Production Support Engineer III- Azure

Truist Bank•Charlotte, NC

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About The Position

The Production Support Engineer III is responsible for ensuring the operational integrity, availability, and performance of mission-critical systems. This role involves managing technical incidents, troubleshooting recurring issues, and implementing permanent solutions to maintain system stability. The Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve incidents efficiently and improve system resiliency through proactive monitoring and automation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Six to ten years of experience in production support or related technical roles.
Experience in managing incident management, triage, and production support functions for both on-premise and cloud environments.
Proficiency with IT Service Management (ITSM) tools such as ServiceNow, and familiarity with incident, problem, and change management processes.
Strong experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, or CloudWatch for proactive issue detection and troubleshooting.
Understanding of infrastructure, application technology stacks, and the software development lifecycle.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on root cause analysis.
Ability to work independently, handle medium-to-complex issues, and escalate critical problems to senior staff as needed.

Nice To Haves

Experience in DevSecOps and support of CI/CD pipelines .
Experience in supporting Agile team/processes.
Financial services industry experience
Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices

Responsibilities

Handle the identification, triage, and resolution of medium-to-high priority incidents with minimal supervision to ensure business operations are minimally impacted.
Collaborate with development teams, business partners, and other stakeholders to diagnose and resolve technical issues, implementing long-term fixes to prevent incident recurrence.
Use monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch) to detect performance issues and execute corrective actions promptly.
Enhance system observability to proactively detect issues and improve overall system performance and stability.
Develop and maintain automation scripts to streamline routine production support tasks, reducing manual interventions.
Implement automation strategies to improve production stability and minimize downtown.
Maintain clear and detailed documentation of troubleshooting procedures, contributing to the shared knowledge base.
Provide assistance in improving the incident, problem, and change management processes, following ITIL best practices.
Participate in root cause analysis and suggest process improvements to enhance system stability and performance.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams in resolving recurring production support issues and optimizing workflows.
Actively mentor junior support engineers, fostering technical growth within the team.
Escalate complex or unresolved issues to senior engineers or technical experts when necessary.
Build and maintain the automation and streamlining of software delivery and operations for new or existing software applications through proficiency in capabilities and tools in the DevOps lifecycle including: Infrastructure as Code; Agile and DevOps Lifecycle Management; Source Code Management; Build Orchestration; Build Management; Artifact Repository Management; Behavior Driven Development; Test Driven Development; Automated Testing including Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, Stress Testing, and Performance Testing; Static Code Analysis; Load and Performance Testing; Artifact Scanning; Database Schema Management, Orchestration and Recovery; Compliance Automation and Audit Trails; Configuration Management; Containers; Application Release Automation; Deployment Strategies and Patterns including Blue/Green Deployment, Canary Releases, and Rolling Releases; Logging and Log Analytics; and Performance Monitoring and Management.