Customer Success Engineering Team Lead (Network Security)

Position Overview

We are hiring a Customer Success Engineering Team Lead to manage a technical customer success team at a global network security software company. The company helps organisations manage network access, make changes safely and check security policies across firewalls, cloud environments and other parts of their networks.

You will lead and develop Customer Success Engineers, take accountability for technical delivery to customers and improve the team’s services and ways of working. This role suits an experienced people manager with practical networking, enterprise firewall and Linux administration experience who enjoys helping technical teams deliver strong customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

Take accountability for the successful technical delivery of technical account management activities.

Manage and mentor Customer Success Engineers, ensuring consistent technical competency, adherence to company standards and customer satisfaction.

Develop and improve customer success practices, services and other initiatives that strengthen delivery.

Implement and continuously improve operational strategies, business plans, goals, core competencies and processes that support company objectives.

Build collaborative relationships across Research and Development, Product Management, Professional Services, Support and other teams to deliver customer success activities and company priorities.

Lead the team towards performance targets and Key Performance Indicators established by leadership.

Requirements

5+ years of professional experience working on complex IT projects in networking or network security.

3+ years of direct people management experience.

Experience with networking devices, such as switches and routers, including virtual routing and software-defined networking.

Hands-on administration/configuration experience with at least one enterprise firewall platform, such as Check Point, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Juniper or an equivalent platform.

Experience as a technical consultant and/or in a customer-facing role.

Hands-on Linux server administration skills.

Strong leadership and decision-making skills, with the ability to motivate teams and drive results.

Excellent customer-facing, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, including presentation and negotiation.

Strong analytical thinking, collaboration, team building, conflict resolution, stakeholder management and risk management skills.

Attention to detail, strong organisational skills and the ability to work well under pressure.

Nice to have

Basic scripting or programming experience.