IT Help Desk Manager

Prospecting and Lead Generation US market - SaaS products

Farming, Cold reachout, existing relationships, partnerships

Product demo, proposal drafting, negotiation, contracts 

CRM (ZOHO) mgmnt

Exceed monthly, quarterly, annual targets

REQUIREMENTS: • Candidate must possess excellent Customer Service and Customer Support Skills. • Must have excellent Communication skills, both written and verbal. • Strong Analytical skills to understand customer feedback and provide solutions. • Must have a strong commitment to Customer Satisfaction. • Should have knowledge about basic AI tools. • Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Marketing, Communications, or any related field is required. • Prior customer service experience is a plus. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and CRM software preferred. Page 2 of 2 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: ● Respond to customer queries and customers’ concerns. ● Provide support for data collection to enable Recovery of the account for end user. ● Maintain a deep understanding of client process and policies. ● Reproduce customer issues and escalate product bugs. ● Provide excellent customer service to our customers. ● You should be responsible for exhibiting capacity for critical thinking and analysis. ● Responsible to showcase proven work ethic, with the ability to work well both independently and within the context of a larger collaborative environment.  

Job Title - Sr. Administrator, IT Infrastructure Storage

Job Duties -

• Administer IT storage recovery and backup systems. Perform complex provisioning, advanced maintenance, data replication, disaster recovery, data migration, and documentation.
• Participate in ongoing maintenance, utilization, availability, and security of storage infrastructure.
• Perform IT implementations, performance analysis and optimization, monitoring, problem resolution, upgrade planning and execution, and process creation and documentation.
• Analyze and work to improve the quality of services offered by IT. Participate in ongoing technology evaluations to keep up with technology trends and industry standards.
• Be able to script in Perl or Python and perform capacity planning and growth projections.
• Resolve complex IT issues as pertain to the environment and keep abreast on storage & backup technology.
• Experience working with ISILON Storage is a must-have skill.
• Good to have experience in ransomware, anomaly detection, airgap and vaulting technologies.

Education and Experience Requirements -

The position requires a Bachelor’s degree in

Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field plus 5 years of post-

baccalaureate progressive experience in IT storage environments.

Skills Requirements- Experience must include:

• Expertise in Linux and Windows – Good to have Cloud knowledge
• Utilizing OS-enabled tools for data copy like rsync, robocopy and other tools
• Setting up NFS, SMB, snapshots, replication, SnapMirror, and SyncIQ
• Experience in NAS storage technologies like Netapp, Power scale, Isilon, Qumulo and Weka
• Dell EMC Insight IQ, DataIQ and ESRS, Netapp tools (OCUM/AIUM)
• Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam and other comparable backup technologies
• Good to have Monitoring and Alerting like Prometheus, SolarWinds, telegraph and Grafana

You will work on:

You will be working on our client’s massive scale Infrastructure and CloudOps requirements. You will be directly working on the customer's cloud environment and managing their product infra life cycle.

What you will do (Responsibilities):

Understand how the product works and how it is used by the customers

Day-to-day operational support of product infrastructure on all three major public cloud services

Interact with customers on/off-site to troubleshoot issues, provide workarounds by leveraging your troubleshooting skills

Create and manage processes for the secure operation of customer cloud environments

System (Windows, Linux, and SQL Databases) and Network administrations

Use incident management tools used in incident analysis and troubleshooting. Identify, escalate, and communicate issues in a timely manner.

Contribute to building a knowledge base centered on known incidents/defects, Frequently Asked Questions, resolved issues, applying lessons learned and previous resolutions to new incidents.

Build hosting environments for clients all over the world

Collaborate with product managers and engineers to ensure that critical and time-sensitive projects run smoothly and achieve the business outcome

On-call responsibilities to respond to emergency situations and scheduled maintenance

Contribute to and maintain documentation for systems, processes, procedures, and infrastructure configuration.

What you bring (Skills):

Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in cloudops (mainly into MS Azure), infrastructure management, and support

Strong Windows Systems, SQL Database, and Network administration skills

Strong understanding of cloud applications, concepts, and the storage, compute, and networking components

Readiness to work in 24x7 rotational shift model

Scripting in PowerShell, Linux shell, Python or C#

Proactive and self-motivated, committed to achieving deadlines, meeting SLAs, and producing results

Excellent customer service and people skills. Excellent analytical, written, and oral communication and relationship building skills

Ability to be a good listener, and to understand customer issues. Ability to provide innovative workarounds or design a solution to fix a customer’s problem

Great if you know (Skills):

AzureOps:

Comfortable using TFS (Team Foundation Server) and Azure DevOps workflows

Comfortable with Visual Studio and SQL Server Data Tools

Exposure to deployment using Azure cloud console and ARM templates

Experience in handling Azure AD & RBAC related activities will be a plus

Comfortable with basic DevOps concepts like CI/CD, and Infra-automation

Advantage Cognologix:

A higher degree of autonomy, startup culture & small teams

Opportunities to become an expert in emerging technologies

Remote working options for the right maturity level

Competitive salary & family benefits

Performance-based career advancement

About Cognologix:

Cognologix helps companies disrupt by reimagining their business models and innovate like a Startup. We are at the forefront of digital disruption and take a business-first approach to help meet our client’s strategic goals.

We are DevOps focused organization helping our clients focus on their core product activities by handling all aspects of their infrastructure, integration and delivery.

Benefits Working With Us:

• Health & Wellbeing
• Learn & Grow
• Evangelize 
• Celebrate Achievements
• Financial Wellbeing
• Medical and Accidental cover.
• Flexible Working Hours.
• Sports Club & much more.

Acceldata is creating the Data observability space. We make it possible for data-driven enterprises to effectively monitor, discover, and validate Data platforms at Petabyte scale. Our customers are Fortune 500 companies including Asia's largest telecom company, a unicorn fintech startup of India, and many more. We are lean, hungry, customer-obsessed, and growing fast. Our Solutions team values productivity, integrity, and pragmatism. We provide a flexible, remote-friendly work environment.

We are building software that can provide insights into companies' data operations and allows them to focus on delivering data reliably with speed and effectiveness. Join us in building an industry-leading data observability platform that focuses on ensuring data reliability from every spectrum (compute, data and pipeline) of a cloud or on-premise data platform.

Position Summary-

This role will support the customer implementation of a data quality and reliability product. The candidate is expected to install the product in the client environment, manage proof of concepts with prospects, and become a product expert and troubleshoot post installation, production issues. The role will have significant interaction with the client data engineering team and the candidate is expected to have good communication skills.

Required experience

1. 6-7 years experience providing engineering support to data domain/pipelines/data engineers.
2. Experience in troubleshooting data issues, analyzing end to end data pipelines and in working with users in resolving issues
3. Experience setting up enterprise security solutions including setting up active directories, firewalls, SSL certificates, Kerberos KDC servers, etc.
4. Basic understanding of SQL
5. Experience working with technologies like S3, Kubernetes experience preferred.
6. Databricks/Hadoop/Kafka experience preferred but not required

Smart Rain Technology is a rapidly growing technology company located in Hyderabad, India. Our mission is to save water, save money and save time through our proprietary irrigation and water management system. We are looking for an experienced Executive Director to organize, grow, and oversee the daily operations in Hyderabad, India.

Candidate will assist in technical vision and leadership for developing and implementing Smart Rain's technology initiatives, with an emphasis on integration of cutting-edge technology-based practices and services into our current offerings.

The area of responsibility for this role is very wide and thus requires thorough knowledge of various company processes, business practices including government and compliance requirements in India. The overall goal is to safeguard and augment the efficiency of the company’s operations in Hyderabad, India and to facilitate accelerating development and long-term success.

Executive Director Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the planning, organizing, and directing of the organization’s operations and programs.
• Thorough knowledge of government and compliance requirements in India. 
• Prepares accurate and timely analyses that capture and communicate business results, variances, and performance trends.
• Communicates and report company results to the parent company and shareholders.
• Provides leadership to and manages the efforts of site staff to ensure appropriate support of all departments.
• Coordinates and leads annual budget reviews, monthly and quarterly reviews, and periodic forecast updates with operational and senior management.
• Retains a diverse, highly qualified staff and provides career coaching, growth, and personal development for direct/indirect report employees.

• Provides leadership and technical direction for maintenance and support services for Web, Mobile applications, back-end services, enterprise software, peripherals, and assist in professional development of team.
• Ensures that the design, development, and implementation of enterprise applications and infrastructure systems support the needs of our customers, and management.
• Co-Develop and enforce policies and procedures to ensure the protection of local Smart Rain technology assets and the integrity, security, and privacy of data entrusted to or maintained by fellow team members.
• Develops and implements an accountability system for measuring the success of the goals defined with in the Smart Rain team.
• Serves as a company representative and assumes responsibility at local, regional, state, and national meetings and events pertaining to areas of responsibility.
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills using tact, patience, and courtesy while exemplifying integrity, candor, and high ethical conduct.
• Provides vision, leadership, and direction to all employees within the department.
• Directs and/or coordinates the development of specifications for the procurement of hardware, software, telecommunications, and support services required to support Smart Rain India.
• Prepares materials and presentations for US Smart Rain management team

Executive Director Qualifications/Skills:

• Demonstrated leadership and management skills
• Ability to multitask
• Takes initiative
• Works independently
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Enthusiastic
• Dynamic
• Flexible
• Organized
• Collaborative

Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, finance or accounting
• CMA or MBA preferred
• 15 or more years of financial management experience in an operational environment
• 10 or more years management or supervisory experience
• Relevant experience in technology industry environment
• Experience working with US based company preferred

Benefits

• 8+ years of experience in software development
• 4+ years of recent hands-on experience in architecting and building complex solutions that run in SaaS/PaaS environments, especially on AWS cloud leveraging SaaS based Microservices development coupled with Distributed Caching & Message Queuing.
• Should have experience in developing solution architecture and/or evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services
• Should have excellent knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Should have experience with Full Stack development with experience in technology stacks/frameworks like JAVA, Springboot, Python, Redis, SQL, NoSQL and Graph DBs
• Good to have Architected solutions that handle Big Data and should be proficient in data analytics
• Must have Expert level proficiency in Design / Architectural patterns, data structures and algorithms
• Must demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes
• Experience in web-based application migration from on-premise to SaaS model is a big plus.
• Experience of Integration patterns and associated best practice(e.g. Web Services, REST API's, Pub/Sub, MOM)
• Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in Web services related, functionally decomposed architecture, Load Balancing of Web Services and applications, designing multi-tenant systems, Clustering and sharding of data, microservices architecture / design patterns, and throttling and performance management of such services

A strong background in Azure OR Amazon Web Services (AWS) or a similar cloud platform is a must-have, certification is a plus.

Excellent technical skills and knowledge include but not limited to: cloud methodologies like PaaS and SaaS; programming languages such as Python, Java, .Net; orchestration systems such as Chef, Ansible, Terraform; Azure IaaS servers; PowerShell scripting.

Fully aware of the DevOps cycle with hands-on on deployment models to the cloud.

Experience working with Docker and related containerization technologies.

Experience working on orchestration platforms such as AKS, RedHat OpenShift etc.

Extensive knowledge working with logging and monitoring tools such as EFK, visualization tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.

Exposure to security alert monitoring tools.