Job Description

Company Description

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With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler Government Solutions serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.



The Principal Escalation Engineer will be responsible for solving some of the toughest customer issues. You would be working on highly critical escalations with exec visibility inside the organization. You would also be providing technical assistance to other internal support and escalation engineers as part of the global escalation team. The Sr Escalation Engineer will also work directly with Operations and Engineering on opening bugs and requests with all required diagnostic information.

Customer support department is responsible for providing troubleshooting and advanced technical support services to a wide range of internal and external clients across many industries. We are responsible for keeping our customer\'s network protected and ensure that their issues are taken care of right from deployment to adding new licenses. Our main objective will be to delight our customers so that we have high retention and upsell opportunities with our clients.

Responsibilities/What You\'ll Do

Engage with customers on critical customer situations

Interface with Engineering and/or network operations and assist the customer with testing or troubleshooting.

Reproduce customer issues to verify problems and provide feedback to Engineering and Operations teams

Create knowledge base articles

Contribute towards improving reliability, assurance and serviceability of our products by providing inputs based on in depth understanding of the product and customer use cases.

Promote a team environment by assisting and contributing to fellow Zscaler employees whenever necessary to enhance the professional development of everyone within the organization.

Ability to mentor other engineers on advanced troubleshooting, debugging and case management skills.

Understand the product direction and customer use-cases and provide input on product & code changes through all points of the product cycle.

Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum 8+ years of experience working as escalation engineer supporting networking or web security products.

Experience with operating systems such as Linux, Unix, and Free BSD.

Experience troubleshooting network issues, performance issues and familiarity with the necessary tools. (Ping, Traceroute, MTR, wireshark, saml tracer, etc)

Expert knowledge of protocols such as TCP, HTTP, HTTPS, TLS, SMTP, FTP, DNS, etc

Working knowledge of Web proxies, Apache and IIS Web Server administration

Familiarity with:

Network Protocol Analyzers (tcpdump, Wireshark)

Network Security (SSL/TLS, VPNs, Firewall, IDS/IPS)

Authentication systems such as LDAP, MS AD, SAML, Kerberos etc

VPN technologies such as IPSec and VPN clients

Scripting knowledge (SHELL, Python, Perl) would be appreciated

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalently advanced industry certifications.

Expert level certification like CCIE, CCSE, NSE, JNCIE is preferred

Additional Information

Why Zscaler?

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we\'d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.

Zscaler thrives on differences and believes those differences are critical to our success as a global company. Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace that seeks to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We therefore encourage applications from all genders, races, religions, ages, and sexual orientations, as well as parents, veterans, people living with disabilities, and any other groups that could bring diverse perspectives to our business.

Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at .

Zscaler is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Why Zscaler?

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we\'d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.

Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at .

Zscaler is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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