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Prime Purpose of Position:
Provide first and second level technical escalation to GNC staff
supporting
customers for server and MS Exchange requests and issues. Ensure
service level
agreements are met and provide a single point of contact for
ownership of escalated
requests and issue |
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Ensure all policies, procedures, and work instructions are
followed in the interests
of customer satisfaction and contractual obligations in a 24x7
environment.
• Customer focus providing consultancy to business clients
regarding availability
and functionality of services.
• Enforce and review GNC process to ensure documentation is
current and to
provide management escalation for the GNC staff.
• Acknowledgement and qualification of NMS alerts (Server) and
open cases with
the appropriate priority level.
• Diagnoses of problems and provide solutions to achieve service
restoration |
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• Provide second and third level technical support for GNC
customer fault
escalations.
• Escalation as required of cases to internal, management, and
third party vendors.
• Remote administration of MS exchange servers and email
accounts. |
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Authority:
• Implement customer equipment and configuration change requests
as per the
customer change management strategy.
• Third party vendors where appropriate such as technical
escalation or onsite
maintenance.
• Escalate any issues to management or external technical
resource as
deemed appropriate with due attention to the escalation
procedure. |
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Communication
• Customers as required for fault diagnosis and rectification.
• Third party vendors such as telcos and vendor assistance
centres.
• Daily with GNC Team Lead on duty to ensure appropriate
technical and
management escalations are being followed.
• At the commencement and conclusion of each shift with their
respective GNC
engineers for handover.
• Weekly or daily with GNC Manager depending on shift.
• Management as required. |
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Skills required – mandatory |
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• Strong technical knowledge of MS exchange 2003 in a medium –
large multiserver
environment.
• Experience in supporting Blackberry Enterprise Server for
Microsoft Exchange.
• Technical understanding of LAN/WAN/Server technologies.
• Well rounded project management skills with a proven track
record.
• Vendor management skills and a strong understanding of SLAs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to generate and interpret performance based management
reports.
• Self starter who works well under pressure with attention to
detail. |
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Ability to perform remote diagnostics without prior
knowledge of the existing
configuration or network design |
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Skills required – desirable
• Understanding of Change Management Methodologies.
• Vendor management skills and strong understanding of Service
Level
Agreements.
• Exposure to NetIQ App Manager and WMI.
Qualifications, Certification, Experience
• Minimum 2 years (preferably more) experience in network
support environment
(server and MS exchange).
• Bachelor’s degree in IT/Business or any equivalent
professional degree.
• Industry certification with one or more of the following CCNA/MCSA/MCP
is
preferred. |
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