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Crown Castle

Manager, Application Support

Houston, TX · On-site

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field * Master's degree preferred * Cloud, ITSM, application support, or service management certification ...

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Manager, Application Support

Houston, TX · On-site

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field * Master's degree preferred * Cloud, ITSM, application support, or service management certification ...

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Application Support Engineers are responsible for providing technical support to client SAP basis ... Experience with configuration management and automation tools * Familiarity with agile engineering ...

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Houston, TX · On-site

... application support, incident management, automation, and AI-assisted operations. What You'll Do ... Learns prompt engineering techniques for log analysis and incident triage. * Understands the ...

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Support Engineer

Houston, TX · On-site

... application support, incident management, automation, and AI-assisted operations. What You'll Do ... Learns prompt engineering techniques for log analysis and incident triage. * Understands the ...

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As of Sep 14, 2026, the average hourly pay for manager application support engineer in Houston, TX is $46.35, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $36.97 and $54.18 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Manager Application Support Engineer vs Application Support Engineer?

AspectManager Application Support EngineerApplication Support Engineer
CredentialsBachelor's degree, relevant certifications, leadership experienceBachelor's degree, technical certifications often preferred
Work EnvironmentTeam leadership, client communication, strategic planningTechnical troubleshooting, user support, system monitoring
Employer & Industry UsageIT departments, software companies, enterprise environmentsIT support teams, software vendors, tech companies
Search & Comparison IntentUnderstanding managerial roles in application supportTechnical support roles, troubleshooting skills

The Manager Application Support Engineer typically oversees support teams, manages client relationships, and aligns support strategies with business goals. In contrast, the Application Support Engineer focuses on technical troubleshooting, resolving user issues, and maintaining system performance. Both roles require technical knowledge, but the manager position emphasizes leadership and strategic planning.

What does a Manager Application Support Engineer do?

A Manager Application Support Engineer oversees the support and maintenance of software applications, ensuring their stability, performance, and availability. They coordinate support teams, troubleshoot complex issues, and implement solutions, often using tools like ticketing systems and monitoring software. Strong technical knowledge, leadership skills, and experience with application environments are essential for this role.

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Manager, Application Support

Houston, TX • On-site

Crown Castle
Telecommunications • 5 - 10K employees
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Full-time

Medical, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 4 days ago

Crown Castle rating

9.1

Company rating: 9.1 out of 10

Based on 15 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

Job description

For more than three decades, Crown Castle has led the way in shared communications infrastructure, delivering profitable solutions by connecting communities, businesses, and people, and enabling each to thrive with reliable access to voice and data in more places, faster than ever before. When you join Crown Castle, you become part of a dynamic team of passionate and collaborative professionals engaging in complex challenges and contributing to projects that shape the future of life and work.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As the Manager, Application Support, you will lead the team responsible for supporting Crown Castle's business and enterprise applications, including ERP, real estate management platforms such as Sitetracker, ServiceNow, and other critical systems and integrations between systems. This role is accountable for improving application reliability, strengthening support operations, and partnering with business and IT stakeholders to ensure these platforms enable efficient, stable, and scalable business processes.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
You will lead a team focused on delivering reliable application support services to Crown Castle's business and IT users. You will manage the end-to-end Application Support function, including managed service providers that deliver specialized application support. You will establish operational metrics and reporting to measure performance, identify continuous improvement opportunities, and deliver actionable insights that improve business outcomes through automation, process discipline, and service reliability.
  • Lead the day-to-day direction and execution of the team responsible for production support of Crown Castle's enterprise and business applications, ensuring application reliability, timely incident response, effective issue resolution, and stable service delivery across the enterprise
  • Define and lead the application support service strategy, operating model, and reliability practices for critical business and enterprise applications

  • Ensure the quality and reliability of the infrastructure and application stack through defining rigorous testing practices, and use of observability tools

  • Drive implementation of AIOps solutions that enable the organization to quickly identify, address, and resolve production incidents
  • Use and enhance incident, problem, and change management processes for Crown Castle's tier 1 and tier 2 applications, ensuring issues are prioritized, communicated, resolved, and prevented from recurring
  • Guide daily application support delivery activities, including intake prioritization, backlog management, service request trends, incident review, and coordination of planned work with business and IT stakeholders

  • Be an automation advocate - remove operational load with software
  • Build a framework for implementation of automation and orchestration for manual processes required to operate services

  • Partner with leaders to define, monitor, and improve SLAs, KPIs, SLOs, SLIs, and service quality metrics for production and non-production business applications, including on-premises, cloud, and SaaS platforms
  • Create effective partnerships with managed service providers, software vendors, and third-party partners to improve application support, service quality, issue resolution, and IT service transformation

  • Mentor and develop teammates to help them grow their technical and leadership skills
  • Identify core problems or opportunities within business processes. Understands the root cause and impacts for the project and other teams

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
Education/Certifications
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • Master's degree preferred
  • Cloud, ITSM, application support, or service management certification preferred

Experience/Minimum Requirements
  • Experience supporting business and enterprise applications such as ERP platforms, real estate management systems, ITSM platforms, workflow applications, or other mission-critical SaaS and on-premises business systems
  • 7+ years of experience in application support, IT operations, software engineering, or site reliability engineering, with a focus on supporting critical business applications and improving operational reliability
  • 5+ years of experience leading technical or application support teams, with a proven track record of improving application reliability, service delivery, stakeholder engagement, and operational performance

  • 3+ years of experience in a cloud environment, preferably AWS
  • Experience with industry standard tools such as Splunk, DataDog, Grafana, Pager Duty, Dynamics etc.
  • Extensive experience with scripting and programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, and JSON

  • Hands-on experience improving support processes through automation, orchestration, integrations, monitoring, workflow design, or cloud-native services

  • Experienced with containerization technologies and orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes, EKS, and Faregate
  • Experienced broad subject matter expertise across large scale distributed systems, container and container orchestration, monitoring and observability tooling, and the software development lifecycle
  • Excellent technical problem-solving skills and the ability to quickly learn new technologies and tools
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities

  • Demonstrated ability to understand complex, multi-project environments and diagnose risks and issues
  • Project planning and organization skills, including the ability to identify and build project plans and goals that align with organizational objectives

Expectations
  • Effectively influence and interact with leaders across the organization

  • Encourages team to develop solutions that solve strategic problems related to the teams work and place in the value chain
  • Coach others on how to present themselves and their ideas in a manner that builds credibility and respect
  • Supervises, coordinates, provides leadership to and reviews the work of professional employees to accomplish operational plans and results
  • Maintains an awareness of changing organizational conditions and their impact to the strategic objectives, using knowledge to adapt and evolve their approach.
  • Builds belonging within the team by helping others and encouraging immediate teammates to work collaboratively

  • Take primary responsibility for relationships with product & business stakeholders within and across teams to better plan for and prioritize work

Organizational Relationship
Reports to: Director Platform & Cloud Engineering
Title(s) of direct reports (if applicable): 4-5 software engineers and MSP vendor resources
Where You Will Work
To optimize collaboration, relationship building, and key stakeholder engagement, this role aligns to a 4:1 hybrid model which is in our Canonsburg or Houston office Monday-Thursday with the option for remote work on Fridays.
YOUR COMPANY BENEFITS
At Crown Castle, we do our best to ensure you have access to the resources you need to live a healthy and happy life no matter where you are in life. Our benefits are built around your individual needs, covering physical, mental, and financial health and designed to enhance your quality of life.
We are proud to offer a full suite of health and wealth benefits for you and your loved ones. Below are a few of the key highlights of the many benefits we provide.
  • Comprehensive healthcare plans with highly company subsidized premiums and up to $2,000 annual company contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA base plan for employee and dependents).
  • Market-leading 401(k) plan, which includes up to 10% company contributions through our 5% match and 5% profit sharing program (based on employee contributions).
  • New-child leave up to 8 weeks of 100% paid leave upon birth or legal adoption of a new child. Birth mothers are eligible for up to 8 weeks of additional 100% paid medical leave.
  • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year of eligible tuition and fees.
  • Crown Castle scholarship program awarding up to $10,000 per recipient each year for eligible dependent children of employees and interns.
  • Matching charitable contributions to qualified charitable organizations of up to $1,000 per year per teammate.
  • Generous paid time-off for eligible full-time employees (minimum 18 days per year based on years of service).
  • 10 company holidays plus 2 floating holiday.
  • All offices provide free beverages and snacks.

Compensation
The salary range offered for this position is $129,000-$177,500 annually. A candidate's offer is determined by various factors including but not limited to, depth of experience, role-related knowledge and skills, relevant education or training, internal alignment, and work location. Depending on the position offered, the compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of a discretionary annual cash bonus or commissions, and equity incentives.
Additional Information
Pursuant to the Los Angeles County and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
If you are interested in joining our team, please visit the Crown Castle careers site to apply. We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other third-party suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us. This position will remain posted until filled.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

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Crown Castle is the nation's largest provider of shared communications infrastructure: towers, small cells and fiber. It all works together to meet unprecedented demand--connecting people and communities and transforming the way we do business. Whenever you make a call, track a workout or stream music and videos, we're the ones providing the communications infrastructure that makes it all possible. From 5G and the internet of things to drones, autonomous vehicles and AR/VR, we enable the technologies that help people stay safe, connected and ready for the future. Crown Castle is publicly traded on the S&P 500, and one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the US, with an enterprise value of ~$100B. We offer a total benefits package and professional growth development for teammates in any stage of their career. Along with caring for our teammates, we're an active member in the communities where we live, work and do business. We have a responsibility to give back, which we do through our Connected by Good program. Giving back allows us to improve public spaces where people connect, promote public safety and advance access to education and technology.

Industry

Telecommunications

Company size

5,001 - 10,000 Employees

Headquarters location

Houston, TX, US

Year founded

1994

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