Description
Responsibilities
- Provide exceptional customer support via the phone and ticketing system
- Own level-appropriate customer requests and issues, seeing them through to resolution
- Own support escalations from other engineers and support teams according to escalation procedures
- Collaborate with Service Delivery Managers and Account Executives to build strong customer relationships
- Work closely with customers in the pre-implementation process to design and architect desired customer solution.
- Work closely with the implementation team to quality check deployments and perform initial vulnerability assessment as part of the customer environment acceptance process.
- Research, plan and coordinate complex maintenance activities
- Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) exercises to drive process & technology improvements.
- Collaborate and share knowledge with other administrators and engineers via wiki articles and training presentations
- Contribute to the development of technical best practices for administrative responsibilities
- Prepare and review defined policy and process standards
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with customers as well as with internal stakeholders. Including preparing and presenting to customers electronically as well as on site.
- A willingness to work weekends and/or holidays when required as the business dictates
An ideal candidate should have good hands on experience on
- Firewalls (Cisco ASA, ASA-X and Juniper SRX)
- In-depth knowledge on Configuration and troubleshooting skills on VPN tunnels, NAT, PAT, Failover, backup and restore.
- Load balancers (F5 LTM and Brocade ADX)
- LTM & GTM Configurations and Troubleshooting skills.
- Configuring/Troubleshooting Application protocols - HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, SNMP, SSL etc.
- Services and protocols commonly used in hosting environments: web servers, database servers, mail servers, name servers.
- Security technologies (IDS, WAF, RSA, IPS)
- Networking concepts and devices [All OSI Layers]
- Configuring/Troubleshooting LAN Switching – VLAN, VTP, STP, EtherChannel,
- Configuring/Troubleshooting TCP/IP protocol suite & in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP
- Working experience on Monitoring tools
- Ability to determine problems and deliver solutions with a high level of customer satisfaction.
- Ability to document calls and write FAQ / short instructional technical documents for central store of knowledge is essential to role.
- Ability to diagram customer environments and solutions using Visio, etc.
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