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Application Support Engineer

£45,000 - £50,000
Greater London
MH17623

How does working for an established software consultancy provider for over 20 years sound? Specialising in software, my client offers software products that help market-leading and many smaller pharmaceutical and biotech companies to improve their supply. Providing a friendly, supportive, well-organised environment, with good work-life balance and opportunities for self-improvement.

As an Application Support Engineer, you will be responsible for providing support to customers globally. Reporting to the Head of Application Support, based in London. 

Sound interesting? Read on… 

Working with other globally located (UK, US, Poland) Support staff, your role will be to balance the support workload and increase responsiveness to customers. Provide support for customers and work towards the timely (within agreed SLA) resolution of support issues arising from systems installed at customer sites. 

Responsibilities: 

  •          Investigate customer-reported issues via remote access to customer systems
  •          Perform data fixes or configuration changes to resolve issues or work around problems
  •          Test and apply fixes such as remedial scripts/patches
  •          Participate in process improvement activities within the support team 

Skills:

  •          Experience in a customer facing application facing support role
  •          Very strong SQL skills (Oracle preferred), creating views, functions/procedures. Understanding of performance problems, and ability to understand/debug PL/SQL
  •          Ability to diagnose & address application issues
  •          Complex problem solving
  •          Ability to read and understand C# & .NET would be advantageous but not essential
  •          Previous experience with AWS advantageous

Benefits: 

  •          Some flexibility in working hours (around core hours) with partial remote working option (under current circumstances)
  •          25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
  •          Flexible annual leave policy - ability to buy or sell up to 5 annual leave days
  •          Company pension scheme
  •          Cycle scheme
  •          Regular social events

Interested?

Apply now and we can discuss this in more detail and provide you with a more detailed job description.

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