Application Operations (AppOps) Engineer

Role : Application Operations (AppOps) Engineer

Location : Berkely Heights, NJ (try local or nearby locations)

Type: Contract

Skill Set : CI/CD, Jenkins, OpenShift, Azure, Helm, Ansible, Terraform, Build Deployment, component and Infra views

Basic Qualifications for Consideration:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent technical experience.
• 5 10+ years of experience in application support, system administration, DevOps, SRE, or production operations.
• Experience supporting distributed, cloud, or webbased applications in a 24x7 environment.
• Strong technical experience with Unix/Linux or Windows administration.
• Experience with scripting (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, Python).
• Familiarity with application monitoring & logging tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, ExtraHop, etc.).
• Experience with job schedulers (Control-M, Autosys) and file transmission protocols (SFTP, NDM, FTP).
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, load balancers).
• Ability to troubleshoot complex system issues involving infrastructure, databases, application services, or integrations.
• Participation in on-call rotations and willingness to work off-hours as needed.

Preferred Skills, Experience, and Education:

• Experience with database technologies (Oracle, SQL Server).
• Experience with containers and orchestration (OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker) is a plus.
• Cloud knowledge (Azure, AWS) including resource management and deployment concepts.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools, version control, and automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with financial systems, payments, tokenization, dispute processing, or batch processing environments.
• Understanding of ITIL concepts (Incident, Problem, Change Management).
• Experience with legacy systems and willingness to support them when needed.

Core Competencies

• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and prioritize in fast-paced environments.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills for both technical and business audiences.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work across teams and time zones.
• Desire to automate, streamline, and eliminate manual operational work.