Technical Support Engineer

Skills
Customer ServiceCustomer SupportEscalations ManagementGoogle Cloud PlatformIT EscalationRoot CauseTechnical Support
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Ability to work on rotation
  • 5+ years of technical support experience preferably with an enterprise SaaS provider
  • 5+ years of DevOps or Linux Sys Admin experience
  • Strong customer service skills and communications skills with a “customer first” attitude
  • Experience in working with help-request tracking and reporting tools (ticketing system)
  • An understanding of HTTP protocol details, Postman, etc.
  • Technical background in network security, API ecosystems, AppSec, WAF, WAAP, RASP, or similar security products
  • Strong experience in AWS/Azure/GCP, K8, Docker, or other containerization technologies
  • Plus points for certifications in any of the above
  • Experience with collaborating with software developers in the creation of programs for their organization
  • Hands-on technical experience for support/operations and related skills like evaluating, troubleshooting, debugging, and identifying the root cause in a timely manner
  • Flexibility to work an on-call rotating schedule that requires night and weekend availability
  • Bachelor's degree or higher: preference for computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, or related degrees

Day to day

  • Provide best-in-class technical support to customers via email, via chat, and, sometimes, via virtual meetings. We trust you’ll bring an empathetic, listening-oriented, outside-in perspective to your engagement with customers
  • Work directly with customers to assist in managing and addressing Salt deployment issues and understanding Salt Dashboard alerts and notifications
  • Provide advanced problem management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and internal escalation management to resolve customer problems efficiently
  • Uncover the most critical places where better documentation would ease the customer experience. Identify these topics and create, and update customer support articles/documentation as they evolve
  • Guide our customers both during and after technical implementation and ensure they continue to receive progressively high value from Salt. Be customers’ trusted partner in securing their APIs
  • Use troubleshooting skills to perform lab replications, research more difficult problems, test engineering-provided fixes to ensure the solution resolves the customer's problem
  • Be able to provide detailed customer-centric feedback and work with Product and R&D on issues and feature escalations and prioritization
  • Ability to manage a high work volume with time-bound constraints and prioritize/communicate with internal team members about changing priorities