Investigates and resolves technical issues on products or platforms for internal or external users.
Entry
Intermediate
Coding
Medium
Key skills
Career overview
The Technical Support Engineer sits between support and engineering: they reproduce bugs, read logs and traces, propose workarounds and feed real-world defects back to development. It is a strong path toward application support or DevOps.
Main responsibilities
- Analyse application logs to identify root causes
- Diagnose hardware, software and connectivity failures
- Lead incident resolution and post-mortem analysis
- Write and improve operational runbooks
- Escalate complex cases to the relevant technical team
- Coordinate with software vendors and third parties
- Write and maintain knowledge base articles
- Automate recurring tasks with scripts
- Prepare and execute change requests in production
- Keep technical documentation up to date
Technical skills
Technologies
Education level
Education requirements vary depending on the company, country and experience. Professional experience, certifications and technical skills can sometimes compensate for formal education.
High School / Bac
Less common
Bac+2 (2-year degree)
Common entry point
Bac+3 (Bachelor)
Common entry point
Bac+5 (Master / Engineering)
Common entry point
Experience & coding level
Experience level
Coding level
Useful certifications
Certifications are never mandatory. They are one way among others to prove a skill.
- ITIL 4 Foundation
- LPIC-1
- CompTIA Network+
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Possible branches
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Soft skills
- Problem solving
- Rigour and attention to detail
- Clear communication
- Staying calm under pressure
- Technical curiosity
- Documentation writing
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