Suse-posted about 1 month ago
$67,000 - $122,000/Yr
Full-time • Entry Level
Tennessee, IL
1,001-5,000 employees
Publishing Industries

As a Premium Support Engineer (PSE), you will provide expert-level support services for SUSE products in select customer accounts. In this role, you will be responsible for building strong relationships with assigned customers to understand their environment, including their use of SUSE products, business processes, installation, and configuration. This understanding will enable you to provide personalised support and services in both proactive and reactive ways. Your in-depth knowledge of SUSE technologies and solutions will allow you to deliver the highest level of service to our customers. In the PSE role, you will interact with the customer's L2 and L3 teams to resolve technical issues related to SUSE Linux and related SUSE products, and provide high-level advisory services, enabling them to maintain their SUSE products in optimal operational order. The PSE will have priority and direct access to other SUSE team members (Peers, Back-line, Engineering, and Development) for critical issues that require additional assistance. Critical to achieving excellent results will be developing strong relationships and resolving issues most important to the customer, which will aid in renewing their Premium Service contract. The role is situated within Global Services Americas, reporting to the Services Manager (Americas East), who is based in the US.

  • Assist your customer in the diagnosis and resolution of end-customer environments
  • Assist 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 customers' L2 and L3 support or engineering personnel for SUSE product issues
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field
  • Familiarity with core IT concepts of issue resolution/troubleshooting
  • A strong sense of responsibility, self-motivation, and the ability to prioritise and organise workload to complete multiple, simultaneous issues and projects
  • Flexibility and capacity to work across a variety of activities within a matrix and virtual organisational 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 organisations
  • SUSE Rancher and its family of products is preferred
  • Deploying and managing Kubernetes or OpenShift clusters
  • Containerizing application workloads for Kubernetes or OpenShift
  • Linux Foundation Cloud and Containers Certification (KCNA, KCSA, CKA, and/or CKAD)
  • Various CNIs and CSIs, RBAC
  • Developing application deployment workflows (CI/CD) with Kubernetes or OpenShift
  • Linux administration skills (preferably SUSE Linux Enterprise Server)
  • 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
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