Sr. Technical Support Engineer, Focused Services

1 Month ago • 5 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Sr. Technical Support Engineer, you will work directly with customers to address complex post-sales concerns, analyze situations, and evaluate factors to obtain results. You will network with key contacts, detailing technical issues to both technical and non-technical professionals. You will participate in technical discussions with multi-functional teams, creating an environment of transparency. You will provide quick technical assistance in high-pressure situations. Your responsibilities will include providing technical support, troubleshooting, and best practices to customers. You will also manage support cases, provide fault isolation, and root cause analysis.
Must have:
  • 5+ years in support roles with global customers
  • Experience supporting Endpoint security software products
  • Customer-centric mindset
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Japanese
  • Business level or higher English for writing and reading
  • Ability to clearly articulate technical issues
Good to have:
  • CSP (Cloud Service Provider) related work experience
  • Knowledge of public cloud platform (XaaS)
  • Ability to write code/script

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

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.

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

  • 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 

  • Experience:

    • 5+ years in support roles, working directly with large global customers and partners in addition to internal teams (such as DevOps, Engineering, QA, Product managers..)

    • Supporting Endpoint security software products (e.g., Antivirus, DLP, IPS, NAC, etc.)

    • CSP (Cloud Service Provider) related work experience is desirable

    • Business level Japanese language skills

  • General skills:

    • A customer-centric mindset is a mandated attitude for this position as a technical support engineer

    • Ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences, and explain their impact on business

    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Japanese as this position is required to work with Japanese-speaking clients on a daily basis; the ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences and to explain the impact in business terms
    • Business level or higher English especially for writing and reading

    • Attention to detail, fast learner, and excellent communication skills

    • Be able to communicate technical information in a simplified, easy-to-understand manner

    • Proactive and independent attitude toward learning products technical knowledge from eLearning basis training in English

  • Technical skills:

    • Strong ability to understand malicious software behavior in conjunction with the operating system structure

    • Strong ability to understand Windows OS, Linux OS, and macOS-based applications (Installation, troubleshooting, Debugging)

    • Knowledge of public cloud platform (XaaS) features, capabilities, and best use scenarios is desirable

    • The ability to write code/script (C/C++/Python/JS/Powershell) is a plus

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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