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SolGenie

Application Operations Engineer

Atlanta, GA · On-site

Application Operations Engineer (SaaS) using AWS Duration: 12 + Months Type (Hybrid): Remote - 2 Day from Office Location: Atlanta, GA Visa: US citizen only (Due to nature of Job) Responsibilities:

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Application Operations Analyst

Washington, DC · On-site

While escalating complex issues to the Senior Application Operations Engineer or Applications & Integration Lead as appropriate, this individual is expected to resolve routine and moderately complex ...

Koniag, Inc.

Application Operations Analyst

Washington, DC · On-site

$110K - $125K/yr

While escalating complex issues to the Senior Application Operations Engineer or Applications & Integration Lead as appropriate, this individual is expected to resolve routine and moderately complex ...

Koniag Services, Inc.

$90 - $130/hr

While escalating complex issues to the Senior Application Operations Engineer or Applications & Integration Lead as appropriate, this individual is expected to resolve routine and moderately complex ...

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Application Operations Analyst

Washington, DC

While escalating complex issues to the Senior Application Operations Engineer or Applications & Integration Lead as appropriate, this individual is expected to resolve routine and moderately complex ...

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As the Application Operations Lead, you will be responsible for the optimal functionality and ... Broad knowledge of programming languages and techniques, including .NET, SQL, PowerShell, VBScript ...

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How much do application operations engineer jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 29, 2026, the average yearly pay for application operations engineer in the United States is $144,790.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $106,000.00 and $192,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is an application operations engineer?

Application Operations Engineers are IT professionals responsible for ensuring the smooth operation, maintenance, and support of software applications in an organization. They monitor application performance, troubleshoot issues, deploy updates, and collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to optimize reliability and efficiency. Their role often involves incident response, automation of operational tasks, and implementing best practices for application security and scalability.

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An application operations engineer helps to design, implement, and update applications that support or improve business operations. Your responsibilities are to create custom features for company systems, deploy new tools and software, monitor and analyze issues of efficiency, and develop ways to address those problems so that the organization can function better. Other duties include troubleshooting technical problems, maintaining databases, and providing individual solutions for users. You typically work as part of a large team of developers and engineers.

What skills does a successful application operations engineer have?

To thrive as an Application Operations Engineer, you need a strong background in systems administration, troubleshooting, and application deployment, often supported by a degree in computer science or related field. Familiarity with monitoring tools (like Nagios or Prometheus), scripting languages (such as Python or Bash), cloud platforms, and ITIL or DevOps certifications is typically required. Strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and effective communication are crucial soft skills for this role. These skills ensure smooth application performance, rapid incident response, and effective collaboration across technical teams.

How does an application operations engineer typically interact with development and IT teams?

As an Application Operations Engineer, you will act as a bridge between development and IT operations teams. Your daily responsibilities often include troubleshooting application issues, deploying updates, and ensuring system reliability. Collaboration is key—you'll work closely with developers to understand application requirements and with IT staff to maintain infrastructure, often participating in incident response and root cause analysis. This role requires strong communication skills and a proactive approach to problem-solving in a fast-paced environment.
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Application Operations Engineer

SolGenie

Atlanta, GA • On-site

Full-time

This job post has expired 3 days ago. Applications are no longer accepted.

Job description

We have got a contract opportunity for Application Operations Engineer (SaaS) using AWS with one of our clients the details of the position are given below. For further infomation mail to reuban@solgenie.com
Title: Application Operations Engineer (SaaS) using AWS
Duration: 12 + Months
Type (Hybrid): Remote - 2 Day from Office
Location: Atlanta, GA
Visa: US citizen only (Due to nature of Job)
Responsibilities:
  • Managing Complex Applications hosted on cloud
  • Support Application maintenance activities
  • Managing Daily data processing & troubleshoot failures
  • Building proactive Monitoring & alerting service.
  • Automation using ansible, python, Perl scripting
  • Setup & securing new Application instances
  • Change management, building deployment and rollback plans and procedures. Deploying patches & Fixes.
  • Creating and maintaining knowledge base for various technical resolutions
  • Create and setup deployment scripts for different environments (i.e. Test properties vs Prod properties)
  • Configure and optimize instances and web servers for optimal performance. (ex: adjusting default connection limits, adjusting request queuing thresholds)
  • Support, Architect and Implement alongside Technical & Operations teams to meet our customers' individual needs for their infrastructure & application deployments.
  • Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that will span multiple AWS services (dealing daily with high severity incidents).
  • Help build and improve customer operations through scripts to automate and deploy AWS resources seamlessly with as little manual intervention as possible.
  • Collaborate and help build utilities and tools for internal use that enable you and your fellow Engineers to operate safely at high speed / wide scale.
  • Drive customer communication during critical events.
  • Provide on-call off hour support and flexible to work in 24*7 shift environment

Qualifications & Skills Sets:
  • 5+ years of relevant experience
  • Excellent hands-on experience in managing Application Support (3 tier/2 tier apps)
  • Strong problem solving, analytical and communication skills
  • Exposure in handling complex application performance issues
  • Exposure to APM tools like AppDynamics, Dynatrace
  • Excellent skills on managing containerized / cloud-based application with exposure to various cloud services (EC2, S3, IAM, ELB, VPC, VPN).
  • Good experience in a DevOps environment / Operations team / Infrastructure Operations team.
  • Excellent Troubleshooting skills
  • OS level knowledge (Windows or Linux)
  • Database skills (SQL, Oracle or Postgres / Casandra)
  • Application Server (skills on any of Middleware technologies e.g. - Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere)
  • Good understanding on Networking, Load balancers
  • Exposure to scripting language (Ansible, Perl, Python, Ruby, Shell script, Powershell etc.)
  • Experience in working with tools like OpsGenie, Nagios, Rundeck,

Additional Skills Desired:
  • Cloud / Application-level Security experience
  • Experience in Banking & Financial domain
  • Has worked in an Agile / Sprint development model.

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