Premier Support Engineer

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As a Premier Support Engineer, you’ll be closely working with the client for the successful CDP/HDP/CDH adoption. This role is responsible for support delivery, providing technical support to Cloudera customers by resolving complex technical customer issues on CDH and HDP platforms.

The PSE not only responds to client support cases but also provides proactive and preventative guidance to improve stability and performance of the platform. PSEs closely collaborate with account teams, engineering, and SE teams in order to provide high quality support to our Premier customers.

You will serve as a deep technical advisor to customers and deliver unique value by supporting and increasing the consumption and productivity of acquired and/or deployed Hadoop technologies. In this role, you will draw upon all resources at Cloudera to advise and consult on the use of CDH and HDP technologies. You will act as the primary technical contact, providing advisory services and advanced technical troubleshooting and problem resolution, including issues raised to the highest levels of management. You may engage technology decision makers striving to understand customer challenges and creatively achieve their objectives. You may manage escalated issues by setting customer expectations, devising and implementing action plans, being available and professionally communicating to all parties involved.

You’ll ensure that reported issues are resolved in time and within the published service delivery SLA. While the cases may be shared with other PSE or Support Team, you’ll be responsible to provide technical guidance and status reports regarding the issues and cases, get the holistic review of the issue and share the derivations with the Client. Being proactive is the mindset; you are expected to work on prevention of the issues and help develop or influence prevention methodologies. You’ll be engaging with Solution Engineering, Account Team, Product Management, Frontline Support and Management, Sustenance Engineering, Customer Advocate Team and other stakeholders to ensure our customer gets the best possible answer, resolution and advocacy. You will make proposals about initiative, upgrade, deployment, process excellencies like Job on-boarding, best practices and share with stakeholders at client’s end. You should be actively taking part in resolving issues, exploring new products and conducting internal POCs as research. Present Quarterly Technical Review to the client. Familiar with the escalation process and ensure that you are expected to be familiar with processes like bug management, Hotfix Delivery, Support etc. To be successful in this role, you must be a motivated self-starter, be committed to ongoing self-education, possess strong customer service skills and have excellent technical problem-solving skills.

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Cloudera is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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