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Role Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled, experienced Critical Technical Support Manager to lead our critical support team. The ideal candidate is a problem solver who embraces challenges and runs towards fire. This candidate demonstrates a high level of moral obligation, with a solid sense of duty to make a situation better when they have the ability, tools and resources to do so. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading a team of dedicated support engineers who manage high-priority support cases, ensuring timely resolution, and maintaining customer satisfaction. This role requires excellent leadership skills, technical expertise, and the ability to work collaboratively with other teams.

What you'll get to do

P1 Operations

• Oversee the resolution of critical Priority One (P1) incidents in a follow-the-sun 24x7 operational model.

• Act as the Manager on Duty (MOD) to facilitate handovers between global regions, ensuring clear communication and seamless transitions. Attend MoD handover calls during shift (both weekend and weekday)

• Cover one day of the weekend, in alignment with Cisco's pay policies, to maintain incident management continuity and ensure prompt response during critical periods.

• Engage in key account customer concerns, ensuring support delivery contributes effectively to issue resolution and customer satisfaction.

• Collaborate with the Incident Response and Escalation Management teams to drive alignment, expedite resolution, and minimize customer impact during high-priority incidents.

• Develop and refine standard operating procedures (SOPs) for handling P1 incidents, ensuring that workflows are efficient and effective.

• Implement standard processes for issue resolution and knowledge management to improve response times and ensure that solutions are scalable.

Additional Responsibilities

• Manage direct reports to achieve performance objectives.

• Set team goals aligned with Global Support objectives and assist in goal attainment.

• Advocate for customers and enhance the customer experience.

• Collaborate with product management and development to resolve product issues.

• Partner with operations and support teams to monitor and report trends.

• Improve internal reporting and processes to boost productivity.

• Deliver strategic projects on time.

• Analyze and implement new support ticketing systems and tools.

• Manage skills development and onboarding of support engineers.

• Develop scalable standard processes to meet business and customer needs.

• Deliver strategic projects on a timely basis.

• Analyze and implement new Support ticketing systems and tools

• Skills management and accelerated onboarding of support engineers

• Help build standard processes that scale and meet the needs of the business and our customers.

Escalation and Incidents

• Partner closely with the rapid response team to coordinate efforts on high priority (P1) support issues.

• Participate post-incident reviews to identify root causes and implement corrective actions

• Maintain clear and consistent communication with customers during incident resolution.

• Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage multiple priorities

• Coordinate appropriate resources to achieve issue resolution for our larger accounts.

Must-have Qualifications

• 4-6 years of direct supervisory/management experience with 12 years of professional experience with a BA ; or 2 to 4 years of management experience and 8 years with a Master's degree

• 5+ years of proven success working directly with customers within a technology company.

• Experience with Cloud/SaaS software products is highly coveted.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively present to customers and collaborate across teams

• Exceptional leadership presence and ability to work collaboratively in high-pressure situations.

• Communication as a core strength. Heavy focus on using data to articulate a story or an issue.

• Dedicated to championing the customer problem until resolution.

• Excellent time management skills and a solid sense of urgency.

• Initiative and desire to learn new skills/ technologies and remain up-to-date with the latest trends; real passion for solving technical problems.

• Experience working with and improving Support ticketing systems, related workflows, and tools and processes

• Flexibility to handle critical cases after hours as needed.

• Knowledge of Splunk technical concepts is desirable.

• Committed to creating and developing a high-performing team that promotes the Splunk culture.

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

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