דרושים Principal Solutions Architect Cortex ב-Palo Alto ב-United Kingdom, London

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.

As a member of our sales leadership team, you will build and drive sales teams to exceed company objectives while growing your region according to plan. You’ll be responsible for building a high-performance sales culture that delivers results in bookings, sales development, and forecast accuracy while simultaneously mentoring and developing your team members to accomplish individual and organizational goals. It will be required that you track sales activity, provide sales projects, and create and analyze metrics.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for building and developing a team of quota carrying and lead generation sales professionals
• Own and drive revenue outcomes within the assigned region, territories, and/or district, exceeding personal and team sales quotas and goals
• Review weekly forecast and business outcomes with representatives and sales leaders
• Coach, develop, and mentor representatives to success in all aspects of the sales cycle: lead generation, qualification, forecasting, and closing opportunities, while using our channel/partner network
• Build sales analysis for insight into weekly, monthly and quarterly execution and strategies
• Attend weekly regional forecast and management calls to provide Inside Sales perspective
• Work closely with other Sales Leaders on crafting business strategy to accomplish company goals
• Required to stay knowledgeable and up-to-date on product roadmap, industry changes, and competitive landscapes

Required Qualifications

• Sales experience and management experience: preferably experience handling both quotas carrying and lead generation inside sales teams
• Enterprise sales experience required: networking or network security industries strongly preferred
• Experience with channel and partner sales models
• Consistently achieved sales goals through your leadership and personal goals
• Able to learn new technology quickly, as well as adapt to changing needs
• Hired, developed and retained successful sales talent
• Deep understanding of enterprise sales methodology that you can translate and coach others in
• Built strong cross-functional relationships across clients, partners, and internal teams
• Previous practice in Salesforce.com
• 25% quarterly travel within region

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
• 50-75% travel within the region
• 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

• Experience as a pre-sales System Engineer Manager
• 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

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.

Your Career

The Principal, Technical Program Management is a senior-level role dedicated to supporting and leading large, complex consulting engagements and security transformation programs across the EMEA region. This individual reports directly to the VP for Unit 42 in EMEA and partners with Unit 42 leadership to drive high-stakes client and internal programs. The role focuses on ensuring successful execution of all Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) and Proactive Services engagements. This position serves as the VP's core strategic partner, translating executive vision into actionable program execution and ensuring the operational excellence of the EMEA consulting practice.

Your Impact

This role serves as the central driver for program delivery and client satisfaction, ensuring the successful execution and strategic maturity of client cybersecurity initiatives.

Strategic Operations & Practice Management

• Serve as a key advisor to the VP, helping to develop, cascade, and track the Unit’s annual strategic plans.

• Drive the "rhythm of the business" for the EMEA leadership team, including the planning and execution of QBRs, partner meetings, and executive offsites.

• Analyze practice performance dashboards (utilization, realization, project profitability, pipeline) to identify operational bottlenecks and drive efficiency.

• Lead cross-functional "special projects" on behalf of the VP (e.g., new market entry, internal transformation, service offering development).

Program Leadership & Client Transformation

• Lead large and complex security transformation and cyber uplift programs for clients, including managing strategic maturity roadmaps and supporting cyber security strategies.

• Elevate program management to a portfolio level, ensuring consistency and quality across the region.

• Serve as the program management expert, aligning execution with best practices across a multi-project portfolio.

• Manage all projects effectively by defining goals based on Statements of Work (SOWs) while ensuring alignment with internal margin and profitability targets.

• Drive outcomes by leading GCO programs and supporting DFIR/Proactive engagements.

• Proactively manage risk and scope: Recognize organizational or system-wide risks and create comprehensive program risk management plans. Drive scope-versus-schedule/budget discussions to conclusion.

• Rally the team to quick and effective outcomes and demonstrate expertise in leading high-pressure situations, including operating/leading war-rooms.

• Partner with Engagement Leads to ensure projects adhere to budget/time frame guidelines and to increase client satisfaction and deepen relationships.

Strategic Consulting & Stakeholder Management

• Operate at technical, CxO, and board levels, acting as a trusted advisor to clients with considerable cybersecurity and security transformation experience across EMEA.

• Prepare high-stakes presentations, briefing documents, and financial models for customer events, and internal leadership reviews.

• Possess the necessary consulting, program, and change management skills to gain credibility and trust with complex stakeholders.

• Effectively articulate market themes driving client transformation, including the legal/regulatory landscape, budgetary concerns (TCO/ROSI), 3rd party risk, and the evolving threat landscape.

• Develop strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders and cross-organizational leaders to achieve mutually successful results.

• Guide technical team members, ensure task execution, and maintain a strong understanding of Unit 42 skill sets to assist leadership with staffing needs.

• Understand threat-led, data-driven consulting and possess sufficient technology and cybersecurity experience to be able to learn our products and services.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of professional experience with a blend of external client delivery and internal business operations.

• Specialization in one or more of the following: transformative IT, Cybersecurity, Digital Forensics, Incident Response, or Management Consulting Operations.

• Demonstrated experience supporting senior executives in a Portfolio Management, Strategy, or Practice Operations capacity.

• Strong business acumen: Deep understanding of professional services P&L, sales cycles, and resource management economics.

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Cybersecurity, Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work/military experience.

• Proven ability to lead multiple large-scale projects, creating plans, ensuring on-time execution, and managing documentation.

• Exceptional ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable insights for executive leadership (strong presentation development and spreadsheet skills required).

• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, prioritize projects, solve problems requiring meticulous attention to detail, and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality, communicate effectively in both verbal and written form, and be flexible to work nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years experience delivering a wide range of cybersecurity consulting services..

• Previous direct client/customer consulting experience.

• Strong proficiencies with Google Suite, Asana, and Clarizen.

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