Staff Technical Support Engineer, VM

Your Career

• Provide Technical Support to customers and partners
• Provide configurations, troubleshooting and best practices to customers
• Manage support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups are completed 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
• Review of technical documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, troubleshooting guides, etc.
• Travel to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution as required
• Provide on-call support 24x7 on an as-needed basis

• Able to effectively communicate to all levels and stakeholders - internally and externally on complex technical issues
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, self-motivated and detail-oriented with the ability to see the bigger picture
• Ability to work independently, as well as contribute as a team player.
• Good understanding of the following networking protocols (TCP/IP, Ethernet, VLAN, OSPF, BGP)
• Experience with Security Protocols (IPSEC / SSL-VPN / NAT / GRE)
• Good understanding of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Knowledge of one or more virtualization hypervisors: VMWare ESX/ESXi, KVM/Qemu, Citrix, XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V
• Demonstrable basic knowledge with AWS and Microsoft Azure installation, configuration, and administration of security features and services including identity and access management, service-related security features, networking, firewalls, encryption, and related best practices
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Oracle cloud infrastructure(OCI)
• Knowledge of deploying firewalls in one or more Public cloud infrastructures
• Understanding the working of any one of the Next generation Firewall devices ( Palo Alto Networks Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper(Netscreen), Fortinet, Crowdstrike, Zscaler etc)
• Experience deploying third-party networking and security services into VMware NSX for vSphere is a plus
• Working knowledge of Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) delivered as a cloud-native service is a plus.
• Knowledge of traffic generation tools and scripting languages is a plus
• Previous experience supporting Palo Alto Networks Products is a plus