L3 Product Support Engineer (Contract) in Cork, Ireland

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Company Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Product Support Engineer with advanced troubleshooting and problem-solving skills to join our team. You will be working with a variety of customers and will play a critical role in the day-to-day support of these customers.

The Support Engineer is capable of troubleshooting and resolving the most difficult and complicated issues. This position works closely with the Pre/Post Sales and R&D departments. The Support Engineer is required to provide clear and concise communication with all forms of clients and internal peers.

Your day-to-day

• Close interaction with Product, Engineering, Professional Services, TAM and CSM teams

• Responsible for advanced troubleshooting of Proofpoint Illusive Identity Threat Detection products and services

• Work with the customer to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues, replicate customer environments and product problems as needed. Document issues and collaborate with R&D when needed to provide solutions.

• Document technical inquiries. Develop and review content for knowledge sharing for both internal purposes and customer facing platforms.

• Ability to think “out-of-the-box” and develop creative solutions to address clients’ requirements

What you bring to the team

• Proven experience providing product support to external enterprise grade customers

• Extensive experience with Windows environments: Windows Servers, Event logs, GPO

• Knowledge of Relational & non-relational databases and SQL

• Analytical abilities to quickly resolve process/technical problems, evaluate alternative approaches and recommend the most efficient and effective solutions

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

• People person and team player

• Self-learner and independent executor

• Language fluency in English

Desirable

• Knowledge of Linux: system and network configuration, software installation, troubleshooting, bash scripting, etc.

• Familiarity with – Active directory, DNS, Kerberos, NTLM, Azure active directory, MDE

• Knowledge in cyber – lateral movement, cyber-attacks

• Familiarity with deployment tools – SCCM, Intune, Tanium

• Familiarity with PAM solutions (e.g., CyberArk)

• Familiarity with Java, Python, C++ BSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!

Proofpoint has been honored with six Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Career Growth, Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.

To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards

Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.

We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.

Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.

We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.

At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform

• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture

• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel

• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

   

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.

Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.