Description
Your Role:
The Technical Support Engineer (TSE) provides consistent, world-class support for Tenable cybersecurity products (Tenable Holdings Inc, NASDAQ: TENB). In serving as the primary liaison between the company and customer, the TSE resolves real-world technical challenges by supporting cutting-edge vulnerability assessment and compliance auditing software across complex, multi-faceted customer deployments.
Our TSEs possess excellent knowledge of security assessment, vulnerability management, OT cybersecurity and compliance auditing capabilities along with the drive to rapidly learn the newest technologies. Impeccable communication skills (written and verbal) focused on sustaining market leading customer loyalty is a key requirement for this position. The TSE is a hands-on customer-facing role that provides support for Tenable’s entire product suite; including Nessus Professional, Tenable.io, Tenable.sc (formerly Security Center), Tenable.ot, Log Correlation Engine, Container Security, and Web Application Scanning. Questions come from a wide variety of sources including customers who need help deploying their first Nessus scanner, to customers who want to perform in-depth log correlation and real-time vulnerability analysis.
Your Opportunity:
- Serves as the primary technical liaison between the customer and Tenable internal groups (Product Management, R&D, etc) for technical issues
- Analyse and clarify customer technical inquiries
- Analysing vulnerability scan results, system audits, and log events
- Recreating customer software issues in a lab environment
- Ensure customer feedback is properly channelled into Product Management and Research & Development
- Maintaining in-depth knowledge of Tenable products and information security best-practices
- Create and publish solution knowledge for re-use by customers and Tenable employees
What you'll need:
- Bachelor’s degree in IT or Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- At least 5+ years of hands-on proven experience in field engineering or technical support : Support/Professional Services/Technical Account Manager
- Excellent Verbal Communication Skills in English
- Access to High Quality Broadband – Fully remote working position
- 2+ Years Customer Support with a hi-tech company
- A passion for making customers successful
- Experience working with Enterprise customers around the world
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- Excellent customer-oriented individual
- Strong technical and robust problem-solving skills, the ability to learn from doing, personal accountability, and a positive and professional attitude
- Strong desire to learn new skills at an accelerated pace
- Ability to multi-task and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Strong knowledge/experience in :
- Linux and Windows Server Administration and Configuration
- Network administration, Firewall Configuration, and strong knowledge of TCP/IP
- Extensive experience with diagnostic tools such as Wireshark, etc to analyze packet captures (pcaps)
- Experience with SQL and database administration
- Log File Analysis Experience
- Working Knowledge of
- Firewalls
- CVE's and Security Bulletins
- Either professionally or in an academic setting, using Nessus and/or other vulnerability management and cybersecurity tools
- Plus to have the following knowledge/experience :
- Patch deployment and system configuration
- Log analysis using Splunk or another SIEM product
- Virtualization technology (VMWare, Hyper-V, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Docker, etc.)
- Basic programming knowledge
- Scripting in Bash, Python, Powershell, etc.
- OS Hardening experience (DISA STIGs, HIPPA, CIS, etc)
- Certificates and CAs
- Monthly availability to work weekends (8am-4:30pm) and Holidays is also required.
