Job Category: Specialist
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: Trivandrum
Experience: 0 - 3 years
Technical Support Engineer
Key responsibilities:
- Provide L1 technical support to customers via email, chat, and video calls (e.g., Zoom/Meet/Slack) for Prophaze WAF, WAAP, and API security products.​
- Troubleshoot issues related to DNS routing, reverse proxy/ingress configuration, SSL/TLS, HTTP/HTTPS traffic flows, and basic Kubernetes or cloud setup as used with Prophaze deployments.​
- Monitor customer deployments and basic dashboards/logs to identify anomalies, false positives, or performance issues and escalate to senior engineers when required.​
- Assist in onboarding new customers by guiding them through initial configuration steps (DNS change, certificate setup, basic rule and policy configuration).​
- Document issues, solutions, and known errors in internal knowledge base articles and update runbooks for recurring scenarios.​
- Collaborate with product, security, and DevOps teams by clearly summarizing customer problems, logs, and reproduction steps for advanced troubleshooting.​
- Maintain a high standard of customer satisfaction with timely responses, clear communication, and professional follow‑through on open tickets.​
Required skills and qualifications:
- 0-3 years of experience in technical support, IT helpdesk, or customer-facing roles.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics, or related field.
- Strong fundamentals in networking (TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, SSL/TLS), Linux basics, and web technologies.​
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to explain technical issues in simple language to customers.​
- Readiness to work in night shifts or on‑call rotations as needed for a 24x7x365 security support environment.​
- High ownership mindset.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced support environment.
Good to have:
- Worked in technical support, NOC, cloud operations, or security operations.
- Familiarity with any scripting language (Python, Bash, etc.) for basic automation and log parsing.​
- Curiosity to learn modern cloud‑native security tooling, and comfort working in a fast‑paced startup environment.​
- Good understanding or coursework exposure to cloud, containers, or Kubernetes concepts is a plus.
- Basic familiarity with cybersecurity concepts such as OWASP Top 10, WAF, API security, and DDoS is an advantage, with willingness to learn deeply on the job.​