Senior Technical Support Engineer- STRATA

<h3>Company Description</h3><p><strong>Our Mission</strong></p><p>At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:</p><p>Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.</p><p>Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.</p><p><strong>Our Approach to Work</strong></p><p>We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!</p><p>At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>Your Career</strong></p><p>In this role, you will provide post-sales technical support to Palo Alto Networks End User Customers via phone, email, and web. Regularly updating support cases to record the progress of calls in call tracking system and documenting technical solutions and product information in the knowledge base is required. You will work to reproduce customer issues and qualify escalations.  You will also work with Development, Sales, Q/A, and Marketing to build positive customer experience.</p><p><strong>Your Impact</strong></p><ul><li>Provide Tier 3 level Technical Support to customers and partners</li><li>Provide configurations, troubleshooting and best practices to customers</li><li>Managing support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups are done in a timely manner</li><li>Provide fault isolation and root cause analysis for technical issues</li><li>Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other technical documentation in the Knowledge Base</li><li>Review of technical documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, troubleshooting guides, etc.</li><li>Occasionally participation in on-call duties</li><li>Assist in developing and documenting threat specific escalation processes</li><li>Internal Tool Development</li><li>Perform Senior Engineer due diligence with respect to Malware or Exploit analysis</li><li>Develop and deliver threat specific training materials to the TAC organization</li><li>Work directly with ETAC, PanAV, DevOps and Software - Engineering to get customer problems resolved</li><li>Technical Case Audits - Identify educational opportunities</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>Your Experience</strong></p><ul><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li><li>Fluent knowledge of English - Knowledge of any other major European language will be an advantage</li><li>Previous experience in a Technical Support environment is required</li><li>Expert level knowledge of the threat landscape, technologies, and techniques - knowledge of malware and exploit behaviors, zero trust network model</li><li> Security role experience, such as handling of malware responses</li><li> Wireshark/TCPDump packet capture troubleshooting – specifically with HTTP/SSL/SMB</li><li> Linux familiarity</li><li> Windows OS functionality (debugging, how applications make calls, registry editing)</li><li>Technical skills - expert knowledge in TCP/IP, HTTP, PKI &amp; SSL, intrusion detection/prevention</li><li>Technical skills - High level knowledge in regular expressions and evasion/obfuscation techniques, URL filtering</li><li>Nice to have - programming experience, shell/perl/python scripting, understanding of malnets, security clearance</li><li>Strong knowledge of TCP/IP</li><li>Solid understanding and hands-on experience in Routing &amp; Switching (OSPF / BGP / VLAN / STP etc)</li><li>Strong experience with Security (IPSEC / SSL-VPN / NAT / GRE)</li><li>Experience with Layer 7 application protocols (DNS,  DHCP,  FTP,  HTTP/HTTPS) is a strong advantage </li><li>Experience with Cisco security products, Checkpoint, Juniper, Fortinet is a plus</li><li>Experience with Authentication Protocols (Radius /TACACS) is a plus </li><li>Strong ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unique networks with mixed media and protocols is required</li></ul><h3>Additional Information</h3><p><strong>The Team</strong></p><p>Our Technical Support team is critical to our success and mission. As pa