Technical Support Engineer

What you get to do in this role:

The Technical Support Engineer is part of a global organization entrusted as a technical resource to guide our customers during critical issues to ensure a timely and effective case support engineering the customer and their positive experience are paramount and central to our daily efforts. ServiceNow support engineering is integral to the success of our customers as well as to the health of ServiceNow.

In this role the Support Engineer will resolve technical cases created by customers looking for help to understand or troubleshoot unexpected behaviors or to answer technical questions about the ServiceNow software and platform.

A successful candidate will be committed to providing amazing customer support experiences using skills that include building trust showing empathy and excellent communication to answer customer questions and resolve issues through various technologies including web chat email case updates as well as direct telephone support.

Understanding the ServiceNow platform and all core functionalities will be essential while employing various diagnostic tools to isolate the potential cause of the issue. The engineer is expected to diligently manage and resolve challenging issues assigned to them but may need to coordinate assistance from additional teams for more complex cases. As such creative problem-solving a collaborative nature and flexibility will be key to your success.

Lastly support engineers also play a key role in providing input across business units regarding process and product improvements due to their unique perspective when working on technical issues for customers.

Opportunity

This position requires a bachelors degree in computer science and 2 to 4 years of related experience as well as fluency in Portuguese Spanish and English.

The ideal candidate for this position is an engineer with a strong background in authentication or user management systems email infrastructure web services and networking. The candidate must have a passion for chasing issues of complex systems running under dynamic real-world loads.

We are looking for individuals who can successfully diagnose the entire technology stack from the front end to the back end to determine where to start troubleshooting an issue. This is a customer-facing role and therefore it requires strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong technical skills. The Technical Support Engineer must be able to work outside of normal business hours (evening/weekend shifts holidays) as needed.

Those we hire will be trained and mentored in these technologies as appropriate by our senior staff and will work to support a growing base of ServiceNow customers. Successful candidates will enjoy a generous earning potential and the chance to expand their role in the company as we grow.

Responsibilities

• Assist customers on critical issues and high-priority cases to provide a best-in-class support experience.
• Communicate with customers and our teams through case phone and other digital methods.
• Manage customers expectations and experience in a way that results in high customer satisfaction.
• Assess troubleshoot resolve and provide root cause analysis for ServiceNow Product issues.
• Understand our platform cloud technologies and troubleshooting practices to ensure the successful resolution of challenging technical situations.
• Collaborate with other internal teams on complex issues that require cross-SME skills.
• Contribute to the growth of best practices for the delivery of support services.
• Maintain technical expertise in assigned areas of product functionality and share this knowledge via mentoring and training sessions with other engineers.
• Suggest and implement improvements to internal processes and work on technical and non-technical projects.
• Create proactive scripts to automate repetitive tasks or scripts to enable faster troubleshooting.
• Write knowledge base materials dedicated towards operational efficiency while also empowering and enabling the customers.
• Maintain impeccable case hygiene and customer-related files and records.
• Working 5-day shifts that can be across Monday to Sunday as needed.

Qualifications :

Qualifications and technical skills that will lead to success:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes decision-making or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools automating workflows analyzing AI-driven insights or exploring AIs potential impact on the function or industry.
• 2-4 years of customer-facing technical support experience
• Strong Communication skills to articulate technical details with customers TSEs other SME teams and internal leaders in a way that can be clearly understood.
• Ability to troubleshoot difficult technical issues with ease and complexity
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate solutions to complex technical problems
• Strong personal commitment to quality and customer service
• Ability to troubleshoot multiple difficult technical issues with ease and complexity
• Advanced understanding of JavaScript
• SQL TCP/IP Networking knowledge
• Ability to read advanced programming languages with exposure to broader infrastructure services operating systems hardware and networking
• Ability to discuss issues with the customer and development team and provide solutions to customer cases
• Personal commitment to quality and customer service

To be successful in this role the candidate must have:

• Proficiency in Portuguese English and Spanish is required encompassing fluent abilities in reading writing and speaking
• LDAP/Active Directory SSO or other authentication or user management systems (e.g. Azure AD Okta. SAML SiteMinder)
• Email Infrastructure (e.g. Exchange Office 365 Postfix)
• Web Services (consuming or providing) (SOAP REST)
• Experience Data Extraction Technologies (e.g. JDBC ODBC)
• Hands-on experience exporting/importing data between separate systems
• TCP/IP Networking knowledge
• Understanding of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• Understanding of remote administration via SSH SNMP WMI Powershell
• Hands-on experience in any bi-directional automated integration between two systems
• Strong Experience in one (or more) scripting languages: JavaScript Python Perl Unix Shell Windows Shell)
• Relational databases (e.g. MySQL Oracle).
• Linux/Unix OR Microsoft Server
• Components in a Web Applications Stack

Capability

• Strong personal commitment to quality and customer service
• Uncompromising attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate solutions to complex technical problems
• Ability to work with high-value customer administrators and developers
• Excellent time management skills
• Demonstrated ability to understand the problem statement and troubleshoot complex technical issues with ease
• Ability to multi-task and efficiently manage case backlog
• Experience working well in a team environment while also being able to work productively while unsupervised
• Should be a team player working efficiently in a collaborative environment
• Leading investigation and resolving complex issues and escalations while demonstrating exceptional technical understanding of business processes and customer needs in a timely manner.
• Flexibility to work occasional weekends and evenings as needed

Desired Skills
The following additional skills are preferred but not required:

• Experience providing SaaS / PaaS support
• A fundamental understanding of IT service management and the ITIL business process
• Fluid experience writing or debugging Object Oriented code (Java preferred other relevant technologies ok)
• Experience working with dynamic HTML components: AJAX JavaScript AngularJS CSS XML HTML XHTML
• Experience using tools like Splunk/Wireshark and understanding common SaaS cloud and on-premise infrastructure components.
• Familiarity with Eclipse IDE

Additional Information :

Work Personas

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible remote or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color creed religion sex sexual orientation national origin or nationality ancestry age disability gender identity or expression marital status veteran status or any other category protected by addition all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements. 

Accommodations

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Export Control Regulations

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time