Technical Support Field Engineer (Hybrid)

Position Description

At a Glance

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Technical Support Field Engineer to join the Data Center Power & Control Division Team in Somerset, NJ on a Hybrid Basis. As a Technical Support Field Engineer, you'll work with a variety of cross-functional teams and technologies within the Data, Power, & Control division (DPC). The daily interactions can range from first-time users to advanced partners, sales, development, and product management. Your duties will be to function as an expert technical resource for our enterprise-level customer base and business partners for the Intelligent Power Distribution Units (PDU) and Access Solutions.

Additionally, you will be responsible for traveling to customer locations to help address their technical issues and maintain post-sales relationships with our customers. You will serve as a trusted advisor to ensure successful implementations, that the assigned customers achieve targeted business benefits from their investment in DPC, and that the customers serve as a positive reference and continue their implementation of DPC. Your technical abilities will be critical in identifying solutions, troubleshooting issues, and answering technical questions as they arise. You will become the primary escalation point and are accountable for identifying and directly addressing technical issues.

You are expected to develop and maintain a working knowledge of the technical architecture and business requirements of the enterprise accounts. This position requires a strong technical background, excellent client and project management skills, and a proven ability to understand various technical workflows when needed. Successful candidates must be action-oriented and able to travel and communicate clearly and effectively to both technical and business audiences at multiple levels.

What Will You Do?

• Analyze computer-based technologies and identify and develop ways to address complex engineering issues that may arise with customers and business partners.  Examples of such duties include:
• Configure IPs and custom customer configurations, including DCHP, LDAP, and other authorization/authentication customers require for their software and firmware.
• Develop customer Shell scripts to expedite deployment.
• Analyze PDU data and firmware versions and apply fixes onsite to ensure they remain compliant with the latest network security vulnerability standards.
• Develop PDU and network test routines that help customers and developers understand the impacts of changes over the PDU topology.
• Search and decipher the Linux code base to interpret log files quickly for failure identification.
• Apply new firmware upgrades and bug fixes that support customer needs.
• Use network debug tools to quickly identify and fix failures that impact PDU deployment.
• Work closely with developers and network support staff to identify IP designs that may be causing PDU failures.
• Support customer IP and naming schemes required during deployment and work closely with the development team to create new custom scripts as needed.
• Modify and replace failed PDU controllers and ensure seamless integration without disrupting the customer environment.
• Coordinate cross-functional deployment project teams, which could consist of professional services, product management, or engineers.
• Act as a single point of contact for all support requirements pertaining to enterprise account customers' environment.
• Build and grow relationships with both technical staff and management from the customer team.
• Develop and manage a strategic development plan for your customers, including identification of growth opportunities.  Direct the delivery of customer technical services to achieve high customer satisfaction and trust.
• Drive and track customer escalations, including partnering with the Product Management team and delivering Professional Services.  Escalate issues as necessary to execute an action plan, resolution, or other options as needed.
• Oversee and manage all open cases to ensure they are being actively worked and progressing towards an expeditious resolution.
• Develop and train team members to help improve their technical knowledge, project management skills, customer management skills, etc.
• Diligently handle the onboarding of new accounts.
• Partner closely with the product management team to ensure that customer requirements are logged and appropriately prioritized and also ensure that future product direction aligns with the customer roadmap.
• Actively contribute and leverage standards and best practices, staying current on both the technolo