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We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Cloud Support Engineer II. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless operation and optimal performance of our cloud-based products across diverse customer environments. As part of our 24x7 global support team, this Tier II role is responsible for actively monitoring and responding to system-generated alerts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues related to servers, networking equipment, and cloud infrastructure. This role includes on-call responsibilities, including weekends and public holidays, as part of a rotational schedule to support high-priority escalations and ensure continuous service availability.
Key responsibilities of this role include leading advanced diagnostics, conducting detailed log analysis, performing in-house testing, and opening engineering tickets when necessary to drive resolution. The engineer is expected to collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve challenging technical issues, drive effective incident management, to take ownership of escalations from the Tier I team and work toward identifying the root cause of issues.This customer-facing role demands a strong blend of analytical acumen, deep technical expertise, and empathetic communication skills to deliver exceptional customer experiences. The engineer will be working with customers from across the globe and is expected to maintain a professional, respectful attitude in every interaction, upholding our high standards of support, and a genuine care for solving customer problems thoroughly and efficiently.
Your day to day
- Build and maintain strong relationships with customers and partners.
- Ensure a customer-first approach in all interactions and maintain high satisfaction levels.
- Provide quality technical guidance and training.
- Monitor cloud services and infrastructure to proactively identify and resolve potential issues before they impact customers.
- Participate in an on-call rotation (including weekends and public holidays) to support high-priority escalations and maintain continuous service availability.
- Prioritize and manage several open tasks at one time.
- Respond to tickets with urgency and clarity, via phone, email, or remote access, according to SLAs.
- Provide high-level technical support, following tickets through to resolution.
- Offer expert technical support for cloud-based and on-premises storage solutions, including object storage and network configurations.
- Troubleshoot complex issues related to networking, Linux operating systems, and cloud computing environments.
- Own escalations from the Tier I team and drive detailed investigations to identify the root cause.
- Open engineering tickets when needed, supported by in-depth log analysis and results from internal testing.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams as necessary to ensure resolution.
- Participate in creating high-quality Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports for customers, with a strong understanding of the issue and the ability to present the findings.
- Work closely with management and senior members of different departments and third-party vendors to identify recurring problems and contribute to long-term solutions.
- Actively contribute to the Support knowledge base by creating clear, comprehensive training materials and documentation for internal and external use.
- Document best practices, incident post-mortems, and troubleshooting runbooks, updating the knowledge base.
- Contribute to continuous improvement efforts in support of delivery processes and tooling.
Basic Qualifications
- 4 - 7 years of experience in technical customer support.
- Intermediate-level communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
- Strong understanding of storage technologies (SAN, NAS, object storage) and networking principles.
- Proficient in cloud computing services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) with a focus on storage and networking solutions.
- In-depth knowledge of Linux OS, including system administration and troubleshooting.
- Understanding of ITIL V3 concepts, processes and functions.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, guides, and FAQs to assist customers and promote self-service troubleshooting.
- Ability to work with and successfully communicate with those who are technically proficient and with those with limited understanding of technical concepts.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure.
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills including prior client-facing experience.
- Effective time management skills working on multiple issues at once.
Your education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science/Information Technology, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
Nice to haves
- Experience with systems and technologies (VMware, KVM, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Solid experience with microservices (Docker, K8S)
- Solid experience in storage technologies and protocols (RAID, NFS, SMB, iSCSI, FC, S3, Swift)
- Hands-on experience in OpenStack (managing and troubleshooting)
- Solid experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with configuration management systems (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- At least CCNA-level experience in Networking Administration
- L3 network equipment configuration (BGP, OSFP, etc.)
- Experience with iptables in Linux and network-level ACLs
- Full-stack or backend developers are welcome.
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