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　　The Senior Performance Support Consultant (Escalations Engineering) role is a unique opportunity to join the Customer Service and Support team working with some of our largest customers with their toughest performance and scalability challenges. You will be accountable for driving the successful closure of critical escalated technical issues for our most complex and strategically important customers.

　　As someone who can think outside the box, you will work on a mixture of reactive and proactive engagements where your technical troubleshooting skills in the stack will come to the fore. In addition, your top-notch consulting skills will be put to good use as you will take on the role of “trusted advisor” to help turn a bad situation around and help customers get maximum value from our platform.

　　We’re looking for the best of the best and the cream of the crop. In return, we offer highly competitive base salaries and benefits including generous holiday allowances, bonus scheme, stock options, and flexible working arrangements. Our inclusive work culture embraces belonging and individuality, collaboration, and customer orientation.

　　Our customers are our North Star and we are passionate about making them successful!

　　Please note - this role is a hybrid role and would require you to be in the Sydney office 2 days per week

　　What you get to do during a typical week:

　　You will be partnering with our largest customers & Internal stakeholders to identify and root cause performance and scalability issues impacting their ServiceNow deployments. Successful hires will get a chance to:

　　Use problem solving skills along side industry leading tools to holistically analyse ServiceNow instances to identify and remediate resource contention at all layers of the stack

　　Explore platform Java and JavaScript code to gain a detailed understanding of the behavior of ServiceNow applications

　　Improve the throughput of Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) by deep diving into memory allocation and garbage collection tuning

　　Optimize relational database performance by refactoring queries at the application layer or by applying tuning within the database itself

　　Use extensive lab / test environments to reproduce and root cause issues impacting customer’s ServiceNow deployment(s)

　　Engage with cross functional teams to highlight identified product defects, assist with implementation of work arounds, or devising long term fixes

　　Drive improvement from within by creating high quality knowledge articles, developing tooling for use within the support organization, or mentoring and training junior colleagues

　　Build and deliver compelling presentations to a variety of internal and customer stakeholders acting as a trusted advisor on how they can improve the performance of their ServiceNow deployment and adhere to leading practice guidelines.

　　To be considered for this role, you will have

　　Progressive experience in technical support, software development, performance load testing or professional services

　　Working knowledge of the components in a web applications stack

　　Experience with one (or more) scripting languages: e.g. JavaScript, Python, Perl, Unix Shell, Windows Powershell etc.

　　Experience with working with (or debugging) Object Oriented code (Java preferred)

　　Working knowledge of one (or more) Relational Database technologies e.g. Oracle / MySQL / SQL Server / PostgreSQL

　　Strong problem-solving, leadership, time management, and critical thinking skills

　　Excellent communication and presentation skills with an aptitude for learning new technologies.

　　Whilst not essential requirements, skills and experience with the following will be highly regarded

　　Prior experience of ServiceNow Architecture is preferred but not essential as full product training will be provided

　　Performance tuning of databases + SQL query tuning

　　Prior experience of Cloud/SaaS software

　　Knowledge of memory management, including core / heapdump analysis (Java heap dump analysis preferred)

　　Fundamental understanding of ITSM, ITIL, or CMDB

　　Experience administering: Linux/Unix OR Microsoft Windows Server

　　Experience of Firebug, Chrome Developer Tools, Fiddler, etc.

　　ServiceNow is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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