Job Description

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks\xc2\xae 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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!



Your Career

The Professional Services Consultant is an integral part of our mission within our Professional Services team. As a Prisma SD WAN Consultant, you will provide remote deployment and configuration expertise relating to Palo Alto Networks solutions. You will function as the product\'s 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.

Your Impact

• Provide leadership to the team on technical issues
• Migrate customers from legacy routing technologies to Palo Alto Networks SD-WAN platforms
• Lead and coordinate the installation of Palo Alto Networks SD-WAN products, including equipment and software as coordinated through the Professional Services team
• Hosting preinstall meetings/conference calls for design and planning the installation with the customer
• Installing, configuring, and testing the network to the plan
• Submitting post-install documentation as required and provide closure concerning any remaining action items
• Perform onsite troubleshooting when required as part of the defined scope of services
• Perform after-hours on-call support (as scheduled)
• Be the Subject Matter Expert to the Customer as related to PS engagements for SD-WAN products
• Take every opportunity to maintain proficiency and increase the level of knowledge on Palo Alto Networks SD-WAN products, software, and services
• Make key product and solution recommendations around ease of use and represent customer needs
• Ensure customers can grow at the pace of business
• Ensure client needs are met and deliverables produced on time according to specified project deliverables/scope
• Clear and consistent communication with customers, Sales and Professional Services Project Management and Management team
• Develop / Share reports

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Experience deploying and configuring Prisma SD-WAN technologies, preferably CloudGenix and PanOS native environments
• Software Defined Networking (SDN) experience required
• Application Delivery expertise - L7 SLB / Global SLB / Traditional Link LB
• Application Performance Monitoring expertise - Response time metrics, Application identification
• Packet capture analysis / fault isolation and remediation
• Network Security expertise (IPS/IDS, ZBFW, NGFW)
• In-depth IP Routing protocol expertise (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP)
• Implementation of Legacy WAN solutions (MPLS, Leased Line, Frame Relay, Satellite, Internet VPN, ECMP, DMVPN)
• Global-scale network design
• Demonstrable Virtualization experience (VMware/Microsoft/Citrix/Linux KVM)
• Desire to learn on your feet and thrive on the bleeding edge of networking
• Effectively handle multiple projects and work calmly under pressure
• An excellent writer, with strong verbal communication skills, with proven ability to communicate to senior leaders and technical peers
• Provide after hours and weekend on-call support as needed to support maintenance activities
• Education

• BE / B.tech / BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

Our professional services team is critical to our success and mission. As part of this team, you enable customer success by providing support to clients post-sale. Our dedication to our customers doesn\'t stop once they sign - it evolves.

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.

Our Commitment

We\'re trailblazers that dream big, 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 .

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.

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• 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
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