Description
Customer Support Network Engineer
Location: Eastern or Central US Time zone - Remote (WFH)
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Company
DriveNets is a leader in cloud-native networking software for hyperscalers and service providers who are building the largest infrastructures in the world for network services, AI platforms and SaaS offerings. Founded in December 2015, DriveNets disrupted some of the most challenging high-scale markets, transforming the way networks are built, scaled, and consumed. DriveNets’ network cloud solution is deployed in more than half of AT&T’s backbone. DriveNets has raised $587 million in three funding rounds which enables us to dream big and bring on the most talented people.
The Role
Drivenets is currently seeking an inquisitive, technologically motivated, self-directed Customer Support Network Engineer to join our Customer Success Team. It will be your job to deliver exceptional customer experience to Drivenets customers both internally and externally.
In this Customer Support Network Engineering role, you will be part of a team that constantly adapts to new technologies, implements new solutions and systems, and provides support to disaggregated routing products.
Responsibilities
- Use creative problem-solving skills to help solve and implement required solutions and provide world class technical support as part of our growing front-line technical support team.
- Follow up with customers to verify solutions are successful and achieve the desired impact.
- Work with R&D to develop and test solutions, install, and test new products and versions worldwide.
- Collaborate with Customer Success team, Product Managers, and R&D to meet deadlines and ensure customer satisfaction.
- Summarize, communicate, and escalate the overall customer experience.
- Collaborate with other support engineers worldwide.
- Use your experience and initiative to help Drivenets continuously improve both processes and services.
Requirements
Technical skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant technical field or combination of experience and industry certifications required.
- 5+ years of experience as Network Support Engineer.
- 4+ years of experience in implementing and troubleshooting routing protocols such as BGP, IS-IS and OSPF.
- Strong IP Networking experience - preferably from a VAR, OEM, Vendor supporting a Tier 1 or large Tier 2 telco service provider or MSO.
- Experience with Cisco or Juniper networking technology.
- Strong documentation experience to create Standard Operating Procedures along with other needed documents.
- Experience working within a large complex production networks.
- Familiarity with various forms of site-to-site connectivity (point to point, VPN, MPLS, etc.)
- CCNP/JNCIP Routing and switching certification – Advantage
Soft Skills:
- Be kind.
- Demonstrable empathy skills, including the ability to put yourself in the customer’s place, and see the situation through their eyes.
- Self-motivated with hands-on experience and the motivation to learn on the job
- Strong customer facing abilities including acting under pressure.
- Ability to work as part of a global team, and create checklists and procedures, incident handoff and follow-the-sun operating methodologies.
- Able to marshal resources and align cross-functional troubleshooting efforts to achieve customer commitments.
- Ability to manage several simultaneous activities while showing accountability, upholding strict SLAs.
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills with quick adaptation to change.
- Solid communication and interpersonal skills – personable, effective communication style required with presentation experience.
- Excellent English spoken and writing skills.
If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfil all requirements, please apply. DriveNets is on a mission to build a special company comprised of individuals with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
DriveNets is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on upon race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
More About DriveNets
Based in Israel with locations in Romania, US, and Japan as well as extended teams, DriveNets operations cover more than 14 countries. With recognition by industry analysts and through numerous industry awards, DriveNets is pushing market momentum, allowing for faster service innovation from the network core to the edge. Visit our website:
https://drivenets.com/company/ ;
Top Skills
What We Do
DriveNets is a rapidly growing software company that has created a radical new way for service providers and hyperscalers to build their networking infrastructure. DriveNets Network Cloud and DriveNets Network Cloud-AI are new innovative networking solutions that apply the cloud architectural approach to high-scale networking. They bring together the scalability of standard Ethernet Clos architecture with the high performance and reliability of service provider networking, delivering optimal networking performance, scale and cost structure for service providers and hyperscalers.
Founded by Ido Susan and Hillel Kobrinsky, two successful telco entrepreneurs, DriveNets Network Cloud is the leading open disaggregated networking solution based on cloud-native software running over standard white boxes.
Over three funding rounds, DriveNets raised $587 million. Its solutions are used by tens of service providers globally and are in proof-of-concept and lab trials at dozens of operators and hyperscalers, consistently ranking #1 in trials for breadth of capabilities and solution quality. AT&T, the largest backbone in the US, deployed DriveNets Network Cloud across its core network, and DriveNets is currently transporting more than 52% of AT&T’s core network traffic. DriveNets is engaged with over 100 Tier-1 operators and cloud-providers on large projects in North America, Asia and Europe.
