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Introduction

At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

IBM Data and AI team is looking for an experienced

technical support engineer to join our team that is

supporting IBM leading data virtualisation capability

on a flexible multi cloud data platform. As part of this

team, you will have opportunity to work on supporting

our customers that are utilizing IBM Cloud Pak for

Data and IBM Cloud to build next generation of

intelligent data fabric.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Understanding, narrowing and defining the scope of

clients concerns in terms of stating the problem and

understanding its scope

• Managing client expectations and understanding the

nature of the issue in terms of technical impact and

pervasiveness

• Utilizing technical and negotiation skills and

collaborate with L3 / Dev to prioritize and diagnose

problems to resolution using problem

determination/problem analysis skills.

• Make timely, accurate and complete updates in case

information to document all activities relating to the

clients’ reported problems (including issue severity,

business impact, troubleshooting actions taken and

planned, testing performed and resulting outcomes,

issue validation procedures and solutions given

• Communicating updates and action plans to

customer or IBM representative via the support portal,

phone and email as per response guidelines

• Recognize and minimize client impact by using

timely and appropriate escalation processes to

engage other Support teams.

• Adhere to the first response and case update

frequency SLA and continuously improve the

response and resolution time to maintain high

customer satisfaction. For Global Elite Program will

need to follow stricter SLAs

• Record and document each step of the problem-

solving effort including any interaction with the client.

• Sharing knowledge and expertise with the team and

with the clients, such as writing technotes etc.

• Ensuring that adequate amount of process is

followed. If applicable, recommends and implements

new or improvements to existing technical support

tools, procedures, and processes

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Programming knowledge, Trobleshooting, Negotiation

skills. Linux, Databases, OpenSource Technologies,

Hadoop Distributions/ Big Data, SQL

2 years of relevant experience working with DBs,

knowledge of SQL engine, federation and query

optimization.

1 year of experience working with Linux environments

• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong active listening skills and excellent written and

oral communications skills.

• This role will require working a shifted work week,

weekends and some public holidays as part of a global

worldwide support team

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 2 – 5 years of relevant experience as DBA/Backend

developer with strong knowledge of SQL engine,

federation and query optimization.

• 3+ year experience working on Linux (and UNIX)

operating systems in server environment.

• Hands on experience on deploying or supporting

databases on Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, IBM, Google).

• Strong working knowledge of Container

technologies/platform (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift).

• Database knowledge in any of the following is preferred

but not mandatory:

DB2, EDB, Mongo, Datastax, Singlestore, Dremio, Azure

synapse

• Experience with Big Data and Hadoop software stack:

HDFS, Hive, HBase, Ambari, Cloudera Manager is

preferred but not mandatory

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