Senior App Support Engineer – Incident & Reliability

Regional Finance

Greer (SC)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 140,000

Full time

23 hours ago

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Job summary

Regional Finance is seeking a Senior Application Support Engineer to provide advanced Level 2/3 support for critical business applications. You'll lead incident investigations, coordinate across teams, and mentor other engineers.

You will improve monitoring, runbooks, and release processes, ensuring availability and compliance with standard ITIL practices. A strong background in .NET/C#, SQL Server, APIs, and cloud or DevOps tools is essential.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
Five or more years of progressive experience supporting enterprise or production applications, including advanced Level 2 or Level 3 troubleshooting.
Demonstrated experience leading complex incident resolution and performing root‑cause analysis, problem management, and corrective‑action follow‑through.
Experience using an IT service management platform and working within structured Incident, Problem, Change, Release, and Configuration Management processes.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft development technologies, including .NET, C#, and Visual Basic, with the ability to review and troubleshoot application code.
Advanced Microsoft SQL Server skills, including complex querying, stored procedure analysis, data validation, and performance troubleshooting.
Experience supporting integrations, APIs, scheduled jobs, services, and multi‑tier applications across test and production environments.
Proficiency with application monitoring, logging, alerting, and diagnostic tools.
Proficient understanding of source control and software delivery tools such as Git and Bitbucket.
Ability to create clear technical documentation, runbooks, support procedures, incident communications, and executive‑ready summaries.
Strong customer orientation and the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business users, vendors, and leadership.
Demonstrated ability to mentor colleagues, lead technical work, manage competing priorities, and exercise sound judgment during high‑impact incidents.
Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
Must pass drug screen and other pre‑employment screenings.

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior escalation point for complex Level 2 and Level 3 application incidents, owning investigation through restoration, root‑cause identification, and documented resolution.
Assess business impact, establish priority, coordinate technical resources, and provide timely, audience‑appropriate communications during major incidents.
Lead problem management for recurring issues by performing trend analysis, identifying root causes, and driving permanent corrective and preventive actions.
Partner directly with Level One Business Support teams and coach engineers on troubleshooting methods, escalation practices, and customer service.
Collaborate across application development, infrastructure, database, network, security, and vendor teams to resolve cross‑platform and cross‑product issues.
Act as a subject matter expert for assigned applications, including architecture, integrations, dependencies, data flows, configurations, operational risks, and business processes.
Monitor application health, availability, capacity, logs, interfaces, batch processes, and performance; improve alerts, dashboards, and operational thresholds to detect issues proactively.
Own and improve scheduled operational processes, support procedures, runbooks, knowledge articles, system diagrams, and recovery documentation.
Plan and support application releases, configuration changes, patches, upgrades, and deployments across test and production environments, including validation and post‑implementation review.
Ensure adherence to established Release, Incident, Problem, Change, Configuration, Access, and Service Management processes and controls.
Review proposed solutions, technical designs, scripts, code, and deployment plans for supportability, reliability, maintainability, and operational risk.
Develop or enhance scripts, queries, utilities, and automation that reduce manual effort, improve data quality, and accelerate diagnosis and recovery.
Participate in software testing through test planning, review, analysis, execution support, defect triage, production‑readiness assessment, and release certification.
Track service‑level performance, support volumes, recurring defects, and operational risks; recommend and lead measurable service improvements.
Provide technical support and operational guidance to projects, ensuring new or changed services transition effectively into production support.
Participate in an on‑call support rotation and coordinate after‑hours response for business‑critical production incidents as required.
Lead technical discussions, triage sessions, knowledge‑sharing activities, and post‑incident reviews; mentor less experienced team members.
Perform other duties as assigned by Leadership.