Technical Support Representative

Cork, Ireland

Req ID: 200383

At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.

The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!

Your Role:

The Technical Support Rep is the front-line “trusted advisor” for SolarWinds product users, a key contributor to the customer experience through resolving customer’s issues, educating customer product functionalities, optimize their monitoring capabilities, and building a knowledge-based library.

Your Impact:

Direct interaction with SolarWinds customers and channel partners helping them to identify, troubleshoot and resolve technical issues with SolarWinds suite of Network, System, Security, Database monitoring products and Tools.
Front-line support for all incoming customer support issues, with web or phone support.
Serve as liaison between customer, advanced technical support, and internal development for all escalated product-related issues, including product enhancements, bug resolution, and overall product education
Develop or update customer-facing support documentation and public-facing articles on (SolarWinds Customer and Product Support | Success Center )
Share ideas to improve product features and usability, scale support, reduce incidents, increase customer satisfaction while reducing customer effort
Share upcoming customer training, successfully case studies, and demonstrate the product values
Share knowledge with the team and celebrate team success

Your Experience:

Bachelor’s degree, diploma, or equivalent work experience
Professional certifications are a plus: CCNA, MCSE, VCP, AWS or Azure
Comfortable to the technical conversation with customers
Minimum 4 years’ experience in customer technical support or developer role
Excellent communication – both verbal and written, support is conducted via email and phone
Self-driven, passionate to a good listener and to be able to identify the key customer concern and resolve customer’s issue
Passionate to explore new IT technologies
Strong knowledge of all current Windows OS server and understands event loggings
Administrative knowledge of Linux
Good knowledge of networking, network protocols, security appliance and access points, such as Cisco, Riverbed, Brocade, HP, Aruba
Good knowledge of administering or managing server Application/Services, such as IIS, MSSQL and understanding applications logs
Advantages in Deploying or Managing network monitoring systems (such as SolarWinds NPM, SAM and Nagios)
Good knowledge of monitoring protocol like SNMP, WMI, SMI-S, Common Information Model, Performance Counter

SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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