Application Administrator

Kepler Search; Konz; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an Application Administrator to support a well-established financial institution in Luxembourg. This contract role begins in January 2026 and requires a minimum of 5 years’ experience in the financial industry, especially with banking applications like Temenos and SWIFT. Responsibilities include monitoring production applications, providing advanced support, and ensuring security measures are in place. Ideal candidates will have strong Linux knowledge and must be fluent in English.

Qualifikationen

• Minimum 5 years experience as an application administrator in the financial industry.
• Experience with banking applications like Temenos and SWIFT.
• Proficient in middleware services like GoAnywhere.
• Strong Linux operating system knowledge.
• Fluent in English.

Aufgaben

• Monitor and administer production applications.
• Provide Level 2/3 support and monitor application performance.
• Integrate security for access and conduct application audits.
• Draft specifications and implement solutions for functional needs.
• Participate in automation and operations optimisation.
• Collaborate with IT teams across various domains.

Kenntnisse

Application administration

Support Level 2/3

Security integration

Linux operating systems

Banking applications experience

Middleware services

English speaking

Jobbeschreibung

Application Administrator

Location: Onsite in Luxembourg

Employment Type: Contract

Duration: January 2026 start, 6-Month Initial Mission

Kepler Search is currently supporting a well established financial institution in Luxembourg who are hiring for a application administrator to them on an initial 6 month mission. The role will require you to provide technical administrative support on applications, assist with production stability, ensure the environment is high preforming, participate in incident resolution and work with the IT teams to ensure optimal operations of applications.

Key responsibilities

• Application administration - Monitor production applications, configure and update applications, plan / execute the releases / upgrades and document architectures.
• Advance support - Provide L2 / 3 application support, monitor application performance for bottlenecks and provide optimisation strategies, raise abnormal alerts, manage user requests and optimise procedures.
• Security - Integrate security for access management, hardening, patching, logging and audits. You will ensure functioning of backups, conduct remediation of applications and contribute to the testing of applications.
• Implementation - Analyse the functional needs, draft specifications, implement solutions and assist with continuous process improvements.
• Automation - Optimise operations and participate in modernisation of application landscapes.
• Collaboration - Work with IT teams such as System, Network, Security, Database and Business stakeholder teams.

Skills needed

• Minimum 5 years experience working as an application administrator within the financial industry.
• Experience working on banking applications, Temenos and SWIFT.
• Proven experience working using middleware services and data transfers such as GoAnywhere.
• Working knowledge of using operating system Linux.
• English speaking required.

(Please note for this role we can only consider applicants who have the right to work in the EU)