Senior Gl Accountant jobs at Palo Alto in India, Bengaluru

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

Your Impact

• Design, implement, and maintain network security architectures and security controls.

• Develop and enforce security policies, standards, and procedures.

• Configure and manage network security devices (firewalls, IPS / IDS, etc.).

• Troubleshoot network security issues and implement solutions.

• Provide technical expertise and guidance to other IT staff.

Your Experience

• Bachelor's degree in technical, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent military experience required
• 10 years of experience in network security roles, with a focus on designing, implementing, and maintaining secure network infrastructures.
• Experience with security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CEH, CCIE Security) is a plus.
• Extensive experience with network security technologies (firewalls, IPS/IDS, VPNs, SASE security etc.).
• Experience with security protocols and standards (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, AD etc.).
• Experience with designing, deploying, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Palo Alto VM Series, and Physical Firewalls
• Experience designing and integrating with Panorama
• Experience designing and integrating with Prisma Access
• Working knowledge of routing ( OSPF / BGP) & switching.
• Strong understanding of network security concepts and best practices.
• Familiarity with cloud security concepts and technologies.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively.

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

The Ecosystem Renewals Manager will be responsible for shaping and scaling our renewal revenue performance through our ecosystem partners. This individual contributor role requires channel experience—ideally someone who has worked directly within a partner or distributor organization—and who understands ecosystem dynamics, partner economics, renewal programs, and the unique metrics that drive partner-led revenue motions.

You will partner across the Ecosystem team to define the future of partner-led renewals, ensuring a predictable, scalable, and customer-centric renewal experience across EMEA.

Your Impact

Strategic Partnership with Sales, Ecosystems teams, and Ecosystem Partners, to define, execute, and deliver quarterly bookings targets for Renewals with predictability and reliability.

• Working with the renewal managers and channel team you will define the Ecosystem Renewals core principles for EMEA, ensuring alignment with Sales, Channel, and Global Customer Success teams.

• Serve as a strategic partner to the Ecosystem Team driving and executing integrated renewal strategies across partner types.

• Leverage your channel background knowledge to help shape models that reflect how partners operate with the renewal portfolio including their incentives and the critical KPIs governing their success with renewals.

• Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Channel-Centric Renewals Revenue Leadership

• Own partner-led renewal visibility and forecasting, ensuring accuracy and visibility across distributor, reseller, and GSI renewal motions.

• Drive the renewals motion with distribution partners and channel partners to ensure partner engagement that drives timely renewals at targeted renewal rates.
• Play an integrated part of performance reviews with distributors and key partners, using ecosystem KPIs such as renewal rates, partner attach, revenue retention, pipeline velocity, and partner lifecycle metrics.
• Identify gaps and opportunities within partner-led renewal programs and propose enhancements grounded in channel operational realities.

Operational Excellence

• Drive transformation of channel renewal processes, optimizing workflows and partner engagement through scalable governance, automation, and analytics.
  

• Ensure partner renewal operations are integrated seamlessly into internal systems (Salesforce, Clari, PRM) and aligned to our sales forecasting cadences.

• Partner with sales operations to help build, launch and utilize a dashboard visible to our ecosystem distributors whilst having a full understanding of GDPR restrictions and limitations

Partner Collaboration & Enablement

• Act as the primary renewals liaison to Channel Sales, Distribution Leaders, and Alliances stakeholders.
  

• Work closely with distributors and partners to ensure they are equipped with the right insights, tools, and training to execute high-quality renewals.
  

• Partner with Channel Enablement to design renewal-focused partner programs, certifications, rebates and competency frameworks.

• Represent Renewals in regional distribution events, channel, and ecosystem forums.



• Partner with sales operations to help build, launch and utilize a dashboard visible to our ecosystem distributors whilst having a full understanding of GDPR restrictions and limitations

Your Experience

• 3+ years of experience in channel-focused roles, ideally within a reseller, distributor, MSP, or GSI, with responsibility for partner revenue, programs, or renewals.

• Demonstrated experience in partner-led renewal management, channel forecasting, and ecosystem program execution.

• Strong understanding of distribution models, partner compensation, deal lifecycle, vendor rankings and ecosystem health metrics. Ideal candidates will have strategic relationships which are in partnership with Palo Alto Networks current ecosystem in EMEA.

• Proven ability to influence partner and distributor stakeholders and drive performance improvements within a matrix environment.

• Expertise with Salesforce, Clari, and partner or distribution management tools.

• Track record of driving growth and operational excellence in a partner-centric environment.

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

• Designing, developing, and maintaining detection rules to protect against attacks and ensure cloud security compliance.
• Conducting research on emerging cloud services and potential misconfigurations from a security perspective.
• Investigating cloud attack techniques, tactics, and identifying detection methods and mapping them to security frameworks and compliance standards.
• Proposing and implementing security detection rules to enhance our defense mechanisms.
• Actively contributing to ongoing process enhancements in security content development, automation, and deployment practices.
• Engaging in public outreach forums to advocate for best practices and represent our company's commitment to excellence.
• Bonus - Establishing industry thought leadership by publishing insightful blogs on security research.

Your Experience

• Ideal - 5+ years of experience in the security compliance and threat research domain.
• Must have - At least 2 years of hands-on experience in public cloud security and compliance (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Must have - Strong command-line skills and troubleshooting experience in Linux environments.
• Highly desirable - Proficiency in Python programming and knowledge of GenAI/LLM based automations.
• Highly desirable - Familiarity with Git version control, CI/CD pipelines, bug tracking tools, etc.
• Highly desirable - Experience with BigQuery, SQL, JSON, REST APIs, Terraform, and similar technologies.

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

The Team

• Cortex Bangalore team is currently managing two security platforms Prisma Cloud & Cortex Cloud
• We are responsible for managing work for both security platforms which will include working on customers feature requests , technical debt to enhance the stability and performance of the security platforms, customer issues and escalations. Stability of production environment (AWS, GCP). Ongoing releases and patches in production

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of significant features and components within complex backend systems and microservices for our Prisma Cloud & Cortex Cloud
• Develop and implement high-quality, resilient, and scalable backend services primarily using Go, Java and Python
• Drive technical design discussions and decisions for specific features, ensuring solutions meet with overall architectural vision
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, frontend engineers, security researchers, and SRE, to define, design, and ship new features and platform enhancements
• Contribute to defining and promoting best practices for backend development, testing, and deployment within the organization, particularly for cloud-native security solutions
• Analyze and resolve complex technical challenges and production issues, ensuring the reliability and performance of Prisma Cloud & Cortex Cloud platforms
• Actively participate in code reviews, design reviews, and architectural review
• Stay up-to-date of emerging technologies and industry trends in cloud and backend development, evaluating and recommending their adoption where appropriate

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend software development, with a strong track record of designing and delivering scalable, distributed systems, preferably in a cloud security context
• Expertise in Java, Go and/or Python for backend development
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles, including microservices, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems patterns
• Proven experience with system design, data modeling, and API design (RESTful, gRPC).
• Experience with various database technologies (SQL and NoSQL), message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and caching solutions
• Good understanding of cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), with an emphasis on security best practices within these environments.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with a knack for explaining complex technical concepts
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

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

Job Summary

We are looking for motivated, smart, hardworking and passionate individuals to join the Next-gen Firewall dataplane team. You will be part of a world-class software engineering team that works on various cutting-edge technologies for the firewall. As a member of a data plane networking software group, you will be responsible for designing and developing the next-generation firewall. You will take ownership for large software components, work with product management on real life customer requirements, apply your knowledge to functional design, utilize your programming skills for efficient and robust implementation, and interact with quality assurance and field support teams in the whole software development cycle. The culture at Palo Alto Networks is creative, dynamic and inspiring to tackle real work Cyber-attacks.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for development of NextGen Network Security Components and Protocols for State-of-the-art firewalls deployed at Enterprise, Data Center, Cloud, and Service Provider environments
• Lead the development of L2-L4 network security features, including stateful TCP/UDP inspection, across both hardware and virtual platforms
• Develop scalable flow architecture for packet processing pipeline using DPDK for multi-core platforms and interface with ASIC functions
• Develop scalable software solutions for a distributed session architecture spanning across a cluster of firewalls.
• Support critical customer escalations and provide root cause analysis in a timely manner;
• Work with multi-functional team members on feature requirements, including but not limited to Product Management, QA, Support, etc
• Product visionary, ideas on competitive edge, Effective decision maker, take ownership and independently drive, lead tasks and assignments

Your Experience

• 15+ years of relevant experience.
• Expert in common network protocols such as TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, multicast
• Expert in dataplane technologies like DPDK based packet processing and performance tuning along with packet Latency / Loss analysis
• Expert in typical network device features like NAT, ALG, DoS Protection
• Strong experience in packet processing, parsing, networking (L2 -L4) protocols/architecture, Layer-2/Layer-3/Layer-4 packet flow.
• Expert in computer architecture, cybersecurity, distributed systems
• Good to have experience in using Broadcom/Marvell chips for switching, QoS and interface management
• In-depth understanding of common software vulnerabilities and mitigations
• In-depth understanding of linux systems
• Expert C, Python, Shell script programming skills
• Tech lead experience in networking domains
• Strong communication skills to work effectively with multi-functional groups
• Strong Experience in C++/JAVA programming and XML/JSON understanding is desirable
• Can-do attitude and ability to take initiative and drive open issues to completion

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience

We define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

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

You will work firsthand with our valued customers to address their complex post-sales concerns where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of many factors. You’re a critical thinker in understanding the methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. You’ll enjoy networking with key contacts outside your own area of expertise, with a strong capability of detailing difficult technical issues to both non-technical and technical professionals.

You will regularly participate in technical discussions with multi-functional teams, creating an environment of transparency that ultimately leads to better products, better working environments, and better cybersecurity. Your quick thinking and support to our clients provides the fast assistance they need to keep their environments secure – which means you’ll need to move quickly, thoughtfully, and provide technical assistance as needed (often, in high pressure situations).

Your Impact

• Provide Technical Support to customers and partners
• Provide configurations, troubleshooting and best practices to customers
• Manage support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups are completed in a timely manner
• Provide fault isolation and root cause analysis for technical issues
• Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other technical documentation in the Knowledge Base
• Review of technical documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, troubleshooting guides, etc
• Travel to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution as required
• Provide on-call support 24×7 on an as-needed basis

Your Experience

• Previous experience in a Technical Support environment is required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Fluent in Japanese and Business level in English
• Expertise with Network Protocols and Technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, IP routing, HTTP/HTTPS, Remote Access VPN solutions, IPSEC, PKI & SSL, Authentication Protocols (LDAP, RADIUS, etc.)
• Strong ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unique networks with mixed media and protocols required
• Ability to work well in a diverse team environment
• Attention to details, fast learner and excellent communication skills - Be able to communicate technical information in a simplified, easy to understand manner
• Demonstrate ability to work in a cross functional environment which involves coordination with different teams such as Sales/Pre Sales/Product Management/Engineering

Preferred

• Experience working with Firewall Central Management Systems
• Experience working with a multi-factor authentication security system (tokens, certificates, CAC cards, and similar)
• Virtualization experience (AWS, Azure, VMWare, OpenStack)
• Experience with Windows and MAC OS is a plus (Debugging, Editing Registries, Plist, etc.)
• Experience with Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper (Netscreen), and Fortinet products a plus

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.

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

Palo Alto Networks continues to build a world-class product management services portfolio and is looking for a Sr. Product Manager for the browser isolation team. In addition to your own creativity, you will rely on interaction with customers, partners, sales, product managers, and cross-functional partners to understand requirements and needs. You will be expected to define and deliver competitive service offerings that help provide a more complete product experience for our customers. Other responsibilities include collaborating with Product Marketing, Technical Marketing Engineers to create product-related sales and marketing materials and evangelizing the services both internally and externally. Given the nature of your portfolio, your success will be highly dependent on how well you can interact with and guide cross-functional organizations within Palo Alto Networks including Product, IT, Support, Professional Services, Consulting Engineers, Customer Success, Finance, Sales, and Operations.

Your Impact

• Day-day product management of feature set and strategy of the Browser Isolation.
• Feature prioritization and tradeoff decision making
• Support New Product Introduction processes, support Beta test process, intro and ramp up programs for new features
• Market and customer analysis, requirements development, business case collateral, product strategy, and product positioning and evangelism
• Strong customer focus with active Customer engagement and relationship development
• Provide support to other departments for owned feature set

Your Experience

• Minimum 10-15 years in product management or technical expertise in the browser security space required
• Drive to own full product lifecycle, designing new, innovative, and disruptive products with a customer-centric approach
• Strong Hands-on capabilities with a high interest in new technology products
• Domain expertise in SWG, DLP and browser security
• Strong domain expertise in management tools – hardware, virtualized, cloud
• Strong knowledge of network and security deployments, including high availability and disaster recovery strategies
• Experience working with a cross-functional, cross-geographical team
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable in an agile environment of rapid iteration, facilitating collaborative work sessions with multi-disciplinary teams
• Demonstrate attention to detail and the ability to comprehend complex product requirements
• Excellent people skills, team mentality
• Demonstrable track record of successYour Education
  BS/MS or BS/MBA or equivalent experience required

Palo Alto Networks offers a portfolio of services to assist you with the implementation of your next-generation firewall for the prevention and detection of today’s most sophisticated cyber attacks. Support, Consulting and Education services are available to help you get the maximum protection and value out of
your investment and in a range of options designed to fit your specific requirements, regardless of size or project complexity.

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