Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services is the global market leader and technology forerunner in the Cloud business. As a member of the AWS Support team, you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology, 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. As a Cloud Support Engineer, you will act as the \'Cloud Ambassador\' across all the cloud products, arming our customers with required tools & tactics to get the most out of their Product and Support investment.

Would you like to use the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have an interest in helping customers understand application architectures and integration approaches? Are you familiar with best practices for applications, servers and networks? Do you want to be part of a customer facing technology team in India helping to ensure the success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology organization?

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

Key job responsibilities
First and foremost this is a customer support role - in The Cloud.
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.
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/script to help the team, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives to ensure better CX and compliance with global AWS standards, practices and policies.

Career development: We promote advancement opportunities across the organization to help you meet your career goals.
Training: We have training programs to help you develop the skills required to be successful in your role.
Support engineers interested in travel have presented training or participated in focused summits across our sites or at specific AWS events.

A day in the life
*Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:
*Learn and use groundbreaking technologies.
Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers\' individual needs.
*Interact with leading engineers around the world.
*Partner with Amazon teams in India to help reproduce and resolve customer issues.
*Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal Amazon teams in India on how to improve our services.
*Drive customer communication during critical events.
*Drive projects that improve support-related processes and our customers\' technical support experience.
*Write tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for the developer community.
*Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services.

About the team
Amazon Web Services offers a complete set of infrastructure and application services that enable you to run virtually everything in the cloud: from enterprise applications and big data projects to social games and mobile apps. Explore how millions of customers - including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies - are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC3bWcFFZTo&t=24s

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bangalore, KA, IND

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of technical support experience
- This role supports and focuses on our Networking services such as Elastic Load Balancing, Cloud Watch, Route 53, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud). Our support engineers are also the \xe2\x80\x9cvoice of the customer\xe2\x80\x9d and have a strong voice in to the development teams for recurring issues or feature requests.
- Bachelor\'s degree OR equivalent experience in a technical position
- Requires minimum 2+ years of experience in the relevant technical position
- Experience troubleshooting networking issues using several tools (traceroute, mtr, ping, iperf, dig/nslookup, cURL, tcpdump/Wireshark and related)
- Good Knowledge of network security (SSL/TLS, Network- and Web Application Firewalls, Intrusion Detection and Prevention Services)
- Good Knowledge managing domain transfers, records and DNS security (DNSSEC and DNS Filtering)
- Good OS knowledge oriented to maintenance and administrative purposes (Windows or Linux)
- Experience with Networking and troubleshooting (HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS, Routing and Switching, Load Balancing)
- Experience in monitoring IT services and good command of associated technologies

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience configuring virtual server environments.
- Knowledge/experience in configuring and supporting devices such as Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, SonicWALL, Checkpoint, Palo Alto etc.
- Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applicationsExperience configuring software-based Load Balancing solutions.
- Experience with end to end application monitoring, tracing and alerting using tools like CloudWatch, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus etc.
- Good understanding of security best practices.
- Good understanding of distributed computing environments and methodologies

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