Support Engineer

Job Description

About The Role

HashiCorp is looking for a high-caliber customer facing engineering professional to join its Support Engineering team in Noida, India. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small team and have a direct impact on HashiCorps fast growing business. This highly visible position will be an integral part of both the support engineering and Terraform Open Source/Enterprise teams. You are a fit if you thrive in a fast-paced culture that values essential communication, collaboration, and results. You are a self-motivated, detail-oriented individual with an eye for automation, process improvement, and problem solving.

Reporting to the Manager, Support Engineering, the Support Engineer will be a key member of the Customer Success organization and will directly impact customer satisfaction and success. The Support engineer will troubleshoot complex issues related to Terraform Enterprise and independently work to find viable solutions. They will contribute to product growth and development via weekly product and marketing meetings. The Support Engineer will attend customer meetings as needed to help identify, debug and resolve the customer issue and is expected to be a liaison between the customer and HashiCorp engineering. When possible the Support Engineer will update and improve product documentation, guide feature development, and implement bug fixes based on customer feedback.

Responsibilities

- Triage and solve incoming support requests via Zendesk within SLA
- Document and record all activity and communication with customers in accordance to both internal and external security standards
- Reproduce and debug customer issues by building or using existing tooling or configurations
- Collaborate with engineers, sales engineers, sales representatives, and technical account managers to schedule, coordinate, and lead customer installs or debugging calls
- Contribute to create knowledge base articles, and best practices guides
- Continuously improve process and tools for normal, repetitive support tasks
- Periodic on-call rotation for production-down issues
- Weekly days off scheduled every week on rotation on any day of the week

Requirements

- 4+ years Support Engineering, Software Engineering, or System Administration experience
- Expertise in Open Source and SaaS is a major advantage
- Excellent presence; strong written and verbal communication skills
- Upbeat, passionate, and unparalleled customer focus
- Well-organized, has excellent work ethic, pays attention to detail, and self-starting
- Experience managing and influencing change in organizations
- Working knowledge with Docker, Kubernetes
- Familiar with networking concept
- Experience developing a program, script, or tool that was released or used is an advantage
- Strong understanding of Linux or Windows command line environments
- Interest in cloud adoption and technology at scale

Goals

30 days: you should be able to -

- Write a simple TF configuration and apply it in TFE to deploy infrastructure
- Holistic understanding of (P)TFE and the interaction with the TF ecosystem
- Successfully perform all common work flows within Terraform Enterprise
- One contribution to extend or improve product documentation or install guides
- Ability to answer Level 1 support inquiries with minimal assistance

60 days: you should be able to -

- Effectively triage and respond to Level 1 & 2 inquiries independently
- Provision and bootstrap (P)TFE instance with low-touch from engineering
- Ride along on 1-2 live customer install calls
- Locate and unpack the customer log files. Familiarity with its contents
- Apply TF configurations to deploy infrastructure in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
- Author one customer knowledge base article from area of subject matter expertise

90 days: you should be able to -

- Effectively triage and respond to a production down issue with minimal assistance
- Run point on a live customer install without assistance
- Independently find points of error and identify root cause in the customer log files and report relevant details to engineering
- Implement small bug fixes or feature improvements
- Reproduce a TF bug or error by creating a suitable configuration

EDUCATION

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, IT, Technical Writing, or equivalent professional experience

HashiCorp is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. HashiCorp will be the hiring entity. By proceeding with this application you understand that HashiCorp will share your personal information with other IBM subsidiaries involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here: link to IBM privacy statement.

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