Palo Alto Networks is hiring a

Senior Technical Support Engineer - XSIAM

Bengaluru, India
Full-Time

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

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)

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 just evolves. Our technical team provides behind-the-scenes support to meet our customer’s needs. As threats and technology evolve, 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.

We’re a fast-growing, immensely successful organization because of our people and products (built and supported by our people). We work the frontlines against cyberthreats and attacks, protecting everyday transactions in the digital environment. It means we’re good at scaling quickly to new threats, get fulfillment from resolving new problems, and think about things just plain differently.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that 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  [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.

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    • The job requires in-person customer contact and the customer has implemented such requirements
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