The Tier 1 support team receives incoming production incidents from clients and works directly with the client to understand and assess the impact. The Tier 1 support team facilitates initial escalation and investigation to technical teams and coordinates with 3rd party vendors where appropriate. The position is customer and technical-focused and requires an intimate understanding of IHSMARKIT products and offerings.
Duties & accountabilities
- Front line support for all IHSMarkit On-Demand internal and external clients
- Receive incoming client emails and calls and understand the reported incident
- Incident assessment, problem recreation, severity assignment, and escalation to internal or third parties
- Facilitate communication between internal and third parties during incidents
- Coordinate data center site moves
- Participate in shift rotation16x7x365 (first/second shift)
- Initiate high severity incident procedure, including proactive client communication on Sev 1 and 2 incidents
- Responsible for contacting on-call staff and ensuring technical resources are engaged in the resolution
- Transition issues to Client Incident Managers after initial assessment and client response
- Monitor application and feed processing tools and respond and escalate failures
- Trend analysis to identify patterns or repeat incidents on a high volume of incidents