Job Description

OUR CAREER  As an Extended Expertise Consultant (FORMERLY KNOWN AS A "RESIDENT ENGINEER") ,  you will provide guidance and technical support to clients deploying our security integrations. You’ll act as the technical partner, providing strategic guidance around complex systems to secure a digital environment. Interacting directly with the client, you’ll partner closely with client personnel to guide and suggest integrations to better serve their success. Your thorough understanding of our product integrations contributes to the development of new principles and concepts – providing detailed analysis around what’s working, what’s not, and what could be better.  You enjoy implementation work, are proactive about resolving potential concerns, and operate well around strict best practices that enable our clients on their road to a more secure digital world. You’re creative, innovative, and you love a challenge – learning how integrations might work better around new products and technologies.  YOUR IMPACT

• Build custom security policies and application signatures for unique client environments 
• Consult and guide customers on security standard best practices methodologies and act as trusted advisor for clients on behalf of Palo Alto Networks
• Analyze logs and events from the solution and supply threat analysis reports, providing input and direction as applicable
• Work proactively with our Technical Assistance Center to troubleshoot and diagnose cases as escalations arise
• Mitigate web-based threats in a timely manner
• Maintain the implemented solution and provide mentorship on code upgrades, changes to the platform, and new technology developments 
• Work with sales account team to help formulate a technical strategy to address customer business needs
• Support direct manager in managing business needs through weekly reports and Quarterly Business Reviews
• Engage with the account team to allow them to clearly understand the customer business & technical requirements as you learn through active engagement with the client

Qualifications

YOUR EXPERIENCE

• Strong Networking (route/switch) experience and skills.  
• Consulting skills
• Be Proactive
• Prisma Cloud (SD-WAN; CloudGenix) experience preferred
• Experience with competitor SD-WAN products may be acceptable.
• DevOps deployment experience a plus
• Scripting experience such as Python and working with APIs
• Educate customers on rolling out Prisma SDWAN to remote sites, creating standards and runbooks
• Palo Alto product experience
• Enabling and configuring
• NGFW
• Prisma Access
• Panorama
• Networking certifications are a plus

Additional Information

THE TEAM Our professional services team is critical to our success and mission. As part of this team, you enable customer success by providing support to clients post-sale. Our dedication to our customers doesn’t stop once they sign – it evolves. As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised. But you won’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.  

OUR COMMITMENT We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together. Palo Alto Networks is evolving and changing the nature of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, 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.

Disclosure required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum compensation (includes on-target earnings = base + on target incentives for sales roles) for this role to be located in the state of Colorado. If hired in Colorado, this position starts at $93,300/yr. Depending on the position offered, restricted stock units and incentive or bonus pay may be provided as part of this compensation package. Additional benefits may be found here.

Due to federal law requirements, the successful candidate must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or be legally entitled to an accommodation excusing vaccination.