Technical Account Manager - Singapore

Fortinet

Singapore
Permanent
Full-time

29 days ago

Job Description:Location: SingaporeRole Overview:As a member of the Technical Account Support Team, you will use your deep understanding of network/security architectures and general knowledge about the current trends in the market to help promote product quality, while providing best in class solutions. You will work with research and development groups, sales teams and regional support teams in a fast paced environment.For this position, you have to demonstrate experience in participating in the post-sales support escalation processes, which includes pre-sales experience, as well as strong customer facing skills particular in the public sector and large enterprise space.This position requires strong oral and written communication skills. Oral communication skills include the ability to speak clearly and persuasively, to listen carefully to ensure full understanding of the situation, and to respond well to questions when dealing with both positive and negative situations. This position also requires the ability to write clearly to provide full information as well as to understand and interpret written information.Responsibilities:

Primary point of contact for the dedicated account.
Provide technical solutions to address customer issues.
Centrally manage and prioritize customer issue to assure timely resolution.
Reproduction of customer environments on lab equipment.
Follow-up with R&D departments to resolve product issues.
Responsible for tracking, maintaining and resolving incident reports and customer support requests.
Creation of technical documentation and bulletins to improve internal and external knowledge base.
Update and provide guidance on new releases and features to dedicated accounts.
Develop best practice deployment and troubleshooting methodology documentation.
Conduct periodic site visits for the managed accounts.
Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

Requirements:

At least 5-10 years' experience in technical support role in a networking/security company.
Strong understanding of data networking protocols, specifically TCP/IP, routing and switching.
Hands on Experience Security products and technologies such as Firewalls, End point protection, IPSec VPN, Authentication (RADIUS, LDAP, etc.), UTM, etc.
Administrator level working knowledge of Windows, Linux or Unix skills an advantage.
Good understanding of Web application concepts, security and vulnerabilities.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Effective oral and written communication skills.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field, or an equivalent combination of training and experience is desirable.
Prefer candidates with CCNA, CCNP, CCIE and/or CISSP certifications.
Experience in system integration and multi vendors environment.
Experience in programming and scripting that would assist automate data collection during trouble shooting & daily operation.
Experience in data center deployment.
Experience in wireless access point.
Experience in SQL database.

Fortinet is an equal opportunity employer.We will only notify shortlisted candidates.Fortinet will not entertain any unsolicited resumes, please refrain from sending them to any Fortinet employees or Fortinet email aliases. Should any agency submit any resumes to Fortinet, these resumes if considered, will be assumed to have been given by the agency free of any related fees/charges.#LI-JC1About Us: Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world's largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet's Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.

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