Sr. Technical Support Engineer

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 post sales technical support, configurations, troubleshooting, and standard methodologies to customers via phone, e-mail, and web
• Manage support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups are completed in a timely manner
• Use fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to diagnose and tackle complicated technical issues
• Identify product defects (code, environment) via lab replication using network simulation, lab automation, performance testing, and validation tools
• File bug reports with the engineering team and develop test plans and best practices with Quality Assurance teams to improve overall software quality per release cycle
• Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other technical documentation in the Knowledge Base
• Review of technical documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, troubleshooting guides, etc.
• Travel to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution as required
• Provide on-call support 24x7 on an as-needed basis

Requirements

Your Experience

• Previous experience in a Technical Support environment is preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Expertise with LAN/WAN Technologies (TCP, UDP, SNMP, IPv6, VLSM, CIDR, and NAT - Static, Dynamic NAT, and PAT)
• Expertise with Remote Access VPN solutions, IPSEC, PKI & SSL, TCP/IP, multi-factor authentication systems (LDAP, RADIUS, TACACS+, certificates, tokens, CAC cards etc)
• Working knowledge of Security services (IDS/IPS, Firewalls, etc.)
• Experience working with Firewall Central Management Systems
• Experience working with Virtualization experience (AWS, Azure, VMWare, OpenStack)
• Experience with Windows and MAC OS is a plus (Debugging, Editing Registries, Plist, etc.)
• Experience in Zero Trust Network Access solutions is a plus - AnyConnect, FortiClient, Cloudflare Access, Citrix Gateway, Zscaler Private Access, Cato SASE Cloud, Appgate SDP, Palo Alto Prisma Access
• Strong ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unique networks with mixed media and protocols required
• Willing to work flexible and varying shift times including weekends and evenings

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.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be between $94000 - $152000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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 [email protected].

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.