Technical Support Engineer

Role: Technical Support Engineer, Helix Core

Location: Minneapolis, MN

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Position Summary

Paul Marshall, Technical Support Manager for the Helix Core team at Perforce is searching for a Technical Support Engineer to join the team. We are looking for an individual who will collaborate with members from Sales, Professional Services, and Engineering to assist in resolving a wide variety of customers' software development issues. You will be responsible for ensuring the success of our software development customers by effectively providing dependable and timely resolution to Perforce's Helix Core Version Control software and its associated products.

Helix Core is the best version control software (VCS) for world-class development at scale. It securely versions all digital content - even large files - in a single repository. And it scales for large teams, handles 1000s of daily transactions, and delivers files quickly to remote users (even if they are using Git).

Responsibilities

• Represent Perforce as the first point of contact for customer’s Helix Core application software technical requests.
• Actively engage with the team to learn, share ideas, and mentor others as you grow your expertise in the Helix Core products.
• Review, research, and reproduce customer issues to determine and provide the best resolution.
• Develop and maintain technical expertise in assigned areas of product functionality and utilize it effectively to help customers.
• Diagnose and resolve performance issues.
• Research, document, and escalate cases according to procedure.
• Provide customer-driven feedback to functional areas to influence process/product improvements.
• Author technical documents on common issues and solutions to build the knowledge base.
• Recreate customer environments to reproduce issues and experiment with viable solutions.

Requirements

• Two or more years’ experience providing customer technical support.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar or relevant work experience.
• Positive attitude - support engineers are required to be respectful, fair, gracious, and knowledgeable.
• Emphasis on team collaboration, contributing ideas with the desire to improve processes and the product.
• Strong analytics and problem-solving skills.
• Able to work well under pressure and prioritize accordingly.

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of software development languages, tools, processes, and methodologies.
• Knowledge of Linux & Windows operating systems.
• Basic networking experience.
• Experience with Helix Core, Git, or other version control software is desirable.

If you are passionate about the technology that impacts our day-to-day lives and want to work with people as talented and dedicated as yourself, apply today!

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