Application Support Analyst

Hays plc
Birmingham, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Intermediate
Compensation
£ 45K

Job location

Remote
Birmingham, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Apache HTTP Server
Client Server Models
Databases
Data Centers
Relational Databases
DNS
IIS
Python
Log Analysis
Microsoft SQL Server
Windows Server
Oracle Applications
Powershell
SQL Databases
TCP/IP
Web Applications
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Connectivity Problems
Firewalls (Computer Science)
VMware

Job description

You will be supporting the business across a broad variety of work, you'll apply hands-on expertise within hosted environments, and you'll have a good understanding of virtualisation and its processes.

  • Application Expertise: Offer expert guidance, troubleshooting, and advocate best practices for deploying client-server and web applications in a Windows server environment.
  • Incident Resolution: Lead incident management and escalations, ensuring the delivery of timely, high-quality updates to customers.
  • Customer Onboarding Collaboration: Collaborate with project management and delivery teams to streamline the onboarding of new customers efficiently.
  • Build Standard Compliance: Uphold and rigorously maintain system build standards within the environment.

Requirements

You'll need to be passionate about IT and a good communicator. Someone who will get stuck in, someone who can hold a good conversation, someone who is looking to learn and develop themselves.

  • Application Support Experience: minimum 3 years' experience of supporting client-server back-office and web-based systems (Apache; IIS).
  • Database Proficiency: Exhibit experience with relational databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
  • Windows Server Environment: Understand the key workings of Windows Server in terms of running and supporting applications.
  • Scripting Expertise: Showcase a proven track record in creating scripts using languages such as SQL (queries; joins), PowerShell (log analysis, automation and troubleshooting), Python, and VBS.
  • Infrastructure Knowledge: Possess an understanding of data centres, virtualized environments, and their administration, particularly through VMWare.
  • IT Service Management: Incident, problem and change management experience within an ITIL environment.
  • Networking Skills: Fundamental understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, Firewalls) to address connectivity problems and work efficiently with network teams.

Benefits & conditions

Salary of up to £45000, remote working, decent benefits package.

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