Application Support Engineer - Catering

Application Deadline: 31 July 2026

Department: Service Operations

Location: Pune, India

Description

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


· Advanced Microsoft Active Directory configuration and support.
· Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud hosting platform administration.
· Microsoft SQL server experience.
· Windows Server and desktop management and configuration.
· Microsoft IIS web services administration and configuration.
· SQL backups experience.
· Advanced scripting and automation capabilities.
· Working knowledge of IOT and device management systems.
· Working knowledge of Azure analytics and KQL.
· Working knowledge of cashless catering solutions advantageous.

Skills Required
Advanced Microsoft Active Directory configuration and support, Advanced scripting and automation capabilities, Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud hosting platform administration, Microsoft IIS web services administration and configuration, Microsoft SQL server experience, SQL backups experience, Windows Server and desktop management and configuration, Working knowledge of Azure analytics and KQL, Working knowledge of cashless catering solutions advantageous, Working knowledge of IOT and device management systems