Java + Python (Full stack)

Luxoft; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a skilled Production Support/Incident Management engineer to own triage, incident ownership, and restoration across the application stack. You will rapidly intake and prioritize alerts, drive high-severity incident response, and coordinate across teams to restore services quickly.

You will analyze incidents using logs and traces, perform root-cause analysis, and contribute to postmortems and runbooks. A solid foundation in Java, Python, AWS, and observability is required.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Java and experienced building enterprise systems.
• Strong Python knowledge with frameworks.
• Experience with cloud ETL and AWS services.
• Understanding of SOAP/REST/Web APIs and messaging patterns.

Responsibilities

• Triage & Incident Ownership during alerts and incidents.
• Perform rapid intake, triage, and prioritization of tickets and incidents.
• Act as Incident Owner during high-severity events with clear communication and restoration.
• Perform root-cause isolation across application, middleware, APIs, data, and infra layers.
• Use observability tools to correlate logs, metrics, and traces for troubleshooting.
• Engage with cross-team partners to drive efficient problem resolution.

Skills

Java

Python

Cloud ETL

AWS

Web services

Messaging

Observability

Tools

Git

FastAPI

Job description

Project description

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Customer ID & Profile Core Support and will be responsible for eyes-on-glass monitoring, incident triage and ownership, troubleshooting and restoration, app enhancements, cross-team collaboration, platform and application stack awareness, and service quality and process excellence

Responsibilities

• Triage & Incident Ownership
• Perform rapid intake, triage, and prioritization of alerts, tickets, and incidents.
• Act as Incident Owner during high-severity events, ensuring clear communication, timely updates, and swift restoration of service.
• Maintain accurate, real-time incident timelines and post-incident documentation.Troubleshooting & Restoration
• Execute root-cause isolation across application, middleware, APIs, data, and infrastructure layers.
• Use observability and monitoring platforms to correlate logs, metrics, and traces; identify anomalies, performance bottlenecks, and failure patterns.
• Perform targeted mitigations, rollbacks, configuration fixes, and coordinate hotfixes to restore service quickly.Application development/enhancement
• Developing features, enhancements, and bug fixesCross-Team Collaboration
• Engage with Application Development, DevOps, Database, Network, Security, QA, and vendor partners to drive efficient problem resolution.
• Provide clear technical context, hypothesis-driven analysis, and evidence from monitoring platforms to accelerate fixes.
• Facilitate postmortems and continuous improvement actions.Platform & Application Stack Awareness
• Identify and recognize the application stack, including UI/front end, backend services, APIs, queues, databases, caches, containers, orchestration, and networking, for each impacted service to quickly isolate the source of issues.
• Maintain runbooks, service maps, and dependency diagrams to speed up diagnosis.Service Quality & Process Excellence
• Contribute to automation and self-healing routines, including alert tuning, auto-remediation, and runbooks.
• Identify monitoring gaps and opportunities to improve observability.

SKILLS

Must have

• Java: Expertise in Java 25 and demonstrated experience developing enterprise systems using Java.
• Python: Strong knowledge of Python and experience with Python frameworks.
• Cloud ETL: Experience with any cloud ETL platform and data integration processes that extract data from multiple sources, transform it into a structured format, and load it into a target system. AWS Glue and Apache Spark are examples.
• AWS: Solid understanding of AWS cloud services and integration, including services such as Lambda and DynamoDB.
• Web services: Solid understanding of SOAP, REST, and Web API-based service protocols.
• Messaging: Experience with integration using any message broker and an understanding of event-based systems, including publish/subscribe, event streaming, loosely coupled architectures, and asynchronous integrations.
• Observability: Awareness of and hands-on experience using any observability platform for monitoring, logging, metrics, traces, anomaly detection, and troubleshooting.Version control: Knowledge of Git.
• Candidate should be trainable, flexible to learn and have a zeal / curiosity of "what/why/how"

Nice to have

• Experience with FastAPI
• Experience with Amazon Neptune
• Experience with .NET
• Exceptional triage and situational analysis skills for production support
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Airline domain knowledge is a plus