Provide Solution level expertise to Customers.
Solution Support is a premium Cisco offer that enables customers to grow from a product mentality to a solutions-based approach, inclusive of Third-Party products, where Cisco becomes the main point of contact for the entire solution.
Expectations from a Solution Support Cisco point of contact are:

• Be the main point of contact of the reported issue (Cisco and/or Third Party).
• Retains ownership for the customer (do not re-queue the ticket unless (1) the customer wants to work in a different time zone, (2) the main contact is OOO, (3) a change window is outside regular work hours that required immediate attention).
• Develops adequate knowledge of Third-Party tools to triage customer issues and secure output/evidence that helps point the issue towards resolution.
• When there is a Third-Party ticket opened, ensure primary contact follows up on the ticket and engages the Third Party for working/troubleshooting sessions to provide adequate logs and outputs to resolve the issue.
• Keeps the customer engaged and advised of the status of the issue and consistently updates the ticket with Cisco and the Third Party with relevant details (status, ticket #, Third Party engineer and contact information).
• Aware that Solution Support is a Day 2 break/fix support service. If the customer needs to build or implement a solution, the Cisco point of contact is to redirect them to their Cisco representative to learn about professional services.
• Remains committed to our customer experience. Solution Support is a premium level of service which our customers expect a high standard of quality and excellence from Cisco.
• [JH] - perhaps mention the requirement to manage a backlog of owned customer support cases and the need to manage time and balance priorities to keep customers informed and cases progressing toward resolution?

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support for security products to customers, partners, account teams, and other internal technical support teams.
• Handle a wide variety of technical support problems-from simple application or network configuration fixes to very sophisticated troubleshooting and problem resolution.
• Use moderate to sophisticated lab setups to recreate and solve technical problems.
• Submit complete and correct defect reports with collaboration and supervision.
• Work with minimal direction and exercise judgment within defined procedures to resolve appropriate action.
• Collaborate with other TAC engineers across technology boundaries to help drive quicker resolution where multiple technologies may be involved.

Main Tasks:

• Drives problem resolution for issues experienced in customer environments.
• Diagnoses, fixes, and resolves incidents related to Cisco products, services, or solutions.
• Provides answers for products, services, or solutions questions.
• Creates or updates, and delivers problem resolution, project collateral and/or knowledge transfer.
• Assists in documenting and resolving technical problems found in products and solutions.
• Engages and drives appropriate resources for critical issues.
• Maintains accurate documentation in incident and knowledge management systems
• Ensures case management guidelines are followed
• Optimally communicates (verbal and written) with the customer and Cisco partners on status and progress of service requests

Minimum Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in designing, deploying, configuring, supporting, troubleshooting, and debugging networks (direct customer support experience).
• Good technical foundation in networking (CCNA equivalent level or above) is required.
• Technical qualifications:
• Primary Skills: Cisco DUO and/or Umbrella.
• Secondary Skills: Knowledge of basic Routing and Switching, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls & vASA, FTD, Firepower, FMC, Cisco IOS Firewall (Zone-Based Firewall), Clustering, Cisco Security Manager (CSM) [JH] - recommend adding VPN/AnyConnect and AAA/ISE to the mix here.
• Microsoft Active Directory (AD), Linux, Unix
• Wireshark and other tools for TCP/IP packet collection analysis
• Server and appliance virtualization using VMWare, MS Hyper-V, and KVM
• Experience leading technical troubleshooting calls with customer and internal stakeholders of varying technical experience (novice to expert) and across levels of interpersonal hierarchy (individual contributors to C-level executives)
• BS in a technical field (such as CS, EE, IT) or equivalent plus 8-10 years related experience.
• Experience designing, deploying, configuring, supporting, troubleshooting, and debugging networks. [JH] since this is mentioned above in the first bullet of the section, I'd prefer to highlight the need for troubleshooting experience above all else. Something like: "Hands-on troubleshooting experience with technical issues at the Layer 2 through 4 levels of the OSI model." Could potentially merge this with the Wireshark bullet above, or keep separate. We see a lot of candidates that have config/design experience but struggle with basic troubleshooting at the network level.
• CCNP, CCNP Security, or CCIE Certification desired/preferred
• Python, Perl, Bash scripting skills would be an added advantage

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