Senior Support Engineer

Job Description

What You Will Be Doing Ensuring technical customer issues are serviced within our contractual SLA and managed to resolution Maintain strong relationships with our customers for the delivery of technical support Resolves customer problems via telephone, email, chat or remote access. Have a mindset of continuous improvement in terms of the efficiency of support processes and customer satisfaction Work across multicultural and geographically distributed teams Contribute to product documentation, customer knowledge base, and best practices guides Continuously improve processes and tools in collaboration with the team Provide weekend on-call support for the team rotation (8 hours during regular work hours) Develop subject matter expertise one key product feature Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Take part in organizational projects, programs and/or business initiatives using demonstrated creativity and ingenuity to improve performance and customer experience. Provide technical leadership in Elastic communities and Knowledge-Centered Service methodology and process. Creation of lab environments to replicate customer issues. Communicate tactfully with customers: capture information, provide diagnostic and resolution steps, convey process and product guidance What You Bring Along 7+ years of experience in technical support, system administration or related customer-facing role A technical background in systems administration, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, etc Strong verbal and written communication skills in English A customer-oriented focus Good understanding of cloud-native and container-based technologies Cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, Azure and frameworks such as Kubernetes and Docker Understand the Product Lifecycle and future direction for the supported products or product line Advanced level of hands-on generalist experience at: Java (e.g. JVMS & components), Operational Systems (e.g. Linux and Windows), Networks (e.g. LDAP, Load Balancers, Proxies, SSL); Experience with APIs and REST calls; Experience with web/application servers (e.g. Tomcat, Apache, IIS, NGINX, Jboss); Advanced troubleshooting skills in web technology systems (e.g. HTML, CSS, Javascript) Experience with SSO, SAML, Active Directory, etc; Bonus Points Knowledge of databases or search software technologies Experience with SaaS and/or Distributed systems You are a Team player; the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a positive and adaptable approach Proven strong technical understanding of software products Collaboration with Developer teams on escalation issues Curiosity is key! You have already researched our products and possibly downloaded our stack to test it out Networking Server Administration Wireshark or comparable packet analysis tool Exposure to scripting (Shell, Python, etc.) Experience with support tools and platforms like Salesforce, Zendesk and JIRA.