Vacancy title:
Linux Support Engineer
Jobs at:
Safaricom KenyaDeadline of this Job:
Monday, April 24 2023
Summary
Date Posted:Monday, April 24 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company. If you're interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.
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What Your Day Will Look Like
• Investigate issues reported by customers by researching and escalating issues
• Work to resolve complex customer problems related to Canonical's portfolio of products.
• Ownership of results: Ensure that each support case owned by you is handled according to our Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the highest possible customer satisfaction by setting the right expectations and fulfilling your commitments.
• Engage directly with customers and work collaboratively by phone, ticketing system, and remote sessions to resolve their issues.
• Participate in a regular weekend working rotation.
• Contribute new knowledge base articles and maintain existing articles, ensuring shared knowledge and lessons learned are available to customers.
• Understanding Ubuntu development process to be able to set customer expectations correctly on timeline for a fix
What We Are Looking For In You
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Bachelors degree, ideally within STEM related disciplines.
• Ability to pass a background check
• Experience supporting Linux systems including experience in:
• Virtualisation - especially with KVM or OpenStack.
• Containers - especially with Docker, LXD/LXC, or Kubernetes.
• Storage - especially with Ceph, Swift, XFS, ZFS, btrfs.
• Networking (bonding, firewalling, bridging, switching, network file system tuning, MTU issues, etc.)
• Linux integration with other environments (authentication/directory services, network file systems, etc.)
Cloud computing (provisioning, monitoring, orchestration, etc.)
Troubleshooting experience:
• Basic reading of stack traces to be able to search for duplicates, escalate to correct team.
• Understand OS and Application level bugs and advise on next steps
• Programming fundamentals in any language
Customer support experience:
• Know how to adapt your speech depending on your audience.
• Communicate clearly: setting the right expectations, providing timely status updates, and clearly explaining necessary steps.
• Not getting too attached to a technical problem to not be able to let go or see the bigger picture.
• WIllingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Job Experience:No Requirements
Work Hours: 8
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Job application procedure
Method of Application
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