Professional Services Consultant Ai Security jobs at Palo Alto in United States, Plano

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

Your Impact

• You will serve as the Professional Services leader for your team, ensuring service delivery exceeds customer expectations and drives high levels of customer engagement .
• Own the comprehensive financial and operational management of the business, which includes executing all activities tied to defined goals such as accelerating backlog retirement and ensuring revenue accuracy .
• Your leadership will drive operational excellence and ensure consistent operational discipline and accurate reporting, including ownership of key business metrics such as utilization and customer satisfaction .
• Ensure your team is appropriately staffed and has the necessary capacity to achieve quarterly goals, effectively managing a diverse mix of delivery resources (e.g., regional and global delivery teams) to achieve optimal efficiency .
• Champion the integration of AI/ML tools to optimize internal Professional Services operations, drive efficiency in service delivery, and develop innovative execution strategies to increase team productivity.
• A significant portion of your impact is external: collaborating with the sales leadership team, product, portfolio and support teams where you will act as the Professional Services liaison to enable client success. You will build strong customer relationships and be the point of contact for successfully handling customer escalations to maintain high customer satisfaction.
• Focus on the efficient delivery of standardized professional service offerings, focusing on accelerating the customer's time-to-value (TTV) and enforcing high-quality , standardized service delivery methodologies across all engagements.

Your Experience

• 7+ years leading and scaling Professional Services or Customer Success teams responsible for the successful deployment and ongoing operation of complex enterprise security architectures, specifically SASE .

• 5+ years of experience in a management role overseeing technical consultants, architects, Customer Success Engineers or Resident Engineers/Extended Expertise staff, with teams of 10+ technical resources.

• Proven expertise in managing the full Professional Services or Customer Success project lifecycle from pre-sales through to successful project closeout and revenue recognition .

• Strong foundational understanding of Internet security concepts and products, with a deep demonstrated knowledge of SASE architecture and its components .

• Demonstrated experience running a profitable Professional Services or Customer Success business , including achieving revenue/margin targets, managing backlog health, and optimizing project closure rates.

• Skilled in key business systems, including:

  • Experience with Professional Services Automation tools (e.g., Clarizen, Certina, Kantata) for tracking metrics like utilization, time-off, and backlog.

  • Experience with Sales Management tools (e.g., Salesforce) for revenue forecasting and pipeline review.

  • Experience with Business Intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau) for reporting on key operational metrics.

• Demonstrated ability to manage critical customer escalations effectively and ensure prompt resolution for high-profile clients.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical knowledge to non-technical individuals and leadership.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent military experience.

• Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP and/or PMP are highly desirable.

• Ability to travel up to 25% domestically to customer sites and internal business meetings.

As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and fixing integrations and critical issues as they are raised. But you won’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

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 $178000 - $245500/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

Palo Alto Networks NGFW (Next Generation Firewall) group is looking for a seasoned and accomplished QA/Automation engineer with experience in validating core networking & security features in the QA team. You will be part of a world-class software test engineering team that works on various ground-breaking technologies (Cloud Identity, Data Loss Prevention, Post quantum cryptography, IoT Security etc) in the Layer 4-7 domain. You will work with a multi- functional team of engineers solving interesting problems in the area of L4-7 security.

Your Impact

• Work in a small and fast paced team to solve important customer problems and deliver most impactful results
• Contribute in all phases of end to end product and solution validation
• Work with different development and quality assurances groups to achieve the best quality
• Suggest and implement improvements to the QA process
• Work with DevOps and the Technical Support teams to troubleshoot customer issues
• Interview, mentor and coach new team members

our Experience

• Strong automation/programming experience in Python
• Working knowledge and experience with TCP/IP, application layer protocols (HTTP/HTTPS/SMTP)
• (Cloud Identity, Data Loss Prevention, Post quantum cryptography, decryption, certificate management, IoT Security)
• Hands on experience testing network and/or other security products
• Experience with various Linux platform testing & troubleshooting tools
• Be able to build and maintain complex networking testbeds
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging/troubleshooting skills
• Excellent QA skills employing test frameworks, commercial test sets, home grown tools, automated testing
• Preferred - Experience with GCP, AWS or other cloud infra, CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
• Graduate degree (BS or MS) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar technical discipline or equivalent military experience required
• 10+ years of experience in QA Automation Engineering

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.

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 $147,000/yr to $200,500/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

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.

Under Focused Services, you will be a designated customer advocate who will assist in providing tailored support, weekly reviews, root cause analysis for critical issues, release review and upgrade planning, and a quarterly business review. You will provide personalized support and become deeply familiar with your implementation and business priorities to proactively drive best practices and help you continuously improve your security posture.

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

• Offer advanced-level technical assistance to our top-tier customers, ensuring prompt resolution of complex issues and providing tailored solutions to optimize their security infrastructure
• Effectively communicate technical solutions to technical and executive stakeholders, fostering trust and credibility at the highest levels of our customers' organizations
• Provide tailored troubleshooting, configuration guidance, and best practices
• Take ownership of support cases from initiation to resolution, ensuring meticulous documentation of all troubleshooting steps, timely updates, and comprehensive closure summaries in the ticketing system
• Effectively manage critical and challenging customer support cases for multi-vendor troubleshooting on complex customer engagements and build positive external customer experience by working closely with Account, Sales, and Marketing teams
• Utilize fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to provide post-sales technical support, configuration, troubleshooting, and standard methodologies to customers
• Be the subject matter expert on core technologies of Palo Alto Networks product line
• Identify product defects (code, environment) via lab replication using network simulation, lab automation, performance testing, and validation tools
• File bug reports with the engineering team and develops test plans and best practices with Quality Assurance teams to improve overall software and hardware quality per release cycle
• Facilitate the hiring and onboarding process with technical screens, train new hires on technical and soft skills, and enable process and tools knowledge for readiness
• Author Technical Support Bulletins and technical documentation in the Knowledge Base for training materials, marketing collateral, manuals, and problem-solving guides
• Travel to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution as required
• Provide support that includes mandatory weekend, holiday shift work and on-call support. Support includes a blend of as-needed and rotational coverage, which is subject to change.

Your Experience

• Minimum of 7 years of network security experience
• Expertise in TCP/IP and advanced knowledge of LAN/WAN technologies, expertise with general routing/switching, Routing protocols (e.g BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), branch, and center architectures
• Advanced understanding of packet flow across multiple OSI layers
• Extensive experience with troubleshooting Remote Access VPN solutions including IPSEC, PKI & SSL technologies
• Ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unique networks with mixed media and protocols required
• In-depth knowledge of networking operations - TCP and UDP, SNMP, IPv6, VLSM, CIDR, and NAT - Static, Dynamic, and PAT
• Proficiency with network troubleshooting tools - Wireshark, GNS3
• Strong grasp authentication protocols - LDAP, TACACS+, Radius
• Skilled in engaging executive-level stakeholders with clear technical communication
• Proven track record of effectively communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Consistently maintains rigorous case management practices, ensuring thorough documentation and timely updates
• The below skills are a plus
  • Virtualization experience (AWS, Azure, VMWare, OpenStack)
  • Experience with Windows, MAC OS, and Linux (Debugging, Editing Registries, Plist etc.)
  • Experience with Python or Shell scripting a plus
  • Multi-Vendor Exposure - Cisco Advanced Security Appliances, Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls, Prisma Access, Cisco Firepower, Checkpoint Firewalls, Cisco Switches, and Intrusion Detection/ Intrusion Prevention Systems
• BS in computer science, information technology, computer architecture, electrical engineering, mathematics or related experience or equivalent military experience required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to work outside of normal business hours (As business needs dictate)

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.

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 $108,000 - $162,000/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

This is a highly influential position that blends strategic thought leadership, creative problem-solving, and technical credibility to make a tangible difference.

Your Impact

• Serve as the primary liaison for Professional Services, ensuring service delivery exceeds customer expectations through proactive feedback management and corrective actions.

• Champion a customer-first approach across Global Customer Services teams to improve engagement and satisfaction.

• Ensure your team deeply understands customer technical needs and builds lasting, trusted relationships.

• Partner with Sales to provide strategic input during customer negotiations and ensure smooth collaboration throughout the customer lifecycle.

• Drive accurate resource planning and staffing to meet project milestones and quarterly business targets.

• Participate in Quarterly Service Reviews (QSRs), sharing insights and gathering client feedback.

• Provide clear, timely updates on key activities, escalations, and issues to customers and internal teams.

• Build strong partner relationships focused on aligned goals and shared customer success.

• Oversee team utilization, revenue forecasting, and approvals for timesheets and expenses.

• Contribute to the strategic alignment of Professional Services offerings.

• Lead team operations including hiring, career development, mentorship, and training.

Your Experience

• 5+ years of experience leading and building high-performing teams of networking and security technologies such as SASE, Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), and related solutions.

• Demonstrated understanding of technical concepts such as internet security concepts, products, and implementation strategies. You should be able to translate this complex information into clear, understandable terms for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Demonstrated success in end-to-end project lifecycle management , from pre-sales engagement and SOW creation through project execution and closeout.

• Strong track record of cross-functional collaboration , partnering with Sales, Product, and Services peers to deliver aligned customer outcomes.

• Recognized for clear, persuasive communication and executive presence, with the ability to influence across all levels of an organization.

• Skilled at translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, including executives and non-technical stakeholders.

• Valued industry certifications like CISSP, PMP, or vendor-specific certifications (e.g., Palo Alto Networks certifications) and strong project management skills are a plus.

• Willingness to travel up to 10% for customer engagements and internal business meetings.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline (Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering) or comparable professional experience, including military service.

As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and fixing integrations and critical issues as they are raised. But you won’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

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 $151,000 - $208,000YR. 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

This is a highly influential position that blends strategic thought leadership, creative problem-solving, and technical credibility to make a tangible difference.

Your Impact

• Serve as the primary liaison for Professional Services, ensuring service delivery exceeds customer expectations through proactive feedback management and corrective actions.

• Champion a customer-first approach across Global Customer Services teams to improve engagement and satisfaction.

• Ensure your team deeply understands customer technical needs and builds lasting, trusted relationships.

• Partner with Sales to provide strategic input during customer negotiations and ensure smooth collaboration throughout the customer lifecycle.

• Drive accurate resource planning and staffing to meet project milestones and quarterly business targets.

• Participate in Quarterly Service Reviews (QSRs), sharing insights and gathering client feedback.

• Provide clear, timely updates on key activities, escalations, and issues to customers and internal teams.

• Build strong partner relationships focused on aligned goals and shared customer success.

• Oversee team utilization, revenue forecasting, and approvals for timesheets and expenses.

• Contribute to the strategic alignment of Professional Services offerings.

• Lead team operations including hiring, career development, mentorship, and training.

Your Experience

• 5+ years of leadership experience managing customer-facing security consulting or engineering teams (10+ people), with accountability for performance, career development, and delivery outcomes.

• Proven background in security consulting or program delivery , including leadership of teams or programs in networking and security technologies (e.g., SASE, NGFW ). Able to engage credibly with both technical teams and executive stakeholders.

• Demonstrated success in end-to-end project lifecycle management , from pre-sales engagement and SOW creation through project execution and closeout.

• Strong track record of cross-functional collaboration , partnering with Sales, Product, and Services peers to deliver aligned customer outcomes.

• Recognized for clear, persuasive communication and executive presence, with the ability to influence across all levels of an organization.

• Skilled at translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, including executives and non-technical stakeholders.

• Industry certifications (CISSP, PMP, or vendor-specific such as Palo Alto Networks) are preferred, along with strong project management skills.

• Willingness to travel up to 10% for customer engagements and internal business meetings.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical discipline (Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering) or comparable professional experience, including military service.

As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and fixing integrations and critical issues as they are raised. But you won’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

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 $151,000 - $208,000YR. 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

, you will design, deploy, and integrate Palo Alto Networks solutions across public and private cloud environments. Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for our virtualized and GenAI-related security technologies, you’ll engage directly with customer stakeholders—both onsite and remotely—to drive secure, scalable implementations.

You'll be responsible for:

• Lead the design and integration of Palo Alto Networks security solutions in cloud and virtualized environments
• Enable customer adoption of secure, automated architectures—including GenAI-powered workloads and agentic applications
• Automate deployments using infrastructure-as-code and scripting best practices
• Collaborate with customer stakeholders and internal teams (Consulting Engineers, TAC, Security Architects) to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions
• Demonstrate the value, reliability, and robustness of deployed solutions
• Provide operational handoff and enablement for customer security and DevOps teams
• Document solution designs, reusable templates, and technical artifacts
• Troubleshoot complex challenges across cloud, virtualization, and AI-integrated environments
• Own deliverables independently or while leading small delivery teams

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, business, or equivalent education/experience
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly
• Cloud Platforms: Minimum of 3 years of experience with Public Cloud Platforms Architecture and Deployment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• GenAI/LLMs: Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic applications architectures, along with an understanding of the evolving security landscape for AI Applications.
• Virtualization: Architecture and delivery experience with Enterprise and/or Service Provider customers utilizing virtualization environments such as OpenStack, NSX, and Kubernetes
• Security Solutions: Minimum of 2 years of experience building and integrating security solutions in large enterprise environments
• Networking: Strong understanding of Internet protocols and applications.
• Multitasking: Proven ability to effectively manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Scripting: Experience in Python, Ansible, or Terraform
• Project Leadership: Demonstrated project leadership skills
• Cloud Certification: Associate-level cloud certification in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Travel up to 15–20% for onsite engagements as required
• Nice to Haves:
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional
  • AWS Advanced Certified Networking Specialty
  • MCSE Cloud Platforms

As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. 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. But you don’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

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 $140000/YR - $192500/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

More information about Cortex XDR product can be found .

Your Impact

• Lead the design and implementation of innovative capabilities for a market-leading product, deployed across diverse platforms from bare-metal to cloud environments, actively contributing to technical solutions.

• Oversee the development of critical user and kernel-mode OS-related infrastructures in both C and C++, ensuring robust and scalable solutions, and providing technical guidance to the team.

• Utilize cutting-edge Linux technologies for real-time event collection, anti-malware, anti-exploit, network filtering and more

• Lead cross-functional feature development, collaborating effectively with other development and QA teams to deliver high-quality results, and driving technical excellence across projects.

• Foster a culture of excellence in software development, promoting best practices and high standards within the team.

Your Experience

• Extensive knowledge of Linux internals and system-level programming in C++, with at least 3 years of hands-on managerial experience.

• At least 5 years of experience in Linux system-level programming

• Proven ability to debug complex systems across various Linux platforms in a multi-threaded environment.

• Experience with cloud technologies, K8s, container technologies, and Linux namespaces.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent military experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Avid follower of Linux technologies development

• Familiarity with multiple Linux distributions (RHEL, Ubuntu, etc.).

• Experience with software security and/or Linux Security modules (SecureBoot, SELinux, AppArmor, etc.).

• Linux kernel programming experience, including eBPF development.

• Highly motivated and passionate about software engineering and coding, with a focus on hands-on contribution.

• Proven experience in code reviewing colleagues' work with meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to quality.

• Exceptional ability to lead and mentor a team of software engineers while maintaining individual technical contributions.

• Adept at working independently and collaboratively, thriving under time constraints while maintaining focus and a positive attitude.

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