Sr. Technical Support Engineer, USG, Stata

Palo Alto Networks•Plano, TX

32d•$108,800 - $176,000

About The Position

To comply with U.S. federal government requirements, U.S. citizenship is required for this position. Your Career You will work firsthand with our valued Public Sector customers, supporting 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 area of expertise, with a strong ability to explain complex technical issues to both non-technical and technical professionals. As part of our U.S. Government (USG) team, you will be a designated customer advocate, assisting in providing tailored support, weekly reviews, root cause analysis for critical issues, release reviews, upgrade planning, and quarterly business reviews. You will provide personalized support and become deeply familiar with your customer’s implementation and business priorities, proactively driving best practices to help continuously improve their security posture. You will regularly participate in technical discussions with cross-functional teams, creating an environment of transparency that ultimately leads to better products, stronger partnerships, and enhanced cybersecurity outcomes. Your quick thinking and proactive support provide the fast assistance our Public Sector clients need to keep their environments secure—meaning you’ll need to move quickly, think strategically, and provide expert technical assistance in high-pressure situations. 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.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of network security experience, with a preference for experience supporting government or public sector clients
Expertise in TCP/IP, advanced knowledge of LAN/WAN technologies, and general routing/switching
Understanding of packet flow across multiple OSI layers
Extensive experience troubleshooting Remote Access VPN solutions
Ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unique networks with mixed media and protocols
Proficiency with network troubleshooting tools
Consistently maintains rigorous case management practices, ensuring thorough documentation and timely updates
Experience interfacing with firewalls and firewall technology. Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) experience preferred

Nice To Haves

Experience working with U.S. government, federal, state, or local agencies
Virtualization experience (AWS, Azure, VMware, OpenStack)
Experience with Windows, Mac OS, and Linux (debugging, editing registries, plist, etc.)
Multi-vendor interoperability exposure
Authentication protocols – LDAP, TACACS+, Radius, SAML
BS in computer science, information technology, computer architecture, electrical engineering, mathematics, or related experience—or equivalent military experience

Responsibilities

Offer advanced-level technical assistance to our Public Sector customers, ensuring prompt resolution of complex issues and providing tailored solutions to optimize their security infrastructure
Effectively communicate technical solutions to technical and executive stakeholders, fostering trust and credibility within government agencies and organizations
Provide tailored troubleshooting, configuration guidance, and best practices, with an understanding of government compliance and security requirements
Take ownership of support cases from initiation to resolution, ensuring meticulous documentation of all troubleshooting steps, timely updates, and comprehensive closure summaries in the ticketing system
Conduct multi-vendor troubleshooting on complex customer engagements, ensuring a seamless experience for public sector partners
Utilize fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to provide post-sales technical support, configuration, troubleshooting, and industry best practices to customers
Be a subject matter expert on core technologies of Palo Alto Networks product line, particularly in environments relevant to public sector customers
Identify product defects (code, environment) via lab replication using network simulation, lab automation, performance testing, and validation tools
File bug reports with the engineering team and develop test plans and best practices with Quality Assurance teams to improve overall software and hardware quality per release cycle
Author Technical Support Bulletins and technical documentation in the Knowledge Base for training materials, marketing collateral, manuals, and problem-solving guides
Travel to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution as required
Provide support that includes mandatory weekend, holiday shift work and on-call support. Support includes a blend of as-needed and rotational coverage, which is subject to change.