Remote Hands Engineer

About the role

The Data Centre Remote Field Service Engineer (L1) is an entry level engineering role, operating in region and responsible for providing a professional remote technical support service to clients by identifying and resolving technical incidents and problems.

Responsibilities

• Maintains the support process and ensures that requests for support are handled according to the procedures.
• Uses service assurance software and tools to investigate and diagnose problems, collects performance statistics and creates reports, working with users, other staff and suppliers as appropriate.
• Identifies and resolves problems following agreed procedures.
• Carries out agreed maintenance tasks.
• Ensures usage of knowledge articles in incident diagnosis and resolution and assist with updating as and when required.
• Performs defined tasks to monitor service delivery against service level agreements and maintains records of relevant information.
• Analyses service records against agreed service levels regularly to identify actions required to maintain or improve levels of service, and initiates or reports these actions.
• Prioritises and diagnoses incidents according to agreed procedures.
• Investigates causes of incidents and seeks resolution.
• Escalates unresolved incidents and follows up until incident is resolved.
• Provides service recovery, following resolution of incidents.
• Documents and closes resolved incidents according to agreed procedures.
• Maintains secure, accurate, complete, and current configuration on configuration items (CIs).
• Applies tools, techniques and processes to track, log and correct information related to CIs, ensuring protection of assets and components from unauthorized change, diversion, and inappropriate use.
• Remotely investigates and identifies root cause of incidents and assist with the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures.
• Maintains knowledge of specific specialisms, provides detailed advice regarding their application.
• Safeguards efficient and comprehensive resolution of incidents, including ensuring that repairs are carried out by coordinating product requests, working with other team members.
• Provides continuous feedback to clients and affected parties and update all systems, portals and ticketing tools as prescribed by standard operating procedures.
• Identifies problems and errors prior to or when they occur.
• Logs all such incidents in a timely manner with the required level of detail with all the necessary.
• Cooperates with all stakeholders including client IT environments, vendors, carriers and colleagues to expedite diagnosis of errors and problems and to identify a resolution.

Requirements

• Ability to communicate and work across different cultures and social groups.
• Ability to plan activities and projects well in advance and takes into account possible changing circumstances.
• Ability to maintain a positive outlook at work.
• Ability to work well in a pressurized environment.
• Ability to work hard and put in longer hours when it is necessary.
• Ability to apply active listening techniques such as paraphrasing the message to confirm understanding, probing for further relevant information, and refraining from interrupting.
• Ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
• Ability to place clients at the forefront of all interactions, understanding their requirements, and creating a positive client experience throughout the total client journey.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology or Computing or related field.
• Associate level certification in different Data Centre technologies such as Cisco, NetApp, EMC- Ex: CCNA (DC) etc.

Skills

• Entry level knowledge of vendor technologies, such as (but not limited to) Cisco, EMC, Dell Avaya etc.
• Entry level knowledge on management agent concepts, redundancy concepts and remote console architecture within supported technical domain.

Experience

• Entry level experience in call center routing technologies, voice over IP technologies, Security/firewalls, Networking (routing, switching, distribution, core and access layers) and IT infrastructure (storage, backup, computing, server virtualization and etc.).
• Entry level experience in technical support to clients.
• Entry level experience in diagnosis and troubleshooting.
• Entry level experience providing remote support in Data Center technologies.
• Entry level experience in relevant technology.

Benefits

Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.