Systems Engineering Specialist

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.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving 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. 

Job Description

Your Career

As a Palo Alto Networks Channel Systems Engineer SASE Specialist, you will be responsible for presenting the Palo Alto Networks SASE solutions to Palo Alto Networks’ most strategic and impactful channel partners. Which includes proficiency in Prisma Access, SD-WAN, DLP & SaaS solutions. 

Your Impact

• As a Specialist Channel SE, you will be tasked with delivering training, best practices and demonstrations of the PANW SASE story in person and remotely
• You will be accountable for gathering the partner’s technical requirements for new features and knowledge
• As an extended member of the Sales and Channels team, the Specialist Channel SE will align with the PANW Sales teams and Channel Account Managers in the region to create, update and deliver the partner technical enablement strategy
• The impact of this person will be tracked and used as one key variable in how they get compensated

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Build relationships with key partner and PANW SE’s within the SASE assigned partner base
• Focus on enablement & relationships for limited # of partners & new recruits
• Management and creation of technical enablement plan for channel partners focused on SASE
• Owns, monitors, reports on, and drives technical enablement activities for assigned partner base
• Teaches in-geo SEs and Value Added Distributor how to manage and deliver technical enablement plan for their partner base
• Be a PANW technical expert - know networking, security, competition and channels business dynamics
• Can walk the talk - lead lab, demo, best practices session & workshops
• Provide on the job training for partner SE’s by allowing partner SE’s to shadow presentations and evaluation installations
• Coordinate partner training activities with wide range of PANW field & corporate
• resources
• Provide ad-hoc support for evaluations and post sales issues with partner engineers, and quickly transition them to appropriate internal resources
• Present at channel driven marketing activities on an as needed basis
• Assist in the selling effort to partner technical resources during new partner recruitment
• Collaborates with other Channel SEs and in-geo SEs & AMs, trainers 
• Experience designing, selling, demonstrating, installing and troubleshooting network infrastructure and security products
• Ability to work independently while following prescribed enablement plan BSCS or equivalent military experience required and 3+ years of experience as an SE preferably in a partner facing role
• Travel of approximately 50% Nationally

Additional Information

The Team

As part of our Systems Engineering team, you’ll support the sales team with technical expertise and guidance when establishing trust with key clients. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. As a member of our systems engineer team, you are driven by a solutions-focused sales environment and find fulfillment in working with clients to resolve incredible complex cyberthreats. 

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.

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