Job description
At NiCE, we don’t limit our challenges. We challenge our limits. Always. We’re ambitious. We’re game changers. And we play to win. We set the highest standards and execute beyond them. And if you’re like us, we can offer you the ultimate career opportunity that will light a fire within you.
So, what’s the role all about?
The Senior Specialist Technical Support Engineer role is to deliver technical support to end users about how to use and administer the NICE Service and Sales Performance Management, Contact Analytics and/or WFM software solutions efficiently and effectively in fulfilling business objectives. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Specialist Technical Support Engineer to join our global support team. In this role, you will be responsible for diagnosing and resolving complex performance issues in large-scale SaaS applications hosted on AWS. You will work closely with engineering, DevOps, and customer success teams to ensure our customers receive world-class support and performance optimization.
How will you make an impact?
- Serve as a subject matter expert in troubleshooting performance issues across distributed SaaS environments in AWS. Interfacing with various R&D groups, Customer Support teams, Business Partners and Customers Globally to address CSS Recording and Compliance application related product issues and resolve high-level issues.
- Analyze logs, metrics, and traces using tools like CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, New Relic, or similar.
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to identify root causes and implement long-term solutions.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior support engineers.
- Act as an escalation point for critical customer issues, ensuring timely resolution and communication.
- Develop and maintain runbooks, knowledge base articles, and diagnostic tools to improve support efficiency.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response efforts.
Have you got what it takes?
- 10+ years of experience in technical support, site reliability engineering, or performance engineering roles.
- Deep understanding of AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ELB, ECS/EKS, and CloudFormation.
- Proven experience troubleshooting performance issues in high-availability, multi-tenant SaaS environments.
- Strong knowledge of networking, load balancing, and distributed systems.
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Excellent communication and customer-facing skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).
- Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience working in ITIL or similar support frameworks.
What’s in it for you?
Join an ever-growing, market disrupting, global company where the teams – comprised of the best of the best – work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment! As the market leader, every day at NICE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations. If you are passionate, innovative, and excited to constantly raise the bar, you may just be our next NICEr!
Enjoy NICE-FLEX!
At NICE, we work according to the NICE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere.
Requisition ID: 7554
Reporting into: Tech Manager
Role Type: Individual Contributor
About NiCE
NICE Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE) software products are used by 25,000+ global businesses, including 85 of the Fortune 100 corporations, to deliver extraordinary customer experiences, fight financial crime and ensure public safety. Every day, NiCE software manages more than 120 million customer interactions and monitors 3+ billion financial transactions.
Known as an innovation powerhouse that excels in AI, cloud and digital, NiCE is consistently recognized as the market leader in its domains, with over 8,500 employees across 30+ countries.
NiCE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, neurotype, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.
