ISP Network Support Specialist – Routing & Outages

Metacom

Cape Town

On-site

ZAR 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Pension
Group Life Cover
Medical Aid

Job summary

Metacom is seeking a Support Service Centre Agent to deliver high-quality technical and customer support to clients and internal teams. The role focuses on investigating offline routers, WAN outages, and last-mile connectivity failures (Fibre, LTE, Wireless).

You will be the first point of contact for clients, delivering prompt resolutions aligned with SLAs. Requirements include a minimum of 1 year ISP experience, proven router/WAN troubleshooting, TCP/IP basics, VPN connectivity, and Fibre/LTE

Qualifications

  • Minimum 1 year experience in an ISP environment.
  • Proven experience troubleshooting routers and WAN links.
  • Solid understanding of TCP/IP, VPN connectivity and basic routing.

Responsibilities

  • Investigate and troubleshoot offline routers and connectivity outages.
  • Perform first-line VPN and routing checks.
  • Liaise with Last Mile Providers (Openserve, Frogfoot, Octotel, MetroFibre).
  • Log detailed tickets and maintain accurate documentation.
  • Monitor alerts and identify potential service impact.
  • Escalate to Level 2/NOC when required.
  • Provide professional updates to internal teams and clients.

Skills

ISP experience
Router troubleshooting
VPN connectivity
TCP/IP fundamentals
Fibre and LTE technologies
Communication skills
Ticketing systems
Freshdesk/Jira
SNMP tools

Education

CompTIA Network+ Certification

Tools

Freshdesk
Jira

Job description

Metacom is seeking a Support Service Centre Agent to deliver high-quality technical and customer support to clients and internal teams. The role focuses on investigating offline routers, WAN outages, and last-mile connectivity failures (Fibre, LTE, Wireless).

You will be the first point of contact for clients, delivering prompt resolutions aligned with SLAs. Requirements include a minimum of 1 year ISP experience, proven router/WAN troubleshooting, TCP/IP basics, VPN connectivity, and Fibre/LTE

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