As a Senior Technical Support Manager, you will focus on driving excellent customer experience by delivering diagnosing, troubleshooting, and repairing complex solutions, software systems/applications or cloud services. You will be responsible for a team of technical support managers. • Manages engineers that respond to situations where standard procedures have failed to isolate or fix problems in non-functioning equipment systems or software. • Establishes and maintains lines of communication and escalation with Technical Support L2 teams on design, reliability, and maintenance issues. • Ensures that engineers are current with the latest upgrades and/or new releases. May be involved in customer installation and training programs. • Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function. * This opportunity is based in Cork, Ireland. The position reports to a Director *
Job Requirements
• This position is responsible for managing many tasks for multiple large groups, a department or departments, or a function within a country or global geographic area. • The focus of this role is on creating and influencing strategy and policy. • The potential impact of decisions made by this individual has significant operational or financial impact. • Capable to identify customer self-services and enablement opportunities. • This individual will apply in-depth knowledge to solve broad issues in scope and establish medium to long- range plans. • This individual must work effectively with Staff to Vice President and Customer Executive Levels • Customer service experience working with customers in high stress or ambiguous situations on complex problems. • An understanding of the product development cycle, technical requirements, and project management. • Experience with, or overall understanding of: - Compute, Storage, Hardware - Networking (SAN/NAS) such as NFS, remote file sharing protocol, CIFS Windows remote file sharing, TCP/IP networking, RAID etc - Understanding of Cloud Services - Virtualization and Container Technology • A strong understanding of concepts related to computer architecture through implementation. • Experience with developing budgets and predicting project costs. • A demonstrated ability to manage professional level employees. - Please note that office presence, would be a requirement for this role
Education
• BS/BA degree or equivalent related education/training/certifications and experience • 10+ years of applicable industry experience including a minimum of 5 years of people management experience with direct oversight of direct reports. • Additional language skill ( German, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew) is an advantage.
John is one of our Senior Recruitment Consultants in the Technical Infrastructure Division of e-Frontiers and has been with the company since 2012. John brings almost 18 years of recruitment experience to the e-Frontiers team having previously worked for one of Ireland’s biggest recruitment companies. He has worked with many of Ireland’s leading IT companies and has experience in sourcing technical candidates across all levels. He has also gained valuable on-site client recruitment experience from various recruitment projects. John studied Business Studies at Dublin Business School. He prides himself on his professional and logical approach to recruitment.
John's main areas of expertise include Infrastructure Support, Cyber Security, IT Service Delivery, Linux Engineers, Azure & AWS Cloud Engineers, Network Engineers, and any other role types that fall into the Infrastructure Support area.