Job Description
Your Career
As an Incident Commander for our Network Security products, you will take on the crucial role of spearheading the response and resolution efforts for critical customer operational issues, such as service disruptions and various product-related challenges.
We are on the hunt for individuals who are ready to assume technical responsibility and demonstrate a drive to tackle complex problems, conduct thorough troubleshooting, and effectively triage incidents. Your role will involve direct, hands-on engagement with products like NextGen Firewall, SD-WAN, and Prisma Access solutions. Your expertise will be pivotal in swiftly addressing and rectifying situations within customer environments across the globe.
We are looking for leaders who can take technical ownership, someone who is driven to solve complex problems, troubleshoot and triage incidents. You will be working hands-on with products like NextGen Firewall, SD-WAN, Prisma Access solutions and helping quickly remediate situations in customer environments worldwide.
Your Impact
- Incident Response Leadership
- Lead and coordinate a technical cross-functional response team to determine root cause and remediate issues as quickly as possible
- Serve as the primary point of contact for critical customer issues with our customers and Product and GTM teams
- Communication and Reporting
- Establish and maintain clear communication channels with customers and internal stakeholders
- Prepare and deliver updates and incident reports to relevant parties
- Ensure compliance with service-level agreements (SLAs) and customer communication expectations
- Containment and Resolution
- Develop and execute strategies to contain and resolve operational issues promptly
- Collaborate with technical teams to implement fixes or workarounds
- Root Cause Analysis and Preventive Measures
- Conduct root cause analysis to identify the underlying reasons and corrective actions
- Collaborate with product development and quality assurance teams to implement preventative measures to avoid future incidents
- Documentation, Post-Incident Analysis and Proactive Issue Identification
- Maintain detailed records of operational issues, actions taken, and resolutions applied
- Conduct post-incident analysis to enhance operational processes and prevent recurring problems
- Proactively identify and assess potential customer issues to prevent them from escalating into critical problems for our customers
- Design, build, operate key parts the E2E Incident management lifecycle
- Solving the most critical issues impacting our customers
- Leverage your robust technical foundation to assess, prioritize, remedy, resolve issues
- Drive SLA, SLO concepts with tracking fine grained milestones and performance metrics
- Develop innovative tools helping in problem troubleshooting and resolution
- Delve into incident solutions, conceptualize and evaluate theories, and pinpoint underlying causes and drive continuous learning and improvement
- Build internal and external champions as you deliver on the outcomes that are key to the partnership with our customers and partners
Qualifications
Your Experience
- Customer focus
- Experience in working with customers and stakeholders to get the right outcomes
- Ability to remain calm and focused under high pressure situations
- Customer centric attitude and focus on providing best-in-class service for customers and collaborators
- Leadership and communication skills
- Experience in being able to effectively lead a team of cross functional professionals
- Expertise in communicating complex topics in a clear and concise manner to different tiers of audiences(highly technical, less technical, executives, practitioners)
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Experience in being able to quickly and accurately assess a situation, identify and prioritize risks, and make sound decisions
- Strong Technical skills
- Experience with Networking/Security Products
- Comprehensive knowledge of LAN/WAN technologies, encompassing general routing/switching/security for both branch and data center architectures
- Experience with VPN (IPSec, SSL tunnels) technologies
- Experience with Windows OS/Linux OS/macOS-based applications (Installation, Troubleshooting, Debugging)
- Any Relevant certifications is an advantage (PCNSE, PCNSA, CCIE, CCNP, Cloud AWS, GCP or Azure, etc)
- Systems and Metrics
- Familiarity with any systems like Salesforce, FireHydrant, JIRA, Blameless, PagerDuty, JIRA, Tableau and other AIOps, data-driven operations and workflows is a plus
- Ability to measure success metrics and SLO
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