Escalation Engineer 0 Steelhead

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Escalation Engineer - SteelHead

Riverbed Technology is the IT infrastructure performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-­‐wide network and application visibility -­‐-­‐ all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive.

Riverbed offers the rewarding experience of working with the best minds in the industry, changing the world through cutting edge technology and applications. We are growing our engineering teams across the region so are looking for skilled, energetic professionals looking to grow as we do. We offer competitive salary and an attractive benefits package.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent
• Strong technical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent client handling skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Fast self‐learning and independent.
• Ability to handle stress and work under pressure.
• Experience in enterprise technical support role, preferably with a networking technology company, preferred.

Work Responsibilities

• Provide remote support to customers via phone, web, and email.
• Take ownership of customer issues and handle problems through to resolution.
• Research, diagnose, troubleshoot and identify solutions to resolve customer issues.
• Follow standard procedures for proper escalation of unresolved issues to the appropriate internal teams.
• Prioritize and managing open escalation cases.
• Provide accurate and prompt updates to customers.
• Manage technical escalations and participate in conference calls.
• Some weekend coverage as required
• Participate in cross regional/functional swarming support model
• Document knowledge in the form of knowledge base articles.

Skills Requirements

• Understanding of WAN technologies, bandwidth, latency and how bandwidth and latency restrictions affect application performance.
• Experience reading and understanding packet captures using Sniffer, Ethereal/Wireshark, Cascade Pilot, AppTransaction or similar tools.
• Knowledge and understanding of packet flow and TCP session establishment and understanding of Microsoft and other application behavior at the network layer.
• Experience with general routing/switching protocols, policy based routing, spanning‐tree, VLANs and VLAN trunking, wireless technologies
• Experience with virtualization technologies – eg VMWare, KVM, Hyper-V
• Experience with Cloud technologies – eg AWS, Azure
• Experience with any of the following: QoS, Netflow, NAT, SSL, HTTP, CIFS, MAPI, NFS, Firewalls and RAID.
• Strong UNIX/Linux/MS, scripting is a plus.
• Cisco CCNA or CCNP is highly preferred.

Why Riverbed Technology?

If you’re a high-­‐achiever who wants to be part of a dynamically growing, billion-­‐dollar-­‐plus San Francisco-­‐based company, then you should consider Riverbed. If you want to rapidly develop your career with a company that is also a great place to work, Riverbed should be at the top of your list. Riverbed recently won recognition from two of the most well reputed barometers of the work environment. We are the Glassdoor “Employees’ Choice” award winner as one of the top places to work, ranking #17 overall and #9 among technology companies. Additionally, we’ve been recognized with a Sloan award for work-­‐life balance, which underscores our core values at Riverbed.

If you can add to our collective talent and unique culture, then this job might be right for you! We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.