Position Description:
At CGI, we help clients deliver critical, high-profile services that keep communities moving. As an Application Support Analyst, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring essential applications remain secure, stable and fit for purpose. Working at the heart of a dynamic team, you’ll investigate and resolve incidents, deliver change, and contribute to ongoing service improvement. With exposure to a variety of complex and evolving technologies, this is an opportunity to take ownership of challenging problems, apply creativity in solution design, and build a career where you’re supported to grow while making a meaningful impact.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.
This is a hybrid position, with a Glasgow base. Regular office attendance (2-3 days per week) and occasional client site visits at short notice are required.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
In this role, you will provide application support across a suite of critical services, ensuring systems remain resilient, compliant and high-performing. You’ll monitor, manage and resolve incidents, carrying out root cause analysis and working closely with clients, vendors and colleagues to deliver timely solutions. You’ll also have the opportunity to implement changes, support project delivery, and contribute to continuous service improvements that make a measurable impact.
You’ll thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your problem-solving skills and technical expertise will be put to the test. Whether handling high-priority incidents, liaising with offshore colleagues, or applying governance and best practice to every task, you’ll play a key role in keeping vital services running smoothly.
Key responsibilities:
•Investigate & resolve technical incidents, ensuring timely and effective solutions
•Monitor & manage incidents in line with ITIL standards and best practice
•Conduct root cause analysis and problem investigations
•Implement technical changes and support project delivery tasks
•Ensure security, integrity, availability and performance of application environments
•Collaborate with offshore colleagues, vendors and 3rd parties to maintain stability
•Produce high-quality technical documentation and apply governance rigor
•Contribute to service improvements and quality assurance initiatives
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
To succeed in this role, you’ll need strong IT support experience, ideally within application support, with a track record of problem solving and delivering in high-pressure environments. Technical proficiency in key tools and languages, alongside excellent communication and collaboration skills, will enable you to make an impact from day one.
Essential qualifications:
•Proven IT support background with application support experience
•Technical skills in JAVA, .Net, WebSphere, MSSQL, T-SQL (or similar)
•Experience of IT Service Management tools such as GIT or Jira
•Strong problem-solving skills and programming knowledge
•Understanding of system maintenance and daily operational checks
•Knowledge of Azure / AWS hosting services and browser-based applications
•Experience contributing to technical projects and delivering IT change
•Strong communication and documentation skills (MS Word/Excel etc.)
•Ability to collaborate across teams, including offshore colleagues
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Skills:
1. Applications Administration
2. Incident Response
3. ITIL
4. Technical Analysis