Cloud Support Engineer - DIST at Amazon

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM A LIFE AT AWS?
Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:

• Learn and use groundbreaking technologies.
• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs.
• Interact with leading engineers around the world.
• Partner with Amazon Web Services teams to help reproduce and resolve customer issues.
• Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve our services.
• Drive customer communication during critical events.
• Drive projects that improve support-related processes and our customers’ technical support experience.
• Write tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for the developer community.
• Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services.

Basic Qualifications
BASIC EXPERIENCE/SKILLS

• Good depth of understanding in Hadoop Administration, support and troubleshooting (Any two applications: Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Presto, Map-Reduce, Zookeeper, HBASE, HDFS and Pig.)
• Good understanding of Linux and Networking concepts
• Intermediate programming/scripting skills. Ideally in Java or Python, but will consider experience in other Object Oriented and Functional languages.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with multi-tasking ability. Should be a self-starter who is excited about learning new technology.
• Open to working non-standard hours (no night shifts) including a Sun-Mon or Fri-Sat weekend
• Strong troubleshooting skills

Preferred Qualifications
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE/SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field
• Proficient in Hadoop Map-Reduce and its Eco System [ Hive, HBASE, Spark, Presto etc.].
• Python and shell scripting
• Good understanding of distributed computing environments
• Customer service experience / strong customer focus
• Experience building docker images and troubleshooting container related issues
• Prior working experience with AWS - any or all of EC2, S3, EBS, EMR
• Experienced with Linux system monitoring and analysis (disk management, memory management, permissions etc.)
• Good understanding of Networking concepts and protocols (DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTPS, etc.)