Customer Solution Engineer

Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.

Why we need this role

Customer Solutions Engineer, Professional Services is responsible to provide end to end support to designated customer solutions. They will collaborate closely with the other Professional Services and Operations and Engineering functions to own the customer solution and provide technical insight, respond to escalation, support change coordination, and perform relevant activity to ensure customer satisfaction for the solution provided.

What you will do

• Participate in handover of new customer solution ensuring proper documentation and configuration is available
• Proactively and effectively respond to customer escalation for incidents or issues
• Provide technical insights and relevant procedure to relevant teams and take ownership to manage complex incidents
• Ensure appropriate problem resolution and incident management is followed
• Ensure customer satisfaction and help define strategy for continual improvement of customer service quality and for future business development
• Provide support in change coordination for specific customer solution
• Train and mentor engineers on the owned customer solution
• Update and own documentation for the designated customers.
• Work with various network technologies, such as routers, switches, firewalls, wireless devices, and cloud platforms.
• Able to take on escalations during off business hours for special cases
• Able to take the lead and inspire trust and confidence from both customers and colleagues within Colt particularly in time pressured environment
• Used to working in an international environment and matrix management of multi-discipline teams

What we're looking for

Must haves:

• Business Level Japanese
• Conversational English skill
• 3+ years’ experience in IP network design and Operations
• CCNA equivalent or higher
• Understanding of the TCP/IP model
• Hands-on network engineering experience
• Excellent communication skills and negotiation skills
• Proactive with great team spirit
• Customer and service oriented

Nice to haves

• Proactive, self-starting professional with strong vision and creativity
• Strategic thinker with a global mindset

What we offer you:

Looking to make a mark?

At Colt, you’ll make a difference. Because around here, we empower people. We don’t tell you what to do.

Instead, we employ people we trust, who come together across the globe to create intelligent solutions.

Our global teams are full of ambitious, driven people, all working together towards one shared purpose: to put the power of the digital universe in the hands of our customers wherever, whenever and however they want.

We give our people the opportunity to inspire and lead teams, and work on projects that connect people, cities, businesses, and ideas. We want you to help us change the world, for the better.

Diversity and inclusion

• Inclusion and valuing diversity of thought and experience are at the heart of our culture here at Colt. From day one, you’ll be encouraged to be yourself because we believe that’s what helps our people to thrive. We welcome people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, neurodiversity, age, marital status, pregnancy status, or place of birth.

Most recently we have:

• Signed the UN Women Empowerment Principles which guide our Gender Action Plan
• Trained 60 (and growing) Colties to be Mental Health First Aiders
• Please speak with a member of our recruitment team if you require adjustments to our recruitment process to support you. For more information about our Inclusion and Diversity agenda, visit our DEI pages.

Benefits

Our benefits support you through all parts of life, for both physical and mental health.

• Flexible working hours and the option to work from home.
• Extensive induction program with experienced mentors and buddies.
• Opportunities for further development and educational opportunities.
• Global Family Leave Policy.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Internal inclusion & diversity employee networks.

A global network

• When you join Colt you become part of our global network. We are proud of our colleagues and the stories and experience they bring – take a look at ‘Our People’ site including our Empowered Women in Tech.