Advanced Customer Engineer

This position will be primarily responsible for working with our Critical Account Program customers. This work includes, senior level case oversight/review, facilitating software engineering needs for defects, remote and/or fly and fix support when these customers run into issues that our support team can’t fix remotely, customer is frustrated and/or the customer doesn’t have the tools needed for data collection. You must be able to effectively deal with high pressure situations and know how to manage frustrated customers. In addition, you will also work with our premium services portfolio customers facilitating a first-class customer experience. This will include but is not limited to onboarding new customers into our premium services model, escalated post-sales support working as part of a senior engineering resolution team, tools development to enable faster and better support outcomes and working in conjunction with our software engineering team either remotely and/or onsite for troubleshooting, diagnosis and remediation of product, network design and or implementation issues. The ACE team is highly respected in the organization and is considered a senior level engineering team that is relied upon to get things done others can’t. The average tenure with Aruba is approximately 10 years and the average level of industry experience is 15-20 years. Half the team are at the Distinguished Technologists job level. You will need to have excellent technical skills in your area of expertise but must also have outstanding communication skills. You must be able to effectively communicate to company IT executives as well as the front-line engineering staff. You must be willing to learn new technologies and be self-starter when it comes to training. The team is friendly and operates as team, supporting each other as well as the larger High Touch Services organization.The position requires approximately 25-50% travel. You will manage your own travel schedule and will be required to be proactive in getting the information you need to be effective when engaging with customers.