The role involves ensuring operational tasks are completed, managing incidents via ServiceNow, automation of manual processes, patching, and supporting cloud technologies, among other responsibilities.
ParentPay Group is Europe’s leading software product company and the UK’s largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact on the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries.
Our market leading products use cutting edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniform, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and - through our product SIMS - collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations.
ParentPay Group’s new offices in Pune are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development.
Our bright team FastTrack their career with international exposure and ways of working based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure daily tasks and activities have successfully completed. Where this is not the case, recovery and remediation steps will be undertaken.
- Undertake patching and upgrade activities in support of ParentPay compliance programs. These being PCI DSS, ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials+.
- Action requests from the ServiceNow work queue that have been allocated to your relevant resolver group. These include incidents, problems, changes and service requests.
- Investigate alerts and events detected from the monitoring systems that indicate a change in component health.
- Create and maintain support documentation in the form of departmental wiki and ServiceNow knowledge articles that allow for continual improvement of fault detection and recovery times.
- Work with colleagues to identify and champion the automation of all manual interventions undertaken within the team.
- Attend and complete all mandatory training courses.
- Engage and own the transition of new services into Service Operations.
- Participate in the out of hours on call support rota
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Exp: 4+ Yrs
· Experience working in an IT service delivery or support function OR
· Experience working in an IT service delivery or support function OR
· MBA or Degree in Information Technology or Information Security.
· Experience working with Microsoft technologies.
· Excellent communication skills developed working in a service centric organisation.
· Ability to interpret fault descriptions provided by customers or internal escalations and translate these into resolutions.
· Ability to manage and prioritise own workload.
· Experience working within Education Technology would be an advantage.
· Advanced automation scripting using Terraform and Powershell.
· Advanced automation scripting using Terraform and Powershell.
· Knowledge of bicep and ansible advantageous.
· Advanced Microsoft Active Directory configuration and support.
· Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud hosting platform administration.
· Advanced Microsoft SQL server experience.
· Windows Server and desktop management and configuration.
· Microsoft IIS web services administration and configuration.
· Advanced management of data and SQL backup solutions.
· Advanced scripting and automation capabilities.
· Advanced knowledge of Azure analytics and KQL.
About
At ParentPay Group, we believe that when schools run well, students thrive. That’s why we’ve spent decades building the operating system that supports well‑run schools – a seamless layer of tools, insights, and support that makes school life simpler for teachers, leaders, caterers, parents, and students alike.From cashless payments and parent engagement to catering management, library systems, and MIS platforms, we connect the everyday parts of education through simple, secure, and connected tools. What began as a way to make school payments easier has grown into Europe’s leading EdTech group – trusted by over 20,000 schools and 9 million users across the UK and Europe.Every day, our platforms process millions of payments, messages, and data points, quietly working in the background so schools can shine out front. Together, we’re helping schools save time, cut costs, and create more time for learning.ParentPay Group is more than a collection of brands. We are a group of people dedicated to supporting well‑run schools and giving time back to teachers, parents, caterers, admin staff – and most importantly, to students.
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