Customer Tech Support Engineer US; remote

Overview

Application (Customer) Tech Support Engineer - North Carolina, US Based (remote)

Kneat enables regulated organizations to move from paper-based validation to intelligent, digitized, paperless solutions. And we do it through the ongoing development of a powerful, purpose-built software platform. In 2014, after eight years of intensive software development, we launched Kneat Gx—the world’s most advanced validation software to help revolutionize the speed, precision, transparency, and intelligence of validation in the Life Sciences sector.

Our solution is now used by some of the world’s leading Life Sciences companies.

What we’re looking for:

As Kneat continues to expand, we are looking for an enthusiastic Application Technical Support Engineer to join our global Customer Tech Support team based remotely in North Carolina, US.

Position overview:

Reporting to our Customer Tech Support Manager, the Application (Customer) Tech Support Engineer will provide application technical support for our Kneat Gx customers for the US region. This is a remote role, working as part of a global team. The successful candidate will be customer oriented, highly motivated with a demonstrated ability to work under pressure by handling multiple tickets simultaneously, as well as learning new products/technologies, skills and procedures along the way.

You will work as part of an overall service desk support team to ensure that all issues and requests submitted to the centralised service desk, and assigned to your queue, are dealt with promptly, appropriately and courteously. The role will also require awareness and compliance with established SLAs and will also require the role holder to conform to all Information and Cyber Security policies and procedures that are in place.

If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you!

• Logging owning proprietary software support issues and incidents until resolution and acting as primary support liaison between the company and its customers;
• Conducting regular follow ups with customers with recommendations, updates and action plans associated with tickets/issues.
• Documenting relevant support ticket/issue information and ensuring that customer communication is handled in a timely manner and in compliance with Service Level Agreements throughout the lifecycle of the issue, until it is completely resolved.
• Analysis of software issues reported, identification of known issues where applicable and reporting of known solutions or workarounds to customer within timeframe set out by Service Level Agreements.
• Ability to diagnose address application issues.
• Exceptional ability to provide front-end support to internal departments and web-based clients.
• The ability to analyse log files and find problems based on exceptions recorded in application log files
• The ability to identify steps to reproduce software issues that have been reported by our customers
• Development of workarounds for software issues reported where workarounds do not already exist.
• Creation and maintenance of knowledge base content for peers and customer use and reference, ensuring that known issues and workarounds are clearly documented in the knowledge base.
• Identification of training needs for customers, and development of operation documents to address these issues.
• Collaboration with the Development, QC and QA teams on issue resolution; providing feedback to Development and QC to help improve the product quality and reliability.
• Setup of test environments as necessary for replication of customer reported issues and provision of documentation on these setups.
• Communicating application problems and issues to key stakeholders, including Management, Engineering, Professional Services and Sales teams.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of a best-in-class, multi-level customer support model, in consultation with other functions and stakeholders, that first and foremost seeks to empower and enable customers to resolve their own queries immediately by leveraging content and technology.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of Kneat’s Customer Support processes and procedures.
• Becoming an application…