Role overview
Manage a team of skilled technical support engineers delivering an outstanding customer experience for a cloud security platform. Based in São Paulo and operating on a 10:00-19:00 BRT schedule, the role combines hands-on escalation handling with people leadership, while actively modeling an AI-first approach by building tools and automations that scale support operations.
Responsibilities
- Manage, develop, coach, and mentor a team of Technical Support Engineers responsible for the technical customer support experience.
- Serve as the team's performance and accountability owner, partnering with upper management on reviews, performance plans, and employee relations matters.
- Drive onboarding and ongoing technical training, including identifying learning and development needs.
- Lead projects or initiatives that improve team productivity, processes, or procedures.
- Collaborate with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations and resolve escalations raised by team members.
- Design and implement automation-driven solutions that scale the support offering, using AI tooling such as code-assistant platforms.
- Maintain incident management requests to product and engineering, build knowledge base articles, and advocate for timely resolution on behalf of customers.
Requirements
- Native Brazilian Portuguese speaker with excellent spoken and written English.
- 1+ years managing external technical support teams in a SaaS environment while serving as the hands-on escalation anchor.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience deploying and maintaining AWS, Azure, or GCP infrastructure.
- Direct experience configuring and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters and virtualized environments.
Nice to have
- Track record of writing scripts or building tools using AI APIs to automate operational workflows.
- Practical experience managing hybrid-cloud identity, security protocols, and monitoring/logging pipelines.
Benefits and work setup
- On-site/hybrid position based in São Paulo, Brazil, with a 10:00-19:00 BRT schedule.
- Applicants must have the legal right to work in Brazil; visa sponsorship is not offered for this role.
- Resumes must be submitted in English.