Amazon (AWS)
Cloud Support Engineer
Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. This is what unites Amazonians across teams and geographies as we are all striving to delight our customers and make their lives easier, one innovative product, service, and idea at a time.
Software engineering
Full-time
Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship · No
Junior · A role for someone with some basic skills, good motivation and ability to learn. Typically 1-2 years of experience is required.
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Why Amazon (AWS)
AWS is where innovation, risks, and ideas are celebrated. We are builders, we try new things, and imagine big dreams. It is still Day 1 for us, and we are looking for curious and passionate people to expand our diverse teams of thinkers, testers, and doers.
About the role
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM A LIFE AT AWS?
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 Web Services teams to help reproduce and resolve customer issues. - Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams 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.
WHY AWS SUPPORT? 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.
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. 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.
Support engineers interested in travel have presented training or participated in focused summits across our sites or at specific AWS events. As we operate on follow-the-sun model, you may be required to work a staggered week; either Sun-Thu or Tue-Sat (no on-call)
This role supports and focuses on our Networking services such as Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Cloud Watch, Route 53, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud). Our support engineers are also the “voice of the customer” and have a strong voice in to the development teams for recurring issues or feature requests. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor’s degree in Information Science/Information Technology, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field or equivalent work experience - Good Knowledge of network security (SSL/TLS, Network- and Web Application Firewalls, Intrusion - Detection and Prevention Services) - 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) 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 applications - Experience 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 - Good Knowledge managing domain transfers, records and DNS security. - Experience troubleshooting networking issues using several tools (traceroute, mtr, ping, iperf, dig/nslookup, cURL, tcpdump/wireshark and related). - Experience in monitoring IT services.
What you'll be responsible for
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Cloud and Network Technical Support
Provide knowledgeable guidance and troubleshooting support for clients' adoption of cloud and network technologies
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Cloud and Network Performance Optimisation
Utilize data-driven analysis to optimize cloud and network performance through automation and scaling strategies
Skills you'll need
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Collaboration
Works with others by being open, clear in communication and listening to achieve goals
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Numerical problem solving
Works with numerical information and performs mathematical calculations to solve problems
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Attention to detail
Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables