Application Operations Lead (Microsoft & RHEL)

Quick Facts

• Role: Application Operations Lead (Microsoft & RHEL)

• Focus: Application operations, integration, and support in Microsoft and RHEL environments

• Work model: Mostly remote (onsite in Munich as agreed)

Description

You will lead application operations across required stages (test, integration, production), including integration into infrastructure/platforms, solution design, installation/configuration, monitoring, and ongoing customization to customer standards. The role also includes 2nd/3rd level support, troubleshooting, and release test support, as well as contributing to customer application introduction, migration, and ongoing configuration and operations. You will plan, advise, and implement new applications and systems, including automating operational, testing, and change workflows and application monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical consulting for application development and implementation projects (design and development phase)

• Integrate applications into infrastructure and platform environments

• Contribute to technical solution design with operations/architecture/service design teams

• Operate and supervise required stages (test, integration, production) per customer requirements

• Customize applications to meet customer needs while complying with concepts and standards

• Install, configure, and continuously monitor applications on operational systems

• Define and communicate requirements for underlying technology layers (data, infrastructure, middleware)

• Develop and maintain operational concepts and technology-layer standards

• Support test operations and release testing

• Handle 2nd level and 3rd level incident support, including error analysis and fixes

• Work through ticket cases from event management and base units, including troubleshooting

• Support project-based onboarding, migration, and ongoing operations, configuration, and customizing of customer applications

• Independently plan and implement new applications and systems, including automation of operations, testing, change workflows, and monitoring

• Act as a knowledge multiplier for bank-domain application expertise

• Coordinate and maintain highly complex applications

Requirements

• Good knowledge of application deployment with task sequencing

• Expert knowledge working with Java-based applications

• Very good knowledge of Windows and RHEL (focus on Windows)

• Knowledge of databases: Oracle and Postgres

• Knowledge of deployment tools: Ansible, Docker, Git

• Experience with heterogeneous Windows/Linux environments, including integration involving mainframe systems

• German proficiency: C1 minimum (spoken and written)

• English proficiency: C1 minimum (spoken and written)

Benefits

The role is available with full utilization (100%) and an initial term until 30.04.2024, with an option to extend.