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L1 Technical Support Specialist (SMB)

London, England, United Kingdom

Who we are:

For over 25 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world’s most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.

Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It’s a place where you can genuinely make an impact – and be recognized for it.

We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers.

Your role:

We are seeking a highly motivated, client-focused Junior Technical Support Specialist to support our Small and Medium Business (SMB) team as part of the Technical Support team.

This role is focused on being the first point of contact for our customers, providing foundational support to ensure our services run correctly and smoothly. This role is part of our 24x7 Frontline team, responsible for triaging of tickets, assisting customers with user management and contact management, basic troubleshooting and initial support for Global Relay services.

Junior Technical Support Specialists will learn to use Creative problem-solving to understand customer issues, gather necessary information and resolve entry-level Technical problems. They will effectively communicate both verbally and in writing in a fast-paced environment, working to escalate more complex issues to Intermediate and Senior Specialists while handling initial user requests and administrative tasks.

This role balances entry level technical troubleshooting capability with an understanding of client business impact, ensuring issues are resolved efficiently and professionally.

Your job:

  • Be the first point of contact for customers, providing first level technical support for all Global Relay Services.
  • Assist customers' basic technical issues and end user queries.
  • Collect pertinent issue details and create clear, detailed escalation tickets for Intermediate Technical Support Specialists to investigate and resolve.
  • Perform user management requests, self-service requests and simple script import requests.
  • Manage support case queues and case triage to appropriate resources.
  • Manage our customers' authorized contact changes through identity verification and online research to verify ensure records are accurate.
  • Maintain accurate documentation of troubleshooting steps, and resolutions.
  • Handle overflow calls from admins where required.

About you:

You are technically strong, operationally disciplined, and comfortable working within a structured support model. You understand the importance of balancing responsiveness with scalability and process adherence. You thrive in collaborative environments and are comfortable working alone as well as part of a team.

Requirements:

  • Minimum 1-2 Years in a customer facing technical support role.
  • Strong desire to learn and develop technical troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a structured, SLA-driven environment.
  • Excellent attention to detail and the ability to follow defined policies and procedures.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Your Technical Skills:

  • Basic troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Knowledge of SAML authentication and Single Sign-On (SSO) desired by not mandatory.
  • Familiarity with Office Suite is desired, Prior experience with Salesforce or Jira is an asset.

Basic demonstrable knowledge in two or more of the following areas:

  • Networking fundamentals (AD, ADFS, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, LDAP, SSO)
  • Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, or Google Workspace
  • Windows Server and workstation environments
  • Basic scripting (PowerShell, Perl, VBScript, SQL)
  • Relevant certifications (MCSE, MCITP, CCNA, PMP) is an asset
  • Instant Messaging, SMS, and Voice services

Working conditions:

  • Support is a 24x7 team using a Follow The Sun model.
  • Specialists must be willing and able to work occasionally outside of business hours, including weekends.
  • This role requires 5 days in office working during the probation period and 3 days hybrid working thereafter.

Global Relay is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.

What you can expect:

At Global Relay, there’s no ceiling to what you can achieve. It’s the land of opportunity for the energetic, the intelligent, the driven. You’ll receive the mentoring, coaching, and support you need to reach your career goals. You’ll be part of a culture that breeds creativity and rewards perseverance and hard work. And you’ll be working alongside smart, talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with complementary knowledge and skills.

Global Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are tailored to meet the unique needs of every individual.

To learn more about our business, culture, and community involvement, visit www.globalrelay.com.

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Upon submission of your application, the personal data contained in your application will be collected by Global Relay Communications Inc. (“Global Relay” or “Controller”), whose headquarters are located at 220 Cambie Street, 2nd Floor, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6B 2M9. Global Relay can be contacted at (604) 484-6630. Global Relay’s data protection officer is Laurence Lafond, who can be contacted at privacy@globalrelay.net.
Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Global Relay’s recruitment related activities. This includes organizing and conducting interviews, assessing your suitability for the role, organizing and conducting tests (as applicable) and evaluating the results of such tests, and other processing activities that Global Relay deems necessary in the recruitment and hiring process. This processing is permitted under Article 6(1)(f) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Article 6(1)(f) of UK General Data Protection Regulation for the purpose of Global Relay’s legitimate interests, which include growing the business and recruiting and hiring personnel best suited for roles at Global Relay. Further information on our legitimate interests may be available upon request. If you are applying for a role in the UK and Global Relay processes personal data relating to criminal offences or convictions under Article 10 of GDPR and UK GDPR, Global Relay will do so on the condition of “consent” as permitted under Section 29 of Schedule 1 of the Data Protection Act, 2018 (c.12). Global Relay may utilize automated decision and profiling tools, such as Predictive Index, to assist in determining whether a candidate is suitable for a particular role. Failure by an applicant to provide personal data required by Global Relay for the recruitment and hiring process may result in the applicant being removed from consideration for the role.
Global Relay is headquartered in Canada. Accordingly, upon submission, your personal data will be transferred to Canada, which is considered by the European Commission to provide adequate protection for the collection of personal data from EU data subjects. Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., a cloud services provider located in the United States of America and engaged by Controller to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Controller’s behalf, and may be shared with other third party service providers to the extent necessary for the assessment of candidates, to conduct tests for applicants or perform other due diligence necessary in the recruitment process (including, for example, credit checks or criminal offence checks). Where personal data is transferred to counties that are not considered to provide adequate protection by the European Commission (e.g. the United States), the transfer of your personal data to third parties in those countries will be transferred under additional safeguards permitted under GDPR, such as Standard Contractual Clauses.
If you are rejected from a role your personal data will be retained by Global Relay, by default, for 365 days from the completion of your submission for a particular role. Under the GDPR, you have the right to data portability, to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, to request that processing of your personal data be restricted, and the right to object to processing. You also have the right lodge a complaint with an EU supervisory authority. To the extent that you have questions or concerns about your personal data, please reach out to privacy@globalrelay.net.

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Global Relay is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. To help ensure our processes are fair and accessible to everyone, we ask applicant to complete this voluntary monitoring form.

Global Relay’s policy is to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment or is discriminated against under the Equality Act 2010. The protected characteristics under this act are (in no particular order): age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Completing this form is voluntary. The information provided will be kept confidential. The information is going to be used to help us understand the diversity of our organisation.

None of the information you provide will be linked to your application.

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Any information provided will be used only to help us monitor equality and diversity. It will be treated confidentially and reported in an anonymous, statistical format.

For more information about how we handle personal data and your rights, please refer to our Privacy Statement available on our website. 

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