Sr. Technical Support Engineer, Focused Services

13 Hours ago • 5 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Technical Support Engineer, you will personalize customer experience, mitigate risks, and troubleshoot technical issues for Palo Alto Networks products. You will partner with Technical Account Managers, proactively and reactively engaging with customers to address technical needs and manage escalations. This role requires strong fault isolation, root cause analysis, and timely solution delivery, along with documenting solutions and reproducing customer issues for resolution with developers.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of experience in client-facing technical support roles
  • Provide reactive/proactive technical support to top-tier customers
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues for customers
  • Perform fault isolation and root cause analysis
  • Manage support cases to ensure timely resolution and follow-ups
  • Experience in TCP/IP, Routing & Switching (OSPF / BGP / VLAN / STP)
  • Experience with Palo Alto Networks products and technology
  • Strong ability to debug broad, complex, and unique networks
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Flexibility to work shift hours, including afternoons, evenings, and weekends
  • Travel to customer sites in conjunction with Technical Account Managers
Good to have:
  • Experience with Authentication Protocols (Radius / TACACS)
Perks:
  • FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account
  • Mental and financial health resources
  • Personalized learning opportunities

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

Your Career

As a Senior Technical Support Engineer, you will be heavily engaged to personalize their customers’ experience and ensure a successful Palo Alto Networks product experience. In this role, you will develop a working partnership to mitigate risks and troubleshoot to resolve technical issues for their customers. You will partner with the Technical Account Manager to effectively become a virtual part of their customers’ teams. You will engage both proactively and reactively with the customer to address any Palo Alto Networks technology technical needs. You will also provide escalation management for any technical issues encountered with their customers’ enterprise deployment, resulting in faster time to value.

This role requires strong fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to diagnose and solve complex technical issues and provide timely solutions to customers in a professional manner. Regularly updating customer cases to record the progress of calls in call tracking system and documenting technical solutions and product information in account-specific repositories. Work to reproduce customer issues and work with developers to resolve technical issues.

Your Impact

  • Provide reactive/proactive technical support to top-tier customers
  • Provide configuration review, troubleshooting and best practices to named customers
  • Manage support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups are done in a timely manner
  • Provide fault isolation and root cause analysis for technical issues
  • Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other technical documentation in the Knowledge Base
  • Gather and retain customer-specific documentation in a secure location for ease of troubleshooting
  • Review of technical documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, troubleshooting guides, etc
  • Travel will be required to customer sites in conjunction with working with Technical Account Managers for named accounts

Qualifications

Your Experience

  • 5+ years of experience in client-facing, technical support type roles
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience in TCP/IP, Routing & Switching (OSPF / BGP / VLAN / STP)
  • Experience with Palo Alto Networks products and technology
  • Strong ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unique networks with mixed media and protocols
  • Experience with Authentication Protocols (Radius / TACACS) is preferred
  • Ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences, and explain the impact in business terms
  • Ability to summarise a situation clearly for executives internally and externally, and in delivering presentations to senior stakeholders
  • Flexibility to work shift hours as required, including afternoons, evenings, and weekends

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, 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 of 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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About The Company

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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