Senior Support Engineer, HashiCorp
Terraform Enterprise, 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
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Cloud-computing infrastructure provider
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Cloud-computing infrastructure provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help organisations to operate infrastructure in the cloud because it believes that infrastructure enables innovation.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of Support Engineering experience
- A minimum of 5 years DevOps Engineering, Software Engineering, or System Administration experience
- Strong preference for practitioner or production experience with Terraform, Terraform Enterprise or HCP Terraform
- Experience with scripting tool of choice to help automate reproduction environments (for example, Bash, Python, PowerShell)
- Ability to read sophisticated code (Go) for troubleshooting and familiarity with Github
- Experience with REST APIs and command line tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills — technical writing experience a plus
- Well-organised, excellent work ethic, attention to detail, and self-starting
- Experience troubleshooting and resolving urgent, high-visibility technical problems
- Familiarity with Distributed Systems, Microservice Architecture, and Containers
- Interest in cloud adoption and technology at scale
- Excellent problem solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills
- Some experience in reporting or data trends (explore, zendesk, tableau etc.,)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Technical Writing, or equivalent professional experience
- Based in the Netherlands - commuting distance to Amsterdam or other major cities
What the job involves
- Please note this role is offered on an initial 12 month fixed contract, which can be made permanent on successful completion of the initial 12 months
- HashiCorp is looking for a high-caliber customer facing engineering professional to join its Support Engineering team as a Sr. Support Engineer for Terraform Enterprise products for the Netherlands based team
- This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast paced high-volume team and have a direct impact on HashiCorp’s growing business
- This highly visible position will be an integral part of both the support engineering and Terraform Enterprise teams
- You are a fit if you thrive in a fast-paced culture that values essential communication, collaboration, and results
- This person is a self-motivated, detailed individual with an eye for communication, automation, process improvement, and problem solving
- Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Support Engineering, this Sr. Support Engineer will be a key member of the Global Support organisation and advocate for customer satisfaction and success
- This individual will solve sophisticated issues related to Terraform and Terraform Enterprise and independently work to find viable solutions
- They will attend customer meetings as needed to help identify, debug and resolve customer issues and are expected to be a liaison between the customer and HashiCorp engineering
- Reproduce and debug customer issues by using or building test environments and tools
- Daily queue management for the team, ensuring all tickets are assigned and SLAs met
- Manage all incoming SEV-1s or handoffs to US time zone, ensure the on-call Support Engineer has support while troubleshooting and updates to leadership are provided as necessary
- Ensure smooth handoffs of all pertinent tickets between time zones
- Collaborate as one team with all global teams
- Document and record all activity and communication with customers in accordance to both internal and external security standards
- Attend product engineering meetings to discuss issues pertinent to support
- Collaborate with engineers, sales engineers, sales representatives, and customer success to follow up on customer issues, ensuring the troubleshooting process moves smoothly
- Contribute to product documentation, customer knowledge base, and best practices guides
- Work on reporting and trending to help determine areas of improvement, training and product revision
- Continuously improve process and tools for normal, repetitive support tasks
- On-call escalation point for the team
- Work in-office a minimum of 1-3 times per week, depending upon your work location
- 30 days:
- Holistic understanding of Terraform/Terraform Enterprise and the interaction with other HashiCorp Product Suite
- Successfully perform all common work flows within Terraform Enterprise
- 1 contribution to extend or improve product documentation or install guides
- Successfully play with all the elements in Terraform Guide (https://www.terraform.io/docs/enterprise/index.html)
- 60 days:
- Ability to triage and communicate to Level 1 & 2 inquiries independently
- Ability to provision and bootstrap Terraform/Terraform Enterprise with all the sophisticated features without assistance
- Ride along on 1-2 live customer debugging calls
- Author 1 "customer knowledge base" article from area of subject matter expertise
- Understanding of internal processes and communication flow
- Ability to effectively communicate proactively with Leadership
- 90 days:
- Ability to effectively fix and respond to a production down issue with minimal assistance
- Ability to take any Terraform ticket without assistance
- Ability to independently find points of error and identify root cause by examining log files
- Ability to create ongoing KB articles that will benefit all customers
- Ability to effectively manage incoming SEV-1s independently
- Ability to manage the ticket queue
- Successfully pass the Terraform Certification Exam
Our take
HashiCorp's software streamlines cloud operations for companies' teams, offering open-source solutions to facilitate cloud migration and utilization. Additionally, the company provides commercial versions of its tools, catering to businesses that prefer managed services.
With a pay-per-hour pricing model and adaptable products, HashiCorp enables companies to construct infrastructure spanning legacy systems, private clouds, and multiple cloud providers. its flagship product, Terraform, allows developers to create consistent rules, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing costs.
In a landscape increasingly reliant on AI and automation, HashiCorp simplifies the intricate architecture of data centre management, ensuring a rising demand for its services. The company was acquired by IBM in 2024, for which HashiCorp will integrate its hybrid cloud and AI software. In turn, Hashicorp will utilise IBM's worldwide reach and R&D opportunities to grow its software capabilities and market share.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2020
$175m
SERIES E
Nov 2018
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $349m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Life & disability insurance
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Vacation and Other Leaves
- 401(k)
- Family Expansion Benefit
- Maternity and Parental Leave
- Expanded Mental Health Support
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mitchell Hashimoto
(Co-Founder)Has worked as CEO and CTO of the company. Was previously Operations Engineer at Kiip, and a Developer at CitrusByte.
Armon Dadgar
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Software Engineer at Kiip. Worked as a Software Development Intern at Amazon.
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