Benefits and perks:
- Competitive salary plus bonus
- Hybrid working
- 25 days' paid holiday increasing each year
- Extra day off for your birthday
- Private medical insurance
- Massages in the office
- Sweet Tuesdays
- Wine Friday
- Team sports activities
- Recruitment referral bonus
- Enhanced pay for new parents
Who are we?
Hyperoptic is the UK's hyperfast broadband provider.
We offer broadband speeds 11x faster than the UK average, proudly setting a new fibre ‘gold standard' with hyperfast speed, reliability and customer service.
Here in Belgrade, we support our UK colleagues in a shared mission: to gigabit Britain. Our office started up in Belgrade in 2013 with what was then 20 developers. Now it's grown into our largest office with more than 700 people.
Whatever we're doing, going beyond the expected is the benchmark.
We work smarter, together, being agile and responding with the speed our business and customers demand – without compromising on quality. We stay focused, performing at our best to ensure we are focused on hitting targets and goals together. And we strive for excellence, paying attention to the detail, constantly seeking to stretch ourselves and find better ways of doing things.
And today we're looking for a Lead System Support Engineer who shares these values. Does this sound like you?
Summary of key responsibilities/deliverables
A customer-oriented and technical team leader with strong and demonstrated experience and knowledge of ISP/telecommunications systems leading and coordinating the team responsible for providing support to business users for software developed both internally and externally. This position will be responsible for leading the team aiming to provide unparalleled system support to business users of the software platforms and ensure that defects identified during that process are resolved, documented accordingly and end-users trained on application features, known issues troubleshooting, etc.
This role will have the responsibility to lead, train and support System Support Engineers and provide guidance to them and work closely with the leadership team to ensure that departmental objectives and team KPIs are achieved and reported on accordingly.
What will you be doing?
Leadership - This role will:
- Lead, coordinate and develop the System Support team
- Mentor and train the team on all relevant application support, technical analysis, IT Service Management and soft skills, ensuring that the team stays on top of emerging technology trends
- Report on the team KPI's
- Create and maintain a high-quality work environment so team members are motivated to perform at their highest level
- Identify process, system and workflow improvements to enhance the team's efficiency
- Lead by example and maintain high colleague engagement levels, fostering cross functional collaboration and developing a high-performance continual improvement culture across the teams
- Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders and suppliers.
Level 2 application support – Lead System Support Engineer will coordinate and participate in the main System Support team activities:
- Perform the SPOC role for issues raised to System Support
- Research and identify solutions to software challenges
- Diagnose and troubleshoot technical challenges and defects reported by Customer Services, Network Operations Centre or L1 IT Support teams and undertake a thorough root cause analysis
- Escalate unresolved issues to appropriate internal or external L3 teams (e.g. software developers)
- Provide prompt and accurate updates to end-users on their reported cases and work towards resolution under defined SLAs
- Refer to internal database to provide accurate technical solutions
- Ensure all issues are properly logged and followed up with end-users to ensure their software systems are fully functional after troubleshooting
- Prepare accurate and timely reports for the management team
- Document technical knowledge in the knowledge base which contains known application issues and suggested resolution steps.
- Hold knowledge transfer and demo sessions to business stakeholders for new application features, known issues troubleshooting, etc.
- Support system design and delivery teams in improving systems and processes by playing an active role in problem management activities and working on long-term improvements.
What are we looking for?
- Experience in application support, software quality assurance or tier-2 technical support
- Familiar with QA terminology or practices, as well as standard software development lifecycle phases and their purposes
- Familiar with issue tracking and team collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence, Zendesk)
- Proficient in written and spoken English
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, technical writing experience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Comprehensive knowledge of Office 365 suite
- Ability to work with a diverse team and adapt communication styles and content to appropriate audiences
- Highly organized and able to work with competing deadlines
We're committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees. In fact, this is at the heart of our culture and values. We welcome applications from candidates from all walks of life.
What happens next?
- You apply
- We carefully review your application
- We'll get back to you — even if it's a no (for now)
We look forward to hearing from you.