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Cloud Support Engineer (Networking), Support Engineering
DESCRIPTION
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the market leader and technology forerunner in the Cloud business. As a member of the AWS support team you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology, assisting a global list of companies and developers that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their missioncritical applications. As a cloud support engineer, you will act as the ‘cloud ambassador’ across all the cloud products, arming our customers with required tools and tactics to get the most out of their product and support investment
- Would you like to use the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have an interest in helping customers understand application architectures and integration approaches? Are you familiar with best practices for applications, servers, and networks? Do you want to be part of a customer facing technology team helping to ensure the success of AWS as a leading technology organization?
- If you fit the description, you could be the person we are looking for. We are a group of smart people, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that worldclass support is critical to customer success.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM A LIFE AT AWS?
- Each day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:
- Learn and use groundbreaking technologies.
- Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers.
- Interact with leading engineers around the world.
- Partner with AWS teams to help reproduce and resolve customer issues.
- Leverage customer support experience to provide feedback with AWS teams on how to improve.
- Drive customer communication during critical events.
- Drive projects that improve supportrelated processes and our customers’ technical support experience.
- Write tutorials, howto videos, and other technical articles for the developer community.
- Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services.
WHY AWS SUPPORT?
- First and foremost, this is a customer support role – in the Cloud.
- On a typical day, a support engineer will be primarily responsible for solving customer’s cases through customer contact channels (e.g., telephone, email, and web/live chat).
- You will apply troubleshooting techniques to provide solutions for our customers by thoughtfully working with customers to dive deep into the root cause of an issue.
- An AWS support engineer may also develop and train, partner with development teams on complex issues or contact deflection initiatives, participate in new hiring, write tools/script to help the team, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives.
- We promote advancement opportunities across the organization to help you meet your career goals.
- We have training programs to help you develop the skills required to be successful in your role. We hire smart people who are keen to build a career with AWS, so we are more interested in the areas that you do know instead of those you haven’t been exposed to yet.
- Support engineers interested in travel have presented training or participated in focused summits across our sites or at specific AWS events.
- As we operate on a followthesun model, with Premium Support sites located globally, there is no after hours oncall or mandated overtime in this role.
Key job responsibilities
First and foremost this is a customer support role – in The Cloud.
- On a typical day, a Support Engineer will be primarily responsible for solving customer’s cases through a variety of customer contact channels which include telephone, email, and web/live chat. You will apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide tailored solutions for our customers and drive customer interactions by thoughtfully working with customers to dive deep into the root cause of an issue.
- Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues, an AWS Support Engineer may also coach/mentor new hires, develop & present training, partner with development teams on complex issues or contact deflection initiatives, participate in new hiring, write tools/script to help the team, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives.
- Career development: We promote advancement opportunities across the organization to help you meet your career goals.
- Training: We have training programs to help you develop the skills required to be successful in your role.
- We hire smart people who are keen to build a career with AWS, so we are more interested in the areas that you do know instead of those you haven’t been exposed to yet.
A day in the life
- Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers’ individual needs.
- Partner with Amazon Web Services teams to help reproduce and resolve customer issues.
- Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve our services.
- Drive customer communication during critical events.
- Write tutorials, howto videos, and other technical articles for the developer community.
- Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services.
- This role supports our Networking services, Elastic Load Balancing, Cloud Watch, Route 53, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) etc
- We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 6 months 4 years of relevant experience
- Knowledge of troubleshooting networking issues using several tools (traceroute, mtr, ping, iperf, dig/nslookup, cURL, tcpdump/wireshark and related)
- Good Knowledge of network security (SSL/TLS, Network and Web Application Firewalls, Intrusion Detection and Prevention Services)
- Good Knowledge managing domain transfers, records and DNS security (DNSSEC and DNS Filtering)
- Good OS knowledge oriented to maintenance and administrative purposes (Windows or Linux)
- Knowledge of Networking and troubleshooting (HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS, Routing and Switching, Load Balancing)
- Knowledge in monitoring IT services and good command of associated technologies
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience configuring virtual server environments.
- Knowledge/experience in configuring and supporting devices such as Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, SonicWALL, Checkpoint, Palo Alto etc.
- Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications
- Experience configuring softwarebased Load Balancing solutions.
- Experience with end to end application monitoring, tracing and alerting using tools like CloudWatch, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus etc.
- Good understanding of security best practices.
- Good understanding of distributed computing environments and methodologies
Cloud Support Engineer (Storage and Content Delivery), Support Engineering
DESCRIPTION
- Amazon Web Services is the market leader and technology forerunner in the Cloud business. As a member of the AWS Support team you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology, assisting a global list of companies and developers that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their missioncritical applications. As a Cloud Support Engineer, you will act as the ‘Cloud Ambassador’ across all the cloud products, arming our customers with required tools & tactics to get the most out of their Product and Support investment.
- Would you like to use the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have an interest in helping customers understand application architectures and integration approaches? Are you familiar with best practices for applications, servers and networks? Do you want to be part of a customer facing technology team helping to ensure the success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology organization?
- If you fit the description, you might be the person we are looking for! We are a group of smart people, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM A LIFE AT AWS?
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Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:
- Learn and use groundbreaking technologies.
- Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers’ individual needs.
- Interact with leading engineers around the world.
- Partner with Amazon Web Services teams to help reproduce and resolve customer issues.
- Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve our services.
- Drive customer communication during critical events.
- Drive projects that improve supportrelated processes and our customers’ technical support experience.
- Write tutorials, howto videos, and other technical articles for the developer community.
- Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services.
WHY AWS SUPPORT?
First and foremost this is a customer support role – in The Cloud.
- On a typical day, a Support Engineer will be primarily responsible for solving customer’s cases through a variety of customer contact channels which include telephone, email, and web/live chat. You will apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide tailored solutions for our customers and drive customer interactions by thoughtfully working with customers to dive deep into the root cause of an issue.
- Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues, an AWS Support Engineer may also coach/mentor new hires, develop & present training, partner with development teams on complex issues or contact deflection initiatives, participate in new hiring, write tools/script to help the team, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives.
- Career development: We promote advancement opportunities across the organization to help you meet your career goals.
- Training: We have training programs to help you develop the skills required to be successful in your role.
- We hire smart people who are keen to build a career with AWS, so we are more interested in the areas that you do know instead of those you haven’t been exposed to yet.
- Support engineers interested in travel have presented training or participated in focused summits across our sites or at specific AWS events.
- As we operate on a followthesun model, with Premium Support sites located globally, there is no after hours oncall or mandated overtime in this role.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Unix/Linux or Windows system administration skills
- Knowledge of client/server and distributed systems architectures.
- Knowledge of filesystem, block and object storage.
- Knowledge of Storage architectures and backup/DR strategies
- Good understanding of networking protocols: DNS, HTTP, SSL, SFTP, TCP and UDP.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience troubleshooting filesystem, block and object storage
- Experience with scripting (i.e. bash, Python, PowerShell etc.)
- Detailed knowledge of storage protocols: iSCSI, NFS, SMB
- Expertise with network troubleshooting and tools e.g. iperf, MTR, traceroute, dig,
- Prior working experience with AWS e.g. AWS S3 storage, Storage Gateway, EFS and AWS Backup.
- Experience with Cloud architecture patterns and distributed computing concepts
- Experience working with REST API based services
- Exposure to OS and networking security concepts and standard methodologies
Cloud Support Engineer – Media and Content Delivery, Support Engineering
DESCRIPTION
- Amazon Web Services is the market leader and technology forerunner in the Cloud business. As a member of the AWS Support team you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology, assisting a global list of companies and developers that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications. As a Cloud Support Engineer, you will act as the ‘Cloud Ambassador’ across all the cloud products, arming our customers with required tools & tactics to get the most out of their Product and Support investment.
- Would you like to use the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have an interest in helping customers understand application architectures and integration approaches? Are you familiar with best practices for applications, servers and networks? Do you want to be part of a customer facing technology team helping to ensure the success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology organization?
- If you fit the description, you might be the person we are looking for! We are a group of smart people, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM A LIFE AT AWS?
Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:
- Learn and use groundbreaking technologies.
- Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers’ individual needs.
- Interact with leading engineers around the world.
- Partner with Amazon Web Services teams to help reproduce and resolve customer issues.
- Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve our services.
- Drive customer communication during critical events.
- Drive projects that improve support-related processes and our customers’ technical support experience.
- Write tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for the developer community.
- Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services.
WHY AWS SUPPORT?
First and foremost this is a customer support role – in The Cloud.
- On a typical day, a Support Engineer will be primarily responsible for solving customer’s cases through a variety of customer contact channels which include telephone, email, and web/live chat. You will apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide tailored solutions for our customers and drive customer interactions by thoughtfully working with customers to dive deep into the root cause of an issue.
- Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues, an AWS Support Engineer may also coach/mentor new hires, develop & present training, partner with development teams on complex issues or contact deflection initiatives, participate in new hiring, write tools/script to help the team, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives.
- Career development: We promote advancement opportunities across the organization to help you meet your career goals.
- Training: We have training programs to help you develop the skills required to be successful in your role.
- We hire smart people who are keen to build a career with AWS, so we are more interested in the areas that you do know instead of those you haven’t been exposed to yet.
- Support engineers interested in travel have presented training or participated in focused summits across our sites or at specific AWS events.
- As we operate on a follow-the-sun model, with Premium Support sites located globally, there is no after hours on-call or mandated overtime in this role.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong understanding of networking protocols: DNS, HTTP, SSL, TCP and UDP.
- Good Unix/Linux or Windows system administration skills.
- Knowledge of client/server and distributed systems architectures.
- Experience operating and troubleshooting email services using SMTP protocol
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Understanding of Content Delivery Networks
- Experience with scripting (i.e. bash, Java Script, Node JS, Python, PowerShell etc.)
- Expertise with network troubleshooting and tools e.g. iperf, MTR, traceroute, dig,
- Understanding of streaming video (H264, MP4, WEBM, HLS, Smooth Streaming)
- Knowledge of compressed and uncompressed digital video and audio standards, especially around HEVC, H.264 and MPEG-2 technologies
- Knowledge of video packaging and delivery mechanisms such as HLS, DASH, CMAF, RTMP, UDP, and file based workflows
- Experience with Cloud Computing, especially Amazon Web Services
- Prior working experience with AWS Services e.g. Cloudfront, Simple Email Service and AWS Elemental Media Services
- Experience with Cloud architecture patterns and distributed computing concepts
- Messaging and Queueing experience
- Experience working with REST API based services
- Exposure to OS and networking security concepts and standard methodologies
- Written, verbal, and documentation skills to effectively communicate with customers and peers.