As a Technical Support Engineer I, you will be providing support to customers using Everbridge products. You will support core products by isolating, diagnosing, and reproducing technical issues in a timely manner. You will recommend solutions and maintain a good record of all work and communications with the customer in a call tracking system, including documenting solutions for a public knowledge base. To be successful in this role, you must be a motivated self-starter and self-learner, possess good customer service and technical problem-solving skills; and be someone who embraces challenges.
Note: Role requires working evening shifts aligned with U.S. Eastern Time
What you'll do:
Ask customers targeted questions to quickly understand root cause of their issue.
Effectively communicate with end-users of varying technical capability and role.
Leverage internal technical expertise, including peers, mentors, knowledge base, community forums and other internal tools, to provide the most effective solutions to customer issues
Be available for incoming calls and pull work from an incoming queue
Work occasional weekends and holidays taking incoming calls and pulling work from an incoming queue.
May be called upon with short notice to assist the support team in the event of disasters/emergencies that are unexpected or unpredicted.
Accurately document and update tickets in the tracking systems. Able to maintain a personal queue of open requests.
Maintain communication with the customers on the status of all open tickets. All responses should be professional, complete, well formatted, and consistent with prior communications.
Contribute to technical knowledge base
Regular follow ups with customers with recommendations, updates, action plans, and acquire confirmation for delivered solutions.
Properly escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate technology teams.
Technical knowledge of:
PC Operating system basics
Be able to differentiate application issue vs. web issue
Be familiar with different types of browsers and settings
Understand difference between an Application in Saas environment vs. on-premises environment; what you can and cannot do in each
Familiar with Sumologic and how to download/view logs for analysis.
Understand basic network concepts and components to identify where traffic is coming from or being directed to.
Understand API/SSO technology – understand technology and use cases
Understand basics in different modalities. Email, SMS, voice.
What you'll bring:
Years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role: 0-2 years with BS/BA degree
Provides prompt and accurate feedback to customers acting with consistent urgency.
Able to work well in a team environment
Able to prioritize, organize, and manage multiple tasks, act independently and exercise good judgment
Good verbal and written communication skills
Good troubleshooting skills
Technical knowledge in PC, networks, web browsers, application in Saas vs. on-premise required
TCP/IP knowledge a plus
API/SSO technology understanding with ability to demonstrate use