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Sr. Support Engineer

IBM

IT, Customer Service

Austin, TX, USA

Posted on Aug 27, 2025

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Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

Our team provides expert technical support for customers using HCP Terraform. We help users troubleshoot issues, understand best practices, and optimize their Terraform configurations on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform. Our goal is to ensure a smooth and successful experience with HCP Terraform, empowering customers to efficiently manage their infrastructure as code.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

An engineer supporting HCP Terraform customers typically handles a wide range of responsibilities to ensure smooth operation and effective use of the platform. Here are the high-level responsibilities:

Support Engineers will troubleshoot complex issues related to HCP Products and work to find viable solutions while maintaining detailed communication with customers.
Reproduce and debug customer issues by building or using existing test environments and tools.
Communicate tactfully with customers: gather info, provide diagnostic and resolution steps, convey process and product guidance
Solve incoming technical support requests within SLA, including high-severity urgent cases
Continuously increase knowledge and help train the team on 3rd party technologies that integrate with HCP Products.
Identify and communicate product usage trends, bugs and feature requests at weekly product engineering meetings
Collaborate with account managers to schedule, coordinate, and lead customer debugging calls
Document and record all activity with customers in accordance to both internal and external security standards
Contribute to product documentation, customer knowledge base, and best practices guides
Continuously improve process and tools in collaboration with the team
Periodic on-call rotation for production-down issues
Able to work from the Austin, TX office 1-2 days a week

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Experience and very good understanding on how infrastructure as code works.5+ years of Support Engineering experience (or comparable customer-facing technical role), preferably for mission-critical software

Possess the following attributes: Confidence, Positivity and Adaptability.
Experience troubleshooting and resolving urgent, high-visibility technical problems.
Experience communicating clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Experience working with Enterprise customers and advocating for customer experience.
Experience with major cloud platforms, VCS platforms, distributed systems, microservice architecture, and containers.
Experience with scripting tool of choice to help automate reproduction environments (for example, Bash, Python).
Ability to read complex code for troubleshooting and familiarity with Github.
Experience with REST APIs and command line tools.
Well-organized, excellent work ethic, attention to detail, and ability to learn new technologies quickly.
Excellent problem solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

DevOps Engineering, Software Engineering, and/or System Administration experience.
Experience with HashiCorp tools, ideally with Terraform or HCP Terraform.
Certifications at the Associate/Expert/Professional level for AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

This position is eligible for participation in an IBM Sales Incentive plan. Actual incentive opportunity will be based on performance and the eligible Target Incentive, as addressed in the applicable plan, all of which is subject to change. The compensation range listed for this position is the IBM Reference Salary that is used when you are not actively participating in a sales plan. Your actual base pay plus incentive opportunity will be determined by the Incentive Plan assigned to you.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

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