Presales, Prisma Cloud Solutions Architects - Strategics, IL/TX

Palo Alto Networks•Austin, TX

19d•Remote

About The Position

Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place. Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters. Job Summary 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

6+years technical sales or equivalent experience highly preferred
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)
Deep experience in one or more cloud security areas such as Shift Left, CSPM, CWP, KSPM, CIEM, DSPM, AI-SPMBackground in security domain or cloud security highly 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
Initiate projects to improve individual team’s performance
Implement organizational policies & help others adopt
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