Transguard Workforce Solutions is the UAE's leading provider of unique and innovative HR solutions. With a decade of experience in the region and a team that possesses extensive knowledge of the market, we provide a fully integrated HR solution.
We are currently recruiting a Application Administrator for our client based in Dubai UAE for a Fixed term of 12 Months.
Job Purpose:
The Applications Administrator will be part of a skilled engineering team responsible for delivering missioncritical application administration services. The role ensures high levels of application availability, performance, reliability, and security. The ideal candidate has a strong background in IT, application administration, systems engineering, or systems analysis.
Job Responsibilities:
1.Strategy & Governance
- Provide timely data and reports to the Applications Administration Manager.
- Recommend technical and operational improvements to support strategic planning and continuous enhancement of IT services.
2.Operational Responsibilities
- Manage and administer application technical support, maintenance activities, and related SOPs to ensure effective controls and compliance.
- Provide rapid fixes for application incidents and ensure minimum downtime.
- Contribute to IT security policies, standards, and controls for application servers aligned with corporate security frameworks.
- Identify, assess, and support mitigation of security risks and audit findings related to application servers.
- Participate in project lifecycles, including Development, QC, UAT, and Production phases.
- Monitor application service delivery in line with approved policies, user requests, SLAs, and maintenance schedules.
- Apply application security patches, updates, and bug fixes upon vendor release.
- Deploy new application releases and packages.
- Ensure all supported application implementations are secure, reliable, costeffective, and fit for purpose.
- Maintain accurate application documentation and inventory across Production, QC, DEV, and UAT environments.
- Collaborate with vendors and third parties to ensure adherence to industry best practices.
- Handle special assignments from line management or senior IT leadership.
Job Requirements:
- 7+ years of IT infrastructure experience with focus on application technical support and security.
- Strong understanding of application support and security concepts.
- Working knowledge of AD, DNS, HTTP/S, SSH, LDAP, DHCP.
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, firewalls, networking protocols, and security principles.
- Experience with application design, deployment, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management.
- Expertise in capacity planning, performance tuning, high availability, and security hardening.
- Handson experience with applications from Oracle, SAP, IBM, Microsoft, and similar platforms.
- Experience using automation tools for application management.
- Proven experience with implementations, upgrades, and managing applications in complex environments.
- Ability to perform effectively under highpressure, 24/7 on-call situations.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Education/Certifications:
- Minimum, Bachelor's in IT/ Computer science or related field.
- ITIL (preferred)
- Industry certifications related to application administration
- Project management certifications such as PRINCE2, PMP (advantageous)
