Support Specialist L1 (with German)

Shiji Group; Faro; Hybrid; EUR 21,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Shiji Group in Almancil, Portugal, is seeking a customer-focused Help Desk Specialist. This shift-based role provides 24/7 support, logging and diagnosing requests via calls or ticketing systems, and escalating incidents to maintain SLA targets.

Ideal candidates are fluent in English and German, with strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills. ITIL familiarity and experience with ZOHO Desk/JIRA are a plus.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English; German language skills required.
• Experience in customer service or help desk roles is preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and multitasking capabilities.
• Proven ability to document and update tickets accurately.

Responsibilities

• Provide first level contact and resolve customer issues or escalate as needed.
• Log, categorize, prioritize, and track incidents in ticketing systems.
• Diagnose issues and coordinate with teams to resolve them within SLAs.
• Follow SLA guidelines and provide status updates to customers.
• Escalate high priority issues to supervisors when required.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of products and internal procedures.

Skills

Fluent English

German language

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Tools

ZOHO Desk

JIRA

Microsoft Office

Job description

Almancil, Portugal | Posted on 09/16/2026

Shiji is a global technology company dedicated to providing innovative solutions for the hospitality industry, ensuring seamless operations for hoteliers day and night.

The best hotels run on Shiji - day and night.

Job Description

We are looking for a customer service-oriented Help Desk Specialist to provide functional support to users efficiently and effectively. This position is the first point of contact to customers. The specialist will be managing (logging, identifying, categorizing, and prioritizing) as well as diagnosing and actively resolving customer requests via calls or/and ticketing system. As part of the duties, the Support Specialist will need to escalates incidents appropriately, to maintain the service level agreements (SLA).This is a shift-based role providing 24/7 support, including weekends and public holidays.

Responsibilities:

• Provide first level contact and convey resolutions to customer issues
  
• Properly expand unresolved queries to the next level of support
• Track, route, and redirect problems to correct resources
  
• Respond in timely manner to tickets from customers, based on standard or account specific SLAs
  
• Follow the SLA for issues with respect to the severity or priority
  
• Follow-up with end users to provide status updates as per service level guidelines (SLA's)
  
• Take ownership by coordinating the feedback to the customer where analysis is required
  
• Take ownership of customer issues reported and see problems through to resolution in ZOHO Desk and JIRA system
  
• Update the support ticket with clear and complete information regarding the investigation and resolution of the ticket
  
• Being able to read and find information within changelogs, event logs and developer tool (console)
  
• Update customer data and produce activity reports
  
• Prioritize and manage several open issues at one time
  
• Escalate high priority or severe issues to supervisor/manager
  
• Diagnose and troubleshoot end user issues and provide appropriate solution
  
• Review daily assigned tickets to ensure current updates are provided
  
• Walk customers through problem solving process
  
• Follow up with customers, provide feedback and see problems through to resolution
  
• Utilize excellent customer service skills and exceed customers’ expectation
  
• Ensure proper recording, documentation and closure
  
• Actively participate in projects regarding modifications or improvements of internal procedures
  
• Maintain and increase knowledge of operational procedures, products and services
  
• Work collaboratively with people across the organization
  

Additional Information

• Exciting job within a creative environment and the opportunity to make a real impact on the business.
  
• Grow your experience with web and cloud technologies in a very innovative technology environment.
  
• Friendly, motivated and talented multicultural team.
  
• Opportunities to grow and develop with Shiji.
  
• Training to meet role requirements.
  

Requirements

• Preferred previous work experience in hospitality/hospitality school
  
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication and people skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
  
• Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies, products, and procedures
  
• Ability to work and thrive in a multi-tasked and fast-paced environment.
  
• Be professional, have a positive “get it done” attitude and a strong work ethic
• Must be fluent in English and German
  
• ITIL Service Management fluency preferred.
  
• Relationship building:Builds effective relationships through positive communication that motivates and influences others. Is honest, trustworthy, a team member, and proactively involved in achieving team objectives.
  
• Personal Effectiveness:Produces outstanding results both professionally and personally by being proactive and committed. Continually focuses on achieving positive results contributing to company’s business success.
  
• Technical Competence:Uses technical / job knowledge and experience, incorporating functional skills and broad-based business knowledge, to meet and exceed job requirements / customer expectations.
  
• Communication:Deliver exceptional written and verbal communication incorporating training materials, presentations and guidelines.
  
• Customer Focus:Passionately meets customer expectations. Enters the customer’s world through listening and understanding. Nurtures relationships by recognizing and delivering on customer needs and opinions.
  
• Managing complexity:Is able to work effectively in a highly complex, diverse, changing environment. Adapts well to and is energized by change whilst maintaining focus on key business goals and personal objectives.
  
• Innovation:Embraces creativity and is open to new ideas. Innovates to improve current working practices / products / technologies to provide business opportunities and results.
  
• Problem solving:Takes initiative to identify current and potential problems and determines the best solution. Involves and/or manages the people and resources required.