Support Engineer (Based in UK, Richmond, Surrey)
Job Title: Support Engineer
Reports to: Digital Support and Deployment Manager
Based at: Richmond, UK, Surrey
Reed Exhibitions is the world’s leading events business, enhancing the power of face-to-face through data and digital tools. Every year we run over 500 events in more than 30 countries, bringing together over 7 million active event participants worldwide. With 4000 employees, we serve 43 industries in 38 offices around the globe.
Reed Exhibitions is part of RELX Group. RELX Group is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America.
Reed Exhibitions is focused on seamlessly joining our digital experience with our at show experience.
We have an opportunity to join the Deployment and Support Team, which is currently working transitioning our 500 website to a new platform. You will be providing technical and functional support on a digital suite of applications as part of a cross-functional team in an agile environment working towards a DevOps culture.
Key Responsibilities:
• Perform a variety of support tasks within the support team
• Respond to incidents, investigate root cause and follow their lifecycle through to resolution
• Adopt a pro-active approach to the all incidents and problems raised
• Ensure customers are updated and tickets are managed with the correct level of information
• Interact with surrounding support teams to consult on issues
• Address a variety of ad-hoc queries and run various reports
• Monitor data interfaces/scheduled jobs to ensure that all systems are running issue free
• On-call for priority 1 tickets raised out of hours, this is on a rota basis
• Training team members as appropriate and end users as per business requirements
Ideal candidate profile:
• Have a firm understanding of web technology and digital services
• Have skills in Backend and Front-End Web UI development, with an eye for detail.
• Able to use a depth and breadth of experience to support technical issues
• Enjoy solving problems, thinking analytically, taking action and feeling responsible for delivering results.
• A people person; must be highly communicative, open, a team player and learning from people with different skills, backgrounds and perspectives
• Previous experience in Application Support
• Proven experience of managing incidents through to resolution or escalation
• C# and ASP.Net, MVC, RESTful WebApis - Programming/debugging
• SQL Server knowledge and strong TSQL skills
• Experience in front-end web development. JavaScript(JSON/XML), CSS and modern JavaScript Frameworks (such as ReactJS, or Angular) and Node.JS
• Working knowledge of web site related technologies, including web servers/hosting, internet protocols and other standards (e.g. FTP, SFTP etc.)
• Experience of agile best practices (SCRUM)
• Ideally AEM (Adobe Experience Manager), Java and JEE
• Demonstrable skills in working with Web APIs, ideally through Apigee API Gateway, or similar and exposure to GraphQL
• Desirable Cloud and network awareness with knowledge of AWS, Load Balancers, Proxy Servers, DNS, CDNs and WAFs
• Ideally, experience with Event Driven Architectures and message Queues (such as SQS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ and Amazon SNS)
• Desirable ITIL best practice on incident and problem management
Interested? If this position interests you or you know someone it would, please send written applications to recruitment@reedexpo.co.uk with a covering letter and your salary expectations. Or you can apply online at http://reedexpo.jobs/ Due to the large volume of applications, we are unable to respond to all applications individually. Therefore, if you are not contacted by the company within the next three weeks, we regret to advise that your application has been unsuccessful.
WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING CV’S FROM AGENCIES. THEREFORE IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS POSITION PLEASE APPLY DIRECTLY TO US OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE AND APPLY ONLINE.