Azure Systems Engineer - PH

ABOUT THE ROLE: 

As a Azure Systems Engineer, you are a key part of an outstanding 24x7 global support team that provides technical support to ensure our customers' games, and their players, stay online. As the main point of contact in keeping some of the most prestigious games operational at all times, you’ll be adept at responding swiftly but articulately to customer requests, solving complicated technical issues on their behalf. Taking care of customer challenges is normal for you, working to help other members of the team with particularly difficult issues. You’ll live and thrive in a live operational environment where the pace is never slow, constantly working on hard problems that span multiple teams. You are adept at taking a hard customer challenge and translating that into a problem that needs to be solved, driving the issue to a resolution for your customer. If this sounds exciting to you, and you’re a technical authority with your fingers on the pulse of the latest innovative Hosting, gaming and cloud tech, we want to hear from you!

RESPONSIBILITIES:
In this role, you'll get to...

• ensure a detailed understanding and troubleshooting of user’s needs, responding to customer requests and tickets within contractually committed SLA.
• monitor, manage and maintain daily activities of Azure environments, respond and address system alerts.
• assist with resource provisioning, migration, configuration in Azure.
• manage cloud networking and security (Firewalls, NSG’s, ASG’s, WAF’s)
• be comfortable raising issues to relevant technical teams where vital, as well as supporting users and internal teams by assuming relevant roles within a defined incident management process.
• respond to sophisticated tickets, navigating difficult scenarios that may require you to work across multiple teams.

REQUIREMENTS:
On day one, we'll expect you to...

• have experience with hosting/IaaS/cloud products and services in a customer-facing technical support capacity.
• 5-8 years progressive responsibility in helpdesk environment
• have deep experience with Linux and Windows server administration (including SSH/remote desktop/networking tracing tools etc.)
• be self-managed, responsible and highly productive individual - known by others for getting things done right the first time.
• have a keen curiosity about programming or tinkering with your own code-based projects!
• have experience working as part of a global shift-orientated team with handovers of information.
• have a fully functional and up-to-date computer with which to perform duties.
• be willing to install next-generation endpoint protection on the computer.
• be a current resident of the Philippines and can perform work from there.
• be willing to work in US Pacific time zone or client time zone.

NOTE: This is a remote (work from home) job