tickets with accurate technical details, observations, troubleshooting actions, and supporting evidence.
• Escalate unresolved or critical incidents to the appropriate support teams and coordinate follow-up activities.
• Maintain clear shift handovers covering active incidents, outstanding alerts, actions taken, and pending follow-ups.
• Apply AI tools to explore problems and develop simple scripts, utilities, documentation, or proofs of concept that improve monitoring and support activities, in accordance with company policies.

Required Skills and Experience

Monitoring and visualization

• Hands-on experience with Grafana and monitoring dashboards

Log monitoring and analysis

• Hands-on experience with OpenSearch for searching and analysing logs

Application performance monitoring

• Knowledge with one or more of Dynatrace, New Relic, Datadog, or Azure Application Insights

Infrastructure and network monitoring

• Knowledge with SolarWinds or similar infrastructure-monitoring tools

Cloud platforms

• Basic knowledge of AWS and Microsoft Azure services and their monitoring capabilities

Container platforms

• Basic knowledge of Kubernetes and experience monitoring containerized applications, including pods, nodes, deployments, and services

Database knowledge

• Basic SQL skills for retrieving and validating data

Operating systems

• Basic Linux knowledge and familiarity with commonly used troubleshooting commands

Technical fundamentals

• Understanding of networking, HTTP/HTTPS, APIs, databases, and distributed applications

Service-management tools

• ServiceNow for incident management

Soft skills

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills

AI Knowledge

• Demonstrate a basic understanding of AI and generative AI, including their capabilities, limitations, and practical applications.

Shift Schedule and Allowance

This role is part of a 24×7 operations team and requires working rotational shifts, including night shifts, weekends, and public holidays as scheduled. Shift assignments rotate monthly according to the team roster. Team members receive two days off after every five consecutive working days. Both shifts and weekly days off are rotational. Weekly days off may fall on weekdays or weekends. Shift allowance will be provided as per company norms.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree (B.E/ B Tech. Computer Science) from a four-year college or university, or equivalent, Masters a plus.

Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process. Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Join us, at Wolters Kluwer

If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us. Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day. We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. You’ll make a real difference in the lives of millions of people. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world. You can thrive at Wolters Kluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong. Wolters Kluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs more than 21,000 people worldwide. Our customers work in industries that impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the AI-powered solutions they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and increase productivity. We deliver trusted, AI-powered expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge, proprietary content, and advanced technology to provide expert-validated insights, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes. Today, nearly 70% of our digital revenues come from AI-powered solutions, reflecting our strategic focus on embedding AI into professional workflows and delivering measurable productivity gains. We are committed to helping professionals navigate complexity, improve the way they work, and solve critical challenges through cloud-based, AI-powered platforms that integrate seamlessly into their workflows and ecosystems. Our solutions are designed to deliver impact when it matters most, especially in high-stakes environments where accuracy and trust are essential. With a nearly 190-year legacy, Wolters Kluwer continues to evolve its portfolio of digital solutions and services to meet the changing needs of professionals worldwide, enabling them to work faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver better outcomes. For more information about our solutions and organization, visit www.wolterskluwer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.

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