Principal Professional Services Consultant - Japan

About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. 

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances. 

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

Job Description

The Professional Services team at Zscaler helps customers design & best deploy
their Zscaler Cloud Security solutions (Zscaler Internet Access, Zscaler Private
Access, Data Protection, etc)
A Professional Services Consultant at Zscaler is a senior technical individual
contributor who will design and configure network and systems to enable customers
to utilize Zscaler cloud technologies. In this role, you will be a key resource, working
closely with customers, sales, partners to provide professional consultancy services
and ensure proper design, configuration, resiliency and overall best practices are
followed. While an experience on Zscaler solutions is desired, even more important
is having a solid foundation in Networking and especially Security
technologies and protocols.

Responsibilities:

• The Professional Services Consultant will deep dive in the customer environment and their unique requirements, create a design plan, configure, and integrate ZS solutions to enable their best usage of the Zscaler zero trust platform.
• Provide deployment services including best practice design, recommendations, and configuration
• Progress and uphold expertise in deploying advanced Zscaler product features and functionality
• Travel to customer locations to assist customers in architecture workshops, driving agreements and short-term service engagements
• Ensure client needs are met and deliverables produced on time according as defined in the Statement of Work
• Migrate customers from legacy firewall technologies to Zscaler cloud platforms.
• Assist customers with testing or troubleshooting during the deployment. Engage with Technical Account Manager and Escalate to support as required
• Reproduce customer issues to verify problems and document steps to replicate for Support, Engineering and Operations teams
• Become a Zscaler cloud services expert through self-study, company training, and a desire to excel
• Other duties or projects, as assigned

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of prior work experience in similar positions (e.g. Professional Consultant, Solutions Architect, Security Architect, Technical Marketing Engineer or a Security Support Engineer).
• Bilingual – Fluent with Japanese and English
• Experience deploying and maintaining large scale networking, firewall or security solutions in enterprise environments is important.
• Experience/Knowledge with Zscaler solutions- ZIA and ZPA is very helpful.
• Experience with Proxy and SSL is essential.
• Deep understanding of IPSEC, GRE, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS protocols
• Working knowledge of authentication systems such as SAML, LDAP and MS Active Directory
• Strong understanding of how to navigate technical and architectural discussions with customer architects and network/security leads.
• Comfortable talking about technical topics/issues with business people and business topics/issues with technical people; Able to express complex concepts in plain language to reach broader audiences.
• Excellent communication and follow-up skills across internal and external organizations.
• Experience with Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud.
• Experience with Hypervisors (in order of preference): VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM is essential.
• Industry certifications such as CCIE, JNCIE, PCNSE, CISSP or CCSP preferred.
• Effectively handle multiple projects and work calmly under pressure
• Understanding of cybersecurity technologies, protocols and applications.
• Versatile with using various operating systems including Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux
• Hands-on knowledge with network troubleshooting using tools such as
  Wireshark, tcpdump, Traceroute and MTR

What You Can Expect from Us:

• A great learning environment where you will be working on cutting edge technologies and architectures.
• Front end role to work with global enterprise customers and sales teams
• Long term opportunity to become a customer advocate.
• Cross functional expertise to closely work with various roles from Sales, Services, Engineering
• Be part of a Global organization (that also includes delivery, service sales, practice, PMO, portfolio, enablement functions) and work/learn from senior consultants, architects on Zscaler solutions and advancements.
• Access to latest trainings, modules to become a ZS expert.
• A long term and meritorious career
• A great leadership team willing to help and open-door culture.
• A fun, passionate and collaborative workplace
• The fast pace and excitement of working for a Silicon Valley Unicorn and leader in Cloud Security.

By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.

Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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