OpenText

Lead Premium Support Specialist - Operations Bridge

OpenText$86K — $130K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree preferred or an associate degree with 3+ years in customer support
  • Advanced knowledge of OpenText AI Operations Management
  • Fundamental knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems
  • Basic understanding of networking concepts and protocols
  • Familiarity with databases like Oracle and SQL Server
  • Proven track record in technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis
  • Strong communication skills to manage customer interactions effectively

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary contact for customer support incidents
  • Build trust and establish strong relationships with customers
  • Leverage technical expertise to resolve incidents efficiently
  • Provide timely updates on support requests and coordinate with internal teams
  • Recommend best practices to minimize operational risks
  • Conduct supportability assessments and mentor customers
  • Act as a strategic partner for customer software investment planning

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package for physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
  • Opportunities for variable and commission compensation
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Support for continued learning and development
  • Potential for travel and flexible work hours as needed
Full Job Description
YOUR IMPACT:

We are looking to welcome a Premium Support Engineers to our team, with advanced technical skills in OpenText AI Operations Management (Operations Bridge), or the ability to learn and come up to speed quickly in OpenText AI Operations Management (Operations Bridge). You will work on our customers' complex software environments and provide technical support along with proactive services like best practices, guidance, optimization, pitfall awareness, etc. to customers who are developing their solutions. You will ensure customers get the highest level of business value and are satisfied with the products, technical support and guidance they receive from OpenText with a focus on promoting retention, loyalty, and account growth. The overall objective of the Premium Support Engineer is to provide the highest level of personalized technical support to ensure customers are successful with their OpenText product solutions. This is achieved by building trust, focusing on value, being flexible and willing to go the extra mile to ensure customer satisfaction.

WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS:
• Be the customer's single point of contact for support incidents opened for a specific product center.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of your customer's environment
• Implement & establish a strong trusted working relationship with customers.
• Leverage deep technical expertise and knowledge of your customer's environment to resolve incidents more efficiently
• Provide timely updates on open incidents & coordinate with other OpenText experts as needed to expedite timely resolution.
• Identify and recommend best practices to help our customers minimize operational risks and avoid common pitfalls.
• Provide periodic supportability assessments & offer technical support mentoring to increase the customer's knowledge.
• Understand the operational profile of your customer's environment to improve the support and guidance that OpenText delivers.
• Act as a strategic partner in developing plans to proactively improve and maintain the customer's software investment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, to manage both customer and peer internal organization interactions, including escalations, critical situations, difficult conversations, etc.
• Delivery short-term custom offerings to address customers' unique needs and requests.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:
• Bachelor's degree preferred, or an associate degree in a technical field with a minimum of 3 years of experience in a customer support environment
• Advanced knowledge of OpenText AI Operations Management (Operations Bridge) application
• Fundamental knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems
• Basic understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, SNMP, HTTP/S, SSH, SFTP/FTP, and load balancers
• Familiarity with databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server, including connection setup
• Fundamental understanding of monitoring and observability concepts, including metrics (CPU, memory, disk, latency), log analysis, and thresholds/baselines
• Understanding of basic security concepts, including authentication and authorization, SSL/TLS certificates, and firewall fundamentals
• Basic knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Basic understanding of Vertica
• Proven track record of in-depth technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Strong relationship-building and team collaboration skills, with the ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts
• Excellent communication, coordination, and collaboration skills, with the ability to navigate complex, matrixed organizations
• Ability to proactively guide customers on best practices, configuration optimization, performance tuning, and integrations
• Willingness and ability to travel as required (
• Willingness and ability to work occasionally outside of standard business hours, including weekends, to meet customer needs
• French or Spanish language skills are an asset
• Knowledge of other OpenText products is an asset
• Ability to work outside standard hours on occasion to meet specific customer needs
• Willingness and ability to learn additional products as required to support business and customer needs

Compensation: At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. A summary of those benefits can be found on our Why Join Us page. As you move through the hiring process, we're happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.

Salary Range: $86,800 - $130,200; Depending on the candidate's education, experience, skills, geographical location, and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.

About OpenText

OpenText Corporation is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management software. The company is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. OpenText software applications manage content or unstructured data for large companies, government agencies, and professional service firms. OpenText aims to help customers digitize their operations and optimize their information management processes. The company has made several acquisitions over the years to expand its product offerings and customer base. OpenText has a global presence with offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Learn more about OpenText
Size
14,300 employees
Market Cap
$7.8 billion
Industry
Founded
1991
5 Year Trend
+8.8%
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