
Senior Technical Support Engineer
ScienceLogic
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Reston • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSDockerFirewallsKafkaKubernetesLinuxMariaDBMySQLPHPPythonSQL
About the role
- Acts as a Tier 2 escalation point for advanced customer issues
- Assists with all support cases during periods of heavy volume
- Leads support efforts for customers who have been determined to have Critical value
- Coordinates with Customer Success Managers to address any technical issues impacting a Customer’s success
- Actively engages Technical Support personnel to ensure proper handling of customer questions and issues to which they have been assigned
- Escalates software bugs or feature enhancements to ScienceLogic’s research, development, and product management teams
- Acts as a subject matter expert in more than one area of the product
- Autonomously works on projects and more complex assignments with tangible results delivering benefits to the organizations
- Proactively looks for ways to improve processes and innovate the support experience
- Builds relationships and partnerships with other ScienceLogic teams
- Mentors and trains new team members
- Proactively shares information and expertise regarding recent fixes, and best practices
- Provides on-call and shift coverage as required
Requirements
- 5+ years prior experience in the support of complex, Linux based enterprise software applications
- 5+ years experience supporting Kafka, Kubernetes & Docker components as part of a larger solution, both On Prem and within AWS environments
- 5+ years SQL experience. You should be able to construct complex SQL statements to query and occasionally update information in a MariaDB/MySQL database
- 5+ years Linux administration. Must be familiar with common administrative commands as well as able to write scripts in one of the major shells
- 5+ years SNMP experience. Must demonstrate familiarity with snmpwalk, mibs and oids
- 5+ years networking experience. Must demonstrate experience with firewalls, routers and general network fundamentals
- 5+ years prior experience with any monitoring tool (EM7/SL1 Preferred)
- Practical experience with DRBD, Corosync and Pacemaker highly desired
- Practical experience with PHP and/or Python is a plus
- Ability to function effectively as Lead in escalated cases working directly with customers and coordinating internal effort to address customer issues
- Ability to multi-task and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to diagnose and solve complex technical issues
- Ability to professionally perform and communicate in stressful and high impacting situations
Benefits
- A remote-first culture - work from home or come into the office, it's totally up to you.
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan with employer match.
- Flexible Paid Time Off (FTO) so that you can take the time that you need to re-energize.
- Volunteer Time Off (VTO) - take two days off per calendar year to volunteer with your preferred charitable organization.
- 5-year Service Milestone Sabbatical.
- Paid parental leave.
- Generous employee referral bonus program.
- Pet insurance.
- HQ Office centrally located in Reston Town Center featuring a well-stocked kitchen with rotating snacks and beverages, and catered lunch on Thursdays.
- Regular virtual company-wide events, including cooking classes, yoga, meditation and more.
- The opportunity to learn and develop from some of the best and brightest minds in the industry!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Linux administrationSQLKafkaKubernetesDockerSNMPnetworkingmonitoring toolsDRBDPHP
Soft skills
leadershipmulti-taskingproblem-solvingcommunicationmentoringrelationship buildingprocess improvementautonomycustomer engagementtraining