Application Support Engineer - Bilingual Japanese

Application Support Engineer Bilingual Japanese

Farmington Hills MI

Summary:
The position is in charge of daily Enterprise level application maintenance and support and responsible for delivering proficient technical support in both languages to internal and external stakeholders ensuring effective communication and issue resolution across language barriers. They directly report to the Assistant Manager of the team. Some amount of flex time overtime or scheduled weekend work will also be required to meet business needs.

Essential Functions:
Provide technical support for incoming queries and issues related to applications supported by the team by troubleshooting diagnosing causes and providing solutions.
Direct requests and unresolved issues to the designated resource.
Communicate and coordinate with internal departments.
Provide feedback on the efficiency of the customer service process.
Consistent availability to work in an office environment.
Collaborate with team members to provide support to customers.
Identify and implement updates corrections and improvements to applications.
Address bugs security vulnerabilities and performance issues and then apply patches.
Install configure and maintain tools such as compilers and runtime libraries.
Ability to create and maintain standardized processes.
Utilize Change Management Process to obtain approval for environment changes.
Daily time management and accurate time reporting.
Configure license information.
Create and test application installation scripts and patches.
Support emergency changes or business requests.
Create and Maintain documentation for applications incidents and their known resolutions as well as common best practices of Enterprise Level Systems.
Propose preventative maintenance methods & quickly troubleshoot server problems that may arise.
Provide offhours support as needed both onsite & remotely.
Demonstrate the capability to communicate and read Japanese enabling the seamless interaction with Japanesespeaking stakeholders.
Availability to work in the clients or customers location as required.

Required Education and Experience:
Bachelors degree in computer science or related field
Bilingual with JapaneseEnglish especially in speaking and reading
12 years experience in IT support or related field.
Basic computer skills
Microsoft Outlook/Email capability
MSOffice Capability (Word Excel and Powerpoint etc)
Prior experience in troubleshooting technical issues
Experience with server such as Linux and Windows is plus
Having automotive R&D knowledge is plus
Knowledge/handson experience on IT networking and scripting is plus
Knowledge of cloud (AWS Azure) is plus

Competencies:
Act with integrity and professionalism.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent interpersonal negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
Excellent organizational skills attention to detail
Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.
Problem Solving/Analysis skills.
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
Should be a good team player.
Proficiency in document management.