Palo Alto Sr Professional Services Consultant - Federal 

Georgia 

619615767

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

Your Career

The Professional Services Consultant is an integral part of our mission within our Professional Services team. As a Consultant, you will provide onsite and/or remote deployment and configuration expertise relating to Palo Alto Networks solutions. You will function as the products Subject Matter Expert and will interact directly with the customer's personnel and project teams providing leadership, technical direction, interpretation, and alternatives to our best practice deployment methodology. This is a highly technical, hands-on role and you will develop and maintain expertise level skill sets on our products and solutions deployed within the customer's environment.

As a Professional Services Consultant, you’ll get into the details of our platform. You will push the buttons, flip the levers, turn the knobs. You do not shy away from difficult challenges as it relates to cybersecurity, implementations, and integrations. You are the technical authority and will interact directly with our customers to help them secure their digital environments. The customers are counting on you to perform this work and train their staff. And while experience on the company’s platform is desired, even more important is having a solid foundation in networking and security technologies.

In fact, extensive experience with a competitor’s technology can play to your advantage. Many of the opportunities involve a client migrating to our platform for the first time, so understanding the nuances of that technology will enable you to be a better Palo Alto Networks consultant. And don't worry, we will send you to our Professional Services Academy to prepare you for the role, so you are experienced with our suite of services and products before you first meet the customer.

Your Impact

• Build and implement new architectures leveraging our security products and services

• Migrate customers from legacy hardware onto Palo Alto Networks products

• Create custom security policies and application signatures for unique client environments

• Implement network segment controls in accordance with NIST and RMF frameworks

• Troubleshoot integration issues, perform debug analysis, and mitigate threat events

• Maintain the implemented solutions and provide mentorship on code upgrades, changes to the platform, and new technology developments

• Validate and implement proof of concepts in lab environments

• Provide the customer with support on technical implementation and strategy, communicated from engineering to C-suite executives

• Work dedicatedly with our Technical Assistance Center to troubleshoot and diagnose cases as escalations arise

Your Experience

• Must have expertise in two or more of the following Palo Alto Networks solutions:

  • Prisma Access

  • VM Series (AWS and/or Azure)

  • Prisma Access Browser

  • Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)

• Strong skills in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing and TCP/IP networking

• Experience with troubleshooting network connectivity issues and maintaining operational environments

• Experience with classified transport networks and cloud providers, including AWS, GCP, or Azure

• Experience with IDS/IPS solutions and technologies

• Strong understanding of VM/Public Cloud

• Experience leading security solutions in large environments

• Experience designing and implementing LANs and VLANs

• Understanding of various security threats, internet protocols, and applications

• Detailed technical experience in the installation, configuration, and operation of high-end firewall appliances, ideally our products

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confirmed ability to communicate with senior leaders and technical peers

• Project leadership experience; ability to drive organizations and resources to complete required tasks in service of end goals

Nice-to-Have Expertise

• Experience with:

  • Cloud Security Assessment and Broker (CSAB)

  • Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

  • PANOS SD-WAN

  • Internet of Things (IoT)

  • Strata Cloud Manager (SCM)

  • Automation and scripting for security deployments

Clearance Requirement

• Must have or be able to obtain/maintain a Top Secret clearance

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 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 $0 - $0/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.