Description

As a Cloud Support Engineer at AWS, the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, you will use your engineering expertise and skills to provide high quality technical solutions that help customers achieve their business goals. You dive deep into complex questions to find the root cause and ensure the customer’s specific requirements are fulfilled. Customers consult you about their plans and problems through various contact channels including telephone, email, and web/live chat. You listen carefully to fully understand each customer’s concerns and requirements. You guide customers by sharing facts that are backed by your troubleshooting findings and log data.

You will have the opportunity to deepen and broaden your technical expertise, engage with a wide range of customers from the smallest startups to the largest enterprises, and enjoy work-life balance.

Key job responsibilities

You’ll frequently co-work with Technical Account Managers, Solution Architects, and Business Development Managers to ensure solution alignment and excellent customer experience. You engage with subject matter expects and AWS service development teams across the world when needed. Every day will bring exciting challenges and include learning new skills. Mentorship and coaching are very important at AWS - Experienced Amazonians are on-hand to mentor you throughout your career at AWS. Support Engineers have the opportunity and resources to become certified subject matter experts. As you grow at AWS, there are various opportunities, including joining AWS teams abroad.

Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues, Support Engineers may also develop & host training, create technical articles, star in how-to videos, present at AWS events, participate in new hiring, write tools/scripts, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives. At AWS, your contributions can bring significant positive impact to colleagues and customers globally.

A day in the life

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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon 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.

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.

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 and 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Dublin, D, IRL

Basic Qualifications

• Fluent in Mandarin

• Experience with Linux system administration

• Experience with web-based applications and REST API services

• Knowledge of networking protocols such as DNS, HTTP, TLS, TCP and related troubleshooting tools

• Understanding of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) OR experience troubleshooting file system, block and object storage

• Good communication skills in Mandarin, and intermediate English proficiency

• Bachelor or above degree with major in Information Management, Information Science, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of AWS and Cloud Computing concepts

• Knowledge of storage protocols such as NFS, CIFS/SMB

• Knowledge of large-scale storage architectures and backup/DR strategies

• Experience operating and troubleshooting email services and SMTP

• Understanding of streaming video (H264, MP4, WEBM, HLS, Smooth Streaming)

• Customer facing experience

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT - 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial +44 800 086 9884 (tel:+448000869884). If calling from Ireland, please dial +353 1800 851 489 (tel:+3531800851489).