Senior Application Server Engineer

Ascensus; United (PA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A national financial services company is seeking a Senior Application Server Engineer to manage operations of Windows processing applications and ensure system performance and availability. This role requires strong technical leadership, problem-solving skills, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. The position offers a competitive salary range of $80-$120k, alongside benefits such as medical and 401(k) matching.

Benefits

401(k) match

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

Paid Time Off

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience in IT, including 2+ years developing cloud strategies.
• Ability to participate in non-business hour activities.
• Proven analytical abilities and decision making skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage all Windows processing applications for core platforms.
• Ensure scalability, performance, and availability of infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership and highest level of support.

Skills

Strong knowledge of Windows environment

Networking understanding

Excellent communication skills

Problem solving

Analytical ability

Innovative personality

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

VMWare

MS SQL Server database

Active Directory

Powershell

Kofax Capture

Fiserv Frontier

Oracle EPM reporting

IIS web support

Job description

Job Description

Job information Senior Application Server Engineer from the Company Ascensus, this latest Senior Application Server Engineer job vacancy is located in the city Remote located in the country United States. This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate Master Degree. Job Vacancies in this Programmer field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility

At Ascensus, technology is more than just a solution. It powers the business that helps millions of people save for what matters—retirement, education, and healthcare. Our technology experts tackle exciting challenges in collaborative teams, but work in an environment where individual and career development is always valued. Technology associates leverage their talents and passion, building new and innovative platforms, creating programs founded in automation in agile frameworks, and driving existing and new markets—all of which supports the rapid growth of a dynamic industry leader.

Section 1: Position Summary

The Senior Application Server Engineer is responsible for day-to-day operations of all Windows processing applications supporting the core platforms with a focus on maintaining a disciplined and stable environment. The Senior Application Server Engineer is also responsible for insuring scalability, performance, and availability of the infrastructure. This position provides technical leadership to the Application Server Engineering team and provides the highest level of support for issues in the production and development environments. This position also evaluates alternative solutions, provides recommendations and identifies risk.

Section 2: Job Functions, Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for protecting, securing, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Ascensus or our clients.
• Our I-Client service philosophy and our Core Values of People Matter, Quality First and Integrity Always should be visible in your actions on a day to day basis showing your support of our organizational culture.
• Serve as a technical contact for business owners of supported applications as well as liaison between other IT teams.
• Serve as the highest level of support for identified issues with Windows systems
• Enhance system performance through implementation of third party solutions and performance tuning of the environment
• Implement Group Policy in Active Directory to secure and enhance the enterprise
• Implement policy or tools that provide assistance to internal security teams
• Responsible for supporting applications and hardware in Secure Imaging Centers
• Review and optimize overall hardware configurations, and develop plans to integrate new hardware and software components
• Coordinate and perform application and system updates during non-business hours
• Participation in and planning of Disaster Recovery exercises
• Assist in process definition, documentation and continuous improvement in best practices
• Responsible for SOC1/2 audit requests for Windows systems
• Assist with other projects and tasks that achieve the goals of scalability, performance and stability.
• Assist with other tasks and projects as assigned

Section 3: Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements

• Strong knowledge of the hardware and software environment, including Windows Server 2008/2012-based environment
• Understanding of networking, load balancing, clustering and HA
• Excellent consultative, verbal/written communication skills, analytical ability
• Excels in a results focused organization
• Possesses an innovative and change-orientated personality that isn't afraid to proceed where it was deemed difficult or off limits.
• Problem solving, initiative, judgment.

Preferred technology skills:

• Large enterprise environment
• Active Directory with specific focus on Group Policy
• Experience across many platforms, including:
• VMWare
• MS SQL Server database (2012 minimum)
• Active Directory
• Powershell
• Kofax Capture
• Fiserv Frontier
• Oracle EPM reporting
• IIS web support
• Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years\' experience in IT, including 2+ years developing cloud strategies
• Excellent organizational skills, proven analytical abilities and decision making skills
• Ability to participate in scheduled non-business hour implementation and maintenance activities
• Ability to lead technology based projects across diverse teams
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

The national average salary range for this role is $80-$120k in base pay, exclusive of any bonuses and benefits. This base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salary offered will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, performance, and internal pay alignment. We do not anticipate that candidates hired will begin at the top of the range however, from time to time, it may occur on a case-by-case basis. Other rewards and benefits may include: 401(k) match, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid-Time-Off, etc. For more information, please visit careers.ascensus.com/#Benefits.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer

Keywords : Remote jobs
Closed Date : 2025-10-29