Manager, Support Engineering - West Coast

SUMMARY

As a Solutions Support Engineer Manager, you will be a part of a global team responsible for providing outstanding technical support experience. In this role, you will manage a technical team of up to 8 people and help and enable them to solve technical problems for customers with a mix of debugging, networking, system administration, updating documentation, and when needed, creating solutions for customers while scaling our support offering using coding and scripting.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Manage, develop, coach and mentor a team of Technical Support Engineers, who are responsible for technical customer support experience within the Wiz product
• Act as the owner for your team's accountability and performance - partnering closely with upper management to facilitate performance reviews, performance plans, and any employee relations issues for your direct reports
• Ensure successful training and onboarding of new hires
• Guide the team through technical-training and additional learning and development needs
• Drive projects or initiatives to improve team productivity, process or procedure
• Collaborate with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations and act as a resource to resolve escalations from team members as necessary
• Identify cases that require escalation (either technically or strategically)
• Create, maintain, and coordinate incident management requests to product or engineering
• Design and implement solutions that scale the support offering through automations
• Coordinate with Customer Success Managers to address any technical issues impacting a customer's success
• Create technical articles or knowledge base (e.g., edit or create news/ knowledge-based articles) that is internal or customer-facing for a better customer support experience
• Be a customer advocate for timely resolution of the problems reported, understand the environment/network and impact on business

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems, or the equivalent industry experience and certifications
• 1+ years of people management experience
• 3+ years of hands-on, technical experience in customer support, technical support, system administration, or related customer-facing role
• A minimum of 1+ year experience with Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Experience in reading or debugging code in one or more of the following: Java, Python, Shell, JavaScript, JSON
• Proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
• Experience with Kubernetes, system virtualization, on-prem and/or hybrid cloud computing, cloud identity and security systems, cloud monitoring and logging, as well as local and cloud storage
• Familiar with security frameworks or tools
• Excellent organizational and project management skills
• Fast learner, natural curiosity, and love of technology

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with DevOps technologies
• Familiar with REST API's or GraphQL
• Knowledge of basic web technologies (e.g., HTTP, HTML, DNS)
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (e.g., TCP/IP, Routing, VPNs, VLANs, Peering, Load Balancing)
• Understanding of relational databases

Candidates must meet EAR part 772 and ITAR 120.15 definition of a U.S. person (Any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship; or any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence (green card holder); or any individual who is granted status as a "protected person") and that they reside in the contiguous United States.