Senior Manager, Solutions Support Engineering

Come join the company that is reinventing cloud security and empowering businesses to thrive in the cloud. As the fastest-growing startup ever, Wiz is on a mission to help organizations secure cloud environments that will accelerate their businesses. Trusted by security teams all over the world, we have a proven track record of success and a culture that values world-class talent.  

Our Wizards from over 13 countries work together to protect the infrastructure of our hundreds of customers, including over 45% of the Fortune 100, who trust us to scan and secure over 230 billion files daily. We’re the leading player in a massive and growing market, but it’s still early enough for you to make a significant impact. At Wiz, you’ll have the freedom to think creatively, dream big, and use your full range of skills to contribute to our record growth. Come join our team and help us create secure cloud environments that allow the best companies to move faster. 

SUMMARY    

As a Senior Manager, Support Engineering, you will be a part of a global team responsible for providing outstanding technical support experience. In this role, you will lead a team of highly technical Solutions Support Engineers providing world class support on Wiz products and solutions.  

Our customer facing engineers resolve complex technical issues ranging from platform connectivity across customer cloud infrastructure, to multi-dimensional correlational querying of actionable context created and stored in the graph, to lightweight agents deployed on Linux hosts and in Kubernetes clusters to provide real-time visibility and monitoring.  

You will develop a team of subject matter experts and help enable them to manage and solve complex technical escalations, answer and document questions from the field, create tools and automations to help scale our support offering, and work closely with our Product Management and Engineering teams to ensure an excellent customer experience with new and existing products and features.    

 

WHAT YOU’LL DO   

• Manage, develop, coach and mentor a team of Solutions Support Engineers, who are responsible for resolving complex technical issues and providing a “WOW” technical customer support experience within the Wiz product   
• Act as the owner for your team’s accountability and performance - partnering closely with upper management to facilitate performance reviews, performance plans, and any employee relations issues for your direct reports   
• Guide the team through technical training and additional learning and development needs. Ensure successful training and onboarding of new hires
• Drive projects or initiatives to improve team productivity, process or procedure   
• Participate in incident and escalation retrospectives and reduce the number of escalations over time. Provide escalation insights, trends, drivers, and statistics to support leadership
• Collaborate with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations and act as a resource to resolve escalations from team members as necessary   
• Design and implement solutions that scale the support offering through automations   
• Coordinate with Technical Account Managers to address any technical issues impacting a customer's success   
• Achieve team goals for technical articles or knowledge base including both internal and customer-facing to ensure a better customer support experience   
• Be a customer advocate for timely resolution of the problems reported, understand the environment/network and impact on business   
• The right person will be highly technical, analytical, and have experience managing technical teams. In addition, this person will have a record of driving projects to improve support-related processes and the technical support experience and be passionate about the growth and success of Wiz customers

 

WHAT YOU’LL BRING   

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems, or the equivalent industry experience and certifications   
• 5+ years