Triage Technician - IBM Operations

The Triage Technician is responsible for being the first responder for inbound customer requests and system alerts through the ticket queue and phone systems. Then, routing escalations to the appropriate technical resources. The ideal candidate is motivated and possesses an unwavering passion for outstanding customer experience. This position reports to the Triage and Support Supervisor and works closely with all departments.

• Serve as the initial point of contact for clients experiencing technical issues and their requests
• Engage with customers on the phone and through our ticketing system to identify incident category and route escalations to the appropriate technical resource or team
• Proactively monitor, report, and triage alerts for customers and internal environments across multiple platforms
• Proactively monitoring a wide variety of customers’ systems, including Backup jobs, Window Server, Linux, AWS (Amazon Web Services), VMware, IBM Power, and Networking devices (Fortinet) and executing defined processes for each
• Ensure related customer cases are associated properly with major incidents
• Accurately and professionally document all communication with customers
• Follow proper escalation procedures to platform engineers during an
• Perform other duties as assigned

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Empathetic customer service mindset and attitude
• A superior sense of urgency and customer sentiment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Enjoys teamwork and collaboration
• Must have excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize
• Possess the ability to comprehend and execute documented escalation procedures
• Basic understanding of managed IT service provider infrastructure and services such as servers, storage, network, virtualization, recovery services.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

• ServiceNow and ITSM experience
• Monitoring Tools (Zabbix, ScienceLogic, Nagios, etc)
• Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure, Nutanix, VMware, etc.)
• IBM Power Technologies (IBM I and AIX) – IBM i Operations