Amazon Cloud Support Engineer-Linux 

United States, Texas, Dallas 

861810097

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. In this role, engineers provide Technical Support to various Linux services that focus on AWS Compute Technologies such as EC2 Core/Linux, Elastic Block Store (EBS), LightSail, ElastiCache, Outposts, Systems Manager and many other services that enable customers to run their workloads on AWS. Engineers develop Subject Matter Expertise in one or more areas of the above services. Engineers also collaborate with internal teams to provide the required support services to AWS customers. In this role, engineers interact with customers that reach out to AWS via email or Chat or Phone. In addition, engineers also work on team functions and projects and continually work on improving operational efficiency.
Key job responsibilities
Your 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. This role requires the flexibility to work 5 days a week (occasionally on weekends) on a rotational basis. Schedules may align to Sunday - Thursday, Tuesday – Saturday or Monday - Friday.A day in the life
Your 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. This role requires the flexibility to work 5 days a week (occasionally on weekends) on a rotational basis. Schedules may align to Sunday - Thursday, Tuesday – Saturday or Monday - Friday.
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- 1+ years of software development, or 1+ years of technical support experience
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Computer Science/ Mathematics or any related field or a minimum of 1+ years of related professional and/or military experience and knowledge or experience with system administration, and troubleshooting any operating system (Linux and/or Windows) and networking (HTTP/s, TCP/IP, DNS, OSI model, routing, switching, firewalls, LAN/WAN, traceroute, iperf, dig, CURL or related) or experience with OS administration (boot process, filesystems) and troubleshooting disk space issues, booting issues and OS logs.