Technical Support Engineer, Focused Services, NGFW
About The Position
We are looking for a dynamic and proactive Technical Support Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with our valued customers to diagnose and address post-sales technical challenges. As a critical thinker, you will apply standard troubleshooting frameworks, diagnostic tools, and technical criteria to drive effective resolutions. Your ability to clearly articulate technical issues will enable you to collaborate effectively with both customers and internal engineering teams. You will develop a strong practical understanding of each customer’s technical environment, helping them maintain a stable and secure posture. Your problem-solving agility and resilience will be crucial in providing high-quality assistance during familiar technical challenges and customer escalations.
Requirements
- 2–4 years of experience in a customer-facing technical support, network operations, or network security environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical field, or equivalent practical/military experience.
- Strong practical knowledge of the TCP/IP suite, local/wide area networks (LAN/WAN), general routing/switching operations, and core protocol functions (such as VLSM, CIDR, DHCP, and NAT).
- Hands-on experience capturing, analyzing, and interpreting packet traces using standard network diagnostic tools (e.g., Wireshark, tcpdump) to isolate performance or connectivity anomalies.
- Practical experience diagnosing and support-executing Remote Access VPN solutions, including IPsec and SSL technologies.
- Foundational understanding of enterprise authentication frameworks and directory protocols (e.g., RADIUS, TACACS+, LDAP).
- Proven ability to balance a fluctuating queue of incoming support cases, prioritizing tasks effectively based on customer severity levels and established SLAs.
Nice To Haves
- CompTIA Security+ or an introductory Cybersecurity Fundamentals certification.
- Familiarity with virtualization, hypervisors, or cloud computing fundamentals (AWS, Azure, or VMware architectures).
- Basic familiarity with Unix/Linux and Windows operating system environments.
- Exposure to Multi-Vendor security infrastructure appliances, Firewalls, or Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS).
Responsibilities
- Deliver high-quality technical assistance to customers, performing troubleshooting, configuration verification, and diagnostics to ensure timely resolution of networking and security issues.
- Take practical ownership of support cases from initiation to resolution, isolating faults and executing root-cause analysis while maintaining consistent documentation in the ticketing system.
- Replicate customer network issues and validate configurations by systematically simulating network topologies in a lab environment.
- Partner with cross-functional support teams, Account teams, and QA/Engineering to report product defects, file clean bug reports, and track issue updates.
- Contribute to the collective expertise of the organization by documenting new technical findings, configuration steps, and troubleshooting techniques in the internal knowledge base.
- Actively leverage internal AI-powered diagnostic utilities, automated log analyzers, and machine learning search tools to expedite knowledge retrieval, optimize case troubleshooting, and decrease time-to-resolution.
Benefits
- A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
