Join SADA as a Cloud Support Engineer - GCP!
Your Mission:
As a Cloud Support Engineer at SADA, you will ensure our customers’ support issues are handled effectively. You will work with highly skilled support engineers focused on providing Google Cloud Platform solutions, including Google Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine, App Engine, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Monitoring, and related Google services. The Cloud Support Engineer is responsible for providing technical assistance and guidance to team members and customers, updating knowledge articles, and enacting improvements to our ServiceNow incident management system, as well as being a SADA ambassador to our clients. Participating in on-call rotations, the Support Engineer must also be technically adept with Google products and be able to seamlessly and effectively partner with other SADA work groups, our partners, and our customers. SADA ESS delivers 24x7 support from a variety of locations around the world.
This is primarily a customer-facing role. You will also work closely with SADA’s Customer Experience team to execute on their recommendations to our customers, and with Professional Services on large projects that require PMO support.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure accurate and timely resolution of incidents
- Serve as a SADA escalation point for client technical issues related to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Google Workspace
- Triage and escalate issues to Google Support as required
- Support servers/services hosted on GCP for multiple clients
- Provide front-line support for multiple clients
- Notice trends and work with team leadership to devise long-term solutions to recurring problems
- Assist with developing new processes to enhance customer support experience
- Assist with technical training of team members
- Open to being on call for weekends and after-hours
- Must be highly organized and detail-oriented
- Successful at working in a team culture
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong problem-solving and Analytical/Reasoning skills
Pathway to Success
#MakeThemRave is at the foundation of all our Enterprise Support Services team. Our motivation is to provide customers with an exceptional experience in all aspects of their interactions with our support and managed services teams.
Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of a fast-growing practice with vision and passion. You will be measured bi-yearly by the breadth, magnitude, and quality of your contributions, your ability to provide the highest quality of support, customer feedback at the close of service tickets, how well you collaborate with your peers, and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions.
As you continue to execute successfully, together we will build a customized development plan that leads you through the engineering or management growth tracks to fulfill your personal goals.
Required Credentials:
- Google Professional Cloud Architect Certified or able to complete within the first 45 days of employment
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator or secondary Google Cloud Certification within the first 120 days.
Required Qualifications:
- Mastery in at least one of the following domain areas:
- Google Cloud Compute Engine
- Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine
- Networking
- 4+ years of experience utilizing & strong knowledge on cloud compute platforms (GCE, EC2, GKE, EKS, AKS)
- 2+ years of experience utilizing & strong knowledge on cloud database platforms such as Cloud SQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, BigData.
- Experience in providing support for Google Cloud Platform products and solutions including, Cloud Operations (Stackdriver), and other Google-related services.
- Strong understanding of access control administration (IAM, Cloud Identity, User accounts, permission models)
- Strong knowledge with networking (NAT, firewalls, subnets, basic routing, load balancing, etc.)
- Familiarity with common Linux troubleshooting tools (vmstat, iostat, lsof, strace, etc.)
- Experience working with Google Support teams.
- Experience in supporting customers preferably in 24/7 environments
Useful Qualifications:
- Experience with code-level troubleshooting with Java, Python, bash scripting or similar language a plus
- Experience with IaC such as Terraform, Ansible or similar is a plus
- Experience with Hybrid Cloud environments and other Cloud Environments such as AWS, Azure etc is a plus.
About SADA An Insight company
Values: We built our core values on themes that internally compel us to deliver our best to our partners, our customers and to each other. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to SADA’s values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer.
- Make Them Rave
- Be Data Driven
- Think One Step Ahead
- Drive Purposeful Impact
- Do The Right Thing
Work with the best: SADA has been the largest partner in North America for the Google Cloud portfolio of products since 2016 and has been named the 2020, 2019, and 2018 Google Cloud Reseller Partner of the Year.
Business Performance: SADA has been named to the INC 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for 15 years in a row, garnering Honoree status. CRN has also named SADA on the Top 500 Global Solutions Providers list for the past 5 years. The overall culture continues to evolve with engineering at its core: 3200+ projects completed, 4000+ customers served, 10K+ workloads and 30M+ users migrated to the cloud.
SADA India is committed to the safety of its employees and recommends that new hires receive a COVID vaccination before beginning work.
