Manager - Applications Support

Objectives of Role :

• Prime responsibility of leading L1/L2 support team.

• Accountability on direct customer experience.

Responsibilities :

• Responsible for leading the L1/L2 support role for a critical application.

• Managing a team of support engineers to under the SLA.

• Constant engagement with customers as the first level of escalation.

• Deployment of new releases of product/CRs as part of implementation support.

• Diagnose and close customer-raised tickets and internally identified issues within SLA.

• Take accountability of direct customer experience by engaging with various customer teams and external vendors.

• Constant interaction with L3 and Engineering support for reporting and fixing issues.

• Periodic reports to senior management about ticket progress and RCA and continual improvements.

• Able to manage customers in different time zones and regions.

Skills :

• Very knowledge on Unix and Shell scripting.

• 10 - 15 year experience with Telecom BSS/OSS solution on L2/L3 or Support on lead roles.

• Good understanding of RDBMS concepts.

• Preferred knowledge on Hadoop/HBase/PostGreSQL.

• Extensive experience of systems development including involvement in all major stages of software development projects.

• Good Knowledge and appreciation of systems development lifecycles and methodologies.

• Well established communication, presentation, motivational and inter-personal skills associated with person-management abilities.

• Thorough understanding, appreciation and analysis of the issues underlying systems development.

• Experience of the technical aspects of the relevant technologies, software and hardware, to be employed.

• Experience in managing a team of size 5 - 10 members.

• Candidate needs to have exposure to microservices based architecture.