Cloud Domain Consultant

Our Mission

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!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

As a Domain Consultant for cloud native security, you will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives. You evangelize our industry leading solutions in cloud security that establish Palo Alto Networks as a customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Your Impact

Collaborate with account teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization area

Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership

As the main technical point of contact for Cloud Security, you will assist and collaborate to respond effectively to RFIs / RFPs.

Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition

Scope and lead Proof of Value (PoV) projects for prospective customers and partners based on best practices to ensure technical win in your assigned opportunities

Drive high technical validation and PoV win rates within your assigned specialization area

Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with customer requirements and differentiation

Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture

Accelerate technical validation of proposed solutions within your specialization

Document High-Level Design and Key Use Cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks Solutions

Help our customers build and develop further their services around Prisma Cloud

Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape

Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative

Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions

Initiate projects to improve individual team’s performance

Implement organizational policies & help others adopt

Act as a conduit for customer feedback to Product Management, Technical Marketing, competitor intelligence, and R&D to create requirements and deliver product features for our customers

Qualifications

Your Experience

6+years technical sales or equivalent experience highly preferred

Hands-on experience using IaC software tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, GCP Cloud Deployment Manager etc) and CI / CD tools (IDEs, GitLab, GitHuB, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)

Experience with Alicloud, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud configuration and administration of security features and services (including identity and access management, networking, firewalls, encryption)

Deep experience in one or more cloud security areas such as Shift Left, CSPM, CWP, KSPM, CIEM, DSPM, AI-SPMBackground in security domain or cloud security highly preferred

Understanding of container and container orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift

This is a field sales position where travel requirements may be required to support in person customer meetings, please discuss with the recruiter on the specifics for this position.

Proficient in English

Additional Information

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

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.

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Vaccine requirements and disclosure obligations vary by country.

Unless applicable law requires otherwise, you must be vaccinated for COVID or qualify for a reasonable accommodation if :

The job requires accessing a company worksite

The job requires in-person customer contact and the customer has implemented such requirements

You choose to access a Palo Alto Networks worksite

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