Applications Support Administrator

Summary about this job

Detail information about job Applications Support Administrator. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Excellent Work Environment in Supportive, Flexible and Health Conscious Company
• Great work life balance - be home on time!
• People Focussed Organisation with an Outstanding Work Culture

12 month maximum term contract

The Company

Capricorn is a unique, cooperative minded organisation owned by its members that operates in the Automotive Industry. It provides access to a host of business services including consolidated monthly billing, finance, risk protection and even a registered travel agency. Since its beginnings in 1974, Capricorn has grown to an international business with over 19,500 Members and 2,500 Preferred Suppliers operating across Australia and New Zealand.

The Role

The Applications Support Administrator is responsible for the maintenance and support of Capricorn’s production applications suite. As part of the IT Operations team, accountability resides with the Applications Support Administrator to ensure the performance and effectiveness of Capricorn’s applications are maintained at optimum levels to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with the business. Further to the production environment, the Applications Support Administrator is also responsible for the provision of systems administrative level support to the Development and Test environments. 

Key responsibilities of the role will include:

• Developing and maintaining a deep understanding of Capricorn’s application environment, including the Epicor ERP and Pure Underwriting product suites.
• Creation of scripts to automate procedures and workflow.
• Development of applications, portals and processes to enhance the ability of the IT Operations and Service Desk teams to support and facilitate day to day maintenance tasks.
• Provision, configure and deploy applications and supporting tools.
• Participate and if required, take the lead in coordinating and deploying releases of products and applications.
• Ensuring the development and test lab environments are maintained at production like levels with regards to availability, integrity and performance.
• Provide Systems Administration level support for all Development and Test environment users.
• Perform configuration, troubleshooting and performance tuning work across the multiple lab environments
• As part of the Applications Support team, provide primary support for all application related faults and issues.
• Complete IT infrastructure projects as allocated, meeting deadlines and providing deliverables in a timely manner
• After hours and weekend work will be required from time to time.

Experience Required

Our work culture is one of our most valued assets at Capricorn. That means that when we recruit, we are looking for the right person who will effectively communicate with the business, collaborate with their peers and commit to their position. These attributes are a must for us to maintain our work culture, and it's important to us that these are demonstrated with examples from previous professional experience.

We’re also looking for skills in the following areas:

• Application development experience in C#.
• PowerShell scripting experience.
• Previous experience using MVC (Model View Controller)
• Experience with the Epicor ERP 10 platform (Desired)
• Experience managing VMware vSphere (Desired).
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Systems or Application Administration position.
• Minimum 5 years IT industry experience.
• Tertiary qualifications including TAFE certificate or university degree within IT is desirable
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification is desirable.

Benefits at Capricorn & How to Apply

When you join Capricorn, you join a group of people who enjoy coming to work and a company that invests both time and money into ensuring they continue to enjoy it. Health is paramount – our wellness program includes on site group fitness, free personal training, fun run sponsorship and much more. People are social beings and we are a social company – along with end of quarter and staff celebrations, we also celebrate with footy days, Melbourne cup, international food days, breakfasts, office sweeps and more.

If this is you and you're interested in joining us, please send through your resume via Seek. CV's will be reviewed as they arrive so we'd like to see your application sooner rather than later.

For further information and detail on Capricorn, please visit our website at www.capricorn.coop.

Thank you

Capricorn Recruitment Team