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

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 an individual who is customer orientated, 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!

Responsibilities:

• 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 expert and training resource for the Customer Support team.
• Preparing end user and technical user documentation.
• Supporting Operations and Sales teams in the field for all project requirements, including specification development to customer requirements, installs, upgrades configuration.
• Attending customer meetings/sites, when required, to support issues, installations, training, go lives review meetings, always providing a high level of customer service.
• Ensuring that customers are treated with the highest degree of respect and drive operational excellence through quality closures and proper escalation of issues.
• Reporting non-conformances and managing the lifecycle of non-conformances in Kneat’s tracking system, ensuring traceability between Zendesk and Azure DevOps.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of tech support strategies and productivity.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, information systems, computer engineering, or similar.
• Minimum of 2 years’ hands-on experience.
• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer facing environment.
• Logical approach to problem solving, self-motivated and enthusiastic.
• Strong interpersonal communication and customer service skills are needed to work successfully with customers in high urgency and/or ambiguous situations.
• Experience in a technical customer-facing role.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English as this will be a customer-facing role.
• Demonstrate a proactive approach and ability to prioritise own workload.
• Willing to travel, if required

Nice to haves:

• Experience working with programming languages
• Working knowledge of SQL databases would be advantageous.
• Working knowledge of front-end and back-end programming languages would be advantageous e.g.: chrome dev tools, HTML, etc.

What we offer you:

At Kneat we truly value ideas and collaboration so we’ve created an environment that builds, protects, and celebrates teamwork.

Our strong culture is central to our continued success.

We offer programs and rewards that one would expect from a highly successful and growing technology company.

A fantastic culture, team, and energy.

Competitive compensation.

Comprehensive benefits package.

Flexible work arrangements.

Training and professional development.

Kneat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs to perform these essential functions.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to complete this application form, please contact us at +353 (0)612 038 26 (Ext 2004) or email us at [email protected] for assistance.