Sr. Technical Support Engineer, Focused Services (Cortex XDR)

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. Youre a critical thinker in understanding the methods techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Youll 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. You will provide personalized support and become deeply familiar with your implementation and business priorities to proactively drive best practices and help you continuously improve your security posture.

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 youll 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
• Effectively communicate technical solutions to technical and executive stakeholders fostering trust and credibility at the highest levels of our customers organizations
• Provide tailored troubleshooting configuration guidance and best practices
• Take ownership of support cases from initiation to resolution ensuring meticulous documentation of all troubleshooting steps timely updates and comprehensive closure summaries in the ticketing system
• Effectively manage critical and challenging customer support cases for multi-vendor troubleshooting on complex customer engagements and build positive external customer experience by working closely with Account Sales and Marketing teams
• Utilize fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to provide post-sales technical support configuration troubleshooting and standard methodologies to customers
• Be the subject matter expert on core technologies of Palo Alto Networks product line
• 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 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 4 years of network security experience
• Required experience with Windows OS applications (Installation troubleshooting Debugging) also Linux OS and macOS based applications work experience is plus
• Experience understanding malware exploits operating system structure and behavior 
• Strong experience with MS environment (SCCM GPO AD MSSQL IIS)
• Experience with EndPoint security software is a plus (Antivirus DLP IPS NAC)
• Strong ability to independently troubleshoot reproduce issues and identify feasible workarounds in broad complex and unique environments with mixed applications and protocols required
• Knowledge of VDI (VMWare Horizon Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop) is a plus
• BS/MS or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
• Experience working with EDR tools
• Required basic networking knowledge - Ability to independently debug broad complex and unique environments with mixed applications and protocols 
• Knowledge of SIEM vulnerability management tools and firewalls is a plus
• Experience with batch scripting and Python is a plus
• Knowledge of Cloud infrastructure a plus
• Able to communicate appropriately in Japanese in a wide range of business situations.
• Business-level English skills

Additional Information :

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve its critical to know where the curve is and how to anticipate the changes were facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks and the products and services that dedicatedly address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. They are constantly innovating challenging the way we and the industry think about cybersecurity. These engineers arent shy about building products to solve problems no one has pursued before. They define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity excited by the prospect of a challenge and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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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.

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