דרושים Sr Customer Success Architect ב-Palo Alto ב-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

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 Impact

• Trusted Advisor - Acts as the product SME, assisting customers with their product questions and technical requirements, writing scripts, troubleshooting, training and other technical requests.

• Product Experts Collaboration - working together with product and engineering teams ensuring our customers and partners get the most out of our products

• Digital First - Ensure technical knowledge of the team is translated into articles and guides for our customers to consume allowing our customer coverage to scale

Your Experience

• ​​5+ years experience in Security Operations or Engineering with SIEM, SOAR, SOC, and/or XDR/EDR environments

• Familiarity with cloud technologies, providers (such as GCP, AWS, Azure) and use-cases.

• Strong understanding of enterprise security and IT products, systems, and processes

• Experience with Linux system administration and troubleshooting

• Proficiency in scripting with Python and/or JavaScript

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, managing multiple tasks under pressure

• Skilled in collaborating with and influencing cross-functional teams

• Strong communication skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with customers

• Experience in customer-facing roles is a must

• Experience with attack surface management or CNAPP is a plus

You’ll be involved in building and implementing the team and processes, implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new – in fact, you’ll lead the team that ensures our customers are getting value from the product they purchased. We identify technical requirements, provide guidance and assistance and drive our customers to success.

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 $112,000 - $152,000/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

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 Technical Support to customers and partners

• Provide configurations, troubleshooting, and best practices to customers

• Manage support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups are completed in a timely manner

• Provide fault isolation and root cause analysis for technical issues

• Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other technical documentation in the Knowledge Base

• Review of technical documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, troubleshooting guides, etc.

• Travel to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution as required

• Provide on-call support 24x7 on an as-needed basis

Your Experience

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Technical Support: Previous experience in a technical support environment is advantageous, along with strong exposure to support roles and working with large global customers, partners, and internal teams (such as DevOps, Engineering, QA, and Product managers).

• Scheduling: Willing to work flexible and varying shift times, including weekends and evenings.

Technical Skills:

• Networking

  • IPSEC, TCP/IP, PKI, SSL/ TLS, HTTP/HTTPS

  • Routing knowledge (BGP is a must)

  • Experience working with Firewall Central Management Systems

  • Working knowledge of Security services (IDS/IPS, Firewalls, etc.)

• Operating Systems: Expertise in OS systems and troubleshooting, including Windows, MAC, Linux, and IOS (debugging, editing registries, using OS built-in tools such as Event Viewer to aid in troubleshooting, file changes on Linux, etc.)

• Tools & Security: Comfortable using tools such as Chrome Developer Tools to isolate issues, capture HAR file, and perform HAR file analysis

• Authentication:

  • Good understanding of authentication protocols (e.g., SAML, LDAP, RADIUS).

  • Experience working with a multi-factor authentication security system (tokens, certificates, CAC cards, and similar)

  • Proficiency in Prisma Access and GlobalProtect is a plus.

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 $94000/YR - $152000/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

Your Impact

• Drive and Create a Healthcare Industry Point of View and Architecture based on Palo Alto Networks Solution and Platform Areas

• Drive a 'solution sales' mindset translating healthcare use cases to Palo Alto Network Solutions and Offerings

• Collaborate closely with sales leadership to drive a consultative sales culture working with the biggest healthcare providers in North America

• Accountability with sales leaders to drive key performance metrics of bookings and pipeline to help grow the healthcare business in North America

• Develop and contribute to a healthcare industry point of view tied to palo alto offerings for both current and future healthcare industry use cases

• Coach and enable healthcare team to utilizing standard methodologies, playbooks for the healthcare vertical

• Help Present, Speak, and Drive Thought Leadership at Industry Events and Consortia(i.e HIMMS, Healthcare ISAC, Council Meetings, etc..)

Your Experience

Understanding of the Healthcare Provider Market

• Have a deep understanding of the current market share, industry trends in the healthcare market to develop and enhance the palo alto networks healthcare point of view

• Can Confidently speak to a C-level Audience and Healthcare Practitioners message on why Palo Alto Healthcare cybersecurity Approach is important to driving a transformation strategy for a healthcare organization

• Align strategies and plan to drive specific region, product, and modality market share growth by working closely with fellow Palo Alto Solution and Domain Consultants

• Collaborate with Business Units and Marketing to drive adoption and growth for National, Regional and key healthcare organizations

• Engage with C-level customers to explore, build and prioritize opportunities while identifying missed opportunities.

Internal Partnerships

• Build and instill strong harmony between all connecting teams including sales, marketing, account teams and partners

• Represent the business view cross-functionally and be able to differentiate solution requirements globally.

Customer Focused

• Minimum 15 years of progressive responsibility in healthcare sales and/or cybersecurity selling

• Knowledge of Palo Alto Solution and Offerings and Differentiated Value Proposition

• Strong architectural sales background with knowledge of the Palo Alto of Products and Offerings, Developing Architectural Roadmaps, and tying the Palo Alto Set of Products and Offerings to the healthcare specific use cases

• In-depth healthcare industry experience and knowledge, with a shown success in providing an industry point of view with the ability to use innovative, creative and strategic solutions to align company resources with customer needs

• Bachelor of Science or Business. MBA strongly preferred

• Possess the ability to successfully handle analytical-rigorous corporate initiatives

• Effective communication skills, business maturity, and good judgment.

• Ability to motivate teams to produce quality materials within tight timeframes and simultaneously organize several projects

• Strong work ethic and ownership of company and client goals/objectives, focused on understanding, meeting, and exceeding customer expectations.

• High energy, a strong sense of urgency, self-motivated, and results-oriented.

• Ability to work in an energizing environment with rapidly changing priorities, while demonstrating flexibility and a positive attitude

• Ability to cultivate strong, professional rapport with internal clients

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 $186,000 - $278,000/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.

** To comply with U.S. federal government requirements, U.S. citizenship is required for this position. **

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

Your Career

You will work firsthand with our valued Public Sector customers, supporting 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 area of expertise, with a strong ability to explain complex technical issues to both non-technical and technical professionals.

You will regularly participate in technical discussions with cross-functional teams, creating an environment of transparency that ultimately leads to better products, stronger partnerships, and enhanced cybersecurity outcomes. Your quick thinking and proactive support provide the fast assistance our Public Sector clients need to keep their environments secure—meaning you’ll need to move quickly, think strategically, and provide expert technical assistance in high-pressure situations.

Your Impact

• Offer advanced-level technical assistance to our Public Sector 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 within government agencies and organizations

• Provide tailored troubleshooting, configuration guidance, and best practices, with an understanding of government compliance and security requirements

• 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

• Conduct multi-vendor troubleshooting on complex customer engagements, ensuring a seamless experience for public sector partners

• Utilize fault isolation and root cause analysis skills to provide post-sales technical support, configuration, troubleshooting, and industry best practices to customers

• Be a subject matter expert on core technologies of Palo Alto Networks product line, particularly in environments relevant to public sector customers

• 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 develop test plans and best practices with Quality Assurance teams to improve overall software and hardware quality per release cycle

• Author Technical Support Bulletins and technical documentation in the Knowledge Base for training materials, marketing collateral, manuals, and problem-solving guides

• Provide on-call support 24x7 on an as-needed basis including weekend and holidays

Your Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of network security experience, with a preference for experience supporting government or public sector clients

• Expertise in TCP/IP, advanced knowledge of LAN/WAN technologies, and general routing/switching

• Understanding of packet flow across multiple OSI layers

• Extensive experience troubleshooting Remote Access VPN solutions

• Ability to independently debug broad, complex, and unique networks with mixed media and protocols

• Proficiency with network troubleshooting tools

• Consistently maintains rigorous case management practices, ensuring thorough documentation and timely updates

• Experience interfacing with firewalls and firewall technology. Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) experience preferred

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working with U.S. government, federal, state, or local agencies

• Virtualization experience (AWS, Azure, VMware, OpenStack)

• Experience with Windows, Mac OS, and Linux (debugging, editing registries, plist, etc.)

• Multi-vendor interoperability exposure

• Authentication protocols – LDAP, TACACS+, Radius, SAML

• BS in computer science, information technology, computer architecture, electrical engineering, mathematics, or related experience—or equivalent military experience

• Travel to customer sites in the event of a critical situation to expedite resolution as required

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 $108000 - $175250/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.

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 Technical Support to customers and partners
• Provide configurations, troubleshooting and best practices to customers
• Manage support cases to ensure issues are recorded, tracked, resolved, and follow-ups are completed in a timely manner
• Provide fault isolation and root cause analysis for technical issues
• Publish Technical Support Bulletins and other technical documentation in the Knowledge Base
• Review of technical documentation for training materials, technical marketing collateral, manuals, troubleshooting guides, etc.
• Provide on-call support 24x7 on an as-needed basis

Your Experience

• Able to effectively communicate to all levels and stakeholders - internally and externally on complex technical issues
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, self-motivated and detail-oriented with the ability to see the bigger picture
• Ability to work independently, as well as contribute as a team player.
• Good understanding of the following networking protocols (TCP/IP, Ethernet, VLAN, OSPF, BGP)
• Experience with Security Protocols (IPSEC / SSL-VPN / NAT / GRE)
• Good understanding of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems
• Knowledge of one or more virtualization hypervisors: VMWare ESX/ESXi, KVM/Qemu, Citrix, XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V
• Demonstrable basic knowledge with AWS and Microsoft Azure installation, configuration, and administration of security features and services including identity and access management, service-related security features, networking, firewalls, encryption, and related best practices
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Oracle cloud infrastructure(OCI)
• Knowledge of deploying firewalls in one or more Public cloud infrastructures: AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI and Alibaba
• Understanding the working of any one of the Next generation Firewall devices ( Palo Alto Networks Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper (Netscreen), Fortinet, Crowdstrike, Zscaler etc.)
• Experience deploying third-party networking and security services into VMware NSX for vSphere is a plus
• Working knowledge of Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) delivered as a cloud-native service is a plus.
• Knowledge of traffic generation tools and scripting languages is a plus
• Previous experience supporting Palo Alto Networks Products is a plus

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 $94,000/yr - $152,000/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.