Sr. Cloud Support Engineer- Big Data, Support Engineering

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. Youll join a diverse team of technical experts in dozens of countries who help customers achieve more with the AWS cloud.

AWS Support provides global technical support to a wide range of customers using AWS Cloud as they build mission-critical applications on top of AWS services. As a member of the AWS Support team employed with and working for AWS India you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology assisting a global list of companies that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications. You will work with leading companies in this space and directly with the engineering teams within AWS developing these new capabilities.

Key job responsibilities
- To troubleshoot and resolve complex technical problems.
- To review customers architecture and provide guidance
- To develop and deliver training
- Partner with development teams on complex issues
- Participate in recruiting activities
- Write tools/script to help the team
- Work with leadership on process improvement or strategic initiatives
- To successfully influence stakeholders with individually developed concepts

A day in the life
- Strategic Customer Engagement: Rather than handling daily ticket queues Sr Cloud Support Engineers focus on proactive customer engagements. Youre working directly with enterprise customers on strategic technical discussions.
- Complex Problem Resolution & Knowledge Creation: About 20% of time is dedicated to critical customers handling escalation events and issues affecting multiple customers. Youre not just solving problemsyoure creating Centers of Excellence documentation and supportability frameworks that prevent future issues.
- Force Multiplication Through Mentorship: A significant portion involves elevating frontline engineers through monthly syncs with Senior Managers/Site Leads. Your success is measured by how much you enable others to accomplish not just your individual output.
- Service Improvement & Cross-Functional Collaboration: You serve as Service Excellence Owner for Tier 1 & 2 services conducting monthly syncs with service teams submitting Product Feature Requests (PFRs) and bugs and influencing service roadmaps. Youre working across domains with various internal stakeholders.
- Technical Thought Leadership: Creating public-facing content (blogs videos articles) contributing to Technical Field Communities (TFCs) and representing AWS at major AWS conferences and regional summits.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

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Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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Work/Life Balance
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- Bachelors degree
- 10 years of technical experience with in depth understanding and working experience of Apache Hadoop Distributed system Apache HBase and NoSQL systems.
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve Apache HBase related issues in production systems
- Good understanding of Apache Hadoop concepts components and framework - Yarn HDFS High-Availability backup and restore security monitoring and observability name node journal nodes scaling of cluster Hive Spark.
- Hands on experience to HBase on Amazon EMR

- Prior working experience with AWS - any or all of EMR EC2 S3 EBS DynamoDB Keyspaces.
- Experienced with Linux system monitoring analysis with good understanding of Networking concepts and protocols(DNS TCP/IP DHCP HTTPS etc.)
- Expertise in OLTP and OLAP systems design and performance optimization
- Experience in analyzing complex distributed production deployments and making recommendations to optimize performance
- Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications
- Demonstrated ability to successfully influence stakeholders with individually developed concepts

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