Onboarding Engineer

Posted 7 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in Texas, USA
Remote
Entry level
Internet of Things • Cybersecurity
The Role
Lead customer deployments of cloud-native network access control solutions from post-sales handoff through production rollout and support transition. Responsibilities include discovery, implementation planning, technical leadership, troubleshooting with logs and packet captures, pilot and phased deployments, escalation management, administrator training, documentation, and handoff. The role requires networking expertise across TCP/IP, identity, endpoint management, certificates, wireless, 802.1X, RADIUS, and access policies, plus strong customer communication, organization, and independent product learning.
Summary Generated by Built In
You were going to look at it for five minutes. Now you have a test environment, a packet capture, and an unreasonable amount of interest in why it works on one laptop but not the other. 
Portnox is hiring an Onboarding Engineer to lead customer deployments of our cloud-native network access control solutions. You’ll learn the product deeply, understand each customer’s environment, and take implementations from the post-sales handoff through production, administrator training, and transition to ongoing support. 
You’ll work across networking, identity, and endpoint management, and help turn what you learn into better deployment practices. 

Key Responsibilities
  • Discovery and planning: Understand the customer’s environment, confirm scope and prerequisites, and build a plan with owners, milestones, and acceptance criteria. Some customers arrive without a completed POC; establish what still needs validation. 
  • Customer leadership: Lead technical working sessions, explain recommendations, and address blockers, scope changes, and unrealistic expectations early. 
  • Implementation: Guide wired and wireless deployments involving 802.1X, RADIUS, certificates, identity integrations, device compliance, and access policies. 
  • Troubleshooting: Use logs, packet captures, and controlled testing to isolate problems. “Nothing changed” is useful context. You’ll still check. 
  • Production rollout: Plan pilots, phased deployment, validation, and rollback procedures with customer teams. 
  • Escalation and follow-through: Bring Support, Engineering, and Product into issues with clear evidence. Keep customer communication and next steps owned. 
  • Training and transition: Train administrators, document the deployed configuration, confirm agreed outcomes, and complete the handoff with outstanding work and receiving owners clearly recorded. 


Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise
  • Technical foundation: Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, switching, and wireless connectivity. 
  • Relevant experience: Experience owning technical implementations or resolving difficult infrastructure problems. Be able to explain your decisions and results. 
  • Independent product learning: Prior 802.1X experience isn’t required. Taking responsibility for learning it is. Drive your own ramp-up through documentation, hands-on testing, and focused questions. Identify knowledge gaps and close them without daily assignments. 
  • Troubleshooting judgment: Test assumptions, follow evidence, and know when to involve others. Bring your observations and what you’ve already tried. 
  • Customer communication: Lead technical conversations, explain tradeoffs, and stay patient under pressure. Certificates rarely respond to motivational speeches. 
  • Organization and ownership: Manage several implementations, follow up without reminders, and surface risks while there’s time to act. 
  • Helpful experience: Identity platforms, endpoint management, and certificates; tools such as Entra ID, Active Directory, Intune, Jamf, or Okta. Experience with Portnox, Cisco ISE, Aruba ClearPass, Forescout, or Microsoft NPS is a bonus. 


Why Join Us
  • Opportunity to make a significant impact on the operations of the company.
  • Collaborative and dynamic work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits package.


About
Portnox is a cloud-native enterprise access control provider that helps organizations secure every identity - human and non-human - across networks, applications, and infrastructure. As identities, devices, and workloads multiply across modern environments, Portnox enables continuous access verification based on identity context, device posture, and risk signals. Its unified platform brings together passwordless authentication, access control, continuous policy enforcement, and automated response through a single policy engine. Portnox gives security and IT teams real-time visibility into everything connecting and the ability to quickly restrict, quarantine, or revoke non-compliant access. Today, Portnox actively manages more than one million devices worldwide, secures 40 million authentication sessions, and blocks over one million unauthorized access attempts every day. Learn more at www.portnox.com and follow Portnox on LinkedIn.

Skills Required

  • Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, switching, and wireless connectivity
  • Experience owning technical implementations or resolving difficult infrastructure problems
  • Ability to independently learn new products and technologies through documentation, hands-on testing, and focused questions
  • Ability to troubleshoot systematically by testing assumptions, following evidence, and documenting prior attempts
  • Ability to lead technical customer conversations and explain recommendations and tradeoffs
  • Ability to manage multiple implementations, follow up independently, and identify risks early
  • Experience with identity platforms, endpoint management, and certificates
  • Experience with Entra ID, Active Directory, Intune, Jamf, or Okta
  • Experience with Portnox, Cisco ISE, Aruba ClearPass, Forescout, or Microsoft NPS
  • Prior 802.1X experience

Portnox Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Portnox and has not been reviewed or approved by Portnox.

  • Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes company‑paid premiums for an individual high‑deductible plan and multiple medical options, with disability and life insurance covered by the employer. Feedback suggests this reduces monthly costs while preserving choice and core protections.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off policies include unlimited vacation for U.S. employees and dedicated emergency paid leave. Feedback suggests the breadth of leave supports work‑life balance during both planned and unplanned needs.
  • Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave are provided in the U.S. to support families. Feedback suggests these provisions are meaningful additions to the total rewards package.

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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
65 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

The connected world is evolving. Every day. Every hour. Every minute. More devices are connecting to the corporate network from remote locations as employees travel or work remotely. Do you know how many PCs, tablets and smartphones are connected to your organization’s network right now? Both on and off campus? How many Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as printers, smart TV and HVAC systems are hooking up? Does your organization have a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy at play? Do you have guest and contractor connections? All of these expose the corporate network to threats and make the task of securing it more complex. Portnox provides next-generation network access control and management solutions that enable organizations to reduce risk and enforce security policy compliance. The company’s products provide automated security, visibility and control for every device accessing the network including Internet of Things (IoT), BYOD, mobile and unmanaged systems. Portnox products are easy to deploy and manage, scalable and adapt to evolving customer needs. The company has been recognized for its innovations by Info Security Products Guide, Cyber Security Excellence Awards, IoT Innovator Awards, Computing Security Awards, Best of Interop ITX and Cyber Defense Magazine. Portnox has offices in the U.S. and EMEA. Visit us at www.portnox.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.

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