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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.
INTRODUCTION
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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Application Support Analyst
Align your credentials to PERM requirements
PERM requires your degree to match the job's minimum requirements exactly. If your employer lists a bachelor's in computer science, a degree in a different field may require a credential evaluation to confirm equivalency before DOL will certify your labor certification.
Target employers with established PERM workflows
Application Support Analyst roles at mid-size software companies and large financial institutions are sponsored more regularly than at startups. Look for employers whose job postings reference permanent residency support rather than just temporary visa sponsorship.
Search green card sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Filter by job title and green card sponsorship history to find employers who have filed PERM for Application Support Analyst roles before. Migrate Mate surfaces this DOL disclosure data so you can prioritize outreach to companies with a documented track record.
Clarify EB-2 versus EB-3 eligibility with your employer
If the role requires only a bachelor's degree, expect EB-3 filing. EB-2 applies when the position genuinely requires an advanced degree or you have a master's in a relevant field. Confirming which category your employer plans to file under affects your priority date strategy.
Understand PERM's supervised recruitment requirements
Before DOL certifies your PERM, your employer must conduct a supervised recruitment process and document that no qualified U.S. workers applied. Delays often occur when job postings don't match the PERM application's job duties, so review your job description carefully before filing begins.
Account for concurrent filing once your priority date is current
Once USCIS approves the I-140 petition and your priority date becomes current, you can file I-485 for adjustment of status without leaving the U.S. For EB-3 applicants from most countries, this means no extended wait in a backlog before applying for permanent residency.
Green Card Application Support Analyst: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Application Support Analyst role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Application Support Analyst positions qualify under EB-3 because they typically require a bachelor's degree rather than an advanced degree. If the role genuinely requires a master's degree or you hold one in a directly related field, your employer may file under EB-2. The PERM job description must match the actual minimum requirements the employer enforces, not just a preferred qualification.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary status renewed every three years with no direct path to permanence, while PERM leads to lawful permanent residency. There's no annual lottery for EB-3 sponsorship, and most nationalities outside India and China face no significant priority date backlog. The PERM process typically takes 12 to 24 months from labor certification filing through I-140 approval, longer than an H-1B petition but permanent in outcome.
What documents should I prepare before a U.S. employer starts my PERM process?
Gather your academic transcripts and degree certificates, and arrange a credential evaluation if your degree is from outside the U.S. Compile employment records that match the experience requirements on the PERM application. Any gap between your documented credentials and the job's stated minimum requirements can trigger a DOL audit, so accuracy at this stage protects the entire timeline.
How can I find Application Support Analyst jobs with green card sponsorship?
Use Migrate Mate to filter Application Support Analyst listings by employers who have sponsored green cards through PERM before. Because PERM filings are disclosed through DOL, Migrate Mate can identify which employers have a documented history of sponsoring this specific role rather than relying on vague sponsorship claims in job postings.
Can I switch employers after my I-140 is approved but before I have permanent residency?
Yes. Once your I-140 has been approved for at least 180 days and your I-485 has been pending for at least 180 days, U.S. immigration law allows you to port to a new employer in the same or a similar occupational classification without losing your priority date. Application Support Analyst roles typically fall under the same SOC code family, so a lateral move within IT support rarely disrupts portability eligibility.