Sr Support Engineer II
hashicorp
Job Description
RESPONSIBILITIES: I WANT TO DO THAT
- Act as an SME of Terraform products and escalation point within the support team.
- Act as queue monitor for low SLA or tickets that may need attention.
- Mentor TSEs on technical knowledge and process
- Attend weekly leadership meetings
- Reproduce and debug customer issues by using or building test environments and tools.
- Act as an Incident Commander (IC) for mission-critical sev-1s for enterprise customers
- Triage and solve incoming support requests via Zendesk within SLA, including high-severity urgent cases
- Act as an escalation point for tickets that need special attention
- Serve as an escalation point for TSEs that need assistance with process or other needs
- Document and record all activity and communication with customers in accordance to both internal and external security standards
- Attend product engineering meetings to discuss issues pertinent to support and identify ticket trending
- Collaborate with engineers, sales engineers, sales representatives, and account managers to schedule, coordinate, and lead customer debugging calls
- Contribute to product documentation, customer knowledge base, and best practices guides
- Continuously improve process and tools for normal, repetitive support tasks
- Periodic on-call rotation
GOALS: I CAN DO THAT
30 days:
- Holistic understanding of TFE and the interaction with the TF ecosystem
- Successfully perform all common work flows within Terraform Enterprise
- One contribution to extend or improve product documentation or install guides
- Ability to answer Level 1 support inquiries with minimal assistance
60 days:
- Effectively triage and respond to Level 1 & 2 inquiries independently
- Provision and bootstrap TFE instance with low-touch from engineering
- Ride along on 1-2 live customer install calls
- Locate and unpack the customer log files. Familiarity with its contents
- Author one customer knowledge base article from area of subject matter expertise
90 days:
- Ability to effectively triage and respond to a production down issue with minimal assistance
- Ability to take on Escalation Management duties for SEV-1
- Ability to take any Terraform ticket without assistance
- Ability to independently find points of error and identify root cause by examining log files
- Ability to create ongoing KB articles that will benefit all customers
REQUIREMENTS: I’VE ALREADY DONE THAT OR HAVE THAT
- At least 6+ years of Support Engineering.
- A minimum of 8+ years DevOps Engineering, Software Engineering, or System Administration experience
- Production experience with Terraform or Terraform Enterprise preferred
- Strong written and verbal communication skills — technical writing experience a plus
- Well-organized, excellent work ethic, attention to detail, and self-starting
- Experience troubleshooting and resolving urgent, high-visibility technical problems
- Familiarity with Distributed Systems, Microservice architecture, and Containers
- Interest in cloud adoption and technology at scale
- Excellent problem solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills
- Open to work in a hybrid setup with office location as Noida
EDUCATION:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Technical Writing, or equivalent professional experience preferred #LI-Hybrid #LI-SG1