Application Support Engineer
Partnerize
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The partnership channel offers scale and automation on a pay-for-performance model that delivers the operating leverage necessary for brand survival. Partnerize empowers marketers with technology built to discover, engage, and convert audiences, at scale, all while maintaining brand safety and control.
Why Join Us?
Our commitment to growing partnerships doesn't end with our clients. Our employees are carefully selected to be a part of our company because they emulate a carefully crafted and practiced set of core values that define us and our business. Joining Partnerize means joining a company that sincerely values your talent, expertise, and passion. We strive each day to hire and retain only the best. Doing so affords us the opportunity to be the best in the business, to exceed our clients' expectations, to innovate, to teach—and most importantly—to earn and maintain our clients’ loyalty.
Job Overview
We are at a pivotal point in our tech progression. We're looking to grow the technical estate, replace existing systems with new and scale and develop the platform. It's an exciting time to join the team in this captivating period.
We’ve an opportunity for someone with a natural ability in customer support, a genuine interest in technology and software to join our Technical Operations team. You will be our first point of contact providing support and advice to our internal users for desktop, application and platform services. Ensuring that incidents and requests are triaged, diagnosed and resolved as quickly as possible.
As an Application Support Engineer, you are responsible for ensuring that our immediate tech teams are always fully equipped to deal with incoming Technical Operations (Tech-Ops) Tickets. This will be in relation to all aspects of security, infrastructure, applications and IT services.
Our Application Support Engineers work with minimum supervision and sometimes to short deadlines. They are great communicators, pride themselves on continuous learning, are flexible and enjoy being part of an environment that is maintained using standard operating procedures, detailed documentation and team training.
As a member of the Application Support team you report to the Technical Support Manager, where working as part of the wider Tech-Ops resolver group you provide optimal service to our employees and customers. Always ensure that escalated tickets and incidents have a summary of events that outline reasons for reassignment, have sufficient documentation to support escalation and give the right balance of technical and non-technical information. This means that we’re always on hand to give progress updates that can be clearly communicated back to our customers.
We’re looking for a mix of technical generalists, specialists, candidates that are new to IT or very experienced. For us, it's more about the person and the character than the role. We need people that will get excited about taking us to the next stage of our evolution helping us with their specific skills and experience but learning new ones along the way.
As an Application Engineer at Partnerize, You Will:
- Provide 1st and 2nd Line Support to the company's internal and external customers.
- Work closely with the solutions engineering team
- Keep ahead of software releases and new features
- Identify and escalate potential risks and blockers
- Translate customer requirements into software configuration
- Participate in code releases and git-based branch control
- Collaborate with the SRE and Dev teams
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Experience of databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis)
- Understanding of scripting languages (Python, Bash, PHP)
- Understanding development practices
- Excellent communication skills
- Comfortable in data handling (JSON, XML, Yaml)
- It would be helpful for the candidate to have Jira and Confluence experience.
- An awareness of AWS and other cloud infrastructure services
- Knowledge of and experience with the ITIL practices.
- Hands on experience with automation technologies (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
- Writing user and tech guides along with standard operating procedures
- Experience of technical support, resolving customer issues in a timely manner
- Working to deadlines with planning and organisational skills
Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Experience in a help/service desk support role managing service requests in a ticketing system
- Background and interests in development or technology.
- Experience of Service Management Tools such as Jira or Zendesk
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
At Partnerize, we recognize it is unrealistic for a candidate to fulfill 100% of the criteria in this job description. We encourage you to apply if you feel you meet the majority requirements above. We know that skills evolve over time, so if you have a keen appetite to learn and evolve alongside us overtime, come join our team!
Benefits & Perks
- 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays
- Enhanced parental leave (Partnerize Parents) 6 months full pay, 6 months half pay and 5 extra 'Partnerize Parental Days' each year
- Regular company events and activities
- Enhanced pension contributions
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Eye Care Vouchers
- Private Medical Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Wellness Program including access to EAP, Wellness Coaching & Wellness Fridays program
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to attracting, developing, and advancing our outstanding team members, regardless of race, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, gender identity, physical abilities, or any other dimension of diversity. We strive to foster an environment where people can be their authentic selves, raise concerns and innovate, all without fear; where they are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources and can contribute fully to the organization’s success. Every individual in our business is expected to live this commitment without exception.
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