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The role extends beyond advanced production support and focuses on deep technical troubleshooting, permanent problem resolution, reliability engineering, automation, performance optimization, and technical governance. The L3 Engineer acts as a technical escalation point and subject matter expert for complex incidents, recurring problems, performance issues, and platform-level application stability concerns. The role collaborates closely with L1/L2/L3 support teams, development teams, infrastructure teams, database teams, and business stakeholders to drive service restoration, eliminate repeat incidents, improve SLO adherence, and strengthen the overall reliability posture of business-critical applications.\nKey Responsibilities\nApplication Operations & Technical Ownership\nOwn and manage L3-level application operations for Windows-based enterprise applications built on.NET / ASP.NET, hosted on IIS, and integrated with Microsoft SQL Server.\nProvide expert-level support for complex production issues impacting availability, latency, performance, errors, capacity, and reliability.\nAct as the technical owner for application stability, ensuring production environments remain reliable, resilient, and aligned with agreed service levels.\nReview application configuration, deployment patterns, environment dependencies, and operational risks to improve service reliability. ________________________________________ Incident & Major Incident Management\nServe as the L3 technical escalation point for incidents escalated from L1/L2 support teams.\nLead technical investigation and resolution of complex P1/P2 incidents, ensuring timely service restoration and effective stakeholder communication.\nPerform deep-dive analysis across application logs, IIS logs, Windows event logs, SQL performance indicators, metrics, traces, and monitoring dashboards.\nSupport on-call and 24x7 major incident response as required for business-critical applications. ________________________________________ Problem Management & Root Cause Elimination\nLead root cause analysis for recurring, complex, or business-critical incidents and define corrective and preventive actions.\nIdentify systemic reliability gaps and drive permanent fixes, workarounds, automation, configuration changes, or architectural improvement recommendations.\nWork with development, infrastructure, and database teams to resolve underlying application, platform, configuration, and performance bottlenecks.\nEnsure known errors, recurring issues, and technical risks are captured, tracked, and addressed through structured problem management. ________________________________________ Monitoring, Observability & Reliability Engineering\nDesign, configure, and enhance monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and observability solutions for application health, user impact, performance, and reliability indicators.\nAnalyze metrics, logs, traces, and monitoring trends to proactively detect performance degradation, stability risks, capacity constraints, and emerging failure patterns.\nDrive adherence to SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and error budget principles, ensuring reliability objectives are measurable and actionable. ,\nRecommend improvements to monitoring coverage, alert quality, runbooks, dashboards, and operational readiness.\nSkill Requirements\nCore Technical Skills\nStrong hands-on experience supporting and troubleshooting.NET / ASP.NET applications in enterprise production environments. ,\nAdvanced knowledge of IIS, including application pools, bindings, SSL certificates, configuration, deployment, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.\nStrong working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, including querying, performance tuning, troubleshooting, database health monitoring, and capacity considerations. ,\nStrong understanding of Windows Server environments, application deployment, configuration management, log analysis, and debugging.\nExperience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk or equivalent platforms. ________________________________________ SRE / Operations Skills\nStrong experience in production support, application operations, and SRE practices, preferably at L3 or senior technical escalation level.\nStrong understanding of Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes aligned with ITIL practices.\nPractical knowledge of monitoring, observability, 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