Technical Support Engineer 2

As one of the most established cybersecurity companies in the world, we at NetWitness are hard at work every day helping our customers and partners better protect their organizations from cyberattacks. Our products and incident response services are used within most large enterprises, governments and militaries for incident response and threat hunting. Our Sales Professionals, Sales Engineers and Professional Services Consultants design and deliver solutions for potential and existing customers to enable better visibility, insight, and action to prevent and defend against attacks. Netwitness provides the unique ability to provide one single platform with a unified view across all attack surfaces including Network, Logs/SIEM, Endpoint and IoT combined with our AI-based User and Entity Behavioral Analysis (UEBA) and Security, Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Reviews technical solution articles for accuracy and completeness and gives feedback to the authors.
• Acts as a remote customer advocate to champion specific customer needs in collaboration with field team.
• Understands and uses sphere of influence extending outside of the department.
• Participating in and leads conference calls with customers Knows their audience and articulate accordingly.
• Participates in eServices content creation (self-service) and maintenance such as Chat, Knowledgebase content, Support forums, etc.; regularly submits content to the knowledge database.
• Validates technical information and issues early warning and disseminates information as needed.
• Interfaces directly with customers at different stages of problem resolution process including understanding issues customers are facing, communicating plans for resolution, explaining developments, and conveying resolution.
• Assesses when it is necessary to engage or escalate to more senior resources to resolve more complex issues.
• Manages own schedule of cases, which includes determining priority levels and negotiating and setting expectations with customers
• As a 24X7X365 organization, shift work, holidays, weekends and on-call responsibilities may be required
• Works toward becoming subject matter expert in a particular area or areas.
• Mentors and/or coaches less experienced TSEs, help develop and participate in presentations and informal training for other TSEs.
• Applies systems analysis techniques and procedures to determine hardware or software systems functionality.
• Applies technical knowledge to analyze and use highly technical troubleshooting tools and content and analytical practices; uses operational and diagnostic procedures to diagnose and resolve issues in unique and often complex customer environments.
• Systematically gathers relevant information and analyzes a broad range of factors while working to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Determines which tool(s) to use to resolve issues including running tests and be able to identify when deviation from the available troubleshooting tools and documents is appropriate
• Effectively communicates procedural and technical issues to internal and external customers in a fast paced and customer critical environment.
• Maintains a "closed loop" communication style that ensures proper and consistent documentation in service request case notes; assuring all appropriate individuals are notified of ongoing issues and problem resolution status.
• Contributes and develops knowledge-based articles; may perform senior or expert level tasks for assigned products and skills; prepares articles for other TSEs and/or customers regarding technical solutions.

Requirements

• Excellent troubleshooting and customer support skills.
• Strong organizational skills – comfortable with managing and prioritizing customer caseloads.
• Ability to visualize, articulate, conceptualize, or solve both complex and straightforward problems by making decisions that are sensible given the available information.
• Ability to work well in a team environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Two or more of the below skills are highly required:
• Hands-on experience of Unix/Linux system administration with strong command line knowledge.
• Proficient knowledge of network security including firewall configuration and SSL-based secure communications, Proxy configuration & IPSEC VPN.
• Good knowledge of network fundamentals concepts to include routing, switching, VLANs & VPNS.
• Technical proficiency across windows platforms including Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Active Directory & Microsoft SQL Server.
• Strong knowledge of Relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
• Configuration management Fundamentals to include Chef, Puppet & Salt.
• Knowledge of Scripting Language: Python.
• Experience with Security Assessment tools (NMAP, Nessus, Metasploit) and packet capture analysis tools (Wireshark, tcpdump).
• Any of the below Certifications (is a plus)
• Linux Administration Certifications (RHCSA, RHCE...etc).
• Security Certificates (CEH, Security +, …etc.)
• Microsoft Certification (MCSA, MCSE)
• Networking Certifications (CCNA, CCNP,…etc.)
  
  Experience:
• Typically requires 3+ years of related experience in a professional role with a bachelor’s degree; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent experience.