Overview
L2 Application Support Engineer for global digital commerce and direct-to-consumer applications, based in the Bangalore Global Capability Center. Provides technical diagnosis, service restoration, recurring-problem elimination and escalation to L3 Product and Engineering teams, bridging L1 Monitoring/Operations and L3 Engineering.
What you'll do
- Own L2 investigation and resolution of application incidents escalated by the L1 Monitoring and Operations team.
- Support global eCommerce, retail, order management, customer service, repair/service, B2B and related applications.
- Analyze application, integration, API, database, infrastructure and security logs to determine incident causes.
- Restore service using approved operational procedures, configuration changes, data corrections, job restarts, interface reprocessing or other authorized recovery actions.
- Coordinate technical troubleshooting across application, integration, platform, database, SAP, security, vendor and other L3 Engineering teams.
- Maintain clear incident records documenting symptoms, business impact, diagnosis, actions taken, resolution and required follow-up.
- Participate in major-incident response and provide timely, fact-based technical updates to incident leadership.
- Escalate code defects, architectural issues, security events and changes requiring engineering capacity to the appropriate L3 team with complete diagnostic evidence.
- Own day-to-day operational health of assigned applications.
- Support application services, APIs, scheduled jobs, event flows, integrations and data exchanges.
- Create, configure, schedule and maintain authorized application batch jobs and operational workflows.
- Diagnose REST API, GraphQL, middleware, EDI, SAP integration and third-party interface failures.
- Perform controlled message reprocessing, transaction recovery, job reruns and data reconciliation according to approved procedures.
- Write and optimize SQL queries used for troubleshooting, operational reporting, reconciliation and approved data corrections.
- Validate service health following incidents, deployments, configuration changes and infrastructure maintenance.
- Work with L1 Monitoring and Operations to improve alerts, dashboards, runbooks, event correlation and escalation criteria.
- Investigate recurring incidents and identify underlying technical, process, monitoring or knowledge gaps.
- Lead or contribute to root-cause analysis with L1, L3 Engineering, Quality Engineering, Platform, SAP, Security and vendor teams, producing RCA reports with causal chain, contributing factors, corrective actions, owners and target dates.
- Maintain known-error records, troubleshooting guides, recovery procedures and operational knowledge articles.
- Identify and automate repetitive support activities using scripts, workflows, APIs and approved automation platforms.
- Recommend permanent fixes and reliability improvements for prioritization by product and engineering teams, and track corrective actions through completion.
- Implement approved configuration changes, scripts, job changes, operational fixes and minor technical improvements within defined L2 authority, following change-management, segregation-of-duties, security, testing and deployment controls.
- Participate in release-readiness reviews and provide production validation and early-life support following deployments.
- Partner with L3 Engineering and Quality Engineering to reproduce defects and supply the evidence needed for remediation.
- Operate as the primary technical bridge between L1 Monitoring/Operations and L3 Product and Engineering teams.
- Coordinate troubleshooting with external technology providers and implementation partners while retaining internal ownership of incident progress and service outcomes.
- Communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical stakeholders during incidents and operational reviews.
What you'll need
- 4 or more years of professional experience in L2 application support, application operations, production engineering or site reliability support for business-critical applications.
- Demonstrated experience supporting eCommerce, retail, order management, customer service, B2B or other high-availability transactional platforms.
- Strong diagnostic skills across distributed applications, APIs, databases, integrations and cloud-hosted services.
- Experience analyzing application, API, web server, integration, container and database logs.
- Working knowledge of RESTful APIs, JSON, GraphQL, HTTP, authentication, certificates and common integration patterns.
- Strong SQL skills with at least one relational database such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server.
- Ability to read application logs, understand application architecture and troubleshoot Java/Spring-based applications.
- Ability to read and troubleshoot JavaScript or TypeScript applications.
- Experience with scheduled jobs, batch processing, interface monitoring, message reprocessing and data reconciliation.
- Ability to create operational scripts or automation using languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript or Java.
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, release controls and code-review practices.
- Understanding of secure production-support practices, least-privilege access, segregation of duties, auditability and OWASP principles.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparing technical incident updates and root-cause analysis reports.
- Demonstrated ability to work across global teams, third-party providers and multiple technical disciplines.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with React, Next.js or Angular is beneficial.
- Experience supporting headless commerce, composable commerce, order-management or omnichannel retail platforms.
- Experience with Shopify or comparable enterprise commerce platforms.
- Experience working in a global 24×7 support model or a follow-the-sun operating environment.
Details
- Based in the Global Capability Center in Bangalore, India.
- Participation in on-call or shift coverage necessary to support global operations and agreed service levels.
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