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Manager, Escalation Support Engineering

Come join the company that is reinventing cloud security and empowering businesses to thrive in the cloud. As the fastest-growing startup ever, Wiz is on a mission to help organizations secure cloud environments that will accelerate their businesses. Trusted by security teams all over the world, we have a proven track record of success and a culture that values world-class talent.

Our Wizards from over 13 countries work together to protect the infrastructure of our hundreds of customers, including over 45% of the Fortune 100, who trust us to scan and secure over 230 billion files daily. We’re the leading player in a massive and growing market, but it’s still early enough for you to make a significant impact. At Wiz, you’ll have the freedom to think creatively, dream big, and use your full range of skills to contribute to our record growth. Come join our team and help us create secure cloud environments that allow the best companies to move faster.

SUMMARY

As an Escalation Support Engineering Manager, you will be a part of a global team responsible for providing outstanding technical support experience. In this role, you will manage a highly technical team of subject matter experts of up to 8 people and help enable them to manage and solve complex technical escalations, answer and document questions from the field, create tools and automations to help scale our support offering, and work closely with our Product Management and Engineering teams to ensure an excellent customer experience with new and existing products and features.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Manage, develop, coach and mentor a team of Escalation Engineers, who are responsible for complex technical escalations and 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

Create, maintain, and coordinate incident management requests to product or engineering

Design and implement solutions that scale the support offering through automations

Coordinate with Technical Account 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

3+ years of people management experience

5+ years of hands-on, technical experience in customer support, technical support, system administration, software development, devops, or site reliability

A minimum of 3+ 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

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

Experience managing a highly technical escalations tier

Wiz is on a mission to build a special company. To achieve our goal, we are focused on hiring Wizards with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Wiz is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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