Cloud Native Support Engineering Manager at Deimos

Deimos is a development and operations consultancy that prides itself on being the best of the breed. We work with companies of all sizes to ensure that their technology eco-systems are scalable, secure, redundant, cost-effective, and performant.

We pride ourselves on innovating and pushing the edge. We are focused on the cloud. Whether it is AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure. We are comfortable and experienced in them all.

Job Position: Cloud Native Support Engineering Manager

Job Location: Remote

Job Description

1. We are looking for an experienced Cloud Native Support Engineering Manager to join our Engineering Department and deliver world class support. You will report to the Director of Site Reliability Engineering and work closely with our project management team.
2. As a Cloud Support Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in scaling our rapidly growing Cloud Native Support Engineering team. Initially, you will manage 1-2 direct reports and this number will grow over time.
3. Working closely with the CTO and Engineering Directors, you will drive several key initiatives: identifying process improvements, reporting on key metrics, identifying gaps in our teams, defining job descriptions for roles to fill them, and owning hiring processes to find top support engineering talent and build a diverse and inclusive team.
4. Your team will apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our clients’ individual needs. Your team will not only support our clients, but always play a vital role in supporting the internal operations of the Deimos team.
5. These will include account management, maintaining our cloud accounts, improving our overall security posture and improving our onboarding and offboarding processes.
6. When not working on support or operational tasks, the members of the team will be contributing to the projects they are supporting as Individual Contributors, following the guidance of the engineering team who owns the project(s).
7. The role requires a hands-on individual who not only manages the team, but also acts as a Individual Contributor (IC).

Job Responsibilities
What you will be doing:

1. Helping hire a team of Support Engineers who are focused on delivering world class technical support.
2. Manage team performance by having continuous quality conversations and formulating personal development and growth paths.
3. Formulate quarterly goals in collaboration with team members.
4. Hold regular 1:1s with team members.
5. Focus on enabling a psychologically safe team environment where all remote team members feel included and connected.
6. Be a positive leader and mentor ensuring team members acquire necessary skills (technical and non-technical), in line with business and personal development needs.
7. Identify, plan and drive projects that improve support-related processes and our customers’ technical support experience.
8. Resolve client and internal issues via email, text and video conferencing.
9. Support a mix of internal and external customers.
10. Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our client’s individual needs.
11. Work closely with the Deimos Software Engineering and Site Reliability teams to reproduce and resolve client issues.
12. Work closely with Deimos leadership to improve our support engineering processes.
13. Take the role of a TechOps engineer to support internal facing requests.
14. Act as the first point of contact regarding client incidents and outages. Drive customer communication during critical events.
15. Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal teams on how to improve our services.
16. Write tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for all Deimos engineers to utilise.
17. Maintaining good client relations.
18. Timely writing of incident reports.
19. Continually research and learn the current and future best practices, technologies and architectures of Deimos.
20. Participate in regular rotations for weekday and weekend on-call coverage, providing emergency support to our SLA clients, or working with the team to coordinate incident communications.

Job Requirements
What you must have:

1. Proven work experience as a Cloud Support Engineer, Technical Support Engineer or similar role.
2. Minimum of 2 years of experience leading Support Engineering teams, preferably, you are familiar with building and scaling teams.
3. Strong background in leading remote, distributed teams across geographies with a keen focus on employee development and the achievement of desired results.
4. Experienced in creating and implementing new processes and procedures.
5. Hands-on experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform.
6. Extensive experience networking, analysing, troubleshooting, and providing solutions to difficult technical issues.
7. Familiar with service desk and incident management software.
8. Experienced in writing support oriented content and documentation.
9. Adept in managing cases throughout the entire support lifecycle from initial customer inquiry to triage and reproduction, writing bug reports for hand off to the development team, and case resolution.
10. Knowledgeable of DevOps & Agile methodologies with an appreciation of the value that technologies like Serverless and Kubernetes bring to the software deployment and development process.
11. Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts/topics to customers and coworkers of varying technical skill levels.
12. A fundamental understanding of the Linux operating system.
13. Basic understanding of Cloud Computing concepts.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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