Customer Support Engineer

VAST Data is looking for a Customer Support Engineer to join our growing team! This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest\-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence. **"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market." \- Forbes** VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real\-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud. Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer\-first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills \& experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history. **Summary** As a Customer Support Engineering team you will be regarded as a VAST Data technical expert and, as such, you will be involved in daily technical operations and escalations. You will be a part of VAST “Flight Crew” for our customers, working with a small team of other Support Engineers and Success Managers to handle all post\-sales activity for the customer. The main responsibilities include responding to customer issues (reactive and proactive), evaluating the problem, using hands\-on\-keyboard skills to solve for the issue, and escalating to engineering with as much detail as possible when you can’t. You will also be involved in developing and testing and solutions in strategically and tactically significant applications and use cases, including file protocols, machine learning, object storage, and high\-