Sr. Technical Support Specialist NGFW

Forcepoint LLC

6 - 8 years

Bangalore

Posted: 7/12/2023

Job Description

Responsibilities:


  • Respond to customer cases in line with Service Level Agreements.
  • Proactively identify and resolve potential problems to prevent them from occurring and improve the overall customer experience.
  • Approach each case to ensure Forcepoint products are performing at an optimal level by addressing any underlying or additional problems uncovered during each customer engagement.
  • Ensure full understanding of the issue, including impact on the customer.
  • Gather logs, and configuration details and attempt to reproduce the reported issues.
  • Research the issue in the Knowledge Base, documentation, and with your team members as needed.
  • Recommend solutions to customers and follow through to resolution or escalate the case promptly if no resolution can be found.
  • Prioritize workload based on severity and impact to customers and demonstrate a sense of urgency when handling cases.
  • Be accountable for customer escalations and drive them internally to a speedy resolution while ensuring that customers are kept fully informed of progress throughout the escalation.
  • Document all interactions and case details within the customer tracking database, including a detailed description of the issue and any resolutions recommended.
  • Adhere to company policies and procedures regarding customer handling, case management, and service entitlement verification.
  • Participate in knowledge sharing via involvement in technical discussions and Knowledge Base documentation.
  • Create and deliver formal mentoring programs to Technical Support Engineers
  • Provide technical reviews of user documentation, product requirements documents, and functional specifications.
  • Act as subject matter expert about specific product components and integrations.
  • Provide in-depth training in areas of expertise, general product knowledge, and integration.
  • Perform other duties and projects as assigned.


Person Specification:


You demonstrate extreme levels of accountability and are results driven; you value teamwork and collaboration; you communicate transparently and with candor, while always being genuine; you act boldly, take initiative, and are comfortable taking calculated risks to achieve successful outcomes; you execute with speed and integrity, delivering high-quality work product which you are proud of.


Required Skills and Experience:


  • Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • Six or more years of experience supporting business-to-business customers
  • Hands-on experience that demonstrates knowledge of:
  • Networking fundamentals (Layer 2 and 3, TCP/IP, 3-way handshake, DNS, etc.)
  • HTTP protocol (Structure, status codes, authentication, etc.)
  • Application Support Basics (Common troubleshooting methodology for Windows and Linux programs)
  • SSL/TLS protocols (Structure, certificates, initial handshake, etc.)
  • SMTP (Protocol, Routing, MX Records, commands, status/response codes, etc.)
  • Packet Capture/Analysis with tcpdump and Wireshark
  • Diagnosing network latency and intermittent issues
  • Reading and analyzing log files
  • Active Directory (Domains, structure, permissions, group policies, etc.)
  • MSSQL fundamentals (Management interface, accessing logs, browsing databases, simple queries, permissions, jobs, etc.)
  • Information Security Concepts
  • Experience supporting the following applications:
  • Red Hat Linux fundamentals (command line navigation and basic features, file system, permissions, networking, etc.)
  • Windows (Permissions, services, file system, Event Viewer, etc.)


Desired Skills and Experience:


  • Endpoint application stack diagnostics and analysis for Windows, Mac, and Linux Endpoints
  • Windows and Linux memory dump capture and analysis


About Company

Forcepoint is an American multinational corporation software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, that develops computer security software and data protection, cloud access security broker, firewall, and cross-domain solutions. Forcepoint was founded in 1994 as an information technology reseller called NetPartners. It was renamed Websense in 1999 and became a public company in 2000 at the peak of the dot-com bubble. Vista Equity Partners acquired Websense in 2013 for $906 million. Raytheon acquired an 80% interest in Websense in April 2015 for $1.9 billion and acquired the remaining 20% interest in 2019. In 2015, Websense acquired network security vendor Stonesoft from Intel, and in 2016, the company was renamed Forcepoint. Francisco Partners acquired the company from Raytheon in January 2021.

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