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Premium Support Engineer (Rancher)
Job Description
The Role
A Premium Support Engineer is assigned to our enterprise Customers to provide post-implementation product support and primarily responsible for identification and resolution on any technical issues related to SUSE products.
Premium Support Engineer should develop business relationships with assigned accounts' technical and management staff, support them by gaining first-hand knowledge of their deployments, as well as their business needs. With this close relationship as well as the familiarity with customers' environments, the role shall provide fast response time and ensure proposed solutions are tailored with customer's expectation.
Premium Engineer's goals are to provide proactive assistance and maintain the deployment in an optimal and efficient manner:
- be available to respond in defined time scope.
- understand customer' needs for further opportunity discovery.
- possess the ability to work well with a structured and dynamic environment.
- handle the pressure in highly charged situation.
Job Requirements
Critical to achieving excellent results will be to have in-depth understanding about Kubernetes, Service Mesh (such as Istio), and the whole Cloud Native ecosystem in general.
- Be able to articulate key values of SUSE's offerings: products/solutions/strategies
- Troubleshoot and provide resolution or workaround to customer's technical issues in timely fashion.
- Serve as customer's advocate within the group by facilitating escalation of issues through appropriate internal organizations.
- Proactively identify issues by becoming familiar with customer's technical and business environment.
- Form strong business relationships with customers at various levels of the organization.
- Share knowledge by writing technical documents and pro-actively sending helpful technical information to customer (e.g., upcoming patches, technical news, etc.)
- Communicate work performed in provided systems and document as requested.
- Assist in implementation of Solutions according to SUSE's Best Practice.
- Interact with SUSE Customer Support team as required to meet customer's needs
- Evaluate unique and complex deployments and make recommendations for optimisation.
- Develop partnership with and assist Sales team.
- Ability to work in customer's environment and may at times be required to work outside of standard business hours.
- Ability to handle tense/stressful situations regarding service outages and issue resolution.
- In-depth understanding about Linux Operation system (with experience on AppArmour/SELinux).
- Experience deploying and managing Rancher/Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters or cloud-hosted Kubernetes (e.g. Azure or Aliyun's Kubernetes Services, etc) at scale.
- Familiarity with multiple CNIs and CSIs.
- Experience in adopting Service Mesh (e.g. Istio) and/or API gateways on Kubernetes is strongly preferred.
- Experience in managing Container security with tools such as NeuVector, Aqua, Sysdig, Prisma Cloud is another big plus.
- Experience migrating legacy application workloads to Kubernetes or OpenShift.
- Experience developing application deployment workflows (CI/CD) with Kubernetes or OpenShift
Personal Attributes
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Mandarin.
- Experience in troubleshooting in a technical environment.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Extensive experience in relevant technologies and customer environments.
- Extensive experience in high-tech or software company
- CKA, CKAD, CKS certifications are a big plus
- Other relevant industry qualification is a plus.
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