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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 Organizations everywhere struggle under the crushing costs…

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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

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