Confluent - Technical Support Engineer Job Lowell area,Massachusetts USA,IT/Tech

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation.

With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Introduction

Your Role And Responsibilities

Technical Support Engineers work at the intersection of our client services and engineering teams and drive customer success by helping identify and resolve critical business issues. In this role you’ll interact directly with our customers, hands on fixing issues and providing software development and operations expertise, leveraging deep knowledge of best practices in the use of Apache Kafka, the broader Confluent Platform, as well as complementary systems.

Throughout all of these interactions, you’ll build strong relationships with customers, ensuring exemplary support and timely resolution to customer requests.

What You Will Do

Working with customers to resolve a wide range of issues with their Confluent deployments
Contributing to process development - we’re a growing team, so we’re looking for people who want to help us grow efficiently and with a best-in-class culture
Communicating with our core engineering team to provide real-time product feedback from the field
Improving product documentation and authoring knowledge base articles
Creating and reviewing product demos and internal tooling
Working closely with the team behind Apache Kafka!

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Required technical and professional expertise

Excitement in learning about streaming data and becoming a domain expert in Apache Kafka
Experience in diagnosing, reproducing, and resolving customer issues
Desire to make customers successful through direct interaction
Two out of these three:
Experience troubleshooting applications running on Linux (resource contention, network bottlenecks, etc.)
Operational knowledge of Java applications (jstack, jmap, etc.)
Experience with at least one mainstream distributed system (e.g., Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.)

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Familiarity with IT Service Management:
Exposure to IT service management principles and practices, including problem management, incident management, and change management, to drive improvements and solutions within IBM.
Understanding of Cloud-based Solutions:
Experience working with cloud-based solutions and technologies to analyze diagnostic information, troubleshoot, and debug client IT environment issues.
Knowledge of IBM Products:
Exposure to IBM products and services, including their features, functionality, and technical requirements, to act as a trusted advisor for successful utilization.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

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Familiarity with IT Service Management:
Exposure to IT service management principles and practices, including problem management, incident management, and change management, to drive improvements and solutions within IBM.
Understanding of Cloud-based Solutions:
Experience working with cloud-based solutions and technologies to analyze diagnostic information, troubleshoot, and debug client IT environment issues.
Knowledge of IBM Products:
Exposure to IBM products and services, including their features, functionality, and technical requirements, to act as a trusted advisor for successful utilization.

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