Cloud Support Engineer II – 1st shift

Job Description

Cloud Support Engineer II – Cloud Operations

Strong Microsoft AD, 365/Exchange, Powershell, Citrix preferred

Note: The shift hours for this position will be Mon-Fri, 9:00a-6:00p EST

Our company:

CloudHesive is a cloud solution consulting and managed services provider with a focus on security, reliability, availability, and scalability. CloudHesive helps companies reduce their operating costs and increase productivity while improving their cloud security posture by deploying their mission critical workloads onto the CloudHesive Fabric. The CloudHesive Fabric wraps traditional cloud offerings (public, private or hybrid) with cloud centric security solutions and controls, an innovative management platform and experienced cloud engineers that oversee the customer’s lifecycle. CloudHesive partners with the leading cloud providers such as Amazon Web Service (AWS) to deliver cutting edge solutions for our customers.

The opportunity:

If you’re the right fit for CloudHesive, you’ll be working with a seasoned executive team that knows how to develop and scale an organization, with colleagues who share your desire to build the best company in the industry, and with a company culture that moves quickly, acts decisively and communicates openly. You’ll also be working with revolutionary technology solutions that have been deployed successfully at marquee customers around the globe. It is an attractive career opportunity.

Role and Responsibilities:

· Work directly on customer’s on premise and cloud environments to solve simple to complex issues in a managed services environment.

· Accept tickets from a technical ticket queue or dispatcher and help solve a customer’s issue. Place details of the solution set in tickets daily as to close tickets out based on SLA commitments.

· Work with technologies such as AWS, VMware, O365 / Exchange, Citrix, Veeam, and other customer technologies to maintain and meet up time SLA metrics and the availability of the customers environment.

· Daily, Weekly, and Monthly tasks for patching, vulnerability management, upgrades, and other contractual obligations

· Manage weekly patching of customer environments and work on customer deployments to production environments.

· Must have excellent customer service skills.

· Must have excellent documentation skills.

· Ability to become a leader and a technical subject matter expert on customer cloud and on-premise environments

· Help to automate common repetitive maintenance tasks

· This position has after-hours and on call rotation responsibilities

Skills and experience:

· 4+ years of hands on experience in a specific technology practice (Infrastructure, Network, Storage, Servers, Security, Windows, Linux, VMWare, etc.)

. Strong experience in Microsoft Infrastructure administration, troubleshooting and setup required – Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, Windows Server, Active Directory, Azure, Powershell, etc.

. Experience with Microsoft Office including Visio

· Experience in a customer facing role (professional services, support, etc.) and the ability to manage customer relationships up to the senior/executive level is critica

· Ability to work and update tickets for working being done on a customer’s environment autonomously and in a timely fashion to properly explain the solution provided.

· Experience with DevOps processes, and languages such as Python, Node.JS, and javascript is a HUGE plus but not required

· Be a ‘jack of all trades’ and love working with exciting new technologies and customers

· We try to centralize the work load out of our corporate office but in some cases, we go onsite for meetings and collaboration.

· Ability to drive projects and work under tight timelines and lead a team

· ITIL expertise to help drive process into a Service Desk organization.

· Experience with AWS such as: EC2 Types, Security Groups, Load Balancing, AutoScaling, and IAM rules a plus.

. Citrix experience preferred

Personal attributes and values:

· Written and oral communication skills – ability to communicate technical concepts and support assertions with data

· Organizational skills – ability to coordinate and prioritize many issues simultaneously

· Analytical/Problem-solving ability – ability to quickly evaluate an issue, resolve it or implement a workaround with consistent accuracy and success

· High Sense of Urgency – This job entails supporting business critical applications, with stringent SLAs

· “Can do” attitude and ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial atmosphere

Compensation package

· Competitive base salary and incentive cash compensation

· Health care benefits

· 401k plan: company sponsored 401k plan with company match

· Access to employee discount programs for movies, movies, restaurants, electronics and more

· Company social events

· Kitchen filled with snacks chosen by the employees

· Paid for Training on cutting edge technology and partners (AWS)

· The personal reward associated with an important position in a fast-growing company positioned to become a pivotal player in a large and rapidly evolving market

· Flexible work schedules

· Standing desks