What you get to do in this role

The Support Engineer is part of a global organization entrusted as a technical resource to guide our customers during critical issues to ensure a timely and effective case resolution. In support engineering, the customer and their positive experience is paramount and central to our daily efforts. ServiceNow support engineering is integral to the success of our customers, as well as for the health of ServiceNow.

In this role, the support engineer will resolve technical cases created by customers looking for help to understand or troubleshoot unexpected behaviors or to answer technical questions about the ServiceNow software and platform.

A successful candidate will be committed to providing amazing customer support experiences, using skills that include building trust, showing empathy and excellent communication to answer customer questions and resolve issues through various technologies including web, chat, email, case updates, as well as direct telephone support.

• The Senior Technical Support Engineer will be responsible for managing and resolving the most challenging issues for the ServiceNow Technical Support team focusing on ServiceNow Technologies. This includes being the last point of escalation within the technical support department and mentoring junior team members in the various technologies.
• The successful candidate will be able to quickly gain an understanding of the ServiceNow platform. This is a customer-facing role and therefore it requires strong inter-personal skills in addition to strong technical skills. The Technical Support Engineer must able to work outside of normal business hours (evening/weekend shifts, holidays, on-call) as needed. 

What you get to do in this role

As a Technical Support Engineer, you will enable our customers with your passion and knowledge of the ServiceNow Platform. You will be responsible for managing and resolving the most challenging issues and escalation for the customer and providing technical guidance in addressing their business needs. The focus will be on addressing complex Integration issues that are inbound or outbound of the ServiceNow Platform. You will be the voice of the customer in ServiceNow product and development teams for product feedback and improvements. You will play an integral role in building knowledge and be part of strategic initiatives for process improvements.   As part of this team, you will be expected to learn our product suite as it continues to grow so you can best understand and support how our customers make use of our platform.

Specifically, the Technical Support Engineer will be involved in 

• Customer Advocate providing support to users/administrators of our platform.
• Contributing to the growth of best practices for the delivery of support services.
• Understanding our platform, cloud technologies and troubleshooting practices to ensure successful resolution of challenging technical situations.
• Assessing, troubleshooting, resolving and providing root cause analysis for ServiceNow Product issues.
• Managing customers' expectations and experience in a way that results in high customer satisfaction.
• Maintaining technical expertise in assigned areas of product functionality and use that expertise to help customers.
• Suggesting and implementing improvements to internal processes and work on technical and non-technical projects.
• Communicating with customers and our teams through case, phone and other digital methods.
• Creating knowledge base materials dedicated towards operational efficiency while also empowering and enabling the customers.
• Maintaining impeccable case hygiene and customer related files and records.
• Handling incoming phone calls for existing and new customer issues.

We’re Civica and we make software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local to state government, to education, to health and care, over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to help provide critical services to over 100 million citizens.

 Our aspiration is to be a GovTech champion everywhere we work around the globe, supporting the needs of citizens and those that serve them every day. Building on 21 years of continuous growth and success, we're at a pivotal point on our journey to realise that aspiration.

As a company, we’re passionate about what we do and the citizens we help to serve. If you too would like to help champion the use of technology in public services, to improve outcomes for citizens and public sector organisations, then Civica is the right place for you. We will help you unlock the best version of yourself, achieve growth in your career whilst making a real difference to people and communities.   

Why you will love this opportunity as Senior Platform Engineer at Civica.

As a Senior Platform Engineer in the Civica Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining Civica’s cloud-based platforms. This includes overseeing our externally facing platform, which supports engineering teams in delivering exceptional customer-centric outcomes. You’ll also contribute to the development of our internal developer platform, an exciting project that is being built from the ground up.

Joining a newly formed team, you’ll take ownership of platform capabilities, ensuring best practices are implemented across the business. You’ll collaborate with other business units and influence company-wide architecture, while mentoring your peers and actively working to modernise older tech stacks and platforms. We are looking for someone who is passionate about making an impact, helping others succeed, and driving positive change across the organisation.

What you will do to be successful in this role 

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable infrastructure with Terraform
• Deploy platform services using Terraform
• Develop and deploy new features for Kubernetes clusters on Azure and AWS
• Apply expertise in TCP/IP networking
• Secure CI/CD pipelines with GitHub
• Strong knowledge of Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Linux, and automation
• Implement best practices for monitoring, networking, and security
• Design cutting-edge Developer Experience and Cloud SaaS platforms
• Experience with Windows Administration, migrating VM-based architectures to cloud-native and at least one DevOps-friendly programming language such as Python or Go will be highly desirable

Why you'll love working with us

We know that when our people are happy, they will work better and have greater work satisfaction. Here's what you can expect:

We're all different - and we love this about us.

We provide an inclusive, safe, and welcoming environment to all Civicans, new and old Focus on learning- there are heaps of opportunities to enable you to grow and be your best.

Giving culture - we encourage you to "give back" with benefits such as our Days of Difference leave where you can volunteer for a charity of your choice.

Flexible Work - we have the technology and tools to support you to work from home and come into our offices now and then to catch up and socialise with colleagues.

Apply for this job - Become part of something special Do you see yourself in this role? If so, then we would love to hear from you.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. In fact, we strongly believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better outcomes. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can, and we actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of it. We are especially keen to receive applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia.