Customer Support Manager
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Moderate value mainly driven by organizational growth potential and the importance of strong customer engagement.
- Intensive role focused on customer solutions
- Growth potential within a technology-driven company
- Cross-departmental collaboration opportunities
Pros
- Opportunity to drive improvements in customer support software solutions.
- Engagement with various departments enhances overall career skills.
- Potential for career advancement in management roles.
Cons
- High responsibility in a customer-facing role may be stressful.
- Limited direct salary information may affect candidates' perception.
- Dependence on timely issue resolution may increase workload.
Who it's for
Mid-Level • Hybrid/remote options available
Good fit
- Technical support professionals
- Candidates with experience in customer relations
- Individuals aiming for managerial roles in tech
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates without customer support experience
- Those preferring isolated work environments
- Candidates with narrow skill set focusing solely on technical tasks
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Shape the utilities market of the future with us!
The Senior Customer Support Manager is responsible for the direct recording of faults or error patterns reported by the customer via the existing ticket system, by telephone or by e-mail. He independently addresses faults that he can rectify himself, documents the rectification of the fault and forwards the respective applicable paths of correction to the development departments, the deploy management and/or release management department. He describes faults precisely in the ticket system, documents and specifies them with all the data required for this purpose and forwards them to the relevant specialist department. Based on the replication of the error patterns together with the team lead ITS, the release management, test management and deploy management as well as the development, the Senior Customer Support Manager continuously derives approaches for the further development of the existing software solutions. To this end, the Senior Customer Support Manager designs solution proposals together with the customers and defines the framework conditions, which he then passes on to the departments concerned. He works actively with the development department and supports the creation of solutions and cost estimates. Within the framework of existing service level agreements with customers, the Senior Customer Support Manager is responsible for system monitoring and provides on-call services. Furthermore, he/she is responsible for the coordination of resources, task monitoring and the training and induction of new employees in the subdivision assigned to him/her. |
Task description |
What is the role about?
- Error analysis in process flows within the involved IT system landscape of customers
- creating evaluations of data from databases, processing and aggregating evaluations
- customer communication in person on site, by telephone, e-mail and ticket systems
- receiving and describing solutions to feature and change requests together with customers and processing them for the respective development departments
- bug handling and evaluation, assignment to responsible teams, status control
- documentation of bug fixing
- analysis of system landscapes, requirements analyses/descriptions and definition of rules and standards prior to installations to be carried out at the customer's premises
- contribution to release management, deployment and test management, support in installation preparations and implementations
- creating and OS-testing installation manuals
- carrying out remote installations/updates and installations/updates on site
- preparation and implementation of administration training (within the scope of 2nd level support by our customers)
- system monitoring and on-call services
- adherence to the time schedules set by the Team Lead and report to the Team Lead
- representation of the company towards customers
- coordination of resources in own subdivision
- monitoring the timely achievement of the tasks assigned to the subdivision
- supporting the employees in the subdivision with assigned tasks
- training and induction of new colleagues in the ITS area
Required skills and qualifications
- Linux-based system administration
- Network level configuration for cloud-deployed distributed application environment, containerized and orchestrated using Kubernetes and VMware setup.
- HA setup, cluster setup and DC-DR setup
- Knowledge of Ansible, Shell scripting, Prometheus, Grafana , Kafka.
- Experience of Git.
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Oracle RDBMS
