Senior Technical Support Engineer, Focused Services - Prisma SDWAN

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Sr. Technical Support Engineer for Focused Services, you will be the primary customer advocate, providing tailored support and resolving complex post-sales concerns. Your role involves detailed analysis of situations and data, requiring in-depth evaluation and critical thinking. You will manage escalations, phone calls, and emails efficiently while adhering to service level agreements. Responsibilities include conducting weekly reviews, performing root cause analysis for critical issues, planning upgrades, and delivering quarterly business reviews. You will also participate in technical discussions to improve products and environments, offering advanced-level technical assistance to optimize customer security infrastructure, debugging issues at the application and OS levels, and documenting solutions for the knowledge base. Additionally, you will contribute to hiring and training new team members and may travel to customer sites for critical situations.
Must have:
  • Minimum 5 years of network security experience
  • Strong communication and customer service skills
  • In-depth network troubleshooting skills
  • Expertise with TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, routing protocols
  • Expertise with Remote Access VPN and tunneling protocols
  • Knowledge of SD-WAN architectures
  • Experience with Multi-factor Authentication Protocols
  • Working knowledge of Security services
  • Ability to independently debug complex networks
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Good to have:
  • Virtualization experience (AWS, Azure, VMWare, OpenStack)
  • Experience with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS
  • Experience with Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, Fortinet products

Job Details

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

You will work firsthand with our valued customers to address their complex post-sales concerns where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of many factors. You’re a critical thinker in understanding the methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. You’ll enjoy networking with key contacts outside your own area of expertise, with a strong capability of detailing difficult technical issues to both non-technical and technical professionals.  

Under Focused Services, you will be a designated customer advocate who will assist in providing tailored support, weekly reviews, root cause analysis for critical issues, release review and upgrade planning, and a quarterly business review. As part of the Prisma SDWAN support team, you will serve our customer base by providing technical support, by answering incoming support inquiries and managing escalations, phone calls, and emails in an effective, efficient, and friendly manner within defined service level agreements.

You will regularly participate in technical discussions with multi-functional teams, creating an environment of transparency that ultimately leads to better products, better working environments, and better cybersecurity. Your quick thinking and support to our clients provides the fast assistance they need to keep their environments secure – which means you’ll need to move quickly, thoughtfully, and provide technical assistance as needed (often, in high pressure situations).

Your Impact

  • Offer advanced-level technical assistance to our top-tier customers, ensuring prompt resolution of complex issues and providing tailored solutions to optimize their security infrastructure
  • Use fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to diagnose and tackle complicated technical issues
  • Work to reproduce customer issues and qualified critical issues
  • Respond to user-reported issues in adherence to established Service Level Agreements  
  • Perform advanced troubleshooting at the application level and OS level, using your knowledge and relevant expertise 
  • Identify the area of fault (code, environment, or configuration) and work with the appropriate team(s) implementing the fix
  • Provide timely feedback into the development process on customer-reported product problems
  • Document actions to effectively communicate information internally and to customers
  • Facilitate root cause investigations and manage the implementation of corrective and preventative measures
  • Be the subject matter expert on core technologies of Palo Alto Networks product line
  • File bug reports with the engineering team and develops test plans and best practices with Quality Assurance teams to improve overall software and hardware quality per release cycle
  • Facilitate the hiring and onboarding process with technical screens, train new hires on technical and soft skills, and enable process and tools knowledge for readiness
  • Author Technical Support Bulletins and technical documentation in the Knowledge Base for training materials, marketing collateral, manuals, and problem-solving guides
  • Travel to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution as required

Qualifications

Your Experience 

  • Minimum of 5 years of network security experience along with strong communication and customer service skills
  • In depth, hands on network troubleshooting skills
  • Deep understanding of TCP/IP and advanced knowledge of LAN/WAN technologies, expertise with general routing/switching, Routing protocols (e.g BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), branch, and DataCenter Architectures
  • Expertise with Remote Access VPN solutions and tunneling protocols (IPSEC, GRE, PKI & SSL/TLS, DNS, DHCP)
  • Knowledge of SD-WAN Architectures is preferred
  • Experience with Multi-factor Authentication Protocols (2FA, RADIUS, LDAP, AD, CAC cards, tokens etc.)
  • Working knowledge of Security services (IDS/IPS, Firewalls etc.)
  • Virtualization experience (AWS, Azure, VMWare, OpenStack)
  • Experience with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS is a plus (Debugging, Editing Registries, Plist etc.)
  • Experience with Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper (Netscreen), and Fortinet products a plus
  • The ability to independently debug broad, complex and unique networks with mixed media and protocols is required
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • BS in computer science, information technology, computer architecture, electrical engineering, mathematics or related experience or equivalent military experience required
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Willingness to work outside of normal business hours, including weekends (As business needs dictates)

Additional Information

The Team

Our technical support team is critical to our success and mission. As part of this team, you enable customer success by providing support to clients after they have purchased our products. Our dedication to our customers doesn’t stop once they sign – it evolves. As threats and technology change, we stay in step to accomplish our mission.

You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new ones, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised – in fact, you’ll seek them out to ensure our clients are safely supported. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus on providing the best customer support in the industry.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Our enterprise security platform detects and prevents known and unknown threats while safely enabling an increasingly complex and rapidly growing number of applications. Come be part of the team that redefined the firewall industry and is now the fastest-growing security company in history. Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.

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