Support Manager
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Job description
- Own L3 triage for production incidents across web, mobile, API, websocket, worker, lambdas, video playback
services, Redis, Aurora and third-party integrations.
- Support live event and webinar operations including attendee access, agenda/session issues, registration,
meetings, chat, stage/media problems, email delivery and integration failures.
- Read logs, API payloads, database records, queue messages and dashboards to separate configuration issues
from platform defects.
- Coordinate incident response across US hours, including severity assessment, stakeholder communication,
escalation to engineering and post-incident follow-up.
- Create and maintain support playbooks for common event-day failures, release issues, sync problems,
app-store/mobile release risks and customer-specific configuration questions.
- Validate fixes and mitigations in staging/production-like contexts, and support controlled releases or rollbacks
where appropriate.
- Identify repeated support patterns and feed them into product, engineering, QA and infrastructure improvement
backlogs.
- Mentor support engineers in technical diagnosis, clear evidence gathering and concise escalation notes., 1. Lead And Manage The Support Team To Ensure High-Quality Service Delivery And Adherence To Processes.
- Develop And Implement Strategic Plans To Align Support Operations With Business Goals.
- Collaborate With Other Departments To Resolve Complex Technical Issues And Improve Support Processes.
- Implement And Maintain Standard Operating Procedures For Support Operations.
- Conduct Regular Performance Reviews And Provide Feedback To Team Members To Promote Professional Growth., * Influence architecture, delivery approach, quality standards and production readiness across squads or vendors.
- Handle high complexity and high business impact, especially during event build-up, release windows and live
event support.
- Communicate clearly with engineering, QA, product, support and leadership, including trade-offs, risk, mitigation
and sequencing.
- Leave systems more understandable through documentation, runbooks, tests, observability and maintainable
implementation patterns.
- Reliable US-timezone technical escalation coverage and reduced time-to-diagnosis for live issues.
- Actionable incident notes with evidence, impact, mitigation, owner and follow-up tasks.
- Improved support runbooks for event-day operations, webinars, mobile releases, integrations and email/sync
workflows.
- Recurring issue reports that help engineering reduce support load over time.
Requirements
Senior technical support or support engineering background on SaaS/event/webinar platforms.
Totem / Informa Event and Webinar Platform - Job Description - Page 1* Ability to understand React web, React Native, Node/Express APIs, SQL/Aurora, Redis, AWS Lambda,
ECS/Fargate and websocket symptoms at a practical diagnostic level.
- Strong SQL reading/debugging, log analysis, API testing and incident-management discipline.
- Clear written communication for customer-facing and engineering-facing updates.
- Comfort working under live event pressure with incomplete information and time-sensitive customer impact.
- Experience creating runbooks, support dashboards, escalation workflows and post-incident actions.