Engineer, Applications Operations Center

Engineer, Applications Operations Center

Our Global Operating Center located in Manila is pivotal to enhancing the Firm’s operational efficiency and streamlining legal and business services support across our global network. Our center provides comprehensive administrative, financial and operational services across office operations, compliance and new business, finance, technology, human resources, innovation and marketing. By centralizing these critical functions, the center ensures consistency and quality in service delivery while reducing operational costs. Through its integrated approach, our Global Operating Center enables the Firm to focus on its core legal services, drive global growth and maintain high standards of client service across all offices.

Position Summary

The Engineer provides Tier 2 technical support to internal customers via the Application Operations Center (APOC) Support Systems.

Duties and Accountabilities:

• Monitor the health of enterprise services, automation platforms, and supporting infrastructure, performing 2nd level troubleshooting and coordinating escalations to appropriate support teams when required.
• Conduct regular operational reviews and validation checks to ensure automated processes, monitoring activities, and APOC deliverables are executed accurately and within defined service levels.
• Generate and analyze operational reports and service metrics, providing insights on system performance, automation effectiveness, service trends, and areas for continuous improvement.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance operational documentation, knowledge articles, and runbooks in collaboration with cross-functional IT and support teams.
• Ensure compliance with established operational procedures, escalation paths, incident management processes, and change management standards.
• Support the onboarding, transition, and operational management of new technologies, services, and automation initiatives as directed by management
• Provide centralized operational support and service coordination for designated global offices, acting as a liaison between end users, support teams, and service owners to facilitate timely issue resolution.
• Identify opportunities for automation and process optimization, driving improvements that enhance operational efficiency, service reliability, and user experience.
• Perform proactive event monitoring and trend analysis to detect potential service disruptions and coordinate preventive actions before business impact occurs.
• Support major incident management activities, including stakeholder communications, bridge coordination, and post-incident reviews to drive continuous service improvement.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Application Support, Application Operations, Service Operations, IT Operations, or a related technical support role.

• Experience supporting business-critical enterprise applications and ensuring high service availability in a production environment.

• Strong understanding of application monitoring, event management, incident management, and service restoration processes.

• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, SolarWinds, Azure Monitor, DataDog, New Relic, or equivalent tools.

• Familiarity with application architecture, web services, APIs, middleware, databases, and integrated enterprise systems.

• Basic knowledge of SQL with the ability to execute queries for troubleshooting, validation, and analysis purposes.

• Experience with ITSM and ticket management platforms such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, Remedy, or equivalent solutions.

• Understanding of Windows, Linux, Cloud, and Server environments from an application support perspective.

• Experience with PowerShell, scripting, workflow automation, or orchestration tools is highly desirable.

• Knowledge of Microsoft 365, Exchange Online, Active Directory, Entra ID, and related business productivity platforms is an advantage.

• Familiarity with Cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform is an advantage.

• Understanding of batch processing, scheduled jobs, application dependencies, and integration monitoring.

• Knowledge of ITIL practices, including Incident, Problem, Change, Service Request, and Major Incident Management.

• Experience participating in major incident bridges, application outage management, and service recovery activities.

• Ability to analyze logs, system alerts, application performance data, and operational dashboards to identify service-impacting issues.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to coordinate technical teams during service disruptions.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to provide timely updates to business and technical teams.

• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple priorities while meeting operational and service-level objectives.

• Industry certifications such as ITIL Foundation, Microsoft, Azure, Cloud, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), or Automation-related certifications are an advantage.

• Willingness to work in a 24x7 operational environment supporting global business applications and services.

• Experience supporting Application Operations Center (APOC), Command Center, Major Incident Management, or Service Reliability functions is highly desirable.

• This role reports to

• Senior Manager, Technology Operations

• Equal Opportunities

• White & Case is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

• The Firm may modify and amend any job description at any time in its sole discretion. Nothing herein creates a contract of employment or otherwise modifies the at-will nature of employment.

• The above is only a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.

• Firm Summary

• White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. With a long history as an international firm, we are well-positioned to help clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may arise.

• Operating across six continents and working in virtually every country, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality, full-service practice that competes at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in key financial markets and our expertise in handling complex cross-border work.

• What sets us apart is not just our global network of offices but the interconnectedness of our Firm. Our people and clients value our collaboration across geographic and practice boundaries, which is why we attract and retain significant cross-border work.

• Representing multiple nationalities from across the world and speaking a vast array of languages, our lawyers and Business Services professionals are globally minded, enterprising, and committed to excellence.

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