Secure Access Technical Consulting Engineer
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Location:Bangalore, India
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Area of InterestCustomer Experience
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Job TypeProfessional
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Technology InterestNetworking
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Job Id1439797
Technical Consulting Engineer – Secure Access (Security)
Provide Solution level expertise to Customers.
This cloud-delivered security service edge (SSE) solution, grounded in zero trust, gives users an exceptional user experience and protected access from any device to anywhere.
Expectations from a Secure Access Technical Support Engineer:
- Be the main point of contact of the reported issue (Cisco and/or Third Party).
- Develops adequate knowledge of tools to triage customer issues and secure output/evidence that helps point the issue towards resolution.
- Keeps the customer engaged and advised of the status of the issue and consistently updates the ticket with Cisco and the Third Party with relevant details (status, ticket #, Third Party engineer and contact information).
- Remains committed to our customer experience. Solution Support is a premium level of service which our customers expect a high standard of quality and excellence from Cisco.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical support for security products to customers, partners, account teams, and other internal technical support teams.
- Handle a wide variety of technical support problems—from simple application or network configuration fixes to very sophisticated troubleshooting and problem resolution.
- Use moderate to sophisticated lab setups to recreate and solve technical problems.
- Submit complete and correct defect reports with collaboration and supervision.
- Work with minimal direction and exercise judgment within defined procedures to resolve appropriate action.
- Collaborate with other TAC engineers across technology boundaries to help drive quicker resolution where multiple technologies may be involved.
Main Tasks:
- Drives problem resolution for issues experienced in customer environments.
- Diagnoses, fixes, and resolves incidents related to Cisco products, services, or solutions.
- Provides answers for products, services, or solutions questions.
- Creates or updates, and delivers problem resolution, project collateral and/or knowledge transfer.
- Assists in documenting and resolving technical problems found in products and solutions.
- Engages and drives appropriate resources for critical issues.
- Maintains accurate documentation in incident and knowledge management systems
- Ensures case management guidelines are followed
- Optimally communicates (verbal and written) with the customer and Cisco partners on status and progress of service requests
Minimum Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in designing, deploying, configuring, supporting, troubleshooting, and debugging networks (direct customer support experience).
- Good technical foundation in networking (CCNA equivalent level or above) is required.
Technical qualifications:
- Primary Skills: Knowledge of basic Routing and Switching, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls & vASA, FTD, Firepower, FMC, Cisco IOS Firewall (Zone-Based Firewall), Clustering, Cisco Security Manager (CSM) - recommend adding VPN/AnyConnect and AAA/ISE to the mix here. Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Cloud services such as AWS, Azure, GCP and their provided services.
- Secondary Skills: Cisco DUO and/or Umbrella.
- Microsoft Active Directory (AD), Linux, Unix
- Wireshark and other tools for TCP/IP packet collection analysis
- Server and appliance virtualization using VMWare, MS Hyper-V, and KVM
- Experience leading technical troubleshooting calls with customer and internal stakeholders of varying technical experience (novice to expert) and across levels of interpersonal hierarchy (individual contributors to C-level executives)
- BS in a technical field (such as CS, EE, IT) or equivalent plus 8-10 years related experience.
- Experience designing, deploying, configuring, supporting, troubleshooting, and debugging networks.
- CCNP, CCNP Security, or CCIE Certification desired/preferred
- Cloud Certification is a plus.
- Python, Perl, Bash scripting skills would be an added advantage
#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.
We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!
But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)
Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.
So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.