Cloud Support Engineer
2 weeks ago
As a Cloud Support Engineer you will learn at an accelerated pace how to use and leverage many different cloud technologies to help our customers succeed.
You will act as the Cloud Ambassador across AWS products, providing our customers with required tools and tactics to scale their impact in world-wide markets.
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.
AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
The SCD role supports our services that focus on distributed cloud infrastructure over which customers build thier applications to server their end users.
The supported services include technologies across Data and Storage (AWS S3 storage, Snowball, AWS Transfer for SFTP, Datasync, AWS Backup, Amazon Elastic File System, File Cache, Storage Gateway, Glacier), Content delivery (Cloudfront, Simple Email Service) and Media and Streaming technologies (AWS Elemental Media Services, Kinesis Video Streams, Interactive Video Service, Elastic Transcoder).
Key job responsibilitiesYour day as a Cloud Support Engineer will include, but not be limited to, the following activities.
- You will be primarily responsible for solving customer's cases through a variety of contact channels (telephone, email, and web/live chat), applying advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide tailored solutions and working with them to dive deep into the root cause of an issue.
- You will drive initiatives that improve support-related processes and our customers' experience. These can include tutorials, how-to videos, technical articles, trainings, among others.
- You will leverage your customer support experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve our services, and work on critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services.
- You will be continuously learning groundbreaking technologies, and developing new technical skills and other professional competencies.
- You will act as interviewer in hiring processes, and coach/mentor new team members.
About the team
AWS Support Engineering is a customer-facing global organization that provides technical support to our customers as well as our internal teams.
As a member our team, you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology, operating on a follow-the-sun model.
You will be 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.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Cpt or Jhb in South Africa
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences.
Even if you do not meet all of the 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our 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:
Cape Town, ZAF | Johannesburg, ZAF
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of Technical support experience
- Experince with networking protocols: DNS, HTTP, SSL, TCP and UDP.
- Unix/Linux or Windows system administration skills.
- Knowledge of client/server and distributed systems architectures.
- Knowledge of filesystem, block, object storage, Storage architectures and backup/DR strategies
- Knowledge of AWS S
- High School Diploma as a minimum
- Experience troubleshooting filesystem, block and object storage
- Experience with scripting (i.e. bash, Python, PowerShell etc.)
- Detailed knowledge of storage protocols: iSCSI, NFS, SMB
- Experience 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 working with REST API based services * Exposure to OS and networking security concepts and standard methodologies.
Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas.
In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa.Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.
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