Senior Application Support Consultant
Senior Application Support Consultant
Warszawa, PL, 00-839
Type of contract: B2B
Salary range: 118-149 PLN/h
Your tasks:
- Actively monitor the production environments of Accounting Data applications to detect potential issues and ensure smooth operation.
- Execute first-line containment or recovery actions following runbooks.
- Carry out initial diagnosis using logs, dashboards, traces, SQL queries,etc.
- Resolve technical incidents, analyzing and either solving them or escalating them to Level 2.
- Analyze the root causes of recurring problems and propose improvements to Level 2 to reduce the inflow of incidents.
- Work closely with Level 2 to implement fixes, share insights, and improve processes.
- Document incident resolutions and establish best practices to build a knowledge base for continuous improvement.
- Act as a point of contact during operational incidents.
- Keep users, business stakeholders, and technical teams informed of status, impact, and estimated resolution time when applicable.
- Coordinate handoffs between shifts or on-call coverage to ensure no context is lost.
- Ensure every ticket or incident is properly documented.
- Provide enhanced support during critical windows or business closings
- Act as a technical and operational support point for the other team members
- Help standardize the way the team works, prioritizes, and escalates issues
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in production support, application support, IT operations, or production operations.
- Proven experience in critical production environments involving incident handling and escalation.
- Experience working with SLAs, ticket queues, and high-pressure operational environments.
- Experience acting as a technical or operational reference within small teams.
- Experience with SQL for validation, data analysis, and incident investigation.
- Experience reading and analyzing logs.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring/observability tools such as ELK, Dynatrace, etc.
- Experience with ITSM/ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, or similar.
- Experience in incident management, escalation, and cross-team coordination.
- Experience documenting procedures and runbooks.
- Availability to participate in on-call rotations, shifts, or out-of-hours coverage, if required by the service.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills for collaborating with technical teams and explaining issues to non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Ability to remain calm during critical incidents.
- English proficiency (B2+)
Nice to have:
- Experience as Programming backend applications, preferably with BigData technologies in Spark with Scala
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Databricks, Cloudera).
- Familiarity with data integration and ETL processes (e.g., Airflow, Control-M).
- Understanding of accounting/finance concepts or experience with financial data.
- Experience working with Scrum.