Technical Support Team Leader
Department: Technical Support / Operations
Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Remote / India
Experience: 3–5+ years in Technical Support / System Administration
Shift: Rotational shifts, including weekends as required
About Us
We are a cloud infrastructure and hosting company providing reliable VPS, dedicated servers, and related infrastructure services to customers globally. We operate a fast-paced technical support environment where customer experience, uptime, response time, and technical ownership matter.
Job Role & Responsibilities
- Team Leadership
- Lead and supervise the Technical Support/L1 support team.
- Allocate tickets, tasks, and shifts effectively.
- Monitor team performance, productivity, response times, and ticket quality.
- Ensure proper shift handovers and continuity between teams.
- Conduct regular one-to-one and performance reviews with team members.
- Identify knowledge gaps and arrange training/coaching accordingly.
- Maintain discipline and accountability within the team.
- Act as the first level of management escalation for technical and customer-support issues.
- Technical Escalation & Troubleshooting
- Handle escalated technical issues that cannot be resolved by L1 engineers.
- Troubleshoot Linux and Windows VPS/server-related issues.
- Diagnose issues involving:
- CPU, RAM and disk utilization
- Disk I/O and storage
- Network connectivity
- IP configuration
- DNS
- RDP/SSH connectivity
- Firewall and port-related issues
- Server performance
- OS-level issues
- Service failures
- Boot/recovery issues
- Virtual machine problems
- Investigate recurring technical issues and identify their root causes.
- Coordinate with senior system administrators, infrastructure engineers, and management for higher-level escalations.
- Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure
- Working knowledge of virtualization environments is required.
- The candidate should be comfortable working with platforms such as:
- Virtualizor
- Proxmox
- KVM-based virtualization
- VPS provisioning and management
- VM migrations
- OS templates
- VM resource allocation
- Storage and disk management
- Network configuration
- Experience with other virtualization/cloud platforms will be an advantage.
- Customer Support
- Ensure customers receive accurate, professional, and timely technical assistance.
- Review escalated customer tickets before resolution where required.
- Ensure engineers do not provide technically incorrect or incomplete solutions.
- Handle difficult or high-priority customer situations professionally.
- Maintain a strong focus on customer satisfaction without compromising technical accuracy or company policies.
- Identify recurring customer issues and recommend improvements to products, documentation, or internal processes.
- Ticket & SLA Management
- Monitor the support queue and ensure tickets are handled within defined SLAs.
- Track pending, overdue, and escalated tickets.
- Ensure no customer issue remains unattended due to poor handover or lack of ownership.
- Review ticket responses for technical accuracy and communication quality.
- Maintain proper ticket documentation.
- Ensure engineers follow defined escalation procedures.
- Process & SOP Development
- Create, improve, and maintain technical support SOPs.
- Build troubleshooting checklists and internal knowledge-base documentation.
- Identify repetitive tasks that can be standardized or automated.
- Establish clear escalation procedures.
- Continuously improve support workflows and operational efficiency.
- Incident Management
- Take ownership of major customer-impacting incidents when escalated.
- Coordinate with relevant technical teams during outages or infrastructure incidents.
- Maintain clear communication during incidents.
- Prepare incident summaries and root-cause reports where required.
- Identify preventive measures to reduce recurrence.
- Reporting & Performance Management
- Prepare and maintain reports covering:
- Ticket volume
- First response time
- Resolution time
- SLA compliance
- Escalation volume
- Pending tickets
- Reopened tickets
- Customer complaints
- Team productivity
- Recurring technical issues
- Provide regular operational updates to management.
- Prepare and maintain reports covering:
Specific Expertise Required
Required Technical Skills
Must Have:
- 3–5+ years of experience in technical support, system administration, hosting, cloud infrastructure, or a similar environment.
- Strong Linux troubleshooting skills.
- Good working knowledge of Windows Server.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals:
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- DHCP
- Routing
- Ports
- Firewalls
- IPv4/IPv6
- Experience troubleshooting VPS/server environments.
- Understanding of virtualization concepts.
- Experience with Virtualizor, Proxmox, VMware, SolusVM, or similar platforms.
- Good understanding of server hardware and resources.
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
- Experience working with ticketing/support systems.
- Ability to read logs and diagnose issues independently.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
Good to Have:
- Experience in a hosting/cloud infrastructure company.
- Experience with KVM.
- Experience with WHMCS.
- Knowledge of cPanel/WHM.
- Basic Bash/shell scripting.
- Knowledge of RAID and storage systems.
- Experience with dedicated servers.
- Basic understanding of virtualization networking.
- Experience with monitoring systems.
- Experience handling infrastructure incidents.
- Experience managing a technical support team.
Leadership Requirements
We are looking for someone who can lead by example. You should be able to:
- Take ownership instead of simply forwarding problems.
- Make decisions independently.
- Coach junior engineers rather than solving every problem yourself.
- Hold team members accountable for their work.
- Identify poor performance early.
- Maintain operational discipline.
- Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Remain calm during outages and high-pressure situations.
- Prioritize customer-impacting issues appropriately.
- Build a culture of documentation and ownership.
What We Expect From You
A Team Leader is expected to be hands-on. You should not be someone who simply says:
"This is an L2 issue, escalate it." Instead, you should be able to understand the issue, investigate it, guide the engineer, and determine the appropriate next step.
You will be expected to:
- Own → Investigate → Troubleshoot → Guide → Escalate → Document → Prevent recurrence
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Your performance will be evaluated based on:
- SLA compliance
- Team response and resolution times
- Ticket backlog
- Escalation handling
- Technical accuracy
- Customer satisfaction
- Team productivity
- Quality of ticket documentation
- Reduction in recurring issues
- SOP and knowledge-base improvements
- Team training and development
- Overall operational discipline
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is someone who has grown from a strong technical