Support, Technical Account Manager

The Basics:

At Tanium, our Support Engineers fulfill a necessary role in our organization by serving our customers in resolving technical issues and answering technical questions in a timely manner. With a primary focus on customer satisfaction, Support Engineers work both reactively and proactively to improve the overall experience of our enterprise customers when using Tanium. This role reports to a Support Manager.

As a Support Engineer, you’ll have continuous opportunities to apply your best technical skills while building new skills ranging from scripting to debugging.

What You’ll Do:

• Assisting customers by: Triaging inbound support casesSolving customer support casesWorking with other Support Engineers to assist with their assigned casesAnswering customer questions in the Tanium community site
• Improve customer experience by: Documenting best practicesTracking activity, documenting root cause, and reportingServing as a technical subject matter expert, focusing mostly on the testing and troubleshooting aspects of the areaTesting Tanium and providing feedback to the Engineering teams on how we can improve the overall customer experience

We’re Looking For:

Education

• Associates degree or equivalent experience required
• BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, or similar experience a plus

Experience and Skills

Must Haves:

• 3+ years into their career field with solid technical skills in one or more areas of networking, security, operations, scripting, and/or programming
• Ability to master new concepts and technologies; continually striving to master the Tanium platform and modules
• Problem solving; can break problems down into manageable, ordered piece parts and successfully convey the problem statement and plan to others
• Aptitude for comprehending complex troubleshooting
• Good Judgement; understand the importance of weighing cost and value in decision making and practice making good judgement calls with improved consistency overtime
• Independent; should be able to independently work on problems; should be able to complete tasks with limited assistance; participate in projects and follow technical support procedures only requiring help on more complex enterprise initiatives or issues

Good to Have:

• Prior experience and breadth of knowledge needed to support customers
• Hands-on Tanium experience
• Relevant technical certifications (Google IT SupportProfessional Certificate, CISSP, MCSE,A+/Security+/Network+ combined, etc.)
• For Federal Roles only: Security clearance or ability to obtain a security clearance may be required8140.1 training/8570 certification may be requiredPrior military service in a related field (e.g. NavyCryptologic Technician - Networks, USAF 3D or 1B,Army 17C or 35Q, 25D, etc.) a plus
• Experience in one or more of the following technical domains: Endpoint Security, EndpointSupport/Troubleshooting, Incident Response, SystemsManagement, Utility Scripting (bash, PowerShell,VBScript, Python.)