Cloud Support Engineer - Linux

We are looking for a Linux engineer to join the AWS Support EC2 Linux technical domain supporting a global list of AWS customers on general guidance, how-to advice, best practice help, troubleshooting, and operational support over email, chat, and calls. As a Cloud Support Engineer at AWS, the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, you will use your engineering expertise and skills to provide high-quality technical solutions that help customers achieve their business goals. You dive deep into complex questions to find the root cause and ensure the customer's specific requirements are fulfilled. Customers consult you about their plans and problems through various contact channels including telephone, email, and web/live chat. You listen carefully to fully understand each customer's concerns and requirements. You guide customers by sharing facts that are backed by your troubleshooting findings and log data.

You will have the opportunity to deepen and broaden your technical expertise, engage with a wide range of customers from the smallest startups to the largest enterprises, and enjoy work-life balance. You'll frequently co-work with Technical Account Managers, Solution Architects, and Business Development Managers to ensure solution alignment and excellent customer experience. You engage with subject matter experts and AWS service development teams across the world when needed. Every day will bring exciting challenges and include learning new skills.

Mentorship and coaching are very important at AWS - Experienced Amazonians are on-hand to mentor you throughout your career at AWS. Support Engineers have the opportunity and resources to become certified subject matter experts. As you grow at AWS, there are various opportunities, including joining AWS teams abroad. Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues, Support Engineers may also develop & host training, create technical articles, star in how-to videos, present at AWS events, participate in new hiring, write tools/scripts, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives. At AWS, your contributions can bring significant positive impact to colleagues and customers globally.

The Linux role supports our services that focus on compute technologies. This Linux role supports compute-focused services on AWS, including EC2, EBS, and ElastiCache. The ideal candidate will assist customers with workload migration to AWS and possess professional skills in Linux troubleshooting and network diagnostics. Proficiency in Linux administration across various distributions is essential, as is experience with server patching, kernel management, disk issue resolution, and file system management.

The role requires connectivity troubleshooting skills using the OSI model layers and proficiency with network diagnostic tools such as ping, traceroute, mtr, iperf, netstat, ifconfig, tcpdump, telnet, netcat, and nmap.

If you fit the description, you might be the person we are looking for! We are a group of smart people, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world-class support is critical to customer success.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM A LIFE AT AWS?

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 an interviewer in hiring processes and coach/mentor new team members.

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.

WHY AWS SUPPORT?

1. First and foremost this is a customer support role – in The Cloud.
2. On a typical day, a Support Engineer will be primarily responsible for solving customer’s cases through a variety of customer contact channels which include telephone, email, and web/live chat. You will apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide tailored solutions for our customers and drive customer interactions by thoughtfully working with customers to dive deep into the root cause of an issue.
3. Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues, an AWS Support Engineer may also coach/mentor new hires, develop & present training, partner with development teams on complex issues or contact deflection initiatives, participate in new hiring, write tools/scripts to help the team, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives.
4. Career development: We promote advancement opportunities across the organization to help you meet your career goals.
5. Training: We have training programs to help you develop the skills required to be successful in your role.
6. We hire smart people who are keen to build a career with AWS, so we are more interested in the areas that you do know instead of those you haven’t been exposed to yet.
7. Support engineers interested in travel have presented training or participated in focused summits across our sites or at specific AWS events.

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.

About AWS:

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 Culture:

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers 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 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:

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 1+ years of software development, or 1+ years of technical support experience
2. Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
3. Knowledge or experience with system administration, and troubleshooting any operating system (Linux and/or MacOS) and networking (HTTP/s, TCP/IP, DNS, OSI model, routing, switching, firewalls, LAN/WAN, traceroute, iperf, dig, CURL or related).
4. Experience in networking administration and troubleshooting
5. Experience with network troubleshooting tools (telnet, test-netconnection, tracert, tracetcp, iperf, ntttcp, dig, and packet capture tools)
6. Experience in technical support
7. Knowledge or experience with OS administration (boot process, filesystems, process management) and troubleshooting disk space issues, booting issues and OS logs, standard OS performance monitoring tools.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief. 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.