Senior Technical Account Manager (DevOps)
At a glance
Senior DevOps & Release role at Perforce. Minneapolis · full-time · $132,000–$169,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Take ownership of Puppet Enterprise’s technical health and help customers get successful results from the solution
- Act as customers’ main technical contact after installation and shape a Puppet Enterprise roadmap with them
- Identify customer training needs and carry their concerns across Perforce teams, including product and development
- Work with support engineers to diagnose customer issues and troubleshoot the underlying problems
- Use technical and business knowledge to guide customers toward greater efficiency and cost savings
What you bring
- You have held a Technical Account Manager position before and bring a computer science, IT, or engineering degree or equivalent background
- Your experience includes Unix or Linux administration or DevOps, automation, and programming such as Ruby or Python
- You can explain technical issues clearly to stakeholders at different organizational levels, in writing and conversation
- You have worked with some listed technologies, such as Git, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or continuous integration tools
Who this fits
This senior technical customer role suits someone who combines systems troubleshooting with consultative customer guidance and can adapt communication across organizational levels. The position is hybrid in Minneapolis.
From the employer
Position Summary:
Perforce, is seeking a Senior Technical Account Manager (TAM) to join the Customer Success team and work alongside the best DevOps Engineers in the industry. Puppet’s IT automation software enables system administrators to deliver the operational agility and efficiency of cloud computing at enterprise-class service levels, scaling from a handful of nodes in the cloud to tens of thousands on premise.
As a senior-level engineer, TAMs own the technical health and customer success of the Puppet Enterprise solution. The TAM leverages technical and business expertise to build relationships, guiding customers to improved efficiency and dollar savings. The TAM serves as the customer's main point of technical contact post-installation, working with customers to build a roadmap for future business success using Puppet Enterprise.
The joint journey of the TAM and customer is multifaceted and includes determining training needs; communicating and advocating on behalf of the customer throughout the Puppet by Perforce organization and ultimately sharing in the success and growth of both organizations.
Responsibilities:
- Passionate about problem solving and have a background that includes debugging and troubleshooting
- Maintains a constructive and composed focus facing and overcoming tough situations.
- Credible inside and outside of Puppet due to skills, knowledge and ability to communicate cross functionally and at different levels within an organization
- Strong consultative skills that guide and influence decisions
- The ability to work in an international, fast-growing environment
- The ability to understand and embrace DevOps and its impact in the computing world
- Partners productively with support engineers to troubleshoot and diagnose customer problems
- Advocates for customers and product quality within the development and product management organization
- Exceptionally flexible and can context switch without disrupting a positive disposition.
- Knowledge of data center management, systems management, and monitoring, networking & security
- Large scale infrastructure experience
Requirements:
- Former experience working in a TAM role.
- An Undergraduate in Computer Science/IT/Engineering or equivalent gained elsewhere.
- Solid verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to adapt messaging to varying stakeholder levels
- A collaborative and team-focused mindset, with a willingness to approach new situations
- Loves customers and takes personal pride and ownership to make them successful
- Unix &/or Linux SysAdmin or DevOps background, including:
- Programming skills (Ruby, Python, etc)
- Unix and/or Linux SysAdmin, including automation
- Experience with some of the following technologies:
- Git and git-based version control
- Public and Private Clouds (AWS, Azure, Openstack, VMware, Kubernetes, GCP)
- Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Bamboo, or others)
- Experience working in the software development or CI/CD domains
- Experience in customer sales/service
- Windows administration experience, including Microsoft PowerShell
- Knowledge and understanding of DevOps culture
- Understanding of Salesforce or other Sales management platforms
All employees are expected to demonstrate AI fluency appropriate to their role and level, including responsible use of AI tools, sound judgment, and adherence to company AI governance and security policy standards.
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