Technical Support Eng

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

Join us! DataStax is the company that helps Developers and Companies successfully create a bold new world through GenAI.

We offer a One-stop Generative AI Stack with everything needed for a faster, easier, path to production for relevant and responsive GenAI apps.

Generative AI has changed everything and this is the moment for you to act!

Are you passionate about Gen AI, data and shaping the future? Do you want to help the leading developers and enterprises deliver the experiences that will change lives? Are you energized by solving hard problems with smart people while having fun?

We're looking for sharp, innovative individuals to join us in serving our customers. If you're excited about making a valuable and real impact in the world of data and AI - reach out and join us!

Hybrid Cloud Support Engineer

As a Hybrid Cloud Support Engineer, you will utilize your passion for helping others to ensure that our Users and Enterprises are successful in their use of DataStax products and solutions. This is a continuous learning and teaching role where you will develop and share your knowledge of troubleshooting, configuration, and exciting new technologies inclusive of and complementary to Apache Cassandra, DataStax Enterprise, and Astra.

What you will do:

• Research, reproduce, troubleshoot, and solve highly challenging technical issues
• Provide thoughtful direction and support for technical inquiries
• Ensure that customer issues are resolved as expediently as possible
• Diagnose and reproduce customer reported issues and log JIRA tickets
• Participate in on-call rotation for after-hours, holiday, weekend support coverage
• Create code samples, tutorials, and articles for the DataStax Knowledge Base
• Collaborate and contribute to Support Team infrastructure tools and processes
• Fulfill the on-call rotation requirements of this role

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong English skills are a MUST
• 4+ years of experience supporting large enterprise customers in a customer-facing support role
• Experience with supporting a Software as a Service Cloud product
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Datadog and other monitoring solutions
• Experience supporting Kubernetes-based distributed applications, or an understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals
• Experience with pub-sub, messaging and streaming solutions like Pulsar, Kafka
• Experience using APIs and understanding app development lifecycle with a language or framework based on Java, Python or Go would be preferred
• Experience/certifications with AWS/GCP/Azure deployments and associated cloud based monitoring tools would be preferred
• Experience with Linux operating systems, including command line, performance, and network troubleshooting
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Lifetime learner, self-motivated with ability to multi-task during high pressure situations

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Supporting Apache Cassandra environments or other relational and/or alternative database technologies is a plus
• Understanding of Java, Python, Go and/or another language (Troubleshooting skills)
• Experience with escalation management and customer success or premium support
• Experience working in a fast-moving high-pressure environment

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Client-provided location(s): Dallas, TX

Job ID: IBM-61376

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-27T18:46:20