Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

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

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Your Career

As a Pre-Sales Solution Consultant you are an important member of our technical sales team, identifying complex security challenges in your customers’ networks and driving solutions with our market-leading security products and services.

You are the technical sales representative of the company and focus on customer satisfaction with all that you do. You and your sales partner own the customer relationship and your goal is to help them detect and prevent advanced cyberattacks and breaches while safely enabling applications by deploying the full Palo Alto Networks platform so that they can confidently pursue network, cloud, and mobile technology initiatives.

Your Impact

Understand and effectively present our security platform and solutions

Work closely with Enterprise customers in West India

Create and deliver compelling demonstrations of Palo Alto Networks products and solutions

Educate customers and partners on the modern network security landscape

Identify and qualify new opportunities and support technical pre-sales activities to opportunity closure

Expand the Palo Alto Networks install base within existing accounts

Enable and leverage channel partners and work successfully in a channel-driven sales model

Create evaluation test plans with customers and lead the evaluation process to a successful conclusion

Differentiate from industry technologies and solution

Assist customers through the support escalation process

Continuous self-improvement and learning to maintain current technical knowledge and participate in technical communities of interest

Identify problems in customer environments - effectively engages customers at the technical field and technical management levels

Effective in customer-facing engagement, in writing, presentation, and creative problem-solving skills

Your Experience

BSCS or equivalent or equivalent military experience required and 6+ years of experience as a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer or Solution Consultant or Sales Engineer or Systems Integrator

Techno-Commercial Pre-sales experience handling solutions around Secops (EDR/XDR, SOAR, SIEM, Threat Management, SOC etc), Network Security (NGFW, IPS/IDS, WAF, DNS security etc,) Cloud Security (CNAP, CWPP, WAAS etc)

Pre-sales experience handling Enterprise customers in West India

Demonstrable experience with systems installation, configuration, and administration of routers/switches, UNIX/Linux and Windows-based systems (prior Active Directory/LDAP experience desirable)

Experience emphasizing L2-L4 Networking (L2 Switching architectures including Spanning Tree, IP routing including OSPF and BGP, L4 Load-balancing)

Industry knowledge of security and network product and technology trends

Experience selling, demonstrating, installing and/or solving network infrastructure security products

Extensive domestic travel within the territory is often required, and international travel may be required as necessary

Experience selling network infrastructure based security appliances including, but not limited to - Firewalls, SSL/IPSec VPNs, Security Proxies and Caches

Practical experience working with routing and switching products that will be installed adjacent to our appliances

Strong communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal

Strong analytical skills, ability to analyze complex multivariate problems and use a systematic approach to gain quick resolution

The Team

Our SE team members work hand-in-hand with large organizations around the world to keep their digital environments protected. We educate, inspire,and empower our potential clients in their journey to security.

You are empowered with unmatched systems and tools and a team built on joint success. You won’t find someone at Palo Alto Networks that isn’t committed to your success – with everyone pitching in to assist when it comes to solutions selling, learning, and development. Our Systems Engineering community is driven by the mission to be our customers’ cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting their digital way of life.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com .

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

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

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com .

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

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

Covid-19 Vaccination Information for Palo Alto Networks Jobs

Vaccine requirements and disclosure obligations vary by country.

Unless applicable law requires otherwise, you must be vaccinated for COVID or qualify for a reasonable accommodation if:

The job requires accessing a company worksite

The job requires in-person customer contact and the customer has implemented such requirements

You choose to access a Palo Alto Networks worksite

If you have questions about the vaccine requirements of this particular position based on your location or job requirements, please inquire with the recruiter.