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At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday – from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities – just to name a few!

Job Description

Your Career

The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks. As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer’s security transformation journey. You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks. You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

Role

Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
• Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
• Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
• Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
• Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
• Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership
• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
• (OT) – Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
• Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
• Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role – prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal
• Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements
• Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions – Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
• Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
• Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
• Proficient in English

Additional Information

The Team

Our Solutions Consultant team members work hand-in-hand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire,and empower our potential clients in their journey to transform their security architectures.

You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. Our Solutions Consulting community is driven by the mission to be our customers’ cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting their digital way of life.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $198,000/yr to $273,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Support Account Manager

As a Support Account Managers (SAM) you are key to shaping the support experience of our strategic customers. Your responsibility includes driving the technical support delivery across the Palo Alto Networks platform of products to ensure Palo Alto Networks is exceeding customer expectations. As a partner to your Customers, you will understand their business goals and security priorities in order to deliver support services that drive customer loyalty and success. Successful candidates will be customer-obsessed team players who leverage demonstrated technical expertise with strong business acumen to ensure customers achieve the right outcomes and realize the value of their investment in the Palo Alto Networks security platform.

Your Impact

• Provide leadership in the delivery of our high-touch, personalized support service to our customers
• Understand and participate in technical discussions in order to move towards the resolution of technical issues that are blocking successful adoption of the Palo Alto Networks platform
• Develop an understanding of our customer’s business and security priorities to provide technical best practice guidance and support
• Develop and deliver weekly status reports to summarize support status of open issues, task progression and pending activities
• In collaboration with support engineers, document, deliver and present technical, in-depth root cause analysis for customer issues
• Deliver quarterly business reviews that communicate the value the customer is deriving from their Palo Alto Networks investment
• Partner with account teams to understand their account expansion strategy and to support in the identification of opportunities to deliver solutions and/or service to your customers
• Understand how customers are using their Palo Alto Networks products and provide best practices guidance in support of customer use cases and to increase their security posture
• Deliver updates on product and feature enhancements
• Proactively use data to monitor customer health and to mitigate risk and to resolve customer technical issues
• Act as an advocate for customers, coordinating internal resources during the triage and resolution of high severity cases to assist with the timely resolution of these issues
• Ensure your customers and internal stakeholders have timely information to make decisions in order to resolve issues more quickly
• Engage Product Management on behalf of the customer to communicate security priorities and operational requirements as feature requests
• Invest in your continuous development by maintaining technical proficiency across the Palo Alto Networks platform

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 7+ years of experience in technical support or a services delivery role with demonstrated skills delivering technical guidance and technical information to customers from engineers to management to executives
• 5+ years of client facing sales or services experience with large enterprise, Fortune 500 companies
• Prior experience supporting network security technology, working in security operations, technical support, and/or cloud security with products including but not limited to next generation firewalls, SASE solutions, cloud security, endpoint security, security orchestration, automation and response products
• Ability to translate business objectives into desired outcomes and deliver best practice guidance
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize work within a demanding environment, delivering consistent results under time constraints
• Demonstrated ability to identify key customer stakeholders, engage and build relationships without direct supervision
• Ability to manage simultaneous issues in a dynamic environment and proactively identify and mitigate risks and challenges
• Demonstrated ability to work in a matrix team environment partnering and influencing others across the organization to achieve desired customer outcomes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – the ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences and to explain the impact in business terms
• Positive, growth-oriented mindset
• Project Management certifications or qualifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL is a plus

Solutions Consultant

The Solutions Consultant is the evolution of the traditional Sales Engineering role, aligning how we best serve our customers in understanding their environment, providing solution guidance and ensuring value realization in their investment with Palo Alto Networks. As a Solutions Consultant you provide technical leadership and expertise and guidance in your customer’s security transformation journey. You will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives and ensuring value realization of their investment with Palo Alto Networks. You evangelize our industry leadership in on-prem, cloud, and security operations services that establish PANW as your customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

Role

Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
• Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
• Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions
• Demonstrating strong communication skills and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
• Orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy
• Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating our leadership
• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
• (OT) – Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
• Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
• Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role – prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal
• Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements
• Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions – Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
• Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
• Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
• Proficient in English

Customer Success Engineer, Access

As a Customer Success Engineer (CSE) at Palo Alto Networks, you will play a strategic role in driving customer success by providing advanced technical expertise and leadership. You will work closely with CISOs, CTOs, security, cloud, network, and other technical teams from the world’s largest and most well-known organizations, particularly focusing on ensuring successful deployment, adoption, and optimization of our solutions.

This position works within our Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Customer Success organization, helping customers in their cloud transformation journey. Some solutions you will work with include Prisma Access, SD-WAN, CASB, and others under the SASE portfolio.

Your Impact

• Product Expertise
  • Provide advanced product-level expertise, leading complex deployments and resolving intricate technical challenges
  • Serve as the go-to expert for SASE products, guiding customers through sophisticated integrations and customizations
  • Proactively communicate new features and best practices, ensuring customers are leveraging the full capabilities of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Product Adoption
  • Lead efforts to drive product adoption, conducting in-depth training sessions, and workshops tailored to customer needs
  • Assess and address gaps in deployment and best practices, translating them into strategic action plans for improvement
  • Ensure customers achieve operational excellence by fully adopting and optimizing new features
• Customer Impact
  • Act as a strategic advisor, influencing key stakeholders at various levels, including C-suite executives
  • Manage complex customer engagements, collaborating with account teams to develop and execute high-touch delivery strategies
  • Lead customer escalations, coordinating with internal teams and resources to ensure timely and effective resolution

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years of industry hands-on experience with deep expertise in network security, cloud infrastructure, and related technologies
• Advanced knowledge of SASE, SD-WAN, NGFW, and sophisticated routing protocols such as BGP
• Proven track record in driving product adoption, leading complex feature implementations, and delivering advanced training programs
• Ability to translate technical requirements into actionable plans, guiding customers through advanced use cases
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including executive-level contacts
• High-level consultative skills, capable of influencing decisions and driving customer success strategies
• Advanced understanding of TCP/IP, SSL, IPSec, PKI, and advanced troubleshooting tools like tcpdump & Wireshark
• Work experience should include 4+ years of hands-on designing, deploying, and managing large enterprise networks in real time
• Detail understanding of NOC (Network Operations Center) and SoC (Security Operations Center) day-to-day operational requirements in building and maintaining a secure network
• Detailed working knowledge of network infrastructure and security, TCP/IP, BGP, NGFW, SSL/IPSec VPNs
• Solid understanding of routing protocols, with hands-on experience in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting BGP-based production networks
• Background in Internet and Security technologies such as Sandboxing, Firewalls, DLP, and VPNs
• Proven understanding of Security Life Cycle / Attack Life cycle and other security concepts and use of security products to protect the enterprise network from attackers and data breaches
• Proven experience with SD-WAN, CASB, or Cloud/SaaS products and PCNSE, CCNP, CCSP, and CISSP certifications is a plus
• Strong knowledge of public cloud networking, virtualization technologies, and API/automation tools for complex deployments