Senior Technical Support Engineer - Performance (Weekend shift pattern)
Onsite
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
Full Time
Job Type
Full Time
Job Details
Job Description What you get to do in this role: The TSE will work on a rotating shift pattern basis. The workweek will span Tuesday through Saturday (Shift 1) for two months and then switch to Sunday through Thursday (Shift 2) for two months. The shift pattern involves consistent daytime hours without any evening or night shifts, allowing the team to effectively manage technical support duties while maintaining a balanced work schedule. Work hours will cover 8:00am - 5:00pm. The Performance Support Engineer will be responsible for managing and resolving the most challenging issues for the ServiceNow Technical Support team focusing on Performance and instance availability. This includes being the last point of escalation within the technical support department and mentoring junior team members in the various technologies. The successful candidate will be able to quickly gain an understanding of the ServiceNow platform. This is a customer-facing role and therefore it requires strong inter-personal skills in addition to strong technical skills.
The Performance Support Engineer must able to work outside of normal business hours (evening/weekend shifts, holidays) as needed. Qualifications To be successful in this role you have: In order to be successful in this role, we need someone who has:
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot difficult technical issues
- Strong Experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Oracle)
- Java experience
- Experience in one (or more) scripting languages: JavaScript, Python, Perl, Unix Shell, Windows Shell)
- Advanced Unix/Linux experience
- Working knowledge of the components in a web applications stack.
- Experience diagnosing performance degradation (e.g. explain plans, database tuning)
- Experience working well in a team environment while also being able to work productively while unsupervised
- Strong personal commitment to quality and customer service
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate solutions to complex technical problems
- Ability to work with high-value customer administrators and developers
- Excellent time management skills
- Consistent ability to work evenings and weekends
- Understanding of basic networking and system administration
- Experience writing or debugging Object Oriented code (Java preferred, other relevant technologies ok)
- Experience working with dynamic HTML components: AJAX, JavaScript, AngularJS, CSS, XML, HTML, XHTML
- Advanced object oriented programming skills (Java strongly preferred).
- Deep understanding of JavaScript
- Demonstrated proficiency with the following Technical Skills
- Web Services (consuming or providing) (SOAP, REST)
- Data Extraction Technologies (e.g. JDBC, ODBC)
- Any bi-directional, automated integration between two systems
- TCP/IP, Networking knowledge
- Experience with Splunk
- Understanding of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Understanding of remote administration via SSH, SNMP, WMI, Powershell
- Strong Familiarity with Eclipse IDE
- A fundamental understanding of ITSM, ITIL, and/or CMDB
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