Application Support Engineer

22 Hours ago • 1-3 Years

About the job

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Who are we?

Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines. Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.

About the team

The team is comprised of a group of skilled and driven individuals working together to ensure a seamless experience for customers of our product. Towards this end, we work closely with our customers and with our internal teams towards a focused goal of operational excellence. We’re focused on learning and achievement and on the recognition and rewarding of performance and results.

Roles & Responsibilities

Frontline support role for Enterprise products or Backline support role for SaaS-hosted solutions or Enterprise products.
Works on or manages assignments that are complex in nature where independent action and high degree of initiative is required in resolving problems and developing solutions.
Good knowledge of Linux based systems with the ability to identify and resolve system related issues, analysing logs and hardware problems working alongside the platform and Engineering teams.
Ensure team adherence to SLAs for support coverage for initial response and timely resolution for customer cases via phone, web and community.
Develop broad and deep expertise for array of assigned products to maximize first contact resolution.
Apply product and industry expertise to actively diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve the most complex/advanced customer issues.
Proactively take steps to optimize and maintain system, application and network health and performance.
Participating in the culture of continual service improvement within the Digital Safe operations team
Influence support organization to deliver quality service to customers and partners to drive high levels of customer satisfaction and long-term loyalty.
Proactively communicate with customer sharing information to display a sense of transparency, following security and communication guidelines
Effectively manage cases to ensure timely customer status updates and ultimate resolution.
Log and track cases using JIRA, maintaining detailed documentation of all interactions and statuses throughout lifecycle of issue.
Review and publish documentation of applicable solutions for reusability for faster responses to recurring issues.
Promote adoption and success of customers and partners using self-service offerings, including knowledgebase, community, and training resources.
Actively participate in readiness planning and activities related to pre-release or new product introduction preparation for the support team.
Develop product, policy and process improvements that improve the customer experience.
Follow required polices and processes to maintain compliance with information security and data protection requirements.

Required Experience/Skills

Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT Service Management, Engineering, Business, or related field or equivalent work experience. May have a Master's degree in the related fields.
1 -3 years in a support delivery role or 5 plus years industry/career equivalent experience. 
Requires advanced level IT, networking, database, virtualization or SaaS/Cloud application support experience with Java applications.
Industry certifications in Windows, Linux, RDBMS, AWS are preferred.
Passion for helping customers succeed.
Basic understanding Linux systems administration and support.
Experience supporting Java-based applications
en, KVM or other virtualization technologies
Database querying/administration (MS-SQL, Postgres, MySql, MariaDB)
Creating and maintaining scripts in PERL, bash, python a plus
Time management and critical thinking skills.
Self-directed and self-motivated with a demonstrable work ethic and ability to perform under pressure.
Proficient in using Microsoft business applications, JIRA/Confluence and related platforms.
Strong communication and customer service skills.
Client-facing interpersonal skills.

About our culture

Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.