Manager, Technical Customer Support, Cloud

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is looking for an experienced enterprise support delivery manager. You will be responsible for enabling customer success with our award-winning network security this high growth business scaling optimization dynamic spirit and sustained performance are the essentials. The Support Delivery team is a high-performance group of engineers supporting business critical customer environments. You will be responsible for the front line support delivery team and are expected to implement and optimize performance that will keep Palo Alto Networks at the forefront in the industry.

Your Impact

• Lead daily operations of a team of Technical Support Engineers in line with the organizational goals and objectives

• Provide customer support as a strategic differentiator for Palo Alto Networks helping drive customer loyalty reference ability and repeat business

• Ability to achieve the customer satisfaction goals which is the single most important measurement of the support organization and the best way to measure our ability to achieve our mission to Make our customers successful!

• Ensure that engineers have the resources and processes necessary to ensure success and performance through release cycles

• Mature and experienced guidance and direction to the team to deliver on goals and objectives and maximize engineer opportunity to exceed targets and earn rewards and recognition

• Provide appropriate technical and soft skills training and mentoring

• Ensure training is effectively addressing our goal to create a learning environment and maximizing customer satisfaction levels

• Create consistent onboarding training programs are used and delivered effectively

• Propagate Goals & Objectives - Set team goals in-line with overall organizational goals. Set specific goals for direct reports

• Perform annual reviews of all direct reports - set quarterly goals and provide regular feedback on performance with respect to agreed upon goals

• Customer Escalation Management triage prioritize issues negotiate customer priorities and manage expectations

• Build strong working relationships with sales customers and partners

• Provide support that includes mandatory weekend holiday shift work and on-call support.  Support includes a blend of as-needed and rotational coverage which is subject to change.   

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

Leadership and Management:

• 7 years in technical support with at least 2 years experience in a management OR lead role in a high-touch or white-glove support environment

• Strong mentorship skills demonstrated through coaching engineers setting ambitious goals and driving performance improvements

• Exceptional problem-solving and crisis management skills focusing on customer advocacy and improving service response and resolution timelines

Technical Expertise:

• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS Azure or GCP.

• Broad technology experience including knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as pods services deployments working with container runtimes such as docker and containers experience with CI/CD processes (Jenkins Azure DevOps etc) container environments security processes cloud risk and compliance and public clouds. 

• Expertise in integrating with diverse technologies and vendor solutions such as SSO SIEM APIs Container Registries.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines microservices and API integration.

• Have a good understanding of core networking protocols specifically the TCP/IP stack DNS and load balancing.

• Possess a firm grasp of security frameworks and encryption protocols including SSL/TLS certificates and identity management.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Experience in working with Sales Product and Engineering teams to refine support strategies and improve product supportability

• Excellent communication skills with strong executive presence adept at managing stakeholder relationships leading high-level customer engagements Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs) and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs)

• Skilled in AI-driven analytics ITIL frameworks and using case management systems (e.g. Salesforce ServiceNow JIRA). Proficient in conducting trend analysis for proactive support

• Proven proficiency in synthesizing raw operational data into actionable insights. Expert at running complex reports and performing trend analysis on case volumes resolution times and service bottlenecks.

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 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.

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 $130200 - $210575/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

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time