Remote Solutions Consultant — Cybersecurity & Cloud Solutions

Palo Alto Networks; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Solutions Consultant to align solution guidance with customer environments and ensure value realization in their investment. You will provide technical leadership across on-prem, cloud, and security operations services, advocating our platform’s capabilities and market leadership.

You will collaborate with services teams to drive implementation success, run technical engagements and workshops, and help customers transform their security architectures.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering.
• Experience in Networking, Network Security, Cybersecurity, Private/Public Cloud Security, SOC/Endpoint or SASE.
• Experience in delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives.
• Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders; prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions.
• Understands Key customer business requirements and has the ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio solutions creating business value for customers.
• Ability to drive customer adoption of Palo Alto Networks Platform. Building customer relationships by helping customers achieve increased productivity, operational efficiency, security efficacy, and greater flexibility to innovate.
• Conducting discovery to understand and articulate the key technical, operational, and commercial imperatives of your prospects and customers
• Working closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.
• Demonstrating strong communication skills, influencing through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, and conducts technical engagements and workshops that are clear and impactful, simplifying complex ideas for various audiences
• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
• Demonstrates Cross functional leadership driving collaboration and orchestrating supporting resources (Specialists, Channel Resources, Customer Support) to ensure a one-team approach that demonstrates a cohesive strategy.
• Promoting end-to-end solutions that include PANW and/or partner professional services to ensure customers realize business value sooner
• Understanding the competitive landscape and effectively differentiating PANW's leadership in the cybersecurity space
• Continuously investing in yourself to develop technical and professional skills that drive your ever-increasing contributions to success of our customers while actively participating within the Solutions Consultant community and at industry events
• Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Networking

Network Security

Cybersecurity

Cloud Security

SASE

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Solutions Consultant to align solution guidance with customer environments and ensure value realization in their investment. You will provide technical leadership across on-prem, cloud, and security operations services, advocating our platform’s capabilities and market leadership.

You will collaborate with services teams to drive implementation success, run technical engagements and workshops, and help customers transform their security architectures.