Purpose of the role:

- Provide L2 support for critical backend applications and Linux-based systems, ensuring stability and availability.
- Monitor applications, backend services and jobs proactively to identify and resolve issues before they impact users.
- Troubleshoot application, connectivity, performance and service-related issues across the backend technology stack.
- Automate repetitive operational and backend job activities using Linux scripting and Python to reduce manual effort.
- Drive operational excellence through monitoring, automation, documentation and continuous improvement of application support processes.

Qualifications: Grad/BE/B-Tech

Experience: 3 to 5 years

- Relevant experience in Linux / Application Support / Backend Support / Production Support. Candidates with strong hands-on skills and the right monitoring + automation mindset will be preferred over candidates with only higher years of experience.
- Hands-on experience in Linux and Linux shell scripting/batch jobs.
- Experience in supporting backend applications in production environments.
- Working experience with Nginx / HAProxy.




- Basic to good knowledge of Python scripting.
- Valuable understanding of application logs, processes, services and basic network connectivity
- Ability to troubleshoot application and backend component issues.
- Basic understanding of messaging queue (Kafka, RabbitMQ and ZMQ)
- Monitoring and automation mindset:
- Strong monitoring and operational mindset – proactively identify application and system issues.
- Ability to analyse logs, metrics and application behaviour to identify problems and root causes.
- Understand what needs to be monitored for backend applications and services.
- Focus on root-cause analysis rather than simply restarting services.
- Identify repetitive manual activities and develop Linux/Python-based automation to improve operational efficiency.
- Willingness to automate backend jobs, health checks, log checks, service validation, monitoring and operational activities.
- Continuously look for opportunities to improve monitoring, automation and application reliability.

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