An Escalation Engineer will require to works on mainly high and critical issues as escalated by the Product Support team with very complex factors involved, some of which are product bugs.
Also, will need to engage member of Support and R&D (Product Development) and manage the communication between the teams. In some instances, they will need to communicate extremely complex situations to customers in terms they understand.
A successful candidate should have a high level of expertise involving Imperva solutions or other solutions that are deployed in the WAF and DB environments for on-site, public cloud, and hybrid. Possessing very good troubleshooting skills and the ability to understand design vs implementation would be important.
Typically requires a minimum of 6 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a Ph.D. with 2 years experience; or equivalent experience.
Technical Knowledge:
Advanced Networking knowledge in Internet environment (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, HTTPS/SSL/TLS, Layer2 thru Layer7, load balancing, proxies)
Heavy Experience with analyzing Wireshark/TCP-dumps and Debugging tools such as Burp/Fiddler/Postman.
Good knowledge of SQL protocol and databases
Solid/Admin level Experience with different OS, Unix, Linux, and Windows
Working Knowledge in programming or ability to read/write pseudo code, as well as scripting languages - Python/Bash/etc, and Regex
Working knowledge with Public cloud deployments
Solid Security Knowledge including firewalls, CVEs, well-known attacks, and best practices
Experience with Jira or similar platform
Solid understanding of RFC and standards
Job Complexity:
Should have 2 or more years: preparing escalations for R&D review / working with R&D to resolve issues / reproducing customer issues / applying and testing hotfixes / using debug commands and tools to isolate issues
Have worked on complex scenarios where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
Have the ability to prioritize based on facts and problem severity and/or business impact.
Drives other teams / Individuals in a mutual effort to resolve the problem.