Technical Support Professional

Introduction

The IBM Technical Support team is adding a support engineer with a background in Linux storage system administration and / or Kubernetes to join us in a remote position. In this role, you will deliver outstanding customer support experience for our Ceph and Open Shift Data Foundation products by providing technical support and sustaining engineering services to enterprise customers. You will support customers through our ticket system. Customer tickets include documentation clarifications, security concerns, upgrade processes, and general product and use case questions.

Your role and responsibilities

You will work to support our customers by responding to service requests in accordance within designated service-level agreement (SLA) timeframes . You will collaborate with engineers and developers to develop creative solutions for customers, including product fixes.

You will share your knowledge gained from troubleshooting issues by contributing to the knowledgebase and the team and present troubleshooting instructions and solutions to other support engineers and within the storage product and documentation teams.

Work to exceed customer expectations by providing outstanding customer service and ensure that regular updates are provided to ensure the customer is satisfied with the support received.

Investigate and troubleshoot issues while developing solutions for our customers while understanding their business needs.

Required education

Associate's Degree / College Diploma

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 3+ Years of experience working as a support, sustaining or development engineer or directly related experience using these or similar compute and storage solutions.
• Linux Storage System administration experience, including system installation, configuration and maintenance.
• Advanced troubleshooting and debugging skills, with a passion for problem solving and investigation.
• Must be able to work and collaborate in a team setting and look to share knowledge with peers.

Preferred technical and professional experience

1+ years of working with Ceph / Openshift / Kubernetes technologies

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.