Cloud Support Engineer

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.Amazon Web Services is the market leader and technology forerunner in the Cloud business. As a member of the AWS Support team in Amazon Web services, 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 in Amazon Web services. 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 team that is passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success.Key job responsibilities• Learn and use ground breaking technologies.• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs.• Interact with leading engineers around the world.• Partner with AWS 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.A day in the lifeFirst 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 to ensure better customer experience and compliance with global AWS standards, practices and policies.• 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 support engineers 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 AWS Support Engineering sites located globally, there is no after hours on-call or mandated overtime in this role.· AWS Support Engineering is 24/7/365 operations and shift work will be required in afternoon i.e. 1 PM to 10 PM ISTThis role supports our services that focus on distributed, cloud infrastructure of AWS S3 storage, Cloudfront, Storage Gateway, Glacier, Simple Email Service, Snowball, AWS Elemental Media Services (Video streaming, Transcoding and storage solutions), Kinesis Video Streams, Elastic Transcoder, AWS Transfer for SFTP, Datasync and AWS Backup. Our support engineers are also the “voice of the customer” and have a strong voice in to the development teams for recurring issues or feature requests.About the teamDiverse ExperiencesAWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Why AWS?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life BalanceWe value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Bangalore, KA, IND

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor’s degree OR equivalent experience in a technical position.- Requires minimum of 2+ yrs experience in relevant technical position.- Strong understanding of networking protocols: DNS, HTTP, SSL, SFTP, TCP and UDP.- Experience with web-based services and applications, Apache, Tomcat etc. Knowledge of client/server and distributed systems architectures.- Strong Unix/Linux or Windows system administration skills.- Knowledge of filesystem, block and object storage.- Knowledge of Storage architectures and backup/DR strategies- Experience operating and troubleshooting email services and SMTP.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Understanding of Content Delivery Networks- 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, Understanding of streaming video (H264, MP4, WEBM, HLS, Smooth Streaming)- Understanding of video compression & Delivery (Codecs & Containers, Streaming Protocols)- Prior working experience with AWS e.g. AWS S3 storage, Cloudfront, Storage Gateway, Glacier, Simple Email Service, Snowball, AWS Elemental Media Services, Kinesis Video Streams, Elastic Transcoder, AWS Transfer for SFTP, Datasync and AWS Backup.- 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

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