Posted almost 5 years ago

Brief Description:
As a member of the Support organization, your focus is to organize and plan Engineered Systems upgrade, patching and support solutions to the Oracle customer base while serving as an advocate for customer needs. This involves planning, scheduling and performing Oracle Engineered Systems released patches including Oracle RDBMS, CRS and ASM as well as Oracle Enterprise Linux systems. Working with a primary point of contact for customers, you are responsible for facilitating customer upgrades and patching within the customer requested timeframes. As an Oracle Cloud Service engineer you will have a good general knowledge of Engineered Systems technology, focused on a wide range of Oracle technology, the operations surrounding it, and the Oracle services infrastructure needed to achieve the highest service levels and consequent high customer satisfaction.
You will be expected to help guide resolution of multiple highly difficult and complex problems and escalations involving several product areas.
Job Requirements:
Have excellent customer service experience, excellent written and oral communication skills, structured organization skills and good general knowledge of different information technology products/services/processes.
Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Job Deliverables
Candidate will be responsible for planning and organizing system & database patching and upgrade services to Engineered Systems customers. Patching process documentation will be required. The candidate will be mainly responsible for interacting with customer counterparts on a regular basis and serving as the technology expert on the customer's behalf. This service is delivered via remote support and the candidate should be able to work in an independent environment while interacting with other team members remotely.

DESCRIPTION
The Patch Coordinator will use knowledge of systems and database management products and services to support the IT infrastructure. This role requires the Patch Coordinator to understand Customer's system and database architecture and operations, and to provide accurate and timely planning for system and database patching and upgrade tasks. The goal is to achieve the highest possible customer satisfaction. Based upon strategic direction and initiatives, you must be able to deliver tactical results of agreed upon objectives.
The Patch Coordinator gives a "high-touch" support to C@C customers to ensure a smooth service experience. This is accomplished by:

• serving as the primary non-technical contact for all customer issues,
• training customers in the effective use of Oracle support,
• managing the delivery of essential services and assessments,
• meeting regularly with customers to understand criticality of the customer's systems,
• coordinating the resolution of specific customer requests by bringing the proper Oracle resources to bear.

A thorough knowledge of IT concepts, strategies and methodologies as well as practices is essential.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Works directly with customers
• Analyze systems on their current configurations and compare with targeted software releases
• Participate in weekend rotation and shifts
• Respond to customer requests quickly and document corrective action
• Participates in initiatives that improve overall process, product and documentation quality
• Drives improvements in product and services quality
• Participates in Beta programs
• Serves as Situation Manager on highly sensitive proactive and reactive Customer issues
• Consults with Management in directing resolution of critical Customer situations
• Consults with Customers on complex use of Oracle products
• Achieves knowledge transfer with teammates through different methods
• Proactively contribute to increasing the teams efficiency by sharing knowledge, providing feedback about best practices, writing tools / utilities

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Experience in multi-tier architecture environment required
• High-level skills in database upgrades and patching and general computer programming and demonstrated experience in database analysis, scoping, data and process mapping;.
• Fundamental understanding of computer networking, systems and database technologies.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks
• Excellent verbal and written English language communications skills.
• Candidates must be highly motivated, must have initiative, team-oriented, and able to meet the aggressive schedules required in a fast moving environment
• Experience with OEM, Grid control, RMAN and tape management systems

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Oracle RAC, CRS, Cellcli, ASM, RMAN, Data Guard all a plus.
• Oracle installation, patch and upgrade within production environments.
• Experience with OEM, Grid control, RMAN and tape management systems
• Project Management skills - some

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Any Oracle certifications are a plus
• ITIL certification is a plus

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Self driven and result oriented
• Strong customer support and client relation skills
• Effective communication (verbal and written)
• Focus on relationships (internal and external)
• Strong willingness to learn new things and share them with others
• Influencing/negotiating
• Team player
• Customer focused
• Confident and decisive
• Expertise (maintaining professional in own discipline)
• Enthusiasm
• Flexibility
• Organizational skills
• Coaching/knowledge transfer Ability
• Strong Problem solving/analytical skills

WHO SHOULD APPLY?
Customer service people, having 2+ years of experience.
WHAT DOES THE JOB OFFER?
A Unique opportunity and long term career possibilities in different directions.
DRESS CODE
There is no formal dress code for this position; however, the candidate will be required to follow customer dress codes in the event that they will be asked to travel to the customer site.

TRAVEL
Travel may be required for training or as needed at the customer's request. The candidate should have a valid drivers license and a passport for the ability to travel upon request.

OVERTIME
The candidate should not expect to have to work overtime on a regular basis, but may be required on an as needed basis. The work hours would need to be flexible as you will have to adhere to each customer's scheduled timeframes.

Detailed Description and Job Requirements:

As a member of the Support organization, your focus is to deliver post-sales support and solutions to the Oracle customer base while serving as an advocate for customer needs. This involves resolving post-sales non-technical customer inquiries via phone and electronic means, as well as, technical questions regarding the use of and troubleshooting for our Electronic Support Services. A primary point of contact for customers, you are responsible for facilitating customer relationships with Support and providing advice and assistance to internal Oracle employees on diverse customer situations and escalated issues.

As a Sr. Support Engineer, you will be the technical interface to customers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Value-Added Resellers (VARs) for resolution of problems related to the installation, recommended maintenance and use of Oracle products. Have an understanding of all Oracle products in their competencies and in-depth knowledge of several products and/or platforms. Also, you should be highly experienced in multiple platforms and be able to complete assigned duties with minimal direction from management. In this position, you will routinely act independently while researching and developing solutions to customer issues.

Job duties are varied and complex utilizing independent judgment. May have project lead role. 4 years experience with Core products or five years experience with Applications products and have a technical degree i.e., BS Computer Science/Management Information Systems/Science/ Engineering/Math/Physics/Chemistry with a 3.0 GPA OR (for Applications) proven professional/ technical experience, i.e., demonstrating an understanding of Applications at a functional and technical level (preferably Oracle)