Job Description : Cloud Administrator

Posted 5 Days Ago
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2 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
Mid level
Cloud • Information Technology • Software
The Role
The Cloud Administrator will maintain AWS/Azure environments, troubleshoot incidents, support customer requests, and ensure application stability.
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JOB DESCRIPTION:
As the #1 Managed Cloud Company, Rackspace is hiring AWS/Azure Cloud Administrators to deliver Fanatical Support with Amazon Web Services and Azure. Fanatical Support for AWS/Azure includes a wide range of services and features to help customers make the most out of their chosen hosting strategy. Using your technical expertise, you will help customers maintain their application stability and assist with rapid changes using native AWS/Azure and 3rd party tools.
 
Through a hands-on approach, you will be responsible for supporting customers with tasks including: responding to application and infrastructure down time alerts, performing environment and OS changes, and interacting with customers via tickets and phones.
 
At Rackspace we pride ourselves on our ability to deliver Fanatical Support - this means our support team blends technical expertise and strong customer oriented professional skills.  Being successful in this role requires:
 
·        Working knowledge of AWS/Azure Products & Services, Scaling, Load Balancing, CDNs, Networking etc
·        Intermediate working knowledge of Windows or Linux operating systems – experience with supporting and troubleshooting stability and performance issues
·        Working knowledge of AWS and Azure IaaS services, good hands-on with Compute, Networking, Storage services.
·        Intermediate understanding of design of native Cloud applications, Cloud application design patterns and practices

Key Accountabilities

  • Maintain stability of Azure/AWS Cloud environments
  • Respond to customer support requests via tickets and phone calls within response time SLAs
  • Working on L2 level of Incidents raised by customers or created thru automation/monitoring.
  • Troubleshoot performance degradation or loss of service as time critical incidents
  • Ownership of issues, including collaboration with other teams and escalation
  • Support the success and development of others in the team

Key Performance Indicators

  • Customer Satisfaction scores - NPS
  • Performance indicators – Ticket queues, response times, first time fix
  • Quality indicators – Peer review, customer feedback

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

  • Technical achiever with a strong work ethic, creative, collaborative, team player
  • An intermediate background in AWS/Azure and/or demonstrative hosting-specific technical skills:
  • o    Compute and Networking
    o    Administration and Security
  • At least one AWS/Azure industry standard certification (Associate, Professional, or Specialty)
  • Strong communications skills, written and verbal
  • Passion for technology and desire to learn
  • Ability to prioritize under pressure
  • Sound problem solving ability
  • Strong documentation skills
  • Process improvement – identification & solution
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent is an advantage
  • Potential to work weekends and flexible hours

Top Skills

AWS
Azure
Linux
Windows
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The Company
HQ: San Antonio, TX
7,509 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

At Rackspace Technology, we accelerate the value of the cloud during every phase of digital transformation. By managing apps, data, security and multiple clouds, we are the best choice to help customers get to the cloud, innovate with new technologies and maximize their IT investments. As a recognized Gartner Magic Quadrant leader, we are uniquely positioned to close the gap between the complex reality of today and the promise of tomorrow. Passionate about customer success, we provide unbiased expertise, based on proven results, across all the leading technologies. And across every interaction worldwide, we deliver Fanatical Experience TM — the best customer service experience in the industry. Rackspace has been honored by Fortune, Forbes, Glassdoor and others as one of the best places to work.

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