Senior Application Support Engineer Client Platform
Johannesburg - South Africa
Job Summary
Our client is seeking a technically strong Senior Application Support Engineer to take end-to-end ownership of enterprise client deployments and complex production issues. This is not a traditional help-desk role; the successful candidate will work across C# Windows Linux networking and Azure observability to diagnose problems in environments outside of direct organisational control.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the primary technical point of contact for enterprise clients experiencing application and deployment issues.
- Own remote support cases from initial triage through verified resolution and provide clear written root-cause summaries.
- Lead remote installations upgrades and post-deployment validation within corporate environments.
- Diagnose issues across the application desktop client server application and surrounding infrastructure.
- Read and interpret C# application code stack traces and logs to identify probable root causes.
- Diagnose and Electron issues using browser DevTools including renderer/main-process failures IPC issues packaging code signing and auto-updates.
- Troubleshoot Server Connect application across Windows and Linux environments.
- Investigate firewalls proxies certificate trust chains TLS allowlisting and network-path issues.
- Use Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to investigate telemetry and operational issues.
- Develop PowerShell and/or Bash scripts to automate recurring diagnostics.
- Distinguish between configuration environment and genuine product issues and escalate with structured reproduction information where required.
- Identify recurring problems and drive permanent improvements through product changes documentation or installation processes.
- Contribute to small bug fixes and stability improvements across C# and secondarily Angular.
- Participate in occasional escalation support for confirmed client incidents outside standard South African business hours.
- Contribute to Azure networking discussions and feed recurring technical issues into engineering planning.
Essential Requirements
- 5 years experience in technical support solutions engineering platform engineering or a related technical role.
- At least 2 years client-facing experience.
- Hands-on C# experience sufficient to read debug and interpret application code stack traces and logs.
- Strong and Electron diagnostic experience.
- Experience debugging Electron main/renderer processes IPC packaging and auto-update issues.
- Working knowledge of Angular including components services routing and state management with the ability to make small bug fixes.
- Comfortable working from the command line across both Windows and Linux.
- Experience installing configuring and applications in Windows and/or Linux environments.
- Proven experience diagnosing enterprise networking issues involving firewalls proxies certificates PKI TLS allowlisting and network paths.
- Proficiency with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
- Experience conducting remote installations and technical troubleshooting sessions with enterprise IT teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to take ownership of complex issues and drive them through to resolution.
Advantageous
- Azure networking experience including VNets NSGs private endpoints Azure DNS and Application Gateway.
- Electron packaging code signing and auto-update experience.
- Linux administration including systemd journald and package management.
- PowerShell and/or Bash scripting.
- Enterprise PKI and certificate management.
- Azure Entra ID SAML or OIDC/SSO experience.
- Basic SQL knowledge.
- Azure certifications such as AZ-900 AZ-104 or AZ-204.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC