TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk.
At TrendAI™, we’re always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together. Here, your work goes beyond building a career. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future.
AI Fearlessly.
As a Customer Success Technical Advisor (CSTA), you are the strategic technical linchpin for Trend Micro’s enterprise clients. Your mission is to move beyond reactive troubleshooting to become a Trusted Advisor, ensuring customers achieve measurable cybersecurity resilience. You will lead the technical journey for our most strategic accounts, transforming complex security requirements into scalable, operational successes within the TrendAI Vision One™ ecosystem.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Strategic Technical Advocacy
Outcome-Driven Management: Act as the primary technical voice post-deployment, shifting the focus from "ticket resolution" to "security outcome attainment."
Success Planning: Contribute technical milestones to the broader Customer Success Plan, ensuring a clear roadmap for platform adoption, version upgrades, and feature deployments.
Platform Mastery: Conduct regular architectural reviews and configuration audits to ensure customers are utilizing the full breadth of the TrendAI platform.
2. Proactive Operations & Enablement
Value Realization: Guide clients through a structured onboarding and deployment process, ensuring rapid time-to-value and high feature utilization.
Technical Workshops: Design and deliver bespoke workshops and "Best Practice" sessions to mature the customer's internal SOC and SIEM operations.
Advanced Threat Defense: Provide technical oversight during critical security events, offering proactive recommendations to harden the customer's posture against evolving threats.
3. Operational Excellence & Leadership
Root Cause Strategy: Perform deep-dive root cause analysis (RCA) on complex issues, providing long-term strategic recommendations to prevent systemic failures.
Cross-Functional Orchestration: Serve as the regional liaison between the customer and internal Product Engineering, R&D, and Sales Engineering to influence product roadmaps.
Account Health Integrity: Maintain a "Single Source of Truth" for account health, including detailed environment maps, troubleshooting playbooks, and operational reports.
SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
Fluent in both written and spoken German and English.
Experience: 10 or more years of experience in technical support, security architecture, systems engineering, or a relevant client-facing consulting field.
Domain Expertise: Strong knowledge of security frameworks (NIST, MITRE ATT&CK), SIEM/SOC operations, and endpoint/network defense technologies.
Technical Depth: Deep understanding of multiple operating systems (Windows Server, Linux, Solaris) and hybrid-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Strategic Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex technical risks in simple, business-centric terms for executive stakeholders.
Analytical Mindset: Highly process-oriented with a passion for digital organization, documentation, and technical reporting.
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent is preferred.
Certifications: Technical certifications are strongly preferred (e.g., TCAP, TSCE, CISSP, CCNA, CCNP, or Cloud Platform Certifications).
At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. We like to have fun while taking our culture seriously. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to this regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, nationality, age, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or veteran status. We do not allow discrimination or harassment of any kind.
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information across enterprises, governments, and consumers.
Fueled by decades of security expertise and relentless innovation, Trend leverages the full power of AI to protect over 500,000 enterprises and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, endpoints, and devices.
At the core of this protection is Trend Vision One™, the only AI-powered enterprise cybersecurity platform that centralizes cyber risk exposure management and security operations, delivering robust layered protection across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
This platform is fueled by world-class threat intelligence and insights that help defend organizations from hundreds of millions of threats every day.
With 7,000 employees across 70 countries, Trend empowers security leaders to stay ahead of threats, driving proactive security outcomes across the entire attack surface. This includes critical environments like AWS, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.
Proactive security starts here.
