Application Support Team Lead

Dye & Durham Corporation; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Dye & Durham Corporation is seeking an experienced Application Support Lead to manage day-to-day operations and mentor a global team delivering high-quality support for critical business applications.

You will guide escalation handling, coordinate cross-functional efforts, and drive continuous process improvements, including post-incident reviews and documentation updates. This fully remote role requires leadership and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in development or application support with leadership experience.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills for complex tech issues.
• Experience across cloud platforms and multi-cloud setups.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with stakeholders.
• Ability to coach, mentor, and lead a regional/remote team.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day for the application support team and provide technical guidance.
• Coach and mentor analysts to deliver high-quality support for business-critical apps.
• Oversee incident, problem, and request management with timely resolutions.
• Collaborate with development, infra, and QA for seamless support.
• Develop and update SOPs, test plans, and troubleshooting guides.
• Lead post-incident reviews and drive process improvements.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotations and shift coverage.

Skills

Client-first mindset

Escalation management

Team leadership

Technical guidance

Application support

Incident management

Documentation authoring

Cloud fundamentals (AWS, Azure, GCP)

SQL/DB knowledge

Programming basics (Java/.NET/Python)

Scripting (PowerShell/Bash)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

ITIL certification (nice to have)

Tools

Terraform/CloudFormation

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps)

Observability stacks (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Splunk)

Job description

Job Purpose

You will be responsible for managing the day to day for application support team, providing technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to team members to deliver high-quality support services for our business-critical applications. Your expertise in application support, leadership, and communication will be essential in driving team performance, improving processes, and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Job Purpose

You will be responsible for managing the day to day for application support team, providing technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to team members to deliver high-quality support services for our business-critical applications. Your expertise in application support, leadership, and communication will be essential in driving team performance, improving processes, and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Demonstrate client-first approach in all tasks and strive for delivering exceptional client experiences
• Act as escalation point for application support issues
• Lead, train, and mentor a team of application support analysts to ensure excellent customer service and technical support
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to the team, ensuring they have the knowledge and skills to resolve complex technical issues
• Handle escalated technical issues that cannot be resolved by the application support team, working closely with other technical teams as needed
• Oversee the management of application support tickets, ensuring timely and effective resolution of incidents, problems and requests
• Participate in post incident & post-implementation reviews, identifying lessons learned and areas for improvement
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including development, infrastructure, and quality assurance, to ensure seamless application support
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and improve technical documentation, including SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), test plans, configuration and troubleshooting guides
• Ensure knowledge transition from development and project teams prior to product releases. Update existing documentation as needed
• Identify, prioritize, and lead application support initiatives, projects, and process improvements
• Analyze application performance metrics, identifying areas for optimization and improvement
• Continuously evaluate and improve processes, procedures, and documentation to enhance efficiency, productivity, and customer satisfaction
• Develop and implement training programs to enhance the technical skills and knowledge of the support team
• Support Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Penetration Tests, Upgrade related activities etc. as needed
• Work in a round-the-clock shift model providing 24/7 support. Participate in on-call rotations on holidays and weekends
• Support auditing requirements
• Ensure compliance with IT policies, procedures, and standards, as well as industry regulations and best practices
• Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies, applying this knowledge to improve application support capabilities

Specific Responsibilities

• 5-7 years of experience in development or application support, with at least 2 years of leadership experience
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills
• Critical thinking and ability to reverse engineer when documentation and knowledge about the impacted component is unavailable or limited
• Strong prioritization skills based on business needs, processes and communication
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Perl)
• Cloud Skills (AWS, Azure & GCP): Hands-on experience supporting applications across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including compute (EC2/VMs), containers (Docker, Kubernetes — EKS/AKS/GKE), serverless (Lambda/Azure Functions/Cloud Functions), and PaaS workloads.
  • Proficient in cloud networking (VPC, subnets, load balancers, DNS, firewalls), IAM/RBAC, storage (S3/Blob/Cloud Storage), and cloud-native databases (RDS, Azure SQL, Cloud SQL). Skilled in observability/logging stacks (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP Operations Suite, Splunk, ELK, Grafana/Prometheus) for proactive monitoring and RCA, with exposure to IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI). Multi-cloud experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with database management systems (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing multiple tasks and deadlines
• Strong technical skills in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, .NET, Python)
• Bachelor's degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Good to Have

• ITIL certification or knowledge of IT service management best practices
• Experience with agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices

Other Contextual Information/Special Features

• This team supports our global environment (Australia, UK, Canada, South Africa), these open vacancies primarily will support Australia so shift times will be between 6pm - 3am SAST.
• This position is fully remote.