The Dedicated Support Engineer (DSE) is a technical expert within NICE’s Technical Support organization, responsible for delivering proactive, and reactive support to large enterprise customers. Acting as a trusted advisor and technical liaison, the DSE ensures seamless incident resolution, system stability, and continuous improvement across customer environments. This role combines deep technical troubleshooting with strategic customer engagement, cross-functional collaboration, and operational excellence. The DSE supports managed services customers with a focus on incident management, change control, compliance, and governance.
Key Responsibilities
1. Incident & Problem Management
- Serve as the primary contact for customer-raised incidents and service disruptions.
- Perform advanced troubleshooting across platforms including NICE, Avaya, Microsoft Teams, and more.
- Escalate complex issues to higher tier/vendors and drive resolution to closure.
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for recurring issues and share insights with stakeholders.
- Ensure all incidents are resolved within agreed SLAs and maintain high CSAT.
2. Change & Release Management
- Plan, test, and implement approved changes such as patches, upgrades, and configuration updates.
- Participate in CAB meetings, presenting impact and risk assessments.
- Ensure rollback strategies are documented and ready for critical changes.
- Maintain detailed documentation and implementation guides.
3. Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance
- Monitor system health and NICE monitoring.
- Conduct regular health checks and share proactive reports with customers.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and initiate preventive actions.
- Validate backup integrity, disaster recovery readiness, and patch compliance.
4. General Provisioning & Access Requests
- Provisioning of new user/agent IDs in recording platforms.
- Assigning/adjusting recording profiles (voice, chat, screen).
- Provisioning access roles (e.g., Compliance Officer, Supervisor, Playback user).
- Profile setup for compliance/legal teams.
5. Compliance & Audit Support
- Ensure recording systems (voice/chat/video) meet regulatory and business compliance standards.
- Provide audit artifacts such as ticket logs, configuration snapshots, uptime reports, and RCA documentation.
- Support internal and external audits with evidence of control adherence.
6. Customer & Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with customer stakeholders to align support with business priorities.
- Participate in governance calls, providing updates on incidents, SLAs, and satisfaction metrics.
- Handle escalations with professionalism and clarity, fostering trust and confidence.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including infrastructure, network, Microsoft, and security.
7. Knowledge & Documentation
- Maintain and update SOPs, knowledge bases, and troubleshooting guides.
- Mentor backup engineers and onboard new team members to ensure knowledge continuity.
- Drive continuous improvement through automation and simplification of recurring tasks.
8. Project Support
- Support migration and upgrade projects such as NICE product deployments, and Teams recording transitions.
- Assist in solution validation, testing, and customer acceptance.
- Contribute to design documentation and participate in technical reviews.
9. Reporting & Governance
- Prepare and present reports on uptime, incident trends, SLA adherence, and ticket analytics.
- Highlight risks and recurring issues, proposing long-term solutions.
- Provide visibility into resource utilization and operational performance.
Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a technology-related field or equivalent experience.
- ITIL Foundation (for SRF/support process adherence), Microsoft certifications (MS Teams, Azure Fundamentals/Administrator), Basic Networking (CCNA-level or equivalent).
- Familiarity with CTI integration (Avaya AES, Cisco CTI).
- Ticketing systems (ServiceNow, Remedy, ITSM tools).
- Log analysis (application logs, Windows Event Viewer, SIP traces).
- RCA documentation and preventive action planning.
- Basic SQL queries for DB (Oracle/SQL Server).
- Understanding of DB health monitoring and backup status.
- Windows Server administration (user permissions, patching, IIS), Active Directory integration with NICE, Virtualization platforms (VMware/Hyper-V).
- Microsoft Teams compliance recording enablement & troubleshooting.
- SIP call flows related to recording.
Soft Skills / Service Orientation
- Strong customer communication (handling compliance & audit queries).
- Ability to document SOPs and knowledge base articles.
- Team collaboration and escalation management.
- Proactive monitoring and preventive issue identification.