Application Support Lead

**Who we are**:
For over 20 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world's most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.

Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It's a place where you can genuinely make an impact - and be recognized for it.

**Technical Skills**:

- Develops Intimate knowledge of all GR Products and
- Develops advanced understanding of interdependencies between Products and Services.
- Develops broad knowledge across monitoring, alerting and service management
- Good understanding of software systems concepts such as networking, firewalls, protocols, databases and cloud
- Previous experience in a SAAS or enterprise grade organization.
- Has demonstrable experience in building and managing people along with further developing teams of technical specialists.
- Able to remove roadblocks affecting team efficiency.
- Understands and able to communicate at all levels, impact to business and customers from Service
- Capable of leading technical recovery to mitigate and restore service, minimizing impact to customers for major incidents.
- Ensures team identify technical root cause of incidents and tracks progress of actions to reduce risk of reoccurrence of
- Identifies opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness of team.
- Ensures new products, services, features are fully supportable and meet Application Support operability
- Continually improves the Application Support Operability framework.
- Capable of building business cases for new tooling, tool selection and delivery of new

**Communication and Values**:

- Mentors and manages Junior, Intermediate I & II, and Senior Application Support Specialists.
- Manage team member vacation and time off requests ensuring adequate coverage.
- Manage the probationary period and annual individual performance assessments of all direct reports including the solicitation of 360 degree feedback from appropriate stakeholders.
- Deliver comprehensive annual performance reviews (IPAs) for direct reports as scheduled by HR, specifically reviewing past accomplishments and agreeing to future SMART goals.
- Assist Manager to manage and forecast the Application Support recruitment needs.
- Manage and oversee the probationary period of new hires.
- Promotes team in all situations and capable of representing team at Lead level across
- Ensures all team members create, own and deliver on personal development plans, aligned to company
- Effective in communicating with team and colleagues outside of Application Support.
- Exhibits GR's core values, focuses on understanding and living these
- Accepts feedback graciously and learns from everything they do.
- Gives timely, helpful feedback to peers and
- Communicates assumptions and gets clarification on tasks up front to minimize the need for
- Solicits feedback from others and is eager to find ways to improve.
- Understands how their work contributes value to the
- Contributes frequently to formal knowledge sharing.
- Builds strong relationships with peers, manager and other
- Proactively identifies risks and proposes possible solutions.
- Provides relevant feedback, including constructive feedback if appropriate, on team member's performance.
- Able to work with mínimal direction or supervision to achieve required outcomes and provide guidance to other team

Has Customer experience at the heart of all work.

**What you can expect**:
At Global Relay, there's no ceiling to what you can achieve. It's the land of opportunity for the energetic, the intelligent, the driven. You'll receive the mentoring, coaching, and support you need to reach your career goals. You'll be part of a culture that breeds creativity and rewards perseverance and hard work. And you'll be working alongside smart, talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with complementary knowledge and skills.

Global Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are personalized to meet the unique needs of every individual.

We understand flexible work arrangements are important, and we encourage that in our work culture. Whether it's flexibility around work hours, workstyle, or lifestyle, we want to ensure our employees have a healthy work/life balance. We support and value a hybrid work model that blends collaboration with the team in the office and focus time from the comfort of your home.