System Engineer
Skills
About the role
Why This Job Is ExcitingIn your first month, you’ll
Learn the supported solution, customer context, and how our L1/L2/L3 support model works
Shadow ticket handling, environment checks, and incident troubleshooting in real production setups
Get onboarded into our tooling and documentation (Freshdesk, Jira, Confluence, monitoring/log platforms)
As you settle into the role, you’ll
Own customer tickets end-to-end: triage, investigation, updates, and resolution within SLA
Troubleshoot using logs, system behavior, and structured reproduction; escalate to L2/L3 when needed
Coordinate with HQ and local stakeholders during incidents (Support team, System Engineers, Solution Managers, ...)
Within your first year, you’ll
Resolve standard incidents independently and consistently according to the support process
Contribute to knowledge base and ticket hygiene (clear steps, root cause notes, reproducible findings)
Support stability: help minimize downtime through proactive checks, clean escalations, and follow-through
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Ticket ownership: analyze incidents, request missing info, reproduce issues, propose resolution steps
Customer communication: keep tickets up to date, communicate progress clearly via portal/email/calls
Operational support: monitoring, coordinating patches/changes in customer environments, and supporting troubleshooting sessions
Escalations & collaboration: involve System Engineers / Solution Managers / Engineering when needed, track progress
On-call participation: willingness to join scheduled 24/7 on-call rotations (project-dependent)
How Support Works at Innovatrics
L1: Support team (you) - triage, investigation, customer comms, ticket ownership (career level T1-T2 - Junior)
L2: System Engineers & Solution Managers - deeper troubleshooting, deployments, complex analysis
L3: Engineering - product-level fixes and advanced technical resolution
On-call & availability
This role includes participation in scheduled 24/7 on-call rotations (project-dependent). During on-call periods, candidates must be able to reach the customer site within approximately one hour if required. Accommodation close to the site may be provided when necessary.
Requirements
High proficiency in English, Spanish, and Portuguese (written and spoken)
Strong ownership, structured troubleshooting, and attention to detail
Comfortable communicating with customers under time pressure (SLA-driven)
Reliable and able to work independently, while escalating early when needed
Technical Requirements
Must-have
Linux administration experience in production environments
Kubernetes fundamentals – ability to work with pods/services, collect and analyze logs, perform basic troubleshooting
Ability to read logs and identify likely triggers and root causes
Experience working in a ticket-based support environment (internal or external)
Nice-to-haves
Helm (basic usage or understanding)
Databases: PostgreSQL / MSSQL / Oracle (connectivity checks, basic queries)
Networking fundamentals (DNS, ports, firewalls, connectivity troubleshooting)
Monitoring & logging tools: Grafana, ELK (or similar)
Messaging services exposure
Scripting / automation basics (Bash, Python, or similar)
Interview Process
Here is the typical interview process for this role:
Introduction Stage - Recruiter Screen (virtual call)
Team Interview Stage - Technical & Team Interview (single extended interview, conversation & practical case-based scenarios)
Final Stage - CARES Interview - Values driven conversation
We encourage candidates to request additional conversations with team members they would like to meet.
Benefits
Compensation
At Innovatrics, we offer competitive compensation aligned with role level, experience, skills, and location.
Salary: We hire across seniority levels - compensation is tailored to your experience.
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