Support Engineer - HashiCorp

  • Austin, TX
  • Posted 1 day ago | Updated 1 hour ago

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

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Scalability
Management
Open Source
Process Improvement
Reporting
Customer Satisfaction
Build Tools
Communication
Identity Management
Billing
Product Support
SLA
Product Engineering
Debugging
Documentation
Knowledge Base
Technical Support
Customer Facing
Adaptability
Writing
Customer Experience
Organized
Work Ethic
Attention To Detail
Problem Solving
Conflict Resolution
Analytical Skill
System Administration
Microservices
Scripting
Bash
Python
GitHub
Command-line Interface
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Business Operations
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Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Job Details

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

HashiCorp is looking for an experienced customer facing engineering professional to join its HCP Support Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a small team and have a direct impact on HashiCorp's fast growing business. This highly visible position will be an integral part of both the support engineering and HCP Open Source/Enterprise teams. You are a fit if you thrive in a fast-paced culture that values essential communication, collaboration, constant learning, and iteration. You are a self-motivated, tactful, detail-oriented person with an insatiable desire to learn new technology and an eye for automation, customer experience, process improvement, and efficient problem solving.

Reporting to the Support Engineering Manager, the Support Engineer will be a key member of the Global Support & Services organization and advocate for customer satisfaction and success. They will contribute to product growth and development via weekly product meetings. The Support Engineer will attend customer meetings as needed to help identify, debug and resolve the customer account/billing issues and will serve as a liaison between the customer and HashiCorp engineering. When possible, the Support Engineer will update and improve product documentation, guide feature development, and build tools to make the support team more successful.

Must be located in Austin, TX

Responsibilities:
  • Support Engineer will troubleshoot complex issues related to HCP Products and work to find viable solutions while maintaining detailed communication with customers.
    • For this specific role, Support Engineer will be assisting with account/user management and billing tickets.
    • Opportunity for cross-product support training.
  • Reproduce and debug customer issues by building or using existing test environments and tools.
  • Communicate tactfully with customers: gather info, provide diagnostic and resolution steps, convey process and product guidance
  • Solve incoming technical support requests within SLA, including high-severity urgent cases
  • Continuously increase knowledge and help train the team on 3rd party technologies that integrate with HCP Products.
  • Identify and communicate product usage trends, bugs and feature requests at weekly product engineering meetings
  • Collaborate with account managers to schedule, coordinate, and lead customer debugging calls
  • Document and record all activity with customers in accordance to both internal and external security standards
  • Contribute to product documentation, customer knowledge base, and best practices guides
  • Continuously improve process and tools in collaboration with the team
  • Periodic on-call rotation for production-down issues

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • 2 or more years of Support Engineering experience (or comparable customer-facing technical role), preferably for mission-critical software
  • Possess the following attributes: Confidence, Positivity and Adaptability.
  • Experience troubleshooting and resolving urgent, high-visibility technical problems
  • Experience communicating clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing
  • Experience working with Enterprise customers and advocating for customer experience
  • Well-organized, excellent work ethic, attention to detail, and ability to learn new technologies quickly
  • Excellent problem solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Cloud System Administration experience
  • Experience with HashiCorp tools
  • Experience with major cloud platforms, distributed systems, microservice architecture, and containers
  • Familiarity with scripting tools of choice to help automate reproduction environments (for example, Bash, Python)
  • Familiarity with reviewing code for troubleshooting and familiarity with Github
  • Experience with REST APIs and command line tools
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience preferred

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

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