Systems Operations Administrator I

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:
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- Systems Operations Admins are crucial to delivering a great customer experience; they are the first point of contact and are expected to provide technical support and resolution to our customers over phone and support tickets. They are responsible for managing the Rackspace’s global support ticket queues and first line resolution to issues in scope. They are expected to display good judgment in decisions they make, creating and maintaining customer loyalty by going above and beyond the customer’s expectation. They are critical in helping us deliver a FANATICAL experience.
- As a Systems Operations Admins you will play a key part in resolving and, when required, escalating technical issues for customers via phone and ticketing.

You will act as a positive role model for colleagues within your team, striving to live the Rackspace Core Values.

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**JOB REQUIREMENTS**:
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**_ Key Accountabilities_**
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- Initial investigation and resolution of technical requests and monitoring alerts.
- Phone resolution for issues in scope of role and in accordance with team playbook guidelines
- Takes ownership and works on intra-team escalations (phone/ticket)
- Escalates support requests according to escalation procedures
- Second rollover point for inbound customer calls[AW1]
- Incident management (identification, assist in managing and escalation)
- Ad hoc queue management
- Ensuring we adhere to customer & SLA commitments
- Providing Fanatical Support in all of the above
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**_ Key Performance Indicators_**
- KPIs Include (not limited to):

- 80%: Ticket & Phone Contribution: Standard day to day will be spent in normal workflow: Working as a team to serve our customers means that we are all contributing towards this goal.
- 20%: Other duties assigned by leadership team (e.g knowledge base / process improvement, career development).
- Contribute to Fanatical Experience: Feedback received by customers showing their appreciation of the Fanatical Support you have directly provided or influenced

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**:
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**Personal**:
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- Previous experience working in a related field or educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Self-motivated with a strong desire to learn and improve both technical and ‘people’ skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strives for performance improvements in oneself and peers.
- Leads by example and motivates team members.
- Organizational skills with the ability to provide quality at pace.
- Ability to work at a team level as well as an individual level.
- Ability to interact confidently with more senior / skilled areas of the business.
- Able to communicate constructive feedback effectively.
- Ability to adapt to changing business / technology requirements.

**Technical**:
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Compulsory
- Basic troubleshooting knowledge, specializing in Enterprise Linux.
- Ability to provide increased level of investigation into CPU usage, memory, disk usage using appropriate OS specific tools or commands.
- Basic understanding of OS specific webhosts and database technologies (e.g. MYSQL / APACHE).
- Intermediate understanding of SSL & DNS.

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- Desirable
- Patching - Documents changes based on requests for change. Applies change control procedures.
- Linux Certification - LPI-1 or RHCSA Level Knowledge or equivalent.
- Familiarity with cross platform basic troubleshooting tasks (Windows, Linux or Networking)
- Awareness of virtualization and / or cloud technologies. E.g. VMWARE, Hyper-V, KVM and/or OpenStack.

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