Sr Specialist-Tier 2 Application Support Engineer (Kafka Admin, Event Hub & Azure)

AT&T; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Azure/Kubernetes ITSM certifications

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Mid to Senior Level IT operations professional in Hyderabad/Bangalore for Tier 2 production support across distributed applications and platforms. Responsibilities include incident response, root cause analysis, and enabling enterprise integration projects in Azure and on-prem environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration with architects and developers, publishing monthly metrics, and driving governance for ITAP data. On-site work with high ownership is expected.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in application production or platform support with strong troubleshooting.
• Operational experience with streaming stack components and cloud/on-prem environments.
• Experience supporting CI/CD release operations and incident coordination.

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 tasks including CCRC, Cybersecurity Scorecard, and SOX 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 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 options.
• Gather and publish monthly application and operational metrics.
• Manage ITAP data requirements and ensure operational governance.
• Review and validate Tier 1 SOPs; create Tier 2/client SOPs.
• Raise Tier 3 tickets for platform/tooling enhancements and monitoring-gap remediation.

Skills

Production support

Confluent Kafka

Azure Event Hubs

Kubernetes (AKS)

Splunk/Prometheus Grafana

Python scripting

Java/React/Spring Boot

SQL/Postgres

CI/CD release

Stakeholder communication

Tools

IBM Sterling Integrator

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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
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