
Freshworks
Lead - Customer Support
Job · Full-timeIn OfficeChennaiEntry level / 0-2 years1 opening
About this role
Freshworks is hiring for Lead - Customer Support in Chennai. This opening was published by Freshworks on their official smartrecruiters careers board on 7 September 2026 and was verified as still open on 17 September 2026.
About the role
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What you'll do
- Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field or equivalent work experience
- 7–12 years of direct customer support, network engineering, or systems administration experience, with significant time spent in a senior/escalation-tier (L3) capacity
- Deep, hands-on knowledge of datacenter operations, including physical and virtual infrastructure
- Expert-level networking knowledge is required — this is a core, non-negotiable requirement for the role
- Strong working knowledge of SNMP, VMware, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Working knowledge of AWS cloud services and how cloud infrastructure is discovered and represented in a CMDB
- Take ownership of the customer issues escalated from L1/L2, seeing problems through to full resolution
- Research, diagnose, troubleshoot, and identify solutions for system and network issues 
Who can apply
- Perform in-depth analysis of customer network architecture (routing, VLANs, firewalls, ACLs, NAT) to isolate root causes of discovery and connectivity failures
- Follow standard procedures for escalating unresolved issues to the appropriate internal teams, while acting as the escalation point for those below you
- Respond to partner and customer inquiries through email and telephone, including complex technical discussions with customer network/infrastructure teams
- Oversee and follow up on open customer issues, ensuring timely and complete resolution.
- Develop customer relationships through professional, dependable, and accurate interactions
- Reply to customer mission-critical issues outside business hours as needed.
- Ability to independently read, interpret, and troubleshoot against customer network diagrams and architecture documentation
- Experience diagnosing issues at the packet level (e.g., packet captures/traceroutes) to isolate connectivity and discovery failures
About Freshworks
About Freshworks
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• That belief sparked Freshworks. And it powers everything we do and build today.
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