Domain Consultant 1 ( Cortex/Cloud)

Palo Alto Networks•Atlanta, VA

7d•$173,000 - $237,500•Remote

About The Position

Your Career As a Domain Consultant for cloud native security, you will play a key role in defining technical solutions that secure a customer’s key business imperatives. You evangelize our industry leading solutions in cloud security that establish Palo Alto Networks as a customer’s cybersecurity partner of choice.

Requirements

3+ years technical sales or equivalent experience highly preferred or graduate of Palo Alto Networks Academy Program
Hands-on experience using IaC software tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, GCP Cloud Deployment Manager etc) and CI/CD tools (IDEs, GitLab, GitHuB, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)
Experience with Alicloud, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud configuration and administration of security features and services (including identity and access management, networking, firewalls, encryption)
Knowledge of one or more cloud security areas such as Shift Left, CSPM, CWP, KSPM, CIEM, DSPM, AI-SPM
Background in security domain or cloud security preferred
Understanding of container and container orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
This is a field sales position where travel requirements may be required to support in person customer meetings, please discuss with the recruiter on the specifics for this position.
Proficient in English

Responsibilities

Collaborate with account teams to recommend and develop customer solutions within your assigned specialization area
Present to customers as our expert at all levels in the customer hierarchy, from practitioner to senior leadership
As the main technical point of contact for Cloud Security, you will assist and collaborate to respond effectively to RFIs/RFPs.
Lead and support customer demonstrations that showcase our unique value proposition
Scope and lead Proof of Value (PoV) projects for prospective customers and partners based on best practices to ensure technical win in your assigned opportunities
Drive high technical validation and PoV win rates within your assigned specialization area
Responsible for discussing and highlighting product alignment with customer requirements and differentiation
Architect solutions that will help our customers strengthen and simplify their security posture
Accelerate technical validation of proposed solutions within your specialization
Document High-Level Design and Key Use Cases to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks Solutions
Help our customers build and develop further their services around Prisma Cloud
Lead conversations about industry trends and emerging changes to the security landscape
Discuss, with credibility, competitive offers in the marketplace and position ours as the best alternative
Position Palo Alto Networks or Partner delivered services as appropriate to ensure proper implementation and value realization of Palo Alto Networks solutions
Act as a conduit for customer feedback to Product Management, Technical Marketing, competitor intelligence, and R&D to create requirements and deliver product features for our customers