Incident Commander jobs at Palo Alto in India, Bengaluru

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Your Career

Your primary responsibility will be to proactively stave off incidents & escalations. Should these incidents or escalations arise, you will be expected to respond without delay, ensure swift resolution, surpass customer expectations, and champion an environment of continuous growth and refinement.

You will be tasked with constructing systems that have a cross-geographical reach, ensuring smooth operation from pilot phase right through to full-scale production. At all times, the aim should be to provide an unmatched customer experience, underpinned by consistency, pivotal metrics, and a systematic approach.

Your Impact

• Coordinate and lead response initiatives for the company's most pivotal incidents and escalations that impact our customers
• As the Incident Commander (IC), demonstrate adept leadership, seamless coordination with global team, and technical prowess, promoting quick decision-making and enabling communication across diverse teams
• Leverage your robust technical foundation to assess, prioritize, and oversee incidents effectively - Collaborate intimately with premier technical teams appropriate for each severity level
• Engage and liaise with both internal and external stakeholders spanning various teams proficiently
• Harness data to champion refinements in processes, fostering collaboration and growth across teams
• Manage the comprehensive incident progression, working closely with support, engineering, and field teams from the initial response to retrospective analysis
• Delve into incident solutions, conceptualize and evaluate theories, and pinpoint underlying causes
• Design, build, operate key parts the E2E Incident management lifecycle

Your Experience

• BE/B.tech degree in Engineering or a related technical domain or equivalent military experience is desirable
• Possess 7 to 10 years in customer facing functions in support, success, product, or service delivery roles
• Possess a minimum of 5 years' experience in handling significant incidents and escalations in a 24/7/365 environment
• Comprehensive knowledge of LAN/WAN technologies, encompassing general routing/switching/security for both branch and data center architectures
• Expertise in Remote Access VPN solutions, including IPSEC, PKI & SSL
• Familiarity with Palo Alto Networks products is highly advantageous
• Proficiency in Public Cloud, Microservices, Infrastructure as Code, and expansive metrics and monitoring systems
• Demonstrable experience with Windows OS, Linux OS, and macOS-based applications (Installation, Troubleshooting, Debugging)
• Adeptness in providing architectural insights emphasizing fault tolerance and stability
• An inclination towards a "tools-first" approach, prioritizing process efficiency and consistency
• Familiarity with systems like Salesforce, FireHydrant, JIRA, Blameless, PagerDuty, Tableau, and other AI/data-driven operations and workflow automation platforms
• Understanding of SLA, SLO concepts and how to achieve them consistently.
• Exemplary leadership and communication capabilities, with the finesse to engage various stakeholders and remain poised under stress
• Solid problem assessment and decision-making skills
• The ideal Incident Commander has a mix and background of customer management and broad and deep technical skills related in Security, Network, Customer deployments

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