Linux Application Support Engineer

Job Description

About the Job: You will be serving as the first point of contact for customers looking for technical assistance onsite. You will be performing remote troubleshooting through diagnostic techniques, logs analysis and pertinent questions & finding the best solution based on the issue and details acquired from customer. You will work with customers to resolve any first and second level product related issues reported. Interact with QA and Engineering team to co-ordinate issue resolution within the promised SLA to customer. Roles and Responsibilities: Walk the customer through the problem-solving process. Re-direct unresolved issues to the next level of support personnel. Record events and problems and their resolution in logs to create repository for troubleshooting reference. Use automation for deployments and system upgrades. Diagnose customer reported problems or configuration issues and recommend possible solutions within agreed SLAs Contribute in creation and reviews of user documentation, product requirements documents, and other functional specifications. Assist with knowledge-sharing initiatives. Product release, training and documentation for customer. Maintaining and keeping customer database updated. Testing, Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance. Performing system flow validations, and tuning. Gathering monitoring data, identifying and evaluating options for performance improvement. Validating system objectives and specifications by testing, comparing system performance, making modifications and turning. Installing and configuring software and hotfixes into production by loading software into servers/desktops and creating necessary scripts for automation. Installing hardware in production by establishing LAN/WAN connections, entering necessary configurations and upgrades. Ensure 24x7 production system uptime. Keeping track and timely closure of issues reported by customer. Preparing daily report on issues and consolidating quarterly. Vendor coordination for equipment faults, procurements, warranty & AMC related tasks. Working in shift structure on rotation basis. 16x8 & 24x8 like shift structure. Hands on Experience in deployment and maintaining of product Infrastructure including Desktops, Servers, Virtual Machines. Experience in performance monitoring using SNMP, WMI, SysLogs Experience/Knowledge in ticketing tool for issue tracking, reporting. (Must Have) Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently. Experience of working with End Users will be advantage. Basic knowledge of Oracle, Mongo, Redis, SQL Databases Traveling to client site for production related tasks like deployment, testing, issue troubleshooting etc. Skills: Candidates with experience in following Linux/Windows Administrations LAN Technologies WAN technologies (Good to have) Candidates with certification will be preferred Hands on Experience in deployment and maintaining of product staging Infrastructure including Desktops, Servers, Virtual Machines Experience in DOS, Pearl, Python and Shell Scripting will be an advantage Experience in performance monitoring using SNMP, WMI, SysLogs Experience in using monitoring tools like Nagios Experience/Knowledge in ticketing tool for issue tracking, reporting. (Must Have) Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently. Experience of working with End Users will be advantage. Qualifications: Job Title : Technical Support Engineer Experience : 2-4 years Location : Indore, MP (work-from-office only) Education : BE (IT/Computers) Show more Show less