Application Operations Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Application Operations Engineer to support and optimize the reliability, performance, and compliance of application-specific services. In this role, you will manage the full lifecycle of application operations-deployments, monitoring, incident response, automation, and communication with key stakeholders.
You will work in small, collaborative engineering teams and use both technical expertise and creativity to ensure the stability, scalability, and availability of applications within the Treasury application space.

What You'll Do

• Manage Deployment Pipelines: Own and maintain application-specific CI/CD pipelines. Coordinate releases, validate deployment artifacts, and ensure stable rollouts across environments.
• Build Monitoring & Observability: Develop dashboards, configure alerts, and integrate telemetry to provide visibility into application health and performance.
• Enhance Incident Response: Implement anomaly detection, establish triage workflows, and collaborate with support and engineering teams to accelerate root-cause analysis.
• Automate Operations: Create scripts, tools, and automation processes to reduce manual tasks and streamline operations across CI/CD, monitoring, and incident management.
• Create Documentation: Maintain runbooks, operational guides, and knowledge articles aligned with best practices and team needs.
• Support Compliance: Ensure adherence to internal and external governance, security, and risk requirements. Implement controls and participate in audit readiness.
• Stakeholder Communication: Deliver consistent updates on application performance, incidents, and operational metrics to technical and business partners.
• Manage Certificates: Oversee lifecycle management of application certificates, ensuring secure communication and compliance. Automate certificate processes where possible.
• Apply SRE Practices: Define and monitor SLOs, track error budgets, and implement fault tolerance, capacity planning, and performance optimization strategies.

Top Skills

• Strong SQL experience (writing ad hoc queries, building tables)
• CI/CD deployment experience
• DevOps/system administration experience with Windows servers and some Linux exposure

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in application operations, DevOps, or site reliability engineering.
• Experience with n-tier architectures, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native technologies, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Hands-on expertise with monitoring/observability platforms such as Splunk or Dynatrace.
• Strong scripting and automation skills with a focus on reducing manual work.
• Experience working in Agile environments with strong collaboration skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting capabilities, with familiarity applying SRE principles (SLOs, error budgets, resilience engineering).

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Deployment automation
• Additional scripting experience
• Agile methodologies
• Monitoring tools
• Splunk experience

Why Join Us?

You'll have the chance to influence critical application operations, work with modern technologies, and contribute to improving reliability, performance, and overall operational excellence.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Alpharetta, GA.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $43.00 - $50.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Alpharetta,GA.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Mar 2, 2026.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.