Sr. Technical Support Engineer, USG, Strata (Work hours 2:00pm-11:00pm Central)

*** Work hours 2:00pm-11:00pm Central ***

Your Career

You will work firsthand with our valued Public Sector customers supporting 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 area of expertise with a strong ability to explain complex technical issues to both non-technical and technical professionals.

As part of our U.S. Government (USG) team you will be a designated customer advocate assisting in providing tailored support weekly reviews root cause analysis for critical issues release reviews upgrade planning and quarterly business reviews. You will provide personalized support and become deeply familiar with your customers implementation and business priorities proactively driving best practices to help continuously improve their security posture.

You will regularly participate in technical discussions with cross-functional teams creating an environment of transparency that ultimately leads to better products stronger partnerships and enhanced cybersecurity outcomes. Your quick thinking and proactive support provide the fast assistance our Public Sector clients need to keep their environments securemeaning youll need to move quickly think strategically and provide expert technical assistance in high-pressure situations.

Your Impact

• Offer advanced-level technical assistance to our Public Sector 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 within government agencies and organizations
• Provide tailored troubleshooting configuration guidance and best practices with an understanding of government compliance and security requirements
• 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
• Conduct multi-vendor troubleshooting on complex customer engagements ensuring a seamless experience for public sector partners
• Utilize fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to provide post-sales technical support configuration troubleshooting and industry best practices to customers
• Be a subject matter expert on core technologies of Palo Alto Networks product line particularly in environments relevant to public sector customers
• 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 and hardware quality per release cycle
• Author Technical Support Bulletins and technical documentation in the Knowledge Base for training materials marketing collateral manuals and problem-solving guides
• Provide on-call support 24x7 on an as-needed basis including weekend and holidays

Qualifications :

Your Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of network security experience with a preference for experience supporting government or public sector clients
• Expertise in TCP/IP advanced knowledge of LAN/WAN technologies and general routing/switching
• Understanding of packet flow across multiple OSI layers
• Extensive experience troubleshooting Remote Access VPN solutions
• Ability to independently debug broad complex and unique networks with mixed media and protocols
• Proficiency with network troubleshooting tools
• Consistently maintains rigorous case management practices ensuring thorough documentation and timely updates
• Experience interfacing with firewalls and firewall technology. Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) experience preferred

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working with U.S. government federal state or local agencies
• Virtualization experience (AWS Azure VMware OpenStack)
• Experience with Windows Mac OS and Linux (debugging editing registries plist etc.)
• Multi-vendor interoperability exposure
• Authentication protocols LDAP TACACS Radius SAML
• BS in computer science information technology computer architecture electrical engineering mathematics or related experienceor equivalent military experience
• Travel to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution as required

Additional Information :

The Team

Our technical support team is essential 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 just evolves. Our technical team provides behind-the-scenes support to meet our customers needs. As threats and technology evolve 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.

Were a fast-growing immensely successful organization because of our people and products (built and supported by our people). We work the frontlines against cyberthreats and attacks protecting every day transactions in the digital environment. It means were good at scaling quickly to new threats get fulfillment from resolving new problems and think about things just plain differently.

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $108000/YR - $175200/YR. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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.

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  .

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.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.