Lead Cloud Support Engineer - RapidScale

RapidScale, a COX Business Company, is one of the fastest growing Cloud Computing companies in the industry. Based in Irvine, CA, the company has a solid track record of delivering world class products and services to our customers located throughout the country and around the globe. RapidScale is seen as a leader in desktop virtualization with marked success in application virtualization. The company also provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions via an enterprise 'Flex Pod' cloud stack.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain multiple customer environments.
• Update and manage case backlog based on internal policies.
• Crisis Management - Identify any high priority issues and resolve them.
• Provide a Customer-First experience while utilizing phones and email to manage cases.
• Work cohesively with team as well as all divisions of company.
• Effectively engage resources inside and outside of your team to further the troubleshooting and resolution of issues which may include other technical engineers, architecture teams, account teams, or project managers.
• Deliver solutions that lead to problem resolution or mitigation with a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Be able to listen to, accept, and follow direction from more senior engineers.
• Flexibility to be customer facing and travel to customer sites.
• Act as technical escalation for NOC, Level I & II Engineers.
• Contribute to technical knowledge base.
• Coach / Mentor NOC, Level I & II Engineers.
• Deliver trainings to NOC, Level I & Level II Engineers. Perform Escalation Manager duties.
• Review cases, identify trends, and drive problem resolutions.
• Perform technical review of environments transitioning from implementation team to support team.
• Deep dive technical problems and create full resolutions to issues.
• Understand how technologies work together to see bigger picture of issues.
• Review and manage top tier customer environments to prevent major issues.
• Act as final escalation point for support team. Be available for on-call & weekend shifts.
• Perform Customer Onboarding & Critical Account roles and responsibilities.
• Participate in interviewing potential new hires.
• Provide Feedback on process and tool improvements
• Own Root Cause Analysis on any high priority case.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED and 7 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as any level degree/certification beyond a HS diploma/GED in a related discipline and 5 years' experience; or 9 years' experience in a related field
• Excellent communication, presentation, writing, and editorial abilities.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Flexibility to work alternative days and shifts as needed.
• Preferred MSP experience.

Minimum Technical Qualifications:

• Microsoft AD (password resets, security groups, Sites & Services, Replication, Time Synchronization, DNS, DHCP)
• Networking (strong understanding of the networking concept on the CCNA level: L2 (mac address, switching, VLAN), L3: IP addressing, routing; network security: firewalls, PKI, VPN)
• Ability to research complex issues and implement innovative solutions
• Windows/Mac networking basics
• Proficiency in computer usage, internet, and Microsoft Office suite of applications.
• Windows Server 2012, 2016 etc.
• Basic Understanding of SQL
• VMWare Virtualization Basics (Understanding virtualization concept, ability to navigate vCloud/vCenter)

Preferred Technical Qualifications:

• Advanced routing and switching knowledge: dynamic routing, high availability, first hop redundancy, VRF, tunneling
• Fortigate: NSE4 and higher (or new system equivalent) with a full understanding of all topics
• Experience and understanding of other Forti-family products: EMS, Fortimanager, Forticlient, FortiAnalyzer
• SD-WAN management: understanding an SD-WAN concept. For now, focusing on VMWare SD-WAN: strong understanding of all key elements and their interwork.
• Cisco router/switch management; FMC; Meraki switching and wireless
• Sales Force
• UNIX, LINUX, REDHAT - basic understanding, ability to navigate
• OSX - Mac OS - basics
• High level of confidence and ability to make a technical decision on the spot
• Proficiency in using networking troubleshooting tools such as Command line utilities, Sysinternals, NetMap, Wireshark, tcpdump, debugging, etc.
• Ability to obtain and process raw information to provide reports on different technical and human-relation topics

USD 37.40 - 56.15 per hour

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