Walk-in | Cloud Support Engineer(L2/L3)

Utho Cloud; Sector 10; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Utho Cloud in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, is hiring experienced Cloud Support Engineers to own escalated customer issues. Level 2 handles diagnosis and resolution across the stack; Level 3 serves as the final technical authority for Support, leading major incidents and RCA with Engineering.

The role requires 3–5 years (L2) or 5–8 years (L3) of relevant experience, and involves 247 rotational shifts in a full-time capacity from our Noida office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics or an equivalent technical discipline.
• L2: 2–5 years supporting cloud or virtualization infrastructure in production. L3: 5–8 years, including major incident leadership and demonstrable RCA ownership.
• Availability — willingness to work 247 rotational shifts including weekends, public holidays and on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Own escalated tickets end-to-end and ensure timely resolution within defined SLAs.
• Keep customers informed throughout troubleshooting and resolution process.
• Act as the final technical escalation point for the Support team and lead major incidents.
• Own Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and coordinate with Engineering for permanent fixes.
• Diagnose compute, storage, network, and Kubernetes issues across levels 2 and 3.
• Review and approve corrective actions on production hypervisors and systems.

Skills

Linux administration

Cloud & virtualization

Networking

Kubernetes

Automation & scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics or equivalent

Tools

KVM

QEMU

libvirt

Job description

Cloud Support Engineer Level 2 / Level 3

Designation :Cloud Support Engineer (L2 / L3)

Experience- L2: 3-5 years | L3: 5-8 years

Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh (work from office)

Interview : F2F only No virtual Round

Engagement :Full-time, 247 rotational shifts

POSITION OVERVIEW

Utho operates an Indian public cloud platform delivering compute, block and object storage, networking and Managed Kubernetes Service (MKS). We are hiring experienced Cloud Support Engineers to own the technical resolution of escalated customer issues. Level 2 is accountable for diagnosis and resolution across the stack; Level 3 is the final technical authority for Support, leading major incidents and root cause analysis with Engineering.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Ownership

Level 2 Diagnosis & Resolution

• Own escalated tickets end-to-end and ensure timely resolution within defined SLAs.
• Keep customers informed throughout the troubleshooting and resolution process.

Level 3 Technical Authority

• Act as the final technical escalation point for the Support team.
• Lead major incidents and drive resolution of critical technical issues.
• Own Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and work with Engineering teams to implement permanent fixes.

2. Compute

Level 2 Diagnosis & Resolution

• Diagnose VM boot failures, guest kernel panics, Virtio device faults, CPU steal, and I/O contention at the hypervisor level.

Level 3 Technical Authority

• Resolve host and fleet-wide compute issues involving NUMA, CPU pinning, memory pressure, and live migration failures.
• Review and approve corrective actions on production hypervisors.

3. Storage

Level 2 Diagnosis & Resolution

• Resolve stuck attach and detach states, block-device path failures, filesystem issues, and mount recovery.
• Perform and validate storage restore and recovery activities.

Level 3 – Technical Authority

• Diagnose replication lag, split-brain scenarios, and data-consistency issues.
• Own capacity forecasting and define recovery and remediation runbooks.

4. Network

Level 2 – Diagnosis & Resolution

• Troubleshoot load balancer, NAT, conntrack, MTU, and fragmentation issues.
• Perform packet captures, TLS handshake analysis, and latency troubleshooting.

Level 3 – Technical Authority

• Handle complex overlay-network, asymmetric-routing, and cross-datacenter issues.
• Work with the Network team to drive permanent fixes and validate solutions at scale.

5. Kubernetes

Level 2 – Diagnosis & Resolution

• Resolve Kubernetes node NotReady issues, CNI and CSI attach loops, kubelet and containerd faults.
• Troubleshoot pod eviction, cgroup-related issues, and node-pool scaling problems.

Level 3 – Technical Authority

• Own control-plane and etcd health, certificate rotation, cluster upgrades, and capacity management.
• Advise customers on production Kubernetes architecture and best practices.

6. Continuous Improvement

Level 2 – Diagnosis & Resolution

• Create and maintain technical runbooks and Knowledge Base articles.
• Develop scripts for repeatable diagnostics and recurring technical issues.

Level 3 – Technical Authority

• Build automation and internal tooling to eliminate recurring issues.
• Mentor L1 and L2 engineers and review their RCAs to improve technical quality and resolution effectiveness.

SKILLS REQUIRED

• Linux — advanced administration on Ubuntu, Debian and RHEL/CentOS: systemd, journalctl, boot and rescue recovery, fstab and mount repair, LVM, ext4 and XFS; kernel and sysctl tuning, OOM and kernel-panic analysis, profiling with iostat, vmstat, sar, perf and strace.
• Cloud and virtualization — hands-on with a public cloud or virtualization platform: VM lifecycle, snapshots and images, block and object storage, VPC and IP management, firewall rules, load balancers and DNS. KVM, QEMU and libvirt required at L3.
• Networking — TCP/IP and subnetting, DNS, static and dynamic routing, NAT and conntrack, VLAN and overlay networking, iptables or nftables chain analysis, load balancing, TLS handshake debugging, tcpdump and MTU or latency analysis.
• Kubernetes — kubectl debugging, pod and node lifecycle, ingress and LoadBalancer services, PV, PVC and CSI binding, kubelet and containerd log analysis; control-plane and etcd troubleshooting, certificate rotation and cluster upgrades (L3).
• Automation and process — Bash scripting (Python required at L3), REST APIs with curl and jq, Git, Ansible or Terraform, monitoring and alert tuning with Prometheus and Grafana or an equivalent stack, ITIL incident and change management, formal RCA authoring

QUALIFICATIONS

• Education — Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics or an equivalent technical discipline.
• Experience — L2: 2–5 years supporting cloud or virtualization infrastructure in production. L3: 5–8 years, including major incident leadership and demonstrable RCA ownership.
• Availability — willingness to work 247 rotational shifts including weekends, public holidays and on-call rotations.