This is a hybrid role in Austin or can be located in Plano, Texas.
Position Summary
As a Team Lead, Enterprise Services you will lead a team who create and maintain long-term relationships with Imperva’s strategic customers, manage and monitor complex implementation in terms of Security, Health, and Performance. Manage engagement and consulting assignments, technical escalations, and work closely with Product and Customer Success teams for our application security products (Dev, Support, Security, Sr. Management) in order to get issues resolved. You will be a technical authority of Imperva’s Application Security suite, while constantly improving best practices for solutions and services. You will work closely with Management to implement and expand the global Enterprise Services program.
Key Areas of Responsibility
Technical leadership of the Americas ES Team including training, development and formal review of team members. Maintain supervision over operational tasks and provide day-to-day oversight for Enterprise Services Engineers.
Assist management with daily operations, KPIs, executing new initiatives, and expanding ES program.
Assist and engage with Sales, Renewals, and CSM teams to increase adoption of ES across Imperva’s customer base by assisting with sales cycle.
As an Imperva AppSec Expert, you are expected to know everything there is to know about how Imperva AppSec offerings work. Conduct thorough investigation of escalations, research different attack vectors, threat patterns, security events, and attack strings to ensure the safety of clients’ data that is accessible through the internet networks
Be a trusted advisor, take ownership of all problems you encounter, and be a team player. Inspire trust, motivate others and build rapport with team members. Ensure adherence to established standards and procedures.
Become a champion by engaging with customers, managing escalations, incidents, and increasing visibility on pain points with their deployments. Work with customers, partners, customer account teams and other internal Imperva teams (Security Threat Research, Product Management, Product development, Customer Success Managers, Quality Assurance, and Operations) to reach timely resolution.
Keep customer teams up to date via ongoing status about onboarding, configuration and tuning efforts, cases, feature requests (RFEs), service review calls, and current news from the field on the latest security trends and developments as well as product release notes.
Develop and implement troubleshooting tools, processes, and ideas that improve efficiency of Enterprise Services delivery. Continually evaluate and enhance proactive monitoring, automation, and reporting initiatives.
Analyze customer data such as case trends, traffic, alerts and attack information to make solid recommendations for improving systems health and overall security posture. Research new attack vectors and security solutions to create customized security policies that detect, alert, and prevent malicious request and attacks.
Basic Qualifications
Minimum of 4 year bachelors degree in Information Systems or Computer Science or Telecommunications or any Technology field and minimum of 8 years experience in application or network security in a technical customer facing role with at least last 6 years in a application security OR
6 years’ experience in application or network security with a Master’s degree in a technology field with at least 4 years in a Technical Customer facing role.
Minimum of 1 year leadership or management experience with proven ability to lead the team of 6-8 members, drive results, provide feedback/direction, and build relationships with customers and team members in a geographically dispersed environment.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving approach alongside self-learning ability. Excellent communication (written and verbal), interpersonal skills, and customer-focused skills.
Demonstrated experience working with Internet Security and Networking Technologies such as TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL/TLS, Proxies, Firewalls, OWASP Top 10, and OWASP Automated Threats to Web Applications.
Hands-on experience in identifying BOT behaviors and mitigating BOT attacks. And with web application vulnerabilities and common attack techniques (SQLi, XSS, OWASP Top 10, etc)
Experience with one or more scripting languages (i.e. python, bash, java, etc) and working with Public Cloud Technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
Proven ability to manage complex implementation and onboarding projects, consulting assignments, and technical escalations related to attack prevention for application services, Website security, Proxies and Load Balancing.
Proficiency with Python & SQL
Prefer a candidate with a degree of flexibility to take appointments evenings and mornings, as required
What We Offer
Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 30 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following:
• Elective Health, Dental, Vision, FSA/HSA, Voluntary Life and AD&D, Whole Group Life w/LTC, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Plan, Identity Theft, and Pet Insurance.
• Retirement Savings Plan after 30 days of employment with a company contribution and a match, and with no vesting period.
• Company paid holidays and Paid Time Off.
• Company provided Life Insurance.
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This position will require successfully completing a post-offer background check. Qualified candidates with [a] criminal history will be considered and are not automatically disqualified, consistent with federal law, state law, and local ordinances.Thales champions inclusion and we believe diversity strengthens the fabric of our culture. Thales is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans.
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Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 30 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following:
•Elective Health, Dental, Vision, FSA/HSA, Voluntary Life and AD&D, Whole Group Life w/LTC, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Plan, Identity Theft, and Pet Insurance
•Retirement Savings Plan after 30 days of employment with a company contribution and a match, and with no vesting period
•Company paid holidays and Paid Time Off
•Company provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Disability, Employee Assistance Plan, and Well-being Program