Production Support Engineer / Application Support Analyst

Job Title: Production Support Engineer / Application Support Analyst

Location: Onsite in Jersey City, NJ

Duration: 12 mos.

Only W2 (NO C2C/1099)

Summary:

Seeking a Production Support professional to support critical applications and operational dashboards. This role focuses on day-to-day application health monitoring, dashboard checks, high-level incident triage and resolution, and coordination across multiple technology and business partners. The ideal candidate is technically hands-on, comfortable troubleshooting in real time, and experienced in supporting production environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform daily production support activities, including dashboard monitoring, application checks, and service health verification.

• Monitor system performance and availability; identify anomalies and initiate investigation and remediation.

• Provide high-level issue triage and resolution, including incident ownership, impact assessment, and escalation when needed.

• Troubleshoot and debug application issues using logs, SQL queries, and root cause investigation techniques.

• Support and monitor batch processing, including scheduling, failures, reruns, reconciliation, and dependency checks.

• Collaborate with multiple teams such as developers, infrastructure, database teams, upstream/downstream application teams, and business stakeholders to drive issue resolution and communication.

• Create and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and knowledge articles; contribute to continuous improvement of monitoring and support processes.

• Participate in post-incident reviews to document root causes, corrective actions, and preventive measures.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

• Experience in production support, application support, or operational support for enterprise systems.

Technical Skills including working knowledge of:

• Java

o Application-level understanding

o Ability to debug and interpret stack traces and logs

• PL/SQL / SQL

o Querying databases

o Troubleshooting data issues

o Validating results

• SOAP Services

o Understanding request/response patterns

o Knowledge of common failure scenarios

• Batch Processes

o Monitoring and diagnosing failures

o Understanding job dependencies

• Debugging and Log Analysis

o Production environment troubleshooting

o Root cause identification

Incident Management:

• Strong incident management skills.

• Prioritization and ownership mindset.

• Structured troubleshooting approach.

• Clear stakeholder communication.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting systems with strict uptime and availability requirements.

• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting practices, including dashboards, alerts, health checks, and operational metrics.

• Experience with root cause analysis (RCA) methodologies and post-incident documentation.

• Understanding of change management and release support within production environments.

• Ability to work effectively with multiple teams and partners in a fast-paced environment.

Soft Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including timely status updates during incidents.

• Detail-oriented with a focus on operational excellence and risk reduction.

• Comfortable working under pressure and handling multiple concurrent issues.

Must Have:

• Production/Application Support

• Java

• SQL / PL-SQL

• Debugging & Log Analysis

• Incident Management

• Batch Job Monitoring

• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

• Service Health Monitoring

• Dashboard Monitoring

Good to Have:

• SOAP Web Services

• Change & Release Management

• Monitoring Tools

• Runbooks/SOP Documentation

• Post-Incident Reviews

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

Spring boot

Kafka

Microservices and AWS