Job Description
About the RoleHashiCorp is looking for an experienced customer-facing engineering professional to join its Secure Support Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of highly talented and self-driven support engineers 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 secure product 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 Manager, Support Engineering, the support engineer will be a key member of the Global Support organization and advocate for customer satisfaction and success. The support engineer will troubleshoot complex issues primarily related to Boundary and work to find viable solutions while maintaining detailed communication with customers and responsiveness to their needs. They will contribute to product growth and development via weekly/bi-weekly product meetings. The support engineer will attend customer meetings as needed to help identify, debug, and resolve the customer issue 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 as a whole more successful. This position is hybrid with a minimum of two days in office and involves collaborating with global, remote teams. In this role you can expect to: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 guidanceSolve incoming technical support requests within SLA, including high-severity urgent casesContinuously increase knowledge and help train the team on 3rd party technologies that integrate with Vault and on new Vault featuresIdentify and communicate product usage trends, bugs, and feature requests at weekly product engineering meetingsCollaborate with account managers to schedule, coordinate, and lead customer debugging callsDocument and record all activity with customers in accordance with both internal and external security standardsContribute to product documentation, customer knowledge base, and best practices guidesContinuously improve processes and tools in collaboration with the teamPeriodic on-call rotation for production-down issuesWeekly days off scheduled every week on rotation on any day of the week30 days:Provision and bootstrap a Boundary cluster with multi Controller & multi Worker (Ingress & Egress).Boundary Session Recording Setup, Capture Session and how to play it.Understanding of Vault/Vault Enterprise and the interaction with other products within the Hashicorp Product Suite.Integrate Boundary with Vault as a credential store for a DB type targetBegin preparation for the Vault Certification Exam.Complete the Vault Certification Exam60 days:Ride along on 1-2 live customer debugging callsEffectively triage and respond to all severity inquiries independently.Contribute to Support 1 Knowledge Base articles.Complete 10 Support Tickets with the guidance of more senior team members.Effectively triage customer support tickets and understand the difficulty of tickets being submitted.Begin working on Sev 2 tickets towards the end of the first 60 days.90 days:Respond to Sev 1/production down issues with minimal assistance.Independently find points of error and identify root cause by examining log files.Create ongoing KB articles that will benefit all customers, 1 article per month.Meet performance goals set by management for ticket closure per month, SLA, and CSAT.You may be a good fit for our team if you have:A minimum of 3 years of experience in Support Engineering.A minimum of 2 years of DevOps Engineering, Software Engineering, or System Administration experience.A minimum of 1 year of experience supporting products related to identity and access management. Experience of supporting PAM solutions like BeyondTrust , CyberArk , OneTrust etc would be advantageous.Experience working with one or more identity providers such as Azure AD.Experience with scripting tools of choice to help automate the reproduction environments (E.g. Bash or Terraform)Ability to read complex code for troubleshooting and familiarity with Github. Experience with REST APIs and command line tools. (E.g. Postman, Shell etc.)Experience in troubleshooting and resolving urgent, high-visibility technical problems in alignment with internal processes.Experience with Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) & cloud native landscapesKnowledge of NoSQL databases ( Postgres ) would be advantageous.Security inclined with an interest in identity, access & secrets interfacing,Experience in basic network troubleshooting and commands.Good understanding of SSL/TLS and OpenSSH.Good understanding of Linux environment and commands for effective troubleshooting and log analysis.Works with stakeholders to resolve issues and provide solutions that ensure service delivery and effectiveness.Should be available to come to the office twice or thrice in week to manage a Hybrid work environment.Interest in cloud adoption and technology at scale.Well organized, zeal to learn, excellent work ethic, attention to detail, self driven and motivated with the ability to deliver technical sessions whenever there is a need.Strong written and verbal communication skills. (Technical writing experience is a plus).Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science 'or' IT, Technical Writing, or equivalent professional experience. #LI-SG1 #LH-Hybrid
