Sr Specialist-Tier 2 Application Support Engineer (Kafka Admin, Devops)

Cricket Wireless LLC.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

AT&T is seeking an experienced Tier 2 production support engineer in India to handle escalations, perform root cause analysis, and drive improvements across on-prem and Azure environments. You will work with Kafka, AKS, and monitoring tools to ensure reliability and compliance for enterprise deployments.

The role covers production support for Azure and on-prem workloads, integration projects, and collaboration with architects and developers on technical options.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in application production support, integration support, or platform support.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed enterprise applications.
• Experience with the mandated streaming stack and operational support in Confluent Kafka, Azure Event Hub, AWS-MSK, and Apache Flink.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, especially AKS, in incident response and platform support.
• Experience with Splunk and Prometheus/Grafana for diagnostics and observability.

Responsibilities

• Provide Tier 2 support for escalations from Tier 1 across incidents, alerts, environment issues, and C2W events.
• Lead root cause analysis, trend investigations, and improvement ticket creation.
• Support iTrack work requests, consulting tickets, and platform-aligned project deliverables.
• Execute compliance-related tasks including CCRC, Cybersecurity Scorecard, and SOX activities.
• Manage SSL certificate lifecycle and remediation for environments.

Skills

Tier 2 support

Troubleshooting

Confluent Kafka

Azure Event Hub

IBM Sterling Integrator

Kubernetes AKS

Splunk

Prometheus Grafana

Python

Java

React

Spring Boot

SQL PostgreSQL

CI/CD

Incident Mgmt

Tools

Confluent Kafka

Azure Event Hub

AWS-MSK

AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Provide Tier 2 support for escalations from Tier 1 across incidents, alerts, environment issues, and C2W events.
• Resolve complex issues and lead root cause analysis, trend investigation, and improvement ticket creation.
• Support iTrack work requests, consulting tickets, and platform-aligned project deliverables.
• Provide additional C2W support when engaged by Tier 1.
• Execute compliance-related support tasks including CCRC, AT&T Cybersecurity Scorecard, and SOX support activities.
• Manage SSL certificate lifecycle support and remediation execution.
• Execute Golden Image and on-prem OS updates for existing VMs.
• Perform application installations and upgrades (outside monitoring/alerting platform scope handled by SRE).
• Support production/non-production setup and operations in Azure and on-prem environments.
• Support new client onboarding and implementation projects for enterprise integration and messaging services.
• Partner with architects and developers to analyze requirements and recommend technical options.
• Gather and publish monthly application and operational metrics.
• Manage ITAP data requirements and ensure operational governance.
• Review and validate Tier 1 SOPs; create and maintain Tier 2/client SOPs.
• Raise Tier 3 tickets for platform/tooling enhancements and monitoring-gap remediation.

Required Qualifications / Must-Have Skills

• 7+ years of experience in application production support, integration support, or platform support.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed enterprise applications.
• Working knowledge of the mandated streaming stack, with operational support experience in Confluent Kafka and Azure Event Hub: Confluent Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Azure Event Hub, AWS-MSK, and Apache Flink.
• Practical knowledge of IBM Sterling Integrator.
• Hands-on operational experience with Kubernetes, especially Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), in incident response and platform support.
• Working experience with Splunk and Prometheus/Grafana for diagnostics and observability.
• Python scripting capability for support automation, operational checks, and repetitive task reduction.
• Familiarity with Java, React, and Spring Boot based applications for troubleshooting and production issue triage (not an application development role).
• Solid SQL/Postgres query skills for production support analysis.
• Experience supporting CI/CD release operations.
• Strong stakeholder communication and incident coordination skills.

Good‑to‑Have / Nice‑to‑Have

• Azure/Kubernetes/ITSM certifications.
• Experience Level Mid to Senior (typically 7 to 10 years).

Location / Work Mode

Onsite (Hyderabad / Bangalore)

What We Offer

• High‑ownership role across mission‑critical applications and client‑facing operations.
• Opportunity to influence reliability, compliance readiness, and service quality.
• Growth path into advanced reliability engineering and platform ownership roles.
• Weekly Hours: 40
• Time Type: Regular
• Location: IND:AP:Hyderabad / Argus Bldg 4f & 5f, Sattva, Knowledge City- Adm: Argus Building, Sattva, Knowledge City, IND:KA:Bangalore / Intl Tech Park, Navigator Bldg, Whitefield Road: Intl Tech Park, Navigator Bldg:Intl Tech Park, Navigator Bldg

Equal Employment Opportunity

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