Senior Platform consultant (SFMC)

Company Description

Krish is committed to enabling customers to achieve their technological goals by delivering solutions that combine the right technology, people, and costs. Our approach emphasizes building long-term relationships while ensuring customer success through tailored solutions, leveraging the expertise and integrity of our consultants and robust delivery processes.

Location           :             Mumbai – Tech Data Office

Experience      :             5 - 8 years.

Duration          :             1-year contract (extendable)

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Sales Engineer (L2/L3) with in-depth expertise in Palo Alto Networks solutions. This role requires designing, implementing, and supporting cutting-edge network and security solutions to meet customers' technical and business needs. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in sales engineering and advanced skills in deploying, troubleshooting, and optimizing Palo Alto products and related technologies, with the ability to assist in implementation tasks when required.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Design & Technical Consultation:

• Collaborate with sales teams and customers to understand business and technical requirements.
• Design and propose solutions leveraging Palo Alto Networks technologies, including Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), Prisma Access, Panorama, SD-WAN, and Threat Prevention.
• Prepare detailed technical proposals, configurations, and proof-of-concept (POC) demonstrations tailored to client needs.
• Optimize existing customer deployments, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.

Customer Engagement & Implementation:

• Present and demonstrate Palo Alto solutions to stakeholders, addressing technical challenges and business objectives.
• Conduct customer and partner workshops, enablement sessions, and product training.
• Provide post-sales support to address implementation challenges and fine-tune deployments.
• Lead and assist with hands-on implementations of Palo Alto Networks products when required.

Support & Troubleshooting:

• Provide L2-L3 level troubleshooting and issue resolution for Palo Alto Networks products, including advanced debugging and system analysis.
• Assist with upgrades, migrations, and integration of Palo Alto solutions with other security and network infrastructures.
• Develop runbooks, workflows, and documentation for post-sales handover to operations teams.

Partner Enablement & Ecosystem Management:

• Collaborate with channel partners to build technical competency and promote adoption of Palo Alto solutions.
• Support certification readiness and compliance for both internal and partner teams.
• Participate in events, workshops, and seminars to showcase technical expertise.

Skills and Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• Advanced expertise in Palo Alto Networks technologies, including NGFW, Panorama, Prisma Access, SD-WAN, and GlobalProtect.
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF) and security frameworks (e.g., Zero Trust, SASE).
• Proficiency in troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex networking and security issues.
• Experience with security automation tools and integrations (e.g., API scripting, Ansible, Terraform).

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and maintain operational discipline under tight deadlines.

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in sales engineering, solution architecture, or advanced technical support roles in the IT security domain.
• Hands-on experience in designing and deploying large-scale Palo Alto Networks solutions in enterprise environments.

Education and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications such as PCNSA, PCNSE, or equivalent vendor certifications (e.g., CCNP Security, NSE4) are highly preferred.

Job Description:

• Works with team to drive improvements in code quality via manual testing
• Works to develop and execute QA strategies to meet and exceed corporate quality goals
• Delivers on capabilities for the product suite automation strategy
• Develops manual and automated test cases and configurations needed to meet testing of business requirements
• Executes test cases/scripts to ensure delivery of quality software applications, including Systems Integration, Regression, and Performance Testing 
• Generates test data to support the requirements and test case for various test phases
• Building and maintenance of quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards
• Creates logs to document testing phases and defects
• Monitors and tracks resolution of defects and takes part in daily standup 
• Designs, monitors, and analyzes quality assurance metrics such as defect, defect counts, test results, and test status
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative testing technologies and techniques
• Looks beyond the obvious for continuous improvement opportunities

Qualification and Experience Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical disciplines, or equivalent work experience required
• 3+ years of experience in Technology, with an emphasis on QA, and proven ability in writing test cases, running functional or performance tests, and managing defects
• Solid experience in test-driven development, unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing
• Must have proven analytical and problem-solving skills to help validate, verify, communicate & report software application issues
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• Solid knowledge of QA methodologies, SDLC and STLC
• Working knowledge of test management software like Jira
• Strong in analytical skills and should be a team player
• Competent in executing test cases and passionate about quality
• Ability to handle conflict effectively

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

An SDET is a test professional with advanced programming skills who can create automation testing tools and frameworks to assist the manual testing process.

We are looking for a talented SDET to contribute to and review the creation of a testing suite for production software. The SDET's responsibilities include both software development and testing tasks and focuses on the testability, robustness, and performance of production software.

SDET Responsibilities:

- Understanding the flow of code and how it interacts with different components.

- Understanding project documents, customer demands, and product objectives to create and execute test cases.
- Setting up, maintaining, and performing test automation frameworks on multiple application platforms, such as Mobile, Desktop, and Web, and building test scenarios and acceptance tests.
- Investigating customer problems referred to you by the technical support team, testing bugs, and creating and managing bug reports.
- Handling technical communications and understanding the customers' systems.
- Working with deployments teams, resolving level issues for systems, coordinating on product design, and offering inputs on the testability of functional elements and product designs.
- Noting all testing actions you have performed in daily and weekly reports.
- Analyzing and disintegrating software systems and coordinating with other teams to enhance the overall design.
- Researching test tools, methodologies, and trends and upgrading existing practices and processes.
- Managing the final quality on production release.


SDET Requirements:
- A Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field. This is optional, but good to have.
- Excellent programming skills with JavaScript.
- Knowledge of any of the following tools or similar. Cypress, Supertest, Chai, Mocha, Jest, Jasmine, Puppeteer, Karma, Playwright
- Knowledge of programming languages and process management methodology.
- Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
- The ability to recognize risks and errors in an application.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- The ability to keep current with the constantly changing technology industry.
- A passion for testing, development, and software design.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Designing and implementing new features and functionalities.
• Technical help in resolving the support requests.
• Creating and maintaining documentation of the work.
• Design & develop web based applications using PHP/MySQL
• For more details visit website
• Requirements and qualifications:
• Proficient in MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, HTML & CSS.
• Comfortable working with debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome inspector, etc.
• Knowledge of how to interact with RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML)
• Experience in creating WordPress plugins from scratch.
• Experience in writing test cases.
• Collaboration with the team.
• Manage project tasks, timelines, and communication.
• Write efficient, robust, and reusable code while adhering to WordPress coding standards.
• Object-oriented programming.
• Knowledge of developing web based applications using PHP/MySQL

Desired Candidate Profile

• Strong PHP/MySQL capabilities.
• Passion for programming
• Sound coding logic and analytical ability to design test scenarios and debug issues
• Keen interest in research about the latest web technologies and advancements
• Enthusiasm to learn new technologies and incorporate them into the new offerings/solutions
• Good capabilities in HTML, CSS, Javascript.
• Exposure in Coding frameworks or CMSes.
• Ability to work in teams.
• Ability to learn fast. Good communication skills

Near is looking for a Front-End Developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with programming. Responsibilities will include translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce the application's visual elements. You will work with the Near Design team and bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks and works.

You will be part of one of the fastest-growing Enterprise SaaS companies – an excellent opportunity for people who can work independently and are self-driven.

• Optimize applications for maximum speed.
• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability.
• Get feedback from, and build solutions for users and customers.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Write functional requirement documents and guides.
• Support back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and skills.

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in engineering, Design, Fine Arts, or related field.
• 5+ Years of total experience; should have worked with Angular for more than two years.
• Expertise in designing and developing customer-facing web applications at scale.
• Proficiency in web markup, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6).
• Proficiency in client-side scripting and JavaScript & CSS frameworks, including jQuery, Bootstrap.
• Basic knowledge of image editing tools to crop, resize, or perform minor adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as Illustrator and Photoshop is a plus.
• Proficiency in cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficiency in code versioning tools, such as GIT.
• Knowledge about Highchart and Mapbox will be a plus.
• Passionate about learning new technologies.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical, and organization skills with an eye for detail.
  
  

  About Near
  
  

  Near is the world's largest source of intelligence on people and places, processing data from over 1.6 billion monthly users across 44 countries. The Near Platform powers data-driven marketing and enrichment offerings through a suite of SaaS products. The users of the platform can leverage audience, spatial, retail, among other data in a privacy-led environment.

   

  Founded in 2012, Near is headquartered in Singapore with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Bangalore, Tokyo, and Sydney. Today, marquee brands such as News Corp and Mastercard work with Near to provide enhanced customer experiences.

   

  Near is backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, JP Morgan Private Equity Group, Cisco Investments, Telstra Ventures, and Greater Pacific Capital. Visit www.near.co to find out more.