L2/L3 Cloud Support Engineer

Cloud Support Engineer

Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise Private Clouds. Founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers, we are dedicated to transforming IT operations. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns your existing hardware into a full-featured, future-ready private cloud. We innovate across what we build and how we deliver it, staying focused on a next-generation, open private cloud while holding ourselves to one standard: exceptional customer outcomes.

Enterprises are selecting Platform9 to replace legacy virtualization because it eliminates operational risk and complexity. Private Cloud Director is designed for the experienced infrastructure team, offering a familiar GUI experience for managing VMs and containers, seamless integration with your existing hardware and third-party storage, and critical enterprise features (HA/DR, scale, reliability) built-in. This enables IT teams to gain robust API control and a user experience they trust—rooted in customer obsession and an owner's mindset. We share context quickly and candidly to keep decisions moving.

With over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world's largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace, Platform9 is the proven path to achieving true vendor independence and operational consistency. We are an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, supported by a partner ecosystem of resellers, systems integrators, MSPs, and technology vendors committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency. Our values—innovation, customer obsession, ownership, radical candor, and excellence—guide how we build and support every deployment.

Position Summary:

We are looking to hire a Cloud Support Engineer who is an expert in troubleshooting, a quick learner, enthusiastic, highly motivated, and provides excellent support experience while making enterprise customers successful with their open-source clouds. In this position, the engineer shall interact with sysadmin/DevOps engineers of the customer and assist them in solving issues arising in their OpenStack/Kubernetes environment while maintaining a high SLA goal. This role involves continuous learning and sharpening of OpenStack and Kubernetes skills. As a Cloud Support Engineer, you will be responsible for technical support and consultation for Platform9's growing customer base. This role reports to our Global Cloud Support Manager.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Monitoring ticket queue (5%)
• Troubleshooting customer issues independently (50%)
• Talking through issues via Zoom (5-7%)
• Maintaining Knowledge Base/documentation (10%)
• Training (1-on-1, personal study, support trainings/handovers) (10%)
• Meetings (5-7%)
• Projects (Reporting, Automation, Customer Success, Process Development) (10%)

Preferred Qualifications:

• A working knowledge of OpenStack components, architecture and its data flow is a must
• Knowledge of OpenStack satellite technologies (MySQL, OVS, RabbitMQ, network namespaces, hypervisors, etc)
• Understanding Kubernetes clusters and Hands-on experience resolving issues in production Kubernetes clusters
• 3+ years experience with customer escalations by responding via portal, video call (Webex, Zoom, etc.) or phone to resolve customer cases or escalations as needed
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Administration experience in Linux and knowledge of storage and networking subsystems.
• A good understanding of virtualisation technologies like: KVM, libvirt, Xen
• Basic networking knowledge: TCP/UDP, DNS, DHCP, ICMP, and IP Addressing.
• Programming and scripting proficiency in python, bash, awk, or sed,
• Should be willing to work in rotational shifts

What would make you stand out?

• Relevant industry experience with software-defined networking (SDN), - OVS/OVN
• Understanding the control flow of OpenStack & how to troubleshoot OpenStack components
• Good knowledge of what calls are made when the user triggers actions in OpenStack: taking a snapshot, creating a tenant, building a VM
• Experience working on configuration management tools (puppet, chef, salt, ansible, cobbler)
• Golang knowledge is a great plus.
• Understanding Kubernetes clusters and Hands-on experience resolving issues in production Kubernetes clusters
• Knowledge of Cloud Technologies like AWS, EKS.
• Certifications like CKA, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, and PCA
• To succeed in this role, you must be a team player with a strong sense of ownership of your work and a passion for working in a data-driven organisation.

Benefits and Perks:

Employees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognise their whole person. Platform9's benefits and perks have been carefully designed to ensure that we take care of an employee's emotions and physical well-being. Many of our benefits extend to families, who form a significant part of our well-being at work Please note that benefits change by country.

• Competitive Compensation and Equity
• Medical Healthcare for you and your family
• Hybrid Work Model
• Wellness Benefits
• Professional Development/Global certifications
• Reward and Recognition Programs
• Team Building Activities
• Hackathon
• Company-Wide Programs

Our benefits have been carefully selected, keeping in mind employees' requirements and personal situations now and for the future.