Support Specialist

Reports to:
Tier 1 Support Lead

Location:
Kansas City, Missouri - On-Site

Position Summary

Patmos Hosting is seeking a customer-focused, technically curious Support Specialist to serve as the frontline point of contact for customers across our growing portfolio of technology services.

Today, Patmos supports services including colocation, dedicated servers, networking, hosting, domains, and related technology solutions. As we continue to grow, the services and technologies supported by this team will continue to expand.

The Support Specialist is responsible for delivering an exceptional customer experience through effective communication, technical troubleshooting, ticket ownership, and operational awareness. This role serves as the bridge between customers and the broader technical organization, ensuring issues are understood, communicated, and driven toward resolution.

This is not a script-reading call center position. Our Support Specialists are trusted to think critically, triage, solve problems, communicate effectively, and take ownership of customer outcomes.

Success in this role requires strong communication skills, a service-oriented mindset, technical curiosity, and a willingness to continuously learn and grow. The ideal candidate enjoys solving problems, helping people, and taking ownership of outcomes.

Responsibilities

Customer Support & Ticket Ownership

• Serve as the primary point of contact for customer issues, requests, alerts, and operational concerns via phone, email, chat, or other medians determined appropriate by Patmos.
• Own support tickets from intake through resolution or escalation, ensuring customers receive timely updates and clear communication throughout the support process.
• Troubleshoot issues involving hosting, servers, networking, domains, email, and related technologies.
• Gather relevant information, perform initial diagnosis, and drive issues toward resolution.
• Monitor ticket queues and follow up proactively to maintain service levels and customer satisfaction.

Customer Experience & Communication

• Deliver a professional, responsive, and customer-focused support experience.
• Build trust and confidence through clear communication and proactive follow-up.
• Manage customer expectations regarding timelines, next steps, and resolution progress.
• Advocate for customer needs while balancing operational priorities and business objectives.

Operational Awareness & Incident Response

• Maintain awareness of customer-impacting events, service disruptions, monitoring alerts, and operational risks.
• Respond to alerts, incidents, and operational requests in accordance with established procedures.
• Assist with incident documentation, communication, and escalation activities.
• Escalate risks and customer-impacting concerns appropriately.

Collaboration & Escalation Management

• Coordinate with Tier 2 Support, Infrastructure, and other internal teams to resolve complex issues.
• Provide complete and accurate escalation documentation.
• Remain engaged throughout escalated issues to ensure continuity of customer communication and issue ownership.
• Learn from escalations to continuously improve troubleshooting capabilities.

Documentation & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain accurate ticket records, troubleshooting notes, and customer communications.
• Contribute to knowledge base articles, SOPs, and internal documentation.
• Identify recurring issues and opportunities for process improvement.
• Help transform tribal knowledge into repeatable and scalable processes.

Qualifications

What Success Looks Like

You will consistently deliver exceptional customer experiences while maintaining ownership of issues from start to finish.

Customers will view you as responsive, knowledgeable, and trustworthy. Your teammates will rely on you for clear communication, accurate documentation, and operational awareness. You will continuously expand your technical capabilities, contribute to process improvements, and help create a support organization that customers enjoy working with.

What We're Looking For

The following certifications are not required, but are often strong indicators of foundational technical knowledge and interest in the field:

• CompTIA A+
• CompTIA Network+
• CompTIA Server+

Additional certifications that may be beneficial include:

• Cisco CCNA
• Linux+
• Microsoft certifications

Equivalent hands-on experience, self-study, home lab experience, military experience, technical coursework, or professional experience is valued as well.

Most importantly, we are looking for individuals who are motivated to learn, eager to take ownership, and committed to delivering outstanding customer experiences.

About Us

Patmos Hosting, Inc. delivers Freedom as a ServiceTM, providing organizations with an independent alternative to Big Tech's commercial constraints, censorship, cancellation and deplatforming. Patmos owns and operates datacenter infrastructure with decentralized connectivity, open peering, and free Internet Exchange hosting, ensuring resilience and true independence. Its services span multi-megawatt colocation for AI and hyperscale workloads, GPU/high-performance compute, custom data centers, domains, web and cloud hosting, colocation and tailored website and application development.

Founded in 2022, Patmos is headquartered in Kansas City, MO, with teams and datacenters/locations in Kansas City, Dallas, Phoenix, Denver.

Why Join Us

Be part of a mission-driven company defending free speech and internet freedom.

At Patmos, you'll help protect online expression while ensuring legal compliance. Our team is shaping the future of digital freedom by building secure, high-performance internet infrastructure. We value privacy, innovation, and individual liberty—creating a purpose-driven, collaborative environment where your work matters.

Benefits include:

• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) match (4%)
• Health, dental, & vision insurance
• Short and long term disability
• Life insurance (company paid and supplemental available)
• Generous parental leave, baby bonuses, marital bonuses, and other family-friendly perks
• 14 observed paid holidays that include solemnities

Patmos is an equal opportunity employer and proud member of the Catholic Benefits Association offering employee benefits that promote the dignity of the human person, the dignity of work, and the common good.