Lead Technical Support Specialist

OPENTEXT
OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.
**The Opportunity**:
The Lead Technical Support Specialist will be responsible for following the OpenText Standard Operating Procedures to provide end-to-end high quality technical support on OpenText Portfolio products. This role will also work to address the customer’s concerns not just at a technical level but also from a customer experience perspective.
**You are great at**:

- Communicating with, and assisting, people with greatly varying technical skill levels
- Consistently providing excellent technical support and positive customer experiences
- Troubleshooting errors with varied degrees of depth and complexity
- Conducting regular conference calls to lead, discuss, and review open issues
- Serving as an escalation point and mentoring your teammates for more complex issues
- Conducting business reviews with customers to discuss upcoming product release, review support activity and tools, and other matters related to support
- Communicating with Engineering in a clear, concise, and thorough manner, regarding product deficiencies and improvements
- Keeping patient and collected composure while resolving customer requests
- Scoping and clarifying problems to ensure full understanding
- Both giving and receiving coaching on problem identification, scoping, understanding, and setting expectations
- Utilizing and creating departmental resources, such as training videos, knowledge base articles, product documentation, etc.
- Searching information sources for relevant documentation, user/admin guides, knowledge base articles, white papers, PDFs, reliable websites, etc.
- Building and leveraging VMs, maintaining a functional virtual workspace
- Working with Development and Product Management to drive customer issues
- Being comfortable providing after-hours or on-call support if required

**What it takes**:

- 7+ years of similar or relevant experience or demonstrated ability
- Proven success in a customer-facing role
- Idea driven to lead projects and interact with management involving cross-team collaboration
- Champion for Knowledge Base and continuous improvement
- Respected mentor and leader of your peers to review and provide team technical guidance
- University/College degree technology related or equivalent work experience
- Strong knowledge of computer hardware components and operating system best practices
- Strong knowledge of networking principles including, but not limited to, firewalls, switches, routers, domains, and network topology
- Proficiency with most current versions of Microsoft Windows and Server
- Relational databases such as Oracle, and MS SQL Server, Unix and Windows Servers
- Web technologies such as Tomcat or Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
- Networking protocols, architecture, and devices such as load balancers
- Enterprise software solution architecture
- Familiarity with cluster and Disaster Recovery architectures and concepts
- Proven experience working in a fluid environment that is ever growing and changing
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task and prioritize work effectively
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to grasp concepts quickly with a thirst for knowledge
- Positive attitude, patience, understanding, dedication, and commitment
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge in at least 2 of the following areas:

- Networking; with experience working with monitoring and capture tools such as Wireshark, Fiddler, Charles or other web-related tools
- Database management: with experience in advanced functions such as backup, restore, high availability and performance debugging
- Security implementation; with experience working with cryptography, PKI, SSL, and certificates
- Infrastructures utilizing high availability practices; with experience configuring network appliances such as proxy servers or load balancers
- Application development or debugging; with experience using tools such as Eclipse, DGB/WinDGB, Postman, or web browser dev tools

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