Senior Support, Technical Account Manager

The Basics:

At Tanium, our Sr. Support TAMs (STAMs) fulfill a necessary role in our organization by serving our customers in resolving technical issues and answering technical questions that customers have, in a timely manner. With a primary focus on customer satisfaction, Support TAMs work both reactively and proactively to improve the overall experience of our customers when using Tanium. As a Sr. Support TAM, you’ll have continuous opportunities to apply your best technical skills while building new skills ranging from scripting to debugging.

This role reports to a Tanium Support Manager.

**Target candidates will reside in Mountain or Pacific Time Zone.

What You’ll Do:

Assisting customers by:

• Triaging inbound support cases
• Solving customer support cases
• Working with other Support Engineers to assist with their assigned cases
• Answering customer questions in the Tanium community site

Improve customer experience by:

• Documenting best practices
• Tracking activity, documenting root cause, and reporting
• Serving as a technical subject matter expert, focusing mostly on the testing and troubleshooting aspects of the area
• Testing Tanium and providing feedback to the Engineering teams on how we can improve the overall customer experience

We’re Looking For:

Education

• Associates degree or equivalent experience required
• BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, or similar experience a plus

Must Have

• 4+ years into their career field with solid technical skills in one or more areas of networking, security, operations, scripting, and/or programming
• Ability to master new concepts and technologies; continually striving to master the Tanium platform and modules
• Problem solving; can break problems down into manageable, ordered piece parts and successfully convey the problem statement and plan to others
• Aptitude for comprehending complex troubleshooting
• Good Judgement; understand the importance of weighing cost and value in decision making and practice making good judgement calls with improved consistency over time
• Independent; should be able to independently work on problems; should be able to complete tasks with limited assistance; participate in projects and follow technical support procedures only requiring help on more complex initiatives or issues

Good to Have:

• Prior experience and breadth of knowledge needed to support customers
• Hands-on Tanium experience
• Relevant technical certifications (Google IT Support Professional Certificate, CISSP, MCSE, A+/Security+/Network+ combined, etc.)
• Experience in one or more of the following technical domains: Endpoint Security, Endpoint Support/Troubleshooting, Incident Response, Systems Management, Utility Scripting (bash, PowerShell, VBScript, Python

For Federal Roles only:

• Security clearance or ability to obtain a security clearance may be required
• 8140.1 training/8570 certification may be required
• Prior military service in a related field (e.g. Navy Cryptologic Technician - Networks, USAF 3D or 1B, Army 17C or 35Q, 25D, etc.) a plus

About Tanium 

Tanium, the industry’s only provider of converged endpoint management (XEM), leads the paradigm shift in legacy approaches to managing complex security and technology environments. Only Tanium protects every team, endpoint, and workflow from cyber threats by integrating IT, Operations, Security, and Risk into a single platform that delivers comprehensive visibility across devices, a unified set of controls, and a common taxonomy for a single shared purpose: to protect critical information and infrastructure at scale. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for six consecutive years and ranks on Fortune’s list of the Best Large Workplaces in Technology. In fact, more than half of the Fortune 100 and the U.S. armed forces trust Tanium to protect people; defend data; secure systems; and see and control every endpoint, team, and workflow everywhere. That’s the power of certainty. Visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things. 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.   

What you’ll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $75,000 to $225,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.

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