Cloud Lead Engineer (AWS)
Rackspace, Australia

Rackspace is hiring a Cloud Lead Engineer to deliver Fanatical Support to our Cloud Customers. Fanatical Support for these clients includes a wide range of services and features to help customers make the most out of their chosen hosting platform, accelerate adoption of Cloud in their business and improve upon traditional hosting strategies. With a strong background in Enterprise support environments, you will help customers manage change, minimise risk, optimise operations and support business growth through pro-active and personable interactions. You will build long-term customer relations, understanding their business goals and operational capability in order to best align and manage Rackspace resources and services, and drive outstanding customer outcomes.In this pivotal, autonomous and varied role, you will manage complex problems as well as be a proactive and consultative resource to help customers plan for their future growth and the continual adoption of emerging technologies and best practices.Key Accountabilites

• Act as a consultative resource for customers to assist them in achieving their business objectives
• Drive the adoption of Cloud technologies for the benefit of the customer
• Pro-actively seek opportunities to improve customer’s solution architecture and operation
• Manage and oversee the technical changes, maintenance's and migrations of customers solutions
• Ensure appropriate technical documentation is in place for customer solutions
• Provide strategic and operational guidance that will allow customers to continually optimise their Cloud environments to achieve their business goals and maximise return on investments
• Help customers transition their applications into the cloud through detailed planning and migration support for moving legacy application portfolios to AWS (amazon web-services), AZURE and GOOGLE
• Drive strong customer satisfaction (NPS) through Fanatical Support
• Own issues, and escalations and drive collaboration with other teams to find speedy resolutions

Key Requirements

• Experience in owning of account planning activities, service improvement or business development activity
• Detailed understanding of the Cloud (IaaS and PaaS) industry and associated various technologies
• Deep understanding of Service Management best practices frameworks such as ITIL
• Significant exposure to operational management within a critical environment
• Effective troubleshooting and analytical skills and ability to manage complex and technical projects
• Good communication skills and an ability to develop relationships with customer external stakeholder’s levels.
• Knowledge of AWS, AZURE, GOOGLE and its products amp; services

Technical Capabilities

• Strong customer focus, with an ability to continually anticipate and meet their needs
• Excellent working knowledge of AWS, AZURE, GOOGLE and its products amp; services (such as Compute, Relational and NoSQL Databases, Caching, Object and Block Storage, Scaling, Load Balancing, CDNs, Networking etc.)
• Experience of hosting web applications across a wide variety of Webserver and Database technologies
• Monitoring tools such as CloudWatch or CloudHealth
• Experience of architecting and managing production environments across Physical, Virtualised and Cloud technologies
• Ability to collaborate with and manage diverse cross functional teams for successful customer outcomes
• Certification in AWS (Associate or Professional)

• Desirable:
• Application and platform analytics tools (AppDynamics / NewRelic / DataDog)
• Operating System Knowledge (Microsoft Windows and Linux Distributions)

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