Job Title: Application Operations Manager
Location: Montvale, New Jersey (Hybrid)
Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced professional to lead end-to-end support and operations for a complex application portfolio, with a particular emphasis on agentic and AI-native solutions. Our team values innovation in operational practices and drives excellence in stakeholder communication and technical service delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee application support operations for both traditional and AI-native applications, ensuring timely ticket triage, troubleshooting, and resolution for multi-agent workflows.
- Drive the adoption of agentic operations, implementing AI-assisted triage, diagnostics, self-healing actions, and automated communications while maintaining compliance with enterprise controls and reliability standards.
- Continuously improve support processes by increasing automation and self-healing, enhancing proactive monitoring and anomaly detection, and advancing documentation and AI-augmented knowledge management.
- Maintain strong collaboration among business stakeholders, engineering, SRE, platform, vendor teams, and others on Azure performance, AI service stability, observability, release management, and change coordination.
Required:
- Minimum five years of recent experience in application support, production operations, or technical service management, with at least three years in a leadership or manager role.
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, information systems, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Azure architecture, monitoring, and operational tooling, including AI-enabled services such as ASE platform, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, .NET, and IIS/Windows based environments.
- Demonstrated ability to operate and scale AI-assisted support models, balancing automation with human oversight.
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