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Senior Technical Support Engineer (CNGFW)

Palo Alto Networks

Office - USA - TX | Office - USA - CA - Headquarters, US$103k – $167konsite

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Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary

As a Senior Technical Support Engineer, you will serve as a premier technical authority for our most high-value enterprise accounts.

You are a critical thinker who provides advanced post-sales support for complex, multi-layered architectural challenges that require in-depth evaluation of mission-critical infrastructures.

You will serve as a key technical contact, adept at detailing difficult issues to both technical and non-technical professionals. This role is dedicated to customers who manage mission-critical infrastructures and require guaranteed response times and enhanced services, offering a truly differentiated level of support.

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).

Key Responsibilities • Elite Case Resolution: Provide advanced post-sales technical support, including expert-level configuration, troubleshooting, and best practices for Platinum-tier customers.

• AI-Driven Support : Ability to effectively use and improve AI based support tools to reduce customer effort and improve resolution times.

• SLA Stewardship: Meet and exceed enhanced response time SLAs for mission-critical systems where downtime is not an option.

• Advanced Diagnostics: Apply expert fault isolation and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to diagnose structural crises across complex environments.

• Engineering Partnership: Partner directly with Development, QA, and Product Management to identify product defects, steer roadmaps, and influence product serviceability.

• Lab Simulation: Systematically reproduce complex customer issues in a lab environment to qualify and isolate critical product bugs.

• Knowledge Leadership: Author Technical Support Bulletins (TSBs), advanced architecture whitepapers, and mentor junior engineers to scale the team’s collective expertise.

• Executive Advocacy: Translate intricate engineering issues into precise, business-impact terms for enterprise customer executives during active crises.

• Context Stewardship: Review and validate documented customer context and topology data prior to initial case response, and maintain the shared context database with environment, architecture, and engagement details as they are identified throughout the case lifecycle.

• Relationship Continuity : Leverage documented account context to establish rapid working rapport with customer technical and executive stakeholders, ensuring consistent customer experience independent of individual engineer assignment.

Operational Requirements:

To ensure 24/7 continuous coverage for our global Platinum customers, this role requires: • Weekend/Holiday Coverage: Mandatory weekend and holiday shift work as dictated by rotational engineering coverage.

• Shift Flexibility: A five-day work schedule that includes one weekend day (e.g., Sunday–Thursday or Tuesday–Saturday).

• On-Call: Participation in an on-call rotation to address urgent, high-priority customer emergencies.

Qualifications Must have Qualifications • Experience: 5+ years of progressive experience in network operations, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise cybersecurity support.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent practical experience.

• Networking Mastery: Deep expertise in OSI L1–L7 layers, TCP/IP, and advanced routing protocols (BGP, OSPF).

• Security Proficiency: Expert command of IPSEC, SSL/TLS, NAT, and PKI.

• Communication: Proven ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including C-suite stakeholders.

Preferred Cloud & Virtualization (VM-Series & Cloud NGFW) Qualifications: • Working knowledge on Virtualization hypervisors((VMWare ESXi, KVM) and Public cloud providers  (AWS, Azure, GCP or OCI)

• Deep Understanding of VPCs, Subnetting, Route Tables, and Internet Gateways (IGW).

• Understanding of cloud-native load balancing and scaling mechanisms, such as Gateway Load Balancing (GWLB) and Transit Gateway

• Understanding of Azure VNets, subnetting, peering, virtual WAN (vWAN) hub architectures, User defined routes (UDR) and Azure application gateway.

• Experience with competitor firewall products from vendors like Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, Fortinet, or Zscaler. 

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered co

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