Over 50000 customers globally trust our end-to-end cloud-driven networking solutions and rely on our top-rated services and support to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and deliver progress like never before and with double digit growth year over year no provider is better positioned to deliver better outcomes on scale than Extreme.
Come become part of something big with us! We are a global leader with hubs in Europe North America South America Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
The Resident Engineer and Project Manager is a hybrid role that combines deep technical expertise with strategic customer engagement. This role is primarily focused on delivering high-quality professional services implementations across networking technologies while also supporting customer success initiatives to ensure satisfaction retention and long-term value. As implementation is completed and moved into production the primary function will be as resident engineer supporting customer network day to day as well as change management.
Professional Services Responsibilities:
Project Implementation and management 75% (Year 1)
Assist Sales with scoping projects and define Professional Services deliverables.
Provide project implementation support onsite and remote.
Responsible for creation and maintaining project documentation during implementation.
Responsible as technical lead and trusted advisor to the customer during implementation.
Responsible as liaison between sales and customers during implementation.
Work with Extreme partners and sales staff to implement the Extreme solution that was sold.
Must maintain excellent knowledge of all Extreme product suites.
Coach and mentor other members of Professional Services and Professional Services partners.
Ability to escalate any customer issues to management in a timely manner.
Assist management and Product Management with estimating Professional Services engagements.
Occasionally present Professional Services offers/ability to customers.
Premier Resident Engineer Responsibilities:
Account support: 85%(Year 2)
Provide day-to-day operations consulting change-management support to the assigned customer.
Coordinate as the focal point for all post-sales account-related technical activities with Premier Success Manager (PSM) Sales Teams GTAC Professional Services Cloud Services and every part of Extremes vast Support organization.
Proactively engage customers for requirements relating to product enhancements that would improve product serviceability and usability. Work closely with the appropriate Engineering organization to ensure clear understanding and implementation of approved enhancements and creation of feature requests for enhancements are given to product management.
Provide support for quarterly reviews to the PSM and Account team.
Utilize Extremes SFDC reporting capabilities for product trend analysis for early awareness of issues.
Provide on-site or remote presence during critical or high-visibility engagements project managing account recovery activities while delivering the appropriate ongoing status and postmortem documentation.
Work with and provide daily guidance as needed to Extreme GTAC and HW/SW engineers assigned to work issues reported by the assigned customer base.
Respond promptly to customer needs providing value added services where applicable.
Support the PSM to accurate documentation of customers Extreme network and associated information is current and available for customer support to access and streamline the issue resolution process.
Monitor review and track all support cases. Maintain tracking documents and monitor for negative trends taking appropriate actions such as notification/engagement of technical support management team and product quality.
Provide proactive administration of the customers environment: Review cases and conduct early trend indicator analysis review logs Field Notices EOL EOS etc.
Proactively engage customer requirements relating to product enhancements that would improve product serviceability and usability. Represent/present the customer requirement to the appropriate Engineering organization to ensure clear understanding and implementation of approved enhancements.
Demo and provide on-going training and assistance on our Extreme Platform ONEsoftware package.
Revenue Generating Service Projects: 15% (reduced to 5% after 1st year)
Work closely with the customer to ensure customer satisfaction of all professional services account engagements.
Support the sales team on pre-sales activities such as customer escalations/troubleshooting customer demonstrations lab set-up training/knowledge transfer sales calls travel when essential.
Proactively engage the sales team to create awareness of new product and solution offerings and first-hand account knowledge of future customer growth requirements.
Support post sales services engagements such as installations and assessments.
Develop relationships with customers where new product services can be suggested and accordingly passed along to the sales team for potential new sales opportunities.
Knowledge Growth and Transfer: 10%
Mentor and coach co-workers and peers. Share valuable knowledge openly.
Develop and maintain Extreme customer operation procedures documentation.
Maintains current industry trends competition and technical and product knowledge with respect to its value to Extreme customers.
Sports Venues and Entertainment Accounts Only
Coordinate Extreme Validated Configurations (EVC) documentation and present to the customer ensuring their networks are consistently optimized to the environment.
Coordinate and/or provide product training.
Provide gameday or event support as needed.
Provide and interrupt post event analytics if subscribed.
Other duties as assigned: 5%
Travel and Normal Work Hours will be:
Monday through Friday Typical
Weekends or overnight hours may occasionally be required for exceptional customer needs or critical support situations
Candidate must be available for critical customer issues nights and weekends
Occasional maintenance window support at night or weekend
May be required to work at customer site full or part time
Location Required:
Primarily based in Dubai UAE
May be required to support the business in other EMEA locations.
Requirements:
Fluent in English language to a high technical standard.
Other languages skills are an advantage.
Expert in networking technologies with industry and regional knowledge and experience. (6 or more years experience)
Thorough knowledge of security design features and ability to implement and perform analysis of network and systems security design. (4 or more years experience)
Must have strong skills in troubleshooting and problem resolution in a network environment.
Keen ability to understand and analyze customer requirements and position the Extreme solution effectively.
Ability to effectively implement Extreme products and solutions in a mission critical environment within a scheduled downtime or with no downtime.
Demonstrated ability to manage complex customer interactions in difficult circumstances and control customer expectations in order to maintain satisfied customers.
Excellent inter-personal technical presentation and communications skills.
Proven team player.
Ability and Willingness to travel.
Willingness to work out of hours when required.
Must be self-motivated and have the ability to work with minimal supervision.
Excellent time management skills.
Desired Skills / Experience:
B.S. in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
Teamwork: The strength of a team is more powerful than an individual. We work together to drive improved performance. We pull our weight give others credit for success push peers to raise their game and celebrate winning as a team!
Candor: We keep it real and embrace difficult conversations in a constructive way. Being honest in all our communication isnt easy. No sugarcoating and no elephants in the room being respectful but telling the truth.
Curiosity: Why do we win Why do we lose How can we do better Where should we invest Asking questions committing to learn more looking for best practices thats the Extreme way. Being smarter than the competition. Higher intelligence drives higher performance.
Ownership: Its our company. We have skin in the game. We invest the time and energy to make the changes that get the best outcomes for our customers shareholders and ourselves. We are accountable.
Inclusion: By challenging dominant voices to listen and non-dominant voices to speak up we gain valuable perspective that drives better decision making. By fostering diversity regardless of gender ethnicity sexual orientation age or religion we get that perspective and make more intelligent decisions that drive better business outcomes.
إخلاء المسؤولية: د.جوب هو مجرد منصة تربط بين الباحثين عن عمل وأصحاب العمل. ننصح المتقدمين بإجراء بحث مستقل خاص بهم في أوراق اعتماد صاحب العمل المحتمل.
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