Application owner

CoolPeople Technology; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

CoolPeople Technology in Stockholm seeks an Application Owner to manage the xTrace platform in an enterprise environment. You will oversee daily operations, coordinate technical teams, and ensure smooth incident resolution.

Responsibilities include monitoring health, troubleshooting incidents, and coordinating releases, upgrades, deployments, and testing, with close collaboration across Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/Oracle, IBM MQ/Kafka, Linux, Kubernetes, and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience in application operations, application support, or platform operations in enterprise environments.
• Proficient in Linux administration (processes, filesystem, logs, troubleshooting).
• Ability to read and analyze application and system logs.

Responsibilities

• Manage technical administration and day-to-day operation of the xTrace platform.
• Monitor platform health, system events, and logs; perform initial troubleshooting.
• Coordinate specialists across Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/Oracle, IBM MQ/Kafka, Linux, Kubernetes, and infrastructure.
• Communicate with vendor support, raise tickets, and provide diagnostics.
• Coordinate releases, upgrades, deployments, and testing activities.
• Manage backups, data purging, and data capture interfaces.

Skills

Linux

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

Incident management

Platform operations

Application support

Monitoring

Logs analysis

Troubleshooting

Release management

Tools

PostgreSQL

Oracle

IBM MQ

Kafka

Docker

Job description

I am looking for an Application Owner to manage and operate a critical platform in an enterprise environment. You will oversee daily operations, coordinate technical teams, and ensure smooth incident resolution. The role requires experience in application support, Linux knowledge, and the ability to work with multiple technologies such as Elasticsearch, databases, and Kubernetes.

• manage technical administration and day-to-day operation of the xTrace platform
• monitor platform health, system events, and logs
• perform initial troubleshooting and incident investigation
• coordinate specialists across Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/Oracle, IBM MQ/Kafka, Linux, Kubernetes, and infrastructure
• communicate with vendor support, raise tickets, and provide diagnostics
• coordinate releases, upgrades, deployments, and testing activities
• manage or coordinate backup/restore, data purging, and data capture interfaces
• adjust platform configuration (e.g. Elasticsearch shards, interfaces)
• follow incidents through resolution, including documentation and escalation
• experience in application operations, application support, or platform operations in enterprise environments
• practical knowledge of Linux (processes, filesystem, logs, troubleshooting)
• ability to read and analyze application and system logs
• working knowledge of technologies such as Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL or Oracle, IBM MQ or Apache Kafka, Kubernetes or Docker
• understanding of network connectivity, firewalls, and TLS
• understanding of backup and recovery processes
• experience with release and change management
• strong incident management and escalation skills
• ability to coordinate multiple technical teams and communicate with external vendors
• strong ownership and ability to drive issues to resolution

Nice to have

• experience in banking or payments environments
• experience with monitoring or observability platforms
• deeper knowledge of Elasticsearch (cluster health, indexes, shards, snapshots)
• experience with transaction or end-to-end monitoring
• vendor management or third-party coordination
• ITIL-based incident, problem, and change management experience
• responsibility for business-critical production applications