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Role: Application Support Engineer / Production Support Analyst (Azure Monitoring & Incident Management)

Location: Melbourne

Contract Duration: 12 Months Fixed Term Contract (FTC)

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Application Support Engineer / Production Support Analyst to monitor, support, and enhance business-critical applications. The ideal candidate will be responsible for production monitoring, incident management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and ensuring application availability through proactive monitoring and observability practices. The role requires expertise in Azure monitoring tools, log analysis, database validation, and collaboration with engineering teams to maintain application stability and performance.

Key Responsibilities

Application Monitoring & Observability

- Monitor application performance, availability, and overall system health using Azure Application Insights and Azure Monitor.
- Perform real-time telemetry analysis and KPI tracking to ensure application reliability and service continuity.
- Design, develop, and maintain Azure Dashboards and Workbooks to provide comprehensive operational visibility and facilitate informed decision-making.
- Configure, manage, and optimize Azure Alerts based on application behavior and predefined thresholds for proactive issue detection.

Incident Management & Troubleshooting

- Manage the complete incident lifecycle including incident identification, categorization, prioritization, escalation, resolution, and closure.
- Conduct thorough Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for production incidents and implement preventive measures to minimize recurrence.




- Ensure timely communication and updates to stakeholders during incident resolution activities.
- Collaborate with development and engineering teams to prioritize defect resolution and improve application stability.

Log Analysis & Diagnostics

- KQL - write and query using KQL in Azure (Expert level)
- Monitor Kubernetes and clusters - query AKS
- Monitor Argo CD
- Regex Skills
- Monitoring Firewall - Imperva or equivalent
- Review code (basic level)
- Investigate application errors, performance bottlenecks, usage patterns, dependencies, and distributed traces to identify root causes.
- Utilize observability tools such as Sentry and FullStory to investigate exceptions, crash reports, release impacts, and user experience issues.

Process Improvement & Documentation

- Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, support procedures, and knowledge base articles.
- Identify opportunities for automation, monitoring optimization, and process improvements to enhance operational efficiency.
- Contribute to continuous service improvement initiatives and reliability engineering practices.

Required Technical Skills

Azure Technologies

- Azure Monitor
- Azure Application Insights
- Azure Log Analytics
- Kusto Query Language (KQL)
- Azure Workbooks
- Azure Alerts

Monitoring & Observability Tools

- Sentry
- FullStory

Incident & Service Management

- ServiceNow
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

API Testing & Validation

- Postman

Collaboration & Documentation Tools

- Jira
- Confluence

Core Competencies

- Application Support & Production Support
- Production Monitoring & Observability
- Incident Management
- Troubleshooting & Problem Solving
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Log Analysis & Performance Monitoring
- Stakeholder Management




- Process Improvement & Automation
- Technical Documentation
- Cross-functional Collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience supporting enterprise-level applications in a production environment.
- Understanding of ITIL processes and Service Management best practices.
- Exposure to cloud-native monitoring and observability solutions.

Experience Required

- 3-7 years of experience in Application Support, Production Support, Site Reliability, or Application Monitoring roles.
- Hands-on experience with Azure monitoring ecosystem, log analysis, incident management, and production troubleshooting.
- Experience working in Agile and DevOps-driven environments is preferred.

Why Us We are one of the fastest-growing large tech companies in the world, with offices in 50+ countries across the globe and 219,000 employes. Our company is extremely diverse with 165 nationalities represented.

We offer the opportunity to work with colleagues across the globe. We offer a virtualfirst work environment, promoting a good work-life integration and real flexibility. We offer comprehensive benefits for all employees. We are a certified great place to work and a top employer in 17 countries, offering a positive work setting that values employee recognition and respect

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📌 Application Support Engineer (Azure Monitoring & Incident Management) (Melbourne)
🏢 HCLTech - Australia and New Zealand
📍 Melbourne