Sr. Technical Support Engineer, Focused Services

This role requires strong fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to diagnose and solve complex technical issues and provide timely solutions to customers in a professional manner. Regularly updating customer cases to record the progress of calls in call tracking system and documenting technical solutions and product information in account-specific repositories. Work to reproduce customer issues and work with developers to resolve technical issues.

Your Impact

• Provide reactive/proactive technical support to top-tier customers
• Provide configuration review, troubleshooting and best practices to named customers
• Manage support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups are done in a timely manner
• Provide fault isolation and root cause analysis for technical issues
• Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other technical documentation in the Knowledge Base
• Gather and retain customer-specific documentation in a secure location for ease of troubleshooting
• Review of technical documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, troubleshooting guides, etc.
• Travel will be required to customer sites in conjunction with working with Technical Account Managers for named accounts

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience in client-facing, technical support type roles
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in TCP/IP, Routing & Switching (OSPF / BGP / VLAN / STP)
• Experience with Palo Alto Networks products and technology
• Strong ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unique networks with mixed media and protocols
• Experience with Authentication Protocols (Radius / TACACS) is preferred
• Ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences, and explain the impact in business terms
• Ability to summarise a situation clearly for executives internally and externally, and in delivering presentations to senior stakeholders
• Flexibility to work shift hours as required, including afternoons, evenings, and weekends