
Global Support Engineer I
Komatsu Ltd.2 days ago
Tucson, AZ, USAEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Provide 24x7 emergency global support and serve as the first point of contact for level-3 escalations from regional support teams.
- Validate, reproduce, troubleshoot, and resolve product issues in laboratory and production environments within defined SLA timelines.
- Diagnose root causes, develop workarounds, provide reproduction details to development teams, and reduce escalations to product engineers.
- Assist with deployments, configuration, validation, restoration, and updates on mobile mining equipment, servers, office computers, and customer systems.
- Assist with testing, release activities, first commercial installations, and documentation reviews for new product releases.
- Provide technical support and customer service through support tickets and other customer interactions.
- Conduct root-cause analysis, contribute to knowledge bases, identify product improvements, and suggest ways to reduce support tickets.
- Provide internal training on system installation, usage, and maintenance.
- Collaborate across business units and maintain compliance with legislative, company, customer-site, and safety requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or 2–3 years of equivalent work experience.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, time-management, organizational, communication, and customer-service skills.
- Ability to work autonomously, balance multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and remain calm in stressful situations.
- Experience with Windows and Linux operating systems, user security and rights management, command-line environments, and basic network configuration and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of firewalls, NAT, routing rules, TCP/IP, SQL, and reporting platforms such as SSRS and Power BI.
- Basic experience with Kotlin, Java, shell, Bash, PowerShell, batch, or Python scripting and programming languages.
- Preferred: 1+ years in a technical support role and experience with mining, Microsoft IoT Edge, IoT Hub, Kubernetes storage, Windows Server, SQL administration, Linux administration, Kafka, Postgres, Grafana, Prometheus, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Preferred: knowledge of DevOps strategies and methods, containers, orchestration platforms, networking, security, system performance monitoring, package management, filesystems, permissions, and system/service management.
Benefits
- Up to 25% travel is required.
- The role includes 24x7 emergency support responsibilities.
- Komatsu describes a diverse, inclusive, and equal-opportunity workplace with opportunities to grow skills and career.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAzureBashDockerGrafanaJavaKotlinKubernetesLinuxMicrosoft SQL ServerPostgreSQLPowerShellPrometheusPythonWindows