UK Application Support Engineer

RM Education; Abingdon; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical healthcare

Life assurance

Group Personal Pension Plan

Performance-related bonus

Additional annual leave

Dental plan

Health assessment

Cycle to work scheme

Referral bonus

Job summary

RM Education is seeking an Application Support Engineer to join our UK team. You will provide 3rd line support for in-house applications, deploy updates, patches and hotfixes, and oversee hosting to meet SLA commitments.

You will work as part of a Technical Operations team, driving CSI initiatives and sharing knowledge across the group. The role operates on a hybrid basis with some weekend shifts and early/late hours.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated customer service skills and ability to act as escalation point
• Time management to prioritise tasks based on business impact
• Outstanding interpersonal skills aligned with RM values
• Proven problem-solving, capable of root-cause analysis and reporting
• Experience supporting internal and client-facing cloud-hosted applications
• Experience supporting production-grade environments in AWS and/or Azure
• Experience with SQL and/or Postgres databases and writing complex queries

Responsibilities

• Provide 3rd line support for in-house applications, deploy updates and patches
• Oversee hosting and platform service, monitor logs and alerts to ensure SLA compliance
• Drive continual service improvement and CSI participation across Technical Operations
• Share knowledge across the team to improve operational capability

Skills

Customer service

Time management

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Cloud-hosted apps

AWS

Azure

SQL/Postgres

Tools

Gitlab CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Docker

Terraform

Bash

Packer

Ansible

Job description

Overview

Would you like to help enrich the lives of learners around the world?

At RM, we’ve been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector, supporting over 20 million students and improving educational outcomes worldwide.

What we do helps learners at all stages of their lives, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification; we partner with schools, examination boards, governments, and professional organisations globally to make learning more accessible, more engaging, and more impactful.

RM operates through three divisions: Assessment (digital assessment and marking solutions), Technology (managed services, hardware, and software for schools), and TTS (educational resources).

Within the assessment market we are experts in providing solutions for online exam testing and marking and the management and analysis of educational data. We work with government ministries, exam boards and professional awarding bodies for high stakes assessment such as GCSEs, ALevels, and professional qualifications. Each year, our software is used globally to conduct hundreds of thousands of on-screen tests and to mark millions of paper-based scripts. For over a decade we have been partnering with the world’s leading awarding bodies to deliver intuitive, secure, and reliable e-marking solutions.

Visit our website to find out more : www.rm.com/assessment

The role holder will be required to work 38 hours on a shift rota basis; working between the hours of 8am-10pm, including some weekends.

Responsibilities

• Application Support – provide 3rd line support for our in house developed applications. This will include resolving incidents escalated by our first- and second-line support teams and where appropriate liaising with our development teams to identify application defects and applying workarounds. The application support role also includes deploying application updates, patches and hotfixes.
• Availability Management - oversee the hosting and platform service to ensure compliance with our availability and performance SLA commitments. This will include ensuring event logs, error logs and alerts are proactively monitored and responded to mitigate the risk of a service issue. In the event of a platform or hosting issue provide technical expertise and leadership to provide the fastest possible recovery of service.
• Continual Service Improvement – Ensure that the tools, products and skills associated with hosting and service delivery are constantly challenged and updated. Research industry best practice and contribute to the CSI programme within Technical Operations team. Represent Technical Operations in other CSI programmes and provide technical assistance and guidance as required.
• Team Support & Knowledge Transfer Drive knowledge development throughout the team to ensure that operational knowledge and skills are spread throughout the team

A UK Application support Engineer will be expected to work closely with internal customers at all levels within the organisation who develop, support or maintain the hosted applications.

The engineer will have a direct impact on RM’s customers through enhanced system performance and reliability. This role does not involve budget or cost management or line management

Experience

Essential:

• Demonstrable Customer Service skills, and ability to act as escalation point.
• Time management skills: ability to understand business impact and prioritise tasks accordingly.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, a highly personable, engaging approach and a strong alignment to RM's core values: Customer success, high standards, respect for others, innovation, openness and enjoyment at work.
• Proven problem-solving skills: ability undertake complex root cause analysis and create customer facing and internal reports and recommendations.
• Experience of supporting internal and client-facing cloud-hosted applications.
• Experience of supporting production-grade environments in AWS and/or Azure.
• Experience of supporting Microsoft SQL and/or Postgres databases and writing complex queries.

Desirable:

• Strong working knowledge of core AWS services (including EC2, ECS, RDS, CloudFront) and/or core Azure services (including Windows VMs/IIS, AKS, SQL).
• Good working knowledge of network configuration in AWS and/or Azure.
• Good working knowledge of following products: Gitlab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Docker, Terraform, Bash, Packer, Ansible.
• Experience using and maintaining Terraform/Ansible scripts for build/deploy of AWS and/or Azure environments.

What’s in it for you?

At RM we have "My Work Blend @RM" which provides office-based colleagues with multi location and hybrid working options to suit them. As well as your office base, you can spend a proportion of your time working at other locations that suit your role and your life, including home, other offices, customer sites, distribution centres or on the move. We encourage you to discuss arrangements for this role with your potential line manager during the recruitment process. We expect how we make best use of hybrid working may continue to adapt as we adjust to our new ways of working.

As well as a competitive salary and our core benefits package which includes private medical healthcare, life assurance and a Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels available, some roles are also eligible for a performance-related bonus. There are lots of voluntary benefits too. You could buy additional annual leave, join our dental plan, sign for a health assessment, or take part in our cycle to work scheme. You could even earn yourself an extra bonus for successfully recommending a friend or family member for a position within RM.

• Competitive salary
• Private medical healthcare
• Life assurance
• Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels available
• Eligible for performance-related bonus
• Additional annual leave
• Dental plan
• Health assessment
• Cycle to work scheme
• Referral bonus for recommended friends or family members

To better reflect the society that we serve, we’re committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. To achieve this, we create teams of talented people from different backgrounds and experiences and strive to be a business where our people can bring their whole selves to work. We also want to make the recruitment process as inclusive as possible for everyone. Should you require additional support with your application or through the interview process, please contact us at [e-mail].

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.