Technical Account Manager

Technical Account Manager

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 240 data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. With Equinix Metal, customers can rapidly deploy automated single-tenant infrastructure and interact with 2,000+ networks and 3,000 cloud and service providers. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.

We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Job Summary

Equinix Metal is  looking for a technical leader to join our Customer Engineering team.  As a Senior Customer Engineer, you will be a key member of our global customer facing team, helping SysAdmins, Site Reliability Engineers, and Network experts drive outcomes using our platform.

As a Customer Engineer, you serve as a technical partner to our customers, helping to accelerate their efforts to build solutions on top of Equinix Metal.  To do this, you’ll need to draw upon your extensive experience with networking, systems administration, DevOps and cloud API’s. 

This role requires both technical and communication skills including general troubleshooting; network performance testing; API and DevOps ; and a desire to engage with stakeholders across a variety of mediums — from live chat and Slack, to our ticketing system or Zoom sessions. 

The ideal candidate will have a strong infrastructure background as well as comfort and interest in cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes.  You will be joining a collaborative, global and cross functional organization that includes all aspects of customer engagement: Technical Account Management, Developer Relations, Product Marketing, Brand Experience and Digital Marketing.  

Join us and play a key part in establishing Equinix at the forefront of developer-led infrastructure!

Responsibilities

 As a Senior Customer Engineer you will: 

• Be responsible for providing technical support to Equinix Metal customers through a variety of  platforms such as 

  • Email / tickets

  • Live chat

  • Private and public Slack channels

  • Zoom (working sessions)

• Provide support to new and existing customers, including:

• Responsibility for queue sanitation, ticket triaging, troubleshooting and resolution

• Follow-up with customers and relevant stakeholders throughout Equinix Metal

• Be an expert resource on Equinix Metal:

• Ensure familiarity with all aspects of the Equinix Metal platform

• Constantly expand your knowledge of common use cases and deployments

• Understand and practice with Equinix Metal’s API and related DevOps tools

• Support customers and operations team members:

• Observe and help to lead incident management protocols

• Serve as a communication lead as needed during customer-impacting events

• Provide relevant details to sales, account, product, and operations teams

• Ensure excellent documentation to enhance self-service

  • Provide content and edits to our public facing documentation, including technical guides

  • Provide content and edits to internal documentation to support Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), team training and employee onboarding

Qualifications

• You have excellent communication skills

• You have a background in (and passion for) physical and cloud infrastructure

• You enjoy helping people succeed and finding solutions to difficult technical challenges

• You have deep (5+ years) experience with Linux, including L2 and L3 Networking.

• You are familiar with different DevOps tools such as Ansible and Terraform

• You have experience with various public and hybrid clouds (AWS, GCP, Openstack) 

• You are familiar with incident management

• You are a natural leader, helping to educate and develop those around you

• You are willing to work on a holiday and rotational shift

Critical Success Factors

• Demonstrate a balance of humility and ambition

• Curious about technology and solving customer problems

• Excellent communication skills (written English)

Our Core Values

At Equinix we put customers at the center of everything, and we don’t compromise on our values: 

• Open Your Heart, Open Your Mind 

• Put We Before Me 

• Speak Up, Step Up 

• Keep Your Promises  

• Be an Energy Supplier

• Find a Better Way  

• Serve Others 

• Keep Growing 

Learn more about our purpose, culture, and values here.

About Equinix Metal

Equinix MetalTM is an automated, interconnected, low-latency bare metal-as-a-service, that is available in global locations across Platform Equinix®. We enable digital businesses to more quickly be at the center of the customers, suppliers, and partners with whom they want to connect. As part of Equinix, our mission is to protect, connect, and power the digital world with physical infrastructure that moves at software speed. 

Founded in 1998, Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company. Digital leaders harness our trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. 

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Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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