Amazon Cloud Support Engineer - Media Content Delivery MCD AWS SE SCD 

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town 

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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 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
- Understanding of networking protocols: DNS, HTTP, SSL, TCP and UDP , coupled with Linux or Windows skills.
- Knowledge of client/server and distributed systems architectures.
- Knowledge Simple Email Service (SES), AWS CloudFront or Media Streaming and Content Services
- Experience operating and troubleshooting email services using SMTP protocol

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent