Senior Technical Marketing Engineer (PanOS)

Company Description

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Our Approach to Work

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is building a world-class product management organization and continues to look for top-notch technical marketing engineers to expand the team. As a Technical Marketing Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, you will play a key role in providing detailed technical information to our partners, customers, and our employees.

In this role, you will work with cutting edge technology, redefining the future of network security. The individual will help develop and run performance tests, manage betas for new products, consult with customers on complex deployments, develop and deliver technical training for Systems Engineers and document technical concepts to educate our employees and customer base.

You are a self-starter, keen to learn and experiment with new technologies. You work well independently and excel at identifying the potential sales needs of our clients and shaping the direction of the company’s products. You aren’t afraid of ambiguity - instead, you like the challenge of defining new products as they come to market.

Your Impact

• Build out and manage lab environments and demo systems to replicate customer environments and real-world simulations.

• Help customers, channel partners, and system engineers with product related questions and hands-on technical training

• Develop technical content including tech notes, publications, solution guides, white papers, and webinars

• Continues monitoring the performance of new releases after they are available

• Drive success of customer trials by assisting beta customers with understanding and configuring new product capabilities

• Work closely with Product Management on product feedback for future improvements

• Review PRDs and engineering specs and provide feedback

• Develop and deliver high-reaching positioning strategies and answer specific questions relative to the product area

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer/Technical Product Manager, in a product or industry focusing on cyber security, SASE, SDN or network security

• Prior experience delivering technical product training, producing technical collaterals, and presenting to customers 

• Prefer cybersecurity experience with products such as Next-Gen Firewalls, Virtual and containerized firewalls, Network Access control and SASE solutions

• Strong desire to experiment with new technologies

• Strong experience with Network/Security Automation, product integration

• Experience with Python, Terraform, Ansible and Rest APIs preferred

• Strong knowledge of Public cloud network/security offerings in AWS, Azure and GCP

• Knowledge of virtualization platforms such as VMware ESXi and container platforms such as Kubernetes

• Knowledge in building and maintaining POC & Demo environments

• BS/MS degree or relevant experience or equivalent military experience required

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong presentation skills and trade show experience.

• Self-starter with excellent project organization skills, ability to drive co