Technical Account Manager | Thousandeyes Portugal. LisboaJob Description:About ThousandEyes (part of Cisco)The name ThousandEyes was born from two big ideas: the power to see things not ordinarily possible and the ability to collect insights from a multitude of vantage points. As organizations rely more on cloud services and the Internet, the network has become a black box they can't understand. Our Internet and cloud intelligence platform delivers the only collectively powered view of the Internet, cloud and SaaS platforms, helping enterprises and service providers work together to identify problems before it impacts revenue, damages brand reputation, or halts employee productivity.In August 2020, Cisco Systems completed the acquisition of ThousandEyes, which now forms the ThousandEyes Business Unit within Cisco's Network Services Business Group, and is a foundational component of Cisco's growing Observability business.About the RoleAt ThousandEyes, we operate a little bit differently than most service providers: We've recognized that delivery of amazing customer experience is key to driving longer term value and creating customers for life. We hire industry veterans - people with tried and true experience in the area of service delivery.The TAM role is a proactive support role for premium support accounts: you'll be responsible for supporting a select number of named accounts, aligned to the customer's business hours, and not working on a rotational shift. The TAM will work closely with the 24x7 support team to ensure the total team can support a customer on a sun model. The TAM provides select account premium support for those that purchase the TAM service, and the key value includes providing customers with a named support engineer who understands the customer's team and network. TAMs work on customer problems, help optimize customer networks, provide training, and also work on joint proactive projects.Role Requirements:- At least 5-7 years of support experience within a Technical Support, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, or Technical-facing organization.- At least 5-7 years of working directly with customers, within a technology company.- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent working experience.- Expert understanding of network and application protocols (Cisco/Juniper certification strongly preferred - CCNA/DEVNET/JNCP, etc.).- Experience with Cloud/SaaS software products is highly desirable.- Strong understanding of ISP, CDN, and cloud service provider networks.- Strong understanding of web technologies and VoIP applications.- Hands-on experience with hypervisors such as KVM, VMware, Hyper-V, and VirtualBox.- Hands-on experience with container administration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.- Knowledge of at least one computer language and programming framework desirable, JavaScript and Python are a plus.- Working knowledge in security, authentication, permissions, SSO.- Experience in administering Linux-based operating systems.- Passionate about enabling a consistently excellent customer experience. Dedicated to championing the customer problem until the resolution path is identified.- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Heavy focus on using data to articulate messages.- The ability to work effectively in a remote or virtual team environment.- Excellent presentation skills coupled with a strong leadership presence.- Excellent time & project management skills, with a focus on delivery.- Initiative and desire to learn new skills/technologies and remain up to date with the latest trends; real passion for problem-solving.- Flexibility to handle critical cases after hours as needed.Responsibilities:- Support: Work to fix issues with customers. Escalate to support team as required.- Optimization: Optimize customer systems to ensure peak performance.- Proactive Customer Engagement: Establish and ensure highly collaborative relationships with support teams and customers/partners. Build relationships with customers, leading to referral and renewal. Leverage enterprise data analytics to transparently track and report on customer engagement.- Cross Functional Engagement: Establish and develop highly collaborative relationships with internal teams. Collaborate with Sales and Engineering to address product issues, and identify workarounds & solutions.- Escalations: Assume the role of escalation manager when needed, and ensure timely communication to all stakeholders for escalated issues with a high impact, or strategic visibility. Coordinate handoff of ongoing issues to the next geographical region.- Customer Experience: Ensure a great customer experience in all team interactions. Measure and continually improve.- Projects: Project manage many projects concurrently understanding current and future action items.- Special projects as assigned.Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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