Amazon Cloud Support Engineer - SCD 

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town 

111389638

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.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.About AWSDiverse 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.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’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 Balance

- 2 to 4 years of relevant Technical support experience
- Understanding of 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 S3
- 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.