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Sr. Technical Support Engineer, Firewall @ Palo Alto Networks

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 Sr. Technical Support Engineer, Firewall

Job Description

  • You will work firsthand with our valued customers to address their complex postsales concerns where analysis of situations or data requires an indepth 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 nontechnical and technical professionals.
  • You will regularly participate in technical discussions with multifunctional 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, email, and web
  • Remote support, deployment and knowledge transfer
  • Handle support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and followups finished in a timely manner
  • Use fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to diagnose and tackle complicated technical issues
  • Work to reproduce customer issues and qualify critical issues
  • Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other user documentation in the Knowledge Base
  • Build a positive customer experience by working closely with Development, Sales, Quality Assurance, and Marketing
  • Responsible for reviewing user documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, problem solving guides, etc.
  • Travel may be required to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution
  • Work shoulder to shoulder with the Sales and Sales Engineering Teams
Qualifications

Your Experience

  • BS/MS or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
  • 5+ years of deep technical knowledge and technical support with a strong customer focus or related experience
  • Advanced certifications such as CCIE/JNCIE/ CISSP an advantage
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills, strength with establishing relationships
  • Ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unparalleled networks with mixed media and protocols required
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well independently and in a team
  • Selfdisciplined, selfmanaged, selfmotivated and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
  • Passionate to learn, understand, and dissect new technology stack quickly on own
  • Strong project management, time management, and organizational skills
  • Strong analytical skills for interpreting business requirements and translating them into technical specifications
  • Profound knowledge in networking protocols such as TCP/IP, BGP4 (multihoming), OSPF (multiarea), ISIS, Multicast, VOIP
  • Expert working knowledge in the operation of Ethernet LAN switching protocols and standards including, VLANs, VLAN aggregation
  • Experience with security (IPSEC, SSLVPN, NAT, GRE)
  • Prior experience in similar vendor Technical Support Centers
  • Experience with Authentication Protocols a plus (Radius / TACACS)
  • Strong history of deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting multivendor (Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, Fortinet) firewall environments PANW firewalls and VMSeries A plus
  • Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills
  • Ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and nontechnical audiences, and explain their impact on business

Job Classification

Industry: IT Services & Consulting
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Hardware & Networks
Role Category: IT Network
Role: System Administrator / Engineer
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Palo Alto Networks
Location(s): Bengaluru

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