Application Support Administrator

Job Description

Company Description

Working at The Adaptavist Group

The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.

We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.com and Aha!

We make change happen. From anywhere.

What we offer you

We offer a very generous holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team. We provide MacBooks to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices.

Our exceptional Time Away Policy includes 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS.

Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.

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Job Description

About the role

The Application Administrator position will work with customers to help them get the most out of their Atlassian software, including configuring and customising key Atlassian Software applications (Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Desk), as well as other Atlassian applications and marketplace software. As part of our clients' partially outsourced teams,this position will assist their businesses by acting as a remote administrator on a day-to-day basis.

This position will work with customers to respond to requests on a priority basis in a timely fashion to configure their Atlassian software to meet their needs. The role will also directly help customers automate processes to improve efficiencies and streamline processes. The Application Administrator will perform as a remote outsourced Atlassian administrator for various clients at the same time.

"This role operates on a stable 12-hour night shift (7:00 pm – 7:00 am), with a repeating cycle of 3 or 4 workdays followed by 3 or 4 days off."

What you'll be doing

• Train in the Atlassian applications and Adaptavist tools, processes, and best practices
• Onboard and become familiar with customer application servers
• Monitor and respond to customer requests on the Adaptavist service desk
• Answer customer questions about how to best use the Atlassian applications in their business
• Create projects, configure permissions and workflows and other solutions at the request of the customer
• Work on multiple administrative activities according to agreed-upon customer priorities
• Communicate with the customer and other team members to understand and deliver configuration solutions
• Solve issues and provide best practice recommendations to the customer
• Record your work and time
• Follow security protocols that the customer may establish

Qualifications

What we're looking for

• Fluent in English, written and spoken
• Good customer support or similar experience
• Familiarity with Jira Service Desk, ServiceNow, or other ticketing systems
• Professional ethics
• Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively in a virtual face-to-face environment through online tools (e.g. WebEx, Zoom, Slack, Skype, etc.)
• Analytical and critical thinking, excellent written and verbal communication skills
• An ability to think innovatively and creatively
• Personable, helpful and professional attitude

A few nice-to-haves

• Experience administering the Atlassian toolset, in particular, Jira and Confluence
• Experience customizing Atlassian software through the use of workflows and add-ons, for example, ScriptRunner
• Knowledge of the build process – Continuous Integration and Delivery
• Experience in using GitLab or Sonatype software
• Knowledge of Groovy or other programming language
• Experience in creating technical documentation and sharing knowledge

Additional Information

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At ScriptRunner, part of TAG, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet.

Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

What to expect

We have published some support on Interviewing with us to try to alleviate any pre-interview anxieties, here you’ll find information to help you prepare and ace an interview at TAG.

You can read them here

Equal opportunities for everyone

At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status. From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us.

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We look forward to your application!