# Application Support Engineer — Harjai Technologies

Canonical: https://jobxdubai.com/jobs/li-4482082392-application-support-engineer
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Type: full_time · Level: mid
Monthly salary: AED 9,800 to 14,700 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-10-21
Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/application-support-engineer-at-harjai-technologies-4482082392?_l=en

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## Description

Position : L2 Application Support Engineer

Job Location : Riyadh, KSA

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Incident & Problem Management:

• Take ownership of incidents escalated by Level 1 and lead the investigation until resolution.

• Resolve configuration issues and complex application problems directly in line with the agreed change policy.

• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for every major incident and produce clear incident reports with preventive actions.

• Escalate genuine code defects to Level 3 (development team), pinpointing the exact defect, logs and evidence.

• Track recurring issues through problem management until the root cause is permanently fixed.

Release & Change Management:

• Work with DevOps on every release and validate each change request moving from UAT to production against the release checklist.

• Verify deployments after go-live and support rollback when needed.

Monitoring & Service Stability:

• Maintain monitoring dashboards and alerts (Grafana / Prometheus / Loki / Tempo) to detect issues before users are impacted.

• Monitor application performance, APIs, integrations and databases, and act proactively on slowdowns and failures.

Operations & On-Call:

• Serve as the Level 2 escalation point in the weekly on-call rotation.

• Meet the agreed SLAs for response and resolution according to incident severity.

Knowledge & Team Support:

• Create and maintain runbooks and knowledge-base articles for the supported applications.

• Guide and coach Level 1 engineers and review their escalations.

• Provide regular status updates to the Application Support Leader and stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.

• Years of Experience • 3-4+ years’ experience in application support (L2) or supporting backend development, supporting production systems.

Additional Skills Technical Skills:

• Good Node.js / Express: reads, debugs and fixes production code.

• Git, GitLab and Jenkins Knowledge; CI/CD pipelines (deployment checks and rollback).

• Strong Linux administration (services, processes, disk, memory, logs) and basic Bash scripting.

• Strong database skills, especially PostgreSQL (complex queries, performance tuning); MySQL / MSSQL a plus.

• Strong knowledge of APIs (REST / SOAP) and system integrations (authentication, timeouts, failures).

• Load balancers, nginx and Redis (caching).

• Monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, logs, metrics and traces).

• Root cause analysis and incident reporting; ITSM / ticketing tools and SLAs.

• SAP exposure is a plus.

Soft Skills:

• Strong ownership; works independently across many applications.

• Clear communication with developers, DevOps, business and management.

• Reliable for on-call shifts and calm under pressure.

Language Skills • Native Arabic Language speaking and Good Command over English Language

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## Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent. 3-4+ years’ experience in application support (L2) or supporting backend development, supporting production systems.

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