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Safer Payments Technical Support Engineer

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Safer Payments Technical Support Engineer

Alajuela, Costa Rica

Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

This dynamic opportunity is to become a IBM Software Support Engineer for Safer Payments. Our products protect more than 100 billion payment transactions per year from fraud. These range from payment cards and mobile payments to online banking, check, and wire transactions. A globalized world requires our solutions to be always available and to be equipped with sophisticated machine learning and artificial intelligence profiling capabilities. We are expected to process thousands of transactions within milliseconds to detect and stop fraudulent activity before payments are completed. This role specializes in performing remote technical support of IBM Data and AI software and solutions to help customers be successful. This is an excellent opportunity to work directly with customers utilizing the latest Data and AI applications, along with building relationships with Offering Management, Development, and Services. You will be supported by your experienced peers to help you learn new skills that will provide exposure to code-base/technical-side as well as soft-skills talking to some of the largest clients in the financial world.

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Key to your role:

Provides technical support assistance to customers using problem determination/problem source identification skills.

Utilizes technical and negotiation skills in collaboration with other support operations/organizations to prioritize and diagnose problems to resolution.
Communicates action plans to the customer or IBM representative as appropriate.

Recommends and implements new or improvements to existing technical support tools, procedures, and processes.
Contributes to department attainment of organizational objectives and high customer satisfaction.

After ramping up on the product, you will be expected to work flexible hours or weekend on-call rotations.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Demonstrated communication skills and additional languages are a plus.
Knowledge of Linux operating systems such as RHEL or CentOS.
Knowledge of Windows Desktop and Windows Server operating systems.
Proficient in technical writing; public facing knowledge articles; technical forum contributions
Basic knowledge of supported Internet Browsers: Edge, Chrome, Firefox.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Basic knowledge of debugging Internet Browsers using Console/Developer tools.
Knowledge and understanding of networking principles
Experience in software development.
Experience with Cloud - AWS, IBM Cloud, Azure, RedHat OpenShift.
Experience with Salesforce, GitHub, and MS Office Products.
Knowledge in JavaScript/C++/Java.
Experience in debugging clustered multi-threaded systems and knowledge of the required tooling. (e.g. gdb, tcpdump, wireshark, perf)

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.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

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

Client-provided location(s): Heredia Province, Heredia, Costa Rica
Job ID: IBM-16173
Employment Type: Other

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