Introduction
IBM Software Support Organization is seeking a Technical Support Professional to join our team! IBM Software Technical Support Engineers take pride in helping customers by solving problems and answering questions both large and small. Support Engineers develop a mastery of our different products and use that knowledge to enable customers to overcome problems while sharing best practices. This important role is a hub within the company. Technical Support Engineers take questions, issues, and feedback from users and work with Solution Architects, Product Management and Engineering to continuously improve our solutions. Additionally, Technical Support Engineers are encouraged and provided the opportunity to hone their technical skills and deepen their knowledge.
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Your role and responsibilities
Areas of responsibility include
• Engage on cases effectively in a timely manner working as part of a Global 24X7 team.
• Work closely with Engineering and Operations on resolving escalated cases
• Educate customers to help them become product experts
• Write knowledge base articles based on customer questions
• Develop and maintain strong customer relationships
• Provide technical engineering support, as part of our Technical Support Team, to resolve customer issues by performing diagnostics, performance optimization, incident analysis, solutionpartner recommendations, and product knowledge transfer
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
• Passion for customer care and customer satisfaction.
• A successful track record in developing and managing customer relationships.
• Knowledge in Windows/Linux operating systems
• Knowledge in Managing Client Expectations/Satisfaction
• Knowledge in Problem Determination/Resolution
• English: Fluent
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Knowledge in shell scripting, and SQL
• Knowledge of a programming language such as Java, C/C++
• Knowledge of networking concepts
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
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?
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.
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