Technical Support Specialist

We are now looking for a Technical Support Specialist to join our RELEX family in Atlanta. You’ll join the Technical Support team – a team of highly skilled professionals who solve complex and unique issues as specialists in the 2nd line of support for RELEX customers. You will help the team achieve this goal by satisfying our customers' needs and respecting our SLAs (Service Level Agreement).  This position will focus primarily on our Space & Assortment side of the business which allows customers to create planograms for use in store, as well as optimizing those planograms as part of our unified platform.

Our Technology team enjoys a challenge. They’re hungry to learn, and don’t hesitate to ask what, why, and how. They get to work with our unique, in-house database engine to create high-quality scalable code (just imagine, thousands of stores, millions of products, and billions of rows of raw data!) Their expertise positively impacts the environment and business processes around the world; alongside international colleagues, they drive change and develop solutions that become our pioneering end product. From functional programming, machine learning and interesting algorithms, to building big data pipelines, they’re behind it all.  

Join us as an Technical Support Specialist, and this is some of what you’ll be doing:

This role’s main focus is supporting our customers via the tickets they raise in our service desk – we have a very diverse range of issues that use lots of different technologies so our workdays will have many unique and interesting cases. A successful candidate will be accustomed to multi-tasking and working towards specific time-sensitive resolutions, learning how our applications work is very important and will be the focus of the candidate when they begin the role. Interacting with customers and other RELEX departments via online meetings, phone calls and emails is a daily occurrence so strong communication skills are necessary.

• Taking ownership of your assigned tickets to achieve progression towards resolution.
• Initial structured learning, buddy shadowing and then independent up-skilling on new technologies and application features
• Working on automated alerts/monitoring for hosted customer environments
• Problem solving technical tickets which vary in priority and skill
• Documenting known issues and adding them to our vast knowledge base

What you'll bring to the table: 

• Minimum 2 years of Application or Internal IT Support experience or Application Support experience
• Experience of ticket administration via service desks – JIRA is preferred, ServiceNow, Fresh Desk, Sales Force considered (among others)
• SQL Query Writing for reporting, data manipulation and investigation
• Advanced Windows Server Operating System understanding – Domain Controllers, Active Directory, DNS, Server Manager etc.
• Understanding of ITIL best practices for customer support
• Basic understanding of networking principals
• Software troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

What we consider as an advantage:  

• Relevant BSc degree in Business Information’s Systems, Computer Science
• AWS Experience – Mainly interacting with S3, EC2 instances
• Exposure to database technologies such as MSSQL and MySql
• Azure Experience – understanding hosted virtual machines and the basics of an Azure-hosted systems.
• Citrix Experience – Comfortable with Citrix Workspace and its underlying architecture.
• Powershell – ability to create simple scripts to query data, modify files etc.
• Power BI – any experience using Power BI.
• Supporting software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions

Our US Office:

RELEXians can be found around the world, and while we have team members working in 30 states, here, our main office is in Atlanta, Georgia. With a new, inviting and cool office space in Colony Square, when you’re not traveling to customers or working from home, you can explore all there is to do in the area or bring along your pet for a change of scenery. Your future colleagues champion our world-class product and value our approach to flexibility and work-life balance. Our transparent culture is second to none, so don’t be surprised at our impressive development and progression opportunities!

Across RELEX, our people are supported and rewarded. In the US, we go even further. As well as:

• Competitive compensation
• The choice to work wherever and however you are most productive
• 15 days of paid time o