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Your role and responsibilities

As an Sustainability Software Support Engineer, you will apply deep product expertise and skills in supporting our global clients on IBM Sustainability Software products with primary focus on Sterling Order Management Systems. Each implementation is unique in it's design. Providing for an constantly changing and exciting challenge. If working in this area interests you, and you have the aptitude and energy to take the on technical support issues of the top corporations in the world, we would like to meet you.

Previous knowledge of our products is a plus, but it is not a requirement for consideration. New hires will be provided training at a level beyond standard user functionality. Pairing with a mentor and continuing on in a collaborative team environment. Applicants must be able to openly share ideas and communicate thoroughly and professionally in both verbal and written forms.

Responsibilities of a Support Engineer include but are not limited to: troubleshooting and analysis of customer issues. Managing customer expectations and relationships. Setting up test scenarios to duplicate problems. Composition of knowledge base articles describing issues that have been reported and their resolution. Escalating of defects to Level 3 for review and administration of communication and fixes between the customer and Level 3 support. Providing production down weekend support (on rotation) to customers in system down scenarios.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

5-10 years of overall experience
Extensive experience with Sterling Order Management/Sterling Order Management on Cloud or similar product in the market
Core Java / JEE preferred or any rogramming language proficiency
Troubleshooting skills especially Java code / logs
Database troubleshooting skills (DB2 or Oracle) connectivity, performance
Troubleshooting JMS/MQ connectivity, performance
Customer facing role includes shifts / weekend support on rotation basis
Customer facing experience spending on critical situations/war room to do live troubleshooting
Quick learner and ability to pick up new products on on-prem and cloud
Excellent negotiation skills,  documentation skills, experience writing root cause analysis, knowledge base, technical blogs

Preferred technical and professional experience

Hands on with configuring WebSphere Liberty, WebSphere MQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka
Hands on with Containers on Kubernetes or Red Hat Openshift
Hands on with any UI development framework especially Angular
Troubleshooting performance problems at network, application backend or UI layer
Instana, New Relic or any equivalent Monitoring tools
Wireshare or tcpdump based troubleshooting
Prior experience in Product Support is a plus
Product Certifications is a plus

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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