Senior Application Operations Engineer

The Scottish Government; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The Scottish Government is seeking a Senior Application Operations Engineer to join the Digital Services Branch. You will manage a portfolio of enterprise applications crucial to delivering benefits and services to the people of Scotland.

You will operate day-to-day services in a complex enterprise environment, lead incident response, and work with architects, engineers, suppliers and stakeholders to maintain availability, security and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience in operating and supporting enterprise applications.
• Strong incident and problem management skills.
• Ability to analyse performance, capacity and reliability of systems.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day operation of business-critical applications within a complex enterprise environment.
• Lead incident and problem resolution activities, coordinating with support teams, specialists and suppliers to meet service levels.
• Investigate issues using root-cause analysis to improve availability, reliability and security of services.
• Support patching, certification and compliance activities in partnership with Information Security colleagues.
• Engage with architects, engineers, suppliers, business owners and end users to resolve issues and drive improvements to roadmaps.

Job description

Social Security Scotland is looking for a Senior Application Operations Engineer to join our Digital Services Branch. In this role, you will support and improve a portfolio of enterprise applications that are critical to the delivery of benefits and services to the people of Scotland.

Working within a complex enterprise environment, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of business-critical applications, acting as a technical subject matter expert for assigned services. You will lead incident and problem resolution activities, coordinating support teams, technology specialists and suppliers to ensure issues are investigated and resolved within agreed service levels. Through effective troubleshooting and root cause analysis, you will help ensure systems remain secure, reliable and resilient.

You will develop a detailed understanding of the applications you support, their underlying technology stacks and their dependencies across the wider digital estate. Using this knowledge, you will investigate complex technical issues, identify factors affecting application availability and performance, and support the delivery of effective solutions.

As well as supporting live services, you will proactively review application performance and capacity to ensure services continue to meet business needs. You will identify opportunities to improve reliability, availability, security and operational efficiency, working with colleagues and suppliers to deliver improvements and maintain application roadmaps. You will also contribute to the assessment of application changes and support the introduction of new or enhanced services into live operation.

The role includes working closely with architects, engineers, suppliers, business owners and end users to resolve issues, improve service performance and ensure applications continue to meet organisational standards. You will support application patching, certification and compliance activities, working with Information Security colleagues and suppliers to ensure services remain aligned with technology, security and governance requirements.

This is an opportunity to work across a diverse and evolving application landscape, helping to deliver trusted and effective digital services that support the people of Scotland.