Job offer description

As Senior Telecommunications Technical Support Engineer, you will provide technical support to both staff and customers who are working to implement VMware’s VCloud NFV bundle and other related products.

Responsibilities:

  • Take ownership of an individual Telecommunications customer and learn their environment
  • Respond to that customer’s inquiries, primarily via email and telephone
  • Resolve any customer technical issues through diligent research, reproduction, and troubleshooting
  • Provide backup to other senior TSE’s for their individual customers in the event that they are unable to
  • Proactively provide suggestions to your customer on ways to improve the stability of their platform
  • Work with the Services Account Manager for your customer to ensure that the customer gets the highest level of support and communication from VMware
  • Work directly with staff in quality assurance, engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and administration to resolve problems
  • Document all technical inquiries; develop and review content for knowledgebase
  • Provide training or assistance to junior staff
  • Troubleshoot and engage with engineering on customer reported issues

 

Requirements:

  • Hands on experience with VMware ESXi & vCenter
  • Experience in providing Unix/Linux technical support to enterprise customers
  • Experience designing and/or supporting large enterprise deployments
  • Hands-on experience with Linux/UNIX based operating systems including strong CLI skill set and working knowledge of general system and network troubleshooting tools (e.g. WireShark)
  • Good practical working ability with Linux/UNIX utilities, including editors and command shells
  • B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, or equivalent work experience
  • Fluent in spoken and written English

 

Highly Preferred Skills:

  • Previous experience in the Telecommunications industry an advantage
  • VMware VSAN, NSX and vCloud Director experience is an advantage
  • Networking: Excellent understanding of L2/L3 networking protocols including switching technologies, routing fundamentals, IP subnetting, routing, firewalling, load balancers, VPN and network design
  • UNIX kernel diagnostics/debugging (at a level typically found in senior level 2 or level 3 UNIX support staff)
  • Ability to program and debug bash, perl and python scripts
  • Experience with operation and administration of large Windows Server and Desktop Environments
  • Experience in administration of complex Storage Area Networks, including Fibre-channel and Ethernet based protocols
  • Previous exposure to Cloud Management Platforms such as OpenStack, CloudStack, vCAC including Networking enabled by software
  • Familiarly of Clustering Technologies such as MS Cluster Server, Redhat clustering, Oracle RAC
  • Hands-on and working with key technology solution/language/tools e.g. CloudStack, OpenStack, AWS, KVM, libvirt, Chef, Puppet, Python, CMS, DynamicOps, API, etc
  • Willingness to travel to customer locations for short periods up to 5 days in the event that your customer has an emergency situation
  • Ability to develop a long term business relationship with your end customer

 

Job details
Sector:
Information and communication
Occupation field:
Engineering professionals (excluding electrotechnology)
Work experience:
Work experience is required
Salary range:
Not provided
Date of expiry:

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