Principal Technical Marketing Engineer (NextGen Firewalls and Strata Cloud Manager)

Palo Alto Networks

6d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Technical Marketing Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, you will play a key role in providing detailed technical information to our partners, customers, and our employees. You will work with cutting-edge technology, redefining the future of network security. You will perform competitive analysis, perform technical gap analysis and support the product management in identifying next-generation innovations.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer for network/cybersecurity area or a DevOps/Solution Architect
Good understanding of cyber security solutions such as NGFW, Layer 7 visibility, SSL decryption, Zerotrust Architecture
Solid understanding of basic networking concepts like routing protocols, VPN technologies, NAT/PAT, Switching protocols
Experience to setup lab environment
Knowledge in building and maintaining POC & Demo environments
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong presentation skills and trade show experience
Eagerness to learn new technologies, experiment with products and collaborate cross-functionally
Strong customer advocacy skills and experience, ability to work in difficult customer situations
Work towards getting things done, Fast learner with strong initiative and sense of ownership
Deep understanding of network and application security threats, attack techniques, and mitigation options.
Experience with writing and editing technical documentation and operational procedures.

Nice To Haves

Experience with hardware NGFW platforms desired
Experience with scripting languages such as python, CFT, and Terraform is highly desired
Experience and Good domain knowledge with cloud-based deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP at least one of the public cloud experience preferred)

Responsibilities

Develop, constantly refine, and execute the technical marketing plan
Be responsible for the creation, maintenance, and delivery of effective technical tools, whitepapers, demos, videos and technical training for sales, customers, and partners.
Lead the automation within and across the cross-functional teams and strive to achieve technical and operational excellence in every step of the releases.
Lead the competitive research and testing to identify key competitive advantages of our product lines and deliver them to sales, customers, and partners
Be a key technical evangelist for Palo Alto Networks, speaking at seminars, conferences, customer briefings, and with other groups within the company
Work with engineering in identifying product gaps based on competitive analysis and work with the PM to drive enhancements to bridge them.
Be the domain authority on Palo Alto Networks products to help Systems Engineers with information on competitive questions
Identify Sales challenges based on any competitive situations and provide solutions
Document technical concepts to ensure our products are well understood and utilized to the greatest extent possible
Setup and maintain a competitive test lab including test harness, competitive products, automation environment, etc.
Configure and test competitive products, evaluate product strengths for security efficacy, product features, etc.
Work with marketing to develop collaterals with battle cards, presentations, and white papers.