IBM Looking for Remote Technical Support Engineer – Storage Hardware at Pune, Maharashtra

IBM; Pune City; Remote; INR 4,00,000 - 8,00,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company where your technical support skills can shine! As a Remote Technical Support Engineer, you'll tackle challenging customer cases, providing solutions for IBM's cutting-edge hardware and software. This role is perfect for those who thrive on problem-solving and enjoy collaborating within a global team. You'll have the opportunity to learn constantly while ensuring customer satisfaction and contributing to innovative technology solutions. Be part of a culture that values growth, diversity, and the courage to innovate in a supportive environment. If you're ready to make a significant impact, this is the place for you!

Benefits

Health Insurance

Flexible Work Hours

Training and Development Programs

Work from Home Options

Employee Discounts

Wellness Programs

Qualifications

• 2+ years of customer support experience required.
• Strong communication skills and a customer-driven focus are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide remote troubleshooting and analysis for hardware/software issues.
• Engage on cases effectively as part of a Global 24X7 team.

Skills

Technical Support

Customer Communication

Problem Solving

Storage Knowledge

Networking Knowledge

Analytical Skills

Education

University Degree in Information Technology

University Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Debug Tools

Analysis Tools

IBM Hardware and Software

Job description

At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so let’s talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

The Role:
This role specializes in performing and enabling remote technical support of IBM software, hardware and solutions. We are looking to hire Remote Technical Support Engineers for our Storage Hardware, Software Support team.

This job requires excellent technical skills, an eagerness to constantly learn and evolve and a natural curiosity as well as outstanding customer communications skill.

In this challenging role, you’ll be responsible for handling customer cases in an effective and accurate manner using multiple debug and analysis tools, techniques and procedures while documenting case details and action plans and maintaining communications with our customers and our field team.

Responsibilities:

1. Engage on cases effectively in a timely manner working as part of a Global 24X7 team.
2. Provide remote troubleshooting and analysis assistance for hardware/software failures, installation, usage and configuration questions via multiple pathways including Live Chat, Call back and Call Home models.
3. Utilize strong problem determination skills to diagnose issues, identify resolution and communicate action plans.
4. Respond to escalated customer calls, complaints, questions and queries.
5. Responsible to interpret error logs, dump files, system traces, and identify failing components.
6. Recommend and implement new technology or improvements to existing technical support tools, procedures and processes.
7. Collaborate with development support, other technical support team and business units to provide seamless problem resolution.
8. Create new knowledge content in response to new problem discovery.
9. The job might require flexible schedule to ensure 24×7 support operations or on-call coverage (as applicable).

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

1. Relevant University degree, ideally in Information Technology or Computer Science.
2. At least 2 years experience working in the area of customer support.
3. Basic Storage and Networking knowledge, computer or server hardware knowledge.
4. Excellent customer facing and communication skills.
5. Fluency in English – both verbal and written.
6. Willingness to work during alternative time zone shift.

Preferred Personal skills:

1. Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written).
2. Excellent organizational skills.
3. Good analytical and problem solving skills.
4. Ability to work within a team.
5. Strong customer driven focus.
6. Good presentation skills.
7. Ability to listen to clients and understand both situational and technical issues.
8. Focused & Results orientated.
9. Accuracy and attention to details.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

1. At least 1-year experience working as a technical support engineer.
2. Advanced knowledge, experience and/or certified with IBM Hardware and Software products.
3. Advanced knowledge, experience and/or certified with Servers, VMware, Citrix or Cisco enterprise products.
4. Advanced knowledge, experience in OS (Windows, Linux, AIX), SAN and Network.

About Business Unit

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate – they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.

About IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement

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For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.