United States of America Hybrid Employment

Defense Unicorns is hiring a Customer Support Engineer (ComD092)

Responsibilities

  • Act as the main technical contact for customers reporting issues through tickets, Slack, or email
  • Investigate and resolve advanced technical problems in Linux systems, Kubernetes platforms including EKS, AKS, RKE2, K3s, and OpenShift, public cloud services like AWS, Azure, and GCP, and CI/CD workflows
  • Analyze issues affecting hybrid cloud setups, including network configurations, role-based access controls, storage systems, and cluster management, across cloud and on-premises deployments
  • Manage high-priority customer cases from initial assessment and replication to final resolution and documented post-mortem analysis, adhering to service level agreements
  • Recreate reported issues in controlled test environments and pinpoint root causes with clarity to support engineering debugging
  • Provide after-hours support during critical operations as needed
  • Maintain clear, timely communication with customers regarding issue progress, expected timelines, and temporary solutions
  • Develop and update operational guides, escalation procedures, and knowledge base entries to minimize recurring support requests
  • Detect recurring customer issues and report findings to product and engineering teams to inform improvements in software and documentation
  • Take part in on-call scheduling and contribute to incident review meetings following system outages or disruptions
  • Evaluate and refine Tier 1 escalation tickets before they are forwarded to engineering teams
  • Work closely with Customer Success, Platform Engineering, and Product departments to align support outcomes with broader organizational goals
  • Help refine internal processes to enhance support efficiency and improve customer experience

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Other

  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • Expected travel of 10% to 20%
  • On-call support is required when mission needs arise
  • Preference given to candidates with an active DoD Secret clearance or higher
  • This is a contractor position serving the U.S. Government
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Defense Unicorns
Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery, consolidating best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation.
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Category infrastructure
Posted 14 days ago