Job Description

DESCRIPTIONAmazon Web Services is the market leader and technology forerunner in the Cloud business.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.
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 helping to ensure the success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology organization?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 customer experience and compliance with global AWS standards, practices and policies.
As we operate on a follow-the-sun model, with Support Engineering sites located globally, there is no after hours on-call or mandated overtime in this role.A day in the life
Learn and use ground breaking technologies.
Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers\' individual needs.
Interact with leading engineers around the world.
Partner with AWS 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.About the team
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 empower 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.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Bangalore, KA, INDBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor\'s degree OR equivalent experience in a technical position
- Experience troubleshooting networking issues using several tools (traceroute, mtr, ping, iperf, dig/nslookup, cURL, tcpdump/wireshark and related);Experience with Networking and troubleshooting (HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS, Routing and Switching, Load Balancing); 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 in monitoring IT services and good command of associated technologiesPREFERRED 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

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