Network Engineer Tier 3

Job title: Network Engineer Tier 3
Location: Upper McKinely Hill, Taguig City, Metro Manila
Experience: 5 years of experience in supporting network environment
Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree

Roles and Responsibilities:

• The candidate must be a technically oriented person with comprehensive experience in network design, implementation and troubleshooting with networking equipment, including routers, gateways, adapters, and powerline products.
• The person will be providing 3rd tier escalation support on as needed basis to address product specific issue, providing guidance to our call centers on addressing customer issues through various day to day tasks such as working hands-on with various products to reproduce, test and validate product functionality prior and post launch.
• The candidate will be handling escalated cases from level 2 as his/her primary responsibility.
• The candidate needs to have strong time management skills. The candidate will be reaching out our customer and partners when dealing with product specific issues on our large portfolio of products.
• The secondary role will be coaching/mentoring other teams on as needed basis. Manage and address requests from other support teams regarding issues, knowledge base

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review and manage 3rd level escalations support issues for various routers, gateways, adapters, powerline, and other networking devices.
• Replicate customer reported issues to provide validation of defects to engineering for repeat issue
• Participate in product testing to assist with new product releases.
• Review/validate/create internal and external documents and knowledge articles for internal and public dissemination.
• Analyze customer calls/cases to identify product problems in the field to determine core areas of improvement and prioritize core changes to support for reduction of learned issues in field
• Must have good communication ability as candidate must communicate with Customers, Partners; on as needed basis when resolving escalated cases addressed to them
• Create Knowledge base articles and implement process plan to address common issues
• Maintain Support Lab equipment.
• Product development assistance to prevent issues or call generation
• Implementation of Projects to improve support
• Attend weekly meetings for Support Improvement objectives

Required Skills:

• BS degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience and a minimum of 5 years of experience in supporting network environments. In lieu of experience, Person must be familiar with Netgear Products at high level.
• CCNA certified or equivalent experience in networking.
• Must demonstrate understanding of network topologies, as well as network implementation and design.
• Must have in-depth knowledge of networking technologies including wireless, firewalls, VPN, switches, and network storage technology.
• Must have in-depth knowledge of network and routing protocols.
• Must have experience with MS-Window/Linux networking applications.
• Candidate must have excellent communication and presentation skills, both oral and written.
• Must have excellent analytical, organizational, prioritization, and time management skills.