Cloud Domain Consultant Presales jobs at Palo Alto in United Kingdom, London

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

Your Impact

• Collaborate with sales teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization
• Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership
• Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition
• Responsible for prospective customers and partners' Technical Validation projects based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
• Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture
• Document high-level design and key use cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape
• Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with customer requirements and differentiation
• As the main technical point of contact for Network Security, you will assist and collaborate to respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs
• Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative

Your Experience

Multiple years of specialist experience in pre-sales/sales engineering within one or more of the following specialisms - Zero Trust, SaaS Security, SSE/SASE, Networking or Network Security

• Being the expert addition to the technical sales function
• Solid understanding of NGFW, Network Security, SASE, SD-WAN, CASB, Proxy, DLP and BYOD Solutions
• Experience in working with customers, demonstrating problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude
• Business fluent in English

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

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.

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

We're seeking innovators - engineers who seek to design new products, designing state-of-the-art products that do not exist today. These engineers love to code with a drive to build global products and bring new ideas to develop security disciplines to solve real-world problems. We are looking for leaders who take ownership of their areas of focus and who are driven to pursue problems at every level. Collaboration is at the heart of our culture and we need engineers who can communicate at a high level and work well with multi-functional teams towards achieving a common goal. As a key member of Layer-7 Security group, you will be responsible for:

• Designing and developing security features on the next-generation firewalls
• You will work with product management on user requirements, apply your knowledge to functional design
• Utilize your programming skills for efficient and robust implementation
• Interact with quality assurance and field support teams throughout the entire software development cycle

Your Impact

• Innovate, design, and develop new security features in our next-generation firewalls product
• Contribute in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
• Design new product features, with a high focus on quality and execution
• Develop functional specifications, assess task requirements and scheduling, and assist in development, debug and support
• Suggest and implement improvements to the development process
• Clearly communicate goals and desired outcomes to internal project teams
• Interview, mentor and coach new team members

Your Experience

• B.S./M.S. degree in Computer Science, similar technical discipline or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required
• 5+ years of enterprise product development experience with C in a Unix/Linux environment
• Flair for coding and hands on experience debugging the code using tools like GDB is required
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP internals and common data structure and algorithms
• Working knowledge of Windows kernel and Windows Filtering Platform is preferred.
• Verbal and written communication skills to work with multi-functional groups
• Teammates who brings a can-do attitude to a dynamic working environment
• Graduate degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or similar technical discipline is preferred
• Knowledge of multi-core / multi-process / multi-threaded programming is preferred
• Experience with windows agent programming and cloud programming (go) software development is preferred
• Experience with large-scale and/or high-performance software design and development is preferred
• Experience with TLS internals, cryptography, and OpenSSL is preferred
• Experience with HTTP and web server backend development is preferred

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 $147000/YR - $237500/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.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with sales teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization
• Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership
• Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition
• Responsible for prospective customers and partners' Technical Validation projects based on best practices to ensure technical win in assigned opportunities
• Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture
• Document high-level design and key use cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape.
• Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with customer requirements and differentiation
• As the main technical point of contact for Network Security, you will assist and collaborate to respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs
• Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
• Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative
• Distinguished by additional specialized knowledge in breadth and/or depth

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in pre-sales/sales engineering within Zero Trust, Networking, Network Security, SaaS Security or SSE/SASE
• Experience with L2-L4 Networking (L2 Switching architectures including Spanning Tree, VLANs/trunking, IP routing including static routes, OSPF and BGP, route re-distribution, L4 Load-balancing)
• Outstanding customer communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience in working with customers, demonstrating problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude
• Solid understanding of NGFW, Network Security, SASE, SD-WAN, CASB, Proxy, DLP and BYOD Solutions
• Advanced knowledge of On-Premise and Cloud-Delivered Network Security Technologies
• 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 and Hebrew

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

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

Role Overview

• The Unit 42 Malware team is a global team responsible for providing accurate malware analysis, threat hunting capabilities, and the development of malware automation pipelines. This role is designed for an experienced Reverse Engineer with familiarity specifically supporting consulting operations and threat intelligence. The role has flexible hours, but will have an on-call component that includes a commitment to shared coverage of high-priority tickets that may arrive between Friday through Sunday.

Required Skills

• Advanced knowledge with at least one disassembler (e.g. IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja).

• Expertise with user-mode and kernel-mode debuggers (e.g. x64dbg, WinDbg, gdb).

• Developing and scaling reverse engineering automations (e.g. IDAPython, Ghidra Python, Docker).

• Deep understanding of modern malware techniques, including obfuscation and evasion tactics.

• Understanding of x86/x64 architecture and IL formats (e.g. .NET).

• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g. Python, C, C++).

• Knowledge of networking protocols (e.g. HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP) and analyzing traffic.

• Experience configuring sandboxes to increase hit-rate and accelerate analysis.

• Familiarity with prompt engineering and using LLMs to accelerate analysis.

• Advanced understanding of modern Windows internals relevant to malware analysis.

• Experience transforming/modifying malware to support analysis (e.g. deobfuscation).

• Familiarity with script deobfuscation and analysis (e.g. PowerShell, JavaScript)

Preferred Skills

• Proven track record of contributing to threat research initiatives

• Designing and building next-generation hunt tooling

What we Offer

• Hands-on experience with real-world malware and threats.

• Access to industry-leading tools and infrastructure.

• Opportunity to work on impactful projects that contribute to threat intelligence.

• A collaborative and supportive team 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

• 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 Cortex 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

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

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

• Join the fastest-growing team where experience meets cutting-edge solutions
• Build and cultivate strong customer relationships, driving business growth within the region
• Partner with the core sales team to align customer strategies and engagements with Cortex and Cloud business objectives
• Take full ownership of leading strategic sales campaigns and forecasting, utilizing in-depth knowledge of sales cycles from initial contact through procurement
• Engage in deep technical discussions beyond standard sales presentations and pitches while translating complex technical cybersecurity solutions into clear business value propositions for customers
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including sales engineers, to provide tailored customer-centric solutions
• Partner with Alliances to develop joint strategies, enhance customer engagement, and deliver innovative solutions for existing and prospective clients
• Travel domestically as needed to meet with customers and attend key business events

Your Experience

• 5+ years of field sales experience focusing on key customer accounts and delivering value to strategic accounts in the cybersecurity industry
• Extensive platform selling experience in complex sales with multiple buying centers
• Experience selling SIEM, EDR, or CNAPP (DevSecOps, CloudOps) solutions is highly preferred
• Established trusted relationships with CIOs and CISOs with the ability to influence and drive strategic conversations
• Expertise in applying complex solution sales methodologies to drive results
• Experience working with channel partners and a deep understanding of a channel-centric go-to-market strategy
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment while collaborating effectively with sales engineers and cross-functional teams
• Experience operating in a continuous adoption, expansion, and upsell sales motion within a matrixed sales organization is preferred
• Willingness to travel domestically as necessary to meet business needs

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