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Technical Support EngineerTechnical Support Engineer

Department

Technical Services

Location

Montreal, Quebec

Description

As a Technical Support Engineer, this individual will be part of the Technical Support team based in Montreal.  The candidate will be responsible for providing the technical support required by customers for our suite of products, including ringback tone, full-track music, ringtone and video services, as well as integrated store fronts.

In this role, the engineer will share responsibilities with the other members of the team to provide offsite and onsite technical support including the following:

Offsite services, from LWM office in Montreal:

  • Tier 2 and Tier 3 type problem resolution utilizing the necessary database and phone support to ensure accurate and timely trouble resolution.  The technical support engineer will analyze, document and resolve hardware and complex software problems.
  • Ensuring that issues are properly identified in the field and working in the lab to duplicate problems when possible for resolution.
  • This individual may also be required to provide technical support for lab trials and ensure successful lab entry and exit results.  In this role the engineer may be called upon to provide onsite support depending on the nature of the issue that needs to be resolved. 

Potential Onsite services, at customer premises

  • Hardware Installation of LWM systems at telecom operators
  • Software installation, commissioning and acceptance testing
  • Delivery of technical training to customers and/or technology partners
  • Onsite technical support

To accommodate the needs of our international customers, members of the Technical Support team are required to participate in rotating schedules to provide support until midnight ET.  On-call support will also be required (approx. 1 week per month).

Requirements

 

  • Telecommunications or Electrical Engineering degree or equivalent
  • 2-4 years experience in a Telecommunications Technical Support environment
  • Work experience in Digital telephony protocols (SS7), IP protocols (TCP/IP, SIP)
  • Proven Windows, Linux, Unix Shell, Solaris OS and debugging skills
  • Proven customer interfacing skills
  • Working knowledge with relational databases (ex. MySQL)
  • Working knowledge with J2EE Application Server and Web Servers (JBoss, Apache, Tomcat)
  • Unix shell and Perl scripting experience
  • Java programming experience is desirable
  • Willingness and ability to quickly learn products and new tools
  • Fluent in spoken and written English
  • Occasional travel to customer premises in US and Europe may be required
  • Applicant must be authorized to work for any employer in Canada