Responsibilities & Skillset
- Troubleshoot production defects that can’t be solved by L1 support and provide preliminary root cause analysis, impact, tactical fix when possible
- Update runbooks /documentation based on troubleshooting steps
- Document P1/P2 Issues
- Escalate issues with thorough documentation on analysis already completed to Scrum team
- Organize and Lead scrum calls for P1/P2 issues (initial and follow up)
- Enter service tickets for issues related to vendor applications
- Provide internal communication of outages to decide on the severity of the issue to:
- Ensure L1 group provides User Communication of P1/P2 issues when appropriate
- Ensure L1 submits a Major Incident Management MIM) ticket for any outages
- Close MIM when issue has been corrected and postmortem has been supplied
- Mange Releases and communicate with L1 support:
- Participate in design Reviews and Q&A
- Review releases schedule and verify with scrum teams
- Ensure demos are scheduled for correct days by scrum team
- Publish meeting minutes of demoes for outstanding items
- Review all release notes for designated area
- Keep runbooks and knowledge documents updated with latest information
- Escalate lack of runbook documentation
- Provides “ops” requirements from a supportability standpoint to user stories (during grooming or sprint planning)
- Organize resources for coverage
- Ensure release checklist is completed per release
- Provide management with acknowledgment that each release is ready to be approved in change management
- Perform Application Checkouts or ensure L1 team has enough information to provide checkouts
- Periodically provide insights and metrics on production stability and (mean) time to response/resolution
- L2 Daily Workflow should include:
- Review ServiceNow for active INCs that are assigned to you
- Follow-up on ServiceNow aged INCs, over 6 days’ w/o an update, that are assigned to you
- Review ServiceNow for new P1/P2 assigned to you
- Review ServiceNow for aged P1/P2 to gather updates
- Review and mark as “Resolved” items that can be closed out
- Ensure SNOW items that need escalation are linked to problems/JIRAs
- Ensure INCs are associated to problems, belong to you and have the correct status
- Review 24 hours’ worth of INCs to make sure priority is correct
- Review JIRAs assigned to you
- Enter new P1/P2 into the prod support sheet
- Software Release management – TBD