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Technical Support Engineer at Tanium

Sydney, Australia Full-timeGlobal SupportPosted about 1 month ago

About the Role

<p><strong>The Basics:</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>As a Support Engineer, you’ll have continuous opportunities to apply your best technical skills while building new skills ranging from scripting to debugging.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Assisting customers by:</span> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Triaging inbound support cases</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solving customer support cases</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Working with other Support Engineers to assist with their assigned cases</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Answering customer questions in the Tanium community site</span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Improve customer experience by:</span> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Documenting best practices</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tracking activity, documenting root cause, and reporting</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Serving as a technical subject matter expert, focusing mostly on the testing and troubleshooting aspects of the area</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Testing Tanium and providing feedback to the Engineering teams on how we can improve the overall customer experience</span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>We’re Looking For:</strong></p> <p><strong>Education</strong></p> <ul> <li>Associates degree or equivalent experience required</li> <li>BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, or similar experience a plus</li> </ul> <p><strong>Experience and Skills</strong></p> <p><strong>Must Haves:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">3+ years into their career field with solid technical skills in one or more areas of networking, security, operations, scripting, and/or programming</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Ability to master new concepts and technologies; continually striving to master the Tanium platform and modules</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Problem solving; can break problems down into manageable, ordered piece parts and successfully convey the problem statement and plan to others</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Aptitude for comprehending complex troubleshooting</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Good Judgement; understand the importance of weighing cost and value in decision making and practice making good judgement calls with improved consistency overtime</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">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</li> </ul> <p><strong>Good to Have:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Prior experience and breadth of knowledge needed to support customers</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Hands-on Tanium experience</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Relevant technical certifications (Google IT SupportProfessional Certificate, CISSP, MCSE,A+/Security+/Network+ combined, etc.)</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Experience in one or more of the following technical domains: Endpoint Security, EndpointSupport/Troubleshooting, Incident Response, SystemsManagement, Utility Scripting (bash, PowerShell,VBScript, Python.)</li> </ul> <p><strong>About Tanium&nbsp;</strong></p> <div>Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and security to innovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business – visit <u><a id="OWA8cd82040-d6a4-2e07-8c22-f773746075e4" href="http://www.tanium.com/" target="_blank" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">www.tanium.com</a></u> and&nbsp;follow us on <u><a id="OWA51246dd5-7f28-280e-6637-139dda4774bb" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/tanium" target="_blank" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1">LinkedIn</a></u> and <u><a id="OWAd79eefc3-ede9-5e26-14d4-517b82af2392" href="https://twitter.com/Tanium" target="_blank" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2">X</a></u>.</div> <p><strong>On a mission. Together.&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&quot;335559738&quot;:200,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p>As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things. &nbsp;</p> <p>Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.&nbsp;</p> <p><span class="fontSizeMediumPlus"><strong>Taking care of our team members</strong>&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span class="fontSizeMediumPlus">Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:1440,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}">For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tanium.com/privacy-policy/" target="_blank" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="0">Privacy Policy.</a></span></p>