Cloud Support Engineer I - Analytics

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.

The Analytics role supports our services that focus on Analytic technologies, including Kinesis, OpenSearch, Redshift, QuickSight, Neptune and Managed Streaming for Kafka. These technologies allow our customers to analyze data from a wide variety of applications such as digital marketing, intelligent heuristics, fraud detection, ad tech, games, and IoT. Having the ability to process and analyze data in real-time is essential in the modern world.

Key job responsibilities

Your day as a Cloud Support Engineer will include, but not be limited to, the following activities:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. You will be continuously learning groundbreaking technologies, and developing new technical skills and other professional competencies.
5. You will act as interviewer in hiring processes, and coach/mentor new team members.
6. PLEASE NOTE: 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 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 of 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.

Minimum Requirements

• 2+ years of related professional and/or military experience.
• 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).
• Knowledge or experience with troubleshooting database concepts, database administration (RDBMS, NoSQL, DocumentDB) and data warehousing (high availability, DR, backup, performance tuning, distributed systems).
• Knowledge or experience troubleshooting Business Intelligence (BI) issues, and with Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) (ETL data load ingestion, Transformation, Migration techniques, BI tools and specific features, Performance and latency).
• Ability to communicate effectively in English (written and spoken) within technical and business settings.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Computer Science/ Mathematics or any related field.
• Knowledge or experience with distributed search, conceptual search understanding, text parsing analysis, tokenization, databases vs search services, data skew, fault tolerance etc.
• Knowledge or experience with data streaming concepts such as producer, consumer, broker, controller/leader zookeeper, distributed architecture topics, replicas, partitions.
• Understanding and/or experience with cloud computing and security concepts with any cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience scripting or developing in one or more of the following languages: UNIX Shell, Python, R, Ruby, GO, Java, .NET (C#), JavaScript.

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