Application Support Analyst
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Our Managed Services team ensures businesses operate at peak efficiency, resilience, and scale. Join us to manage and optimise IT landscapes for leading organisations, delivering seamless, reliable, and measurable outcomes every day.
As an Applications Support Analyst, you will act as a trusted technical partner, combining strong troubleshooting capability with proactive service management to resolve issues, optimise application performance, and contribute to ongoing service enhancements. The role offers exposure to complex application landscapes, client engagement, and modern support practices, making it ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic, service-driven environment and is looking to deepen both their technical and stakeholder management expertise. This is an opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality application support services within a managed services environment, working closely with enterprise clients to ensure the stability, performance, and continuous improvement of their critical business systems.
What You’ll Do:
Core Application Support
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Provide Level 2/3 support for business-critical applications, ensuring timely resolution of incidents, service requests, and problems in line with SLAs.
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Perform root cause analysis for recurring issues and implement permanent fixes or workarounds.
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Monitor application performance, availability, and health using APM and logging tools; proactively identify and address issues before user impact.
Client Engagement and Service Delivery
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Act as a technical contact for assigned client applications, maintaining strong working relationships with key stakeholders.
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Translate technical issues into business-friendly language and provide regular updates on incidents, changes, and service performance.
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Participate in service reviews, reporting on application performance, trends, and improvement initiatives.
Incident, Problem, and Change Management
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Manage incidents and service requests through ITSM platforms (e.g., ServiceNow), ensuring accurate documentation and SLA compliance.
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Contribute to problem management processes, including trend analysis and known error documentation.
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Assess, implement, and validate application changes in line with change management processes, minimising risk to production environments
Application Maintenance and Optimisation
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Perform routine maintenance, patching, configuration updates, and performance tuning of supported applications.
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Collaborate with vendors and internal teams to apply upgrades, hotfixes, and enhancements.
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Identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements within application
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Documentation and Knowledge Management
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Maintain accurate and up-to-date technical documentation, including support runbooks, SOPs, and knowledge base articles.
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Contribute to knowledge sharing across the MSP team to improve first-call resolution and reduce dependency on key individuals.
Environment and Release Support
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Support deployment activities across development, test, and production environments, ensuring consistency and stability.
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Validate releases through smoke testing and post-deployment verification.
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Coordinate with DevOps, infrastructure, and client teams to ensure smooth release cycles.
Security and Compliance
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Ensure applications comply with client security standards, access controls, and audit requirements.
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Participate in vulnerability remediation and patching activities.
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Support audit processes by providing required evidence and documentation.
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