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.

Who We Are

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That's why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it's needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Description

Your Career

The Professional Services Consultant provides onsite and remote consultancy performing design, deployment, and configuration support relating to Palo Alto Networks' product portfolio.

Acts as a subject matter expert, providing strategic guidance around complex systems to secure a digital environment and resolve customer issues around deployment.

Partners closely with customer teams to provide guidance and recommendations to better serve their success. Leverages deep understanding of customer environments, needs, and priorities to drive successful migration/deployment activities.

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 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.

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

Migrate customers from legacy firewall technologies to Palo Alto Networks platforms
Build custom security policies and application signatures, configured for our client's needs
Take every opportunity to maintain proficiency and increase the level of knowledge on Palo Alto Networks SASE products, software, and services
Provide after hours and weekend on-call support as needed to support maintenance activities
Analyze logs and events from the solution to perform initial troubleshooting and issue identification
Work with our Technical Assistance Center to troubleshoot and diagnose support cases
Maintain the Company's solution and provide mentorship on code upgrades and best practices
Ensure client needs are met and deliverables produced on time according to specified project deliverables and scope

Qualifications

Your Experience

Engineer (4+ years' experience) in professional services or similar function with BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent background or equivalent military experience
Detailed technical experience in the installation, configuration, and operation of high-end firewall appliances
Strong understanding of LAN and WAN networking protocols and technologies, including switching, routing, firewalls and security solutions
Strong TCP/IP networking skills
Strong dynamic routing skills (BGP, OSPF, etc)
Experience working with Remote Access VPN solutions, IPSEC, PKI & SSL, TCP/IP, Authentication Protocols (LDAP, RADIUS, SAML, etc.)
Experience working with URL filtering
Experience working with Proxy and SSL Decryption
Experience working with Windows and MAC OS including(debugging, editing Windows Registries, Plist, etc.)

Experience with one or more of these vendors:
Palo Alto Networks NGFW, Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper (Netscreen), Fortinet products, Symantec/ Blue Coat, Zscaler
Good troubleshooting skills and ability to use tools like tcpdump & Wireshark
Good written and verbal communication skills with confirmed ability to communicate to senior leaders and technical peers

Demonstrate ability to work in a cross functional environment which involves coordination with different teams such as Sales/Pre Sales/Product Management/Engineering.

Attention to details, fast learner and excellent communication skills. Be able to communicate technical information in a simplified, easy to understand manner.
Project leadership experience; ability to drive organizations and resources to complete required tasks in service of end goals
Possess one of more of the following industry certifications: PCNSE, CCNA/CCNP/CCIE
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
In-depth knowledge and deployment experience of SD-WAN and Remote Access technologies.
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.
Business-level English and Japanese language skills

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 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.

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

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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