Comment by simonh

Also consider Application Support. I know it's not sexy rockstar dev stuff, but if you can get into App Support on the Quartz (or Athena I suppose) environments you get a dev account and access to all the tools. You can view all the code, config and running systems. If you have a good relationship with your dev team you can submit patches e.g. to improve logging. The live log files of all your applications are just a URL away.

If you're up for it, you'll spend a significant amount of time in the Quartz IDE. There are teams within App Support that develop monitoring and compliance reporting tools in Qz and do about 50% development. I know because I ran one. One of my team transferred into our dev team.