Application Support Senior Software Engineer

Ness Digital Engineering
  • Bangalore, India
  • Full-time
15 days ago

Job Description

Description

Role purpose 

Provide hands-on L2/L3 support for multiple applications, absorb knowledge quickly during transition, and contribute to automation, modernization and consolidation work that keeps the portfolio stable with a lean team. 

Key responsibilities 

Transition 

  • Participate actively in knowledge transfer, shadow and reverse-shadow; take ownership of assigned applications. 

  • Create and update runbooks, SOPs, architecture diagrams and knowledge articles. 

Incident, defect & task management 

  • Resolve L2/L3 incidents within SLA across several applications. 

  • Analyze, fix and test defects, including regression testing and release coordination. 

  • Deliver tasks raised by the client (configuration changes, data fixes, small enhancements, reports, access requests), with estimates and status updates. 

  • Keep tickets accurately updated in ServiceNow/Jira, with clear resolution notes and knowledge articles. 

Application support 

  • Act as primary owner for a group of applications. 

  • Perform root cause analysis, bug fixes, minor enhancements, patches and configuration changes. 

  • Execute deployments, releases and change requests following change management. 

  • Monitor application health, performance, batch jobs and integrations; act proactively on alerts. 

  • Participate in on-call and major incident resolution for Critical/High applications. 

Modernization, merging & innovation 

  • Contribute to upgrades, re-platforming, containerization and cloud optimization. 

  • Support data and functional migration when applications are merged or decommissioned. 

  • Build scripts and automations that eliminate manual and repetitive support tasks. 

  • Propose improvements and use GenAI/AI tools to speed up diagnosis and documentation. 

Team building 

  • Act as anchor for a sub-team (pod): help interview, onboard and mentor new engineers joining your application group. 

  • Pass on knowledge so new engineers become productive quickly. 

Required qualifications & skills 

  • Hands-on development/support experience in .NET/.NET Core and/or Java; working knowledge of JavaScript (Angular/React) or PHP. 

  • AWS experience (compute, containers, serverless, databases, CloudWatch); GCP/Azure a plus. 

  • Strong SQL skills (SQL Server, MySQL); MongoDB is a plus. 

  • Experience with REST APIs, integrations and troubleshooting distributed systems. 

  • Familiarity with CI/CD, Git, Docker/Kubernetes and scripting (Python, PowerShell or Bash). 

  • ITIL-aligned support experience using ServiceNow or similar. 

Nice to have 

  • AWS Developer/SysOps or Kubernetes certifications. 

  • Experience supporting SaaS/COTS products and web platforms (WordPress, Shopify). 

  • Media, music or entertainment domain knowledge. 

Core competencies 

  • Ownership mindset and calm under pressure in high-impact incidents. 

  • Fast learner able to support many applications with varied technologies. 

  • Clear written and verbal communication in English with business and technical stakeholders. 

  • Continuous-improvement and automation-first thinking. 

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Numbers & Facts

LocationBangalore, India
Job TypeFull-time

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
  • Analysis Skillsunmatched
  • AngularJSunmatched
  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
  • Automationunmatched
  • Bash Scriptingunmatched
  • Bug Tracking/Defect Managementunmatched
  • Change Managementunmatched
  • Change Order Managementunmatched
  • Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS)unmatched
  • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
  • Continuous Integrationunmatched
  • Data Migrationunmatched
  • Debugging Skillsunmatched
  • Distributed Computingunmatched
  • Dockerunmatched
  • Documentationunmatched
  • English Languageunmatched
  • GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
  • Gitunmatched
  • ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library)unmatched
  • Identify Issuesunmatched
  • Javaunmatched
  • JavaScriptunmatched
  • Knowledge Transferunmatched
  • Mentoringunmatched
  • Microsoft .NETunmatched
  • Microsoft SQL Serverunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
  • MongoDBunmatched
  • Musicunmatched
  • MySQLunmatched
  • On Callunmatched
  • PHP Scripting Language (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor)unmatched
  • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
  • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
  • REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
  • React.jsunmatched
  • Regression Testingunmatched
  • Root Cause Analysisunmatched
  • SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
  • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
  • ServiceNowunmatched
  • Software Administrationunmatched
  • Software Engineeringunmatched
  • Software Patchesunmatched
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)unmatched
  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
  • System Operationsunmatched
  • Windows PowerShellunmatched
  • Wordpressunmatched

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