Cloud Support Engineer (German & English speaking), Support Engineering
Amazon · Berlin, State of Berlin
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AWS is set to introduce the inaugural European Sovereign Cloud (ESC). To spearhead this initiative, we are actively seeking support engineers in this space.
Amazon Web Services is the market leader and technology forerunner in the Cloud business. As a member of the AWS Support team for ESC you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology assisting a global list of companies and developers that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications in ESC. Proficiency in oral and written communication skills in German & English Language is a requirement. As a Cloud Support Engineer you will act as the 'Cloud Ambassador' across all the cloud products arming our customers with required tools & tactics to get the most out of their Product and Support investment. For more information on ESC please check out our blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/ Would you like to use the latest cloud computing technologies? Do you have an interest in helping customers understand application architectures and integration approaches? Are you familiar with best practices for applications servers and networks? Do you want to be part of a customer facing technology team helping to ensure the success of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading technology organization?
If you fit the description you might be the person we are looking for! We are a team that is passionate about cloud computing and believe that world class support is critical to customer success.
Eligibility requirements: * Fluency in written and spoken German and English is required. * Successful applicants must have the legal right to work in Germany * Amazon will provide relocation support for successful applicants relocating within the European Union. * This position involves On-call responsibility.
Key job responsibilities
• First and foremost this is a customer support role - in The Cloud.
• On a typical day a Support Engineer will be primarily responsible for solving customers' 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.
• Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues an AWS Support Engineer may also coach/mentor new hires, develop and present training, partner with development teams on complex issues or contact deflection initiatives, participate in new hiring, write tools/script to help the team, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives to ensure better customer experience and compliance with global AWS standards practices and policies.
• This role requires the flexibility to work 5 days a week (occasionally on weekends) on a rotational basis.
A day in the life
of AWS Global Services includes experts from across AWS who help our customers design build operate and secure their cloud environments. Customers innovate with AWS Professional Services upskill with AWS Training and Certification optimize with AWS Support and Managed Services and meet objectives with AWS Security Assurance Services. Our expertise and emerging technologies include AWS Partners AWS Sovereign Cloud AWS International Product and the Generative AI Innovation Center. You'll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.
About the team
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Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
- Excellent Oral/Written communication skill in the English and German language
- This role requires you to be a national of an EU member state
- Experience with systems administration on either Linux/UNIX or Windows operating systems.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in system administration, and troubleshooting any operating system (Linux and/or Windows) and networking (HTTP/s, TCP/IP, DNS, OSI model, routing, switching, firewalls, LAN/WAN, traceroute, iperf, dig, CURL or related).
- Experience in at least one of these technology areas: DevOps, serverless, software development and design, CI/CD, AI/ML, Storage, Networking or Databases.
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