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SUSE Rancher Support Engineer - Emerging Products
Job Description
The SUSE Rancher Support team is looking for smart and curious engineers to join us on this mission, where we are striving every day to raise the bar and redefine the category of open-source support. If you are someone who thrives on the challenge of investigating and solving problems across a variety of open-source technologies in the Kubernetes/CNCF universe, you will enjoy the role of SUSE Rancher Support Engineer. It is a role in an expanding universe, where a new adventure awaits almost every day.
The award-winning SUSE Rancher Support team has attracted top talent from across the globe and continues to grow as a distributed team steeped in open-source culture. We are on a mission to support our customers to innovate everywhere, with the power of Kubernetes and we help enterprises deliver Kubernetes-as-a-Service across any infrastructure.
The SUSE Rancher Support team is looking for smart and curious engineers to join us on this mission, where we are striving every day to raise the bar and redefine the category of open-source support. If you are someone who thrives on the challenge of investigating and solving problems across a variety of open-source technologies in the Kubernetes/CNCF universe, you will enjoy the role of SUSE Rancher Support Engineer . It is a role in an expanding universe, where a new adventure awaits almost every day.
In this role you will be expected to:
- On a typical day, a Support Engineer will be primarily responsible for solving customer 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.
- Collaborate with development teams to resolve product issues and understand product goals.
- Write content for the SUSE Rancher knowledge base and create or maintain support tooling that is valuable to colleagues and customers.
- Quickly learn the latest and greatest SUSE Rancher emerging products as they become generally available to the market.
- Be available on a rotational basis for on-call escalations, including some weekends and holidays.
- Provide operational support for SUSE Rancher Hosted SaaS offering.
- Demonstrable experience with Kubernetes in either Linux or Windows environment
- Degree-level education in Computer Science or similar experience
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging ability
- Effective communication skills both written and verbal for customer communication and creating and maintaining technical documentation
- A professional can-do attitude to work under pressure on time-sensitive issues in a multi-tasking environment
- Ability to learn quickly and deep-dive into new technologies
- Hands-on troubleshooting experience as a Support Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent position
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IoC) with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Git
- Experience with Cloud Providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and managed Kubernetes services like EKS, AKS, and GKE
- Familiarity with Rancher, OpenShift, Tanzu, Docker, and Containerd
- Demonstrable scripting experience
- Be familiar with Salesforce, Jira
- Work from home or one of our offices
- Work with a highly skilled and collaborative team
- To support you at work (and play) we offer some fantastic perks: ample time off to relax and recharge, flexible working options, paid volunteer day for your favorite cause, meeting our team members in other countries, and a lot more.
- The SUSE Rancher Support Engineer role is an opportunity like no other to develop a trail-blazing and specific "skills stack" that comprises Support, Consulting, Inbound Product Management, SRE, and DevOps skills. Especially, for those who might be crushing it already in a subset of these skills and are looking to expand their horizons.
If yes and yes, the SUSE Rancher Support Engineer may just be your calling .. a call to adventure in the next chapter of your own hero's journey!
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SUSE is a dynamic environment that is evolving rapidly, thus requiring agility, strong entrepreneurship and an open mind.
This is a compelling opportunity for the right person to join us as we continue to scale and prosper.
If you're a big thinker, obsessed by execution and thrive in a dynamic environment in which you can tangibly create a lasting legacy, then please apply now!
We give you the freedom to be yourself. You will work in a global community of unique individuals - like you - with different backgrounds, talents, skills and perspectives. A truly open community where everyone is welcome, has a voice and is encouraged to reach their full potential regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other characteristics.
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