Mq- Client Facing Technical Support Professional

Introduction At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk. Your Role and Responsibilities As a Client Facing Technical Support Professional, you will: - Provide remote technical support assistance to our clients using problem determination and problem source identification skills - Communicate action plans and recommendations to our clients and ensure their satisfaction with the resolution or root cause analysis - Flex your programming and technology skills to drive problem resolution using existing and new technical support tools and procedures - Examine source code, provide feedback to development for product improvement, create test cases, tools, or debug modules for our clients - Produce coherent knowledge base articles to enable customers to resolve issues without further escalation - Work as part of a worldwide team responsible for diagnosing and troubleshooting software problems within the Cloud Integration organization, supporting IBM Aspera Required Professional and Technical Expertise: - Strong understanding of container technologies, Kubernetes, cloud skills, and networking protocols - Knowledge of Unix and Windows platforms - Proficiency in networking skills, such as TCP and UDP - Troubleshoot technical issues (networking, web apps, operating system, file system and user management) in the deployment of high-speed file transfer software in an enterprise environment - Knowledge of Windows Active Directory/Group Policy, LDAP, SAML, SSO, etc. - Scripting skills, such as Unix shell, Windows batch, Perl, Ruby or Python - Basic skills in database server (MySQL) administration - Communication and customer focus skills - understand customer problems and articulate current status to customers - Ability to communicate action plans to the client or IBM representative as appropriate - Ability to recommend and implement new or improvements to existing technical support tools, procedures, and processes Required Technical and Professional Expertise - English language skills including read, write and speak - Provide troubleshooting and technical advice for IBM customers - Provide technical leadership and guidance to both customers and internal project teams that are geographically distributed Applicants must be willing to work on a weekend rotation to lead diagnosis of critical customer outages. Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise N/A Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer?