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

Your Career

As the, you will be the, including full-time employees and/or assigned personnel. You will be responsible for driving leadership over the professional services business and providing strategic and operational oversight to the Senior Managers and regional delivery leaders who report to this role. You will be instrumental in defining thenecessary to scale technical services delivery across key U.S. Federal, State, and Local accounts. This role is highly integrated with the Service Sales, Product Sales, and other Support teams, focusing on building strong, trusted customer relationships and ensuring successful outcomes.

Your Impact

• Set the strategic vision and direction for all post-sales technical service delivery in the US Public Sector, ensuring consistent and high-quality execution for Palo Alto Networks’ NetSec Products.

• Act as the single point of accountability for technical services, interfacing with GCS, Sales, Product, Engineering, and Partner teams to ensure alignment and delivery of business outcomes.

• Serve as the Executive Sponsor for strategic US Public Sector accounts, engaging with executive-level customer stakeholders (e.g., CIOs, CISOs) to provide value reviews and resolve high-stakes escalated issues.

• Build and develop a high-performing team of technical professionals through hiring the best talent in the industry, mentoring/coaching, and performance management in line with the defined capability requirements for the team.

• Drive and achieve the following business and operational objectives:

  • Maintain consistently high utilization of PS consultants through optimal planning and backlog management.

  • Design and maintain the best resource mix across FTEs and contractors, maximizing quality and agility.

  • Reduce Time to Value (TTV) by accelerating deployment and adoption timelines.

  • Contribute to Service Sales Growth by enabling scalable, value-driven technical offerings.

  • Achieve global target service margin ratios through delivery efficiency and cost control.

  • Build and sustain strong, strategic relationships with subcontractors and delivery partners.

  • Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction (CSAT) through proactive support and continuous improvement.

• Drive continuous improvement across the delivery of Netsec Professional Services and Customer Success Engineering, through the use of Automation and AI to drive efficiency, quality, and scale.

• Standardize and continuously optimize the NetSec operating rhythm and delivery practices to improve service health.

• Represent US Public Sector region at a global level, sharing customer insights, local challenges, and opportunities for regional impact.

• 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.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of experience in technical services, professional services, customer success, support or related functions within a high-growth SaaS/cloud enterprise environment.
• 5+ years of experience in a leadership role managing regional teams, including direct and matrixed reporting lines.
• Demonstrated success in managing performance against KPIs related to deployment, adoption, margin, utilization, and CSAT.
• Strong foundational understanding of Internet security concepts and products, with a demonstrated knowledge of NGFW and SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) 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 (PSA) 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 (BI) 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.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field (CS, IS, EE, CE, IT, etc.) or commensurate experience.
• US Government DoD Active Top Secret Clearance or higher.
• Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP and/or PMP are highly desirable.
• Background in cybersecurity or enterprise IT preferred.
• 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 $230000 - $268000/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.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Implement testing, inspection, and auditing processes to maintain quality standards.
• Engage in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance product and service quality.
• Architect and implement robust, highly scalable test automation frameworks to support comprehensive testing needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate quality assurance into the development lifecycle and support the implementation of PayPal products.
• Monitor system performance, proactively troubleshoot issues, and drive root cause analysis to resolution.
• Conduct in-depth requirement analysis to assess testability and identify potential risks early in the product development cycle.
• Plan and execute test strategies, including detailed test plans and scripts, for each release to ensure product quality.
• Lead defect management, including tracking, triaging, and driving resolutions during user acceptance testing.
• Execute automated test scripts using advanced automation tools, ensuring efficiency and accuracy in testing processes.
• Perform exploratory, usability, and functional testing to uncover edge cases and improve the user experience.

Expected Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

As a Quality Engineer you will:

• Understand customer, business, and technical requirements to develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans, test cases, and bug reports.

• Oversee the lifecycle management and execution of test plans for both manual and automated testing to certify all releases.

• Analyze test results,identify

• Work closely with developers, emphasizingto them the importance of responsible, quality testing practices

• Document andmaintaintesting procedures, guidelines, standards, and protocols.

• Contribute to building andmaintaininga regression suite that coversend to endtesting of applications.

• Continually seek opportunities to improve,optimizeand simplify existing testing processes and methodologies, using automation when possible.

• up-to-date

• Participate in program planning, influencing the product andtechnologyroadmap and driving outcomes.

We are looking for someone who has:

• 6+ years of hands-on experience with software testing.

• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.

• Familiar with coding skills in at least one programmatic language.

• Good knowledge of tools like Postman for API testing.

• Good knowledge of performance testing and accessibility testing.

• Experience inworking with multiple and/or remote teams in different time zones.

• Experience with Xcode / Android Studio IDE.

• Experience inworking with Jira,Confluenceand TestRail.

• Strong attention to detail, as well as a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions and compelling customer experiences.

• Strong problem-solving skills,possessingthe ability to work independently or collaboratively to analyze and address complex technical challenges.

• Ability to mentor and up level team members.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and those in non-technical roles, such as marketing, finance, and legal.

• Experience with modern software development practices, version control systems, and agile methodologies.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

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

Your Career

This role is client-facing and requires the Principal Consultant to lead and produce deliverables based on reactive services client engagements. The Principal Consultant will work directly with multiple customers and key stakeholders (Admins, C-Suite, etc) to manage incident response engagements and provide guidance on longer term remediation.

Your Impact

• Perform reactive incident response functions including but not limited to: host-based analysis functions through investigating Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X systems to identify Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
• Examine firewall, web, database, and other log sources to identify evidence of malicious activity
• Investigate data breaches leveraging forensics tools including Encase, FTK, X-Ways, SIFT, Splunk, and other investigation tools to determine source of compromises and malicious activity that occurred in client environments
• Manage incident response engagements to scope work, guide clients through forensic investigations, contain security incidents, and provide guidance on longer term remediation recommendations
• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 20%)
• Mentorship of team members in incident response and forensics best practices

Your Experience

• 6+ years of incident response or digital forensics consulting experience with a passion for cyber security
• Strong leadership skills including experience managing a team or individuals
• Experience with leading complicated engagements including scoping, interfacing with the client, and have executed on a technical front
• Proficient with host-based forensics and data breach response
• Experienced with EnCase, FTK, X-Ways, SIFT, Splunk, Redline, Volatility, WireShark, TCPDump, and open source forensic tools

• Identified ability to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice and, specifically:

  • have an external presence via public speaking, conferences, and/or publications;

  • have credibility, executive presence, and gravitas;

  • be able to have a meaningful and rapid delivery contribution;

  • have the potential and capacity to understand all aspects of the business and an excellent understanding of PANW products;

  • be collaborative and able to build relationships internally, externally, and across all PANW functions, including the sales team.

• Incident response consulting experience required
• Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 20%).
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, Cyber Security or related field

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 $151000/YR - $208000/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.

Responsibilities:

• Executes audit strategy for the sound application of risk-based auditing by defining audit scope and audit programs, and drafting audit reports leveraging automation and innovative methods in a timely and high quality manner

• Acts as Auditor-in-Charge (AIC) by overseeing audit testing and ensuring it is executed in a timely manner and conforms with quality standards, audit policies, and procedures

• Leads audit testing to independently validate completeness and accuracy of diverse data sets across lines of business

• Assesses impacts to business processes, controls, and strategies to provide recommendations on severity ratings and escalate broad themes or trends accordingly based on existing business knowledge

• Exercises intellectual curiosity and judgment to effectively influence and challenge management to improve the control environment and drive continuous improvements on audit

• Oversees a team of associates and provides day-to-day mentoring and guidance and fosters an inclusive work environment

• Maintains business partner relationships, primarily with line management, to develop business knowledge

• Exercises sound knowledge of product, business, and technical expertise to effectively challenge management to improve the control environment

Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.

• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.

• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.

• Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.

• People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.

• Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.

• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.

• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking

• Audit Planning

• Internal Audit Review

• Issue Management

• Risk Management

• Business Acumen

• Coaching

• Project Management

• Relationship Building

• Written Communications

• Attention to Detail

• Automation

• Critical Thinking

• Technical Documentation

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in a role in financial services, technology, or other relevant technical field

Prior experience working with data (i.e. analytics; data mining; automation)

Prior experience leading projects, managing against deadlines, and reporting results to management

Analytical / Automation Skills (SQL, SAS, Python. Alteryx, Advanced Excel)

Strong communication and presentation skills

Desired Qualifications:

Big 4 background a plus, including external audit or advisory/consulting

Experience working with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in a professional environment

Advanced degree or certifications (CIA, CISA etc. – CPA Preferred)

Audit or risk/controls background in financial services