About The Role:
Sr. Technical Support Engineer work very closely with voice network engineering and development teams to identify and resolve issues with Intermedia’s voice platform. They also create and manage support tickets at a NOC level with Intermedia’s carrier partners and wholesale/high volume voice accounts. The ideal candidate would function effectively within a small team and is also capable of self managing. Intermedia strives to provide our customers with a Worry Free Experience™.
We are looking for full-time Sr. Technical Support Engineer who is reliable, analytical and team oriented. Applicants must enjoy taking on complex issues and championing their resolution through various channels (network engineering, development, management etc.).
What you will be doing:
- 40 hours on direct phone queue related issues with wholesale customers and SIP carriers – this includes logged in and in an incoming call state for 40 hours every week (exceptions only as approved by direct manager or Support Director).
- Must obtain required certifications and training for role and assigned queues.
- Answer phone calls, respond to emails and respond to internal escalations.
- Diagnose and fix problems encountered with Intermedia voice products or escalate to appropriate internal or external parties.
- Maintain and improve policies, procedures and knowledge base and wiki articles.
- Actively pass knowledge to co-workers at every opportunity.
- Communicate with wholesale customers and SIP carrier NOCs to resolve technical problems.
- Work as defined (in advance) by Support management on specific projects with system engineers and developers when troubleshooting problems and implementing fixes and workarounds.
- Prepare outage and incident reports for the Intermedia production and back office systems.
- Monitor and respond to production systems issues and fraudulent activity.
- Act as a technical leader/resource to other internal teams.
- Adhere to defined SLA requirements.
- Must be willing to work on an on-call support rotation.
What you will bring to the role:
- Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from four-year College or university; or four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Possess a positive, team oriented attitude.
- Must have current and active SSVVP + SSCA certs (or equivalent as defined by Support management) to be eligible to apply.
- Demonstrated ability to understand competing priorities and ability to make competent decisions.
- Solid working knowledge of IP telephony.
- Attempting to understand what a new or unknown log format means. “Stare at logs until they make sense” is a common but meaningful joke within the team.
- Experience or willingness to learn how to navigate a Linux environment.
- Possess a working knowledge of the SIP protocol and a familiarity with Wireshark.
- Ability to communicate effectively with employees and customers.
- Must enjoy taking on challenging problems.
- Ability to pass along knowledge and improve support processes.
