Owns the run of business applications: deployment, batches, monitoring and incidents.
Entry
Intermediate
Coding
Medium
Key skills
Career overview
The Application Production Engineer is the operations counterpart of development for a given application: they industrialise its deployment, watch its batches and interfaces, and drive incidents to resolution with the right teams.
Main responsibilities
- Deploy application releases and configuration changes
- Monitor scheduled jobs and batch chains
- Monitor platform health, alerts and dashboards
- Lead incident resolution and post-mortem analysis
- Write and improve operational runbooks
- Automate recurring tasks with scripts
- Prepare and execute change requests in production
- Analyse application logs to identify root causes
- Coordinate with software vendors and third parties
- Keep technical documentation up to date
Technical skills
Technologies
Education level
Education requirements vary depending on the company, country and experience. Professional experience, certifications and technical skills can sometimes compensate for formal education.
High School / Bac
Less common
Bac+2 (2-year degree)
Less common
Bac+3 (Bachelor)
Common entry point
Bac+5 (Master / Engineering)
Common entry point
Experience & coding level
Experience level
Coding level
Useful certifications
Certifications are never mandatory. They are one way among others to prove a skill.
- LPIC-1
- ITIL 4 Foundation
- CKA
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Overlap: 69% · Difficulty: Medium
Skills to learn: Networking, Docker, Automation (Ansible)
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Soft skills
- Rigour and attention to detail
- Staying calm under pressure
- Problem solving
- Sense of ownership
- Clear communication
- Documentation writing
Common previous careers
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