Zscaler

About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. 

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler 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. 

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

Position: Technical Account Manager - EMEA

Location: Mohali, India

The Technical Account Manager - EMEA will report to the Manager, Technical Account Managers. You will provide world-class post-sales engineering and professional services support to enterprises and service providers. You will interact with customers using a variety of mediums (phone, email, on-site) in a professional and efficient manner. All TAMs are held to the highest industry standards for responsiveness and services provided. The TAM manages the Premium Support relationship and ensures that Zscaler is and continues to be considered a key technology partner within the account. The TAM will work closely with the Field Sales Team to ensure that all Zscaler products and services are deployed in a manageable and supportable way, and the customer gets the most out of their investment for the life of the contract. The TAM will work toward establishing an excellent working relationship with other members of the Zscaler Team that are active within his/her accounts. As the Zscaler platform integrates with many aspects of the Internet and customer infrastructure, a thorough understanding of Internet protocols and networking beyond HTTP and SMTP is required.

The mission of Zscaler's Customer Success department is to transform the way our customers work, to lead them through their digital transformation, and support their business outcomes. Improve Experience for our customers, and their users, to get the best user experience while maximizing security in a global environment. Through world-class technical engagement, and ensuring our customers get the best out of the technology.

Engagement, a partner with our customers and partners, be their trusted advisors and turn them into raving fans of Zscaler

Responsibilities/What You’ll Do:

• Manage, escalate, and drive satisfactory resolution of customers' technical support, service and infrastructure issues based on Zscaler products and technologies.
• Manage implementation and consulting projects, where you would be expected to plan, schedule and implement Zscaler web and email solutions for customers or service providers.
• Expected to take support escalations from the region and help the Support team from time to time.
• Expected to be available to be on call when contacted by premium support customers for P0/P1 customer-impacting issues during non-operational hours.
• Create and facilitate communication channels between the gold/platinum customer and the product management and engineering teams in Zscaler.
• Proactively update customers about cloud updates, upgrade and ensure necessary action to maintain availability and customer satisfaction.
• Provide on-site and virtual product training to Premium Support customers.
• Proactively develop and deliver notifications of new Zscaler products and technologies to Premium Support customers
• Proactively monitor reporting information and policy configurations of Zscaler technologies at customer sites and make ongoing recommendations
• Help develop and maintain best practices for implementing and supporting Zscaler products in both internal and customer-facing Knowledge Bases
• Maintain intimate knowledge of all Zscaler products and services
• Provide clear and constructive product feedback to Zscaler Product Management based on customer requirements

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of account management experience (either pre- or post-sales)
• Experience in implementing/ supporting web security and email security solutions.
• Experience in high-tech networking and information security industry.
• Committed desire to provide customer satisfaction
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• In-depth understanding of enterprise networks and infrastructur
• Fundamental understanding of application networking.
• Adept in TCP/IP stack and practical knowledge of the protocol workflow
• Understanding of basic protocols like : HTTP, DNS, TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, ICMP, FTP
• Hands-on experience in working with network troubleshooting tools like Wireshark, WinMTR, Fiddler, etc
• Added advantages : experience in l2/l3 protocols and devices, advanced security concepts like IPS/IDS/DLP, authentication protocols like SAML/LDAP.
• Strong Troubleshooting and customer management skills is a must.
• An in-depth understanding of TCP/IP, including reading packet, captures and general diagnostics is required.
• Understanding of Microsoft Active directory is required.
• Practical understanding of open-source system administration: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD is required.
• Experience with FreeBSD and Linux is desired.
• Practical understanding of Internet protocols: HTTP, SMTP, DNS, LDAP, and FTP is required.
• Basic Shell Scripting/Programming Experience (bash, Perl etc.) is an added advantage.
• SQL experience is an added advantage.
• Understanding of Various routing and switching architectures (Cisco, Juniper, etc.) is an added advantage.

By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.

Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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