Technical Support Engineer

Cohesity; Roseville (MN); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cohesity seeks a Technical Support Engineer to join the Customer Support organization and resolve data protection issues across platforms. You will work with a global team to ensure top-tier support and continuous improvement of the Cohesity Data Platform.

Responsibilities include deploying and maintaining Cohesity clusters, automating tasks with scripts, and debugging issues across Hyper-V, VMware, Linux, and cloud environments. Fluent English and Spanish required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in storage, networking or virtualization; 5+ years in related field.
• Fluency in English and Spanish for business communication.
• Experience with Python, Bash or PowerShell.
• Strong Linux knowledge and ability to resolve kernel-level issues in storage networks.
• Ability to analyze system diagnostics and clearly articulate findings.
• Familiarity with Linux debugging tools (systemtap, tcpdump, strace, wireshark, gdb, crash).
• Experience with remote file access protocols (NFS, SMB/CIFS).
• Knowledge of storage concepts including virtualization and data protection (VMware, Commvault, Symantec, EMC, NetApp).
• Experience leveraging AI tools to improve productivity.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, maintain and operate Cohesity clusters globally.
• Develop scripts to automate repetitive tasks.
• Debug backups on Hyper-V, VMware vSphere and Linux KVM.
• Provide support for clusters in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
• Write bash or Python scripts for log collection and analysis.

Skills

English (and Spanish) fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in storage, networking or virtualization

Tools

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

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.

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.

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

Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

As a Technical Support Engineer at Cohesity, you will work within our Customer Support organization, supporting and resolving data protection issues on traditional platforms and databases. We are seeking passionate technical support engineers who possess deep technical expertise, excellent troubleshooting experience, outstanding customer service, and great communications skills. You will work with other engineers from our global team to ensure our customers receive the highest level of support possible!

English and Spanish Fluency is Required: Effective spoken and written business communication skills are needed for business communications such as support calls, technical customer conversations, technical documentation, correspondence, presentations, negotiations, socializing and meetings.

Our TSE opportunity will require working staggered days covering the weekends under flexible schedules (Tuesday to Saturday OR Sunday to Thursday).

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

• Responsible for deployment, maintenance and operations on Cohesity clusters deployed worldwide.
• Develop scripts and framework for automating repetitive tasks.
• Debug issues with backups on Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere and Linux KVM hypervisors.
• Provide support on clusters deployed in cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
• Write scripts using bash or python for log capture and analysis on large clusters.
• Proactively monitor and manage the availability of clusters and associated applications.
• Perform performance analysis, tuning and provide recommendations on issues and suggest cluster expansion if required.
• Define and lead changes to the Cohesity Data platform to product engineering teams based on feedback from deployments.
• Provide support for issues pertaining to Powershell cmdlets and RESTful APIs and provide scripts for automating tasks on Cohesity Data Platform.
• Work on debugging and resolving technical issues with the CentOS Platform.

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

• Bachelor's degree specializing in storage, networking or virtualization or equivalent 5+ years of experience.
• Demonstrated fluency in both English and Spanish.
• Experience with Python, Bash or Powershell.
• Deep understanding of Linux platform and ability to identify and resolve issues with the Linux kernel associated with storage, networking, compute and memory.
• Ability to analyze system diagnostics and clearly articulate issues.
• Good understanding of Linux debugging utilities, with an emphasis on systemtap, tcpdump ftrace, strace, wireshark, gdb, and crash.
• Experience with remote file access protocols, including NFS, SMB (CIFS).
• Strong experience with storage-related concepts, including virtualization and data protection (e.g. VMware, CommVault, Symantec, EMC, NetApp).
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making

Additional Skills (Nice to Have):

• Master’s degree specializing in storage, networking or virtualization.
• Experience working with a distributed file system.
• Performance analysis experience.
• CentOS Linux Platform Architecture experience.
• Experience debugging complex, serialized, multi-threaded code.

Pay Range :

$71,680.00-$89,600.00

The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Employer (EEOE)

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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.

Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply, provided they have the right to work in the job location.