We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data.
If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.
The Senior Support Specialist provides experienced, in-depth, specialised support and advice to assist Hitachi Vantara’s customers address their solutions challenges. This includes, but is not limited to, the support of specific Hitachi Vantara product(s) and their respective layers of integration as corporate and enterprise solutions .
The Senior Support Specialist works with both internal and external customers and must be comfortable communicating effectively and proficiently with all stakeholders.
The Senior Support Specialist acts as central point of contact for handling of internal escalations (from level 1 and to level 3 and above) and liaison with third party vendors and service providers.
Internally, as part of the wider Hitachi Vantara Global Support team, the Senior
Support Specialist plays a leading role in advising and assisting the development of the Technical Support Specialists (tier 1) with further skills and knowledge.
The Senior Support Specialist is a member of a global team of customer service professionals who are responsible for providing Hitachi Vantara customers with an excellent experience as part of a fast-paced, worldwide 24x7 support center.
Responsibilities
• Level 2 specialist support to Hitachi Vantara customers and field service teams.
• Leading resolution of technical support issues including hardware/software configuration problems, product failures, and technical inquiries that include escalations internal to Hitachi as well as to external parties.
• Perform problem and customer situation management, escalate to the necessary next levels of support
• Communicating critical case status to customer and stakeholders within Hitachi
• Ownership and management of support cases and associated escalations.
• Adhere to and help improve corporate standards and processes for delivery to support services.
• Contribute to Hitachi Knowledge by documenting unknown resolutions and updating existing articles with newfound or discovered information.
• Deliver training/workshops and lead technical support team members to ongoing development of technical skills.
• Participate in team projects that enhance the effectiveness of Hitachi’s customer success.
Key areas of Expertise for this role:
Hitachi Vantara's Software Products including Ops Center, Replication Software (GAD, HUR, TrueCopy, TIA), CCI, VSP360 etc.
Hitachi Vantara’s Data Storage including SAN: Enterprise / RAID and Midrange Storage (Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform – VSP 5x00, VSP-G, VSP-E, VSP One Block) and Brocade / Cisco SAN switches
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.
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Hitachi Vantara Melbourne, Victoria, AUS Office
Suite 2, Level 10 5 Queens Road, Melbourne, VIC , Australia, 3004
