Escalation Engineer- III

Who is Forcepoint?

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!

Escalations Engineer- Forcepoint ONE

We are looking for an experienced escalation engineer with 3 or more years of experience and a strong appetite for resolving highly technical issues.  Candidates should be a self-starter, possess excellent troubleshooting and reasoning abilities and strong written and verbal communication skills along with a desire to work on networking, security, proxy, web, DLP and other client-server technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for triaging highly technical issues.
• Understand Customer's environments.
• Troubleshoot complex communication between client and server infrastructures on the fly.
• Be a mentor and technical leader for other technical support engineers.
• Provide a consistent positive customer experience.
• Develop technical articles and documentation and assist in growing both our internal and public-facing knowledge base.
• Work with Professional Services, DevOps, Engineering, product & support in resolving issues in a timely fashion.
• Ability to work well under demanding circumstances.
• Self-Starter, Collaborative, Responsive and Enterprising in achieving customer objectives.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and 3+ years’ experience as Escalation Engineer/ Technical Engineer, preferably in Enterprise SaaS or Cyber Security.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Prior Experience in communicating with Enterprise, Service Provider, or SMB customers.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas as an Administrator:
  • Operating Systems - Windows, Linux, or Mac OS.
  • Cloud / SaaS applications - Salesforce, GSuite, Office 365, Salesforce, etc.
  • IaaS - AWS, Azure or GCP.
  • Identity and Access Management (LDAP, AD, ADFS, Okta, Ping, etc).
  • Network Firewalls and Proxies.
  • End-Point Security.
• Proficient with troubleshooting a wide variety of applications using standard tools (etc. Wireshark, tcpdump, Fiddler, Charles proxy, OpenSSL, grep, and Kibana/Splunk/SIEM).
• Familiar with reading and/or writing simple code - preferably in Python, Javascript and C++/C#.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues involving communication between multiple SaaS and on-premises applications.
• Experience building customer-facing documentation.
• Training internal teams about technical details of the product.
• Eagerness to learn lots of new technologies.
• Willingness to work EMEA hours.

Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.

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