Technical Support Engineer - L2

TLDR

Provide technical leadership for complex customer engagements while directly collaborating with product management and engineering teams to enhance product capabilities.

The Support Engineer Level 2 is a critical senior role that sits between customer-facing teams, Product Management, and Engineering. This engineer provides deep technical leadership to ensure the success of complex customer engagements. The role is highly varied and involves supporting the pre-sales, deployment, and support teams by troubleshooting escalated cases, coordinating new features and fixes, and contributing to internal documentation and best practices.

Key Responsibilities

  • Supporting Customer Success: Provide technical leadership for pre-sales, deployment, and support teams. Troubleshoot escalated support cases, create reproduction environments, and work directly with engineering where required.
  • Product Feedback: Play an integral part in aligning customer requirements with the product roadmap by performing early "road-testing" of pre-release software and representing field feedback to product management.
  • Technical Exploration: Identify and carry out in-depth investigations and open-ended research, such as benchmarking bespoke use cases or prototyping new features.
  • Enablement: Contribute to internal documentation on product capabilities and best practices, and deliver regular internal training to technical teams.
  • Advanced Linux and Windows sys admin knowledge, including performance tuning, kernel parameters, and filesystem management.
  • Strong scripting ability in Bash, Python, or an equivalent language to automate complex tasks and gather detailed debug data.
  • Expected to have 2 to 3 years of experience in the field of IT with expertise in Linux
  • Experience with enterprise storage technologies and architectures (SAN, NAS).
  • Experience with data copy, replication, or disaster recovery solutions.
  • Experience with Cloud Object Stores (AWS S3, Azure, Google Cloud).
  • Understanding of virtualization and containerization technologies (Docker, IaaS, PaaS).

Added skills:

  • In-depth knowledge of version control systems like Git and Subversion.
  • Understanding of security concepts and implementations (Kerberos, SSL/TLS, LDAP).
  • Advanced networking knowledge (packet tracing, tuning).
  • An understanding of Java.

Soft Skills

  • Can explain technical concepts to different audiences (technical and non-technical).
  • An enthusiasm and curiosity to learn new concepts and technologies.
  • Methodical troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience in customer-facing roles and enterprise IT environments.
  • A calm and composed manner.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Why join our team?
Culture and Growth: 

  • Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
  • Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.
  • Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment.
  • Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits: 

  • 33 days of holidays (this includes public and religious holidays)
  • Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
  • Gratuity payments
  • Private Medical Insurance provided by the company (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children + 2 Parents)
  • Personal Accident Insurance (Employee Only)
  • 12 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave, 6 months Maternity leave
  • Support with childcare costs (50%)
  • Work from Home Equipment allowance
  • Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
  • Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year
  • Sponsored Learning Opportunities
  • Team Socials

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Benefits

Education Stipend

Sponsored Learning Opportunities

Flexible Work Hours

Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w

Health Insurance

Private Medical Insurance provided by the company (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children + 2 Parents)

Home Office Stipend

Work from Home Equipment allowance

Team Social Events

Team Socials

Paid Parental Leave

12 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave, 6 months Maternity leave

Paid Time Off

33 days of holidays (this includes public and religious holidays)

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