Company Description
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
Our Approach to Work
We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!
At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!
Job Description
Your Career
As a Senior Technical Support Engineer, you will engage directly with our valued customers to address intricate post-sales concerns. Your role involves in-depth evaluation of multifaceted scenarios, employing critical thinking to understand methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Networking with key contacts beyond your domain of expertise will be routine, and your knack for explaining complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical professionals will be a strong asset.
You will actively contribute to technical discussions within cross-functional teams, fostering transparency that drives product improvement, enriches work environments, and enhances cybersecurity. Your prompt support for our clients ensures swift resolution to keep their environments secure. This requires you to move swiftly and thoughtfully, providing technical assistance even in high-pressure situations.
Your Impact
- Offer technical support to customers and partners
- Effectively manage support cases from recording to resolution, including timely follow-ups
- Conduct fault isolation and root cause analysis for technical issues
- Author Technical Support Bulletins and other technical documentation in the Knowledge Base
- Review technical content for training, marketing, manuals, and troubleshooting guides
- Travel to customer sites for critical situations, expediting resolutions as needed
- Provide configurations, troubleshooting, and best practices to customers
- Collaborate with the Engineering team to influence product operability
- Participate in weekend on-call rotation and provide after-hours support as required
- Communicate complex technical issues effectively to internal and external stakeholders
Qualifications
Your Experience
- Proficiency with Windows OS, Linux OS, iOS, Android OS, and macOS applications (Installation, troubleshooting, debugging), along with deployment tools (SCCM, GPO, AD, JAMF)
- Analytical troubleshooting skills in Linux, displaying problem-solving abilities
- Strong proficiency in software and infrastructure troubleshooting, testing, and debugging
- Independent troubleshooting ability in diverse, complex environments with mixed applications and protocols
- Familiarity with Internet-based technologies including DNS, Security, IP Routing, SSH, FTP, HTTP/HTTPS, Email Routing
- Knowledge of IP network technologies and performance monitoring/troubleshooting software tools (Datadog, Cloud Watch - advantageous)
- Intermediate knowledge of SIEM tools for parsing, correlation, data modeling, and dashboards
- Exposure to SIEM, vulnerability management tools, and firewalls
- Experience working in a collaborative, 24x7 uptime environment with on-call responsibilities
- Comfortable collaborating across diverse cross-functional teams with open communication
- Previous experience in a customer-facing technical support role (Support Engineer) - advantageous
- Fundamental understanding of Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS for troubleshooting cloud agent deployment and data extraction
- Basic scripting knowledge (JS/Python/PowerShell, SQL/XDL/SPL) to troubleshoot playbooks and extract data from various datasets (advantageous)
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline or equivalent military experience (advantageous)
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 doesn’t stop once they sign – it evolves. As threats and technology change, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll 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, you’ll 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.
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers who dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: We can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].
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
Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
Top Skills
What We Do
Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices.
Why Work With Us
We are protecting the digital way of life for billions of people every day. We are united in this mission and the unique ideas it takes stay ahead. This is why we embrace each individual who is part of our team determined to make a difference.
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