Palo Alto Professional Services Consultant Cloud Security Automation 

United States, Texas, Plano 

932125511

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.