Engineering

Support Engineer

Pragma Global·Western Cape, south-africa·Full Time·Hybrid
EngineeringFull TimeHybrid
-Closes Nov 30, 2026

Job Advert Summary

  • At Pragma we provide the opportunity for individuals to enjoy their working lives as much as their home lives. We foster a team environment in which each individual is recognized, valued and developed to support our company strategy. We encourage people with disabilities and from diverse backgrounds to apply.
  • The product support team in On Key Software Solutions is at the heart of the business. The Support Engineer is the single point of contact and the link between our client users the implementation specialists, and our software development teams.
  • These stakeholders will look at a feature or technical challenge from their perspective, and you will assist in solving their problems with your knowledge and skills, or by leveraging skills from within your team and organization.
  • The Support Engineer's ultimate aim is to ensure happy and successful clients. Your superpowers include problem-solving, excellent context switching, adaptability, sympathizing with the client, and making them feel as if all will now be well because you're on it. A true bonus is the ability to be proactive and solve issues before they even happen.

Minimum Requirements

  • Relevant qualification - BEng / BSc would be preferred.
  • Knowledge of software development and cloud hosting.
  • Knowledge of product support.
  • Technical skills (possibly dabbling with some development in your free time).
  • Some form of experience, or passion, in working within a client-centric environment.
  • Self-driven and willingness to work in a hybrid home-office setup

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Excite clients with consistent, accurate, and friendly product support.
  • Constantly evaluate priorities of incidents and ensure SLAs are met.
  • Ensure that the product support processes are well-defined, in place, and adhered to.
  • Plan and coordinate deployment of apps with product owners and scrum masters, and communicate these plans with clients.
  • Actively assist with reproducing bugs, identifying improvement gaps, and use your experience with dealing with clients to contribute to ideas for design improvements.
  • Willingness to learn and capture a growing understanding of the product in a usable and sharable knowledge base.
  • Lastly, things will go wrong. When it does, own the problem, constructively drive problem-solving and ensure execution of the plan.

Closing Date

  • 2026/10/14

Key skills

Bachelors

At a glance

Company

Pragma Global

Location

Western Cape, south-africa

Employment

Full Time

Experience

Valid until

November 30, 2026

Created

October 6, 2026

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