Designated Senior Technical Support Engineer

Remote Worker LTD.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security, seeking a Designated Site Reliability Engineer to join the Customer Support organization. You will focus on supporting NetBackup, Cloud, and appliance platforms while collaborating with highly skilled engineers to deliver reliable, high‑performance service to global customers.

The role requires deep technical expertise, excellent troubleshooting, and strong communication. You will document solutions, lead training, and travel up to 10% as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field.
• Experience with NetBackup and data management solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and customer focus.
• Ability to learn new products with minimal guidance.
• Expert knowledge of OS, cloud, networking and security concepts.
• Fluent Spanish and/or Portuguese is highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-touch technical product support for Cohesity NetBackup Software and Flex Appliances.
• Document and resolve post-sales technical issues using internal tools.
• Manage a diverse case load with varying priority and impact.
• Collaborate with Sales and Support to meet customer expectations and renewals.
• Reproduce customer environments to aid troubleshooting.
• Provide best practices to optimize product performance per environment.
• Mentor others and contribute to Knowledge Management content.

Skills

NetBackup experience

Troubleshooting expertise

Learning new technologies

Operating Systems

Cloud Platforms

Networking & Security

NetBackup features

InfoScale

Spanish/Portuguese language

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

NetBackup

InfoScale

Job description

Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500, rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data. Formed from the combination of Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, the company’s solutions secure and protect data on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Backed by NVIDIA, IBM, HPE, Cisco, AWS, Google Cloud, and others, Cohesity is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices around the globe.

We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design, and our culture.

Want to join the leader in AI-powered data security?

Join Cohesity as a DSRE (Designated Site Reliability Engineer) and become part of a team that is reshaping data management. This position within our Customer Support organisation offers you the groundbreaking opportunity to impact the stability and performance of our customer’s NetBackup estate.

This role will focus on supporting and resolving data protection issues in traditional platforms, NetBackup Appliances, Cloud, databases and more as you collaborate closely with highly skilled engineers from our team, striving to deliver flawless support and powerful solutions to our global customers.

We are looking for a passionate technical support engineer who possesses deep technical expertise, excellent troubleshooting experience, outstanding customer service and communications skills.

WHAT YOU'LL DO HERE:

• Deliver a polished, high-touch level of technical product support for Cohesity NetBackup Software and Flex Appliances of high profile and high impact customers.
• Utilize professional concepts, troubleshooting skills, policies and procedures and internal tools to document and resolve post-sales technical support problems efficiently and effectively.
• Manage a diverse case load consisting of a wide range of challenging problems that vary in priority and impact.
• Collaborate with internal business partners and stake holders to ensure customer expectations are met and secure renewals.
• Leverage technical expertise to reproduce customer environments for troubleshooting purposes.
• Research and provide technical advisement/best practices to help customers optimize their product performance, based on their specific environment and operating objectives.
• Drive continued self-development in both technical and professional areas to optimize effectiveness in role in Veritas’ latest Alta product offerings.
• Develop and lead activities (training, mentoring, projects, etc.) to help strengthen the technical abilities of others.
• Contribute and improve Knowledge Management (KM) content regularly to increase the quantity, quality, and availability of known technical solutions to customers and peer engineers.
• Provide feedback to improve product quality and process improvements.
• On occasion, travel for customer site visits and/or departmental meetings. Annual travel expected to be less than 10%.

WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Business Administration or equivalent experience.
• Work experience with networking and enterprise data backup solutions, particularly NetBackup or data management solutions, particularly InfoScale.
• Experience providing enterprise-level technical support utilizing advanced troubleshooting methodologies on NetBackup Core and Appliance functionalities or InfoScale.
• Demonstrated capability of learning emerging products and technologies with minimal documentation and guidance to support customers and colleagues.
• Expert level knowledge in contemporary Operating Systems, Cloud Platforms, Advanced Networking Concepts, Storage and Computer Security Concepts.
• Expert level knowledge in NetBackup features and NetBackup Appliances or InfoScale required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Fluent Spanish and/or Portuguese is highly desired.
• Ability to self-manage a fluctuating workload while simultaneously servicing several potentially demanding customers.
• Propensity for quickly forging and maintaining productive working partnerships with internal (e.g. Sales and Support) and external customers.
• Capacity to exercise sound judgment, imagination, and creativity to identify solutions and techniques to resolve challenging problems within defined practices and policies.

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In-Office Expectations

Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g. within a forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2-3 days a week of their choosing.

We strongly prefer candidates who are currently located in or near the designated job location. Candidates outside the area should apply only if they are committed to relocating prior to their start date and have the legal right to work in the job location.