An exciting opportunity is available for an Applications Support Engineer to join a large organisation supporting a suite of business-critical operational applications.
This is a broad technical role spanning application support, integrations, data and operational technology . You'll investigate application and integration issues, improve monitoring and automation, and support critical systems across an operational environment.
The role will suit someone from a software engineering or development background with strong troubleshooting and integration capability. While there is some scripting and coding involved, this is not primarily a software development position.
You Should Have
- Commercial experience with SQL
- Commercial experience with Python
- Commercial C or C++ experience
- Python scripting across ETL and data pipelines
- Power BI and/or Tableau exposure
- Robust application troubleshooting and investigation skills
- Ideally 2+ years' commercial software/development experience
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Nice to Have
- Mining industry or operational applications experience
- Historian or SCADA experience
- OPC-DA / OPC-UA experience
- AWS or AWS IoT experience
- C# experience
- Previous mentoring experience
Key Responsibilities
- Support business-critical operational applications
- Troubleshoot application and integration issues
- Perform break/fix and proactive maintenance
- Investigate SQL, data and integration issues
- Develop Python scripts for ETL and data transformation
- Improve monitoring, alerting and automation
- Engage with operational teams, projects and vendors
- Drive continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
You'll join a collaborative team operating in a fast-paced and changeable environment , with broad exposure across applications, integrations, data and operational technology.
Mining experience is not essential, making this a genuine opportunity for someone with a strong technical background to move into the sector and develop their career.
Working Arrangements
- Perth-based permanent position
- Staggered working hours across a 6:00am–6:00pm coverage window
- Occasional site travel
- On-call rotation approximately 1 week every 10 weeks
- Approximately $5,000 additional annual on-call allowance
- Salary $140,000–$179,500 + superannuation