Sr. Technical Support Engineer, Focused Services @ Palo Alto Networks

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

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

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 doesnt stop once they sign it evolves. As threats and technology change, we stay in step to accomplish our mission.

Youll 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, youll 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.