Premium Support Engineer

JobsinAustria; Düsseldorf; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

SUSE is seeking a Premium Support Engineer to deliver enterprise-level post-implementation support for SUSE products. You will work with customer technical and management teams to understand systems, configurations and business needs, driving timely resolutions and proactive issue avoidance.

Responsibilities include building strong customer relationships, accelerating response times, and coordinating with Sales and Services for further opportunities, while leveraging Linux, Kubernetes and Docker

Qualifikationen

• Proven technical design and delivery of enterprise-level solutions.
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and Linux environments.
• Fluency in German and English, strong analytical problem-solving.

Aufgaben

• Provide post-implementation product support for enterprise customers.
• Identify and resolve issues with SUSE technologies.
• Build relationships with customer staff and align solutions to business needs.

Kenntnisse

Platform-as-a-Service

Linux container tech

Enterprise Linux

Application Delivery

Networking concepts

Red Hat technologies

Interpersonal skills

Independent work

Stress handling

Analytical skills

High-tech environment

MS Office & corporate apps

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Networking tools

Jobbeschreibung

About Us

SUSE is a global leader of enterprise open source software. By transforming community innovations into secure, sovereign and AI-ready solutions, SUSE empowers customers to escape vendor lock-in and regain control of their IT destiny. Through industry-leading Linux, Kubernetes, Edge and AI infrastructure solutions, SUSE delivers the flexibility to innovate everywhere—from the data center to multi-cloud and out to the edge. Only SUSE also manages many Linux and Kubernetes distributions. At SUSE, Choice Happens because we prioritize community, interoperability and relentless innovation. Discover how we power mission‑critical resilience at www.suse.com.

Premium Support Engineer

Job Description

The Premium Support Engineer is assigned to provide support to our enterprise customers with post-implementation product support and is primarily responsible for the identification and resolution of issues with SUSE related products. You will develop business relationships with the customer account’s technical and management staff, and support the customer by gaining first‑hand knowledge of their system, configuration and business needs. The engineer will use this familiarity to accelerate response time to requests and ensure that solutions are tailored to meet customer's expectations. The engineer's goals are to pro‑actively help the customer avoid potential problems and maintain the environment of SUSE technology in an optimal and efficient manner. The engineer will be available to respond in a timely manner (defined in the contract) to any issues that may arise with the implemented SUSE technologies and will utilize resources within the Company as needed to assist with these issues. An engineer will also listen to the needs of the customers for opportunity discovery and forward to the appropriate internal team (Sales, Services) for further development.

Focus Areas

To succeed you will need to demonstrate technical skills in designing and delivering enterprise‑level solutions by troubleshooting and providing accurate and timely resolution to customer issues. Your knowledge of open source and ability to articulate the key values of SUSE products, solution and strategy will be a great asset.

Preferred Experience & Skills

• Proven technical skills in designing and delivering enterprise‑level solutions in two or more of the following:
• Platform-as-a-Service software & Linux container technology such as Docker/Kubernetes etc
• Enterprise Linux
• Application Delivery
• A good understanding of the complexities of networking
• Experience in Red Hat technologies would also be beneficial as would any Linux accreditations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Build and maintain strong relationships with our customers on different levels of their organizations
• Proven ability to work independently and take initiative
• Position requires flexibility and capacity to work across a variety of activities within a matrix and virtual organizational framework.
• Ability to appropriately handle tense/stressful customer situations regarding service outages and issue resolution.
• Strong Analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Extensive experience in high‑tech or software company
• Basic MS Office and corporate applications knowledge
• Bachelor’s Degree and/or Applicable Experience
• May at times be required to work outside of standard business hours
• Culture fit with SUSE is essential in the growing organization
• Fluency in German and English

Personal Attributes

• Work approach - willing to learn and proactively explore new things daily.
• Strong problem‑solving skills to diagnose and resolve technical issues
• Good priority setting, and collaboration skills.
• Customer / service minded.

Job

Services

What We Offer

We empower you to be bold, driving your career to create the future you want. We celebrate and reward your achievements.

SUSE is a dynamic environment that is evolving rapidly, thus requiring agility, strong entrepreneurship and an open mind. This is a compelling opportunity for the right person to join us as we continue to scale and prosper.

We give you the freedom to be yourself. You will work in a global community of unique individuals – like you – with different backgrounds, talents, skills and perspectives. A truly open community where everyone is welcome, has a voice and is encouraged to reach their full potential regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or any other characteristics.

SUSE Values

Choice: We are continuously making choice happen. We are accountable for our choices. We never get complacent.

Community: Nobody is smarter than everybody. We embrace diversity of thought. We are “open source first, upstream first” where collaboration benefits all.

Trust: We are trusted to deliver with integrity. We offer trust by default, and do not wait for it to be earned. We foster an environment where everyone trusts each other.

Innovation: We foster a culture of experimentation, and embrace change by challenging the norm. We are committed to continuous improvement, creativity and adaptability. Ideas are great, but without execution they are just ideas.