Technical Support Staff Job Description
Technical Support Staff Duties & Responsibilities
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Technical Support Staff Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Technical Support Staff
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Education for Technical Support Staff
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Employers hiring for the technical support staff job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Education, Computer Science, Science, Business, Human Resources, Physics, Technical, Math, Business/Administration
Skills for Technical Support Staff
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Technical Support Staff Examples
Technical Support Staff Job Description
- Submit papers for VMworld/vForum/vMug (nice to have)
- Providing guidelines to management on how to improve the delivery of training (either eLearning or ILT – better Live Online equipment / buy some software for eLearning)
- Attend meeting with vTSU mgmt
- Focus on a solution-oriented approach as opposed to problems
- Provide technical leadership on Course development projects within their assigned BU
- Review technical accuracy of the course content and provide guidance on improving content and Labs
- Build relationship with GSS especially EEs and other key staff aligned to the BU
- Collaborate with the PM to build out learning paths for products in the BU
- Conducting regular reviews, at least quarterly, of service delivery quality, industry threat assessments, and solicit feedback on service delivery and product capabilities and quality
- Participate in conference calls, internally with the customer, to discuss technical escalations
- College degree preferred or related work experience may be substituted
- Proven troubleshooting abilities and strong PC skills
- Expert level knowledge in administering and supporting Windows, Linux, and OSX operating systems
- Expert level knowledge of proxies, firewalls, SSL, NAT, VPN, DNS, and TCP/IP
- Fundamental understanding of an operating system
- Ability to document calls and write FAQ and short instructional technical documents essential
Technical Support Staff Job Description
- Works with Security and IT to provide network access to independent consultants and business partners, as needed
- Manages proposal team access to electronic collaboration tools
- Analyze RFP requirements and, in close coordination with the Proposal Manager, develop outlines and compliance artifacts for assigned proposal volumes and/or sections
- Develop estimates of resource requirements (number of staff, skills)
- Develop and enforce interim milestones to achieve top-level schedule
- Help identify proposal themes, strengths, discriminators, messages, risk, and allocate these elements to proposal sections
- Collaborate with solution architects, management personnel, teammates, and other members of the pursuit team to ensure baseline solutions are clearly documented and well communicated
- Ensure a bridge between the win strategy/solution baselines and the proposal artifacts
- Work closely with authors and section leads to formulate work plans and develop effective proposal sections
- Assess proposal content (compliance and quality as represented in document structure, text, and graphics) and provide guidance/direction to proposal authors on a daily basis, through multiple steps in the proposal development process
- Author and/or edit proposal content including text and graphics taking inputs from key contributors to construct a compliant and compelling response
- Manage proposal authors in responding to feedback from review teams
- Collaborate with other proposal team members to achieve consistency across all proposal volumes and sections
- Work with proposal production staff to complete desktop publishing, graphics, and printing activities as required through multiple milestones
- Must have working knowledge of PC's, PC Operating Systems, and related peripherals
- Proven technical, problem solving and troubleshooting ability
Technical Support Staff Job Description
- Deliver technical courses for customers, partners, distributors, and internal employees (AirWatch GSS TSEs)
- Conduct and participate in train the trainer sessions
- Collaborate with GSS engineers and other course developers to improve training materials and delivery
- Develop expertise in AirWatch and become an SME for multiple “squads” and understand cross-squad solutions
- Spend time on the floor with GSS technical support engineers and escalation engineers to handle SRs and understand the AirWatch GSS training needs
- Present at customer event sessions for education as needed
- Develop Pre and Post GA technical courses with practice exercises, knowledge checks and other elements designed to drive knowledge retention
- QA courses for accuracy and refresh instructional programs as needed to ensure content is current and relevant
- Work with source material supplied by SMEs, such as scripts, storyboards, and presentations, to develop interactive online courses and labs that effectively convey key learning objectives
- Conduct ongoing meetings with stakeholders in the AirWatch business
- Extensive experience with Microsoft Office products
- Strong client facing, phone, and verbal communication skills along with active listening
- Working knowledge of help desk software, databases, and remote control support
- Ability to handle multiple requests simultaneously and prioritize
- Security Certifications in accordance to DoD 8570 (CISSP is preferred
- Able to setup and configure version control software
Technical Support Staff Job Description
- Create confidence and competency assessments to determine the skills and confidence of AW GSS
- Develop strategies for bridging knowledge/confidence gaps in GSS
- Review the AirWatch release roadmap to determine training requirements of any new features/functionality
- Partner with engineering and deployment teams to create GSS-relevant content
- Create labs for GSS to gain hand-on experience with pre-GA environments
- Work with Customer Education teams to aid with the development of the AirWatch Certifications
- Maintain the vTSU AirWatch Curriculum, as new feature are released
- Attends and contributes to daily staff meetings
- Ensures all material for color reviews is provided to the publications team for desktop publishing and editing in a timely manner
- Coordinates with Print Services on print requests for proposal teams, including RFP books, proposal volumes, and other proposal-related artifacts for kick-offs, color teams and final print
- Driving skills, Computer-literate, communication skills, and can work on weekends and on shifting schedule whenever required
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with customers with internal engineers
- Proven ability to influence and work across multiple organizations and levels, across multiple geographic regions
- Working knowledge of virtual solution environment such as VMWare
- Ability to manage lab servers and NAS storage
- Accreditation/Certificates/Licenses
Technical Support Staff Job Description
- Capture and share knowledge
- Generate Knowledge Base entries
- Develop and facilitate formal OJT IFE training to Tech Ops personnel, outstation maintenance vendors and In-flight crews
- Oversee all IFE equipped aircraft in addition to assisting Panasonic maintenance, Panasonic Engineering and Tech Support in troubleshooting IFE system Chronics and discrepancies
- Create and report monthly IFE Reliability Report to measure IFE performance for all IFE systems
- Create BIT to proactively minimize IFE malfunctions / impact
- Oversees and assigns workload for EWR Media & Software lab
- Provides technical assistance on media loaders / IFE equipment
- Interacting with customers via phone and email, utilizing the Salesforce Customer Service Application
- Providing Level 2 technical support to customers, ensuring timely, quality initial and follow-up responses
- Work closely with Engineering and identify points of contact in the relevant engineering teams for each technology area
- Innovation and creative thinking to challenge the status quo
- A deep technical understanding of AirWatch & Workspace ONE
- Advise management on resource needs and skills requirements within vTSU to keep pace with the cadence of AirWatch releases
- 3-4 years’ experience with AirWatch (in a support or engineering capacity)
- Minimum 6 years of experience developing, testing, and delivering high quality software and systems