Solutions Consultant Presales Healthcare North & East - jobs at Palo Alto in Germany, Frankfurt

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Establish an internal communications strategy in conjunction with senior leadership

• Ensure organizational initiatives and projects are successfully communicated to employees and stakeholders

• Plan, edit, and write content for a variety of internal communications media, such as the company intranet and Slack

• Draft senior executives’ written and spoken messages to employees, including Keynotes, Board and EBC decks, briefing docs in collaboration with AR/PR for media and analyst interviews.

• Ensure product functionality and positioning are successfully and consistently communicated to employees and stakeholders to drive alignment and clarity - this includes customers and the Board.

• Plan, edit, and develop content for a variety of channels, audiences and media, including: the intranet and Slack, external blogs, customer presentations and messages, incident/crisis response-related communications, and external keynotes
  Manage the Chief Technology and Product Officer’s external profile, including social media strategy; and speaking, media and analyst engagements (in partnership with PR/Analyst Relations/Social teams)

• Ensure internal communications messages are consistent across all media and departments of the organization

• Plan, edit, and write content for occasional external events for the CT&PO and some of his leadership team
  Lead a team of high performing communications professionals

Your Experience

• 10-15 plus years communications experience, including experience supporting a Product executive or CIO/CTO both internal and executive communications background is essential

• Experience leading comms for a complex enterprise technology function, and both building and implementing strategic, holistic communication strategies, especially for large org transformations

• Ability to synthesize data and technical information and uplevel for various audiences

• Steely under pressure, undaunted by tight, last-minute deadlines; pro at juggling multiple initiatives and executing with speed in a fast-paced dynamic environment

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate business strategies and complex technologies into relatable stories (writing exercise required)

• Strong team player, leader and creative thinker

• Track record of building strong relationships with and advising senior leaders

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, drive clarity

• Understanding of enterprise technical services organizations helpful but not required

• Ability to work out of our Santa Clara office in our hybrid model

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $148000 - $241000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a Principal Consultant for SOC Transformation & XSIAM Deployment, you will be a seasoned leader at the forefront of our most strategic customer engagements. You will leverage a rare blend of consultative presence, deep technical mastery, and executive influence to guide our customers through complex Security Operations Center (SOC) transformations. Your primary role is to drive these large-scale programs, ensuring the successful execution of foundational elements like seamless log migration and the development of sophisticated detection strategies, to deliver measurable security outcomes in highly dynamic enterprise environments.

Your Impact

• Serve as the lead strategic advisor and subject matter expert for customers undertaking a full-scale SOC modernization with XSIAM
• Lead multi-national SOC transformation programs, consolidating fragmented detection and response processes into a unified, AI-driven platform
• Direct enterprise-scale XSIAM deployments, guiding customers from initial strategy to full operationalization
• Devise and oversee comprehensive log ingestion strategies to ensure high-quality data fuels the XSIAM platform
• Architect and implement sophisticated detection strategies and correlation rules to fortify customer defenses against advanced threats
• Fine-tune and optimize log sources and correlation rules to maximize system performance and detection efficacy
• Identify opportunities to enhance analyst alert handling and response through automation
• Transform ambiguity into structured action plans, driving accountability at every level of a customer engagement
• Build and mentor high-performing professional services teams that blend consulting, engineering, and change management expertise
• Partner with Product and R&D teams to incorporate field insights into roadmap priorities

Your Experience

• The candidate should have demonstrated experience running a Security Operations Center (SOC), with a proven track record of modernizing operations through automation, AI-driven threat detection, and measurable improvements in Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR)."
• Exceptional executive presence, with strong verbal and written communication skills to engage with stakeholders from the SOC analyst to the CISO
• Experience acting as a trusted advisor to senior security leaders, with the ability to diagnose challenges and deliver strategic recommendations
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in deploying and integrating SIEM/security analytics solutions within large enterprise environments
• 8+ years of experience with Security Operations Center (SOC) tooling, processes, and workflows
• Hands-on technical mastery across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, cloud security, and threat intelligence
• Ability to conceive, architect, and develop effective correlation and detection rules
• Familiarity with a range of SIEM technologies, such as Splunk and IBM QRadar, is a plus
• Strong expertise in Regular Expressions (Regex)
• Relevant bachelor's degree or industry-recognized qualifications (CISSP, GIAC, etc.), is a plus

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with account teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization area
• Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership
• As the main technical point of contact for Cloud Security, you will assist and collaborate to respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs.
• Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition
• Scope and lead Proof of Value (PoV) projects for prospective customers and partners based on best practices to ensure technical win in your assigned opportunities
• Drive high technical validation and PoV win rates within your assigned specialization area
• Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with customer requirements and differentiation
• Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture
• Accelerate technical validation of proposed solutions within your specialization
• Document High-Level Design and Key Use Cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks Solutions
• Help our customers build and develop further their services around Prisma Cloud
• Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape
• Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative
• Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Initiate projects to improve individual team’s performance
• Implement organizational policies & help others adopt
• Act as a conduit for customer feedback to Product Management, Technical Marketing, competitor intelligence, and R&D to create requirements and deliver product features for our customers

Your Experience

• 6+years technical sales or equivalent experience highly preferred
• Hands-on experience using IaC software tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, GCP Cloud Deployment Manager etc) and CI/CD tools (IDEs, GitLab, GitHuB, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)
• Experience with Alicloud, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud configuration and administration of security features and services (including identity and access management, networking, firewalls, encryption)
• Deep experience in one or more cloud security areas such as Shift Left, CSPM, CWP, KSPM, CIEM, DSPM, AI-SPMBackground in security domain or cloud security highly preferred
• Understanding of container and container orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
• This is a field sales position where travel requirements may be required to support in person customer meetings, please discuss with the recruiter on the specifics for this position.
• Proficient in English & German

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions.

• Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs

• 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 and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops

• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.

• 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 our leadership

• 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

• (OT) - Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Your Experience

• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures

• Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives

• Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role; prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal

• Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements

• Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions: Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies

• Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions

• Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred

• High level German and Proficient in English

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

Curiosity is core to the Solutions Consultant role, and you see complex problems as opportunities to learn and deliver innovative solutions! You define your impact by:

• Meeting and exceeding sales quotas by building and implementing strategic, technical account plans that target cross-platform solutions
• Your ability to position, demonstrate and create high level designs across the entire PANW portfolio based on customer business needs
• 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 and the ability to influence through effective presentations and customer-specific demos, technical engagements, and workshops
• Leading successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
• 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 our leadership
• 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
• (OT) - Identifying technical stakeholders and cultivating relationships with key personas to build and drive a security architecture transformation roadmap

Your Experience

• Understanding of data networking and/or modern application design and cloud architectures
• Delivering cybersecurity solutions that solve technical challenges and influence new business initiatives
• Influencing and gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, either in a customer-facing or internal role - prior experience in a pre-sales role is ideal
• Creating and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or technical validation engagements
• Experience in selling, designing, implementing, or managing one or more of the following solutions - Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP and/or SOC Transformation Technologies
• Partnering with Customer Support functions to ensure successful implementation and adoption of sold solutions
• Complex sales involving long sales processes with multiple buying centers and multi-product solutions are preferred
• Proficient in English

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

*We're considering candidates based anywhere in Germany for this position.*

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a Channel Solutions Architect for Cortex Cloud, you will be a guide on our solutions offerings for cloud-based environments. You’ll help enable our most strategic and impactful channel partners to identify complex security challenges in cloud networks and drive solutions using our market leading security services. You’ll have unparalleled resources and products, with a team that is dedicated to our shared success.

As an extended member of the Sales and Channels team you will work with our partners to help enable them to best leverage our methodologies, products, and tools to help detect and prevent advanced cyberattacks and breaches, providing expertise in for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), and other Public Cloud systems. You'll provide training to our partners. You’ll work closely with our Channels team to build strong partner relationships, enabling our partners to help guide our joint customers through complex challenges that face their digital environments.

Your Impact

• Establish yourself as a trusted advisor within our Channels team and our most strategic and impactful channel partners
• Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape that every partner and customer needs to be aware of
• Strategy planning for moving critical data, intellectual property, and high-demand applications to Public Cloud
• Be the technical voice of the Channel SE team for all things related to security and compliance in Public Cloud (Alicloud, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform)
• Ability to discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and effectively differentiate against them
• Effectively lead and support partner demonstrations that showcase our value
• Provide technical demos for our partners of Palo Alto Networks virtual offerings and integration in existing data center environments

Your Experience

• Experience as a system engineer, solutions architect, or systems integrator
• Good understanding & expertise of tools such as Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD (Jenkins, Github, etc)
• Good understanding of containers and container management (Docker, Openshift, and Kubernetes)
• Understanding of API based security and compliance standards and Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems and scripting
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate complex multivariate problems and find a systematic approach to gain a quick resolution, often under duress
• Mature and effective time-management skills
• Experience with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud installation, configuration and administration of security features and services including identity and access management, service-related security features, networking, firewalls, encryption, and related standard methodologies
• Proficiency with cloud networking models and connectivity, network security, virtualization, and cloud computing
• Working experience with customers, positioning, demonstrating, configuring and fixing network infrastructure security products
• Programming experience in a higher-level language such as NodeJS, Ruby, Chef, Puppet, YAML, JSON, and/or Python
• Experience working with Channel partners and understanding of a channel centric go to market approach
• Experience from companies in the enterprise networking security space
• Deep understanding of exploits, malware, ransomware, and etc. along with their creation and activation
• Experience in DevOps will be an added advantage
• Fluent German

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Lead daily operations of a team of Technical Support Engineers in line with the company goals and objectives
• Ensure that your engineers have the resources and processes necessary for successful and sustained performance
• Provide mentorship and direction to your team to deliver on company goals and objectives and improve opportunity, such as response time and resolve time objectives
• Directly provide and ensure appropriate technical and soft skills training and mentoring
• Set team goals in-line with overall company goals, while reflecting specific goals for direct reports that roll up into the larger organization objectives
• Perform annual reviews of all direct reports, providing guidance and continuous mentorship for reports to exceed expectations
• Assist your team in solving customer issues, prioritize issues, negotiate customer priorities, and set expectations
• Build positive relationships with sales, customers and partners

Your Experience

• Experience in leading a Technical Support Engineers team, or similar
• People management experience
• Superior project management skills
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage escalations of complex problems, prioritize a demanding workload, delegate appropriately, and deliver results under pressure
• Validated leadership skills including effective oral and written communication, performance management, issue/conflict resolution, negotiation, motivating others, forecasting, and planning
• Technical experience in the Network Security and Cloud Security Industry is desirable
• Knowledge of Network Security (Routers, Switches, firewalls, VPN routers - Checkpoint, Juniper (Netscreen), Fortinet, Cisco) is desirable
• Enterprise support and service delivery experience preferred

You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised – in fact, you’ll seek them out to ensure our clients are safely supported. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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