astra-north

L3 Production Support Engineer - Pega

astra-north

Toronto, Ontario, CanadaContractPosted May 29, 2026

Job description

Job Title: L3 Production Support Engineer

  • Pega Quantity: 3 Work Model: Hybrid (2–4 days onsite) Experience Required: 6–8 Years Role Description: We are seeking experienced L3 Support professionals with strong Pega platform expertise and production support capabilities. The role involves end-to-end incident management, deep technical troubleshooting across application, integration, and database layers, and ensuring timely resolution of production issues within defined SLAs.

Key Responsibilities

Incident & Production Support

  • Own end-to-end resolution of L3 incidents via Service. Now, ensuring RCA and closure within SLA.
  • Perform deep technical analysis across Pega, Spring Boot services, integrations, and database layers.
  • Support and monitor batch jobs, schedulers, queue processors, listeners, and overall application health. Monitoring & Analysis Tools
  • Utilize Splunk for log analysis, correlation, and incident triage.
  • Use Dynatrace and/or Data. Dog for performance monitoring, dependency mapping, and RCA.
  • Identify performance bottlenecks and production issues through observability tools. Defect & Change Management
  • Raise, track, and manage defects in JIRA / JTFM.
  • Prepare detailed RCA documentation for production issues.
  • Map production incidents to backlog items and ensure proper tracking.
  • Drive defect resolution in collaboration with development teams.
  • Participate in daily defect triage meetings and ensure alignment between production issues and tracking systems.
  • Execute and validate standard, emergency, and release-related changes. Collaboration & Support
  • Work closely with L2 support, development, infrastructure, and vendor teams for incident resolution.
  • Support escalation management and ensure timely resolution of critical issues.
  • Maintain runbooks, knowledge transfer documents, and audit-compliant operational documentation. Continuous Improvement
  • Identify monitoring gaps and propose proactive alerting improvements.
  • Recommend automation opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
  • Contribute to reduction in MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution) through process and technical improvements. Mandatory Skills & Experience:
  • Strong hands-on experience with Pega platform (CSA/PCSA or equivalent), including: Tracing Clipboard analysis Rule debugging Job schedulers Queue processing
  • Strong Java / Spring Boot troubleshooting experience across APIs and microservices.
  • Hands-on experience with production support environments (L3 support model).
  • Experience with Service. Now for Incident, Problem, and Change Management.
  • Strong experience with JIRA / JTFM defect lifecycle management.
  • Expertise in RCA-driven issue resolution and MTTR management. Tools & Technologies:
  • Pega Platform
  • Spring Boot
  • Java
  • Splunk
  • Dynatrace
  • Data. Dog
  • Service. Now
  • JIRA / JTFM Additional Skills:
  • Knowledge of Know Your Customer (KYC) processes (preferred).
  • Experience in banking or regulated environments (preferred). Keywords:
  • L3 Support
  • Pega
  • Production Support
  • RCA
  • Service. Now
  • Splunk
  • Dynatrace
  • Data. Dog
  • Spring Boot
  • Java
  • JIRA / JTFM
  • KYC
  • Incident Management Experience Required: 6–8 Years