Sr. Professional Services Consultant, NGFW

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!

Job Description

Your Career

The Professional Services Consultant is an integral part of our mission within our Professional Services team. As a Consultant, you will provide onsite and/or remote deployment and configuration expertise relating to Palo Alto Networks solutions. You will function as the products Subject Matter Expert and will interact directly with the customer's personnel and project teams providing leadership, technical direction, interpretation, and alternatives to our best practice deployment methodology. This is a highly technical, hands-on role and you will develop and maintain expertise level skill sets on our products and solutions deployed within the customer's environment.

As a Professional Services Consultant, you’ll get into the details of our platform. You will push the buttons, flip the levers, turn the knobs. You do not shy away from difficult challenges as it relates to cybersecurity, implementations, and integrations. You are the technical authority and will interact directly with our customers to help them secure their digital environments. The customers are counting on you to perform this work and train their staff. And while experience on the company’s platform is desired, even more important is having a solid foundation in networking and security technologies.

In fact, extensive experience with a competitor’s technology can play to your advantage. Many of the opportunities involve a client migrating to our platform for the first time, so understanding the nuances of that technology will enable you to be a better Palo Alto Networks consultant. And don't worry, we will send you to our Professional Services Academy to prepare you for the role, so you are experienced with our suite of services and products before you first meet the customer. 

Your Impact

• Migrate customers from legacy firewall technologies to Palo Alto Networks platforms

• Build custom security policies and application signatures, configured for our client’s needs

• Progress and uphold expertise in deploying advanced Palo Alto Networks features and functionality

• Provide after hours and weekend on-call support as needed to support maintenance activities

• Analyze logs and events from the solution to perform initial troubleshooting and issue identification

• Work with our Technical Assistance Center to troubleshoot and diagnose support cases

• Maintain the Company's solution and provide mentorship on code upgrades and best practices

• Ensure client needs are met and deliverables produced on time according to specified project deliverables and scope

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 8+ years relevant work experience in Network Engineering, Architecture, Security Engineering, technical consulting, or similar roles

• Experience with troubleshooting skills related to networking, routing, IP, NAT, IPSEC VPNs and knowledge of how these interact with applications and users

• Experience with installation, configuration and operation of high-end firewall appliances, ideally with Palo Alto Networks products

• Industry certifications - CISSP, CCNA, CNSE, JNCIE-SEC, CCSE, CCSM, PCNSE, a plus 

• Effectively handle multiple