Applications Support Analyst

• Take ownership of problems that are escalated by the Customer Support team, Account Management team and MTN.
• Provide a high level of technical triage and analysis for our Operations/Dev teams, MTN and interconnect partners.
• Work with the service deployment and Customer Success teams to ensure a successful resolution to customer incidents.
• Provide a level of triage and escalation of incidents and managing through problems to the operational infrastructure teams or interconnect partners.
• Work closely with other teams within the business to deliver the shared goals of the operations functions.
• Responsible for the comprehension and manipulation of business data within MySQL databases.
• Responsible for planning, owning, and creating business processes that meet customer and business needs, to mitigate future incidents and problems.
• Responsible for providing regular status reports on incident progress to Eseye management.
• Must ensure that all work is carried out in compliance with our Information Security Management System (ISO27001).
• Responsible for maintaining an appropriate knowledge base, for the solutions to problems that will assist and support other Eseye teams and white label partners (including MTN).
• Responsible for the triage and prioritisation of problems within the structure of defined Operational Level Agreements, to meet the requirements of agreed customer Service Level Agreements.
• Represent Eseye to MTN and liaise with the account management team, including weekly site visits.
• Responsible for the monitoring of automated alerts and the implementation of appropriate mitigation and escalation.
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable to cope with changing customer and operational requirements.

• Degree level Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.
• 3+ years’ experience working in Technical Customer Services or Technical Systems Support.
• 1+ year's experience working in a second line technical specialist role.
• Well versed in established customer service and SLA management processes.
• Extensive experience working in service focused teams, ideally in a telecoms or communications environment.
• Good systems support experience with Linux.
• Experience in reviewing application code to triage and report application problems accurately to level 3 teams.
• Working knowledge of fundamental networking concepts.
• Well versed in MYSQL (or equivalent) languages and be capable of navigating and manipulating data within relational databases.
• Experience with network packet analysis tools such as Wireshark or equivalent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to articulate complex matters at the right level.
• Strong user experience with key applications within the Microsoft Office suite especially Excel.
• The ability to solve problems, understand complex situations and most importantly, a desire to deliver a high level of customer service.

• A working knowledge of GSM/LTE cellular networks or working within a Mobile Network Operator Technical Services environment.
• Experience in customer facing positions.
• Familiarity and experience in Cisco based infrastructure (or equivalent) configuration via command line access is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with GitHub
• Working knowledge of PHP (or equivalent) applications.

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