Senior Technical Support Engineer

How will you make an impact?

• Demonstrate deep subject matter expertise in our core technologies, as well as at least one other technology specialty, and develop expertise in a second area of specialty.
• Provide advanced technical support to customers via phone, online, chat, and email and use tools and advanced expertise to pull and effectively analyse logs, traces, packet captures, etc. to determine root cause of issues.
• Demonstrate professional, assertive, articulate, and friendly verbal and written communication in all aspects of your work. Take full ownership of all communication needs related to the management of troubleshooting efforts internally and externally, building confidence across all customers and stakeholders that we are progressing properly towards resolution.
• Effectively mentor colleagues on their communication, troubleshooting, process, product knowledge and case work.
• Encourage productive debate and discussion with colleagues to more thoroughly analyse and resolve problems.
• Be influential in improving procedures and processes that improve our efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensure that each case that you own is progressing according to the response and resolution targets as specified in our Service Level Agreements (SLA). Assist colleagues in accelerating their cases toward timely resolution.
• Provide root cause correction, not just symptom relief. Ensure that all facets of the problem are evaluated to eliminate the recurrence of the issue. Exemplify tenacity in resolving core issues that fully resolve problems and assist peers in doing the same.
• Proactively manage personally assigned and cases from the queue based upon severity and priority of each issue and your skills and ability to resolve.
• Open and monitor incidents created with 3rd party providers. Work with other internal stakeholders to improve our interactions and success in handling these incidents.
• Obtain and maintain certification as a Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) Publisher, create useful knowledge content, and update existing knowledgebase articles using KCS methodology. Provide coaching to others on KCS best practices.
• Identify, document, and report issues with software, design, reliability, and maintenance issues to the proper teams, ensuring that they are aware of and are addressing customer expectations. Gather, validate, and document all pertinent details related to an issue believed to be a bug to enable the receiving R&D resource to duplicate the issue easily and rapidly. Work with R&D as needed during isolation, correction, and implementation of any delivered resolution.
• Develop and maintain consistent and exemplary performance on all key performance indicators, modelling a higher-level achievement for level 1 Technical Support Engineers as well as your peers at the same job level.
• Properly de-escalate customers through expert communication and resource engagement, ensuring that all customers that you influence are receiving excellent service. Expected to handle more complex and escalated cases.