Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer

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.

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 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. You will work with cutting-edge technology, redefining the future of network security. You will perform competitive analysis, perform technical gap analysis and support the product management in identifying next-generation innovations.

This person will be responsible for developing and executing Palo Alto Networks plan for outbound technical communication, including product best practices, competitive reviews, demo environments, and ownership of product betas.

This is a critical customer facing role within the company and one where the right person can have significant impact. 

Your Impact

• Develop, constantly refine, and execute the technical marketing plan
• Be responsible for the creation, maintenance, and delivery of effective technical tools, whitepapers, demos, videos and technical training for sales, customers, and partners
• Lead the automation within and across the cross-functional teams and strive to achieve technical and operational excellence in every step of the releases
• Lead the competitive research and testing to identify key competitive advantages of our product lines and deliver them to sales, customers, and partners
• Be a key technical evangelist for Palo Alto Networks, speaking at seminars, conferences, customer briefings, and with other groups within the company
• Work with engineering in identifying product gaps based on competitive analysis and work with the PM to drive enhancements to bridge them
• Be the domain authority on Palo Alto Networks products to help Systems Engineers with information on competitive questions
• Identify Sales challenges based on any competitive situations and provide solutions 
• Document technical concepts to ensure our products are well understood and utilized to the greatest extent possible
• Setup and maintain a competitive test lab including test harness, competitive products, automation environment, etc.  
• Configure and test competitive products, evaluate product strengths for security efficacy, product features, etc. 
• Work with marketing to develop collaterals with battle cards, presentations, and white papers

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer for network/cybersecurity area or a DevOps/Solution Architect, preferably for networking or security products
• Experience and Good domain knowledge with cloud-based deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP at least one of the public cloud experience preferred)
• Good understanding of KVM, VMware, and other Virtualization technologies and Container security
• Experience with scripting languages such as python, CFT, and Terraform is highly desired
• Experience to setu