
Sr. Technical Support Specialist
- Waterloo, ON
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Troubleshoot technical issues with the tools and skills after product training, often working with issues that could not be resolved at previous support levels
- Provide guidance to fellow Technical Support Specialists
- Participate in the content creation lifecycle for support documentation
- Achieve high levels of customer satisfaction when responding to customer requests and resolving technical issues via phone or email
- Providing advanced troubleshooting and identify/resolve issues related to service and product offerings. This could be at any level: operating system, application, network, hardware level, hypervisor, cloud environment etc.
- Resolve single- and cross technology/application incidents independently. Document known errors and work arounds. Works with team members, delivery centers, and other company organizations.
- Proactively and reactively look for solutions to prevent problems from occurring in team/technology area.
- Working independently to solve customer issues and own case work by diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving software and application issues related to service and product offering
- Manage multiple customer cases simultaneously, while maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction
- Ensure all case-related information and activities are accurately documented and provide timely progress updates to customers and account managers to maintain SLOs.
- Work with Tier 3 engineers on technical escalations, bugs, and feature requests
- Excellent customer service skills, adding to the customer experience.
- A track record of good judgment and decision-making in positions with significant responsibility.
- Assist in the content creation/editing process for our Knowledge Base by creating and editing content based on findings. This includes documenting new issues and solutions, editing existing content.
- Teamwork: Work as part of a global, and/or multi-functional team. Will mentor less experienced team members within the team in one or more technical- /operational policies/standards or business areas. Is a trusted advisor inside and outside the team/technology area.
- High degree of comfort with complex technical environments
- General office environment. Role may require working in 24/7 shifts on a rotational basis. 24/7 Shift Coverage model participation in an on-seat shift and On-Call rotations.
- BS or BA degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience
- 3-5 years’ experience in a technical support and customer centric environment
- Ticket Management with the use of different CRM tools.
- Passion for providing quality customer service and technical support
- Demonstrated strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Technical proficiency in: Cloud/SaaS applications, Windows, desktop applications, networking, security, and web applications
- Strong verbal/written interpersonal communication skills. English (written/oral)
- General network knowledge – ports, firewalls, Ip’s
- Experience working with cloud-based products
- Experience with AWS, Google, Azure cloud platforms
- Linux (desired)
- ITIL 4 Foundation level Certified (desired)
- Knowledge of ISO20000 (desired)
- Knowledge on JSON/REST API. (desired)
- Knowledge on OAuth and SAML configuration (desired)
- Scripting (enough to read logs and interpret the syntax)