The Application Support Specialist will contribute to the successful and timely support and deployment of the TrakCare product by providing application knowledge in the functional areas of product support, requirements scoping, field design documentation and change request testing. The Applications Support Specialist will act as an ''expert'' product resource for our partners.

As Application Support Specialist, you must creative, motivated, and energetic problem-solvers. You will have the opportunity to work with some of the world’s leading organizations in healthcare. This position will also encourage and prepare you to take on other growth opportunities within the organization.

A mentor will help you identify and develop your application skills, professional, and personal skills for a successful career. Depending on your level of experience the training program can include: classroom learning, e-learning, projects, and external courses. Your mentor will also help you familiarize you with the InterSystems environment.

Responsibilities:

• Ready to work in the Support team.
• Provide immediate response to customer inquiries in accordance with service standards. 
• Provide support to current installed based customers. 
• Provide the link between our customers and the InterSystems Global Support organization.
• Liaise with customers in order to understand the work processes and requirements that are required to be addressed by the TrakCare application.
• Provide application support for the TrakCare Hospital Management System.
• Support the TrakCare application in a manner that will suit the business requirements of the customer and follow the methodologies and processes of InterSystems.
• Escalate Open (unresolved) problems in accordance with current policies and procedures. 
• Conduct individual and group training, product demonstrations and workshops as required.
• Continuously improve customer satisfaction by soliciting customer suggestions for product and service improvements and then escalating such suggestions to management. 
• Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for TrakCare.
• Improve response time to customer inquiries by continuously improving communication, analytical, and learning skills.
•  If required, work with our partners to identify potential changes within the parameters of the product.
• Participate in on-site support if required.
• Participate in the on call 24-hour roster service.

Qualifications:

• General aptitude for solving problems and using technology to improve processes.
• Understanding and experience in product solutions support.
• Understanding and experience with Hospital Information Systems.
• Proven ability to think laterally and come up with innovative solutions for software product Support.
• Experience working in software not limited to a Developer, Quality Engineer and/or Solutions Architect.
• An ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and within tight time constraints.
• Proven ability to work through problems with different customer groups achieving positive outcomes.
• Understanding and experience with Hospital Information, Patient Administration (PAS), Billing, and Revenue cycle management Systems
• Understanding of the importance of Health Informatics standards, reporting requirements and legislative controls

Education and Training:

• BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent) or business as announced in the vacancy.

Our hosting team delivers InterSystems’ solutions as hosted or managed services, anywhere in the world.  As more and more clients change to hosted solutions, we are looking for junior and senior systems engineers to join the team and help us with delivering the high levels of availability, performance and security that our clients have come to rely on.

The role offers a fantastic opportunity to gain experience across a range of technologies, to solve interesting problems, to be allowed to make improvements, and to be recognized for making a difference.

Responsibilities - Deployment

• Work with our co-location partners to design appropriate cage, rack and server layouts and to ensure the ongoing provision of space, power and cooling in support of existing and forecasted solutions.
• Work with the engineering/architecture teams to design solutions so as to maximize performance, efficiency and operability of hosted solutions.
• Lead and/or participate in the provisioning and deployment of server, network and other hosting-related equipment, including hands-on build and configuration as/when required
• Participate in the deployment of new applications and/or changes, ensuring that all service components are documented and monitored and integrated into the company’s operational processes.
• Perform hardware qualification testing on new hardware platforms and certify them for production deployments.
• Work with stakeholders across the solutions lifecycle to ensure that pre-operational sign-offs are obtained, so as to ensure that solutions can be operated in a way that meets or exceeds performance targets e.g. security, availability and response times.
• Assist with the troubleshooting of integration issues.
• Consulting with technical stakeholders (including customers) on the delivery of hosted solutions.

Responsibilities – Operations

• Hands-on administration and maintenance of hosted solutions and related infrastructure (firewalls, switches, servers, storage, etc.) including pro-active identification and fixing of potential incidents, backup management, etc.
• Participate in the definition, documentation, operation and continuous improvement of operational processes e.g. ITIL-based processes such as incident, change, problem and configuration management, and the smooth integration of these with wider company processes and systems.
• Define, implement, monitor and report on metrics that are required for the delivery of highly-available hosted services, as well as to meet the needs of the wider organization e.g. management, engineering, customer services and our customers.
• Provide technical support for all areas of hosted services, including participation on a 24x7 on-call rota; ensure the timely resolution of incidents and/or problems affecting hosted solutions and deploy approved changes and/or updates as required.
• Further enhance the automation of hosting-related processes e.g. deployment of changes, deployment of new services, inventory management, security scanning, service level reporting, etc.

Experience & Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with server hosting (e.g. data center) infrastructure and (ideally) management with Cisco UCS blades
• Hands-on storage/SAN deployment and (ideally) management experience with EMC Unity, Data Domain, Avamar. Dell D?
• Hands-on Cisco and F5 networking deployment and management experience with Cisco Nexus 7000/9000, ASA Firewalls, F5 LTM and DNS load balancers, route domains and contexts. Active Directory/Windows – More Linux > Windows
• Hands-on VMware deployment and management experience with VMware 6.x/7.x 8
• Hands-on Linux deployment and management experience with RHEL 7.x
• Hands-on Windows domain and AD management experience
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Strong scripting skills
• Enthusiasm and talent for acquiring complex technical skills
• Good customer service attitude
• Knowledge of service monitoring and alerting (Nagios, Cacti preferred)
• Knowledge of configuration management (Puppet and/or Red Hat Satellite preferred)
• Scripting for automation using technologies (e.g. Powershell, Puppet, Ansible, Python)
• ITIL knowledge – principles and application
• Ability to support and develop junior colleague