Premium Service Engineer

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Premium Service Engineer

Job Description

We are seeking a Premium Support Engineer (PSE) to provide day to day support services for SUSE products including some 24x7 activities. You will become an expert in understanding the customer(s) specific business processes, end-customer installation types, and configuration standards to assist your customer(s) in resolving issues quickly. Your in-depth knowledge of SUSE technologies and solutions offer the highest level of service for the most customized configurations.

You will be required to gain in-depth knowledge of SUSE Enterprise Linux and preferably have previous experience working with products such as the SUSE High Availability Extension and SUSE Linux for SAP Applications.

The service you will provide is to help your customer support SUSE products installed in their end-customer base and to 'add value' to the SUSE brand and support offerings where possible.

You will be asked to collaborate with the customer's L2 and L3 teams and resolve any technical issues related to SUSE Linux and related SUSE products.

If problems occur in end-customer production systems, the PSE will be well positioned to assist in resolving such issues quickly and expertly. The PSE will have priority and direct access to other SUSE team members (Back-line, Engineering and Development) for critical issues that require additional assistance.

Focus Areas:

• Assist your customer in the diagnosis and resolution of end-customer environments
• Provide assistance to your customer as requested in relation to any test environments used to duplicate end-customer issues
• Advise your customer regarding the maintenance, upgrade and deployment of SUSE software in end-customer environments
• Escalation point for customer's L1 and L2 support Help Desk personnel for SUSE product issues

Preferred Skills, Experience, and Success Factors:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field
• 1 to 3 years of IT, Services, Consulting, or Support experience
• A strong sense of responsibility, self-motivation and the ability to prioritize and organize workload to complete multiple, simultaneous issues and projects
• Flexibility and capacity to work across a variety of activities within a matrix and virtual organizational framework
• The ability to adapt/learn new products/technologies that your customer may need assistance with relating to your position at SUSE
• Ability to appropriately handle tense/stressful customer situations regarding service outages and issue resolution
• Able to influence both internal and external stakeholders
• The ability to work seamlessly across organizations
• Product expertise with the following: SLES, SLE-HAE (Or other Pacemaker/Corosync experience)
• Experience automating installations using products like AutoYaST or KickStart
• Experience with configuration management tools like Salt, Ansible, or similar
• Ability to troubleshoot network and kernel level issues

The following are a plus:

• Experience Support SUSE Rancher and its family of products
• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters at scale
• Familiarity with multiple CNIs and CSIs, RBAC
• Terraform experience
• CKA or CKAD certifications
• Experience containerizing application workloads for Kubernetes or OpenShift
• Experience developing application deployment workflows (CI/CD) with Kubernetes or OpenShift

This position is subject to a background check(s), including criminal, credit, and/or employment references. The candidate is required to complete the background check(s) once an offer has been accepted. This will be conducted by SUSE's external provider, where legally permitted.

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