Customer Success and Support

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Splunk is the world’s first Data-to-Everything Platform. Now organizations no longer need to worry about where their data is coming from, and they are free to focus on the business outcomes that data can deliver.

Role

Splunk is seeking a Technical Support Engineer to join our global technical support organization offering 24/7 support for our customers around the world. This is a very dynamic role where you will provide technical product expertise and excellent customer experience around Splunk’s core platform, and participate in ongoing projects around tools, knowledge management, our growing marketplace of solutions, and more. Our team operates on a 7-day global coverage model, and as a result, our support engineers are occasionally asked to work on weekends.

Responsibilities

Provide outstanding service and technical support to Splunk customers and maintain positive customer relationships
Take ownership of resolving customer problems while ensuring an outstanding customer experience
Champion our customers throughout the entire support case journey
Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the Splunk product and related technologies, with a focus on our core platform
Troubleshoot technical issues to establish the root cause of problems and form a solution or workaround across a range of environments
Create, reuse, improve, and maintain quality knowledge articles as part of the case management workflow, while following Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) principles and methodology
Reproduce customer issues, file bug reports, raise issues to Engineering, and be the bridge between customers and product developers
Drive continuous improvement of tools, processes, and product supportability
Perform other job-related duties as assigned and participate in special projects

Requirements
Must have:

Outstanding interpersonal skills and excellent communication - both verbal and written
Foundational experience with UNIX (Linux, *NIX), LDAP, Windows, or Mac OS
Basic understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, NAT, gateways, etc.)
Logical approach to problem solving and strong troubleshooting skills
Excellent time management skills with the ability to adapt to changing priorities of customer issues
Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly while remaining current with the latest industry knowledge
Passionate about working in a dynamic technical environment and supporting a product with frequent product releases and regular maintenance updates

Nice to have:

Experience in customer facing technical support, system administration role
Exposure to cloud technologies such as AWS (including Amazon EC2 and S3), Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure
Knowledge of Python, Perl and shell scripting, XML, HTML, or other scripting languages
Familiar with virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM, etc.)
Knowledge of JavaScript, Node.js, Apache, or similar front-end and web technologies
Understanding of regular expressions (Regex) and relational databases

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

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