Senior Technical Support Engineer - Platinum jobs at Palo Alto in Spain, Madrid

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

Your Career

Our methodology is first class support. We’ve been recognized for it as an industry leader and we’re dedicated to continuing this standard. In this role, you will work with our technical account managers to personalize our customer’s experience. You will learn your client’s business objectives in and out within their technical environment and focus on mitigating risks and resolving any technical issues in their networks. You’re close to the deployment of cybersecurity solutions – and we need you to recognize risks before they arise. You get a thrill from seeking out complex issues and finding their resolutions – and you don’t wait for those issues to escalate from our clients. Instead, you find them. You’ll be working hand in hand with our developers to reproduce the issues you find and develop permanent solutions to prevent them in the future.

Your Impact

• Respond to user-reported issues in adherence to established Service Level Agreements

• Triage customer reported issues and respond to them via ticketing system, phone, or remote sessions

• Perform advanced troubleshooting at the application level and OS level, using your knowledge and relevant expertise

• Identify the area of fault (code, environment, or configuration) and work with the appropriate team(s) implementing the fix

• Provide timely feedback into the development process on customer-reported product problems

• Document actions to effectively communicate information internally and to customers

• Facilitate root cause investigations and manage the implementation of corrective and preventative measures

Your Experience

• Previous experience with Endpoint Security software is required
• SIEM experience, including -
• Deep understanding of how SIEMs works
• Experience in creating custom collections and data parsing
• Experience in creating complex correlation rules, reports and dashboard
• Experience in integration and implementation of SIEMs
• Experience working with EDR tools
• Experience with strong communication and customer service skills
• Required basic networking knowledge - Ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unique environments with mixed applications and protocols
• Experience with Windows OS, MacOS, and Linux based applications (Installation, troubleshooting, Debugging)
• 4+ years of experience as a Support Engineer
• Fundamental understanding of Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS for troubleshooting cloud agent deployment and data extraction.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong customer advocacy skills and experience, ability to work in difficult customer situations
• Knowledge of Cloud infrastructure a plus
• Experience in incident response a plus
• Experience with scripting a plus
• Experience with MS Server solutions (SCCM, GPO, AD, MSSQL, IIS, Exchange) is a plus
• Fluent English is mandatory / Spanish or French or German are an advantage

You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new ones, 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 on 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.

Your Impact

• Recruit and hire new Solutions Consultants into the territory, hiring the best talent in the industry
• Responsible for training, mentoring, and reviewing employees on your team, keeping them engaged and successful in their careers
• Support field Solutions Consultant team in complex evaluations, problem-solving and challenging customer environments
• Leads and coaches team on successful technical validation efforts based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities.
• Define, create and monitor individual development plans for your team
• Works closely with Professional Services, Customer Success and Specialist teams to ensure overall customer implementation and adoption of solutions.
• Provide effective technical leadership in customer interactions to include sharing security trends and standard methodologies employed by other customers to actively be part of the selling process
• Drive Palo Alto Networks Platformization efforts within your accounts.
• Work closely with the Domain Specialist Manager to ensure optimal use of resources and align the required resources to the projects you are handling
• Act as an escalation point to collaborate with pre-sales and post-sales teams for any issues that arise
• Build and maintain relationships with key customers to solidify reference accounts and to assist the account teams with defining plans to drive more business
• Present to customers as our expert in your area at all levels in the customer hierarchy from technician to CIO
• Discuss competitor products in the marketplace and positions ours as the best alternative
• Working with Product Management, Technical Marketing, and R&D to build requirements and product features for our large customers and provide feedback from customers
• Up to 30% travel within the region (mostly Spain)
• Work with your sales counterpart (DSM) to develop a technical strategy that accelerates growth. Identify key verticals, markets, use cases, and solutions to focus on, and devise a comprehensive strategy and engagement model tailored to your region or district.

Your Experience

• Minimum 5 years as a pre-sales System Engineer Manager with direct people management responsibility
• Experience as a Senior System Engineer/Specialist
• Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of our roadmap and technology development efforts, knowledge of competitor offerings and products
• Knowledge of how to deliver comprehensive security solutions to Palo Alto Networks customer base
• 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
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Quota driven attitude focused on client's best solution by being a trusted advisor
• Proficient in English and Spanish
• Madrid as the target location

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

• Execute the product strategy and roadmap for AI-powered features and solutions
• Translate customer problems and market opportunities into well-scoped product requirements
• Work closely with engineering and data science teams to deliver AI-driven capabilities—from concept to launch
• Monitor the performance of launched features using KPIs and drive continuous improvements.
• Collaborate with product marketing and go-to-market teams to ensure successful product positioning, launch, and adoption
• Stay up to date on AI industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitor activity

Your Experience

• 5+ years of product management experience in a technology or SaaS company including experience in productization of AI based products
• Undergraduate degree in Engineering/ Computer Science and MBA is preferred
• Solid understanding and experience of AI/ML concepts and the productization of machine learning models
• Strong analytical skills and experience. Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with Agile product development processes and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Figma)

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 $166000/YR - $268500/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 Impact

• Account Management
  • Key account ownership and relationship management for Palo Alto Networks’ largest customers
  • Operate as primary point of contact for multiple product lines supporting the customer journey
  • Operating cross-functionally with clients, end user through C-suite, and internal partners across product lines - Cloud, DevSecOps, Network, and AI security
• Customer Impact
  • Own customer planning, deployment, adoption, account-level reviews, and escalations
  • Builds and manages the customized product delivery to the customer’s tech environment
  • Understands Customer Security Priorities and is able to translate it to Success Plans
• Partnership
  • Partner with Sales team to develop success plans, assess customer health, identify expansion opportunities, and ensure renewals
  • Partner with Post-Sales teams as Professional Services , Customer Success & Support
  • Engage and coordinate customer delivery across Palo Alto Networks team members including engineering and professional services

Your Experience

• 8+ years of professional experience in a customer-facing role, managing high-touch, high visibility post-sales engagements
• Specialization in software product and service delivery to strategic customers with an expertise in 1+ of the following areas
  • Cloud Security
  • DevSecOps
  • Network Security
  • Security Operations
• Proven results working as a trusted advisor to drive business value for customers, including the ability to interact with C-suite through client teams at various levels of technical and non-technical depth
• Expertise in customer guidance throughout their Journey focusing on Value Realization in addition managing customer escalations, balancing customer expectations, and negotiating successful resolutions
• Thrive in a matrixed, team environment, anchored by our values of Collaboration, Disruption, Execution, Inclusion, and Integrity
• Bonus - Client-focused program management
• Bonus - Skilled in customer success software (i.e. Gainsight, Salesforce, Smartsheet, Clarizen, Jira)
• Travel - Open to occasional travel according to the need for strategic customer engagement and on-sites - Potential for 10-15%
• Fluent French / German speaking skills preferred

You’ll be ensuring that your customers are successful with our products and as threats evolve and technology changes, you continue helping them to accomplish their desired outcomes.

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 post sales technical support, configurations, troubleshooting, and standard methodologies to customers via phone, e–mail, and web
• Remote support, deployment and knowledge transfer
• Handle support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow–ups finished in a timely manner
• Use fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to diagnose and tackle complicated technical issues
• Work to reproduce customer issues and qualify critical issues
• Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other user documentation in the Knowledge Base
• Build a positive customer experience by working closely with Development, Sales, Quality Assurance, and Marketing
• Responsible for reviewing user documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, problem solving guides, etc.
• Travel may be required to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution
• Work shoulder to shoulder with the Sales and Sales Engineering Teams

Your Experience

• BS/MS or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
• 8+ years of deep technical knowledge and technical support with a strong customer focus or related experience
• Advanced certifications such as CCIE/JNCIE/ CISSP– an advantage
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, strength with establishing relationships
• Ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unparalleled networks with mixed media and protocols required
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well independently and in a team
• Self–disciplined, self–managed, self–motivated and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Passionate to learn, understand, and dissect new technology stack quickly on own
• Strong project management, time management, and organizational skills
• Strong analytical skills for interpreting business requirements and translating them into technical specifications
• Profound knowledge in networking protocols such as – TCP/IP, BGP4 (multi–homing), OSPF (multi–area), ISIS, Multicast, VOIP
• Expert working knowledge in the operation of Ethernet LAN switching protocols and standards including, VLANs, VLAN aggregation
• Experience with security (IPSEC, SSL–VPN, NAT, GRE)
• Prior experience in similar vendor Technical Support Centers
• Experience with Authentication Protocols a plus (Radius / TACACS)
• Strong history of deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting multi–vendor (Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, Fortinet) firewall environments – PANW firewalls and VM–Series – A plus
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills
• Ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non–technical audiences, and explain their impact on business

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 post sales technical support, configurations, troubleshooting, and standard methodologies to customers via phone, e–mail, and web
• Remote support, deployment and knowledge transfer
• Handle support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow–ups finished in a timely manner
• Use fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to diagnose and tackle complicated technical issues
• Work to reproduce customer issues and qualify critical issues
• Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other user documentation in the Knowledge Base
• Build a positive customer experience by working closely with Development, Sales, Quality Assurance, and Marketing
• Responsible for reviewing user documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, problem solving guides, etc.
• Travel may be required to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution
• Work shoulder to shoulder with the Sales and Sales Engineering Teams

Your Experience

• BS/MS or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
• 8+ years of deep technical knowledge and technical support with a strong customer focus or related experience
• Advanced certifications such as CCIE/JNCIE/ CISSP– an advantage
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, strength with establishing relationships
• Ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unparalleled networks with mixed media and protocols required
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well independently and in a team
• Self–disciplined, self–managed, self–motivated and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Passionate to learn, understand, and dissect new technology stack quickly on own
• Strong project management, time management, and organizational skills
• Strong analytical skills for interpreting business requirements and translating them into technical specifications
• Profound knowledge in networking protocols such as – TCP/IP, BGP4 (multi–homing), OSPF (multi–area), ISIS, Multicast, VOIP
• Expert working knowledge in the operation of Ethernet LAN switching protocols and standards including, VLANs, VLAN aggregation
• Experience with security (IPSEC, SSL–VPN, NAT, GRE)
• Prior experience in similar vendor Technical Support Centers
• Experience with Authentication Protocols a plus (Radius / TACACS)
• Strong history of deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting multi–vendor (Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, Fortinet) firewall environments – PANW firewalls and VM–Series – A plus
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills
• Ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non–technical audiences, and explain their impact on business

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 post sales technical support, configurations, troubleshooting, and standard methodologies to customers via phone, e–mail, and web
• Remote support, deployment and knowledge transfer
• Handle support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow–ups finished in a timely manner
• Use fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to diagnose and tackle complicated technical issues
• Work to reproduce customer issues and qualify critical issues
• Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other user documentation in the Knowledge Base
• Build a positive customer experience by working closely with Development, Sales, Quality Assurance, and Marketing
• Responsible for reviewing user documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, problem solving guides, etc.
• Travel may be required to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution
• Work shoulder to shoulder with the Sales and Sales Engineering Teams

Your Experience

• BS/MS or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required
• 8+ years of deep technical knowledge and technical support with a strong customer focus or related experience
• Advanced certifications such as CCIE/JNCIE/ CISSP– an advantage
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, strength with establishing relationships
• Ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unparalleled networks with mixed media and protocols required
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well independently and in a team
• Self–disciplined, self–managed, self–motivated and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Passionate to learn, understand, and dissect new technology stack quickly on own
• Strong project management, time management, and organizational skills
• Strong analytical skills for interpreting business requirements and translating them into technical specifications
• Profound knowledge in networking protocols such as – TCP/IP, BGP4 (multi–homing), OSPF (multi–area), ISIS, Multicast, VOIP
• Expert working knowledge in the operation of Ethernet LAN switching protocols and standards including, VLANs, VLAN aggregation
• Experience with security (IPSEC, SSL–VPN, NAT, GRE)
• Prior experience in similar vendor Technical Support Centers
• Experience with Authentication Protocols a plus (Radius / TACACS)
• Strong history of deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting multi–vendor (Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, Fortinet) firewall environments – PANW firewalls and VM–Series – A plus
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and teamwork skills
• Ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non–technical audiences, and explain their impact on business

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