Sr. Technical Support Engineer, Focused Services

Job Summary Your Career As a Senior Technical Support Engineer, you will be heavily engaged to personalize their customers’ experience and ensure a successful Palo Alto Networks product experience. In this role, you will develop a working partnership to mitigate risks and troubleshoot to resolve technical issues for their customers. You will partner with the Technical Account Manager to effectively become a virtual part of their customers’ teams. You will engage both proactively and reactively with the customer to address any Palo Alto Networks technology technical needs. You will also provide escalation management for any technical issues encountered with their customers’ enterprise deployment, resulting in faster time to value. 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 Qualifications Your Experience 4+ 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 Our Commitment We’re trailblazers that 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 a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com. 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. Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position. Please use this form to provide us with information that will help direct your request and find your data in all of our systems