Support Engineer, Network and Security, French Speaking
Location: Cork
Job Type: Permanent
Tech Skills: Firewalls, Networking, Unified Threat Management, Communication, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Encryption, Troubleshooting
Language: You must have both French AND English, spoken and written.
Job Description
Provide high quality Technical Support for our client's products, to customers, partners and other engineers. Support is provided primarily via incoming telephone calls and email support.
As a Technical Support Engineer, you will assist our partners and customers to solve problems and answer questions relating to their great Network and Security products.
We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating a uniquely positive support experience and showing our partners and customers how much we care about them.
Main Duties:
* Having a strong customer service focus with the commitment to excellence and desire to delight customers
* Being a customer ambassador who is passionate about creating a positive customer experience
* Solving problems and delivering an experience so profound that customers love using our products and services and actively recommend them to others
* Research incidents by replicating customer's issues within a test environment.
* Escalate incidents by collaborating with the Global Escalations Support team and other departments.
* Perform technical training and presentations of software and processes to other staff.
* Ensuring customers have the tools and knowledge they need to run their business
* Learning and utilizing specific software tools and problem-solving strategies to solve for customer issues and continuously improve our processes
* Creating online help content (articles, community posts, etc.) to document previously unknown solutions and help a large group of customers
* Actively contributing to the development of new or changed processes and procedures
* Having the ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced environment
Skills:
* Record all activity in the department's call logging system, updating cases within SLAs, so that progress can be tracked with each customer's incident, viewed via the customer portal, and reports generated for high profile customers
* Use and create knowledgebase articles in line with departmental best practice based on new product information, support incidents, and/or common or critical issues
* Ability to handle escalated calls while using good judgment to make sound recommendation
* Ability to work with complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires review
* Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
* Demonstrated self - starter who is willing to change quickly between roles, duties and tasks
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, inspiring confidence while leading customers through the steps to resolve issues via phone, chat and email
* Analyse and clarify customer queries though troubleshooting and researching existing knowledgebase articles / known issues.
* Review cases for technical complexity and make recommendations to team members with regards escalation according to departmental Best Practice
* Adhere to Support Services best practices
* Participation in departmental projects
* Actively participate in team and departmental meetings by providing feedback on current day to day activity and recommendations for improvement.
Experience & Skills
Essential:
* Experience in a customer facing role
* Experience of supporting customers over the phone within an IT environment
* Experience in handling customer cases via email systems.
* Experience of installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Windows Desktop and Server operating systems. MCITP certification is an asset
* Experience of configuration and troubleshooting Mail based systems (MTA/MUA) and general networking.
* Experience writing knowledgebase articles for internal publication
* Experience of installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Linux based networking appliances
* Experience with security solutions (Anti-Malware, Mobile, Email, Web and Encryption standards)
* Experience in configuration of Firewalls switches and routers
* Troubleshooting using Wire shark or similar for packet analysis
* Experience in troubleshooting protocols like HTTP, SMTP, FTP, SMB, DNS and DHCP
Desirable:
* Presenting to an audience
* Experience with remediation of malware/viruses/Trojans
* Experience of installation and configuration of Mac OS, Unix or Netware.
* Experience in supporting our clients Network and Security software to end users and partners
* Coaching experience within a team
* Familiarity with Network and End-Point security solutions or similar competitive products / UTM Certified Engineer
Skill & Abilities:
* Telephone skills - ability to handle telephone calls
* Customer service - ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written
* Networking related certification, e.g. CCNA, Networking +
* Research and Analysis
* Fluent in German both written and verbal
* Computer Skills - Setting up, upgrading, trouble shooting, installation and Configuration
* Clear written skills
* Mentoring
* Coaching
* Ability to prioritise within a high workload
Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent work experience
* CCNA and/or CompTIA Network+
Additional information will be made available on application. Candidates must be eligible to work in Ireland or currently hold a Stamp 4 Visa to apply.
If you are interested in applying for this role, please do so via the relevant links. If you would like to discuss this role in confidence please contact Chris Byrne in itContracting directly ( 01 526 7737 or chris dot byrne at itContracting dot ie ). All correspondence is treated in the strictest of confidence.
Evros / itContracting is an equal opportunity employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best available person for a job regardless of marital / civil partnership status, sex (including pregnancy), age, religion, belief, race, nationality and ethnic or national origin, colour, sexual orientation or disability. Evros / itContracting apply all relevant Data Protection laws when processing your Personal Data.
If you choose to apply to this opportunity and share your CV or other personal information with Evros / itContracting, these details will be held by us in accordance with our privacy policy used by our recruitment team to contact you regarding this or other relevant opportunities at Evros / itContracting.
Ref: ITC2586
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