Senior Technical Support Engineer (Contractor)

Position: Senior Technical Support Engineer (Contractor)

Role Description

This role is a contract assignment at Palo Alto Networks. Contractors will not be employed by Palo Alto Networks but through our trusted staffing partners.

• Location - Bengaluru, India (Hybrid)
• Duration – 6 Months

Job Description

Your Career

You will work firsthand with our valued customers to address their complex post-sales concerns where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of many factors. You’re a critical thinker in understanding the methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. You’ll enjoy networking with key contacts outside your own area of expertise, with a strong capability of detailing difficult technical issues to both non-technical and technical professionals.

You will regularly participate in technical discussions with multi-functional teams, creating an environment of transparency that ultimately leads to better products, better working environments, and better cybersecurity. Your quick thinking and support to our clients provides the fast assistance they need to keep their environments secure – which means you’ll need to move quickly, thoughtfully, and provide technical assistance as needed (often, in high pressure situations).

Your Impact

● 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

Qualifications

Your Experience

● Willing to work flexible and varying shift times including weekends and evenings

● Excellent written and verbal communication skills

● Ability to work well in a diverse team environment

● Expertise with Remote Access VPN solutions, IPSEC, PKI & SSL, TCP/IP, Authentication Protocols (SAML, LDAP, RADIUS, etc.)

● Experience working with Firewall Central Management Systems

● Experience working with a multi-factor authentication security system (tokens, certificates, CAC cards, and similar)

● Working knowledge of Security services (IDS/IPS, Firewalls, etc.)

● Strong ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unique networks with mixed media and protocols required

● Virtualization experience is a plus (AWS, Azure, VMWare, OpenStack)

● Experience with Windows and MAC OS is a plus (Debugging, Editing Registries, Plist, etc.)

● Experience with Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper (Netscreen), and Fortinet products a plus

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.