Sr. Technical Support Engineer

Company: Support Revolution
Location: San Jose
Posted on: October 17, 2024

Job Description:

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: Create Alert Location: San Jose, California, United States About Supermicro:Supermicro is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.
-Job Summary:Join us in supporting our Global Service network and help us build a world-class field engineering organization. This position requires seasoned enterprise software and hardware technical knowledge and understanding, to be Service oriented, and Quality experienced Engineer. The Engineer will help maintain technical information, provide technical information to education and service teams, and may assist with teaching and presenting technical hardware/software to many audiences. Your primary role will be handling escalation issues from our Service help desk department. Understanding the root cause from an engineering and quality perspective, as well as helping solve complex issues and providing these solutions throughout the service teams. You will be working alongside Product managers, architects, engineers, developers, logistics teams, quality teams, and service teams to help bridge and close the gap between engineering and customer escalation issues. Your impact will be directly responsible for ensuring our commitment to product quality, service, and engineering excellence. -Essential Duties and Responsibilities:Includes the following essential duties and responsibilities (other duties may also be assigned):
--- Help build, automate, and maintain lab and test systems
--- Help with understanding issues escalated by L1-L2 engineering and finding a solution within a reasonable timeframe
--- Understand the root cause by helping to generate a root cause analysis, triage, and postmortem analysis with the help of testing in the lab, engineering assistance and tracking these daily until the root is found. This means working with various engineering teams, quality teams, and product managers to help narrow the root of the problem
--- Must be organized and be able prioritize and track service escalation issues, record and keep records, and maintain various types of test logs for review
--- Able to articulate issues to customers and help with finding resolutions so that they can understand engineering and management on these issues and vice versa with engineering and the customer issues
--- Must be able to duplicate field issues and test right away for low level confirmations. Review findings with engineering
--- Help with creating test plans to help identify root issues. Create SOPs, best practice guides, education material, assist with training material
--- Comfortable with Linux, VMware, Server
--- Can perform some scripting shell or batch
--- Drive customer success with documentation, training, education, and resolution
--- Able to train SMC solutions with our internal employees, customers, ASP, and partners if needed
--- Will be able to help train and nurture Junior service engineers.
--- May be asked to visit customer site to help with resolution
--- Generate reports in databases to help identify gross or common issues between products
--- May also be asked to audit helpdesk tickets if asked by service team management
--- Must be within driving distance and local of HQ San Jose, CA for this positionQualifications:--- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred
--- 8+ years of experience working in the field engineering servicing complex GPU servers, Server, Storage enclosures, Networking, and Enterprise GPUs
--- Knowledge and user experience with IPMI, BMC Tools
--- Work experience and strong knowledge of operating systems - Linux, VMware, and Windows Server environments
--- Knowledge of x86 architecture
--- Hardware knowledge of motherboard design, networking types with the types of cabling, network switches, and storage controllers
--- Skills: Scripting, automation, low level debug, system testing, performance testing
--- Python, VMware, Kubernetes, Active Directory, CCNA, MCSE, Linux Admin a plus
--- Excellent communication skills and ability to work with customers and engineers in challenging situations, must speak English
--- May be asked to travel about 5% percent of time or as needed -Salary Range$128,000 - $142,000 -The offered will depend on several factors, including your location, level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience, and comparison to other employees already in this role. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as participation in bonus and equity award programs.EEO StatementSupermicro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Supermicro to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.
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