Field Service Engineer

About the job:
The role is to provide technical support on enterprise level server and storage equipment for service calls opened by our customers by providing diagnostics, log analysis, and creating action plans for our field engineers per our internal processes and attending the onsite interventions whenever needed.

Responsibilities:

• Work cases with different issues reported by customer, asking for additional logs and command results if needed
• Work on service calls routed by dispatching team and reviewing customer provided log files to begin diagnosing the issue and requesting additional logs and command results as needed.
• Create an Action Plan (with access to existing library of AP’s) to resolve hardware issues clearly designating the steps to be taken by the Field Engineer and spare parts required to perform the repair.
• Successful diagnostics and Action Plan creation must take place with 90 minutes of appropriate information being received or escalated to a L3 teams for review.
• Provide On-site and remote assistance in executing the Action Plan (as needed), supporting additional questions and issues that may arise.
• Interface with Operations and Accounting teams as needed to insure client deliverables are met and invoiced appropriately.
• Work with Sales and Customers to verify customer requirements are within scope of services offered and technically feasible.
• Stay up to date on OEM guidance documents, operating and maintenance instructions, and the state of the enterprise IT market.
• Escalate to management and work as part of a global team to resolve service delivery issues.

Working Conditions and Environment:

• Regular travel is required.
• Ensure the availability of services outside office hours, evenings, and weekends. Availability in case of escalation.
• Must comply with the internal QHSE Standards

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, CIS or MIS, Electrical Engineering
• Server Technology installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting and support
• Working knowledge of Local Area Networks and Internetworking Protocols (IP).
• Working knowledge of routers, switches, hubs and general network design.

Desired Skills:

• Minimum 5 years of related work experience.
• Extensive knowledge of hardware (Storage and Server)
• Knowledge of some Servers, Storage and Networks environment (Sun Solaris, HP, IBM, EMC, Cisco, Unix)
• Must have experience in HP Servers and HPE storage device.
• Knowledge of HP OneView / iLO and proactive monitoring
• Knowlede of Systems administration (Unix, Linux and/or Windows Servers)
• Networking (TCP/IP, DNS)
• Experience communicating with customers
• Should be able to know how to extract logs from various systems in area of expertise (Sun explorers, EMC SP collect, HP ADU etc…) and to know how to exploit them
• Strong multi-tasking skills
• Native in Japanese & Fluent in English

Competencies:

• Energetic and assertive with a strong presence
• Persuasive with strong communication skills to initiate, negotiate and close business
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Capacity to work in a fast-paced and multicultural environment
• Positive relationship building skills – cultivates and nurtures customer relations
• Diplomacy and organization skills

The above list of duties and responsibilities is intended to describe the overall nature and level of work being performed in this position. The list is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or skills that may be required of individuals in this position.