Operations Applications & Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Operations Applications & Platform Engineer is responsible for managing, supporting, and improving operational applications and platforms. This role involves application ownership, platform administration, system integration, and technology transformation, ensuring critical business systems are secure and reliable.

Qualifications

• Experience administering operational applications, systems and platforms.
• Experience delivering upgrades, migrations and platform implementations.
• Experience supporting monitoring, management or service delivery platforms.
• Knowledge of application lifecycle management and change control.
• Experience integrating business systems through APIs or automation.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Familiarity with virtualisation and cloud-hosted platforms.
• Excellent documentation and stakeholder communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own operations and administration of a portfolio of operational applications and management platforms.
• Support application deployments, upgrades, migrations and platform lifecycle management.
• Configure, maintain and optimise business-critical systems.
• Support the integration of applications using APIs, automation and third-party services.
• Administer monitoring, alerting and reporting platforms to improve operational visibility.
• Manage application performance, availability and operational resilience.
• Coordinate maintenance, patching, licensing and vendor support.
• Support business system improvements and digital transformation initiatives.
• Produce technical documentation, support procedures and platform standards.
• Assist with automation of operational workflows and repetitive administrative tasks.
• Work alongside Engineering and Infrastructure teams to ensure applications are delivered on resilient, secure platforms.
• Support planned maintenance, project delivery and technical escalations.

Skills

Relocation