Graduate Operations Engineer
Permanent employee, Full-time · Reading, Hybrid
30,000 - 35,000 £ per year
Your mission
The Role
Our highly skilled Operations Engineers work through complex client issues and respond to a diverse range of tasks and issues. The role includes client project work; including software upgrades, migrations and optimisation projects. Operations Engineers will also write thorough and articulate articles in our internal knowledgebase, creating a clear guide to assist clients with future issues.
This is a diverse and fast-paced role that requires wide technical knowledge, the ability to problem solve and adopt new technical skills quickly.
Your profile
Responsibilities and Duties:
Operations Delivery
* Resolve complex technical issues for AC’s international customers on their use of our partner systems.
* Responsible for prioritising and managing service requests and incidents.
* Contributes to and improves our documentation through your ongoing experience with customers.
* Uses technical competence and implementation experience to develop functional and technical solution skills.
* Responsible for the delivery of stand-alone technical projects.
* Proactively monitor client systems to prevent future incidents.
* Participate in providing flexible cover to an international client base on a regular basis.
Customer Management
* Being the client’s first point of contact advising them through situations and proposing clear and simple solutions to answer to their requests within the defined SLA.
* Developing customer relationship and expectation management skills by independently working with customers.
Leadership
* Helping Automation Consultants to continue to develop new talent by helping to mentor and assist new starters during the onboarding process.
Qualifications and Skills:
Essential
* Experience using at least two of the following programming languages; Java, JavaScript, Python, C, C#, C++, SQL or Groovy
* A relevant and strong degree within a STEM based subject, 2:1 minimum
* Experience working with public Cloud solutions, such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
* Experience administering Windows and Linux based servers
* Experience using and managing application performance monitoring tools
* Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to manage multiple ongoing work priorities and deliver to strict deadlines
* Strong written and verbal communication skills with an understanding of customer management.
* Experience in a customer facing service delivery role
Nice to have
* Experience of using or administering Atlassian software such as Jira and Confluence.
* The passion to learn new skills and procedures in order to be an effective member of the team.
* Previous experience working in a similar role or role with transferable skill sets within the tech sector.
Why us?
We know that here at Automation Consultants, our team members are the best in the industry. So, we do everything we can to take care of them. We offer ongoing training and professional development, tailored to the individual’s ambitions, as well as creating a team that learns from one another. We offer challenging projects within a supportive team and believe that your skills should always be growing.
Salary and Benefits: £30,000 - £35,000 Per Annum
* 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
* Private Healthcare
* Dental insurance
* Enhanced Maternity & Paternity plans.
* Pension Scheme
* Dedicated ongoing training plan and budget
* Flexible working hours and environment
* Access to the Electric Car Scheme
* Automation Consultant’s Cycle to Work Scheme
* Top Spec Machine and access to virtual test lab
* Onsite gym, showers, yoga lessons and more.
* Regular company-wide events, team social events, including Hackathons and competitions
About us
Automation Consultants is a leading Agile and DevOps consultancy, dedicated to improving business performance through digital transformation and software automation, as well as selling our own software under our AppFox brand. We are specialists in Atlassian and AWS, delivering industry recognised automation solutions, software development and technical support. Our customers range from start-ups to global organisations.
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