Senior Technical Support Engineer, OpenShift
Red Hat
The Senior Technical Support Engineer resolves non-routine technical issues and plays a key role in ensuring customer success.
With minimal instruction, this role demonstrates good judgment in troubleshooting and solving moderately complex problems that impact the customer and the overall team.
The engineer collaborates across departments to deliver advanced solutions, contributing to continuous product improvements and exceptional customer experiences.
Note: This role may come into contact with confidential or sensitive customer information requiring special treatment in accordance with Red Hat policies and applicable privacy laws.
What you will do
Technical Support: Proven ability to provide enterprise-level technical support, with a preference for experience supporting customers using PaaS or SaaS technologies.
Platform Environments: Experienced in hosted platform environments, managed application services, or large-scale application deployments.
Operating Systems: Strong background in Linux or Unix operating systems, including proficiency with troubleshooting tools such as curl, Wireshark, and crash analysis.
Cloud Technologies: Familiarity with cloud technologies and platforms including Azure, AWS, GCP, containers, and Kubernetes.
Containerization (Plus): Prior experience with CRI-O, Kubernetes, containers, and Open vSwitch is a plus.
Developer Workflows (Plus): Familiarity with developer workflows, Continuous Integration (Jenkins), and Continuous Deployment paradigms is a plus.
Issue Tracking: Comfortable logging issues and utilizing issue tracking tools like Jira.
Scripting/Programming (Plus): Scripting or programming experience in Bash, Perl, Python, Java, or Ruby is a plus.
What you will bring
Issue Resolution: Prioritize and resolve non-routine technical issues for customers with minimal supervision.
Troubleshooting: Employ good judgment and advanced troubleshooting methods to address moderately complex technical challenges.
Customer Communication: Maintain regular communication with customers, providing timely updates and solutions tailored to their specific needs.
Solution Development: Contribute to the development of solutions through active collaboration with engineering and development teams.
Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers by sharing expertise and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing within the team.
Customer Commitment: Demonstrate a strong commitment to providing the best possible experience for Red Hat’s customers.
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