Application Support Analyst Jobs in Florida

JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Application Support Analyst is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, security, and continuous improvement of business-critical applications. This role serves as a senior technical resource and escalation point, providing guidance and support to Application Support Analysts while independently leading the investigation and resolution of complex or high-impact application issues. The Sr. Analyst coordinates with business stakeholders, engineering, vendors, and other technical teams to resolve issues, minimize business disruption, and maintain application stability.

The role monitors application health, identifies recurring issues and systemic risks, and drives root-cause analysis and long-term solutions to improve application reliability and operational efficiency. The Sr Analyst also supports application changes, enhancements, upgrades, and deployments; develops and maintains application workflows, databases, and supporting web-based solutions; oversees access and security controls; and helps establish consistent support processes, documentation, and best practices. Through strong technical expertise, sound judgment, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration, the Sr. Application Support Analyst ensures applications effectively support business operations and deliver a reliable end-user experience.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Independently lead investigation and resolution of complex, high-impact, or recurring application incidents, such as application errors, outages, and performance issues.
• Serve as an advanced escalation point for issues that cannot be resolved through established support procedures or by Application Support Analysts.
• Own complex incidents through resolution, coordinating with engineering, vendors, and application owners while maintaining accountability for issue progress, business impact, and resolution.
• Perform immediate fixes or workarounds to restore service.
• Manage user access, roles, and permissions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate business processes, identify system gaps, and translate requirements into prioritized enhancement or improvement recommendations.
• Lead communication for high-impact incidents, providing clear updates on business impact, technical status, risks, mitigation actions, and expected resolution. Establish and promote application support standards, operational best practices, and consistent support procedures across the team.
• Coordinate stakeholder communications during major incidents and ensure timely, accurate updates through restoration and post-incident follow-up.
• Create, modify, and support SQL databases, queries, tables, and related data structures used by supported applications.
• Develop and maintain HTML-based application pages, interfaces, or supporting web content as required.
• Design, configure, test, and maintain application workflows and workflow automations to support business processes.
• Monitor application health, uptime, and performance dashboards.
• Perform routine checks to ensure integrations and services are functioning.
• Develop, review, and approve support documentation, troubleshooting standards, escalation procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Establish knowledge-management standards and ensure recurring issues are converted into reusable support guidance, known-error records, or standardized resolution procedures.
• Document system configurations and troubleshooting steps.
• Ensure processes are standardized and repeatable.
• Perform application configuration changes, workflow updates, and other technical enhancements within supported platforms.
• Support small enhancement requests or business rule updates.
• Coordinate with admins or developers for larger changes.
• Conduct deeper investigations into recurring or critical issues.
• Document root causes and long-term fixes.
• Identify trends in incidents to prevent future problems.
• Collaborate with engineering to implement permanent solutions.
• Lead or facilitate post-incident reviews for significant incidents and track corrective actions through completion.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to lead technical discussions and communicate complex incidents, risks, root causes, and remediation plans to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership.
• Exercises independent judgment in ambiguous or high-impact situations; assesses business impact, technical risk, and urgency to determine appropriate response and escalation strategies. Effective conflict resolution and technical problem-solving skills
• Advanced technical knowledge related to:
  • Infrastructure & network design, support, and troubleshooting
  • Windows and Linux systems administration
  • Asset management tools (such as ServiceNow, Snipe-IT, and Lansweeper)
  • Remote administration tools (such as Bomgar and Intune)
  • Task/project management and report tools (such as PowerBI and Click-Up)
  • Automation tools and platforms (such as scripts and Power Automate)
  • SQL database creation, modification, querying, troubleshooting, and ongoing support
  • HTML programming and maintenance of web-based application content or interfaces
  • Workflow design, configuration, automation, and troubleshooting within enterprise applications
• Experience with technical audits and compliance frameworks for policies and standards (especially cyber and privacy)
• Experience with development and maintenance of technical documentation
• Experience supporting large corporate enterprise systems, integrations, databases and workflows, including the design and modification of business process workflows.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and support insights generation.
• Support evaluation, testing, and implementation of application enhancements and process improvements.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Business or IT is required.

EXPERIENCE:

• 3+ years of experience in application support, IT support, or a related technical role; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Advanced experience troubleshooting software applications, system integrations, or enterprise platforms.
• Familiarity with ticketing systems (such as ServiceNow, Jira, or similar).
• Experience working with logs, error analysis, and basic debugging techniques.
• Exposure to incident management and root cause analysis processes.
• Experience with HTML programming and workflow development within enterprise applications of business systems.
• Experience with PMWeb programming and administration, including workflow development, SQL, HTML and application configuration, preferred.

Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.

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