Senior Technical Support Specialist

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About the role

  • Senior Technical Support Specialist resolving complex platform and media workflow issues at XR Extreme Reach. Building automation and AI-assisted tooling while mentoring support teams.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a senior escalation point for complex L2/L3 platform, workflow, and integration issues
  • Troubleshoot distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and internal platforms
  • Perform deep log analysis, API inspection, and backend validation to identify root causes
  • Own complex tickets through resolution while maintaining SLA accountability
  • Partner with Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams during incidents and investigations
  • Identify repetitive support tasks and design automation solutions
  • Build and maintain scripts, utilities, and lightweight tools using JavaScript, Bash, SQL, or similar technologies
  • Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate troubleshooting, automation development, and knowledge creation
  • Contribute to monitoring and alerting automation using tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, or Zabbix
  • Provide expert-level support for RESTful APIs, authentication flows, integrations, cloud platforms, Linux/UNIX, Windows servers, SQL/NoSQL databases, Postman, Git/GitLab, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Support file processing, transcoding, and media workflows
  • Assess advertising trafficking, broadcast delivery, and digital media workflows
  • Troubleshoot video files and destination transcodes, including slates, SOM/EOM, captions, frame accuracy, audio mapping, and related media issues
  • Validate media containers and codecs and assess technical delivery specifications
  • Use media analysis and workflow tools to compare source and output files and isolate failures
  • Mentor Technical Support Specialists and support their technical development
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides
  • Lead or support internal training sessions
  • Participate in major incident management and provide technical leadership
  • Contribute to or lead root cause analyses and post-incident reviews
  • Identify systemic issues and recommend long-term corrective actions
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives across support operations

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in L2/L3 technical support, production support, technical video knowledge, or site reliability–adjacent roles
  • Strong hands-on experience with Linux/UNIX systems and networking fundamentals
  • Experience with REST APIs, JSON/XML, and backend troubleshooting
  • SQL experience, including T-SQL, MySQL, or similar, and NoSQL concepts
  • Scripting experience with JavaScript, Bash, or equivalent
  • Experience with AWS and/or Azure
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and Git
  • Experience working with automation-first support models
  • Strong working knowledge of video/audio codecs, containers, resolutions, frame rates, interlacing, aspect ratios, bitrates, chroma sampling, timecode, channel mapping, captions, loudness, and A/V synchronization
  • Practical experience using AI-assisted development or support tools is strongly preferred
  • Ability to responsibly apply AI for troubleshooting, automation, and documentation while critically validating outputs
  • Experience designing or improving support automation workflows
  • Exceptional problem-solving and analytical thinking
  • Clear, concise communication with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to operate independently on high-impact issues
  • Strong organization, attention to detail, and process-driven approach
  • Ability to collaborate across time zones and cultures
  • Calm and effective performance during incidents or outages
  • Proactive, curious, and continuously learning
  • ITIL certification or strong familiarity with ITSM principles is desirable
  • Experience in media, broadcast, OTT, or digital content platforms is desirable
  • Experience improving Zendesk or similar ticketing platforms through automation, workflows, or integrations is desirable

Benefits

  • AI-assisted screening technology is used to help review resumes
  • Opportunity to work on impactful products serving media and creative industries
  • Global team and exposure across 140 markets
  • Collaborative, creative culture
  • Innovation and growth opportunities

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$75,000 - CA$85,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaITSMJavaScriptJenkinsLinuxMySQLNoSQLSQLUnix

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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