Associate Proactive Monitoring Engineer

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Hyderabad, India

Salesforce is seeking an Associate Technical Support Engineer – Proactive Monitoring to join their Technical Support Engineering team. The role involves monitoring the Salesforce platform, detecting and triaging incidents, communicating with customers, managing support cases, and contributing to knowledge base. The candidate will leverage internal tools and collaborate with engineering teams to resolve issues and identify trends. The role requires a Bachelor's degree, 6-24 months of experience in technical support or IT operations, understanding of cloud computing and SaaS, basic familiarity with monitoring tools, strong analytical skills, and Salesforce administration/developer experience. Experience with monitoring tools like Splunk or Datadog and scripting skills are preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Continuously monitor Salesforce platform health dashboards, alerts, and telemetry signals to detect anomalies and potential issues before they escalate into customer-impacting incidents.
  2. Analyze monitoring alerts, log data, and system metrics to identify root causes and escalate findings to the appropriate engineering or operations teams.
  3. Proactively engage with customers affected by identified issues, providing timely communication and resolution guidance to minimize disruption.
  4. Create, manage, and resolve support cases with thorough documentation of findings, actions taken, and resolutions.
  5. Partner closely with Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Operations, and senior Technical Support Engineers to drive issue resolution and continuous improvement.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • 6–24 months of experience in technical support, IT operations, systems monitoring, or a related role.
  • Solid understanding of cloud computing concepts, SaaS platforms, and web technologies (HTTP/HTTPS, REST APIs, DNS, SSL/TLS).
  • Basic familiarity with monitoring tools and concepts (e.g., log analysis, alerting, dashboards).
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work through ambiguous situations.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
  • A genuine passion for customer success and a customer-first mindset.
  • Salesforce Admin Experience: Hands-on experience with Salesforce Administration — including user management, profiles, roles, permission sets, flows, validation rules, and basic configuration of Sales Cloud or Service Cloud.
  • Salesforce Developer Experience: Working knowledge of Salesforce development fundamentals — including Apex (triggers, classes), Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL/SOSL queries, and basic understanding of the Salesforce data model and deployment processes (Change Sets / Salesforce DX).
  • Ability to read and interpret debug logs, error messages, and system exceptions within the Salesforce platform to assist in root cause analysis and proactive issue identification.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Salesforce products (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Platform, etc.) or prior experience using/supporting CRM platforms.
  • Exposure to monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, or similar platforms.
  • Basic scripting or automation skills (Python, Bash, or similar).
  • Understanding of ITIL frameworks or incident management best practices.
  • Salesforce Administrator

What the JD emphasized

  • proactive Monitoring
  • proactively identifying
  • proactively engage
  • proactive issue identification