About the position
Mimecast is seeking a highly motivated Associate Technical Support Engineer to join our global support team, and provide first-line technical support to customers using Mimecast products. In this role, you will be responsible for promptly responding to customer queries and troubleshooting technical issues via phone and email. Your primary objective will be to identify and resolve customer problems by analyzing symptoms, diagnosing root causes, and implementing solutions using best practices.
What You'll Do:
Provide first-line technical support to customers using Mimecast products, ensuring timely and effective issue resolution.
Respond to customer inquiries and troubleshoot technical issues via phone or email, providing clear and concise explanations and instructions.
Analyze symptoms, diagnose root causes, and implement solutions using best practices to resolve customer problems.
Escalate complex technical issues to higher-level support or development teams as needed, ensuring timely resolution. Follow standard operating procedures for issue resolution, documenting customer interactions and solutions in a ticketing system.
Stay up to date with product knowledge and new features to effectively assist customers and provide accurate information.
Provide customers with links to relevant Knowledge Base articles to help them better understand and resolve their issues.
Contribute to the refinement of knowledge base articles, FAQs, and user guides to enhance self-help resources for customers. Associate Technical Support Engineer
Identify trends and patterns in customer issues, proactively suggesting improvements or solutions to prevent future problems.
Provide exceptional customer service, maintaining a professional and positive attitude while resolving customer inquiries and issues.
You should have:
Experience in a customer focused role and a customer-focused attitude.
Experience of working in a fast-paced environment
Good communication skills both over the phone and via e-mail
Self-motivation and team player skills
Experience with administration and support of Active Directory, Azure, Google Directory is beneficial.
An understanding of internet fundamentals, network routing, and e-mail delivery
Excellent verbal and written communication skills that can be used to explain complex technical topics in a clear and straight forward manner
Detail oriented individual that enjoys the challenge of technical troubleshooting
Soft skills and Collaborative Worklow:
Possess excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to effectively communicate technical concepts to customers and colleagues.
Demonstrate strong problem-solving and analytical abilities to quickly understand and diagnose complex technical issues.
Exhibit a customer-centric approach, showing empathy and patience while assisting customers with their technical challenges.
Display strong teamwork and collaboration skills, working effectively with cross functional teams and seeking help from seniors when needed.
Showcase strong time management and organizational skills to prioritize and handle multiple customer cases simultaneously.
Maintain a positive and professional attitude, even in high-pressure situations, to ensure a positive customer experience. Associate Technical Support Engineer
Show adaptability and flexibility in a fast-paced and dynamic technical support environment.
Display a continuous learning mindset, staying updated with new technologies and industry trends to enhance technical expertise.
Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, building rapport with customers and colleagues to establish trust and effective working relationships.
Exhibit a proactive approach to problem-solving, anticipating customer needs and providing proactive recommendations and solutions.
Qualifications
IT industry experience and any experience working with Customers is advantageous
The base salary range for this position is 320K−380K ZAR plus benefits. This range represents the minimum and maximum new hire compensation for this role. The position may also be eligible for incentive plans and additional benefits, in accordance with company policy and local regulations. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location with individual compensation also dependent on factors such as qualifications, experience, and skills. Final offers will reflect these considerations and may vary accordingly.
Belonging at Mimecast
Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.
We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.
We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.
Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.
Skills Required
- Experience in a customer-focused role
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment
- Good communication skills over phone and email
- Self-motivation and ability to work as a team player
- Experience with administration and support of Active Directory, Azure, Google Directory
- Understanding of internet fundamentals, network routing, and e-mail delivery
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to explain technical topics clearly
- Detail-oriented with strong technical troubleshooting aptitude
- IT industry experience and any experience working with customers
Mimecast Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mimecast and has not been reviewed or approved by Mimecast.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as solid and competitive relative to similar companies, with a wide range of role-based salary outcomes. Compensation satisfaction is reinforced by frequent references to pay feeling fair for the work in multiple contexts.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance is repeatedly described as a strong part of the package, often paired with other core benefits. The overall benefits bundle is framed as comprehensive and supportive of employee and family health needs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Workplace perks such as flexible hours, hybrid/remote options, free meals, and on-site fitness amenities are consistently presented as meaningful additions to total rewards. These perks appear to materially improve day-to-day employee experience beyond base pay.
Mimecast Insights
What We Do
Relentless protection. Resilient world. Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together. We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector – email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. Learn more about us at www.mimecast.com.
