Applications Engineer

Focused on employment and labor law since 1958, Jackson Lewis P.C.’s 1,000+ attorneys located in major cities nationwide consistently identify and respond to new ways workplace law intersects business. We help employers develop proactive strategies, strong policies and business-oriented solutions to cultivate high-functioning work forces that are engaged and stable, and share our clients’ goals to emphasize belonging and respect for the contributions of every employee.

The Firm is ranked in the First Tier nationally in the category of Labor and Employment Litigation, as well as in both Employment Law and Labor Law on behalf of Management, in the U.S. News - Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”.

The Applications Engineer implements, administers, integrates, and supports enterprise applications used by attorneys and legal professionals across the firm, with responsibility for application reliability, security, and lifecycle management.

This role combines strong application support expertise with an understanding of legal technology and business workflows to deliver secure, efficient solutions and improve the user experience.

As a technical owner, the Applications Engineer improves application performance and reliability through proactive monitoring, automation, and effective resolution of complex technical issues.

• Serve as the technical owner and subject-matter expert for assigned enterprise and legal applications.
• Configure, administer, maintain, and support enterprise applications throughout their lifecycle.
• Support legal technology platforms, including Net Documents, Litera, Intapp, Microsoft 365 add-ins, and other cloud-based and on-premises applications used by the firm.
• Plan, test, deploy, and support application implementations, upgrades, patches, integrations, and new functionality in accordance with change and release management processes.
• Develop automation to streamline application administration, deployment, monitoring, reporting, and support.
• Proactively monitor application availability, performance, capacity, integrations, and scheduled processes, identifying and resolving issues before they materially affect users.
• Troubleshoot complex application and integration issues, perform root cause analysis, and coordinate with internal teams and vendors to resolve incidents.
• Partner with Information Security to implement and maintain appropriate application security controls, including permissions, authentication, service accounts, and vulnerability remediation.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, support procedures, configuration standards, and operational runbooks.
• Manage relationships with technology vendors and service providers, including escalations and product roadmap discussions, to resolve issues and optimize the firm's use of supported technologies.
• Provide technical guidance and share knowledge with other members of the Practice Technology and IT teams.
• Participate in after-hours maintenance, upgrades, and escalation support when required.

• 5+ years of experience administering and supporting enterprise applications.
• Proven experience installing, configuring, monitoring, troubleshooting, upgrading, and patching enterprise applications throughout their lifecycle.
• Experience supporting SaaS and other cloud-based enterprise applications.
• Experience with identity and authentication technologies such as SSO, SAML, OAuth, Entra /Azure AD, MFA, certificates, and service accounts.
• Experience working with REST APIs, web services, or other application integration technologies.
• Proven experience designing or supporting highly available applications, including load balancing, redundancy, failover, disaster recovery, and…