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Job Description

This position is for remote customer support of Oracle Linux ( https://www.oracle.com/linux) on Oracle Cloud ( https://cloud.oracle.com/iaas) and/or on-premise. The team’s primary responsibility is to diagnose, debug and resolve customer reported issues on Oracle Linux family of products, working in partnership with Cloud Operations team, customers, other support teams and developers. The team members continually exercise and grow diverse skills, as they deliver the highest quality support possible to customers.

Required Qualifications/Skills

• 5+ years of relevant industry work experience

• Caring attitude

• Good customer interaction and communication skills.

• Strong listening skills.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

• Customer focused with a pro-active and responsive approach

• Self-learning

• Knowledge of Oracle Linux, RedHat, CentOS, SUSE/SLES, Ubuntu and/or other Linux platforms

• Experience managing and troubleshooting Linux servers in production settings

• Good knowledge of Linux networking (network services, samba, NFS, SSH, NTP, configuration, bonding, VLANs, tuning, general diagnostics)

• Good system diagnosis skills (kdump, vmstat, sar, iostat, mpstat, loadavg, /proc filesystem)

• Familiarity with systemd, kernel modules, sudo, user management

• General exposure to Linux storage components (mpath/multipathing, md, LVM, filesystems)

• Linux package management (rpm, yum/dnf)

Additional Qualifications/Skills

• Empathic awareness

• Good negotiation skills

• Ability to express and describe complex situations in a simple and effective way

• Ability to summarize a detailed conversation in a brief and clear way

• Decision making in ambiguous situations

• Excellent system-level debugging skills (dtrace, systemtap, BPF, module debugging, debugfs, sysfs, vmcore analysis)

• Excellent knowledge of the Linux OS internals (syscalls, kernel threads, memory management, slabcache, hugepages, OOM, run queues), particularly networking (sockets, buffers, windowing)

• Experience in diagnosing network configuration issues and network performance (ifconfig, ip, BPF, netstat, ss, TCP, UDP, tuning, routing, traceroute)

• Sound experience in network packet analysis and troubleshooting (tcpdump, wireshark etc.)

• Good exposure to Linux authentication (pam.d, openldap etc.)

• General Linux security awareness (SELinux)

• Knowledge and experience with IPSec, SWAN, DHCP, NAT, IPv6, Firewall technologies (iptables/firewalld)

• Knowledge of network routing protocols (e.g. BGP, RIPv2, OSPF)

• Experience with enterprise grade storage systems (SAN, NAS, RAID)

• Filesystem diagnosis and troubleshooting (ext4, btrfs, xfs, ocfs2 etc.)

• Experience with Linux storage management (dm, mpath, udev, LVM)

• Knowledge with XWindows, Linux desktop GUI (KDE, Gnome etc.)

• Linux printing (PPD, CUPS)

• Experience with Linux server clustering (Corosync/Pacemaker, RHCS, Oracle Clusterware)

• Experience with Virtualization and Cloud (Public or Private) Infrastructures

• Experience in Azure or AWS based Cloud Architecture and migration is a plus

• Experience working on remote management systems like ILOM, IMM, DRAC etc.

• Experience working in Linux containers (Docker, LXC, Kata) and orchestration technologies (Kubernetes) (Cloud Native)

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

As a Principal Support Engineer, you will offer strategic technical support to assure the highest level of customer satisfaction. A primary focus is to create/utilize automated technology and instrumentation to diagnose, document, and resolve/avoid customer issues. You are expected to be an expert member of the technical problem solving/problem avoidance team, routinely sought after to address extremely complex, critical customer issues. Services may be frequently provided by on-site customer visits.

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