Job description

Quali is seeking a Technical Support Engineer with a desire to support Quali’s solution in the fields of DevOps value chain and advanced automation, virtual infrastructure and storage. The candidate will be heavily focused on supporting Quali’s solution on-premise and in the cloud (SaaS), bringing value to Quali’s customers.

The Technical Support Engineer is responsible for proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of network incidents in support of mission critical platforms as well as issues reported by Quali customers and partners.  Proven knowledge in extensive network support of high-availability networks, applications, and the ability to provide support to end customers and partners.  This position will require a rotating schedule and support off-hours.
 
Responsibilities:

• Focus on monitoring customer uptime, provide immediate support to address network and application layer issues
• Communicate with systems and engineering departments as well as Customer and Partner IT staff to resolve and prevent issues
• Monitor all aspects of network/systems infrastructure and provide outbound communications
• Provide 1st level support to resolve complex, technical problems
• Effectively communicate status to the Incident Response Team and staff
• Actively work in an incident response capacity
• Documentation of trouble resolution through the use of trouble ticketing system

Requirements:

• Proven knowledge and experience with one of the following scripting or programming languages (C / C++ / C# / Objective C / Java / TCL / Python / Perl / Ruby, etc.)
• VoIP knowledge a plus
• Working experience with at least one of the following sets of technologies: virtualization (OpenStack, VMWare), cloud (Azure, AWS), networking (Cisco, Juniper, NFV), operating systems (Linux, Windows), enterprise DevOps, security and performance testing (Breaking Point, ixNetwork, ixLoad), configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible), software development (IDEs, GitHub, Jenkins, Agile/SCRUM)
• Strong communication and documentation skills required
• Desire and ability to develop technical skills and take on additional responsibilities in order to add value to departmental and Quali’s mission and goals
• Previous experience working in a Network Operations Center is a plus
• CCNA certification a plus
• Understanding of sub-netting and network segmenting
• IP routing - configuration & troubleshooting

Education:

• AA Degree or equivalent experience a plus