Key Responsibilities
- Maintains the support process and ensures that requests for support are handled according to the procedures.
- Uses service assurance software and tools to investigate and diagnose problems, collects performance statistics and creates reports, working with users, other staff and suppliers as appropriate.
- Identifies and resolves problems following agreed procedures.
- Carries out agreed maintenance tasks.
- Ensures usage of knowledge articles in incident diagnosis and resolution and assists with updating as and when required.
- Performs defined tasks to monitor service delivery against service level agreements and maintains records of relevant information.
- Analyzes service records against agreed service levels regularly to identify actions required to maintain or improve levels of service, and initiates or reports these actions.
- Prioritizes and diagnoses incidents according to agreed procedures.
- Investigates causes of incidents and seeks resolution.
- Escalates unresolved incidents and follows up until incident is resolved.
- Provides service recovery, following resolution of incidents.
- Documents and closes resolved incidents according to agreed procedures.
- Maintains secure, accurate, complete, and current configuration on configuration items (CIs).
- Applies tools, techniques and processes to track, log and correct information related to CIs, ensuring protection of assets and components from unauthorized change, diversion, and inappropriate use.
- Remotely investigates and identifies root cause of incidents and assists with the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures.
- Maintains knowledge of specific specialisms, provides detailed advice regarding their application.
- Ensures efficient and comprehensive resolution of incidents, including ensuring that repairs are carried out by coordinating product requests, working with other team members.
- Provides continuous feedback to clients and affected parties and updates all systems, portals and ticketing tools as prescribed by standard operating procedures.
- Identifies problems and errors prior to or when they occur, logs all such incidents in a timely manner with the required level of detail with all the necessary information.
- Cooperates with all stakeholders including client IT environments, vendors, carriers and colleagues to expedite diagnosis of errors and problems and to identify a resolution.
Qualifications
- Developing knowledge of technical documentation.
- Developing knowledge on management agent concepts, redundancy concepts and remote console architecture within supported technical domain.
- Developing knowledge of vendor technologies such as Cisco, Microsoft, ARC, AudioCodes, PeterConnect, Sonus.
- Customer service oriented and pro-active thinking.
- Problem solving, highly driven and self‑organized.
- Good attention to detail.
- Good analytical and logical thinking.
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
- Team player with the ability to work well with others and in group with colleagues and stakeholders.
Academic Qualifications and Certifications
- Degree or relevant qualification in Information Technology or Computing or a related field.
- Professional level certification in different security technologies such as Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, PaloAlto, Fortinet, Aruba, BlueCoat, ZeeScaler.
- Examples (but not limited to) CCNP, JNCIP, ACCP, PCNSP, CCSP, etc.
Required Experience
- Moderate level experience in security technologies such as firewall, IPS, IDS, proxy, etc.
- Moderate level experience in technical support to clients.
- Moderate level experience in diagnosis and troubleshooting.
- Moderate level experience providing remote support in security technologies.
- Moderate level experience in relevant technology.
Workplace
On‑site working.
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