About the role
- Monitor infrastructure and application health using observability and monitoring dashboards.
- Continuously track system performance, availability, and overall application health.
- Identify potential issues and anomalies through monitoring tools and dashboards.
- Monitor alerts generated by infrastructure and application monitoring tools.
- Validate alerts and take appropriate actions based on defined SOPs and operational procedures.
- Ensure timely reporting and notification of incidents to relevant stakeholders.
- Maintain accurate records of alerts, incidents, and monitoring activities.
- Acknowledge and triage incidents within the defined SLA.
- Perform initial analysis and take necessary corrective actions as per established SOPs.
- Create and document incidents for failures or issues identified during monitoring.
- Escalate incidents to the appropriate teams based on defined escalation matrices.
- Support incident resolution and ensure proper closure with relevant documentation.
- Be available to work in 24/7 rotational shifts, including weekends and holidays as required.
- Provide on-call support for monitoring and incident management activities.
- Ensure effective handover between shifts to maintain operational continuity.
- Review, maintain, and update on-call runbooks and incident playbooks.
- Maintain and update escalation matrices and support contacts.
- Ensure required access, credentials, and operational information are properly documented and maintained in accordance with security guidelines.
- Provide comprehensive shift handovers, including ongoing incidents, alerts, known issues, and pending actions.
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools such as:Prometheus
Grafana
ELK Stack
- Strong experience with log aggregation and analysis using:Elasticsearch
Logstash
Kibana
Splunk (preferred)
- Working experience with cloud monitoring platforms such as:AWS CloudWatch
GCP Operations Suite - Good understanding of Kubernetes monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of incident management and production support processes.
- Experience working with SOPs, runbooks, escalation matrices, and operational procedures.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Good communication skills with the ability to coordinate with multiple technical teams during incidents.
- 2 - 3+ years of relevant experience in monitoring, observability, production support, or infrastructure operations.
- Experience working in a 24/7 production support environment.
- Exposure to ITIL-based incident management processes would be an advantage.
24/7 Rotational Shifts