Senior Technical Support Engineer

Ping Identity; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

Ping Identity is seeking a Senior Support Engineer to work closely with our top-tier customers, ensuring a seamless experience using our cloud identity platform. You will take ownership of issues from initial troubleshooting to resolution, coordinating with Engineering, SREs, Product Management, and Customer Success to resolve complex problems.

You will leverage strong debugging skills in REST APIs, SSL/TLS, and cloud platforms, while collaborating across teams to maintain high service quality

Qualifications

• Technical Degree plans preferred - Computer Engineering, CIS, MIS, CS
• Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent experience
• Excellent Communication: verbal, written, listening, present confidently, know audience
• Excellent Troubleshooting: analytical, creative thinking, inquisitive, resilient, adaptive
• Solid knowledge: REST API, SSL/TLS, IPv4, JSON, LDAP, Proxies
• Experienced working with Linux (administration & troubleshooting), Virtualization (enterprise environment), Cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Strong collaboration and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Interacting with customers, responding in a professional and efficient manner, helping them identify and resolve technical issues
• Meeting or exceed customer expectations on response quality, timeliness and overall customer experience
• Taking end-to-end ownership of assigned customer issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause and issue resolution
• Communicating with customers and partners through the online support tool, and via audio and video calls and screen-sharing sessions
• Collaborating with Support, Engineering, SREs, Product Management and Customer Success teams
• Reproducing customer problems internally, to enable the development and testing of a resolution
• Collecting information and documenting bugs with Engineering for product/service issues
• Providing feedback to training and documentation teams so that common or emerging issues can be addressed
• Ensuring best practices are followed and processes are adhered to, especially with regard to ISO27001/9001 compliance, security incidents and data breaches
• Leading escalation calls and creating action plans to solve customer issues
• Mentoring other team members and creating knowledge base articles
• Developing subject matter expertise in the product/service and platform interconnections
• Participating in screening and interviewing new team members
• Being the first point of call for Urgent tickets and customer issues

Skills

Excellent Communication

Troubleshooting

Analytical thinking

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering/CIS/MIS/CS

Equivalent experience

Tools

Linux

Virtualization

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

At Ping Identity, we believe in making digital experiences both secure and seamless for all users, without compromise. We call this digital freedom. And it's not just something we provide our customers. It's something that inspires our company. People don't come here to join a culture that's built on digital freedom. They come to cultivate it.

Our intelligent, cloud identity platform lets people shop, work, bank, and interact wherever and however they want. Without friction. Without fear.

While protecting digital identities is at the core of our technology, protecting individual identities is at the core of our culture. We champion every identity. One of our core values, Respect Individuality, reminds us to celebrate differences so you are empowered to bring your authentic self to work.

We're headquartered in Denver, Colorado and we have offices and employees around the globe. We serve the largest, most demanding enterprises worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. At Ping Identity, we're changing the way people and businesses think about cybersecurity, digital experiences, and identity and access management.

Role Purpose Statement:

As a Senior Support Engineer, you will be working in a customer-facing capacity dedicated to our top tier customers, helping to ensure they have a seamless experience using our products and navigating any issues that arise. Additionally, you will help with the resolution of any problems, working cross-functionally internally to quickly come up with the most efficient solution to ensure customers have a continuous operation of our products.

Main Responsibilities:

• Interacting with customers, responding in a professional and efficient manner, helping them identify and resolve technical issues.
• Meeting or exceed customer expectations on response quality, timeliness and overall customer experience
• Taking end-to-end ownership of assigned customer issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause and issue resolution. Showing dedication, patience and commitment to seeing problems through to resolution. Ability to think logically and creatively, with a detail-oriented working style, such that all angles of troubleshooting/resolution are covered and captured
• Communicating with customers and partners through the online support tool, and via audio (top tier customers may call in directly) and video calls and screen-sharing sessions which will occur regularly
• Collaborating with Support, Engineering, SREs, Product Management and Customer Success teams. Showing a respect for all team members and customers at all times
• Reproducing customer problems internally, to enable the development and testing of a resolution
• Collecting information and documenting bugs with Engineering for the product/service issues that are impacting customers
• Providing feedback to the training and documentation teams so that common or emerging issues can be addressed before they become serious or widespread
• Ensuring best practices are followed and processes are adhered to, especially with regard to ISO27001/9001 compliance, security incidents and data breaches
• Actively prioritizing tasks/workload with self-discipline and good timekeeping
• Adopting an 'always-learning' mentality, with a humble attitude about knowledge limitations, and the ability to learn from experience and informal/formal instruction. Showing a willingness to share knowledge with team members and customers
• Participating in the weekend queue manager/on-call rosters and scheduled public holiday coverage
• Clearly communicating with all stakeholders - customers, team members, other departments, management
• Leading escalation calls, when required, to brief stakeholder management on support cases, and assist in the creation of action plans aiming to solve customer issues as quickly as possible. Showing empathy for the customer's situation and listening with the intent to understand the situation clearly
• Frequently mentoring other team members, helping with complex tickets, promoting best practices around customer service and troubleshooting, creating and reviewing knowledge base articles
• Developing a subject matter expertise in the product/service, whilst building a wide breadth of understanding of platform-wide interconnections
• Using your creative thinking, business and technical analysis skills to go beyond the existing industry standard practices, to adjust existing and create new process improvements to delight our customers. Showing a demonstrated independent interest in advanced technologies
• Leading by example with an excellent work ethic and a positive mentality to steer the team through difficult issues whilst following best practices
• Contributing to technical screening, interviewing and final selection of new team members
• Increasing contributions to the product/service and wider global team
• Being the first point of call for Urgent tickets and customer issues

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Technical Degree plans preferred - Computer Engineering, CIS, MIS, CS
• Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent experience
• Excellent Communication: verbal, written, listening, present confidently, know audience
• Excellent Troubleshooting: analytical, creative thinking, inquisitive, resilient, adaptive
• Solid knowledge: REST API, SSL/TLS, IPv4, JSON, LDAP, Proxies
• Experienced working with Linux (administration & troubleshooting), Virtualization (enterprise environment), Cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Strong collaboration and teamwork skills.

Preferred:

• Support experience with IAM(Identity Access Management) software
• Preferred work location: US West Coast

Salary Range: $70,000 - $87,000

In accordance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (SB 19-085) the approximate compensation range for this role in Colorado is listed above. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors, such as knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Life at Ping:

We believe in and facilitate a flexible, collaborative work environment. We’re growing quickly, but remain true to the innovative, can-do startup values that got us here. Most importantly, we keep hiring talented, smart, fun, and genuinely nice people because that’s who we want to succeed with every day.

Here are just a few of the things that make Ping special:

• A company culture that empowers you to do your best work.
• Employee Resource Groups that create a sense of belonging for everyone.
• Regular company and team bonding events.
• Competitive benefits and perks.
• Global volunteering and community initiatives
• Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule
• Progressive Healthcare Options
• Retirement Programs
• Opportunity for Education Reimbursement
• Commuter Offset (Specific locations)

Ping is the collective sum of all our individual experiences, backgrounds and influences and we pride ourselves in growing and learning together. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone’s individuality is respected and everyone has an Identity. In recruiting for new colleagues, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring and encourage you to be your best self.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.