
Technical Operations Support Engineer
Xsolla
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Baku • 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
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JuniorMid-Level
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDNSFirewallsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaPythonSplunkSQL
About the role
- Troubleshoot issues across core apps, backend workflows, APIs, auth flows, and integrations.
- Review transaction logs, event logs, and API payloads to diagnose failures or workflow anomalies.
- Build deep expertise in application behavior, configuration, and customer workflows.
- Support release readiness and feature/integration validation.
- Assist with troubleshooting compute, containers, storage, permissions, and service health.
- Support network-related issues involving DNS, firewalls, load balancers, routing, and partner connectivity.
- Collaborate with Infra/Network teams on cross-layer incidents.
- Review infra/network logs and metrics for cross-layer analysis.
- Participate in triage across application, infra, and network layers.
- Provide insights using logs, metrics, API behavior, and infra indicators.
- Update service status and internal comms during incidents.
- Document timelines, contributing factors, and impacts.
- Identify recurring cross-layer issues.
- Contribute to RCAs with log evidence and technical analysis.
- Document corrective/preventive actions.
- Update runbooks, monitoring rules, and operational processes.
- Maintain runbooks for app workflows, integrations, infra dependencies, and network pathways.
- Keep Service Pages and service catalogs accurate and updated.
- Build playbooks for common operational scenarios.
- Monitor dashboards across all layers (Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Investigate alerts and correlate data across systems.
- Recommend improvements to logs, metrics, and observability.
- Collaborate with Support/Success teams to resolve customer-facing app, infra, or network issues.
- Validate customer reports using logs, traces, and workflow diagnostics.
- Provide clear explanations of underlying operational issues.
Requirements
- 2–3 years of experience supporting N-tier or SaaS platforms across application, infrastructure, and network layers.
- Strong troubleshooting skills for applications, APIs, logs, workflows, and integrations.
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts (AWS/GCP/Azure), containers, service health, and resource monitoring.
- Solid understanding of network fundamentals including DNS, firewalls, routing, load balancers, and connectivity flows.
- Experience participating in incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis processes.
- Strong documentation abilities for runbooks, SOPs, service catalogs, and service pages.
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools: Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, Sentry, Kibana, or similar.
- Familiarity with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their operational components.
- Scripting or query capabilities for log parsing and basic automation (Python, Bash, SQL, Postman).
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
troubleshootingAPI behaviorlog parsingbasic automationscriptingPythonBashSQLcloud infrastructureN-tier platforms
Soft skills
documentationcollaborationproblem managementincident managementcommunicationanalytical skillscustomer supportattention to detailorganizational skillscritical thinking