20 oct
Cgs
Santiago
Position Description:
The ideal Directories Technical Support Engineer is an articulate and seasoned
technical specialist who understands and can appreciate the challenges organizations
face in implementing and integrating cloud technologies into complex IT environments
across heterogeneous operating environments. You have technical depth and a
customer-first mentality, the motivation to take the initiative to own and resolve
customer issues, and an interest in working in a dynamic, fast-growing environment.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
A Technical Support Engineer is the primary point of contact for all support-related
issues for Okta’s enterprise customers. A Technical Support Engineer acts as the voice
of the custom to ensure technical support and best practice guidance are provided
within published SLAs.
● Take end-to-end ownership of customer issues, including initial troubleshooting,
identification of root cause, and issue resolution.
● Meet or exceed customer expectations on response quality, timeliness of
responses, and overall customer experience.
● Provide well-thought-out and reliable direction, both in technical and
non-technical terms, to help customers integrate, deploy, and maintain Okta’s
suite of security products.
● Serve as an internal and external point of contact on customer matters and
ensure customer issues are resolved as expediently as possible.
● Collect information and document bugs with Engineering for product issues that
are impacting customers.
● Function as a subject matter expert within support for Okta’s suite of security
products
● Contribute to and maintain repository of security centric knowledge within
support and promote a culture of team knowledge share and collaboration
● Push creative thinking beyond the boundaries of existing industry-standard
practices to come up with process improvements and new ways to delight
customers.
● Be a customer advocate for timely resolution of the problems reported,
understand the environment/network and impact on business
Required Skills:
● 5+ years of customer support, technical support, system administration, or
related customer-facing role
● BA/BS/MS in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, related
discipline, or relevant professional experience.
● Familiarity with Networking at OSI Model Layers 4-7
● Hands on experience configuring top down firewall rules
● Experience in supporting and troubleshooting Active Directory, and LDAP in
on-premise environments
● Experience in supporting and troubleshooting cloud based directory service such
as Azure Active Directory and emerging hosted LDAP services
● Experience with troubleshooting and supporting cross domain trust and group
memberships within enterprise scale Active Directory environment as well as
Active Directory group policy and LDAP policies and overlays
● Experience with installation and configuration of applications within a Linux
environments
● Cross-platform OS knowledge [Mac OS X, Windows (Server/Desktop), IOs and
Android)
● Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
● Excellent relationship management, customer service, and communication skills
in a variety of forms (written, live chat, conference calls,
in-person.)
● Ability to work independently with little direct supervision and as a part of a team.
Excellent analytical and organizational abilities. Ability to remain calm,
composed, and articulate when dealing with tough customer situations.
● Experience documenting customer issues via Salesforce or a similar CRM
ticketing system
● Experience translating customer issues into engineering centric reports via JIRA
or other bug reporting systems
● Prior experience providing support to large enterprise customers preferably with
customer management interaction.
● Broad knowledge of, and experience in, fundamental information security
concepts.
● Excellent understanding and experience with threat vectors (e.g. DDOS, password
spray),
including how to identify, mitigate, and prevent.
● Knowledge of security best practices (Certificates, Zero Trust, least privileged
access etc.)
● Understanding of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologies
(SSO, SAML, OAuth, Radius, Federation, etc.)