Remote Technical Account Manager Job at Zscaler
Job Description
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.
***Please note this is a remote/ home-office based job from anywhere within the UK***
An opportunity to join a world-class team made up of some of the most prominent names in security.
At Zscaler, we will provide you with the best support, learning, and access to expertise in the marketplace to transform the way our customers work, leading them through their digital transformation. Becoming their trusted advisor, you’ll improve their experience whilst maximising security in a global environment.
As part of the Customer Services organisation, your responsibilities are to drive post sales activities for top named accounts as the point of contact for technical post sales matters. Your experience consulting for enterprise customers (both face to face and remotely) alongside your technical expertise will turn our customers into advocates, and give you the skills you need to build a highly successful career within a flourishing organisation.
What you can expect during our extensive onboarding program:
Zscaler is committed to your successful onboarding and ongoing professional development. Here’s what you can expect during your first 90 days:
Within 30 Days you will…
- Become familiar with Zscaler’s products and messaging, and understand how we do things
- Gain certifications on ZIA ZPA administrator courses
- Develop your hands-on knowledge and experience with the Zscaler cloud platform and products
- Attend our Product bootcamps to learn our products and technology in depth
- Shadow fellow TAMs with their customer engagements
Within 60 Days you will…
- Complete our advanced bootcamp on Zscaler technologies
- Confident and capable of configuring Zscaler technologies to meet customers’ requirements
- Start to engage with customers and help them resolve problems
- Adopt the tools and processes used by the Zscaler TAM teams
- Have built strong relationships within the team and across the company
Within 90 Days you will…
- Start working with top customers and engage regularly with service owners and operational teams
- Be solving complex problems and helping customers implement best practices
- Provide proactive recommendations for customers to optimize their security posture
- Share best practices with your peers, and learn from their best practices too
- Start working cross functionally with product management, engineering, customer success and sales teams
- Gain confidence and readiness to be in front of Zscaler’s large enterprise customers act as their trusted advisor and a main point of contract for Product related queries
Qualifications
Ideally, You’ll Have:
- Good understanding of HTTP and TCP/IP
- Network transformation technologies such as MPLS, SD-WAN or WAN Optimization.
- The ability to read packet captures
- Good understanding of ITIL / Service Management / Release Pipeline
- Troubleshooting knowledge, design and implementation experience
- Great communication skills as well as the ability to build trusted relationship with clients
It would be considered an advantage, if you as well have some of the following:
- A background in Internet and Security technologies such as SWG, Sandboxing, Firewalls, DLP, and VPNs
- A vendor certification such as CISSP, CCIE, CCNP, JNCIE, MCSE are a plus
- A detailed working knowledge of web-based security and network infrastructure, Security Proxies, such as NGFW, SSL/IPSec VPNs, and Firewalls
- Ability to interpret security reports to provide actionable improvements for our clients
In return, we’re offering a compensation package made up of a competitive base salary, generous employee benefits, and equity alongside investment in your personal and professional development.
Your Responsibilities as a TAM:
- Own the customer technical engagement. Meet regularly with customer leadership and operational teams to provide bespoke insights on how our service helps them achieve their business goals
- Manage, escalate, and drive satisfactory resolution of clients technical operational issues
- Proactively drive security and operational best practices and various other initiatives.
- Engage cross functionally to provide the best experience to customers
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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Zscaler is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations or adjustments) in our recruiting processes for candidates who are differently abled, have long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.