Application Support (Atlassian Cloud)

RS UK & Ireland; Corby; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking an Application Support specialist for their Atlassian Cloud platforms. The role is remote in the UK and requires proficiency with Jira, strong API knowledge, and excellent problem-solving skills. This mid-senior level position focuses on improving service quality and operational excellence across SaaS platforms.

Benefits

Annual performance bonus

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Private healthcare

Qualifications

• Solid experience in enterprise applications environments.
• Experience in internal/SME-facing support roles.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage configuration and performance of Atlassian Cloud.
• Support third-party SaaS platforms.
• Lead incident resolution efforts across diverse technologies.

Skills

Proficiency with Jira

Strong API knowledge

Excellent problem-solving skills

Strong communication skills

Experience with cloud technologies

Tools

Atlassian Cloud

Datadog

MuleSoft

Bitbucket

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Location: Remote (UK)

Permanent

RS Group is looking for a talented and driven Application Support (Atlassian Cloud) to join our expanding global technology team on a permanent basis. In this pivotal mid-level role, you’ll play a key part in supporting and optimising our SaaS platforms while helping to drive operational excellence and technical maturity across the organisation.

Location: Remote (UK)

Permanent

RS Group is looking for a talented and driven Application Support (Atlassian Cloud) to join our expanding global technology team on a permanent basis. In this pivotal mid-level role, you’ll play a key part in supporting and optimising our SaaS platforms while helping to drive operational excellence and technical maturity across the organisation.

This is your opportunity to make a real impact—setting standards, improving processes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to elevate service quality. You'll provide both operational and technical subject matter expertise to internal teams, support strategic platforms, and help maintain a culture of continuous improvement.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Manage configuration, availability, and performance of Atlassian Cloud and other SaaS platforms
• Support and maintain a suite of third-party SaaS platforms, including Datadog, JFrog, MuleSoft AnyConnect, SAP Rise, and Miro
• Own and monitor SaaS product support SLAs, ensuring high-quality service delivery
• Partner with Digital Product Owners, Engineering, InfoSec, and Business stakeholders to support platform strategy and operations
• Evaluate and implement change requests, ensuring best practices, appropriate test coverage, and rollback plans
• Participate in weekly Technical Change Boards to review, assess, and advise on proposed changes across tech stacks
• Manage incoming support requests and incidents, aligning resolution with agreed SLAs
• Lead or support incident resolution efforts across diverse technologies and teams
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for support processes and transitioned services
• Contribute to risk management, platform improvements, and proactive service enhancement
• Act as a lead technical expert to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues
• Implement corrective action plans to address service-impacting problems
• Review vulnerability reports and collaborate with security teams on required updates
• Foster strong relationships with third-party vendors and internal support teams
• Manage vendor performance in line with contractual support agreements
• Communicate technical topics effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Review and contribute to root cause analyses for critical incidents
• Actively share best practices across the RS Global Technology and Cloud community
  
  

About You

You’re a hands-on technologist with a strong background in supporting SaaS platforms in enterprise environments. You're customer-focused, adaptable, and thrive in fast-paced settings where collaboration and accountability are key. You bring a blend of technical skill, process-oriented thinking, and the communication ability to bridge gaps between teams and stakeholders.

You’re also someone who enjoys solving complex problems, takes ownership of outcomes, and continuously seeks to improve service delivery through innovation and teamwork.

What We’re Looking For

• Solid experience in enterprise applications environments, ideally in internal/SME-facing support roles
• Proficiency with Jira (Server, Data Center, and Cloud) at the organisation admin level, including workflow design
• Strong API knowledge and scripting experience, including JQL, macros, ScriptRunner, PowerScripts, and Automation for Jira
• Familiarity with migration tools such as CMJ or Project Configurator
• Integration experience with tools such as Bitbucket, ServiceNow, Bamboo, and Jenkins
• Ability to lead technical planning and solutioning for complex platform migrations and hybrid environments
• Proven capability in customer discovery, understanding requirements, and identifying potential roadblocks
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences
• Experience working in diverse cross-functional teams, including Product, Support, Architecture, and Customer Success
• A fast learner with a solid grasp of cloud technologies and deployment models
• Familiarity with various software delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, Lean)
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and interpersonal skills
• Experience managing or collaborating with external vendors and service providers
  
  

The extras you’ll get:

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.
  
  

We are RS

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

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