Production Support Engineer II

The Production Support Engineer is responsible for first-line incident response, initial triage, basic troubleshooting, and operational support for production and integration environments. With 4–5 years of experience, this role provides frontline support, identifying issues, documenting symptoms, and escalating to Tier 2/3 teams as needed. The engineer will monitor systems, respond to alerts, capture diagnostics, and ensure timely communication and resolution for routine incidents. This position participates in on-call rotations and supports 24x7 availability of critical enterprise systems.

Must Have

• Serve as first responder for production alerts and incidents across Linux, Windows, and application environments.
• Perform initial triage, validate issues, gather logs, and document symptoms.
• Monitor production and integration environments using tools such as New Relic, Datadog, CloudWatch, Graylog, PagerDuty, PRTG, and Kibana.
• Follow established runbooks to resolve common or known issues.
• Participate in on-call rotation for first-response incident handling.
• Strong foundational knowledge of Linux and Windows environments.
• Basic troubleshooting skills in Java, .NET, or Python-based applications.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as New Relic, Datadog, CloudWatch, Graylog, PagerDuty, or PRTG.
• Proficiency with ticketing tools (Jira, Salesforce).

Good to Have

• Certifications in Linux, AWS, CompTIA, or CCNA.
• Exposure to scripting/automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Knowledge of Incident, Change, and Problem Management (ITIL).
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines or modern application stacks.
• Basic troubleshooting of Apache Tomcat, IIS, JBoss.
• Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S.
• Basic JVM monitoring exposure.

Production Support Engineer II

Position Summary

The Production Support Engineer is responsible for first-line incident response, initial triage, basic troubleshooting, and operational support for production and integration environments. With 4–5 years of experience, this role provides frontline support, identifying issues, documenting symptoms, and escalating to Tier 2/3 teams as needed. This will report to the Manager, ITSM.

The engineer will monitor systems, respond to alerts, capture diagnostics, and ensure timely communication and resolution for routine incidents. This position participates in on-call rotations and supports 24x7 availability of critical enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

Incident Management & First-Line Troubleshooting

• Serve as the first responder for production alerts and incidents across Linux, Windows, and application environments.
• Perform initial triage, validate issues, gather logs, document symptoms, and escalate when necessary.
• Classify incidents by severity and route to SRE, DevOps, Engineering, or Product teams as appropriate.
• Follow established runbooks to resolve common or known issues.
• Participate in on-call rotation for first-response incident handling.

Monitoring & System Oversight

• Monitor production and integration environments using tools such as New Relic, Datadog, CloudWatch, Graylog, PagerDuty, PRTG, and Kibana.
• Acknowledge alerts promptly and take initial troubleshooting steps before escalation.
• Perform basic administrative tasks under guidance, such as restarting services, validating connectivity, or checking logs.
• Ensure monitoring tools are reporting accurately and escalate anomalies.

Maintenance & Release Support

• Assist with maintenance windows, deployment validations, and basic post-release checks.
• Perform smoke testing and ensure system readiness before handing off to Tier 2/3 teams.
• Follow operational standards for configuration checks, connectivity validation, and version verification.

Automation & Process Improvement

• Identify repetitive Tier-1 tasks and suggest opportunities for automation.
• Execute simple scripts (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for diagnostics or routine workflows.
• Provide feedback to improve alert quality, runbooks, and support processes.

Documentation & Knowledge Management

• Maintain and update runbooks, troubleshooting steps, and knowledge base articles.
• Document shift handoffs clearly and ensure accurate communication for ongoing issues.
• Support Knowledge-Centered Support (KCS) practices.

Collaboration & Communication

• Communicate incident status, updates, and resolutions clearly to internal teams.
• Work within Jira, Salesforce, or similar ticketing systems for tracking and customer communication.
• Remain active in collaboration channels (Slack, Teams) for real-time coordination.
• Escalate systemic issues to higher-level teams with clear context and logs.

Qualifications & Experience Required

• 4–5 years of experience in production support, NOC operations, or IT service delivery.
• Strong foundational knowledge of Linux and Windows environments.
• Basic troubleshooting skills in Java, .NET, or Python-based applications.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as New Relic, Datadog, CloudWatch, Graylog, PagerDuty, or PRTG.
• Proficiency with ticketing tools (Jira, Salesforce).
• Clear communication skills with ability to follow structured escalation processes.
• Availability for 24x7 support rotations and after-hours response when needed.

Preferred

• Certifications in Linux, AWS, CompTIA, or CCNA.
• Exposure to scripting/automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Knowledge of Incident, Change, and Problem Management (ITIL).
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines or modern application stacks.

Technical Skills (familiarity with a subset preferred)

• Cloud: AWS (basic understanding)
• Languages & Scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell (basic to intermediate)
• Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, IIS, JBoss (basic troubleshooting)
• Logs, Monitoring, and Networking: New Relic, Datadog, CloudWatch, Graylog, PagerDuty, Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, Basic JVM monitoring exposure
• Operating Systems & Admin: Linux and Windows basic admin tasks, Ability to perform log review, service restarts, connectivity checks
• Frameworks: Familiarity with ITIL Incident & Change Management)

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Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.

GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together healthcare providers and manufacturers and distributors in North America and Europe - who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed decisions.

It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not shift - the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year. GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 1000 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Colorado, with additional offices in Europe.

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