Position title
Lead Support Engineering
Description
Reporting:
AVP Engineering
Responsibilities
Team Leadership:
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- Lead and manage a team of support engineers, setting clear expectations, and providing regular feedback and coaching.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance team culture.
- Coordinate work assignments and prioritize tasks to ensure timely issue resolution.
- Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders from the development team to address and resolve complex challenges efficiently.
Technical Expertise:
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- Serve as an escalation point to resolve complex technical issues, assisting team members in using predefined procedures and escalating when necessary to ensure timely solutions.
- Stay up-to-date with product knowledge and workflows to provide expert guidance to the team.
- Address system crashes, bottlenecks, or any critical challenges that might impact business flows, minimizing downtime.
- Monitoring and Analysis: Continuously monitor Grafana dashboards, application logs (ELK stack), and utilize Prometheus and Grafana for in-depth analysis to proactively identify anomalies and maintain smooth business flow.
- Technical Infrastructure and Database Support: Provide technical assistance for our infrastructure deployed on various cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud) and OnPrem. Handle database-specific challenges related to MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Aerospike, and Redis as per predefined procedures.
- Replicate specific scenarios when necessary to better understand and troubleshoot issues.
- Initiate investigations into complex problems, delivering valuable insights and findings before escalating to higher support levels.
Customer Support:
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- Collaborate with the customer support team to ensure a seamless customer experience.
- Ticket Management: Manage the ticketing system to register, track, and escalate issues, ensuring transparency and accountability throughout the support process and ensure they are resolved within established SLAs.
- Handle escalated customer issues with professionalism and urgency.
Process Improvement:
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- Continuously assess and improve support processes and procedures.
- Identify opportunities for automation and efficiency gains to optimize support operations.
Training and Development:
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- Provide ongoing training and development for support engineers to enhance their technical skills and customer service abilities.
- Conduct regular performance evaluations and goal setting for team members.
Reporting and Metrics:
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- Maintain and analyze support performance metrics to identify areas for improvement.
- Prepare and present reports to management on support team performance and customer feedback.
Qualifications
- Proficiency in using technologies and tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack and troubleshooting Databases like MySQL, NoSQL by following SOPs.
- 7+ years of experience in technical support, with 2+ years in a leadership role.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven track record of successfully managing and developing support engineering teams.
Hiring Organization
Lemnisk
Employment Type
Full-time
Job Location
Bangalore
Date Posted
March 12, 2024