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Description

Amazon Web Services is the market leader and technology forerunner in the Cloud business.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Amazon Web Services Private Limited (AWS India) is seeking highly motivated Database Engineers who are passionate about technology, want to work with the fastest growing Cloud Platform in the world and deliver extraordinary customer experience.

With AWS you have the chance to help individuals and businesses take their computing infrastructures and applications into the Cloud. As a member of the AWS Support team, you will be at the forefront of Cloud technologies. You will be surrounded by people that are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support provides global technical support to a wide range of external customers as they build mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

We are seeking people with strong Database and Linux skills to join growing Support team in Bangalore. You will be responsible for directly supporting customers from all over the world and be able to develop your skills across the AWS platform. Since we’re working in the Cloud, you will need to be very comfortable with not only Database Internals but also networking technologies including DNS, TCP/IP, SSL, DHCP and Load Balancing. If you fit the description, you might be the person we are looking for!

Key job responsibilities

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 teams in India to help reproduce and resolve customer issues.

· Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal Amazon teams in India 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

A day in the life

First and foremost this is a customer support role – in The Cloud.

· On a typical day, a Support Engineer will be primarily responsible for solving customer’s cases through a variety of customer contact channels which include telephone, email, and web/live chat. You will apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide tailored solutions for our customers and drive customer interactions by thoughtfully working with customers to dive deep into the root cause of an issue.

· Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues, an AWS Support Engineer may also coach/mentor new hires, develop & present training, partner with development teams on complex issues or contact deflection initiatives, participate in new hiring, write tools/script to help the team, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives to ensure better CX and compliance with global AWS standards, practices and policies.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bangalore, KA, IND

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree OR equivalent experience in a technical position

• Requires minimum of 2+ yrs experience in Database Administration- Oracle/PostgreSQL (Installation, Configuration, Backup/Recovery, High Availability, Replication, monitoring etc.);DB performance tuning and troubleshooting

• Basic knowledge on Linux fundamentals; Basic knowledge on networking fundamentals

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with DB Query Analyzers, query tuning/slow query optimization etc. ;Exposure to Virtualization technologies (VMware, Xen, Hypervisor)

• Prior working experience with AWS - any or all of EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, Dynamo DB

• Exposure to security concepts and best practices; Understanding of IPsec, VPN, Load Balancing, Iperf, MTR, Routing Protocols, SSH, Network;Experience in managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications

• Monitoring and troubleshooting tools